2022 US midterms election watch party/thread

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Franz316

Franz316

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Nevada going to be very close when it's all counted.

Twitter said:
Nevada Senate math:
GOP leads by 22,595 votes
Remaining GOP vote ≈ 106,250
Remaining Dem vote ≈ 135,600
135,600 - 106,250 = 29,350
29,350 - 22,595 = 6755

Catherine Cortez-Masto will likely win in a very close race by at least 6000 votes.
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sportage

sportage

Lifer
Feb 1, 2008
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What saddens me, iOwa has now gone solid red. The iOwa that voted for Obama, twice, now dumped all the dems holding office. Blame those damn farmers...
All their kids graduate, then move out of iOwa because there is nothing in iOwa. You can't even get decent internet in the major cities, and there is no completion for utilities like gas and electric.

Democrat Tom Miller was the state attorney general for 40 years. He was the type of guy you could write to personally about a problem and get a direct response. And, get action taken. That won't happen any more under the new republican replacement. And Cindy Axne was all over the place working hard for iOwans. No more. That's all ended with this new Trump mega replacement.
Iowans don't know it yet but they are about to suffer in ways they can not imagine. And.... they should!!! The deserve it. They deserve lip service opposed to real action.

With iOwa going solid red, I wonder about the future of the rest of the country as well. The entire country is slowly turning red, bit by bit. At first, you don't notice so much. Then, another election comes along and it gets a little redder. And a little redder after that, and after that, and eventually you have iOwa from coast to coast. Solid red. New York solid red. California solid red. Small advances, here and there, then boom. Red state. Red nation.
Hell people.... we just lost Florida for good. And are losing Hispanics.
Writing on the wall... Writing on the wall...
 
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fskimospy

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Mar 10, 2006
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sportage said:
What saddens me, iOwa has now gone solid red. The iOwa that voted for Obama, twice, now dumped all the dems holding office. Blame those damn farmers...
All their kids graduate, then move out of iOwa because there is nothing in iOwa. You can't even get decent internet in the major cities, and there is no completion for utilities like gas and electric.

Democrat Tom Miller was the state attorney general for 40 years. He was the type of guy you could write to personally about a problem and get a direct response. And, get action taken. That won't happen any more under the new republican replacement. And Cindy Axne was all over the place working hard for iOwans. No more. That's all ended with this new Trump mega replacement.
Iowans don't know it yet but they are about to suffer in ways they can not imagine. And.... they should!!! The deserve it. They deserve lip service opposed to real action.

With iOwa going solid red, I wonder about the future of the rest of the country as well. The entire country is slowly turning red, bit by bit. At first, you don't notice so much. Then, another election comes along and it gets a little redder. And a little redder after that, and after that, and eventually you have iOwa from coast to coast. Solid red. New York solid red. California solid red. Small advances, here and there, then boom. Red state. Red nation.
Hell people.... we just lost Florida for good. And are losing Hispanics.
Writing on the wall... Writing on the wall...
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Even when the democrats have the best midterm showing of a party in power in decades you find a way to convince yourself the sky is falling.

Weird.
 
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linkgoron

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Looks like NV and AZ are taking their sweet time as expected, but it's quite clear that a D Senate is surely not a done deal - both will probably end up as nail biters. I think that Dems are very slightly favored for both, but losing the Senate by a very slim margin is still a possibility.
 
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[DHT]Osiris

Lifer
Dec 15, 2015
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linkgoron said:
Looks like NV and AZ are taking their sweet time as expected, but it's quite clear that a D Senate is surely not a done deal - both will probably end up as nail biters. I think that Dems are very slightly favored for both, but losing the Senate by a very slim margin is still a possibility.
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Given they haven't had an actual majority for the last two years, I'm not losing sleep over it. I'm just happy those SoS positions got fucked for Repubs, and that their talking heads are getting all squirmy in their skivvies about the red wave that got tourniquet'd.
 
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ondma

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sportage said:
What saddens me, iOwa has now gone solid red. The iOwa that voted for Obama, twice, now dumped all the dems holding office. Blame those damn farmers...
All their kids graduate, then move out of iOwa because there is nothing in iOwa. You can't even get decent internet in the major cities, and there is no completion for utilities like gas and electric.

Democrat Tom Miller was the state attorney general for 40 years. He was the type of guy you could write to personally about a problem and get a direct response. And, get action taken. That won't happen any more under the new republican replacement. And Cindy Axne was all over the place working hard for iOwans. No more. That's all ended with this new Trump mega replacement.
Iowans don't know it yet but they are about to suffer in ways they can not imagine. And.... they should!!! The deserve it. They deserve lip service opposed to real action.

With iOwa going solid red, I wonder about the future of the rest of the country as well. The entire country is slowly turning red, bit by bit. At first, you don't notice so much. Then, another election comes along and it gets a little redder. And a little redder after that, and after that, and eventually you have iOwa from coast to coast. Solid red. New York solid red. California solid red. Small advances, here and there, then boom. Red state. Red nation.
Hell people.... we just lost Florida for good. And are losing Hispanics.
Writing on the wall... Writing on the wall...
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Well, again, it goes back to messaging. Reps are very effective at getting out their "message" (distorted though it may be), on crime, immigration, wokeness and the economy. I tend to be less pessimistic than you are though. As younger people come to voting age, the landscape should shift more to blue. OTOH, Dems have lost the rural vote, and are not as dominant in the hispanic and afro american voters as they used to be.

My excitement at the lack of a "red wave" is waning though. It is most certainly a moral victory, but all the Reps have to do is take one chamber (likely the house) to effectively bring government to the usual state of gridlock.
 
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[DHT]Osiris

Lifer
Dec 15, 2015
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ondma said:
DeSantis got a huge win by a very big majority in Florida.
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I'm fine with this, anything that makes him a strong contender in 2024 will brick the entire R platform that year. The worst case scenario was for Trump to be unopposed. That rift will murder republicans in two years if they don't find a way to square their base.
 
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eelw

Lifer
Dec 4, 1999
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linkgoron said:
Looks like NV and AZ are taking their sweet time as expected, but it's quite clear that a D Senate is surely not a done deal - both will probably end up as nail biters. I think that Dems are very slightly favored for both, but losing the Senate by a very slim margin is still a possibility.
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They’re doing mail in votes and manually confirming signatures before counting. 400,000 going to take a while.
 
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MrSquished

MrSquished

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If the Democrats had some better messaging that at least included the economy they would have kept the house and had at least one more Senate seat. And also put more money into certain races they discounted too early

Even so the red wave turn into a red trickle
 
hal2kilo

hal2kilo

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nicalandia said:
They need at least 50 with VP being the 51 vote. Will they end up at least that much? Or is that still not guarantee?
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Might not be decided until the run off race in GA, the way things are going. 21st Century, really?
 
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