U.S. 2018 mid-term elections thread

[Trev]

My roommates told me that the officials at their voting both said that voter turnout for early voting was higher than turnout for voting in the presidental election, and that the majority are under 30. Do with that what you will.

 

[colours]

I'm just gonna say this:

regardless of how this is going to go, the focus really is going to be on the millenial voter.

 

[Tsutarja]

I'm really anxious to see how it all plays out. I live in a red area of a blue county, and my congressional district has no incumbent. It's probably the highest battleground in Florida right now, too.

 

[MortalPhoenix]

As much as I would like to watch to see how this all plays out, I'm working a night shift tonight. I won't get home until close to midnight, so I will be able to watch how the elections play in Alaska.

 

[TailsMK4]

From my experience watching coverage of the elections, you probably won't get the full story until you watch the news on the 7th. I remember staying up for some time watching...I THINK it was Politico's polling website while the votes for the 2016 presidential election were still being counted. I was too tired to watch any further when Clinton apparently called Trump to concede. Only thing that'll change this time around is I'll probably refer to Fox News's polling website instead, but I definitely have an interest in what happens today. No matter what happens, though, I hope the people elected will focus on improving the country/state/city and not trying to push agendas.

 

[professor plum]

I wish I hadn't bungled my state-residency. I was a resident of Texas up until like 2 weeks ago, when I had to switch to Louisiana to update my car registration. Which, unfortunately, puts me out of the criteria to be an eligible voter in Louisiana as it was a few days after the voter registration deadline.

I hope everyone else who can vote does so, though! The millennial vote will hopefully make a big difference.

 

[Nah]

My roommates told me that the officials at their voting both said that voter turnout for early voting was higher than turnout for voting in the presidental election, and that the majority are under 30. Do with that what you will.

Yeah, the news has be noting a lot as of late how voter registration and early ballot submissions and whatnot is very high this year, I think even breaking records in some areas. Places are probably getting bigger turnout today than they have in years I'd imagine. It's not really surprising why though.

 

[professor plum]

Man, these results are stressful.

 

[Miss Wendighost]

Casey projected to win Governer in PA.

 

[tokyodrift]

Tim Kaine obviously won VA, that really wasn't a shock to me. I'm more interested in the Florida and Georgia races tbh. Though to be quite honest my states district has always been red, and unfortunately that didn't change tonight.

 

[Tsutarja]

what the fuck Florida I thought you were better than that

 

[Miss Wendighost]

Tim Kaine obviously won VA, that really wasn't a shock to me. I'm more interested in the Florida and Georgia races tbh. Though to be quite honest my states district has always been red, and unfortunately that didn't change tonight.

Most southern states are usually more conservative regarding politics, so this is not surprising.

 

[tokyodrift]

Most southern states are usually more conservative regarding politics, so this is not surprising.

I knew that :P
Just kind of hoped it would change for once but maybe that was a bit too much to ask haha.

Texas thooooooooooooooooooo such close races

 

[professor plum]

I mean, Beto made it so close, though. I'd vote him for President tbh.

 

[Sawsbuck]

Yay Whitmer won for Michigan Governor!!

 

[Hands]

There's definitely a very real problem with people on the left harassing people on the right over political differences.

yes. because your party sets out to destroy lives and if left unchecked you nearly always resort to some kind of societal cleansing of the poor.

 

[Nah]

So right now it looks like the Democrats have gained control of the House of Reps, while the Republicans have retained their control of the Senate. There's still a few undecided seats left atm, though they aren't going to change the outcome.

In New Jersey, Bob Menendez kept his Senate seat, beating Bob Hugin by about 9 points. Tom Malinowski beat Leonard Lance by roughly 2. I don't know how the races for the other House seats went in this state.

News was also saying about how now Congress now has its first 2 Muslim women or something. Apparently the nation now has its first openly gay governor now too.

 

[Tsutarja]

Looks like the Florida senate race is going into recount.

 

[Nah]

Looks like the Florida senate race is going into recount.

oh yeah, so what happens when they do the recount, but the result ends up being the same, that it's super close?

 

[Ivysaur]

oh yeah, so what happens when they do the recount, but the result ends up being the same, that it's super close?

The one with the most votes wins.

There's no rule saying "you need to win by at least 1% for the win to be valid". But the US generally works with a "meh, good enough" approach to vote-counting -meaning lots of miscounted or uncounted votes trickle in due to human and machine errors-, yet most races are decided by a large enough margin for the precise result to be irrelevant. But if the margin is too close, they review every ballot to make sure there aren't faulty machines causing some votes to be missed (a possibility in some precincts in Broward County, where elections are run by monkeys), or ballots with crosses instead of filled bubbles, or ink sapping into the other page and causing the machine to believe there are several votes, etc. And, once every ballot is reviewed, the one with the most votes wins.

Bush won the presidency in 2000 by about 500 votes in Florida, thanks to Broward (heavy D) messing up a few thousands of ballots that were deemed uncountable after weeks trying to figure out what party people had tried to vote for and failing to understand it.