November 7, 2018 6:00 AM
Morning Reads – The Day After – November 7, 2018
So, who’s surprised? Truthfully?
UGA moves up to #5
National Guard cyber units were called into Washington, Illinois, and Wisconsin. Wonder if they had any fun yesterday?
$2.2m to get out of a price fixing lawsuit, chicken.
Visual effects companies are reaping the rewards from production of films in Georgia.
$1b in profit sharing over the last 5 years.
Poop.
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It’s morning in Cobb County! https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/GA/Cobb/91673/Web02.216033/#/
Congrats on you hard-fought squeaker, Teri. I suppose in the mold of Don Balfour when he faced that type of opposition that you amassed a million dollar campaign war chest? 😉
Lots of people are predicting doom and gloom for Trump in 2020 but I’m not so sure. Having the Dem’s in control of the house particularly Pelosi and Waters may play right into his hand. I can think of no better two people to fire up Repubs than those two. One thing is certain get out the popcorn it’s going to be entertaining.
His chances of winning PA, MI, & WI in 2020 have dropped drastically in the last year.
We’ll see. Remember she was speaker once so how did that work out for you…..
It’s worked out for millions. Pre-existing conditions are covered by insurance.
Indeed and we got to keep out doctors, same insurance plan, and pocketed 2500 per household. I’m still waiting on the 2500 to pay my 7500+in additional cost.
I would think you would be happy that Obamacare did not force companies to not dump you. Free market. MAGA.
That is exactly what happened. The company dumped the good plan for a worthless catastrophic coverage plan claiming they were following ACA rules. I have to cover the first 7500 out of pocked before they will pay anything then it’s 80 pay 20… The Free market is beginning to offer better plans when I can get one for less I will….
That was you profit-hungry insurance company, not Obamacare.
No they may have used it but the ACA was the excuse. Most private companies did the same thing because of ACA regulations but in the socialist view it’s never the fault of government only greedy for profit companies are to blame…
Oh it’s the governments fault alright. The government should not have allowed such terrible manipulation of the people!
Don’t stop there. Then lost the house and then the senate and then the presidency.
“but this was a pretty loud rejection of the Trump agenda…” From the House side, you’re right.
It looks like Repubs probably pick up MT and FL. If the slight leads in those races holds, that is. MT Rosendale, right now, has a razor thin edge. Scott, in FL, leads by about 30k. Also, fairly slim. So if that holds, Repubs will be up by 5, right? AZ is still very close.
All Dem Senators who lost voted “no” on Kav. Pretty telling. And rightly deserved..
Increasing the Senate lead will give Trump more support for upcoming cabinet choices as well as continued support for judgeship appointees.
Are there enough absentee votes out there to give Stacey a win?
Overall an exhausting night.
“All Dem Senators who lost voted “no” on Kav. Pretty telling. And rightly deserved..”
There’s a whopper. It if were true every Dem incumbent but Manchin would have lost if it were true.
Nice of you to omit MN, since the statement didn’t make mention of Trump states. Including MN, the statement was by any reckoning more than one-half wrong.
Nelson lost. All a recount would do is confirm the result. Stabenow, Brown, Casey and Baldwin were never at any time considered at-risk. A better argument would be that Donnelly, McCaskill, Heitkamp and Stabenow would have lost anyway.
Stabenow didn’t lose.
David. Calm down. I said…”All the Demo Senators who lost…” Not a whopper at all.
“All Dem Senators who lost voted “no” on Kav. Pretty telling. And rightly deserved..” Noway
You know, no snark, just my opinion: Those hearings gave my side a huge uniting issue. If he’d just been confirmed without all the bad optics, yall would have won the senate, no doubt in my mind.
I agree they were useful in increasing the number of Repbulicans in the Senate. Long term, we’ll see how liar under oath Kavanaugh decisions play out for Republicans.
If I were yall, I’d try to impeach him!!! LOL!
Leave it to a Trump supporter to offer advice without waiting for facts.
“how liar under oath Kavanaugh…” Your words.
You’re still seething for some reason. Despite winning the House. Comical.
If you think he’s a liar, Dave, your side needs to impeach him. Good luck! Let us know how that works out.
His lying doesn’t meet the legal standard required for conviction, just as Trump’s treason doesn’t meet legal standards either.
Angry, not seething, our governing system is under assault by liars and nationalists.
