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2018 mid-term election

Brainster said:
Gillum was running on a $15 minimum wage and medicare for all. If he had run on more moderate Democratic positions, he might have won.
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Or, he may have lost votes from those on the far left who may have thought there wasn't enough difference between the parties to vote Democrat.
 
phiwum said:
It wasn't much of a wave. It is better than before for dems, but not a significant change.
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Uh...taking control of the house, flipping seven governorships and a similar number of state legislatures...that's pretty major, actually.
 
dudalb said:
This is too funny not to post

http://www.startribune.com/dead-brothel-owner-wins-election-for-nevada-legislative-seat/499940401/

I don't think a dead pimp has won an election before....
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Back in the 1970s a second-cousin of mine lost an election to a dead man. He was running as a Democrat for mayor in a largely Republican town, but when his opponent died a few weeks before the election he looked like a shoo-in. So the Republican town council got out the word: Vote for the corpse. There was a provision in the town charter that covered the situation, letting the council members pick a mayor from among themselves.
 
Apparently a white poll worker in Houston yelled some racist stuff at a black voter. Ended up leaving when the cops were called.
 
Walker was defeated in Wisconsin, but Republicans aren't giving up:

Less than 24 hours after Tony Evers was elected governor, the Republican leader of the state Assembly threatened to take power away from him even before he is sworn in.

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester) said Wednesday he would discuss whether to look at limiting Evers' power with Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau). FItzgerald is open the idea, according to an aide.

"If there are areas where we could look and say, 'Geez — have we made mistakes where we granted too much power to the executive,' I'd be open to taking a look to say what can we do to change that to try to re-balance it," Vos told reporters.

"Maybe we made some mistakes giving too much power to Gov. (Scott) Walker and I'd be open to looking at that to see if there are areas we should change that, but it's far too early to do that before I talk to Scott Fitzgerald."
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Linky.
 
With 99% of the vote in.....


Does anyone understand what happens in those districts where 100% of the votes are not in right now? I'm guessing that somehow there is some sort of ballot irregularity that has to be resolved by an election judge/official, i.e. something has gone wrong and somebody with some authority has to drive in, assess the situation, and decide how to count the votes. Maybe there's even some sort of legal challenge in a precinct?

I'm just wondering if anyone has some firsthand experience with this sort of thing, or even has read a specific article describing a situation that kept a precinct/town/other election district from reporting vote tallies right away.

I was wondering about this in relation to the Arizona senate race. It hasn't been projected. Looking at CNN's interactive map, it says that only 75% of the votes are in, but if you zoom in to the county view, each county has 100% of the votes in, except for one that has 98% in.
 
Some possibilities:

- A lot of places have a law/regulation in place that if a race is close, with X (usually 1% or less) of a difference a recount is automatic.

- Mail in ballots from overseas (Military and Ex-patriots) might still be coming in and being counted.

- CNN might have stopped bothering to update its map after the results they cared about where in.
 
Crazy response from judge who lost his election:

After losing his bench in a Democratic sweep, Harris County Juvenile Court Judge Glenn Devlin released nearly all of the youthful defendants that appeared in front him on Wednesday morning, simply asking the kids whether they planned to kill anyone before letting them go.

"He was releasing everybody," said public defender Steven Halpert, who watched the string of surprising releases. "Apparently he was saying that's what the voters wanted."

In court, prosecutors voiced their concerns about the seemingly indiscriminate release of those accused of everything from low-level misdemeanors to violent crimes.

"We oppose the wholesale release of violent offenders at any age," Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said in a statement later. "This could endanger the public."
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Linky.
 
JoeMorgue said:
Some possibilities:

- A lot of places have a law/regulation in place that if a race is close, with X (usually 1% or less) of a difference a recount is automatic.

- Mail in ballots from overseas (Military and Ex-patriots) might still be coming in and being counted.

- CNN might have stopped bothering to update its map after the results they cared about where in.
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- CNN decided stop covering the results to protest the accosting of Acosta by PDJT this morning.
 
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JoeMorgue said:
Some possibilities:

- A lot of places have a law/regulation in place that if a race is close, with X (usually 1% or less) of a difference a recount is automatic.

- Mail in ballots from overseas (Military and Ex-patriots) might still be coming in and being counted.

- CNN might have stopped bothering to update its map after the results they cared about where in.
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I went to the Arizona Secretary of State's web page. That web page has 0 precincts reporting in Maricopa County, but it has the number of ballots cast there, and the vote totals for the candidates include the votes from Maricopa County.

'Tis a mystery. I suppose it will take a day or two to sort it out. Looks like the Republican is going to win, but a recount is pretty much guaranteed at this point.
 
PhantomWolf said:
Yup, it was suggested on 538 that the Dems needed a 7% swing to overcome enough of the Jerrymandering to just break even. That's a heck of a penalty to start out with. The sooner the US moves to Proportional Representation for the House and State Governments the better it will be for its politics.
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Its even worse in the Senate, which IMO, is the one of the most undemocratic national legislative bodies in the Western world.

GOP have 54 of the 100 seats but the Dems with the remaining 46 seats garnered 20 million more votes than GOP, so the Senate majority represents a minority of voters.

That is what you get when you have a system in which a state with a population 500,000 gets exactly the same number of representatives as one that has a population of 40 million!
 
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