# USA Election Watch 2026 **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 3, 2026, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-election-watch-2026/1034377 "2026-11-03T18:32:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 21
**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 4, 2026, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-election-watch-2026/1034377/401 "2026-11-04T03:50:47Z")
Oops ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-election-watch-2026/1034377/402 "2026-11-04T03:51:11Z")
Thanks. That’s sad honestly. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-election-watch-2026/1034377/403 "2026-11-04T03:51:19Z")
Acton beats Ramaswami for Ohio ggovernor, The first Democrat elected in 20 years. ---
**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 4, 2026, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-election-watch-2026/1034377/404 "2026-11-04T03:51:41Z")
Amy acton has won in Ohio! ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-election-watch-2026/1034377/405 "2026-11-04T03:52:42Z")
Amazing and awesome. Ohio finally a Dem Governor. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-election-watch-2026/1034377/406 "2026-11-04T03:53:10Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Cornyn the other Senator from TX just congratulated Talarico Whoa! ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-election-watch-2026/1034377/407 "2026-11-04T03:53:35Z")
NBC has now projected TX for Talarico. That brings the Senate to 50-50. ---
**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 4, 2026, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-election-watch-2026/1034377/408 "2026-11-04T03:54:05Z")
Uff da! Big flip there! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-election-watch-2026/1034377/409 "2026-11-04T03:54:18Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > Acton beats Ramaswami for Ohio ggovernor, The first Democrat elected in 20 years. OK, I can now officially go to bed. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-election-watch-2026/1034377/410 "2026-11-04T03:54:35Z")
ramaswami is such a slime. He’s got to leave a trail when he’s wiggling under his rock. Go Amy Acton! ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-election-watch-2026/1034377/411 "2026-11-04T03:54:48Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > That’s sad honestly. Imagine what it was like a hundred years ago when everything was by telegraph and for the results you had to wait for somebody to post a broadsheet at the office. Ugh. AP just switched to Mike Johnson speaking who just said, “We don’t have a monarch.” The irony it burns. ---
**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 4, 2026, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-election-watch-2026/1034377/412 "2026-11-04T03:54:58Z")
El-Sayed had said something recently about really connecting with voters during his trips to the UP. I thought he was being overly optimistic at the time, but I guess not! ---
**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 4, 2026, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-election-watch-2026/1034377/413 "2026-11-04T03:56:14Z")
> **Summary** > > > [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > > > I hope this is a generation changing election and I hope the democrats get the message that the public want more economic changes. > > It’s nice to see the big Dem wins but I don’t think this is any kind of generational recalibration of US politics. Rather, it’s simply more pendulum action… but this time it’s moving toward us! Hooray! > > Except that, until we have 3 or more parties and a system that makes them all viable, we will only continue to play the see-saw game and never fully progress (or fully regress, I suppose). > > Winning a big see-saw battle (like this one in 2026) is like a drug. It feels great and it feels historic and game-changing but it really never is. You get an outstanding temporary high but once it wears off you feel even worse. We need a true multi-party system. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-election-watch-2026/1034377/414 "2026-11-04T03:56:43Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Imagine what it was like a hundred years ago when everything was by telegraph and for the results you had to wait for somebody to post a broadsheet at the office. I recall reading one of Harry Turtledove’s alternate history novels where Robert E. Lee is hunched over a telegraph ticker waiting to find out if he’s been elected president of the Confederacy. This night is looking very good. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-election-watch-2026/1034377/415 "2026-11-04T03:56:56Z")
I have to stay up for El Sayed and Jocelyn Benson. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-election-watch-2026/1034377/416 "2026-11-04T03:57:03Z")
You could’ve waited a week before bringing everyone down. Let them have the win. ---
**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 4, 2026, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-election-watch-2026/1034377/417 "2026-11-04T03:57:42Z")
Decision Desk says Adam Hamilton has defeated Republican Roger Marshall in the Kansas Senate race ---
**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 4, 2026, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-election-watch-2026/1034377/418 "2026-11-04T03:58:20Z")
— they just called the House seat for R Tenney. 58.8 to 41.1 with 75.7% of votes in. Ah well, I knew I was dreaming. And looking at the overall balance I can still go to bed happy. Which I’ll need to do pretty soon, I’m falling asleep; though I may try to hang on till they call Texas. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-election-watch-2026/1034377/419 "2026-11-04T03:58:45Z")
As soon as they announce a Senate majority for Democrats, I’m gonna start cooking a batch of Tex-Mex beef enchiladas with chili gravy. Anybody want some? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2026, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usa-election-watch-2026/1034377/420 "2026-11-04T03:58:51Z")
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