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2022 Midterm Election MEGATHREAD

Started by Admiral Yi, November 05, 2022, 07:29:58 PM

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Quote from: Zanza on November 11, 2022, 01:47:09 PMJust read that the 89 year old Chuck Grassley was re-elected for another six years as US senator. Been in office since 1981 and before that served in Iowas state legislature since 1958.

I think it is absurd to have people that age in any political office. The party internal selection mechanisms do not seem to work well 

The voters keep voting for him...so who is really to blame?

Also...he's got nothing on Strom Thurmond, who I believe was in there at 100.

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Admiral Yi

It appears the AP has called AZ Senate for Kelly (D).

Valmy

Quote from: Admiral Yi on November 12, 2022, 01:52:35 AMIt appears the AP has called AZ Senate for Kelly (D).

Great! Now waiting on Nevada...
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Solmyr

Can someone explain how do Democrats get 51 seats in the Senate? Is it because they flipped a seat in Pennsylvania? So they need to keep everything else (Nevada and Georgia) to get 51?

garbon

Quote from: Solmyr on November 12, 2022, 02:37:07 AMCan someone explain how do Democrats get 51 seats in the Senate? Is it because they flipped a seat in Pennsylvania? So they need to keep everything else (Nevada and Georgia) to get 51?


They don't need 51. If they get to 50, VP then can play tiebreaker on votes.
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Solmyr

I know, that's the same as now. But I'm seeing speculations about 51 seats, so how do they get there?

grumbler

Quote from: Solmyr on November 12, 2022, 02:37:07 AMCan someone explain how do Democrats get 51 seats in the Senate? Is it because they flipped a seat in Pennsylvania? So they need to keep everything else (Nevada and Georgia) to get 51?

That is correct.  Currently it is 49-49 (including the two that caucus with the Democrats)
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Quote from: Valmy on November 12, 2022, 02:35:24 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on November 12, 2022, 01:52:35 AMIt appears the AP has called AZ Senate for Kelly (D).

Great! Now waiting on Nevada...

We don't need to wait on Nevada. Democrats have won there. The vote count is essentially tied and the majority of ballots left are in Clark County. 23k remain to be counted there, and the last batch of 27k to be counted in clark county netted the democrats over 8k votes.
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Quote from: alfred russel on November 12, 2022, 05:49:47 AMWe don't need to wait on Nevada. Democrats have won there. The vote count is essentially tied and the majority of ballots left are in Clark County. 23k remain to be counted there, and the last batch of 27k to be counted in clark county netted the democrats over 8k votes.

Does that make it 49 or 50?

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Quote from: CountDeMoney on November 10, 2022, 07:03:01 AMBiden, as the President of the United States, is the political head of the Democratic Party. His sitting Vice President--any Vice President--is the presumptive successor. That's the way it's always been. 

This only really became true in the post war period. Before that VPs were almost always non-entities.
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Quote from: Admiral Yi on November 12, 2022, 06:43:32 AM
Quote from: alfred russel on November 12, 2022, 05:49:47 AMWe don't need to wait on Nevada. Democrats have won there. The vote count is essentially tied and the majority of ballots left are in Clark County. 23k remain to be counted there, and the last batch of 27k to be counted in clark county netted the democrats over 8k votes.

Does that make it 49 or 50?
A win in Nevada would make it 50
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Admiral Yi

Quote from: jimmy olsen on November 12, 2022, 08:12:47 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on November 12, 2022, 06:43:32 AM
Quote from: alfred russel on November 12, 2022, 05:49:47 AMWe don't need to wait on Nevada. Democrats have won there. The vote count is essentially tied and the majority of ballots left are in Clark County. 23k remain to be counted there, and the last batch of 27k to be counted in clark county netted the democrats over 8k votes.

Does that make it 49 or 50?
A win in Nevada would make it 50

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Quote from: Solmyr on November 12, 2022, 02:37:07 AMCan someone explain how do Democrats get 51 seats in the Senate? Is it because they flipped a seat in Pennsylvania? So they need to keep everything else (Nevada and Georgia) to get 51?


That's accurate. I would be pretty nice to not have to negotiate with Moscow Joe Manchin.

(They didn't have 51 before. They had 50 + VP tie breaker)
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Nevada Senate seat just called for the Dems. They will retain control of the Senate, regardless of what happens in Georgia.

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