2022 Election Day Thread - Midterm Rumble

[Huckleberry 33113]

8 minutes ago, Goredho said:

I’m heartened by the results.  This country needs some conservative policy influencing its direction.  Just not conservative policy laced with racism, anti-semitism, sexism, nationalism, authoritarianism and all the other poisons that come with Trump.  People on the left wanting Trump to be the nominee at the risk of that being cemented in place because it might help their side are no better than people on the right using him to get the Supreme Court and Roe v Wade overturned. 

What conservative policy positions do you think the current Republican Party would work to implement?

[Bullneck 19215]

36 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

So I get why many are crowning him, but is it crazy to think DeSantis's Florida campaign will not work on a national level?  Florida is pretty uniquely positioned to capitalize on the current atmosphere in a way that I'm not sure will translate.  

He'll be the Florida version of Rick Perry.  "Never lost an election, blah, blah, blah" until people across the country get a look at him and say, "who the fuck is this guy?"

[chainsaw 9878]

Just now, Bullneck said:

He'll be the Florida version of Rick Perry.  "Never lost an election, blah, blah, blah" until people across the country get a look at him and say, "who the fuck is this guy?"

Counterpoint: Ron is not aggy.

[Chuckie Finster 22752]

Who are the best sources of info for the Boebert and Lake races?

[BehoId, The Underminer! 11669]

1 minute ago, Huckleberry said:

What conservative policy positions do you think the current Republican Party would work to implement?

it's a reasonable position that you need both tension and some level of friction in the gears of government.  single party rule is the way of african and eastern euro crazies.

[Firemans4Horn 18127]

 

There will be dozens of books trying to diagnose the 2022 midterm but this is the simplest answer that makes the most sense. 

[Bullneck 19215]

NYTimes is great and all but fucking slow to update anything.  Anyone know where we're at?  This is what I've seen:

Senate: D48, R49 with 3 races undecided - GA, NV, and AZ.  So it should go 50/50?

House: No clue.  Dying to know if Boobert is out or not.

[Francisco 2.0 32431]

 

 

['stache 21892]

4 minutes ago, Bullneck said:

NYTimes is great and all but fucking slow to update anything.  Anyone know where we're at?  This is what I've seen:

Senate: D48, R49 with 3 races undecided - GA, NV, and AZ.  So it should go 50/50?

House: No clue.  Dying to know if Boobert is out or not.

Doesn't this not include Bernie who counts as a democrat for leadership purposes? So if the four outstanding in Ariz., Ga., Wis., and Nev. hold, Dems have 50, and Bernie counts as 51 for all intents and purposes?

Edited November 9, 2022 by 'stache

[Dr. Teeth 5845]

2 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

Man could have just sat back and made $60 million a year selling diet pills to fat, white women.  

[Francisco 2.0 32431]

Filipkowski is on a roll this morning.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[High Plains Drifter 11052]

17 minutes ago, Goredho said:

I’m heartened by the results.  This country needs some conservative policy influencing its direction.  Just not conservative policy laced with racism, anti-semitism, sexism, nationalism, authoritarianism and all the other poisons that come with Trump.  People on the left wanting Trump to be the nominee at the risk of that being cemented in place because it might help their side are no better than people on the right using him to get the Supreme Court and Roe v Wade overturned. 

 

you forgot treason.

 

[totallynotabuttpirate 5406]

5 minutes ago, Bullneck said:

NYTimes is great and all but fucking slow to update anything.  Anyone know where we're at?  This is what I've seen:

Senate: D48, R49 with 3 races undecided - GA, NV, and AZ.  So it should go 50/50?

House: No clue.  Dying to know if Boobert is out or not.

 

Cautious optimism.  

[Francisco 2.0 32431]

 

 

[Bateshorn 9942]

1 hour ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

When Palin announced for the AK rep seat, I wrongly assumed that she would be able to win relatively easily. I would never want to vote for someone that quit on the voters in the past, and presumably enough AK republicans felt the same.

Palin better have saved up enough money from Dancing with the Star or the Masked Singer because she's 100% dead weight in the GOP now. I don't even think anyone would want her endorsement much less appearance.

There’s sort of a DC insider saying about Hawaii and Alaska: You don’t understand their politics.  It doesn’t comport to political rules we live by in the lower 48. 

