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.
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.
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.
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.
And women. A lot of women registered Dem and voted.
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.
You’ve got something switched around. Pueblo is liberal.
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!
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.
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.
Repeated for truth.
house is at:
191 D - 209 R
per cnn.
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.
I am pretty sure that isn’t true. There has to be a modifier missing there.
Yes, “from Pennsylvania “.
Yes, I typed it too quickly. Thank you!
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.
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).
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:
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.