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[W:1607] ***2022 General Election Thread***

Piner said:
Can MAGA **** off and introduce some sensible Republicans now, please?
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This would be nice. I'd LOVE to see a party steeped in both compassion and truth but also fiscal restraint to counter-balance Democrats. It just needs to be comprised of a higher grade of human beings than MAGA.
 
Chomsky said:
I get 425K.

You'll get the bill in the mail . . .
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So that's 93,000 votes left in Milwaukee where Barnes is winning 70% of the vote to 30% for Johnson.

65,100 to Barnes
27,900

So Cord was right. Maybe a 35,000 point gain from just Milwaukee. He'd have to gain another 5100 votes from the rest of the state to overtake.
 
Cordelier said:
I'm not liking how Nevada is shaping up. Cortez Masto is only leading Laxalt by 8 points in Clark County. She's going to need a bigger margin than that to counter the Republican votes up North.
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Clark County has 2/3 of Nevada's population and Reno isn't rabidly conservative so Masto isn't looking too shaky.
Fingers crossed.
 
Cordelier said:
I'm not liking how Nevada is shaping up. Cortez Masto is only leading Laxalt by 8 points in Clark County. She's going to need a bigger margin than that to counter the Republican votes up North.
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I'm only seeing a little over a 3pt lead, with 48% in.
 
Sean Maloney having a weird night in NY.
 
poweRob said:
So that's 93,000 votes left in Milwaukee where Barnes is winning 70% of the vote to 30% for Johnson.

65,100 to Barnes
27,900

So Cord was right. Maybe a 35,000 point gain from just Milwaukee. He'd have to gain another 5100 votes from the rest of the state to overtake.
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Yeah, it sucks. That race was looking half-way solid a month ago.
 
Winston said:
Looking like a tough night for Trump backed candidates.

Is the MAGA train running out of steam?

TBH, I think whatever mojo Trump had in 2016 is used up. He had lost independents by 2018 and he never got them back.

They saw he had no plans to bring the jobs back, had not the aptitude to formulate some, and worst of all: they saw he didn't really care.
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THAT, more than anything. A lot of people came to understand that Trump does not care about anything or anyone but himself, and never has.
 
trouble13 said:
I do think the AZ voting machine issue needs to be investigated but from my perspective I have seen nothing that looks like cheating. I think the Republican message was not embraced by the public as strongly as they anticipated it would be.
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The Republican message centered on inflation. Perhaps a lot of people understood that inflation was the result of the bounce-back from Covid, not any Democratic policies, and perhaps other remembered how badly the GOP has managed economic issues over the past several decades.
 
Chomsky said:
I'd like to dump this two-party stuff, but until then your scenario will do.
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I don't think you want to go the way France has under Macron. A far-left party, a far-right party, and a big 'ol Centrist party to rule them all. That's not going to end well.
 
trouble13 said:
Ok im off to bad everyone.

Congratulations to all my democrat friends. You all had a good night. Enjoy it.

I'm giving you a day to celebrate and then im going right back to kicking your asses 🤣
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I'll drink to that. If only everyone else got that. Election Day (and maybe the wee hours in the morning) should be a celebration of all the hard work the candidates, reporters, and media did to get to that day. Take a the day after to digest it, and then return to politics as normal. :)

Reminds of what Rachel Maddow said 2016: "This is your new nightmare now" <-- on Election Day. In whatever code of conduct the above is, I thought it was reprehensible to do that on Election Day.
 
Doug64 said:
This is true. OTOH, It's also looking like, once again, control of the Senate could come down to Georgia--the "get out the vote" effort would be intense. And this time, we aren't likely to have Trump telling people not to vote.


Maxine Waters.
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If all goes well and with Fellerman as number 50 in the Senate already then R's in the GA runoff don't have the compulsion to vote for their favorite sleazbag Walker. The imperative for GA Republicans going into today was control of the Senate. But if that's settled a number of the R's in GA won't feel compelled to support Walker the shameless lying hypocrite. Warnock would be returned to Washington. Bonus time.
 
Tangmo said:
If all goes well and Felleman is number 50 in the Senate then R's in the GA runoff don't have the compulsion to vote for their favorite sleazbag Walker. The imperative for GA Republicans going into today was control of the Senate. But if that's settled a number of the R's in GA won't feel compelled to support Walker the shameless lying hypocrite. Warnock would be returned to Washington. Bonus time.
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That also works if somehow the Republicans win the other swing states and get the majority. No matter which way we slice it, it does not look good for Walker.
 
Does anyone have or know how to find a statistic of how many politicians have tried to jump from Representative and then failed the trifecta? (President, Governor, and Senate) and failed? Beto can't possibly have been the only one. Tim Ryan failed today in the Senate and failed in the Presidential race, but he didn't run for Governor yet that I know of.
 
... if Democrats hold unto power in the House, gain a seat in the Senate, and still don't understand that their messaging sucks, then they deserve whatever happens in 2024.
 
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