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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#261951: Nov 15th 2018 at 10:25:01 AM

Not sure if this was mentioned yet; but the Democrats took Maine's 2nd District.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/15/politics/democrats-maine-house-ranked-choice-jared-golden/index.html

That leaves 7 House seats uncalled, all of them are held by Republicans and Democrats lead in 5.

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#261952: Nov 15th 2018 at 10:33:02 AM

Has the Republican conceded or is he going to be challenging the use of non-FPTP voting in court as he threatened?

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#261953: Nov 15th 2018 at 10:36:40 AM

Relatedly, what was once one of the strongest Republican delegations in Congress has been filleted. Annoyingly, it's the worst people such as Devin Nunes who are surviving...

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#261954: Nov 15th 2018 at 10:39:37 AM

[up][up] The article doesn't say, but does reference a failed attempt by the Republican to put a restraining order on the count became of the Ranked Choice system's Constitutionality

Edited by sgamer82 on Nov 15th 2018 at 11:43:00 AM

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#261955: Nov 15th 2018 at 10:42:34 AM

The article mentioned that a judge has already rejected the Republican's request for a "temporary restraining order" (not sure why that term is being used) against the process.

I doubt that precludes any further legal action, but it is probably going nowhere in court.

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Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#261956: Nov 15th 2018 at 10:47:48 AM

They did? Great! On election night the republican was still leading.

So that leaves:

Cal 39th (where the democratic challenger has caught up and they are now at 50% to 50% - no kidding that is the current stand)

Cal 45th (Where Democrat Katie Porter is currently leading with 50.8%)

NY 22th (Where Democrat Brindisi is leading with a narrow 50.3%)

NY 27th (Where the Republican candidate is leading with 49.5% to 48.4%)

Texas 23rd (Where Republican Will Hurd has a narrow 49.2% to 48.7% lead)

and the even narrower Georgia 7th, where the republican leads with 50.2% to 49.8%)

The last three were considered "lean republican" btw, the first three are toss-up seats.

And then there is Utah 4th, where still not all districts have reported (currently the democrat has a narrow lead, but with only 90% reporting, a lot can happen there.

Currently the Democrats have gained +35 seats. So I guess we can now officially call this a blue wave.

Edited by Swanpride on Nov 15th 2018 at 10:49:38 AM

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#261957: Nov 15th 2018 at 11:01:01 AM

Democrats have gained 37 seats as of right now. We're racing towards 40, ladies and gentlemen.

Also, we've driven all the Republicans out of New England's House delegation. Feels good, man.

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#261958: Nov 15th 2018 at 11:05:22 AM

From NBC's Twitter

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1063122574962552832?s=19

"LATEST: Federal judge blasts Florida legislators and election officials during a Thursday hearing to extend the recount deadline in Palm Beach Co., saying the state is "the laughingstock of the world election after election and we chose not to fix this." https://t.co/pNlMTjzAbB

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#261959: Nov 15th 2018 at 11:07:30 AM

And here I thought the Dems were going to take at most like 28 seats....

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#261960: Nov 15th 2018 at 11:21:23 AM

"LATEST: Federal judge blasts Florida legislators and election officials during a Thursday hearing to extend the recount deadline in Palm Beach Co., saying the state is "the laughingstock of the world election after election and we chose not to fix this."

GOP: Well, yeah. If we fix it, we might lose.

Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#261961: Nov 15th 2018 at 11:25:06 AM

No, they flipped 38 seats, but also lost three, so they are currently at a gain of 35. But there is a good chance that they might gain 40 in the end nevertheless.

[up][up][up] So...did he extend the recount?

Edited by Swanpride on Nov 15th 2018 at 11:25:49 AM

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#261962: Nov 15th 2018 at 11:27:25 AM

[up] According to this, no he didn't.

Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#261963: Nov 15th 2018 at 11:30:21 AM

Why not? What difference does a week make? Other than naturally the little fact that Palm beach is a democrat stronghold...If they insist on the election rules, they better also throw out all the e-mail votes. Since they are illegal. (Frankly, In Germany this would be a rerun at this point).