The dems had no realistic chance of winning the senate even prior to the SCOTUS hearings. ND, MO and IN would have fell regardless. FL, MT & AZ were R leaning toss ups, WV, AZ & NV were blue leaning.
I’ll respectfully disagree. Look at how thinly the margins were in the Repub senate pickups. Razor thin. I’m of the opinion that without Kav, those razor thin margins would have favored the Dem side.
MO down 4 points pre SCOTUS, Lost by 6 points
ND down 12 Lost by 11
IN down 6, lost 9
They were already going to lose pre-SCOTUS. That would keep the senate even if every one else won.
Losing 25 seats is not getting wrecked. It is less than half of what the Democrats lost in 1994 and 2010.
Had not seen the Nelson concession…
Does anyone know how long it will take GA to count the absentee ballots? Just looking at numbers, sounds like a run-off is unlikely. Is that how most of you read it?
We need to pay Obama to campaign for democrats in 2020? 0-4. Joe Donnelly, Richard Cordray, Andrew Gillum, Bill Nelson and hopefully soon to loose Stacy Abram
“Yet McBath – whom Obama endorsed and campaigned for – seems poised to win in GA-6.” As we speak, she’s up, right? This one if Handel loses, will be a surprise to me. Is this Ossoff’s Revenge?
As compared to Trump campaigning for republicans in MI, WI, KA, and NV…. (eye roll). FL keeping a GOP gov isn’t really surprising, One of Trumps darlings lost by over 11 point in KA…
Results are pretty much as aggregate polling predicted, despite criticism of polling. A 54-46 majority with little power in government is a recipe for instability in the long term.
But, Time Is On My Side, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_3oxD5dDSw One of the good things about the Trump Presidency is that it’s likely to both speed a flip and make it more decisive in the long term as young voters form affiliations now.
Hello Andrew. The GOP lost 26 seats. In 2010, the Democrats lost 63 seats.
“Would they have done better with this economy and a guy like Kasich, Romney, or Rubio in the Oval Office?”
It is an irrelevant question. Kasich, Romney and Rubio would have certainly lost to Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Please recall that Romney and McCain lost badly in 2008 and 2012. Moderate Republicans are far more popular with Democrats and oped writers than they are with voters. Democrats praise them … while on their way to voting for their own candidates. And moderate Republicans are still too conservative to do anything more than split independent voters down the middle. They also fail to excite the GOP base. Polls showed in 2008 and 2012 that millions of GOP voters who supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 stayed home. While it is true that Trump lost a lot of independent and moderate Republican voters in 2016, his repudiation of Bush neoconservative policies on economics, immigration, national defense and foreign policy won over a lot of Democrats, as well as got a lot of Republicans who didn’t like Bush either to the polls.
Had Romney, Kasich or Rubio been the nominee, Hillary Clinton would be president. Merrick Garland and someone along the lines of Elena Kagan or Sonia Sotomayer would have gotten the Scalia and Kennedy seats on the Supreme Court. Immigration reform and a bunch of other progressive policies would have been enacted either through legislation or executive orders. The GOP would consider both the Reagan movement and Tea Party movement dead because there would be a 6-3 majority. They would be defeated, dispirited etc. so the result would have been the Democrats winning the House AND the Senate last night, as the older voters who turned out to save Ted Cruz, defeat Bill Nelson, Claire McKaskill, Heidi Heitkamp and Joe Donnelly (the Kavanaugh nomination that the GOP exploited as wedge issues against them woudl not exist), elect Marsha Blackburn and (it appears) Martha McSalley would have stayed home.
Maybe Trump has only delayed the inevitable. Who knows. But had Trump not won, the inevitable future would have arrived two years ago, the conservative movement would be dead, and national politics would have reverted to the way it was from Roosevelt to Carter: a huge Democratic majority and a small GOP minority who can only assert its influence by co-sponsoring Democratic legislation.
Cite? https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/11/08/the_case_of_the_missing_white_voters_116106-2.html
“I’m not sure you’re aware of how hypotheticals work.”
Basing this roughly on history. GOP candidates ran to the right in 1964, 1968, 1972, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 2000, 2004 and 2016. Of those, only George H. W. Bush in 1992 and Barry Goldwater in 1964 failed to win an electoral college majority.
GOP candidates ran as moderates in 1960, 1976, 1996, 2008 and 2012. Track record: 0-5.
