Election Night (or days, or weeks, or whatever) 2022

[Weezer]

So what? Six House races still to be called? Wonder how much longer that takes?

 

[zeppelin128]

So what? Six House races still to be called? Wonder how much longer that takes?

From what I have seen, Nov. 23 at the earliest due to the Alaska and Maine House races.

 

[BowlBrother85]

Also, Kevin McCarthy won the Republican party vote for Speaker of the House. Mitch "The Turtle" McConnell won the GOP vote today for Senate Minority Leader over Rick Scott.

Both parties tend to stick with the status quo leadership, regardless of how the elections turn out for them. It's old guard cronyism.

 

[Orangeslice13]

Also, Kevin McCarthy won the Republican party vote for Speaker of the House. Mitch "The Turtle" McConnell won the GOP vote today for Senate Minority Leader over Rick Scott.

 

[Orangeslice13]

Both parties tend to stick with the status quo leadership, regardless of how the elections turn out for them. It's old guard cronyism.

And it really sucks

 

[zeppelin128]

Both parties tend to stick with the status quo leadership, regardless of how the elections turn out for them. It's old guard cronyism.

Mitch probably went Red Wedding in that closed-door vote.

 

[BowlBrother85]

Mitch probably went Red Wedding in that closed-door vote.

The only time I can remember a party forcing out a leader after an especially poor mid-term showing was Newt Gingrich as House Speaker in '98 and that was probably unfair. He had been instrumental in getting a lot of effective bi-partisan legislation passed, although he had overreached on the Clinton impeachment.

They replaced him with Denny Hastert ... who was later revealed to be structuring checking account transactions to conceal hush money payments to a man, that he had sexually abused as a child.

The Republicans have had some real winners, haven't they?

 

[AM64]

I wouldn't call it a disappointment at this moment in time, when it's been the expectation for six months.

The Democratic Party's lead in the House has been very tenuous since the 2020 election cycle. Republicans only needed to pick up 6 seats in the mid-term elections. It would not have been realistic to expect the party in power to lose fewer than that. Considering the current state of the economy and having such an unpopular President, it is a small miracle that Democrats are only going to lose between 7-10 seats in the House, and they might even pick up a seat in the Senate.

By contrast, Democrats picked up 40 seats in the House during the 2018 mid-terms, and that was with a much stronger economy than we have now. Republicans have under-performed in 2022. You can't get around that.

The dems are a propaganda machine. When the SC gave the right the abortion lightning rod to play with, several states took the bait. All the dems had to do at that point was sell the flock that republicans were taking their freedoms away. The GOP will never ever understand there is a time and a place, and they don't have the numbers because the other side owns the lemmings ... all they need is an argument to rally the lemmings. Student loan cancellation was another - the perception is always dems give and republicans take or won't play. It was stupid to ever think this election was going to be a big red wave or a blue bloodbath.

 

[AM64]

Nevada Supreme Court Rejects Attempt to Stop County's Hand-Count

and this is why there is so much skepticism

Funny how students always used to be taught to check their work because getting the correct answer was the objective. Apparently we were just wasting our time.

 

[AM64]

Yeah, it stinks.. but things are going to get really bad and we are going to blame the Dems, with good reason

We will blame dems for a bad economy and inflation, but the dem faithful won't. To the dem faithful the cost of everything went up and the mean republicans wouldn't give them more money to pay. Their analysis doesn't go beyond that. It's why the "more intelligent" analyze situations incorrectly ... you have to think like the other guy instead of thinking about what is rational to formulate a strategy.

 

[AM64]

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And I could not be happier

Maybe and I hope so too, but remember dems vote as a bloc and republicans are generally like herding cats when it comes to being on the same page.

 

[Sea Ray]

The only time I can remember a party forcing out a leader after an especially poor mid-term showing was Newt Gingrich as House Speaker in '98 and that was probably unfair. He had been instrumental in getting a lot of effective bi-partisan legislation passed, although he had overreached on the Clinton impeachment.

They replaced him with Denny Hastert ... who was later revealed to be structuring checking account transactions to conceal hush money payments to a man, that he had sexually abused as a child.

The Republicans have had some real winners, haven't they?

These kinds of things know no party. Dems have had their issues as well

Dan Rostenkowski - Wikipedia
Jim Wright - Wikipedia
Top Democrat spends campaign cash at private golf club despite Ethics investigation

I won't even get started with Bill Clinton

 

[BP4Prez]

Why is the Boebert district still counting votes? This is a district with less than 400,000 votes and we don’t have a winner two weeks later. Ridiculous.

 

[evillawyer]

Perfect summary

 

[SlipKidVol]

Perfect summary

I thought Twitter was shutting down

 

[C-south]

Perfect summary

Was Warnock’s wife on Medicaid when he ran her over?

 

[RikidyBones]

So is Boebert gonna have to resurrect her career as an escort? She's currently losing her race.

@oldtakesexposed

 

[PEPPERJAX]

So is Boebert gonna have to resurrect her career as an escort? She's currently losing her race.

She may have a bright future as an escort.

 

[AM64]

Perfect summary

One of the worst set of picks in history. GA is so screwed if they can't find a better pair than these two clowns. Seems like political candidates all over are simply becoming the least common denominator - this is literally scraping the bottom of the barrel for rancid leavings kind of stuff.

 

[Vol423]

So is Boebert gonna have to resurrect her career as an escort? She's currently losing her race.

Her opponent conceded the race today.

Frisch concedes race against Boebert as it goes to recount

 

[Vol423]

She may have a bright future as an escort.

Her lucrative escort career will have to wait since she’ll be at the Capitol. On second thought, that’s a more lucrative location than Vegas.

 

[Orangeburst]

Her opponent conceded the race today.

LOL

 

[AM64]

Her opponent conceded the race today.

Frisch concedes race against Boebert as it goes to recount

Maybe the opponents don't want a recount, and then you wonder why not.

 

[Orangeburst]

Maybe the opponents don't want a recount, and then you wonder why not.

You have been around for awhile...I as well as you dont remember such turmoil and time to count integers. It was KISS and it probably worked wonderfully.

 

[AM64]

You have been around for awhile...I as well as you dont remember such turmoil and time to count integers. It was KISS and it probably worked wonderfully.

I mean how hard is it to add ones. We officially learned that in first grade? I didn't go to Kindergarten, but I think I might have learned some arithmetic before the first grade. It's not even just integers they are dealing with; it's limited to positive integers ... allegedly.