IET 2022 Midterms

[ashie62]

And it begins

Sadly I see the Senate 47D and 53R

Goodbye to Hochul Malinowski and maybe Sherrill

Hello to Walker Texas Ranger and the Wizard of Oz

If Hassan has trouble early in NH it gonna be a long night

LGM

[Lefty Specialist]

I'm pessimistic, but not quite that pessimistic. Think they'll lose the House but barely hang on in the Senate.

With all the monkeyshines and lawsuits the Republicans have planned, it'll probably be a couple of days before we truly know the full extent of the results.

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

Big turnout at my polling place this morning. Was there just after it opened, and the line was already out the door.

[MFS62]

I voted.
Parking lot was full, but once I got inside, the line to vote was short. They separate voters by street name, and there are usually only a few voters in the streets in my group. The longest line had maybe five people on it. Total time in and out the door was less than the walk from my parking lot to the polling place.

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[ashie62]

Voted by mail here in a small town

Mikie Sherrill's office returned a phone from me once and I respect that

She has a very very well funded team

We were redistricted after long time guy Rodney F retired to add Montclair

She won the first and this one we shall see

[kcmets]

Funny, at quick glance I thought this was JET 2022 mid-season report card
thread. I was ready to piss and moan about Zach Wilson and such.

I know it's earlier in Arizona, but has Lake declared Fake yet? Stupid <*#+face.

[Frayed Knot]

Got to the polls early and was in and out in ten minutes.

[MFS62]

I haven't listened to him or over 20 years, but
Howard Stern about Herschel Walker: (I don't know what portion of the link to imbed)

"Fucking Herschel Walker. Holy fuck. They're saying he's gonna win in Georgia. Are you fucking dummies!?" the flabbergasted XMSirius host ranted on the Howard Stern Show (listen below).

"There's gonna be … they always talk about another Civil War. I think there is gonna be one. I mean, how the fuck could you elect that guy? You gotta be outta your fucking skull," Stern bluntly continued.

"I gotta say, I mean, are you fucking kidding me? … Would you really vote for this fucking — I don't know what the fuck he is," Stern said. "I was gonna say mental case … but I don't even know if that's fair to mental cases. I just don't know."

https://twitter.com/i/status/1589654212899921920

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[ashie62]

"This will be a winter of unprecedented death and disease for the unvaccinated'

This offended a good many people

Just sayin

[Centerfield]

Bracing myself for what I expect will be a brutal night.

Goodbye reproductive rights and free and fair elections. This country is so stupid.

[MFS62]

Goodbye reproductive rights and free and fair elections.

Those are issues that should get younger voters to the polls to protect them. But, after watching exit interviews it seems that many younger voters (supply your own generational descriptor) suffer from early onset stupidity.

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[metsmarathon]

i'm fucking terrified that the rampant inflation that was ABSOLUTELY caused by the supply chain imploding and eating its own tail as a result of covid, and worsened by donald trumps gross mismanagement of it and russia/ukraine will end up handing those fuckers the keys to the nation.

do any of these fucking idiots actually believe that republican actions and policies would have put us in a better position economically and globally right now?! fucking idiots.

[batmagadanleadoff]

i'm fucking terrified that the rampant inflation that was ABSOLUTELY caused by the supply chain imploding and eating its own tail as a result of covid, and worsened by donald trumps gross mismanagement of it and russia/ukraine will end up handing those fuckers the keys to the nation.

do any of these fucking idiots actually believe that republican actions and policies would have put us in a better position economically and globally right now?! fucking idiots.

It's so fucking stupid. Not that the GOP has a fix but all the voters would by doing by voting them in is guaranteeing gridlock for at least two years. The real problem, or at least one of them, is that most people have no idea what goes on politically. They don't even know what a filibuster is. And this board is not remotely representative of the knowledge many voters possess. Or don't possess.

[ashie62]

Warnock kicking Walkers ass with 38 percent in. How bout dat

[batmagadanleadoff]

Desantis wins in a fucking slaughter. I guess it's official: Florida is a dumb fuck scumbag state.

[batmagadanleadoff]

I guess it's official: Florida is a dumb fuck scumbag state.

Told youse.

Florida and Missouri Inspire Confidence by Telling Federal Election Monitors to Take a Hike

Extremely big "nothing to see here" energy from states that have kicked up a fuss about election security.