[BehoId, The Underminer! 11669]

lot of R's reported to have called to concede.  looks like no wide scale adoption of trump's yell fraud if i lose strategy

[Aqua Buddha 14624]

8 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

 

There will be dozens of books trying to diagnose the 2022 midterm but this is the simplest answer that makes the most sense. 

Abortion is the dark matter connecting everything.

[Neonmoon 38130]

1 minute ago, totallynotabuttpirate said:

 

Cautious optimism.  

I don't get the Pueblo numbers. It shows that is where Bobert is going to get most of her remaining votes but has Frisch winning the counting right now

[yoladu 4105]

Edited November 9, 2022 by yoladu

[theaveragejon 988]

1 hour ago, HenryJames said:

 

Wtf is he talking about? Is this some trans, trans-sports thing? Is he saying democrats are coming for the kids? Except it’s the republicans who want to be the genitals police. 

[BehoId, The Underminer! 11669]

3 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

There’s sort of a DC insider saying about Hawaii and Alaska: You don’t understand their politics.  It doesn’t comport to political rules we live by in the lower 48. 

just googled and it looks like murkowski is going to lose?  that's surprising and disappointing.

[Francisco 2.0 32431]

 

 

[Firemans4Horn 18127]

 

[Gengs1 2583]

6 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

Hell fucking yes he should, walk in black hoodie and take it off showing a tan suit. Make it a national story 

[skeeter 454]

11 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

 

Tough day for the Oz … boo-fuckin’-hoo

 

[Bateshorn 9942]

2 minutes ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

just googled and it looks like murkowski is going to lose?  that's surprising and disappointing.

It’s ranked choice. They haven’t cut the Dem and counted the second choice votes.

[Francisco 2.0 32431]

 

 

[BrickHorn 18289]

2 minutes ago, theaveragejon said:

Wtf is he talking about? Is this some trans, trans-sports thing? Is he saying democrats are coming for the kids? Except it’s the republicans who want to be the genitals police. 

You’re trying to make sense of an idiotic comment by the same guy who predicted Kevin Durant would bust in the NBA because he can’t bench press very much. 

[Pato del Muerto 52616]

6 minutes ago, totallynotabuttpirate said:

 

Cautious optimism.  

If that’s accurate, then Pueblo should cover anything else in the district and it’s over. 

[MeerkatBong 115]

So, looks like Senate will be 50/50 again (GA/AZ dem, WI/NV rep), no change, and Republicans pick up slightly and take a slight majority in the House. Does that look like what everyone else is seeing?

That's probably the best possible outcome for the markets and economy from what I was reading today about historical data on mixed congress and stock market and economy. Also, should be a good moral victory in that it bucked the historical trend of the incumbent party hemorrhaging seats to the minority challenging party in midterms. A referendum against the minority challenging party, even.

[Francisco 2.0 32431]

You know; you have to wonder.  In some of these close races, how many deceased registered Republicans that died from Covid otherwise would have voted yesterday?

 

 

[Red Five 40898]

Cowherd posts here as Helobious.

[Macanudo 13017]

9 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

There’s sort of a DC insider saying about Hawaii and Alaska: You don’t understand their politics.  It doesn’t comport to political rules we live by in the lower 48. 

Two groups of people who would be really glad to not be part of the U.S.

[Bateshorn 9942]

1 minute ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

You know; you have to wonder.  In some of these close races, how many deceased registered Republicans that died from Covid otherwise would have voted yesterday?

 

 

This is something that is going to continue to plague GOP politics until they can move on from anti-vax sentiment.  There's emerging evidence they also aren't getting the flu shot. 

[Macanudo 13017]

2 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

You know; you have to wonder.  In some of these close races, how many deceased registered Republicans that died from Covid otherwise would have voted yesterday?

 

 

Or conversely, how many of their relatives voted absentee with the dead persons ballot.

[RomaVicta 30031]

8 hours ago, thepop said:

How much if this is even true? Least popular president since Truman? Wasn’t trump the least popular of all time? Bush Jr? I haven’t followed polls closely.

and what border crisis

[GopherRock 1770]

Very gruntled to see a Democrat sweep in Minnesota despite losing ground in the Arrowhead, traditional DFL territory.

 

df

[gmr548 16617]

Abortion is the dark matter connecting everything.

Absolutely. It very clearly drove a huge Democratic victory in Michigan with it in the ballot directly. Do you think the Democratic Governors of Kansas or Wisconsin keep their seats in this environment if real, enforceable abortion bans weren’t on the table?

