2018 U.S election

[Lexicus]

Not too surprising.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Sorry I was talking specifically about the Florida and Georgia Senate and Gubernatorial races.

Florida is too close to call with a narrow GOP lead and votes still out in Dade and Broward. Atlanta is still out in Georgia, but Kemp has a pretty big lead.

 

[Berzerker]

Walker's losing in Wisconsin

 

[bernie14]

Fox called house for the dems like 1/2 hour ago....Florida senate still 2 close to call

 

[Lexicus]

Incumbent Heidi Heitkamp (D) lost in North Dakota.

Frankly she deserved to lose. I know it's not why she lost but she voted for bank deregulation and then got all indignant when questioned about it and tried to act like us city folk just don't understand small towns.

CNN: House D134-131R

 

[bernie14]

Florida senate, scott leading nelson by 60k votes with 99% of the vote in

 

[Commodore]

CNN: House D134-131R

See this is why I don't like CNN. They base their numbers off of projections instead of actual results. NY Times currently has it, based off races that have officially been called, at Republicans 128 Democrats 112.

 

[onejayhawk]

MSNBC has called the House for Democrats.

Even MSNBC has called for Cruz. Bummer.

Hasta la Vista, Beto.

J

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Observations on the house:

1) The GOP cannot deny that the Trumpier the candidate they put through the primary, the harder it is to win. That's very good news going forward. The 2020 map is totally reversed in the senate, and a lot of those GOP senators on the defensive are facing a tough choice. If they support Trump, they make their defense hard. If they defy Trump and get primaried the GOP's defense of their seat becomes even harder.

2) In the house, Democrats are picking up rural seats in blue states as well as suburban seats in red states. If momentum can be maintained on both those fronts, the tide has topped the wall, because there is nowhere for the GOP to make offset gains.

 

[adcarrymaokai]

ah, the vaunted reverse jinx

carry on

It's not a reverse jinx. It's the truth. The Dems will lose across the board.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Pete Sessions (R-TX, stalwart) just lost a former NFL player. They are saying that a lot of people turned out to vote for Beto and it spilled over into this race.

 

[onejayhawk]

Pete Sessions (R-TX, stalwart) just lost a former NFL player. They are saying that a lot of people turned out to vote for Beto and it spilled over into this race.

Beto had a raft of money, a lot of which went into GotV and early voting. That has coat-tails.

A Sommer said early on, a mixed bag tonight.

J

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Pete Sessions (R-TX, stalwart) just lost a former NFL player. They are saying that a lot of people turned out to vote for Beto and it spilled over into this race.

I think too much is being made of the Beto effect, though it surely helped. I think too much because the actual top of the ticket race was for governor, and the very popular Abbott led the charge for the GOP. The big story there is that the massive gerrymander that sliced urban votes into slivers and buried them in as many suburban districts as necessary to defraud the system is brutally failing as the suburbs swing away from the GOP. There's no more gerrymander space available in a state split as closely as the senate race says it is, so the gains should hold.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

The talking heads are saying the tea party faction of the Republican party will wield even more power after this election as moderates are losing their seats and concentrating power within the Republican party to the right.

 

[Broken_Erika]

It's not a reverse jinx. It's the truth. The Dems will lose across the board.

And Gary Busey will win every seat and Governorship.

Spoiler :

#MAGA Make America Gary Again!

 

[hobbsyoyo]

PBS is calling Florida's governor race for Ron Desantis (R).

 

[onejayhawk]

PBS is calling Florida's governor race for Ron Desantis (R).

I am a bit surprised at this one but less surprised at the Senate race. Kansas will have a Democratic Governor again. It's an old tradition. Missouri finally is rid of McCaskill. It's long overdue.

Republicans are +3 in the Senate and leading in Arizona and Florida. On the flip side, Democrats are +4 in Governorships.

Currently, the Democrats are about +15 in the House but should pick up at least five in California alone. They will control the House. The question is the vote margin.

West Coast results starting to come in.

J

 

[Timsup2nothin]

West Coast results starting to come in.

J

Took fifteen whole minutes to call the governor's race in California.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

With 0% reporting

 

[Ajidica]

I'm sort of sad about that, with no more Jerry Brown as governor California Uber Alles no longer holds true.