Moderate Democrats like Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton do far better in national elections than moderate Republicans. No moderate Republican has won the White House since Eisenhower.
Case in point: George W. Bush ran for Congress as a pro-choice moderate in Texas and got hammered. He remade himself as a social and economic conservative and never lost another election again. Nixon: more of the same. He ran as a mainstream (for his era) Republican in 1960 and lost to Kennedy, then went to the southern strategy and won big in 1968 and 1972.
Who is it that actually wants to vote for moderate Republicans anyway? Your side doesn’t. You just prefer them to conservative Republicans. Republican voters don’t want them any more than Democratic Party of Georgia voters want to be represented by Michael Barrow, or would vote for Zell Miller or Sam Nunn were they running today. Independent voters are just that: from election to election they are as likely to vote for the Democrat as the Republican. The difference is that where much of the Democratic base i.e. union voters, minority voters, urban voters, environmentalists etc. votes for everyone from DLC and blue dog Democrats to social democrats, a pro-choice Republican who supports gun control and tax increases won’t have a chance in the southeast or midwest – because voters who support those positions will stay home – and won’t necessarily even take away any states from the Democrats in the northeast and far west.
Moderate Republicans leading the GOP is a fantasy on the part of people who aren’t Republicans. Naturally, such people aren’t actually concerned about the GOP’s electoral prospects.
Collins, age 65, has been around a long time doing the same thing over and over. Barney Frank’s quote is ever more applicable, “There are no moderate Republicans left, with the exception of a few who would vote with us when it doesn’t make any difference.” I expect more of the same.
More importantly…Since this is over and yall got the House and we expanded our Senate lead, what are we all here on GP gonna fight about the next 2 years!? LOL!
Seriously! Some of my Lib buddies help me here! I mean, yall whupped us up real bad in the House and the results “are what they are…” so where are we gonna be fighting??
Seriously? Do you need a list or something?
https://www.axios.com/2018-midterm-elections-republicans-preparation-investigations-180abf7b-0de8-4670-ae8a-2e6da123c584.html
A little dated but it will still work.
There is no such thing as the national “popular vote” for Congress. The left keeps talking about this, but it doesn’t make it any less idiotic. There are state Senate seats and House district seats. Read your Constitution. The left lacks any understanding that our country is not a democracy, it is a republic of States. That is how the founders intended, so the larger states don’t get to rule over the small ones.
Project Veritas in Georgia. I think this is a nothing burger. https://youtu.be/NfeDTRKbpPM
The General Assembly dynamic is going to change. The broader metro Atlanta becoming increasingly Democratic amplifies the urban-rural split as suburbs increasingly align with Dems.
Republican incumbents were flipped out of office by Dems: SD-40 Harrell, HD-56 Holland and HD-80 Wilson. Republican held open seats were won by Dems: SD-6 Jordan, HD-40 Allen, HD-51 McLaurin, and HD-79 Wilensky. There may be others—I lack the time to check further.
Also open seats HD-50 Kausche (Raffensperger) and SD-48 Karinshak (Shafer) were won by Democrats.
Add two more. Come next redistricting, it’s going to require herculean event to retain/achieve control of metro county state house delegations. Expect the GOP to further undermine the role of county delegations as it did with the Eagles Landing legislation. Take note that didn’t turn out so well..
A possible action if the GOP is fully controlling Congressional redistricting is north metro suburban districts that are spoke-like in shape. It’s playing fire. Handel has been singed if not burnt. Lots of people in CD-6 resented being placed there the last go-around.
I’m unfamiliar with nearly all of the Dems above, and not very familiar with most of the districts they represent, but the ousted Republicans and the open districts very likely are described as moderate.
Moderate Republicans are in a Catch-22. They can’t win a primary if they denounce Trumpism, and should they survive, there are headwinds in the general. Incumbency is increasingly no longer enough in moderate districts. The GOP base has drifted so far right that is now the full-throated voice of the party categorically labelling all Dems extremist is being called out on it.
That’s’ not the surprise. The real surprise is he voted for the Democrat, after all that’s what happens after you die……….
Does the 50% + 1 rule apply to Raffensperger/Barrow? How about the PSC races?
Yes.
Thanks.
Public Service Announcement – The traditional post Labor Day election year hold of DOJ/FBI indictments, serving of warrants, raids, civil suits, etc., and any state level happenings of a similar notion are over as of 1:00 AM EST (Alaska polls closed).
