U.S. Politics, November 2024: GARBAGE DAY!!

appreciate your optimism frogbs. michigan looks like a squeaker

Xpost don't really have a choice being I fuckin live here

kansas and iowa both too close to call, missouri pretty close too

Dan the state republicans in Florida changed the citizen initiative law to require 60% - it got 57%

Sarah McBride wins Delaware House seat, becomes first openly transgender US Rep in U.S. history

This Russian bomb threat story needs to be bigger, MSNBC just reported more states getting them now, including Wisconsin and Michigan.

AP called Andy Kim (D) to take the NJ US Senate seat vacated by Menendez.

Regarding the wreck I was in: nobody hurt, their car might be totaled and it was my fault. Distracted by a fire truck with sirens blaring and I ran a red light. Worst part is I know the other party and this is the last thing they need right now.

I was going to stay up a while and ride this out but my nerves are beyond shot. Fuck all this, I’m going to bed. Goodnight, hope there’s good news in the morning.

If the news is bad, I’m very grateful to have this place where we can moan and wail together.

> So Florida rejected their abortion rights measure

Because you need 60% to pass these things? Awesome.

really glad you're ok Cow Art

the Gwinnett GA election official is apparently named “Zack Manifold”

Looks like NC is going for Trump

jeez Cow Art hang in there bud

Oh fuck Cow Art I'm so sorry, hope you are okay, much love

so what’s up with these VA suburbs

Fucking needle

lookin like the Liz Cheney gambit didn't really work

apologies if I gave anyone false hope, this really did look like a Harris landslide

obviously it's far from over

So Florida rejected their abortion rights measure

Because you need 60% to pass these things? Awesome.

― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Tuesday, November 5, 2024

even Kansas had a greater percentage of its citizens voting for it. fuck Florida

Maybe, just maybe, Democrats need to transmit a message that they’re not aligned with Republicans?

Harris needed one of these:

Georgia +5.4% to Trump with 77% of votes counted
NC +3.3% to Trump with 61% of votes counted

Nathaniel Rakich:

It's past 9 p.m. Eastern, and it still feels like we don't know much about who will win the presidential race. Neither Harris nor Trump is doing notably better than expected, so here in the 538 office, it feels like we're settling in to watch states like Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania come down to the wire. It reminds me of 2020, when the race also didn't have a clear leader until a day or two after Election Day.

So overall, it's looking like the polls were right and the race is going to be close. That means we may not know the winner for a couple days.

She doesn't *need* either officially to win, but it'd reduce the pressure amongst rest of swing states.

xp

GA or NC would be good wins but I don't think she absolutely needed either.

She really needs PA, WI, and MI, anything beyond those 3 is gravy.

Yeah, I keep reminding myself that a month ago NC and GA looked out of reach and then they didn't and now we don't know.

Nate Silver, meanwhile, has his odds at 53% Kamala still

really glad you're ok Cow Art

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, November 5, 2024 8:32 PM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

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i just can’t say enough about john king. i used to hate him but somewhere along the way he turned into the vin scully of election coverage! “if you haven’t been to des moines in the last 10 years - it’ll surprise you”

he did describe parts of nebraska as beautiful, which, citation needed

Also meant to say glad you're OK Cow Art but I'm sorry you had such a rough day :(

he did describe parts of nebraska as beautiful, which, citation needed

Nebraska smells like shit everywhere

didn’t know that, that is the part he was talking about!

At least we can all relax and realize that regardless of the outcome, we can all go bankrupt from medical costs and our kids can die at school from gunfire, and nothing is changing in those regards

totally get the need to anxiety vent but also please get that shit the fuck outta here

Stephen Jones' The Last Prairie is the Desert Solitaire/skeleton key to the NE sandhills. Recommended if you think it might be your sort of thing

xxp

xps sleep soundly Cow Art. :(

https://www.patreon.com/posts/speve-kornacki-115443350

republican kelly ayotte expected to win new hampshire governorship

72% chance of Trump winning, per NYT. Mother of fucking god I want to blow my brains out

folx i just hopped on. following from Chile, where i'm originally from. will return to the US in two weeks. (i voted early).

every time i visit Chile, I feel the ground underneath me tremble, regardless of the state of the tectonic plates, because not far beneath are the years of terror. my new home, the US, in recent years, has begun to register on the Richter scale. Tonight, everything just feels so precarious.

keep breathing, i think. don't stop. you haven't been stopped yet.

love to ilxors.

<3

At least we can all relax and realize that regardless of the outcome, we can all go bankrupt from medical costs and our kids can die at school from gunfire, and nothing is changing in those regards

― beamish13, Tuesday, November 5, 2024 8:53 PM (sixteen minutes ago)

beamish, would you shut the fuck up, please?

Hey look! Good news! https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/11/05/delaware-senator-sarah-mcbride-first-transgender-member-us-congress/75962889007/

Yeah, but Trump will put her in a concentration camp along with other transgender/nonbinary people

beamish, log off

can kamala get the ‘zona

Who will Democrats find to be the Good Republican in 2028. My money is on Paul Ryan.

Won Iowa.

By all means, tell me how to stay positive