2022 Election Day Thread - Midterm Rumble

[C-Man 27777]

[Js1 87174]

Appears Dems have or are about to flip OH-01. Ryan may have had some coattails 

[Bullneck 19511]

1 minute ago, Zonahorn said:

Democrats with a 50-point margin in Tucson. Fuck yeah

Astronaut is kicking Blake Master's ass.

[gmr548 16688]

Uvalde County 60% Abbott. That’s something

[Zonahorn 8079]

He's up 60 points

Edited November 9, 2022 by Zonahorn

[Pancho 46270]

1 minute ago, Bullneck said:

House results by district

From The Associated Press

 

Districts

Front-runnersVote count

Vote %

Colorado · District 369% reporting

Adam Frisch

Democratic Party

52.1%

122,343 votes

Lauren Boebert

Republican Party

47.9%

112,347 votes

[Js1 87174]

ABC has called it for Sharice Davids in KS. Nice Midwest hold

Edited November 9, 2022 by Js1

['stache 22131]

8 minutes ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:

Bienvenido a California! 

My first choice would be to live in the heart of San Francisco but there’s not a chance I could ever afford it.

[Stilicho 1422]

1 hour ago, Js1 said:

Hoffmeister put up a good fight but state fundamentals held in OK. 

We're trying. She's not even a Democrat, but the party apparatus is beyond fucked up here.

[Bullneck 19511]

1 minute ago, C-Man said:

 

[DaysOff 8198]

Texas will be red for the rest of our lifetime. It’s not even close. Stop hoping. And those migrating from out of state are probably voting red more than voting blue. 

They are. Why do you think they're moving here. DoNT cALIFoRNia mY tExAs

[Biff Tannen 46151]

2 minutes ago, 'stache said:

Vouchers to make sure our underfunded public schools become less funded so the rich Christian private schools get my tax dollars. And making sure the urban majority minority schools are “punished” for poor test results without any regard whatsoever of the socioeconomic issues the kids are facing, just blame the teachers and make them quit. We’re already at thousands of teaching vacancies. That was at around a hundred a few years ago. And no books about slavery or that even mention the word gay. Keep ‘em dumb, that’s the okie standard.

Everything here is applicable to Texas as well.

[Pancho 46270]

Hassan called. 

[SimonBolivar 11063]

The R hold over rural counties in Texas is simply amazing. Look at those numbers 80%, 90% everywhere.  

[Hermanator 7656]

10 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

I aint giving up on Texas

 

Someone has to make up the 45% of D votes around here.

 

Why? Would do more good if non trumpers flooded swing states and let all the trumpers have Texas and Florida. We should actively be advertising all over the US that Texas and Florida are Trump loving havens where trumpy people can move and live and shopt up schools together. 

 

[C-Man 27777]

Herschel getting scarily close to 50%

[Gap03 3386]

Kornacki just said that it's conceivable at this point that the Dems could hold onto the House.  

[Biff Tannen 46151]

Just now, Pancho said:

Hassan called. 

Hey, it's my old Myspace pic.

['stache 22131]

2 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Everything here is applicable to Texas as well.

I always got the sense that Texas at least has better local control in the cities. We’re beholden to the state leg for everything. If we passed a local tax to fund better schools the state will reallocate our state appropriation to make sure we can’t pay better or do anything different. Small state stuff I think.

Edited November 9, 2022 by 'stache

[Macanudo 13314]

It looks like Uvalde ended up at 60-38 for Hot Wheels.   That's just incredibly sad.

[SimonBolivar 11063]

Grassley won again so that's still going to be a stupid thing.

[Js1 87174]

Just now, Gap03 said:

Kornacki just said that it's conceivable at this point that the Dems could hold onto the House.  

Unlikely unless they get some upsets out west and sweep every tossup race 

[Biff Tannen 46151]

Just now, SimonBolivar said:

The R hold over rural counties in Texas is simply amazing. Look at those numbers 80%, 90% everywhere.  

Have you been out there?  It's a leper colony.

[Dr. Teeth 5868]

2 minutes ago, Js1 said:

ABC has called it for Sharice Davids in KS. Nice Midwest hold

They gerrymandered the fuck out of the district and she won by even more. Brownback and Kobach really fucked over their party. 

[shnsajax 3607]

So does Trump start pretending like he's never heard of Kari Lake?

I would love to forget Kari Lake ever existed!

[SimonBolivar 11063]

1 minute ago, Hermanator said:

Why? Would do more good if non trumpers flooded swing states and let all the trumpers have Texas and Florida. We should actively be advertising all over the US that Texas and Florida are Trump loving havens where trumpy people can move and live and shopt up schools together. 

 

Hard to just get up and move from your home and find two new jobs away from family.

[YGIFS 19458]

Just now, SimonBolivar said:

The R hold over rural counties in Texas is simply amazing. Look at those numbers 80%, 90% everywhere.  

