2022 election results thread

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Anonymous wrote:Hobbs' lead has dropped to about 4800 votes with hundreds of thousands outstanding. So far, the Election Day votes are breaking for Lake in a huge amount.

That was expected.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:- Pennsylvanians vote for more crime and inflation ( Dc Examiner)

-Democrats fail to pay price for their extremism ( The spectator)

-Why did the red wave fail to materialize ( The spectator)

- Why the red tsunami only hit in florida ( American thinker)

oh dear ! maga tears are overflowing.

Town Hall's got a good headline, too: Republican Voters Deserve Answers and Accountability

I found that on the Republican subreddit, which I sometimes browse just to see what those lunatics are talking about. They seem... subdued. And some are pretty angry with Trump, who I guess some see as to blame for this.

But he's already addressed that:

[Anonymous]

Elections are never final on election night or the next morning. Most races have a large enough margin for it to be clear who won, but the final totals and certification happens several days later. We are focusing on a handful of races that aren’t called because there are enough outstanding votes to change the outcome but all those other races that have been called also have more votes to count, just not enough to change them.

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What Gretchen Whitmer did in Michigan and Jared Polis did in Colorado is way more impressive than Desantis in Florida.

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Anonymous wrote:What Gretchen Whitmer did in Michigan and Jared Polis did in Colorado is way more impressive than Desantis in Florida.

Yep, Gretchen in particular. And yet all the press can talk about is Ron DeSantis. I’m a former journalist and used to believe it was an important and even noble profession. I’m very disappointed in how the press has performed over the past few election cycles.

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Anonymous wrote:What Gretchen Whitmer did in Michigan and Jared Polis did in Colorado is way more impressive than Desantis in Florida.

Yep, Gretchen in particular. And yet all the press can talk about is Ron DeSantis. I’m a former journalist and used to believe it was an important and even noble profession. I’m very disappointed in how the press has performed over the past few election cycles.

Because there are plenty of people in the media and in the electorate who believed that Florida was in play and was purple. But that ship has sailed. Florida has been clearly red for quite some time. Just like Ohio.

The new battleground states, that were formerly solidly red, but are now in play are Arizona and Georgia, both of which were relevant as battlegrounds for the two most recent elections.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Elections are never final on election night or the next morning. Most races have a large enough margin for it to be clear who won, but the final totals and certification happens several days later. We are focusing on a handful of races that aren’t called because there are enough outstanding votes to change the outcome but all those other races that have been called also have more votes to count, just not enough to change them.

+1 go check out the original blue wave thread from 2018, it was weeks before we finally knew that the Democrats picked up 40 seats.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hobbs' lead has dropped to about 4800 votes with hundreds of thousands outstanding. So far, the Election Day votes are breaking for Lake in a huge amount.

That was expected.

These appear to be small drops coming from some small counties. Maricopa is going to drop 50k or more mail votes at 8 tonight. That will widen the lead substantially.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What Gretchen Whitmer did in Michigan and Jared Polis did in Colorado is way more impressive than Desantis in Florida.

And Michael Bennet. I never expected his race to be called when polls closed.

[Anonymous]

South Dakota passed a ballot referendum to finally expand Medicaid, 56-44.

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[Anonymous]

I understand the Republicans didn’t capture as many seats as some had been predicting but aren’t they going to end up with control of both the House and the Senate (seems I read the runoff in Georgia will favor Walker)? And if so isn’t Biden going to be a lame duck for the rest of his term?

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Anonymous wrote:I understand the Republicans didn’t capture as many seats as some had been predicting but aren’t they going to end up with control of both the House and the Senate (seems I read the runoff in Georgia will favor Walker)? And if so isn’t Biden going to be a lame duck for the rest of his term?

Why would the runoff favor Walker? Kemp’s turnout dragged him into the runoff. Walker can’t generate that turnout on his own. Warnock will win the runoff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I understand the Republicans didn’t capture as many seats as some had been predicting but aren’t they going to end up with control of both the House and the Senate (seems I read the runoff in Georgia will favor Walker)? And if so isn’t Biden going to be a lame duck for the rest of his term?

The Democrats have to run the table of the remaining competitive seats but they can technically still keep the House. The Senate could end up where it was before. Kelly is ahead in AZ, CCM is not far behind in NV with tons of Reno and Vegas ballots to count. Then it’s Georgia which is going to a runoff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I understand the Republicans didn’t capture as many seats as some had been predicting but aren’t they going to end up with control of both the House and the Senate (seems I read the runoff in Georgia will favor Walker)? And if so isn’t Biden going to be a lame duck for the rest of his term?

Biden is set up perfectly to blame the “do-nothing Republican Congress” and it will be true. Worked for Clinton in 1996 and Obama in 2012.