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We'll need to keep reminding ourselves that the generic expectation, every time, in every midterm election for the party that has the white house is always a significant loss. Very narrow losses in this situation are..... still good in context, I guess.
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Rigel posted:We'll need to keep reminding ourselves that the generic expectation, every time, in every midterm election for the party that has the white house is always a significant loss. Very narrow losses in this situation are..... still good in context, I guess. That plus inflation being on everyone's mind means a bad night for dems, buckle up.
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Nov 8, 2022 23:35
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Control of the House will be decided by about 30 different house districts in various parts of the country and the Senate will be decided by the races in NH, PA, GA, AZ, and NV. Oh I know, exit polls are basically useless, especially with mail in voting now. I'm just surprised at how such a GOP-leaning group has less horrifying views on certain things.
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haveblue posted:Going to vote now, updates soon I voted
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haveblue posted:I voted Nice. Keep it up.
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Nov 8, 2022 23:38
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I might attempt to ignore results (yeah right) until later in the night because the red mirage effect in 2020 practically gave me a heart attack. I am going to add to my predictions that we aren't going to see a wave of any color (apart from JEB! of course) but we are going to see some Weird poo poo. Dems winning in red states, Dems losing in blue states, up is down and black is white and every pollster on twitter needs to shut the gently caress up.
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Typical Pubbie posted:Nice. Keep it up. You're not going to trick me into voter fraud, Soros
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Nov 8, 2022 23:39
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nine-gear crow posted:Tonight on the season finale of America, someone dies! It's democracy. Democracy dies tonight at 8PM EST Nah, it's a season finale two-parter; tonight is the cliff-hanger; the death occurs later in the week.
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Nov 8, 2022 23:40
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CNN's demographic results are pretty bad (with the obvious caveat that it is election day voters only): 77% white. 9% turnout for ages 18-30. 9% turnout among black voters. More registered Republicans than Democrats. Just under 40% of the electorate is older than 65.
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Youth Decay posted:I might attempt to ignore results (yeah right) until later in the night because the red mirage effect in 2020 practically gave me a heart attack. I know  is a thing, but I do think for most people's mental health it would be better to just watch a movie, go to sleep, and wake up to see what the results are. F5ing vote totals is the worst thing any of us can do for our mental health. I would suggest the PBS Newshour feed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiklAfBdinw
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Rigel posted:We'll need to keep reminding ourselves that the generic expectation, every time, in every midterm election for the party that has the white house is always a significant loss. Very narrow losses in this situation are..... still good in context, I guess. Anything other than a substantial set of gains for the outsider party is solidly AND WILDLY Against expectation (And would suggest the gop is performing embarrassingly)
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I voted a couple of weeks ago. Not expecting a Beasley win although I do feel like her race might have been overly discounted. But it'll probably keep the lesser of two evils sheriffs in my town, the crazies out of the school board, and hopefully stop a veto proof Republican legislature in NC. I'm not very stressed on a national level at least int he short term as long as the senate holds. I think we unfortunately saw what the Biden administration was going to accomplish for this term. It was all smaller than we hoped which was smaller than what we need, but some good stuff. The House winning without the senate feels like it will just be empty posturing and them making asses out of themselves with "But her emails" style hearings. It's more the local politic that scare me.
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Rigel posted:This actually has some impact for me, since I am moving to Kansas City next year and haven't yet decided on KCK or KCMO. If this passes, I'll go to the Missouri side.  Having lived here my entire life - MO sucks otherwise, though. Crows Turn Off fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Nov 8, 2022 |
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:CNN's demographic results are pretty bad (with the obvious caveat that it is election day voters only): Earlier I saw pictures and videos of long lines of young people, and I was like "yeah but that is a precinct on a college campus, you always show us that while lying to us about how young people are voting this time. Get back to me with numbers in normal precincts"
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I'm off to bed, don't gently caress this up America
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SixFigureSandwich posted:I'm off to bed, don't gently caress this up America Bad news buddy.
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I'm hosting an election watch party for my grad school pals, most of them came to this county last year so they don't know the beauty of the American election broadcast. What is the most obnoxious, map-packed, vacuous talking head-packed, hologram-packed feed I can put on my TV?
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Civilized Fishbot posted:I'm hosting an election watch party for my grad school pals, most of them came to this county last year so they don't know the beauty of the American election broadcast. CNN probably?
