# 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:** 32
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/621 "2022-11-11T16:49:57Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > Just wanna thank those of you who are paying such close attention. Seconding. I’ve been checking this thread more often than the news, under the presumption that if anything major turns up in the news, it’ll be posted here. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/622 "2022-11-11T16:52:08Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > which is that Republican Senates will never confirm a Democratic president’s Supreme Court justices. Never even give a hearing to a Democratic President’s Supreme Court Justice appointments. ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/623 "2022-11-11T16:53:57Z")
Its not one way. Canvassing allows people to air their concerns, and for candidates to get a better sense of what people are concerned with. A candidate or elected official who never has time to talk to people is pretty undemocratic. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/624 "2022-11-11T16:54:20Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > Seconding. I’ve been checking this thread more often than the news, under the presumption that if anything major turns up in the news, it’ll be posted here. Agreed. The SDMB is a really good news aggregator and I rely on it. ---
**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 11, 2022, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/625 "2022-11-11T16:55:39Z")
Me too. The Ukraine thread as well. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/626 "2022-11-11T16:56:34Z")
Same. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/627 "2022-11-11T17:08:01Z")
Here in NC, Ted Budd won and ran a textbook Trump campaign. Outright lies bordering on slander. Won handily. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/628 "2022-11-11T17:19:20Z")
I keep having hopes for NC purpling up but every cycle I’m disappointed. Beasley seemed like a pretty good candidate but it’s so hard for a Dem to win in the south. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/629 "2022-11-11T17:20:12Z")
My sister was a canvasser for congresswoman Katie Porter. I couldn’t do what she does, but she doesn’t care if people close the door in her face. She had a quota of doors to knock on every day, and she did it. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/630 "2022-11-11T17:27:42Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Me too. The Ukraine thread as well. I get my Ukraine news from the Ukraine thread as well, along with /r/Ukraine. Speaking of which, I think I will join /r/Ukraine so it will appear in my Reddit home page: for some stupid reason their algorithm never shows me posts on it despite the fact that I read it a lot more than other unsubscribed subs that _do_ show up all the time in my feed that I hardly ever read. ---
**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 11, 2022, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/631 "2022-11-11T17:30:49Z")
The DNC pretty much abandoned Beasley, why I don’t know. If some of the money they wasted in FL trying to help Demings beat Rubio had been spent in NC things might have been different. The sooner everyone realizes FL is a lost cause the better for candidates in more competitive states. Same for TX. Total waste of time and money. ---
**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 11, 2022, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/632 "2022-11-11T18:58:23Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > nevada is saying next clump at 9am pacific and 5pm eastern in clark county. also a presser around 2pm pacific. Did the 9am clump happen? NEED DATA ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/633 "2022-11-11T19:10:53Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > NEED DATA He’s retired. Says he’s too old for the part, because androids don’t age. ---
**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 11, 2022, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/634 "2022-11-11T19:23:10Z")
> **[How Election Week 2022 Went Down | FiveThirtyEight](https://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/2022-midterm-election/350097/)** > > Laxalt leads Cortez Masto by about 1 point in Nevada’s Senate race, but Cortez Masto has a path to victory — if she can win a clear majority of the outstanding … > ABC News estimates around 95,000 votes are still in the process of being counted across Nevada, and Cortez Masto would need to win about 55 percent of those to edge ahead of Laxalt. Most of the remaining votes are mostly ones cast by mail, which are Democratic-leaning, so there’s a good chance she will win more of those than Laxalt will. About two-thirds of those votes are in Clark County, and another 20 percent or so are in Washoe County (Reno), and Cortez Masto has been winning more than 60 percent of the vote batches most recently reported from those places. All of this suggests that Cortez is more likely to overtake Laxalt than not, but we’ll have to wait and see what the actual votes say. Brian ---
**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 11, 2022, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/635 "2022-11-11T19:39:43Z")
no the morning dump did not happen. in clark county 104 mail in came in today that were post marked tuesday. 50kish left in to count at this time. 5k were cured and are in to be counted. much to be done in clark county. ---
**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 11, 2022, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/636 "2022-11-11T19:46:57Z")
^ to be read in the cadence of red plums in the refrigerator ---
**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 11, 2022, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/637 "2022-11-11T20:13:28Z")
add in one more to the democrats for the house, a maryland seat. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/638 "2022-11-11T20:13:56Z")
Hmmm. Getting some unconfirmed reports on Twitter about shenanigans in Texas. Seems that polling places in Harris County ran out of paper ballots…at 7:30 AM. Little early for that to happen on an election day, don’t ya think? Again, this is word-of-mouth, so to speak. Anybody see anything more substantial? ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/639 "2022-11-11T20:16:48Z")
For context, it’s Republicans saying that Republicans weren’t able to vote in Republican strongholds because they ran out of paper ballots. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619/640 "2022-11-11T20:28:44Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > I keep having hopes for NC purpling up but every cycle I’m disappointed. Beasley seemed like a pretty good candidate but it’s so hard for a Dem to win in the south. Beasley was an okay candidate, but she did very little campaigning in the western part of the state, and she wasn’t exactly an energizing candidate IMO. I wish Jeff Jackson had won the primary, and I hope he’ll win it next time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619.md?page=31) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-midterm-election-watch-along-thread/974619.md?page=33)