U.S. Politics, November 2022: “I don’t know, you hear the same things I do”

that is excellent news! as are the results in VT, MI, and CA

Good. Them and Michigan and ... Montana? Almost Montana? I'm surprised there was not a (more) extreme law on the ballot in Florida, unless there was and I missed it.

It'll depend entirely on how gerrymandered the Electoral College is

Obviously, we don't know yet what the House is going to look like. But if the Republicans end up with control by seven seats or fewer, it seems like we ought to talk about how #SCOTUS's orders in the Alabama and Louisiana cases helped to make that happen:https://t.co/yRyWngZnOV

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) November 9, 2022

RE: DeSantis I believe the stuff upthread about him having no charisma, but I feel stuff like keeping the beaches open during a pandemic and flying immigrants to Martha's Vineyard *is* a malevolent cult-of-personality thing that he has that other GOP hopefuls don't. Shitty base loves shitty behavior. I don't know that that could translate to success in a national election, but then I never thought Trump could win.

But I'm deferring to Alfred's wisdom on this one.

There are conservatives in Florida that outright love him. I've seen DeSantis hats in the wild

I didn't think Trump would win but I understand his appeal to dirtbags. I understand DeSantis' appeal too.

I have no wisdom when the Florida Democratic Party set out to lose these elections.

A couple of local races that are important to me are leaning red at the moment, and there are enough mail-in and provisional ballots to potentially swing them, but apparently our Board of Elections won't even start counting mail-ins and provisionals until Thursday. :/

Crist needs to be locked in a basement for four years. Sodded two important elections for us now

I know I live in a very blue city in a solidly blue state, so it's not necessarily indicative of things elsewhere, but I was frankly stunned by the turnout here. I waited in line nearly a full hour, which is very significantly longer than I've ever had to wait in the 15 years I've lived here.

On the hyper local level, glad our City voted for ranked choice local elections for primaries and runoffs starting in 2025!

I'm not a highly paid political consultant, but I could have told Florida Democrats that running Charlie Crist against DeSantis would not end well at all.

I'm so proud I asked him a rude question in May 2021 after he showed up to our meeting in a park wearing a full suit.

man that Pritziker speech is really something

exp the issue in Iowa was that the state party leadership is stuck on some idea of what a "good candidate" for governor would be and I don't think a lot of people have a coherent vision of what that'd be, nor would they recognize one

it's completely possible that name recognition can build by running for different elected positions or by trying again, but it just doesn't seem to be working. it looks like Stacey Abrams got less of the vote than her last run in Georgia

sorry, that was meant to be an xxxxxxpost

seems like the new normal is the Republican base will never, ever vote for a Democrat for elected office but are happy to vote for very liberal policies via referendum

that's how Cubans think too

Yeah, that JB speech was great.

Roll this man at the 2024 GOP field like a bowling ball pic.twitter.com/XP3WM5Fd9M

— Screamer Jim (@HeheWaitWhut) June 27, 2022

i would go to war for this billionaire

Yep, this is happening. Lauren Boebert is going down in #CO03. Massive upset by @AdamForColorado, a major defeat for the MAGA movement and a pretty big win for basic common sense and constituent services -- h/t @GalenMetzger1 and @Thorongil16 for tracking this and calling it.

— Lakshya Jain (@lxeagle17) November 9, 2022

Yessssssssssssss

seen a few people point out that the GOP majority will likely depend on cuomo ratfucking redistricting in NY. on the other hand, one would hope those new NY reps will be reluctant to e.g. impeach for the lols.

the GOP in colorado (not just boebert) absolutely ate shit. extremely gratifying.

It's fascinating and depressing to see how Colorado, once reliably red, has blued up.

....while Florida, well.

Colorado is walking so Arizona can run maybe

Minnesota's results are still close enough that I'd still call it a "swing state," but man, GOP just can't win statewide races here for shit

extremely good

Colorado has eliminated means-testing on the free school lunch program. Let’s gooooo! https://t.co/tOllyDX2SO

— James Medlock (@jdcmedlock) November 9, 2022

In terms of electoral power, Colorado Republicans were already at their post-WW2 low point — then took a drubbing tonight. Losing races they planned to win, getting demolished in some supposed toss-ups.

Honestly don’t know where they go from here.

— Alex Burness (@alex_burness) November 9, 2022

has anybody reliable actually called the race for Frisch over Boebert? that tweet is all I've seen.

no

no

I was stoking enthusiasm

Gotcha.

looks like warnock/walker is almost certainly going to a runoff, and, if AZ and NV are split, it would decide the senate majority. reasons for optimism: it's a month away (Dec 6), additional national attention and being required to talk on camera does not help walker, and trump is probably going to announce in the interim

xxp Here have some more https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-is-livid-and-screaming-his-head-off-after-disappointing-midterm-elections-for-the-gop-an-advisor-said/ar-AA13V98t

would be in favor of letting him back on Twitter today and today only

The Boebert news made my month.

the enthusiasm has been stoked! but it's not official yet :-o

when is Trump not livid and screaming

Is anyone maintaining a list of election deniers who are denying losing this election?

no because I am denying lists exist

in the future, when he will no longer exist. the amount of time in the universe without him will be infinitely more than the years that included him
xp

two can play this game!

i'm heartened by the losses of some of the more prominent election deniers (mastriano, the AZ crew). a big one definitely just got elected here in missouri, though, and it wasn't particularly close. eric schmitt, who is a real....a real piece of...there's something, hold on, a reaaaaaaaal pieeeece of something, i can't think of what it is right now

WOah. Just had another Dr. Oz dream. This time he was crying

— wint (@dril) September 26, 2011

he reminds me of Scott Pruitt, another attorney general who made it to the big time. Scott Pruitt and Eric Schmitt, who are two pieces of gigantic overwhelmingly putrid and flagrantly foul...something

While we're riding on vibes...

Simple answer based on how everything is going at the moment suggests Democrats hold the House. Wouldn’t be too surprised. It’s going to take a while before there are enough official calls to indicate that, but the trend seems clear.

— Harrison Lavelle (@HWLavelleMaps) November 9, 2022

"How could you look at these results tonight and conclude Trump has any chance of winning a national election in 2024?" Scott Jennings, a former advisor to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, said in an early Wednesday tweet.

heheheh

didn't Maloney lose in NY?