This is some rather simplistic Republican cheerleading and nothing more. According to the count as I write this post (~6:45 pm), there are roughly 472,000 votes to still be counted, and about 86% of those as-yet-uncounted votes are in Democrat-leaning Maricopa and Pima counties. At this point chances are the gap between Hobbs and Lake will widen in Hobbs's favour, not the other way around.
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Boebert is now in a dead heat with Adam Frisch. But there's still some vote to be counted from Pitkin county, heavily democratic, so hopefully it pushes Adam over the top.
Apache - 68.8% in
Cochise - 71.8% in
Coconino - 67% in
Gila - 83.3% in
Graham - 98.6% in
Greenlee - 86.7% in
La Paz - 82.2% in
Maricopa - 74.9% in
Mohave - 85.8% in
Na###o - 81.8% in
Pima - 68.1% in
Pinal - 89.9% in
Santa Cruz - 72.9% in
Yavapai - 85.5% in
Yuma - 82.1% in
The big population centers are Maricopa (Phoenix) and Pima (Tucson).
It will be interesting to see if this momentum (if you can really call it that) could be carried through to 2024. I don't expect the GOP to change their tune, so if the Dems can capitalize on the younger demographic to show they can really make a difference, well then, they could really make a difference!
Results absolutely an indictment of GOP.
If they stay the same course, 2024 will be a slaughter. If instead they fall in line behind DeSantis, he's 47.
I expect they will stay the course. Lol
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Fox News pundit and Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen said the Republican Party has some major soul-searching to do following the 2022 midterm elections.
Thiessen in commentary as results were coming in early Wednesday morning said it was an indictment of the GOP to not have done better given the headwinds faced by Democrats in the election.
“There is a broader issue, and think about this: We have the worst inflation in four decades, the worst collapse in real wages in 40 years, the worst crime wave since the 1990s, the worst border crisis in U.S. history, we have Joe Biden, who is the least popular president since Harry Truman, since presidential polling happened, and there wasn’t a red wave,” Thiessen said.
“That is a searing indictment of the Republican Party. That is a searing indictment of the message that we have been sending to the voters. They looked at all of that, and looked at the Republican alternative, and said ‘no thanks.'”
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We need to look at who won today,” Thiessen said. “Ron DeSantis [in Florida]. DeWine [in Ohio]. These governors. Kemp [in Georgia], Abbott [in Texas]. … This is the path to the future. And electing these, you know, these radical candidates who ran far behind them has put the Republican Party in a terrible position, and voters have left, have indicted the Republican Party.”
So the Democrats have to win 31 of the remaining 39 races to maintain control of the House. Not impossible, but doesn't look likely. They really screwed themselves with their weak showings in New York.
Nevada is starting to look like it might actually break for the Dems.
I dunno, I think the remaining Clark county ballots need to be more than +10 Democrat to both make up the difference in current votes, as well as cover the votes likely to come in from other counties. Currently, the county is +5 D.
So the Democrats have to win 31 of the remaining 39 races to maintain control of the House. Not impossible, but doesn't look likely. They really screwed themselves with their weak showings in New York.
That or republican gerrymandering at large. How much encroachment has happened to effectively usurp democracy should be screamed from the rooftops.
Ehh. If they hadn't effed up big time in NY, the gerrymandering would have mattered less. I believe overall the GOP got as many of more total votes this election as the Dems did. Kind of a reversal of how it usually is.
Ehh. If they hadn't effed up big time in NY, the gerrymandering would have mattered less. I believe overall the GOP got as many of more total votes this election as the Dems did. Kind of a reversal of how it usually is.
You're correct. I believe the GOP will win the popular vote by quite a bit this election but not pick up many seats. That's not because of gerrymandering so much as an increasing concentration of manufactured angry mag#######s in an ever shrinking pool
You're correct. I believe the GOP will win the popular vote by quite a bit this election but not pick up many seats. That's not because of gerrymandering so much as an increasing concentration of manufactured angry mag#######s in an ever shrinking pool
I really wish people would acting as if there aren't legitimate grievances to be had with the current iteration of the Democratic party. They're obviously not as bad as Republicans, but there are plenty of valid reasons to be pissed off at them.
EDIT: Unless you're talking about the bull#### CRT, culture war crap. That's definitely manufactured outrage.
I really wish people would stop pretending there aren't legitimate grievances to be had with the current iteration of the Democratic party. They're obviously not as bad as Republicans, but there are plenty of valid reasons to be pissed off at them.
Who's doing that?
Democrats have plenty of spinach in their teeth worthy of dissection at another time. But pardon me if one side actually violently attempted to overthrow the government and slide into fascism. And that crap is filtering up here too so I'm a little less concerned here.
We can argue that one neighbour's fire pit is too close to the fence, but that's a conversation better had when the other neighbour's burning house is put out
Like, I get that we want to have two sides
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Democrats have plenty of spinach in their teeth worthy of dissection at another time. But pardon me if one side actually violently attempted to overthrow the government and slide into fascism. And that crap is filtering up here too so I'm a little less concerned here.
We can argue that one neighbour's fire pit is too close to the fence, but that's a conversation better had when the other neighbour's burning house is put out
Like, I get that we want to have two sides
I'm not debating any of that. I agree. I think people who vote GOP at this point are wrong. That said, I can definitely empathize with the frustrations they're feeling towards Democrats.
Democratic strategy worked. Backed extreme candidates in primaries to make them easier to defeat in the general. Risky strategy but it worked. Thankfully. Last night was the best outcome. Moderate Republicans won handily (DeSantis and Kemp) and trumpers got destroyed. Hopefully that's a lesson for the R's.
So its not true that Republicans vote for just anybody?
That's foreshadowing that people are sick of Trump
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‘The Five’s’ Tarlov and Gutfeld Battle Over Abortion In Heated Exchange: ‘We Just Had An Election That Said You’re Wrong’
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Tarlov argued that many on the right did not predict the abortion issue resonating as strongly as it did as many failed to understand the everyday implications abortion rights have on women across the country.
“There was so much talk about the issue of abortion as if it’s something that people use as a birth control method, that it’s just wild women going out and saying, you know, I don’t want to use a condom, I’ll just get an abortion. No big deal,” Tarlov began, adding:
But I’m sure if it was 20 weeks or 24 weeks that there are a lot of Democrats and independent-minded people who would say we should be discussing that. But when you have women in Louisiana who are waiting to go into sepsis, you have that ten-year-old in Ohio who’s getting shipped to Indiana to get health care.
