2018 US Midterm Elections (general thread)

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My votes are going for anyone but a Republican.

AND THE FIRST RESULTS ARE IN!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUp_XgBjEUo

it is the civic duty of every californian to fraudulently vote as many times as they can

wow

(also, you forgot "a distressingly large proportion of american citizens themselves))

Exit poll: More voted opposing Trump than supporting him
https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-n ... index.html
From CNN's Z. Byron Wolf

More than 40% of voters in the 2018 election approve of the job Trump is doing as President, according to the preliminary results from CNN's national exit poll. About three-in-10 said they strongly approve of Trump while almost half said they strongly disapprove of him.

Almost two-thirds said that Trump was a factor in their vote for the House today. About a quarter said their vote was in support of the President — and almost 40% said that their vote was in opposition to him.

A majority, a little more than half, said things in the country are on the wrong track. About 40% say they're going in the right direction.

Hmmm....
"Maybe the reason that it's not "all over the media" is because it reeks of Islamic propaganda."

Most east coast polls are now closed.

Live results on the House races:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/201 ... tions.html

Live results on the Senate races:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/201 ... tions.html

Democrat Billionaire JB Pritzker wins in Illinois to become the richest governor in US history.
https://fox2now.com/2018/11/06/democrat ... nors-race/

In other news from the experts at the Fake News media, that's not Nevada:

idiots.



they should make me in charge of everything cartographical there.

No schadenfreude tonight ;(

Probably better for the country though.

Dems can put a stop to Trump's spending.

nothing i wasn't expecting






i'm just glad gianforte in montana got defeated. screw that guy.

Is it over?

Fat lady's not singing yet.

Republicans will take the Senate as expected. House is still open, though it looks like Democrats may take control, also as widely predicted. A way still to go there.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/201 ... tions.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/201 ... tions.html

Yeah, Gianforte was a real piece of work. His violence in body-slamming that Guardian reporter was nothing short of evil. And Trump went to his district recently and paraded him and his violence as something to emulate. Apparently Montanans don't tolerate fascists.

And another one to get defeated was KKK (Kris Kobach of Kansas) for the governorship in Kansas. KKK was the one who initiated the major voter suppression efforts of the past few years. His defeat represents a body blow of its own, showing that efforts to suppress voter participation are not the popular thing to do, even among his fellow partisans.

Sadly, two GOP criminals have been re-elected to the US House: Duncan Hunter and Chris Collins. Both are under federal indictment, Collins for insider trading and Hunter for spending a quarter of a million dollars of campaign finance funds on his own personal purchases. Perhaps the House might reject their membership (which the House has the right to do). It's more likely though that the House will wait until they are convicted and then expel them. Both come from heavily Republican districts and their replacements would still be GOP, but at least not indicted criminals. Both of the slime were the subject of Trump's effort to corrupt the Justice Department with Trump whining that "“Two long running, Obama era, investigations of two very popular Republican Congressmen were brought to a well publicized charge, just ahead of the Mid-Terms, by the Jeff Sessions Justice Department. Two easy wins now in doubt because there is not enough time. Good job Jeff.”