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Are these guys required to talk in riddles? https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1590062540381630465
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Civilized Fishbot posted:I'm hosting an election watch party for my grad school pals, most of them came to this county last year so they don't know the beauty of the American election broadcast. A re-run of the Patriots Falcons superbowl and say that you're rooting for Falcons
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Nov 8, 2022 23:59
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Civilized Fishbot posted:I'm hosting an election watch party for my grad school pals, most of them came to this county last year so they don't know the beauty of the American election broadcast. CNN, 100%
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First poll results are coming in. Hang on, folks,  Edit: Fixed for incorrectness Canned Sunshine fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Nov 9, 2022 |
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Wishing y'all luck from across the Pacific. I'm not American but my partner is and also trans, so the outcome matters a lot to me.
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smackfu posted:Are these guys required to talk in riddles? He’s been posting about turnout issues all day so I think he thinks it’s 1 now. So this election despite all the handwringing goes by the fundamentals. Buckle up and get the whiskey ready.
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Voted. It was depressing. They didn't even have booths, you literally sat in chairs in the middle of a church classroom. NE needs to have democrats loving RUN. Like, no democrats ran for ANY county offices or for secretary of state, treasurer, etc. This is a county of nearly 200K people just south of Omaha and you couldn't find ONE person to run? I chose the "Legal Marijuana NOW" candidate for a couple of races. I don't smoke weed, but it was an option! And yes to increasing minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2026, and no to voter ID. I have zero hope of any of this going my way.
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Don't you get a sausage for voting in Australia?
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SourKraut posted:First polls are closing. Where? It’s only 6pm on the East Coast.
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SourKraut posted:First polls are closing. eh, those don't count, that is only parts of two states. Full states close starting next hour.
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IUG posted:Where? It’s only 6pm on the East Coast. Sorry, it really is just parts of states, as Rigel indicated, so I fixed it. Rigel posted:eh, those don't count, that is only parts of two states. Full states close starting next hour. Yep, sorry! Jumped the gun on it but I love that gif/scene.
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nine-gear crow posted:Tonight on the season finale of America, someone dies! It's democracy. Democracy dies tonight at 8PM EST Prime time baby! Main event to watch Democracy dies The ratings will be uuuge!
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Blitz of 404 Error posted:https://twitter.com/candynotcandace/status/1589976082731905024?s=20&t=E16vZPf_ahOPz2cLyIcirA these people are absolute loving morons goddammit
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Rigel posted:eh, those don't count, that is only parts of two states. Full states close starting next hour. It’s so mean that the states with a 6 PM closing time cross timezones.
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Rigel posted:We'll need to keep reminding ourselves that the generic expectation, every time, in every midterm election for the party that has the white house is always a significant loss. Very narrow losses in this situation are..... still good in context, I guess. Yeah the dems were set for a big loss going into tonight just based on political history.....midterm election where they hold the presidency, and major economic issues like inflation and gas prices. It would be hard for an organized, active, and on the ball political party to overcome that. And the Dems are none of those things. My only hope is that abortion rights gets people out but I don't really believe it.
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Lmao, Georgia.quote:@NBCNews exit polls from GEORGIA
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Blitz of 404 Error posted:https://twitter.com/candynotcandace/status/1589976082731905024?s=20&t=E16vZPf_ahOPz2cLyIcirA I'm convinced that these people look for the dumbest people possible to interview. The news and commentator classes have a vested interest in the horserace narrative; nobody doomscrolls or obsessively watches election coverage when the outcome is a forgone conclusion.
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Cabbit posted:I'm convinced that these people look for the dumbest people possible to interview. The news and commentator classes have a vested interest in the horserace narrative; nobody doomscrolls or obsessively watches election coverage when the outcome is a forgone conclusion. Everything you said is true, but if you don't think that voters make decisions based on the most contradictory, inane, and bizarre criteria, you need to talk to more voters.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Lmao, Georgia. From same day voting that is actually better than I would expect
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Cabbit posted:I'm convinced that these people look for the dumbest people possible to interview. The news and commentator classes have a vested interest in the horserace narrative; nobody doomscrolls or obsessively watches election coverage when the outcome is a forgone conclusion. Correct. There's no fun in interviewing a leftist political wonk who knows more than the interviewer. "Gee golly, I'm voting for Dr. Oz because he's a lifelong True Yinzer!" gets anger engagement, much much more fun.
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