We’ll need to see the dust settle before we can know to what degree, but it absolutely mitigated inflation/recession worries/general punishment of party in power.

[Firemans4Horn 18127]

5 minutes ago, MeerkatBong said:

So, looks like Senate will be 50/50 again (GA/AZ dem, WI/NV rep), no change, and Republicans pick up slightly and take a slight majority in the House. Does that look like what everyone else is seeing?

That's probably the best possible outcome for the markets and economy from what I was reading today about historical data on mixed congress and stock market and economy. Also, should be a good moral victory in that it bucked the historical trend of the incumbent party hemorrhaging seats to the minority challenging party in midterms. A referendum against the minority challenging party, even.

i don’t think NV senate is over yet. Lot’s of mail vote still out in Clark County. 

[Gap03 3337]

3 minutes ago, MeerkatBong said:

So, looks like Senate will be 50/50 again (GA/AZ dem, WI/NV rep), no change, and Republicans pick up slightly and take a slight majority in the House. Does that look like what everyone else is seeing?

That's probably the best possible outcome for the markets and economy from what I was reading today about historical data on mixed congress and stock market and economy. Also, should be a good moral victory in that it bucked the historical trend of the incumbent party hemorrhaging seats to the minority challenging party in midterms. A referendum against the minority challenging party, even.

NV is more of a toss-up at this point.  Latest from Ralston is that Clark County mail-ins might be enough for CCM to catch-up, but it depends on the number of uncounted votes there + number from Washoe County.  Otherwise, sounds about right.

[Aqua Buddha 14624]

3 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

This is something that is going to continue to plague GOP politics until they can move on from anti-vax sentiment.  There's emerging evidence they also aren't getting the flu shot. 

“Plague.”

I see what you did there….

[cactusflinthead 27606]

Go on and commission another study of why people don't like your party Newt. Your voters will reject it too. 

I saw a lot of Victor Shi over the last month or so. He was so sunshiny my cynical head did not receive it well. Right kid sure things are going great. Try not to get your hopes up. 

And here's Rick Wilson, known Ratfucker and an early Never Trumper applauding him. I don't trust him,but I respect his eye.

Perhaps I will look closer at Shi and Bonier.

The kids are all right 

[SubliminalHorn 6811]

6 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

You know; you have to wonder.  In some of these close races, how many deceased registered Republicans that died from Covid otherwise would have voted yesterday?

 

 

[shnsajax 3592]

15 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:

I don't get the Pueblo numbers. It shows that is where Bobert is going to get most of her remaining votes but has Frisch winning the counting right now

Are mail-ins the last to be counted?

[BehoId, The Underminer! 11669]

10 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

It’s ranked choice. They haven’t cut the Dem and counted the second choice votes.

ah.  it'll be a blowout then.  every d will have her second.

[MeerkatBong 115]

2 minutes ago, Gap03 said:

NV is more of a toss-up at this point.  Latest from Ralston is that Clark County mail-ins might be enough for CCM to catch-up, but it depends on the number of uncounted votes there + number from Washoe County.  Otherwise, sounds about right.

Thank you. When do we think NV will be known? Today? Days? Weeks? At least last night CNN was running with the "we might not have results for weeks"

[WBT 20672]

1 hour ago, gmr548 said:

I think y’all are underestimating there devotion of the Trump cult and overestimating the IQ of those who vote in Republican primaries. Trump is going to have several months to himself in the field. There will be other candidates to siphon votes from the two of them early on. It will be a long, protracted, nasty 2024 primary. But it won’t be one like 2016 where Trump wind getting 30-40 percent of the vote because of the size of the field. It’ll be the Republican version of Clinton-Sanders, but more terrifying and more brutal.

Trump's ceiling is around 35-40% in the primary.  He only ever got the nomination because 2016's field was so big.  He has no chance in a 1 on 1 primary.

[Bateshorn 9942]

Nevada, CA, and NY are all slow to finish counting.  We probably won't know whether GA Runoff will be decisive for a couple of days.  The House is *probably* GOP, but the question is whether they will have enough of a majority to effectively govern or whether factions of the party will make the house essentially a daily free for all.

[Bateshorn 9942]

2 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

The dildo of consequence rarely arrives lubed.

[High Plains Drifter 11052]

7 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

This is something that is going to continue to plague GOP politics until they can move on from anti-vax sentiment.  There's emerging evidence they also aren't getting the flu shot. 

 

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