2018 - Elections and Trends

[Patrick Bateman 3918]

Fuck Kobach....

 

[Aqua Buddha 14599]

Republicans getting totally worked in Kansas.

[Biff Tannen 45695]

To reiterate: Florida is fucking worthless.  Burn.

[shnsajax 3591]

Fuck yeah. Fuck you Kobach!!!


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[SuingToGetAMessageBoard? 3861]

2 minutes ago, Patrick Bateman said:

Fuck Kobach....

 

 

Just now, shnsajax said:

Fuck yeah. Fuck you Kobach!!!


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These are good posts and you should feel good. 

[shnsajax 3591]

These are good posts and you should feel good. 

Kobach is one of the worst in America and in Kansas of all places.


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Just now, shnsajax said:

 

Kobach is one of the worst in America and in Kansas of all places.


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Oh I know.  Ive been rooting against him since I first saw his frailest voter fraud stuff. 

[Cajun 11722]

 

• "Jake Tapper: This is not a blue wave"

[pacman 7366]

Nice to see more candidates with military background in the winners circle

[Aqua Buddha 14599]

Democrats winning all sorts of House districts.  

[horncyclist 1391]

ABC  projects Dems win the house. Let's get those subpoenas printing. 

[Huckleberry 33045]

6 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

If turnout continues like this throughout Texas I will have to modify my Cruz by 4-6% prediction to Cruz by 3-5%.

I know, I'm a wild man.

I think I'm going to start a website called fivethirtynine.com with the slogan "because we're one better."

[Bama Chick 28596]

What happened with Ojeda (spelling?) in WV?

[Huckleberry 33045]

4 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

What happened with Ojeda (spelling?) in WV?

Lost

[Chet Steadman 940]

Austin passes over $1b in bonds but fails to pass a $1 million bond for outside auditing.  

Wtf?  

[Brew 3049]

Man Nancy Pelosi is a beating. They need someone else leading the House into the future.

[Gatorubet 30274]

 

[Bozo_Casanova 26510]

Austin passes over $1b in bonds but fails to pass a $1 million bond for outside auditing.  
Wtf?  

Prop K sucked, killed with fire

[gmr548 16590]

7 hours ago, Bojack said:

I live in North Austin and I'm in the same gerrymandered to shit district as Waller County and beyond.  Go Prairie View.

 

7 hours ago, gmr548 said:

Same. TX 10 is a joke.

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Somewhat surprisingly, this ruby red seat has not yet been called. Rebublican incumbent Michael McCaul (one of the wealthiest memebers of congress) leads by 6 points, 52-46, about 26k votes. The kicker? The aggy part of Harris County is 94 percent in and Bastrop County was actually pretty close, only 2k net for McCaul. The little chunk of Travis County in the district is only 44 percent reported and is +43k for Siegel, the Democrat. He is absolutely crushing it there. Only Austin and Colorado Counties are still reporting from the hinterland between Travis and Harris, so if Siegel can end up +75 or 80k in Travis he might steal this sucker.

https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/texas-house-district-10

 

EDIT: Lol, called as I type. Fuck me. Pleasantly surprised to see it that close though. Travis County really brought it this election.

Edited November 7, 2018 by gmr548

[FondrenRoad 4378]

So Kemp just stole the election.  And we are gonna pretend we are an actual democracy.  Hopefully, Georgia doesn't stand for that bullshit.

[shnsajax 3591]

Not seeing anything on Dana Rohrabacher losing. Also a great pick up by the Dem.

 

Also with Heller losing hopefully I won’t feel the need to hit him in the face with a shovel anymore.

 

[Johnny Sack 8397]

6 hours ago, FondrenRoad said:

So Kemp just stole the election.  And we are gonna pretend we are an actual democracy.  Hopefully, Georgia doesn't stand for that bullshit.

He got more votes than that gap tooth woman. 

And no. We aren’t a democracy. Never have been.  

Edited November 7, 2018 by Johnny Sack

[Pancho 44883]

7 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:

He got more votes than that gap tooth woman. 

And no. We aren’t a democracy. Never have been.  

