# 2014 US General Election Results **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 4, 2014, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684 "2014-11-04T23:38:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/161 "2014-11-05T03:54:13Z")
Perdue win in Georgia. Looks like no run-off, too. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/162 "2014-11-05T03:54:49Z")
Nice to know that winning an election means that we can all laugh at issues surrounding America’s longstanding race problems, LOL! ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/163 "2014-11-05T03:55:53Z")
Brown is not conceding. The race has evened out. 2,000 vote lead for Sheehan with 78% of votes in. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/164 "2014-11-05T03:56:30Z")
Be happy enough if the EPA isn’t privatized and sold to the Koch Brothers. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/165 "2014-11-05T03:57:36Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > THey had the option to still go to the polls too, right? I wonder what the heck happened to Democrats in Colorado? The most convenient voting system in the country, a grand experiment, and Democrats actually went out of their way to avoid voting. > > You guys have got a serious motivation problem. Legal pot, bro. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/166 "2014-11-05T03:57:56Z")
It’s looking like the difference between the GOP winning 8 seats and 10 seats will be like 5000 votes. ---
**Author:** ![WreckingCrew](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wreckingcrew/32/4080_2.png) [@WreckingCrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WreckingCrew)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/167 "2014-11-05T03:58:10Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > THey had the option to still go to the polls too, right? I wonder what the heck happened to Democrats in Colorado? The most convenient voting system in the country, a grand experiment, and Democrats actually went out of their way to avoid voting. > > You guys have got a serious motivation problem. There is a pot joke to be made there. Don’t worry, you will find it. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/168 "2014-11-05T03:59:07Z")
Geez, is Corbett going to be the only GOP governor to go down? ---
**Author:** ![EndlessEntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f9ae1b/32.png) [@EndlessEntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EndlessEntropy)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/169 "2014-11-05T03:59:31Z")
Oh well ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/170 "2014-11-05T03:59:40Z")
n/m ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/171 "2014-11-05T03:59:58Z")
Is it a wave? Charlie Cook explains: [INDENT]The first test of the existence of a political wave is whether the benefiting party avoids losing many of its own endangered seats. The second is whether it wins an overwhelming number of the purple, competitive or, in this case, light blue Democratic-tilting but still endangered seats… The third test of a real wave is the ability of a party to pull off real upsets, knocking off incumbents who were not on the lists of first- or second-tier vulnerable seats. If, for example, someone like **Mark Warner in Virginia** , Al Franken in Minnesota, or Jeff Merkley in Oregon were to lose, that would be a wave in the sense of 1980, 1994, 2006, or 2008. [/INDENT] Emphasis added. So Mark Warner is the canary, as it were. > **[How Big a Night Will It Be for the GOP?](https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/36836/)** > > At this point, a seven-seat gain would seem the most likely outcome for Senate Republicans. Incidentally, Nate Silver doesn’t buy into the wave framework at all. He thinks that a big win in one election doesn’t necessarily carry into the next. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/172 "2014-11-05T04:00:29Z")
Ernst is overcoming the deficit… ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/173 "2014-11-05T04:00:54Z")
> [@EndlessEntropy](#): > > Oh well History says otherwise unless Obama’s popularity goes way up. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/174 "2014-11-05T04:02:17Z")
Ah, history says that? Well, what does the future say? ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/175 "2014-11-05T04:03:37Z")
So the Republicans will probably split NC/VA with the Democrats. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/176 "2014-11-05T04:04:43Z")
History tends to repeat itself. I’m not saying Republicans will win in 2016, just observing that predicting an easy Democratic win in 2016 is nonsensical. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/177 "2014-11-05T04:05:48Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > Nice to know that winning an election means that we can all laugh at issues surrounding America’s longstanding race problems, LOL! I see people laughing at absurd attempts to shoehorn racial problems into voting procedure debates that don’t actually constitute racial issues at all, since a poll tax is not actually implicated by Voter ID. Is that what you mean? ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/178 "2014-11-05T04:08:39Z")
No, it’s just funny and in good taste - like laughing at poor people! ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/179 "2014-11-05T04:11:00Z")
When people have been literally handed a ballot and can vote without ever having to leave their house, and they don’t, that’s worth poking fun at. There’s no “obstacles” there, they just chose not to vote. That earns derision. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2014, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684/180 "2014-11-05T04:12:00Z")
Quinn goes down in Illinois. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2014-us-general-election-results/703684.md?page=10)