Board 8 > Politics Containment Topic 397: Rishi Rich

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R's really need to scrape by here, even if it's by 1 seat in the House.

Glad to see the Trump wing of the party getting repudiated though.

Grimlyn posted...

it's getting late I read this one as Biggest Tony Ever

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/9/2/AAGQPmAAD3MM.jpg

red_sox_777 posted...

R's really need to scrape by here, even if it's by 1 seat in the House.

Glad to see the Trump wing of the party getting repudiated though.

Trumps influence needs to be completely eradicated. Where are the normal Republicans to lead the party forward? You have winning policies. Just need more broad appeal and to be less extreme.

Corrik7 posted...

If dems keep both chambers of congress, look out.

Look out for what?

Corrik7 posted...

You have winning policies.

lol.

whats crazy about that state is that the Republican Senator looks like he's going to win.

Around 100,000 Wisconsinites voted for a Democratic Governor and a Republican Senator.

Didn't the Republican candidate for governor announce the GOP would never lose another election in Wisconsin if he got elected? That's not a winning message.

red_sox_777 posted...

Didn't the Republican candidate for governor announce the GOP would never lose another election in Wisconsin if he got elected? That's not a winning message.

Yes

Nevada numbers coming in.

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1590233948118224896?s=19

https://twitter.com/mattwilstein/status/1590105710440112128

not the onion

Jakyl25 posted...

Look out for what?

Biden has been given a reassurance to push through his policies then.

It looks very unlikely at the moment that the dems hold on to the house, but it'll be a lot closer than most people were anticipating at the very least.

Jakyl25 posted...

Look out for what?

Many horrible things. Although, if Nancy Pelosi stays on, we may avoid most of them.

it's the same shit he always says. he just sounds older this time

republicans win the house, dems keep senate. i'm okay with that. hopefully will keep people motivated for 2024

KamikazePotato posted...

https://twitter.com/dellavolpe/status/1590190476334096386

Amazing work, Gen Z.

i guess nice job millennials too but you're on thin fucking ice

Kenri posted...

i guess nice job millennials too but you're on thin fucking ice

yeah we almost really fucked this one up

Kenri posted...

Amazing work, Gen Z.

i guess nice job millennials too but you're on thin fucking ice

That's actually a pretty encouraging sign for Republicans, that millennials are only at D+2 now. That's a large generation because it's the echo of the Baby Boom and it looks to be well on the way to being conservative in middle and old age.

I hadnt even considered her losing, but now Im on the edge of my damn seat hoping for Boebert to crash and burn.

I need to be up for work in 5 hours

he knew
https://twitter.com/dril/status/118473605293162496

Brad Raffensberger wins Georgia Secretary of State. Glad to see Trump wasn't able to oust him.

Saw a good point raised combining the polling be so off and the earlier age demographic breakdown: GenZ doesn't answer fucking political polls.

That shouldn't really matter as long as the subset that do pick up aren't voting differently than those that don't. They reweight the polls to reflect the expected demographics of the electorate.

(Also it's looking like the polls were fine; these results are within a normal polling error in the Dems' favor).

That shouldn't really matter as long as the subset that do pick up aren't voting differently than those that don't.

I dont think thats a safe assumption to make, since only total weirdos are answering calls from unknown numbers. Weirdos and non-weirdos arent necessarily voting the same way.

I haven't picked up a call from an unknown number in....4 years?

MoogleKupo141 posted...

I dont think thats a safe assumption to make, since only total weirdos are answering calls from unknown numbers. Weirdos and non-weirdos arent necessarily voting the same way.

Yeah, but afaik that's the case for all demographics; response rates are really bad (like afaik <2%) all around.

Scammers can spoof caller id, too

I got a couple calls that identified themselves as quinnipiac polling something something, but I didn't risk picking up

https://twitter.com/RalstonReports/status/1590282186791321601

Dang, I cant quite believe how well this has gone. I took a look at the archive of the 2020 threads and have come to the conclusion that we should listen to LtM more often.

I think I called it when I said it was really hard to predict how it would go today.

Young people did in fact finally show up it seems. Thought that was unlikely because thats the rallying cry of the delusional leftist every 2 years but looks like republicans finally went crazy enough to impact their sheltered middle class life!

masterplum posted...