Make sure all popcorn and snacks are restocked and ready leading into the DC circuit Grand Jury scheduled for this Friday morning.
Jody Hice won with 63 percent, less than his margin in 2014. He was unopposed in two years ago. Love that wikipedia tags him as ‘American radio host’.
It looks as if Republicans in Oconee/Clarke regained two seats they had lost in special elections. Houston Gaines is up 55/45 over Deborah Gonzalez with one Clarke precinct only partially counted and Marcus Wiedower leads Jonathan Wallace 53/47. Wiedower claimed victory around midnight, Gaines says he’ll wait until all votes are in.
Now he’ll have something to put on his résumé.
According to the SoS site, the diff in the gov race is currently 67,959.
It also says there are 193 precincts in Dekalb that are not fully reported. (it is unclear as to what level they ARE reported.)
So, it being Dekalb, let’s assume they go for Abrams, by, say, 60/40.
A typical precinct has about 3000 eligible I believe, and turnout has been about 60%, so that leaves 1800 votes available per precinct. 60% is 1080 and 40% is 720. Multiply those by the 193 precincts and Stacey gain… 69,000 votes.
Abrams reduced the margin by 477 votes since I wrote that.
So, where are we now? How much does Kemp lead by as of 1050 am today?
It looks like there is probably 193 precincts total in Dekalb. They are reporting 310,000 votes counted so far. Not sure yet how many yet to be counted.
The SoS must need time to massage the numbers.
Well it looks like Dekalb must be ‘mostly’ counted. Not sure what the holdup is completing it.
They are showing 494,731 eligible voters and 310,913 votes cast, which is 63% turnout, a little better than the state average. So I wouldn’t think there are very many more to count.
Abrams gains another 2241 votes.
Kemp is only about 14,000 votes above 50% right now.
Vote diff is now down to 64,619. But Kemp goes below 50% in about another 13,000 votes.
Vote diff. now 64,313.
Kemp about 13,700 away from losing 50%.
Dekalb totals aren’t changing, so either they are not updating the Dekalb page or these changes are coming from elsewhere, maybe provisionals and/or absentee.
They are showing Dekalb complete now, with no change in the numbers.
So, is it over to the best of our knowledge? Is Stacey able to ask for a recount?
I’m not sure how many absentee/provisional ballots there are, or how many of them have been counted. So it ain’t over yet! Keep hope alive!
Well, Abrams has been chipping away at the lead all day, then suddenly at 4:30 Kemp extends his lead by 3000 votes. Where the heck was that?
Well either I typo-d it or they did. Those 3000 votes for Kemp are gone.
Gap back to 63,223. Kemp would probably need to lose another 12,900 or so to get below 50%.
Kanas and Maine had already voter mandates their govs ignored.
https://www.axios.com/2018-midterm-elections-medicaid-expansion-aca-669c4e9a-1a85-4783-a1e9-969932854156.html
If recall Mr. Lindsay’s endorsement of Duncan stating Duncan supported expanding Medicaid, without any mentioning Obamacare, natch.
I have heard they would prefer an empty chair as well. Do they have a point?
Went to bed represented by all republicans in the state house and congress, woke up represented by all democrats if macBeth lead holds, its a brand new day in dunwoody thats for sure.
Mrs. SCJ Thomas is charging ahead with a House GOP insurrection attempt.
https://www.axios.com/conservative-leaders-to-call-on-jim-jordan-to-run-for-speaker-replace-paul-ryan-b406036f-3897-489a-a795-151e0e79720c.html
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jim-jordan-announces-bid-for-gop-house-minority-leader-sets-up-fight-with-kevin-mccarthy
It’ll be a fine GOP introduction for all of the new women in Congress.
Last two counties left to county are dem strong holds.
It’s important that after two years there will finally be somebody to act as a brake on Trump’s worst impulses and the corruption of many of his appointments.
Sadly, the only two gop reps under indictment were re-elected.
Speaking of polishing a turd!! GEEZ buddy. What are you guys getting passed the next 2 years? NADA!
Maybe you get to take a peek under the skirt of Trump’s tax return! Have fun! Trump has already passed his agenda. If he doesn’t do a darn thing for 6 more years while keeping the socialists at bay, the world wins!
Maybe one or two more Supreme Court picks and I think I will play a little more golf and have stogie! The libs cant ruin the economy with their horrible anti growth agenda….so I figure we can take away the scissors from the children for 6 more years!
