# 2018 Election Day Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 6, 2018, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079 "2018-11-06T15:43:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/382 "2018-11-07T04:00:52Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > 538 goes to 100% for Democratic House! Yay! Let’s get those investigations and subpoenas flowing. Mueller, tomorrow? ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/383 "2018-11-07T04:01:14Z")
> [@UltraVires](#): > > Gillum concedes to DeSantis in FL!!! Damn. Racism won in FL. Very sad. DeSantis is particularly horrible even as Trump-kissers go. ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/384 "2018-11-07T04:02:22Z")
CNN finally calls House for Dems! I can breathe again. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/385 "2018-11-07T04:02:35Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > Let’s get those investigations and subpoenas flowing. > > Mueller, tomorrow? Any bets on how many more days Sessions is AG? ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/386 "2018-11-07T04:02:57Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > I just jacked off to that result. Several Kansas congressional districts are likely Democratic winners as well. The Great Lakes might still be frighteningly Trumpish, but something good is starting to happen in the Great Plains (including suddenly purple Texas). Meanwhile…disappointments (again) in Florida might be balanced by sone good news in my home state of Wisconsin, where schoolteacher Tony Evers might just hold onto a slight lead over that schmuck Scott Walker. ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/387 "2018-11-07T04:03:18Z")
Gillum conceding breaks my heart. The contrast between good and evil is just so clear in that race. The Beto-Cruz race too. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/388 "2018-11-07T04:03:49Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > For those looking for signs & potents, I’ll be very interested to see the vote totals countrywide: how many people voted for Democrats, how many for Republicans. Right now the [NYT has it at ~+8.1 Democrat](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/06/us/elections/results-house-forecast.html) and they’re guessing a final range of ~+6 to +10. ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/389 "2018-11-07T04:05:02Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > 538 goes to 100% for Democratic House! Yay! Just noticed that. YAY indeed!! OK Adam Schiff, time to get to work. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/390 "2018-11-07T04:05:45Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > Let’s get those investigations and subpoenas flowing. > > Mueller, tomorrow? Elijah Cummings, incoming chair of the House Government and Oversight Committee, just said that he’ll be investigating Emoluments and will probably be looking at Trump’s taxes. Hee hee he heheheheheh ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/391 "2018-11-07T04:06:33Z")
With Dem House control, Van Jones looks like he is about to do cartwheels on CNN. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/392 "2018-11-07T04:07:07Z")
McCaskill goes down… ---
**Author:** ![Tee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@Tee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tee)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/393 "2018-11-07T04:16:49Z")
I’m playing with interactive maps. It looks like Iowa is slapping all of its House incumbents around tonight, which is kind of entertaining. I’d really like Poliquin ® to go down in Maine. That could happen. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/394 "2018-11-07T04:17:04Z")
> [@UltraVires](#): > > McCaskill goes down… Eh, she disappointed me with that “maybe a Trump border wall isn’t so bad” crap. Missouri has been on a path toward its burn-down-the-abolitionists roots for a while now. I expected this result. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/395 "2018-11-07T04:19:38Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Unlike Fox, MSNBC is usually reasonably truthful and accurate. And their partisans (Matthews, Hayes, Maddow, Scarborough, etc.) don’t come close to Hannity, Ingraham, and Carlson for bigotry, idiocy, inaccuracy, and general stupidity. If you cannot see the bias in MSNBC you are a perfect example of a FOX News supporter telling us they are fair and balanced with no sense of embarrassment. MSNBC is not as bad as FOX News but they have very distinctly staked out the opposite of FOX News. Not as a righteous stand but rather a cynical attempt to make money figuring if FOX has the conservative side locked they will lock up the liberal side with the same model. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/396 "2018-11-07T04:20:23Z")
BTW re: what was said earlier about Cuban vote in FL – of the 3 traditional Cuban strongholds of FL-25, 26, 27, the later 2 flipped Democrat. Weak candidates and new arrival voters. And that brings Dona Shalala into Congress ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/397 "2018-11-07T04:21:50Z")
Lets be negative for a second. WHY did the Gubernatorial R win in Florida??? Cause Dems DONT GET IT. They continue to throw all minorities together and act like they owe you their vote and assume they are voting against their interests. If you think blacks, Cubans, other hispanics, and Jews have the same interests then you deserve to lose in Fl. Keep propelling that meme Dems about how racist and horrible Florida is. Its not a winning strategy. If you don’t care about their electoral votes then stop focusing so much on them. ---
**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 7, 2018, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/398 "2018-11-07T04:24:22Z")
Looks like Scott will beat Nelson in Florida. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/399 "2018-11-07T04:24:42Z")
> [@UltraVires](#): > > McCaskill goes down… She was shit for Dems. Reps somehow have members in lockstep. Dems have the likes of McCaskill and Lieberman (a decade or so ago for Lieberman) and others who are only barely liberal and regularly buck the party and vote with the other side. Technically this is a loss for Dems but honestly fuck her and good riddance. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/400 "2018-11-07T04:28:07Z")
Has anybody said anything about state legislatures? ie, have any states flipped? Could be very important in re-districting in 2020. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/401 "2018-11-07T04:28:56Z")
NBC saying with Dems taking 25 R seats and Repubs only taking 2 D seats that gives the Dems the gain of 23 they need to take the House. So that at least is done. Now just to see if King loses in Iowa and what happens to Gov. Walker in Wisconsin. As much as I would have loved it to see Abrams and O’Rourke win their respective races I knew it was really unlikely. Gillum is a bigger disappointment as I thought he really had a shot. Clearly racism still runs pretty deep in Florida and Georgia. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079.md?page=19) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079.md?page=21)