2022 Midterm Election MEGATHREAD

[Razgovory]

Do you get stoned Raz?

Nope.  Never.  Raz is a square.  Besides it probably would mess with my meds.  Still, too many people have been hand their lives fucked up my that stupid law.

[OttoVonBismarck]

While it is far too early to call control, results this far suggest red wave simply isn't in the cards. GOP are slightly favored to take House and Senate is toss up—I would wager they win both, but it's very close. Will be a lot of analysis to be done.

It appears GOP have significantly underperformed both their polling and the midterm conventional norms.

I am incidentally down $3000 as I am doing some election gambling and had backed a lot of R.

[OttoVonBismarck]

Oz has basically lost PA.

CBS PA exit poll has 36% of voters said abortion was their most important issue—largest issue in the State. Inflation was second at 28%. That almost certainly has cost Oz the election.

[Admiral Yi]

Raz is a square.

"Straight edge" is the cool way to say that.

[frunk]

I think this calls for some Nyango Star:

[Habbaku]

I think Sheilbh's point is that democracy without angry slogans is a nice ideal, but not something that happens in actual reality.

Except he didn't say a nice ideal, he said without them you have dictatorship.

I believed he clarified with: "yeah and the immaculate conception is still a pregnancy. I just wouldn't use it to set expectations."

The Immaculate Conception refers to Mary, not Jesus.

[Admiral Yi]

A short while ago, Kari Lake, the Republican candidate for governor in Arizona, spoke to supporters. Lake is currently behind Democratic candidate and Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs — with 52 percent of the expected votes reporting, Hobbs leads 57 percent to Lake's 43 percent.

This is cool.  From 538.  Time stamped 12:39.

[Solmyr]

Lots of election results denial incoming?

[Syt]

Looks like Abbott and De Santis retain the governor posts in TX and FL. Though Arizona looks like it might flip? (Which the Rpublicans will of course fight tooth and nail if it were to happen.)

[celedhring]

Heh, results are better than expected. Looks like there's a decent chance of holding the senate, even.

[Maladict]

Another Georgia runoff?

[Syt]

Seen on Twitter

[The Larch]

So, it wasn't quite the red wave as expected? Just a red trickle? Or not even that?

I'm reading that the trumpier candidates didn't do as well as expected and the Republicans that did well were the ones that set their own path. Do the Republicans have a Trump problem now?

I'm also seeing that Lauren Boebert might loose her House seat, so at least's that's a win for all parts.

[Admiral Yi]

NBC calls Fetterman over Oz.

[The Larch]

Also apparently Trump is threatening De Sanctis with releasing negative info about him if he runs against him for the GOP nomination in 2024.