Edited by Swanpride on Nov 15th 2018 at 11:31:17 AM

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#261964: Nov 15th 2018 at 11:45:47 AM

He did give people until Saturday to fix their mail in ballots if their signatures were initially rejected though.

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#261965: Nov 15th 2018 at 11:53:43 AM

@Swan where are you seeing Dems loosing three seats, I’m only seeing them having lost one, is it stuff about Pennsylvania with districts being moved around?

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#261966: Nov 15th 2018 at 11:56:29 AM

Wikipedia has Republicans with two gains in Minnesota, and one in Pennsylvania. But the one in Pennsylvania is because of redistricting, I think. So calling that one a lose might not be strictly accurate.

Edited by LSBK on Nov 15th 2018 at 1:57:40 PM

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#261967: Nov 15th 2018 at 12:04:46 PM

A 36 year old Democrat winning Maine's second district against an incumbent is absurd.

Like, Jesus. Maine's the oldest (in terms of population) state in the country. It's also usually neck-and-neck for whitest, particularly northern Maine (2nd district).

Collins ought to be really freaking concerned.

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#261968: Nov 15th 2018 at 12:11:03 PM

Concerned, but not worried. 2 years is enough time for people to forget the Kavanaugh vote; she can continue playing the moderate until 2020, when it's unlikely that things will be quite as favourable to the democrats as they are now. She'll probably still have a competitive race on her hands, but not an unwinnable one.

Edited by Gilphon on Nov 15th 2018 at 3:13:25 PM

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#261969: Nov 15th 2018 at 12:12:11 PM

Assuming she doesn't choose retirement.

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#261970: Nov 15th 2018 at 12:17:14 PM

Assuming she doesn't choose retirement.

Does Maine have the governor choose a replacement or do they do a special election? If the gov chooses then she might want to choose that quick, then. Gov. Le Page is out. She retires now and the new Democratic gov Mills is choosing her replacement.

Edited by Cris_Meyers on Nov 15th 2018 at 2:18:18 PM

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#261971: Nov 15th 2018 at 12:20:12 PM

By retirement; I was assuming a Jeff Flake situation in which she chooses not to run in 2020, and is replaced by whoever wins in that election. As opposed to resignation.

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#261972: Nov 15th 2018 at 12:20:20 PM

I think retirement was meant as 'chose not to run again'

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#261973: Nov 15th 2018 at 12:24:33 PM

If she retires, then she's basically giving the seat to the Dems. If the entire state went blue in 2018 (including an incumbent who didn't fuck up in any real way), it bodes incredibly poorly for a new Republican, barring something big. Which is fine by me.

I'm not even referring to the Kavenaugh thing, that will be irrelevant in two years. I just mean what Maine's demographics are looking like based on 2018.

So here's the question: Will she double-down on being a Republican lapdog or will she try to cross the aisle more? If the Republicans have a larger lead and she's no longer the deciding vote, I can see her voting with the Democrats more often as a symbolic gesture to go "see? I'm not that bad, state-that-went-6-for-6-for-the-Democrats." She likes pretending to be reasonable if nothing's on the line.

Edited by Larkmarn on Nov 15th 2018 at 3:52:39 PM

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#261974: Nov 15th 2018 at 12:25:42 PM

The Republicans flipped Minnesota 1st, Minnesota 8th and Pennsylvania 14th. But I guess the Democrats could win everywhere…and those are just the numbers in the contested races.

Edited by Swanpride on Nov 15th 2018 at 12:28:57 PM

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#261975: Nov 15th 2018 at 12:28:56 PM

No seats in Pennsylvanian really flipped, as the maps was radially redrawn for the election. So that's two gains for the Republicans, both in seats where the Democrat incumbent wasn't running for re-election.

No Democrat in the House lost re-election, which is quite something.

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