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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Remember, Ben Carson is a Neurosurgeon.
...*mutters*Which only confirms that Surgeons are just the car mechanics to the body*mutters*
Edited by 3of4 on Nov 10th 2018 at 4:32:20 PM
"You can reply to this Message!"Btw, I just checked the current numbers in Florida....wow...
De Santis 4,073,763 49.61%
Gillum 4,037,761 49.17%
At this point they are only around 36,000 votes apart.
Rick Scott 4,095,771 50.09%
Bill Nelson 4,080,923 49.91%
only around 15,000 votes there.
The oversea votes aren't counted yet. Otherwise there is Broward, where they still count Mail, early voting and provisional ballots, Palm Beach, where they still count Mail and provisional ballots, and the provisional ballots of Walton, Santa Rosa, Putnam, Osceola and Alachua are still counted.
Well, I know that Broward tends to lean more Democrat. Am I right to assume that the same is true for Palm Beach?
Edited by Swanpride on Nov 10th 2018 at 7:59:40 AM
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What do you expect from Cadet Bone Spurs? Enough backbone and coordination to deploy an umbrella correctly at a memorial event?
Frankly, by not going, he ensures the tone of the memorial remains sufficiently commemorative. The guys and gals who did and died don't deserve his blundering idiocy anywhere near their deeds.
Edited by Euodiachloris on Nov 10th 2018 at 5:53:59 PM
Meanwhile in things that have political effects recounts are set to begin in Florida
. Again, I don't think they are expected to overturn the results though.
Here's a Reuters article on it
- apparently it made "transport impossible to arrange". Unless it's sheeting rain (which it might be), that's a poor fucking excuse.
Edit: Might help if I read my own links.
“(Their attendance) has been canceled due to scheduling and logistical difficulties caused by the weather,” the White House said in a statement, adding that a delegation lead by Chief of Staff John Kelly, a retired general, went instead.
So apparently John Kelly was able to make it through all that awful rain, but Trump couldn't.
Edited by ironballs16 on Nov 10th 2018 at 2:57:41 PM
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I wouldn't bet on it. Current numbers are:
Rick Scott 4,098,107 50.07%
Bill Nelson 4,085,545 49.92%
So we are talking about a difference of 12,562 votes (oversea votes not counted, btw).
De Santis 4,075,879 49.59%
Gillum 4,042,195 49.18%
33,624 votes there.
It might not be enough for Gillum, but it could be enough for Nelson.
Edited by Swanpride on Nov 10th 2018 at 11:52:23 AM
It might not be enough for Gillum, but it could be enough for Nelson.
Recounts almost never change the totals by much. He'd have to make up almost all of the 15,000 *before* the recount in order to have a chance.
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Depends...there is suspicion that the numbers in Broward were off (if I understand it correctly everywhere else Nelson got more votes than Gillum from the Democratic voters, maybe because some of them, to quote Bernie Sanders, felt "uncomfortable" voting for Gillum, but in Broward its suddenly the other way around, which is a huge outlier) is the result of the voting slips being designed different there, so the scanners might have misread them. Since this is an outlier country, they will now be counted by hand.
Plus, the oversea votes haven't been counted yet either, for any county.
We will have to wait and see.
EDIT: Somehow, I missed that someone else had already posted this piece of news in this very page.
Edited by MarqFJA on Nov 10th 2018 at 3:18:12 PM
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.Plus, the oversea votes haven't been counted yet either, for any county.
We will have to wait and see.
Not the scanners. The suggestion is that because the Senate race is directly below the instructions on the left hand side, and Broward County had no House contest so the rest of that column was blank, people were more likely to skip over it by accident.
Florida seems to have a recurring thing with poor ballot design.
Edited by RainehDaze on Nov 10th 2018 at 12:34:03 PM
Pushover, I was coming to post those numbers. While there are supposed to be a lot ballots to count, so far the numbers are favoring Sinema, and the gap is widening in her favor.
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While a positive trend, just having been a scientist by itself doesnt necessarily confer political sense. Do any o them have voting records?
I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.