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Post by robeiae on Nov 9, 2022 7:41:21 GMT -5
...the midterm elections.
Gotta say, I'm in a pretty good mood today. I see the results as a repudiation of Trump, by and large. Many pro-Trump Repub candidates lost, while the less-than-Trumpy ones did okay. Where the Trump candidates did okay, I would argue that it was more about public education, like Virginia last go-round.
Sure, Pennsylvania elected a potato to a Senate seat, but Oz really is awful.
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Post by robeiae on Nov 9, 2022 7:47:45 GMT -5
This is funny:
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Post by Optimus on Nov 9, 2022 15:08:25 GMT -5
I was a bit surprised (but not too surprised). I wasn't expecting a "red tsunami" or "red wave" bursting down the doors like The Shining or anything, but feared that Repubs would pick up more seats than they did...or have so far, at least. She's gone silent since last night when she tweeted "Red wave has begun," but perhaps she was talking about her period and not the election.
I was pleased Fetterman won and also pleased to see that Boebert may be on her way out (at the time of posting this, she's down by about 1% but race isn't called yet).
The fact that Walker is neck-and-neck with Warnock suggests to me that Georgia has some of the stupidest voters in the union, though. That one's looking like it'll go to a run-off next month, so I guess we'll see if stupid will win the day.
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Post by Optimus on Nov 10, 2022 13:43:53 GMT -5
I was pleased Fetterman won and also pleased to see that Boebert may be on her way out (at the time of posting this, she's down by about 1% but race isn't called yet). Huh, seems like she might escape by the skin of her teeth on this one. Just checked and with 98% of the precincts reporting, she's somehow now ahead by 0.2%. I don't know what the recount and run-off laws are in Colorado, though. I know in Georgia there's an automatic run-off if neither candidate gets above 50%. In Colorado, Boebert currently has 50.1%, so she might unfortunately just barely pull this one off.  Edited to add: Okay, just looked it up and apparently the Colorado law states that a recount happens if: "the difference between the highest number of votes cast in that election contest and the next highest number of votes cast in that election contest is less than or equal to one-half of one percent of the highest vote cast in that election contest.” I do stats for a living and am not really sure what the heck that gobbledygook means. I'm guessing if the two highest voter getters are within 0.5% of each other, then that triggers an automatic recount (not sure why lawmakers can't just write shit in plain English). Looks like that'll happen in this case. If so, Boebert has a decent chance of coming out on top (ugh). |
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Post by Vince524 on Nov 15, 2022 14:27:02 GMT -5
Yeah, I know people who have always voted R who went blue this time because too many R's are just nuts. The issue is, most of the D's who won think we voted for them, not against the R's.
I don't know what happens at this point for the GOP. If you're proTrump, you're a loser (and deserve to be).
If you're anti-Trump, the Trump ppl won't forgive you so you can't get out of the gate.
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