Are you using gap tooth woman because you can’t use the hard r on here?

[SimonBolivar 10958]

5 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:

 

And no. We aren’t a democracy. Never have been.  

Tired of this. We are a representative democracy which is a form of democracy. You don't have to be hanging around the agora listening to Pericles to be a democracy.

[MaybeACoordinator 8349]

Harris County went pretty much straight Dem, flushing out the last remnants of the GOP machine that once ran this place. I crossed party lines to vote for Ed Emmett, head of county commissioner's court, because I knew him to be good at his job and a good man, to boot. All I can see about the woman who defeated him is "Would," but she is smart, even if she doesn't really have a clue about how her job works, yet. 

I'm ambivalent. That court did need the shake-up it got last night, but the ONLY reason Emmett lost was straight-ticket voters. 

Oh yeah, rules. 

[Js1 85450]

And he’s been out of office for 2 years! 

 

[Js1 85450]

Well if the Democrats take anything from 2018, it’s: 

CONTEST THE FUCK OUT OF THE MIDWEST. 2020 path isn’t Florida/Georgia/NC/Texas/AZ. Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylania gives you enough to win. 

Edited November 7, 2018 by Js1

[SuingToGetAMessageBoard? 3861]

Pretty disappointed with the results.  The good news is by 2020, the oldest boomers will start dying.  2.7% death rate for 70 year old men, 1.8 for women.  So about 5% of the oldest boomers (1945-1950) and the youngest of the silent gen just cast their last ballot.  We will finally begin to rid ourselves of the scourge of people that went to segregated elementary schools, suffer through the indignity of black people being allowed in their restaurants when they were teenagers and have resented it ever since.   

 

[Js1 85450]

Also, just a reminder -

Texas Democrat Party (or whatever garbage entity claims to the TDP) - bigly FUCKED UP that State Senate special election.  With the 2 GOP State Senate losses last night, Dan Patrick still has a one-seat supermajority because THE TDP FUCKED UP THAT SPECIAL ELECTION!

[BrickHorn 18257]

45 minutes ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

Harris County went pretty much straight Dem, flushing out the last remnants of the GOP machine that once ran this place. I crossed party lines to vote for Ed Emmett, head of county commissioner's court, because I knew him to be good at his job and a good man, to boot. All I can see about the woman who defeated him is "Would," but she is smart, even if she doesn't really have a clue about how her job works, yet. 

I'm ambivalent. That court did need the shake-up it got last night, but the ONLY reason Emmett lost was straight-ticket voters. 

Oh yeah, rules. 

God damn.  Wheelhouse.

[atomheartbevo 89762]

49 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Well if the Democrats take anything from 2018, it’s: 

CONTEST THE FUCK OUT OF THE MIDWEST. 2020 path isn’t Florida/Georgia/NC/Texas/AZ. Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylania gives you enough to win. 

Yeah, I don’t see Trump getting Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania in 2020.  Where does he make those up?

 And unless the Dems run Hillary 2.0, the GOP is going to have to spend a lot of money on Texas.   Paxton, Goeb, Rafael, and Miller all won by less than 5%. That’s a huge change from 2012-2016. 

[MaybeACoordinator 8349]

13 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

God damn.  Wheelhouse.

Yeah I wanna make about five babies with her. The DNA Scream, my old friend called it. 

[Js1 85450]

1 minute ago, atomheartbevo said:

Yeah, I don’t see Trump getting Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania in 2020.  Where does he make those up?

 

Yeah I don't see it.

If Dems keep everything they won (v likely) and pick up those 3 -- 278.

Virginia? No chance. Colorado? Ha. Nevada? No, it is reliably blue at this point.  It would have to be some combination of NH + MN or something.  And MN was a good night for the DFL (won all statewide races + picked up 2 seats in suburban districts).

[Pancho 44883]

29 minutes ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

Pretty disappointed with the results.  The good news is by 2020, the oldest boomers will start dying.  2.7% death rate for 70 year old men, 1.8 for women.  So about 5% of the oldest boomers (1945-1950) and the youngest of the silent gen just cast their last ballot.  We will finally begin to rid ourselves of the scourge of people that went to segregated elementary schools, suffer through the indignity of black people being allowed in their restaurants when they were teenagers and have resented it ever since.   

