The author writes with evident enthusiasm - this is, after all, the first good electoral news from the US in some time.
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However, the author has missed a couple of points.
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First, turnout was 2.58 m in a state with 8.6 m.  There were 7.0 m potentially eligible to vote.  2.58/7.0 = 37% = true, absolute turnout, (not nominal turnout).  It is much higher than 2013, but still lousy.
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Second, the Democratic generic vote was 7% - 8% more than the GOP.
In a First-Past-the-Post, two-party election, that should have yielded a sizeable majority in the legislature.  Instead, the GOP may still win the most seats (it's really close).  Not a good omen for 2018. Gerrymandering?
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Third, white evangelical Christians didn't get the memo.  Again.
They voted 79% - 19% for the GOP loser in a 54% - 46% race.
How is it possible for sentient human beings with a pulse to be so clueless?
Totally baffling.
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Proof, yet again:
The religious danger to America is not Islam.
It is white evangelical Christians.