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axeil
Feb 14, 2006

Youth Decay posted:

Northam made a point to address the immigration thing in his speech at least, which is nice.

What'd he say? Does anyone have a link to a stream of the speech?

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cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

honk honk
College Slice

Endorph posted:

yeah, that one too. i wonder if part of it really is the rain making old ladies not wanna get out of their cars.

even if it maybe helped us here, in-person voting is the loving worst

Guacamayo
Feb 2, 2012

Youth Decay posted:

Northam made a point to address the immigration thing in his speech at least, which is nice.

what he say?

axeil
Feb 14, 2006
By the way, if the House of Delegates is a tie, here's what happens, based on what happened last time:

DailyKos posted:

It happened in 1997, and this is what they did:

The Virginia House of Delegates elected a Democratic speaker and then adopted a power-sharing agreement. Under the agreement, 19 House standing committees had co-chairs and equal party representation. However, if the co-chairs of any standing committee could not agree on how to conduct committee business, a special rule kicks in. It specified that one party’s chair presided the first year of the biennium, and the other party’s, the second.

Minenfeld!
Aug 21, 2012



Amused to Death posted:

It's not as exciting but a lot of Connecticut towns seem to be flipping from Republican to Democratic control which is pretty great given the gains Republicans made in the 2016 elections here(tied for control of the state senate for the first time in a whole lot of years for example)

Yeah, but my Mom won reelection to the school board as a Republican in her town. Not all good news in CT.

FizFashizzle
Mar 30, 2005







DSA candidate came in last for asheville city council.

It's not like our candidates were awful. we're hippy as poo poo.

quote:

ASHEVILLE - Vijay Kapoor, Sheneika Smith and Vice Mayor Gwen Wisler have been elected to the City Council, according to unofficial results.

Kapoor, a South Asheville neighborhood activist slated to be the first Asian-American council member, followed a commanding Oct. 10 primary win with a first-place general election victory Tuesday. His margin was 1,000 votes more than the next highest vote-getter, Smith.

Like Kapoor, Smith was also running for the first time. A job trainer at the nonprofit Green Opportunities, her election will mean there are two African-Americans on the council for the first time in 26 years. That's despite Asheville's shrinking black population.

Wisler, the vice mayor and only incumbent, fought to keep her place on the body, promising to support firefighters and police while working on community trust with officers. Safe streets and multimodel transportation were also key issues.

Also the socialist waiter was not elected mayor. oh well

quote:

Two candidates were on the ballot for the Asheville mayoral race. Those candidates were Esther Manheimer and Martin Ramsey. Manheimer came out ahead with over 80 percent of the vote and 12,997 votes. Ramsey received over 18 percent of the vote with 2,993 votes.

Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer

FizFashizzle posted:

DSA candidate came in last for asheville city council.

It's not like our candidates were awful. we're hippy as poo poo.


Also the socialist waiter was not elected mayor. oh well

Can't win 'em all. :sympathy:

Shimrra Jamaane
Aug 10, 2007

Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.

Minenfeld! posted:

Yeah, but my Mom won reelection to the school board as a Republican in her town. Not all good news in CT.

Thanksgivings must be real awkward.

Chemtrailologist
Jul 8, 2007

Minenfeld! posted:

Yeah, but my Mom won reelection to the school board as a Republican in her town. Not all good news in CT.

She didn't have any dirt on her you could have leaked? Next time make tapes.

gowb
Apr 14, 2005

axeil posted:

By the way, if the House of Delegates is a tie, here's what happens, based on what happened last time:

Man that's really dumb

Shimrra Jamaane
Aug 10, 2007

Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.
Fancy, please tell me youre at a post election party or something. What is the mood there? I want to live vicariously through you tonight!

Youth Decay
Aug 18, 2015

Guacamayo posted:

what he say?

Basically reiterated that diversity is what makes America great and that all will be welcome in Virginia.

axeil
Feb 14, 2006

gowb posted:

Man that's really dumb

Well they also could decide in an "act of bipartisanship" to appoint a GOP delegate who barely won to a post in the Administration, giving Dems temporary control and forcing a special election


Or it could be moot if the Dems end up winning some of these recounts/provisional ballot fests

Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer

Youth Decay posted:

Basically reiterated that diversity is what makes America great and that all will be welcome in Virginia.

Weak. We won't forget, Northam.

Lucky he only gets one term. :argh:

mcmagic
Jul 1, 2004

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Youth Decay posted:

Basically reiterated that diversity is what makes America great and that all will be welcome in Virginia.

Good tone but it's all about what he does now. The reason that bad democrats are better than any republican is that he needs democratic support. That is the way to push them left.

Terror Sweat
Mar 15, 2009

DACK FAYDEN posted:

Mayor Bhalla

boy I hope that's pronounced like "balla" so my lame joke makes sense

:yeah:

its a soft b, closer to a p sound, but close enough

Admiral
Dec 14, 2000

If you see this man, slap him in the nuts for me.

cheetah7071 posted:

even if it maybe helped us here, in-person voting is the loving worst

You Americans need to learn the way of the Democracy Sausage.

