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CT, Governor - 42.80% reporting Tom Foley49.93% Republican226,691 Dan Malloy48.94% Democrat222,221 
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Yes, the Senate is inherently gerrymandered to favor Republicans. This is just a reversion to the 55-45 R majority mean. The GOP has been federalizing pretty much every election down to dog catcher lately so it seems obvious that the natural way of things is for them to become way over-represented in the Senate once they reached the endgame of states voting in line with their Presidential ticket at worst (and somewhat better when you consider that two-thirds of those elections happen in off years), but apparently this is still surprising and unexpected to informed political observers.
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hhhat posted:Explain. I mean, I've seen this chart. Explain it though because I'm not following. The median state holding a Senate election this year is much redder than the US as a whole. Dems are fighting on unfriendly territory.
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Baker up 16k with 81% reporting. Man it was nice when Martha was up for a little while.
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Alexzandvar posted:If a Democrat got elected a couple cities might get dykes and what not to protect them. Hey, I thought we had come further in LGBT acceptance than that
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Mitt Romney posted:The Senate is not gerrymandered. It's impossible to gerrymander. Unless you count "every state gets 2 senators" to be gerrymandering
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:I can't wait for the CA governor results so that Neel Kashkari can be the shining face of our great state. Yeah that ain't happening. Fuhrer Brown reigns supreme.
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Joementum posted:The chart shows that the states where there are Senate elections this this are abnormally skewed toward states that don't favor the last President elected for the first time since WWII. This means that we can expected the biggest Senate return difference in the span of two years since the forties. In other words, just coincidental but it keeps on going. Got it.
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XyrlocShammypants posted:Which is what Warner was down at that point But what places are still left to report? With Warner the missing percentages were heavily Democratic.
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axeil posted:So if the House and Senate are both gerrymandered to favor the GOP what is structurally set up to favor the Dems? I'd say the unemployment line, but that will be going away shortly 
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Mitt Romney posted:The Senate is not gerrymandered. It's impossible to gerrymander. Although it would be awesome if it could be. Imagine every state border being turned into long snakelike figures every 6 years.
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Mitt Romney posted:The Senate is not gerrymandered. It's impossible to gerrymander. i think its just referring to how stupid hillbilly states that no one lives in get the same amount of senators as say, california
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Mitt Romney posted:The Senate is not gerrymandered. It's impossible to gerrymander. I know. that's what I was getting at.
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Mitt Romney posted:The Senate is not gerrymandered. It's impossible to gerrymander. A deliberate misuse of nomenclature on my part to imply that there are far more low-population Republican rural states than high-population Democratic urban states, and as such, Republicans have an inherent advantage.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Yeah Scott Brown just went down again. Thank christ God drat I'm catching up in the thread and about had a heart attack.
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Jagchosis posted:i think its just referring to how stupid hillbilly states that no one lives in get the same amount of senators as say, california Wasn't that the whole point?
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hhhat posted:Even worse Obamacare and cyborgs will revive me after I pull the trigger. There is no escape. Like we're going to get that kind of funding. At least next time Booz Allen or Deloitte comes whining about their rates, I get to tell them, "Suck it up, what made you think letting some other yahoos buy the election make big sacks of cash fall in your laps?"
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Mitt Romney posted:The Senate is not gerrymandered. It's impossible to gerrymander. It kind of is structurally gerrymandered since like two thirds of the US population is in like 10 states but a bunch of empty land gets as many senators as all of eg California
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btw i was busy having dinner and then taking a crap so i missed a fair bit of the thread. how did this midterm election come out worse than DnD's expectations? especially wrt specific races.
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NEED TOILET PAPER, basically the Democrats lost the senate and the Republican senators we most wanted to lose all won. You may begin drinking heavily.
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AP has called the election for Walker. Just shameful.
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axeil posted:Alfred P. Pseudonym once posted about duck penises and his favorite chili is Cincinatti chilli. "Cincinatti?" "Get a duck." William Bear fucked around with this message at 05:02 on Nov 5, 2014 |
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Cheesemaster200 posted:Wasn't that the whole point? Yes, and it's stupid.
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uncurable mlady posted:Unless you count "every state gets 2 senators" to be gerrymandering Although, there are way more rural states than urban ones. The GOP/Dem split is the same rural/urban issue that this country has been having since before the Revolutionary War happened.
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Shear Modulus posted:It kind of is structurally gerrymandered since like two thirds of the US population is in like 10 states but a bunch of empty land gets as many senators as all of eg California Which, before anyone tries to argue otherwise, is absolutely not how it should be.
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gently caress, Pat Roberts won
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hallebarrysoetoro posted:MD is, Baltimore County went pretty strong toward Hogan. Between the surrounding Klan counties, he'll have enough to offset PG/Montgomery and Baltimore votes. Depends on turnout, Baltimore City PG and Montgomery are coming in now.
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limeincoke posted:For some reason WHO in Iowa is calling it for Ernst, even though Braley is up 8 right now. Can their predictions really be that true? Dubuque and Johnson Counties are still almost completely yet to report, and Braley needs huge turnout in both of them -- Polk County broke much more strongly for Ernst than polling was suggesting (Braley still won it, but not by anywhere near the margin he needed). He isn't sunk but the vast majority of the counties and precincts that haven't come in yet in Iowa are redder than red.
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that one violent retard guy in new york who's going to prison soon just won re-election
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NEED TOILET PAPER posted:btw i was busy having dinner and then taking a crap so i missed a fair bit of the thread. how did this midterm election come out worse than DnD's expectations? especially wrt specific races. It didn't.
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KS called for Roberts omg time to skip the 'sour' part of my cocktails
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Brannock posted:AP has called the election for Walker. Just shameful. Rand Paul's night just keeps getting worse.
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Well atleast CA kept Governor Moonbeam
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NEED TOILET PAPER posted:btw i was busy having dinner and then taking a crap so i missed a fair bit of the thread. how did this midterm election come out worse than DnD's expectations? especially wrt specific races. The only race that is worse than expectations is that Warner is winning in VA by the skin of his teeth rather than by the 10 points that were projected. Pretty much every other race where where a flip was possible flipped, but that was expected. Also, apparently MD gubernatorial race is closer than expected. MA gubernatorial and IL gubernatorial are favoring Republicans, but those were tossups with a slight Republican preference anyway, so not MUCH worse than expected.
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Christ is Rauner seriously going to win. Quinn you fuckhead way to have the distinction of being beaten by the IL republican party.
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The 3 Republican governors (Walker, Kasich, and Snyder) who took on public unions all won tonight in purple states.
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:I can't wait for the CA governor results so that Neel Kashkari can be the shining face of our great state. You sound uncool . William Bear fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Nov 5, 2014 |
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