And I figure we don’t have to listen to the mobs and pink hat brigades and other incivility. Even this blog will most likely be better. Now that is turd worth polishing!
I doubt the House dems get much passed at all. Not the point.
Why don’t you define the word “word” if you use it in YOUR posts!
Don’t do it, DTM. Go play golf with Boffa Deez! We have stronger senate for TGM! A win by any metric!!
Not my definition exactly but this fits.
A stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done
Define “turd?”
Does that make it most likely 54-46 IF Tester holds?
I’ll take those proposed numbers all day! More help with judges and cabinet appointees!! Thanks, Feinstein!
Arizona will take a while…
“She said the recorder will not update results on Wednesday because of the lengthy signature-verification process. The next scheduled update is at 5 p.m. on Thursday and then every day at 5 p.m. until the office is done counting ballots.”
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2018/11/07/mcsally-sinema-senate-race-too-close-call-now-what-happens/1894276002/
Kris Kobach is gone. Scott Walker is gone. Silver lining.
Trump will Kobash an Admin position or a nice landing spot at his PAC. He and Spicy can talk about not being able to talk about stuff.
Karma. https://www.businessinsider.com/wisconsin-governor-scott-walker-loses-to-democrat-tony-evers-2018-11
and he won’t be able to ask for a recount because of a law he put in place.
“After President Donald Trump won Wisconsin by just 23,000 votes in 2016, Walker signed into law a measure mandating that recounts would be allowed only when candidates are projected to be within 1 percentage point of each other. “
Between Beto, Abrams, and Gillum, just how many hundreds of millions of dollars did Tom Steyer and the Hollywood left flush down the loo for no return yesterday?
About as much as Adellson and the Koch brothers PAC and fondations did in WI, & MI. Florida, Georgia, and Texas got house and state seat flips out of the loses. WI & MI GOP lose seats, no flips
Barnes was governor between 1/1999-1/2003.
Reagan’s 11th Commandment died today. It had been ailing, but President Trump pulled the plug during his news conference today. It should also be noted that the lame duck majority in the House is now dying faster then normal, after any lingering motivation of those publically trashed by the leader of their party to rushing anything for a vote.
House Intel Committee Chair
ADAM SCHIFF
Financial Services Committee Chair
MAXINE WATERS
Committee on Oversight Chair
ELIJAH CUMMINGS
Judiciary Committee Chair
JERRY NADLER
Speaker of the House
NANCY PELOSI
I think the next two years won’t be boring.
How will we remember the Devin Nunes years?
I hope they move that little bootlicker to an office under the stairs.
Nunes was one of the few guys trying to find the real collusion. We all know it was the democrats, the FBI and others.
Don’t you think its funny to have Schiff in charge when we have recordings of him COLLUDING with Russians trying to frame Trump?! He got punked by Russian Comedians in the act. It was worse than anything Don Junior supposedly did!
If you wish to validate one of your Trumpista defenses, linking to a Russian comedian’s youtube video is hardly a valid source. Also linking to it multiple times doesn’t improve its viability either.
and how many elected Republicans resigned after being punked by Sasha Baron Cohen? more than 2?
“Nunes was one of the few guys trying to find the real collusion” is evidence of a psychotic break. The tin foil is having the desired effect.
Plus Nita Lowey (Appropriations) and Eliot Engel (Foreign Affairs).
Some new committee members too.. Think Donna Shalala questioning the Sec of HHS, Abigail Spanberger on Intel, and Tom Malinowski (former assistant SOS) addressing the current SOS.
Preview, Maxine vs Deutsche Bank
https://www.axios.com/deutsche-bank-1541540386-4ec36c8d-49b0-4f0c-97ba-0d5eddc56d84.html
Questions:
What happened with the Woodall/Bourdeaux tally last night? The margin reached a point that NBC called it for Bourdeaux then at ~1:00 there was a near 10,000 vote “data error” reported and we went back to the near tie. Whose error and why?
Are the provisional votes counted as yet? Who resolves the arbitration on the provisionals?
When do the automatic recounts transpire?
Will the governor’s vote tally constitute an automatic recount?
When do the lawyers get involved?
Georgia’s fault on Woodall/Bourdeux. They had a transcription data error. Don’t know if it is at the county or SOS level.