I think I called it when I said it was really hard to predict how it would go today.

Young people did in fact finally show up it seems. Thought that was unlikely because thats the rallying cry of the delusional leftist every 2 years but looks like republicans finally went crazy enough to impact their sheltered middle class life!

Broke: Young people finally showed up to the polls for the first time ever!

Woke: A lot of old people died from COVID, making younger people a higher percentage of turnout by default

KamikazePotato posted...

Broke: Young people finally showed up to the polls for the first time ever!

Woke: A lot of old people died from COVID, making younger people a higher percentage of turnout by default

That was also in my conjecture!

Did we screw up? There's no way Oz gives us any more crudit recipes now.

KamikazePotato posted...

Broke: Young people finally showed up to the polls for the first time ever!

Woke: A lot of old people died from COVID, making younger people a higher percentage of turnout by default

Masterstroke: Actually it matters who candidates are and a deeply unpopular former president selecting a bunch of fascist no-hopers for marginal races with a bunch of moderate swing voters wont go well.

Ahaha oh wow, apparently NBC is now expecting a Republican House majority of 1. Would that even last a full term?

I've shit on youth voters a lot over the past few years, but credit where credit is due: they turned out in massive numbers and helped stave off the worst results of last night. Thank you Gen Z!

Also young millennials. Still is there hard turnout data yet?

Pretty good, all things considered.
But it is sad to imagine a world where democrats are better at messaging.

Ya know, there's a non-zero chance Elons "vote R" recommendation increased the youth vote out of spite enough to make a difference.

kevwaffles posted...

Ya know, there's a non-zero chance Elons "vote R" recommendation increased the youth vote out of spite enough to make a difference.

This is plausible

LightningStrikes posted...

Ahaha oh wow, apparently NBC is now expecting a Republican House majority of 1. Would that even last a full term?

tbqh in this case I'd predict that the rep that first retires to eliminate the R majority is Kevin McCarthy himself, driven insane by trying to manage his caucus with no margin for error while being a spineless hack

Inviso posted...

I've shit on youth voters a lot over the past few years, but credit where credit is due: they turned out in massive numbers and helped stave off the worst results of last night. Thank you Gen Z!

Where are you seeing this? I saw people saying earlier that youth turnout was in the normal range (which is very low)

Glad my state supported abortion and also didnt end up with Dipshit Dixon. Sadly it doesnt seem like all states care about a womans body autonomy, but at least some do

swordz9 posted...

Glad my state supported abortion and also didnt end up with Dipshit Dixon. Sadly it doesnt seem like all states care about a womans body autonomy, but at least some do

Dems got a trifecta in Michigan, apparently!
https://twitter.com/baseballot/status/1590293390725636097

We finally made Gretch happen.

I'm really happy that nationwide it was an encouraging performance by the Dems. However, my entire state of Iowa seems to have gone completely red and I'm very saddened by this.

LightningStrikes posted...

Ahaha oh wow, apparently NBC is now expecting a Republican House majority of 1. Would that even last a full term?

Probably. The R Party is among the best in the world at following the party line. The most likely people to leave (people like Lauren Boebert) still wouldn't caucus with the Democrats if they did.

ZaziGuado posted...

I'm really happy that nationwide it was an encouraging performance by the Dems. However, my entire state of Iowa seems to have gone completely red and I'm very saddened by this.

Same for Texas, which was pretty expected but still very disappointing

Ken Paxton won another election for AG while under felony indictment, and while being accused by his own staffers of taking bribes (And while using the power of his office to stonewall investigation/trial in both cases), which is far more disappointing/maddening than Beto/Collier losing.

Fucking Uvalde voted Republican across the board, including voting out its incumbent (Dem) State Senator. "It coulda been worse", indeed.

Any bets on whether Trump will bail on his planned 2024 announcement (at least for the moment) now that hes getting blamed for Rs botching the election?

Any bets on whether Trump will bail on his planned 2024 announcement (at least for the moment) now that hes getting blamed for Rs botching the election?

that isn't his decision making process

https://twitter.com/politics_polls/status/1590343896097116160?s=21