Excerpt:

MILWAUKEE — Anybody check on Fort Sumter lately? On Monday, the DOJ announced that it would be sending election monitors to 64 different places on Election Day (Milwaukee, in fact, was one of them). But Florida had some other ideas. From the Washington Post:

On Monday, the Justice Department announced that it would send federal monitors to 64 jurisdictions nationwide to monitor how elections are being conducted. Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties were all slated to receive federal monitors from the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. But Brad McVay, the chief counsel for the Florida Department of State, said in a letter issued late Monday that those monitors would not be allowed inside polling places under Florida law.

“Florida statutes list the people who ‘may enter any polling room or polling place,’” McVay wrote. “Department of Justice personnel are not included on the list.”[…]Although Florida law has an exception allowing law enforcement to enter polling sites, McVay said Justice Department monitors do not qualify. “Absent some evidence concerning the need for federal intrusion, or some federal statute that preempts Florida law, the presence of federal law enforcement inside polling places would be counterproductive and could potentially undermine confidence in the election,” McVay wrote.

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... running national elections through 50 different governments and 50 different degrees of political fauna is no way to run a democracy.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/p ... -missouri/

[Edgy MD]

Sarah Huckbee Sanders, your next governor of Arkansas.

[ashie62]

The blue team did reasonably well and I am proud of them

[kcmets]

Warnock kicking Walkers ass with 38 percent in. How bout dat

dat didn't last. They're basically tied and neither will have enough '% to
win' so it will go to a stupid run-0ff. A month from now *rolleyes*

[Lefty Specialist]

Democrats did far better than I expected. Still a lot of loose ends to tie up but it looks like they'll hold on to the Senate and narrowly lose the House. Fetterman won which is awesome.

Disappointed that my congressman, Tom Malinowski, a hard-working, smart and decent guy, was defeated by brainless Trump ass-kisser Tom Kean Jr.

BUT looks like Lauren Boebert, gun-totin' idjut, is going down.

And the polls were wrong. They missed the young and female voters that registered in the wake of the Dobbs decision. An abortion ban went down in Kentucky of all places. There was no red wave, more like a red ripple.

[Frayed Knot]

Given that the incumbent party generally takes a hit in the mid-terms and that this one -- headed by a tepidly popular President (even within his own party) during a bad
economy -- is essentially going to play to a draw, the Dems have to call it a decent night for themselves even they wind up losing their slim majorities in H & S.

I was looking at this with a more long term view than just who has the 51 and who the 49 for the next two years. My focus was on one thing, MAGAs, and they didn't seem
to do too well. Even the biggest Republican winner of the night, DeSantis, represents more a threat than a win for Big Chief Maga. And neither election denial nor the 'no
exceptions' abortion platform (a stance which polls in single digit approval ratings) was a winning strategy overall.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Yeah better news to wake up to than I'd feared.

[whippoorwill]

Given that the incumbent party generally takes a hit in the mid-terms and that this one -- headed by a tepidly popular President (even within his own party) during a bad
economy -- is essentially going to play to a draw, the Dems have to call it a decent night for themselves even they wind up losing their slim majorities in H & S.

I was looking at this with a more long term view than just who has the 51 and who the 49 for the next two years. My focus was on one thing, MAGAs, and they didn't seem
to do too well. Even the biggest Republican winner of the night, DeSantis, represents more a threat than a win for Big Chief Maga. And neither election denial nor the 'no
exceptions' abortion platform (a stance which polls in single digit approval ratings) was a winning strategy overall.

Wow good point about the MAGAs. If DeSantis could shake that crap there may be hope for a better GOP candidate in 2024. As long as he loses then , of course :)

[batmagadanleadoff]

Those two U.S. Senators from D.C. sure coulda come in real handy right about now.

And if the GOP pulls out a narrow majority in the House, you can bet they got their asses kicked in the National vote tally. When they win narrowly overall in House races, it means that they gerrymandered their way to victory.

Can't wait for the inevitable Kari Lake shitshow if she's declared the loser of her gubernatorial race.

[MFS62]

I was hoping for Tim Ryan to win in Ohio as a springboard to a presidential run.
But he may have won by losing.
His concession speech was about what America should, and can, be. (No spoilers if you didn't see it)



Overall, the Democratic party isn't in as much trouble as I had feared. Trump- supported candidates took a hit and pro-abortion efforts won everywhere they were on the ballot. Trump and Desantis ripping apart the GOP in the next two years will be worth the price of admission.


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