“Georgia’s fault” make it sound like the whole state was at fault. Mistakes do happen, but someone made one, someone else was responsible for supervision, and someone or a group was responsible for process development.
Assuming Stacey loses, where does she go next?
Senate primary for 2020
I can visual Perdue’s slogan already.
Perdue: He won’t monkey up a cotton pickin’ election.
Nice ambassadorship for Walker?
The best fit in Trump world would be replace Carson at HUD. He was the manager of Milwaukee County for a decade prior to governor. However; I’m guessing he’s going to go the private sector route like Ryan. He’s got to make some real money.
Trump’s perfect pick for Canada.
Just the editing you think? Must be.
Shocking. I shall alert the media!
Session Resigns at Trump’s request. Session’s Chief of Staff Whitiker as made Acting AG, and by default in charge of the Mueller investigation.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/attorney-general-jeff-sessions-resigns-following-midterms-n933626
Explains the whole GOP must be loyal to me meltdown during his press conference.
Ellynn, I watched that press conference and thought he was honest and masterful. No dodges. Just honest truth. Plus he just told Jim Acsota, that despicable arrogant putz, and the fake news peddling CNN to clean up their act. How can anyone disagree with that?
I’m not talking about the press. nor did I even mention the press.
I’m talking about members of his own party. The President threw all out going members of his own party who did not align 100% behind him under a bus. He basically told every current or incoming GOP member of the next session of Congress they have to be 100% loyal to him or he will throw you under a bus. Then he forced out Sessions, put the only “Here’s how to destroy the Mueller Invitation” member of the DOJ in charge of the DOJ instead of the number 2 as is normal.
Basically Trumps “just honest truth” is if a single GOP congress member, (say Sen. Burr chair of Senate intel) tries to save the Mueller investigation, Trump has a bus with your name on it.
The press moment was just entertainment for Trump himself, and his followers.
They should all know by now that they will end up under a bus regardless. I mean, Sessions is peaking up at us from under a Blue Bird at this very moment and he was about as loyal as is possible. If you get on Trump’s train you should know that you are basically there in case a bus comes by.
The last sentence was a pearl..
Actually I saw a near fascist attempting to stomp on the 1st amendment rights of a more valid news media partner than Fox News and their reporters joining him on the stage of a political rally. These are the actions of a despot.
You know who needs a whole bottle of Lomotil right now? Hillary. Jeff Session fired. New AG will have even more Senate help to confirm him/her And afterward…the new AG will actually investigate her! (I won’t say it…)
Now that is an interesting spin!! If they want to find where the collusion was, even the Keystone cops can pull up Hillary and the FBI! Hell half of the FBI has been fired for colluding or worse!
Is it just me or have the democrats overplayed their win in the House a little bit too much? Congratulations are in order, but the press and libs have been telling the world about this blue wave or Tsunami for 2 years nonstop…
Compared to other midterms, , Trump is the one that had an historic win in the Senate and below average losses in the House. It took 40 sissy republicans to retire believing the press clippings about a blue wave to do it.
In terms of power and direction, Trump is holding most of the cards. The dems might have a 5 or 6 of clubs in terms of a hole card if you ask me, certainly not a King or an Ace.
They sound about like the guy bragging about finishing 4 or 5th instead of last in the tater sack race at the local fair.
Wave explainer. With Graphs.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/07/us/politics/how-democrats-took-the-house.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage
Those shore are some purdy graphics. Cartoons for management have advanced greatly beyond my 3-color pie charts.
Seriously though they are not reflecting several seats in play especially in California.
There’s more to it than gerrymandering, but I place gerrymandering as the cause of at least half of the difference.
DeepDark:
If you’re still open for suggestions to improve the user experience here’s one: I noticed and appreciated the uptick in quality content and new posters who are here to engage. Both give a need refresh to the site. I have one issue that I think you can improve. Now that there are so many front page posts and so many new posters it takes too much time to figure out what is new since the last visit and what is not. I’ve resorted to looking at the time elapsed since the last visit but this is too time consuming for some people who might just drop by a couple of times a day to see whats going on.
I understand that this is a volunteer effort and I might be asking a lot but sites like “Nextdoor” etc make if a lot easier to only review whats new since you last visited.
Hi Greg… from the Nextdoor website… “funded by Benchmark Capital, Greylock Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Tiger Global Management, and Shasta Ventures as well as other investors and Silicon Valley angels.”
