I just did, too! I couldn’t hit “report junk and delete “ fast enough.
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Personally I felt Clinton was pretty inspiring as well
Looks like CNN is behind in calling some races.
With 99% of the vote in, the Democrat in the Oregon governor’s race is up by 2.8%. Seems safe to call it.
With 72% of the vote in, the Republican in the Alaska governor’s race is up by 29% in a 4-way race. That also seems safe to call.
In fairness, the 1876 presidential election did have a problem with disputed electors (among other issues).
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Remember that Alaska uses ranked choice voting.
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Good point. The Republican incumbent is still sitting awfully pretty with 52.1% of the vote. Even if he loses the outright majority, the 4th place guy is another Republican, so probably most of the 4th place guy’s voters have the incumbent Governor as their second choice.
But I’m sure you must be correct that RCV is the reason they’re not calling it.
McMorrow is someone to watch - this is obviously a defensive speech on what happened to her and and take down of some the nonsense school debates that were going on during the spring, but if she can translate this into a positive uplifting message as well, you will be hearing your name a lot in the future.
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She’s awesome, saw that earlier this year.
Can someone explain to me why the AZ Senate race has not been called yet? Masters is down 95K votes. The vast majority of the uncounted votes are Maricopa County (which will wind up with over 50% of all AZ votes) and is currently 53%/45% for Kelly. Let’s aggressively say Masters picks up 20K from the other counties. He would need to gain 75K out of the ~300K remaining uncounted Maricopa County votes. This seems like a stretch. There would need to be something fundamentally different about the yet-to-be-counted votes that would lean hugely Republican.
He crushed it. If it didn’t mean giving up 2 years of returns, I’d bet some money on him today.
Not that I’m fan of his shitty culture war. Hope the Democrats can field someone just as strong.
I think the yet to be counted votes tend to be the late in person votes which favor Republicans. It’s a similar vote block that allowed Trump to close the gap but not all the way on Biden in 2020, at least as I understand it.
there is some speculation about which votes are yet to be counted (late in person votes, mail in votes received after, cured ballots, etc). however, no one really knows the proportions of these outstanding votes. I’m guessing Kelly wins this by a few pts, but AP cant call this yet given the uncertainty.
Can we take some of the 500M in campaign dollars that are effectively wasted and give a few bucks to AZ to count votes this week?
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CA is also slow on some counting.
same concept. we blow a billion dollars on crap ads and then rely on a bunch of 80 yr old volunteers to count votes.
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Military sometimes has extra time to get their ballots in, and those would lean Republican.
I’ve never really understood this. Seems like both parties trip over themselves to spend more money on the military but only the Democrats actually seem to try spend money on Veterans.
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Checks math….
…. Yep
Heard on election night $250 million spent in GA and $300 million in PA on Senate election advertising and was thinking how much better that money could have been spent to make a difference which is allegedly what elected officials are supposed to do.
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What an embarrassment that 4 people liked this post. No, we don’t agree that all Jan 6 rioters should get more than 16 years like the two terrorist bombers. Some rioters perhaps should, I’m thinking specifically of zip tie guy, anyone involved in significant violence, as well as whoever stole Pelosi’s laptop, but 16 years is too much for people who just entered the capitol but did little or nothing else. As far as I’m aware, the legal system agrees with me because no one has been sentenced for that long. But who knows, maybe DeSantis will commute their sentence if they do get such a long sentence.
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I would expect the gap to close, but Kelly will most likely win. There is really no upside to call it early…
It is worse to get it wrong (even if this is less than a 5% probability) then to wait and call it later…