(And weekend voting.)

goethe.cx
Apr 23, 2014


If the elections this time next year go like this then I'll feel hopeful for the first time in a while

thehoodie
Feb 8, 2011

"Eat something made with love and joy - and be forgiven"

Admiral posted:

You Americans need to learn the way of the Democracy Sausage.

(And weekend voting.)

This is the best idea. Why don't people do this everywhere?

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

honk honk
College Slice

Admiral posted:

You Americans need to learn the way of the Democracy Sausage.

(And weekend voting.)

I live in a state with 100% mail-in voting

It rules

Youth Decay
Aug 18, 2015

Danica Roem is actually making me want to move to Man-asses with this interview.

mcmagic posted:

Good tone but it's all about what he does now. The reason that bad democrats are better than any republican is that he needs democratic support. That is the way to push them left.

His Lt Gov Justin Fairfax is more progressive than him and is known to be a Good Dude so that should definitely help. Same with AG Herring.

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Jul 1, 2004

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Koyaanisgoatse posted:

If the elections this time next year go like this then I'll feel hopeful for the first time in a while

Doug Jones. Doug Jones. Doug Jones.

https://dougjonesforsenate.com/

BigRed0427
Mar 23, 2007

There's no one I'd rather be than me.

Amused to Death posted:

It's not as exciting but a lot of Connecticut towns seem to be flipping from Republican to Democratic control which is pretty great given the gains Republicans made in the 2016 elections here(tied for control of the state senate for the first time in a whole lot of years for example)

Yeah. I'm hoping this is a sign that the issue in CT isn't the Dem party here. It's that Dan Malloy is just a poo poo Governer.

Honestly I dont follow CT politics THAT closely despite living here all my life.

Teddybear
May 16, 2009

Look! A teddybear doll!
It's soooo cute!


My dad woke up this morning with sudden implausibly awful knee pain to the point where we had to get him to a doctor and get a knee brace on him; he can't really bend his knee to get into a car now so he didn't get to vote in our town election today. His candidates won anyway, though, but still. Something to be said for a mail-in option.

axeil
Feb 14, 2006
Called House of Delegates split is now a 15 seat swing. One more seat and the Dems have ensured at least a split House.

Shimrra Jamaane
Aug 10, 2007

Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.

axeil posted:

Called House of Delegates split is now a 15 seat swing. One more seat and the Dems have ensured at least a split House.



How many seats are still to be called?

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

as a reminder recounts/provisionals virtually always move the needle in favor of the democrats

Shimrra Jamaane
Aug 10, 2007

Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.

evilweasel posted:

as a reminder recounts/provisionals virtually always move the needle in favor of the democrats

Well, except for that one time :smith:

farraday
Jan 10, 2007

Lower those eyebrows, young man. And the other one.

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

How many seats are still to be called?

https://twitter.com/vpapupdates/status/928107227348652032?s=17

Recounts for days.

cheetah7071
Oct 20, 2010

honk honk
College Slice
I think the WA election should start having results posted in ten minutes. Here's the official page for the important one:

http://results.vote.wa.gov/results/current/LegislativeDistrict45.html

B B
Dec 1, 2005


Anyone know anything about the recount process in VA? Hopefully it is non-partisan?

BirdOfPlay
Feb 19, 2012

THUNDERDOME LOSER

achillesforever6 posted:

Costa is also a part of powerful political family machine so its good to see them get poo poo on

Yeah, I forgot to mention this. There was four or five of them floating around local and state politics.


Bullshit. Hoboken isn't a major US City. :colbert:

axeil
Feb 14, 2006
https://twitter.com/JMilesColeman/status/928103603407122432
https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/928108340827344896

eat poo poo Comstock!

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

https://twitter.com/chunk_widebody/status/928101366341529600

Chemtrailologist
Jul 8, 2007
Remember that Cory Stewart (the guy Gillespie modeled his campaign on) is running against Tim Kaine next year. I hope he's freaking the gently caress out over these results.

mcmagic
Jul 1, 2004

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Ego-bot posted:

Remember that Cory Stewart (the guy Gillespie modeled his campaign on) is running against Tim Kaine next year. I hope he's freaking the gently caress out over these results.

He has no chance.

BigRed0427
Mar 23, 2007

There's no one I'd rather be than me.


I'm imagining her playing Ozzy songs for some reason.

Shimrra Jamaane
Aug 10, 2007

Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.

I want to know what she's rocking out to.

B B
Dec 1, 2005

YOUTH VOTE!

https://twitter.com/williamjordann/status/928105357641207808

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Jul 1, 2004

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https://twitter.com/GOPChairwoman/status/928103730238705670

RNC Re-Ups for Dear Leader.

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