 

 

There are some republicans/conservatives on this board who want to go back to this, so I wouldn't celebrate just yet. 

[Hugo Stiglitz 23367]

5 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

And unless the Dems run Hillary 2.0,

Oh the Dem nominee will be framed as Hillary 2.0 even if it’s Beto or Gillum 

Edited November 7, 2018 by Hugo Stiglitz

[Js1 85450]

Women are like 52% of the country. They will only be 23% of the House and 23% of the Senate (after all is said and done with Heitkamp and Claire losing, but Rosen and one of Sinema/McSally winning).

[triplehorn 2664]

59 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Well if the Democrats take anything from 2018, it’s: 

CONTEST THE FUCK OUT OF THE MIDWEST. 2020 path isn’t Florida/Georgia/NC/Texas/AZ. Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylania gives you enough to win. 

Democrats rebuilt their 'blue wall' in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. It's a big deal for 2020.

Quote

President Donald Trump demolished the "blue wall" in the Great Lakes region two years ago. On Tuesday night, Democrats rebuilt it.

The party's candidates won races for governor and the Senate in the three states that delivered Trump the presidency -- Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Democrats padded their new House majority in the suburbs of Philadelphia and Detroit, while Milwaukee delivered the surge they needed to finally, on their fourth try, beat Republican Gov. Scott Walker.

The Democratic victories set the stage for a 2020 battle royale in the three states that could decide the presidency.

cont.

 

[Mole 4333]

Help me out with this Abrams/Kemp thing. I’m seeing 100% of precincts reporting yet they’re still talking about counting votes and something about 97,000 ballots still uncounted. Are these all provisional? Absentee? Can we count them before Kemp hides them under his mattress?

[Incredulity 11679]

9 hours ago, Brew said:

Man Nancy Pelosi is a beating. They need someone else leading the House into the future.

Her speech last night was turrible.

I've got my popcorn and schadenfreude cued up for the upcoming SOH selection.

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19 minutes ago, Pancho Negro said:

 

There are some republicans/conservatives on this board who want to go back to this, so I wouldn't celebrate just yet. 

It’s a very dim candle of hope, but every 18-year-old is going to be far better than the 75-year-old with a Fox-addled brain he is replacing.  

[Fozzz 152]

This turd needs to be flushed now.  Barbara Lee should be speaker.

 

 

[Pancho 44883]

 

[Incredulity 11679]

Just now, Pancho Negro said:

 

In a sea of stupid factoids this is perhaps A1.  

[Js1 85450]

1 minute ago, Pancho Negro said:

 

This does not account for CA being Dem v. Dem. 

But when people argue "Democrats were contesting more seats!" - yes, but, they had opponents. 

[Hugo Stiglitz 23367]

1 minute ago, Incredulity said:

In a sea of stupid factoids this is perhaps A1.  

Now we care about nuance 

[Incredulity 11679]

Just now, Hugo Stiglitz said:

Now we care about nuance 

Its called a representative republic you fucking bot

[Hugo Stiglitz 23367]

Just now, Incredulity said:

Its called a representative republic you fucking bot

Numbers indicate the republic isn’t being very representative 

[Foosters 17860]

By 2040, 70 percent of the US population will be represented by 30 senators. The remaining 30 percent of the population will be represented by 70 senators. 

Pretty great system we got here. 

[Incredulity 11679]

3 minutes ago, Foosters said:

By 2040, 70 percent of the US population will be represented by 30 senators. The remaining 30 percent of the population will be represented by 70 senators. 

Pretty great system we got here. 

Again, that is by design.

Land interests  having a voice in our government is a good thing.  California governing Wyoming is a bad thing.

[Huckleberry 33045]

That's the entire point of the Senate you doofuses (I wish it was doofi).

Complain about the House. Right now there are 1,050,493 Montanans (and 961,939 Delawareans) and one Representative while there are only 529,820 Rhode Islanders (and 579,315 Wyomingites) per Representative.

Edited November 7, 2018 by Huckleberry