Anonymous
11/10/2022 11:57
Subject: 2022 election results thread
Anonymous wrote:
The point is that the MAGAs were expecting a red wave or red tsunami and hit the blue breakwater. The MAGA toddlers are screaming that the establishment Republicans are to blame for not going all in on Trump. McConnell and McCarthy both were very lukewarm on supporting Trump-backed candidates. McDaniel was responsible for pushing the Republican candidates across the board and failed to add enough traction for them to get over the line.
Garbage in, garbage out.
Anonymous
11/10/2022 11:55
Subject: 2022 election results thread
Can we talk about the AK senate race? I mean, I know it'll be R no matter what, but there is a huge difference between Murkowski and Tshibaka. Tshibaka currently has a slight lead, but I'm hopeful that most of the D votes would list Murkowski as a 2nd choice, so maybe she'll pull ahead in the reallocation?
Anonymous
11/10/2022 11:55
Subject: 2022 election results thread
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The Kelly race needs to be called. Based on his lead and where the vote is, it makes no sense not to call it.
The news media is just scared. Caving into Republican talking points and afraid of the backlash they will get, somewhat validates their approach of claiming everything is stolen as it gets results at least in delaying an outcome. If their stat models say it’s over, then they should call it regardless of the conspiracy theorists anger.
Who cares if it's called or not. Count the votes. It'll be fine
Agreed for the official decision the votes get fully counted, as in all races. That could be said of all the elections, we don’t have 100% vote count in any of the thousands of elections from Tuesday. Should the statisticians not have called the Senate race for Schumer, the full vote count won’t be finished for weeks?
By not calling the race, if the numbers say it should be, then the media are giving in to the angry conspiracy theorists. In a small way, but still….
Anonymous
11/10/2022 11:52
Subject: 2022 election results thread
The outcome of the Republican gerrymandering is really interesting. The Rs have heavily gerrymandered every state they control, which created a bunch of safe R seats but not enough to get a majority. At the same time a bunch of big blue states (NY, CA, NJ, MD) de-gerrymandered and created a bunch of truly competitive seats in the process. The Rs were able to get some of them and that's what will tip them over to a majority.
I think this is going to create a huge and constant fight for the Rs. The gerrymandered Rs in safe seats are MAGA extremists, and their incentive is to constantly be more extreme because they don't want to lose a primary to someone even more extreme. The Rs who won competitive seats in CA, NY, NJ, and MD are going to be walking on eggshells because MAGA is toxic in their districts. We're going to see this play out first in the speaker fight, but it's going to come up again and again and the moderate Rs will have enormous pressure to vote with Dems on appropriations bills and the like.
I think this is going to create a huge and constant fight for the Rs. The gerrymandered Rs in safe seats are MAGA extremists, and their incentive is to constantly be more extreme because they don't want to lose a primary to someone even more extreme. The Rs who won competitive seats in CA, NY, NJ, and MD are going to be walking on eggshells because MAGA is toxic in their districts. We're going to see this play out first in the speaker fight, but it's going to come up again and again and the moderate Rs will have enormous pressure to vote with Dems on appropriations bills and the like.
Anonymous
11/10/2022 11:49
Subject: 2022 election results thread
Anonymous wrote:The Kelly race needs to be called. Based on his lead and where the vote is, it makes no sense not to call it.
The news media is just scared. Caving into Republican talking points and afraid of the backlash they will get, somewhat validates their approach of claiming everything is stolen as it gets results at least in delaying an outcome. If their stat models say it’s over, then they should call it regardless of the conspiracy theorists anger.
Who cares if it's called or not. Count the votes. It'll be fine
Anonymous
11/10/2022 11:40
Subject: 2022 election results thread
The Kelly race needs to be called. Based on his lead and where the vote is, it makes no sense not to call it.
The news media is just scared. Caving into Republican talking points and afraid of the backlash they will get, somewhat validates their approach of claiming everything is stolen as it gets results at least in delaying an outcome. If their stat models say it’s over, then they should call it regardless of the conspiracy theorists anger.
The news media is just scared. Caving into Republican talking points and afraid of the backlash they will get, somewhat validates their approach of claiming everything is stolen as it gets results at least in delaying an outcome. If their stat models say it’s over, then they should call it regardless of the conspiracy theorists anger.
Anonymous
11/10/2022 11:39
Subject: 2022 election results thread
Anonymous wrote:
The point is that the MAGAs were expecting a red wave or red tsunami and hit the blue breakwater. The MAGA toddlers are screaming that the establishment Republicans are to blame for not going all in on Trump. McConnell and McCarthy both were very lukewarm on supporting Trump-backed candidates. McDaniel was responsible for pushing the Republican candidates across the board and failed to add enough traction for them to get over the line.
He's a lot like the progs who diagnose every election loss as "we didn't prog hard enough!" They don't get that most Americans are pretty centrists and do not like extremists on the left or the right.
Anonymous
Anonymous
11/10/2022 11:27
Subject: 2022 election results thread
The point is that the MAGAs were expecting a red wave or red tsunami and hit the blue breakwater. The MAGA toddlers are screaming that the establishment Republicans are to blame for not going all in on Trump. McConnell and McCarthy both were very lukewarm on supporting Trump-backed candidates. McDaniel was responsible for pushing the Republican candidates across the board and failed to add enough traction for them to get over the line.
Anonymous
11/10/2022 11:25
Subject: 2022 election results thread
Anonymous wrote:Dave Wasserman thinks NV is moving in the right direction for Dems.
The batch of just 14k votes from last night closed the gap by over 5k, so very very Democratic. And there are over 70k still to be counted.
Anonymous
11/10/2022 11:09
Subject: 2022 election results thread
Dave Wasserman thinks NV is moving in the right direction for Dems.
Anonymous
11/10/2022 11:03
Subject: 2022 election results thread
Just more proof of what an idiot Gaetz is. Apparently he hasn't noticed that the Rs that lost were the MAGAs running in competitive districts and states, and the Rs that won were the non-MAGAs running in competitive districts and the Rs running in non-competitive districts (but even here a few MAGAs lost even in what should have been safe seats).
Anonymous
11/10/2022 10:26
Subject: Re:2022 election results thread
Biden has done quite well in the past two years (and still has the lame duck session). So even with the House obstruction, and no solutions offered on their end, I can kind of live with it. But don't worry, they'll show their stripes with fiscal cliffs . . . and people will remember what they're dealing with.
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