The margins are still incredible to me.  The two bits for good news is Texas is among the fastest urbanizing/suburbanizing states in the nation.  And those that are staying are dying sooner rather than later.  However, our education system is still

shit.  

[Biff Tannen 46151]

1 minute ago, 'stache said:

I always got the sense that Texas at least has better local control in the cities. We’re beholden to the state leg for everything. If we passed a local tax to find better schools the state will reallocate our state appropriation to make sure we can’t pay better or do anything different. Small state stuff I think.

Your sense is wrong.  All of our property taxes in Austin get paid out to rural ISDs.  Wrong thread and it's moving way too fast for this discussion, but it's around in the CR somewhere.

[cactusflinthead 27627]

Weed decriminalization is winning in Denton.

 

[SimonBolivar 11063]

1 minute ago, Biff Tannen said:

Have you been out there?  It's a leper colony.

So what you are saying is that 90 to 95 percent of the population is unredeemable?

[troph 25198]

3 minutes ago, Gap03 said:

Kornacki just said that it's conceivable at this point that the Dems could hold onto the House.  

The hour before he only said republican wins weren’t jumping off the page. 

[Biff Tannen 46151]

2 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

Hard to just get up and move from your home and find two new jobs away from family.

Hard, but doable.  Most of our ancestors moved to an entirely different country.  Channel them.

[Doc Sam Beckett 5901]

Vance projected to win. Ohio: dumb as fuck

[Neonmoon 38130]

Kornacki is high on his own supply 

[Biff Tannen 46151]

2 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

So what you are saying is that 90 to 95 percent of the population is unredeemable?

In rural Texas?  YES.

[usmc0331horn 995]

Just now, Doc Sam Beckett said:

Vance projected to win. Ohio: dumb as fuck

Can you imagine going in there excited to vote for that ugly mother fucker?

[Js1 87174]

Just now, Doc Sam Beckett said:

Vance projected to win. Ohio: dumb as fuck

Ryan’s coattails may have flipped 2 House seats though 

[Voldemort86 2259]

Legal marijuana losing in Arkansas. It’s struggling to even win a county. What the hell is wrong with those people?

[troph 25198]

Outside of the quaint towns rural Texas is as much of a forgotten meth plagued shit hole as any small town in Ohio or Pennsylvania. I mean just places the world has forgotten. Then you add the religion in those quaint towns and Texas is 90% trump everywhere that isn’t a major city. 

Edited November 9, 2022 by troph

[Voldemort86 2259]

Just now, Js1 said:

Ryan’s coattails may have flipped 2 House seats though 

Truly amazing with that rigged ass map.

[SimonBolivar 11063]

1 minute ago, Biff Tannen said:

Hard, but doable.  Most of our ancestors moved to an entirely different country.  Channel them.

Yeah but mine were incentivized by the ability to buy black people so they didn't have to work that hard anymore. Damn War of Northern Aggression!

[MeerkatBong 115]

3 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

Weed decriminalization is winning in Denton.

 

I'll move to Denton; tell me more.

[pacman 7502]

Texas Democrats are worth the support. We need to learn to grow better Republicans.

 

[SimonBolivar 11063]

1 minute ago, Biff Tannen said:

In rural Texas?  YES.

I thought we were doing a Seinfeld bit from "The Wink"

[berlinerbaer 692]

ABC news just called VA-07 for Spanberger.

The Rs probably aren't picking up more than 20 seats in the House.

[Js1 87174]

 

['stache 22131]

19 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

If you find a good state, post in the ex-pats thread, because I'm still looking.

And my relatives in Oklahoma are feeling the same way you do - the writing is on the wall, and the Republicans are out to completely fuck it up which is ironic, since it'll destroy plenty of small towns in the rural areas.

I'll probably re-engage with the Tex-pats thread. Minneapolis is still pretty high on my list. They have walkable neighborhoods in the urban core that are affordable and I have friends there. Washington DC is also on my list (ironic I know but I like the walkability and there is more there than government). My wife has family in Connecticut, might consider it, but they are in small towns. I like East Coast small towns well enough (as opposed to red state small towns which are 99% shitholes) but I still prefer walkable urban places where I can have coffee with people from different places on a regular basis. I can do that here in Oklahoma but it takes quite a bit of effort and I just can't handle what I think is going to happen to the schools.

[Macanudo 13314]

Keep in mind that in 8 Texas counties, the population is under 1,000 people.  Hell, Loving is under 75.  There's another 12 that are under 2,000 and 29 more under 5,000.   The overwhelming bulk of the population is in the 12 counties with more than 600,000 people.  And those places aren't getting whiter.

[Blotto 24011]

46 minutes ago, pacman said:

Their "victory" party, now losers party, is at... Applebee's...

 

Fuck me..I'm dying...

 

Chotskies is for closers

[Nicole44 22305]

Let King do his thing Damnit!!! Lol.