2014 Election Megathread

[Ed Anger]

I'm voting team Shareholder Value. Every Dem running this year is  awful.

[Admiral Yi]

You should have voted for the Green candidate. Both as a protest vote and to blow Seedy's mind.

Only other people on the ballot were a dude running as a Libertarian and one dude running as an independent.

[Phillip V]

I am still waiting for my absentee ballot in the mail.

[derspiess]

So when are all of the results done and dusted, the Thursday morning after next? 

Or will exit polls give the lowdown on the Wednesday evening?

We should have a pretty good idea on election night (a week from next Tuesday).  Then again, there are some runoff and possible recount scenarios that could leave the Senate balance in doubt until January.

[CountDeMoney]

Poor Grimey.  Gets axed a question and does a poor job not answering

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/10/09/40-painful-seconds-of-alison-lundergan-grimes-refusing-to-say-whether-she-voted-for-president-obama/

I really don't get her.  She's so afraid of being associated with the president, she's managed to not be associated with the electoral process.   

I mean, are white women really that scared of black people down there?

[derspiess]

Been to Fredericktown lately, Seedy? 

I'm actually thinking of going there sometime within the next year to visit the Monocacy battlefield.

[CountDeMoney]

Fivethirtyeight has the Republicans at a 66% chance to take the Senate as of yesterday.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/interactives/senate-forecast/

It's actually a compelling aspect of American political history in the making.  This way, by controlling both houses, the GOP will actually be creating even more gridlock for Hillary Clinton so she can actually accomplish even less than Obama.   The only thing they hate more than an uppity black man that doesn't know his place is a woman--and a Clinton woman to boot? Aw hells yeah.

Then the GOP will finally have its vengeance against Bill, in true Gambino style--and what more awesome, classical mobster vengeance can you want than by going Capone in 2016 and forcing your biggest political enemy since LBJ to watch his wife get politically raped and killed before he dies?  That is some hardcore political gangsta shit there.

Seriously though, we are looking at a phenomenon of political polarization not seen since Reconstruction.  It's pretty fascinating to watch.

[derspiess]

Seriously though, we are looking at a phenomenon of political polarization not seen since Reconstruction.  It's pretty fascinating to watch.

Politics has always been nasty, but yeah the polarization does seem more pronounced than it has in quite a while.  I wonder how long it will sustain itself. 

[derspiess]

Medical marijuana is on the ballot in Florida.  I heard a political ad in which the speaker claimed that opposition to medical marijuana came from Big Tobacco; who wanted to continue to push their poisonous, cancer-causing product and prevent people from using medical marijuana in order to get well.

I have no opinion on that issue.  But I can tell you that after seeing the ad 50 times on youtube I am firmly in favor of Issue 1.  CONSERVE OUR WILDLIFE AREAS

[Valmy]

I voted.  It seems I am in some sort of weird jurisdiction that does not get to vote for Austin Mayor or City Council.  I am in the 'extra-territorial jurisdiction'

I guess this is how Puerto Ricans feel.

[garbon]

Strangely, I never received any information about voting. I know voting is happening at the local church near me on the 4th but no one has tried to swing me on anything.

[derspiess]

I voted.  It seems I am in some sort of weird jurisdiction that does not get to vote for Austin Mayor or City Council.  I am in the 'extra-territorial jurisdiction'

I guess this is how Puerto Ricans feel.

I am about a mile and a half outside of Cincy city limits.  I don't get to vote in any city elections but thank God we're not in that horrible school district.

[Admiral Yi]

Strangely, I never received any information about voting. I know voting is happening at the local church near me on the 4th but no one has tried to swing me on anything.

Uncontested NY races.

This election is the first time I have been getting targeted ads on YouTube.  Feels kind of strange.

[garbon]

Strangely, I never received any information about voting. I know voting is happening at the local church near me on the 4th but no one has tried to swing me on anything.

Uncontested NY races.

Uncontested in that the other candidates have no chance of winning?

I mean at least we typically get the board of elections pamphlet that details the few office and the ballot props. I just looked and we do have some ballot measures this time around - including one around redistricting process.

[derspiess]

Strangely, I never received any information about voting. I know voting is happening at the local church near me on the 4th but no one has tried to swing me on anything.

Uncontested NY races.

This election is the first time I have been getting targeted ads on YouTube.  Feels kind of strange.

Yeah, well it's even more strange when YouTube thinks you're in a different state