# US Midterm Election watch along thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 9, 2022, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619 "2022-11-09T00:29:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 24
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/461 "2022-11-10T03:43:56Z")
I don’t mean to be rude, but you are thinking logically about something that is all emotion and hate and rage. You almost make me think about Spock trying to explain why rational people don’t riot and burn while all the irrational folks are running around rioting and burning. ---
**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 10, 2022, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/462 "2022-11-10T03:50:33Z")
I honestly do not understand your complaint. We were talking about mandated versus paid recounts. You said they will get Cyber Ninjas to do a recount and taxpayers will pay for it. I said the Ninjas would not change anything. My point is what the Ninjas did was not relevant to the outcome of the election and who gets the office. It was red meat for the conservative base and nothing more. Now you are on about me being logical while riots happen? I do not follow. ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/463 "2022-11-10T03:58:33Z")
I’m sorry. I agree with you about the legal stuff. I agree with you that a mandated recount won’t be called for. I also feel that currently Arizona is a worse tinderbox than it was in 2020, so the rule of law and logic really isn’t going to work against half a population of nutcases. I’m out for an hour or so. I made a stupid mistake in a needlepoint project and picking that out will piss me off so I can’t talk to anyone while I’m doing it lest I lash out at an innocent party. ---
**Author:** ![Tabco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tabco/32/7644_2.png) [@Tabco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabco)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/464 "2022-11-10T04:01:27Z")
With 70% of ballots counted, Perez is maintaining a 52-47 lead over Kent. As far as I can tell, the majority of remaining ballots are in Clark County, which leans Democratic and favors Perez +16. As I mentioned in my last post, Kent encouraged his supporters to cast their ballots on the last day, so he’s expecting a late push during ballot counting. The county auditor says it’ll be several days before counting is complete. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/465 "2022-11-10T04:37:53Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > One of the good things that I hope will arise out of this election is that all the young people who participated this time will take away an understanding that when they vote, they really can make a difference. Once you get that, you keep doing it. And that can be nothing but good for democracy going forward. And women. A lot of women registered Dem and voted. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/466 "2022-11-10T05:12:32Z")
AK Senate race has officially moved to the next stage in ranked choice because no one got more than 50%. Results will be announced on 11/23. ---
**Author:** ![Bootb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bootb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootb)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/467 "2022-11-10T06:08:55Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Why do you say that? There was a final ballot dump from Pueblo, which leans Boebert. The remaining ballots are in counties favorable to Frisch. You’ve got something switched around. Pueblo is liberal. ---
**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 10, 2022, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/468 "2022-11-10T10:08:46Z")
From what I can tell, the Democrats still have a slim path to an actual House majority. There are about 19 races still up on the air, and if the Democrats can get 15 of them they may keep the House. Fingers crossed! ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/469 "2022-11-10T10:37:43Z")
> [@Bootb](#): > > Here in Colorado, an allegedly “non-partisan” committee was in charge of redistricting. The committee made big noises about creating several “balanced” districts. > > To the surprise of nobody who was paying attention, the Democrats retained their very firm control of both the State House & Senate. It wasn’t even a close contest. Of course it wasn’t a close contest. Republicans got creamed in every statewide race. It would take an outright Republican gerrymander to come close to putting legislative control in play. Based on the current results from the Secretary of State, the 33rd least Democratic state House district (that is, the one that gave Democrats the majority) seems to be district 62, where the Democrat got 55% of the vote. This is right in the middle of what Democrats got for governor and the US Senate, so it looks like it’s a pretty fair map to me. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/470 "2022-11-10T10:42:59Z")
PA has the first African-American Lt. Gov and the first African-American woman ever elected to Congress. I wish I was surprised it had taken so long. ---
**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 10, 2022, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/471 "2022-11-10T12:07:18Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > One of the good things that I hope will arise out of this election is that all the young people who participated this time will take away an understanding that when they vote, they really can make a difference. Once you get that, you keep doing it. And that can be nothing but good for democracy going forward. Repeated for truth. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/472 "2022-11-10T13:35:20Z")
house is at: 191 D - 209 R per cnn. ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/473 "2022-11-10T13:42:10Z")
Anyone have theories as to the blue wave that happened in Michigan? Dems retained control of the executive and took both houses. It’s been almost 40 years since that last happened. My guess is Prop 3 (enshrining Roe into the State Constitution) and Tudor Dixon’s stance on it dragging everything down ballot along with her. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/474 "2022-11-10T13:50:00Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > PA has … the first African-American woman ever elected to Congress. I am pretty sure that isn’t true. There has to be a modifier missing there. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/475 "2022-11-10T13:51:37Z")
Yes, “from Pennsylvania “. > **[Summer Lee becomes first Black woman elected to Congress from Pennsylvania](https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3727447-summer-lee-becomes-first-black-woman-elected-to-congress-from-pennsylvania/)** > > Progressive Democrat Summer Lee won election to the House on Tuesday, becoming the first Black woman elected to Congress from Pennsylvania. For Lee, it’s the second time she’s made history. Four ye… ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/476 "2022-11-10T13:52:54Z")
Yes, I typed it too quickly. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/477 "2022-11-10T13:53:17Z")
If I’m doing the math right, I don’t see how Adam Laxalt doesn’t win the senate seat in Nevada. So score one for the election deniers there. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/478 "2022-11-10T14:02:42Z")
It’s been un-gerrymandered. Instead of craven Republicans drawing districts to keep themselves in control decade after decade, we now have an independent commission drawing maps. That blue wave in the legislature is just showing us the actual will of the voters. The GOP also threw up three flaming shitbirds for the three top spots in Michigan government, which didn’t help their cause. But i suspect Michigan is actually bluer than people have long thought (2016 was an outlier). ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/479 "2022-11-10T14:14:17Z")
> [@Cardigan](#): > > Anyone have theories as to the blue wave that happened in Michigan? > […] > My guess is Prop 3 (enshrining Roe into the State Constitution) and Tudor Dixon’s stance on it dragging everything down ballot along with her. Kristina Karamo as well. She was the R candidate for Secretary of State, who, along with Dixon, was another election-denying, hardcore ‘no exceptions’ anti-abortion trump pick. The anti-Karamo ads were very effective at painting Karamo as a crazy nutcase (not inaccurately, in my opinion). One ad that showed a video clip of her saying “we are wrestling with _ **demonic powers** _” must have run several times per hour for months. ETA: Sorta kinda ninja’d by Happy\_Lendervedder: > [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > The GOP also threw up three flaming shitbirds for the three top spots in Michigan government, which didn’t help their cause. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2022, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/480 "2022-11-10T14:15:55Z")
Legalizing marijuana is really the only reason I voted. All of the candidates on my ballot were either running unopposed or against a Republican who had to know they were just wasting their own time. I live in the bluest district in the bluest county in deep-blue Maryland. There were almost no (R) candidates on my ballot other than Dan Cox for governor. I couldn’t vote for a Republican even if I had wanted to. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619.md?page=23) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619.md?page=25)