2022 Midterm Election MEGATHREAD

[Tonitrus]

Just 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.

[FunkMonk]

The one where you think Mark Kelly is a woman?

 

[Admiral Yi]

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

[Valmy]

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

Great! Now waiting on Nevada...

[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]

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?

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

[Solmyr]

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

[grumbler]

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?

That is correct.  Currently it is 49-49 (including the two that caucus with the Democrats)

[alfred russel]

It 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.

[Admiral Yi]

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.

Does that make it 49 or 50?

[jimmy olsen]

Biden, 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.

[jimmy olsen]

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.

Does that make it 49 or 50?

A win in Nevada would make it 50

[Admiral Yi]

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.

Does that make it 49 or 50?

A win in Nevada would make it 50

Cool

[Grey Fox]

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?

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)

[FunkMonk]

Nevada Senate seat just called for the Dems. They will retain control of the Senate, regardless of what happens in Georgia.

Mitch is sad