Do you care to rephrase “I might be asking a lot”? Thanks.
Back at PP when new comments were made they were marked “new.” You could scroll really fast until the “new” sign jumped out at you.
Yes, and the person who wrote that plugin killed it after the platform recoded.
I like the “yellow.” It goes beyond the five-comment capability, too.
It’s almost certainly more than I can afford, but I would chip in.
I’m seeing new posts since my last visit as yellow highlighted boxes. I do a mouse hover over them as read and magic the highlight goes away. I know which posts I have read/unread with this highlighting.
Just reading everything after a break, so not sure if these things were already covered, but I think a moment of thanks is in order, thankful for what appears to be (so far) a hack-free election.
We should also realize– Hey, what happened to that caravan? It appears that the theory of Democratic-funded election-busting invaders is officially disproven, and the theory of milking voters’ fears with overblown conspiracy theories is fairly proven.
He mentioned it in his press conference.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-migrant-caravan-invasion-consider-invasion-190328775.html
Thanks for the link.
Regardless of how the Pres. feels, what is clear is that no one has shown up right on election day to somehow bust through the border or vote or support Democrats somehow. Anyone who believed such bologna (note: the spelling for this word should officially be changed to “baloney”) should slowly come to grips with the fact that they were manipulated and lied to by certain media outlets, and used as pawns.
We were only a few Dem Senate seats away from massive hacking and fraud.
What fresh hell is this…
https://www.axios.com/georgia-brian-kemp-posts-absentee-voter-information-2ab59b06-c1c3-4007-9d7b-a2fc35089cd9.html
The article states that the SoS is not restricted from providing access to this info, but I have to wonder whether the disclosure of someone’s disability status is actually permitted.
This file has been available for a dozen years… you guys are just now seeing this? You can also get all voting history on the site as well…
I know this will come as a shock, but I did know this was an item that eventually is made available to the public. I take issue with the timing of the updating. I will make my annoyances more clear and less glib in the future if it makes you feel better.
And I still think we need an eye roll option with the thumbs…
It is literally made public every night during an election, and has been for a dozen years.
https://www.ajc.com/news/state–regional-govt–politics/breaking-kemp-declares-victory-georgia-governor-race/9yLoEscqbUFOZEDL57FbxO/
Translated:
I’ve used the power of my office to blame my opponent’s party for hacking my vulnerable websites, suppressed all I could, threw some race baiting in there, and then counted mah own votes and with my compliant buddies in the legislature, IT’S GOOD TO BE THE KING!
OK, as of 620 pm, what’s the status of Kemp/Stacey?
Internet not working in Moscow?
Why the snark from your side? Seriously? Yall legitimately got your “blue-wave” of sorts and got the House. You should be ecstatic.
Surely Stacy Abrams and the democrats are not going to whine and snivel about losing like Hillary Clinton has done for 2 freaking years. Get over it. Show a little class. Please.
She lost. It was much closer than I thought and I bet closer than most of the liberals on this blog thought. She had a darn good showing.
The republicans better work hard to get back some of the voters they lost or we very well could have a liberal governor soon. That is shocking to me. I don’t understand the appeal of these radical candidates for governor in FL or GA much less Beto whats his face in Texas. Much less Bernie Sanders the last presidential election. WTF…. That would not have been possible in the US 20 years ago. But it is what it is.
There are not any hanging chads here, not a measly 500 votes or so like Al Gore, no Supreme Court calling the election….she lost by 63,000 or so votes so just accept it and move on.
I was so happy there were almost no ugly racial incidents that I can think of… No Klan idiots, no haters…for that I am thankful.
Kemp is not the anti- Christ, Nazi or a racist…GA has been the best state to do business in the last 7 years. Seems like some folks are doing something right.
Ok, now why are YOU ill? You just had a great night.
How many House seats and Senate seats did Obama lose?
How many House seats and Senate Seats did Clinton Lose?
Yeah. And Bill Clinton. What about Bill Clinton?
In the gov race, what percentage of gap triggers an automatic recount?
Well in this case, I would say that whatever it is, the number will end up being just enough to benefit the vote counter.
Any ideas about who might replace Sessions?
His chief of staff, Matthew Whitaker.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-sessions-chief-of-staff-matthew-whitaker-will-become-acting-attorney-general/2018/11/07/59cdde98-e2c6-11e8-ba30-a7ded04d8fac_story.html