# 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:** 23
**Author:** ![Billy-o](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Billy-o](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billy-o)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/442 "2018-11-07T05:54:31Z")
No results yet from California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, or Nevada. I realize they’re on Pacific time over there, but even so it seems awfully late to have no reports at all from House races in those states. What gives? ---
**Author:** ![AngelSoft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angelsoft/32/440_2.png) [@AngelSoft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelSoft)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/443 "2018-11-07T05:57:06Z")
> [@Billy-o](#): > > No results yet from California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, or Nevada. I realize they’re on Pacific time over there, but even so it seems awfully late to have no reports at all from House races in those states. What gives? I can’t say for the other states, but Oregon is entirely mail in ballot. You had till 8pm PST to drop off your ballot at a collection box. And all of those have to be collected and tallied. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/444 "2018-11-07T06:07:50Z")
> [@AngelSoft](#): > > I can’t say for the other states, but Oregon is entirely mail in ballot. You had till 8pm PST to drop off your ballot at a collection box. And all of those have to be collected and tallied. WA is similar. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/445 "2018-11-07T06:12:00Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Yes there is some bias, but it’s a drop in the bucket compared to Fox. And bias isn’t nearly as bad as inaccuracy and dishonesty. Fox is regularly inaccurate and dishonest, MSNBC is not (relative to other media outlets). They’re not comparable. As so often happens, you’ve pretty much made the exact points I was going to. Yes, MSNBC leans to the left, but it’s nothing to the extent of FOX. It wasn’t too long ago that MSNBC was going with “Lean Forward” as a slogan, ferchrissakes. Refreshingly honest, particularly while FOX went with the absurd “Fair & Balanced” motto. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/446 "2018-11-07T06:50:46Z")
> [@UltraVires](#): > > I wonder how hard it is to find a beer at the Romney victory rally. Not hard at all if you’re patient and start small. 1. See if you can track down any hot coffee. Difficult, but doable. 2. Anybody badboy enough to drink joe probably knows where to find a beer drinker or two. 3. Give him a half pound of fresh-ground Jamaica Blue Mountain in exchange for the 411 on the tipplers. 4. Find them and threaten to tell the Bishop (or whomever… not really up on the LDS hierarchy) 5. Profit! Beer at the Romney shindig ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/447 "2018-11-07T07:44:24Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Dems also have a good chance to get NV today. As of now (11:43pm) it looks like my state is going Democratic across the board! ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/448 "2018-11-07T09:50:33Z")
> [@UltraVires](#): > > Gillum concedes to DeSantis in FL!!! You say that like it’s a _good_ thing (even though it’s not). ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/449 "2018-11-07T09:58:29Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > 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. You may be right. What they SHOULD do is stress that everybody who doesn’t hate America owes them their votes. Because as long as the Republican Party continues to exist, that is objective fact. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/450 "2018-11-07T10:02:04Z")
> [@Fiveyearlurker](#): > > There needs to be a word for the group of subpoenas heading out. Like a “murder of subpoenas”? > [@Aspenglow](#): > > I like it. 😃 I thought it was “ream.” ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/451 "2018-11-07T10:09:50Z")
> [@AnalogSignal](#): > > CNN says Trump called Nancy Pelosi to congratulate her! A friend on FB was pointed out that if the America-hating Fuckstick and Pence get impeached, she becomes President (I know. I know she knows, too. Just a little wishful thinking brought on by giddiness over the Speaker’s gavel turning blue). I said she ought to troll him and every time she visits the WH she should bring along a tape measure and a book of paint chips. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/452 "2018-11-07T10:50:09Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > Depends on whether the economy collapses in the next 18 months, as it’s predicted to do. Predicted by whom? ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/453 "2018-11-07T10:51:47Z")
Filed under things I didn’t expect… Here in South Carolina I’ll soon be [repped by a democrat](https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/joe-cunningham-takes-sc-st-congressional-district-race-over-republican/article_bd90a97e-e203-11e8-ab11-5f406678bef9.html?fbclid=IwAR2i6C4qaQ6BOZoH0L1sqzK_HYUCcjx_jhR5Cx6C3VlEX6oAUKm23brPVTQ). I worked for Joe and know him. How 'bout that. ---
**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, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/454 "2018-11-07T10:53:43Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > I dont know why no one is talking about it, but Kendra Horn flipped a district that was called ‘likely GOP’ in Oklahoma. I didn’t mention this specifically, but it’s part of the Great Plains Democratic success I did mention. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/455 "2018-11-07T11:05:34Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > Predicted by whom? > [@](#): > > President Donald Trump is making a final elections argument by claiming that Democrats will take a “wrecking ball to our economy and to the future of our country.” (Nov. 5) > **[Trump claims Dems will take wrecking ball to US](https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2018/11/05/trump-claims-dems-take-wrecking-ball-us/38404793/)** > > President Donald Trump is making a final elections argument by claiming that Democrats will take a "wrecking ball to our economy and to the future of our country." (Nov. 5) ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/456 "2018-11-07T11:38:10Z")
> [@UltraVires](#): > > McCaskill goes down… Given that she got stomped and the last polls showed a dead heat - is it impossible to accurately poll Missouri? And before everyone jumps on the rubes - we passed a minimum wage increase and medical marijuana, so there is some good news. ---
**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, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/457 "2018-11-07T11:39:46Z")
It’s absolutely imperative that the next Democratic candidate for president campaigns on legalizing marijuana. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/458 "2018-11-07T11:48:53Z")
Right now MN district 1 (where I live) is very close (1466 vote difference, there are 570 write-ins) Jim Hagedorn® 145025 Dan Feehan(D) 143559 683 of 698 Precincts reporting – no clue how big the remaining ones are Brian ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/459 "2018-11-07T11:50:55Z")
[Dennis Hof, Dead Brothel Owner From Nevada, Just Won In A Landslide](https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dennis-hof-nevada-assembly_us_5be299fce4b0e84388917409). His winning campaign slogan was “braiiiins…” ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/460 "2018-11-07T12:28:05Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Besides Kobach going down big time in Kansas, it looks like D’s have flipped two of the four House seats as well. Woot!! I spoke too soon… At the time, D Paul Davis was up 4% over R Steve Watkins in KS-2. Watkins had closed the gap by the time I went to bed and this morning I heard that Watkins won. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2018, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079/461 "2018-11-07T12:34:44Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > Predicted by whom? Well, by me of course.:D:cool: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079.md?page=22) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2018-election-day-thread/824079.md?page=24)