dummie election threads

[I_B_Perky]

OK folks... gather 'round!  Time for the election threads from the dump.

First up:

brettdale (9,368 posts)

Please tell me Donnelly can catch up
Behind 12K. A there lots of dem areas to be counted??

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211375220

This is gonna be good even thought there is only one reply:

Botany (48,552 posts)

Help me
I'm sitting at a bar and the guy next to me just told me that he had a hard time figuring out who the Republican who were running for judges were because he always votes GOP. Btw he has some medical issues, gets some government help, and he gets his news from Fox.

Good God in BUTTER what is the matter w/ people?

Btw as a kid I used to live next door to the Republican Governor of PA's brother and Gov. Ray Shafer was as fine of man as you would ever meet. And he was a Republican too.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211375191

Now this is funny:

dixiegrrrrl (55,573 posts)

If you or anyone you know ran into suspious voting pronblems,
you can help the national election tracker folks ( the good guys) by reporting any voting problems to them.

https://www.propublica.org/electionland/


" if you see something, say something. We’re listening."

PoliticAverse (19,739 posts)
1. There's a pronblem in your title. n/t

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211375134


This is good as well:

groundloop (6,859 posts)

I just realized something..... it's the evening of election day and DU is up !!!!!!!!
Now I can spend the evening with my like minded online friends, either whining or (hopefully) gloating about how the election went. That was kind of an empty feeling two years ago, hopefully it's never repeated.

Truth be told, I'm now in a deep red county in a deep red state.... but we did send a Democrat to the Senate in a special election!!!!

I'd like to say that I voted a straight Democratic ticket, but that's technically not true. For state senate we had a repub and an Independent on the ballot, the Independent being a former state chair of the Democratic party. I've read that he actually has a shot at winning, so maybe my vote will make a difference in this red state.

Anyway, I'm holding out hope that we can once again say "Speaker Pelosi" !!!!!!!

 

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211375111




Some various threads I think will be of interest once they get going:

Poll data:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211375133

Dummies got the booze chilling:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211375127

This is a big thread:

47of74 (15,984 posts)

Regardless of how things go today....**** YOU REPUBLICANS

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211374281

That is all I will bring over for now.  Feel free to join in with new threads as the come available.  I'll be in and out for the next couple hours.   

[Texacon]

Watching DU is a blast right now. Win, lose, or draw, this is hilarious!!

KC

[I_B_Perky]

OK we got some more!

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211376208

Now in this thread apparently the dummie gets some bad news:

Doodley (3,913 posts)

Holy shit! 538 Republicans 1 in 2 chance win House

And away we go...

nycbos (2,667 posts)
1. Where?

PoliticAverse (19,740 posts)
2. 538...

https://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/2018-election-results-coverage/

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Response to nycbos (Reply #1)

Tue Nov 6, 2018, 08:22 PM

Star Member femmedem (3,606 posts)
3. 538.

Dammit. https://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/2018-election-results-coverage/

Oh no!! Dems luv them some Nat Silver... seems he is telling them shit they don't wanna hear.

Awsi Dooger (11,884 posts)
4. Now we are at 39%

Could be a disastrous embarrassing night

 

gay texan (556 posts)
6. What the **** is going on????

 

Celerity (91 posts)
8. Wtf

This cant be right. Must be a glitch.

Awsi Dooger (11,884 posts)
11. Normally when it plunges like this it doesn't come back

We need a semi miracle.

Republican rural white voters are apparently dictating the country again

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Tue Nov 6, 2018, 08:24 PM

Star Member marybourg (6,178 posts)
12. Less than that now: 39.9%

Picking up only 20 seats, instead of the 21 needed.

mr_liberal (891 posts)
13. 3 in 5 Chance Republicans win control of house (60.7%). nt

 

Azathoth (3,227 posts)
14. Oh stop this shit

Realtime results with 3% of districts reporting in are meaningless.

 

Plenty more at the thread.  Its really too early to get all excited about any results... but the dummies don't know that.

I'm just glad the dump is functional this cycle. 

[I_B_Perky]

OK this is funny!

The headline is: Do not pay attention to 538 Liveblog %

Johnny2X2X (4,449 posts)

Do not pay attention to 538 Liveblog %
The inputs are swinging wildly, this model will drive you crazy tonight.

Just key on the handful of key House races we've known about for weeks.

Some posts:

dhill926 (7,763 posts)
1. yep....

this place is an insane asylum tonight....

As opposed to  any other time?

llmart (6,127 posts)
2. I agree!

I won't click on any threads that have 538 in the subject line.

 

AdamGG (257 posts)
6. That switched from a 39 seat gain to a 20 seat gain awfully fast

They have it back at 24 now, but that corresponds to what I just heard James Carville saying on MSNBC. It's apparently going to be close if we're going to take the house. Though, I wonder if the Democrats do well out west, if the numbers can pick up again. 538 projected 6 Democratic pick ups in Cali.

Hoyt (35,743 posts)
7. This is what an apparent 538 staffer is saying

You may have noticed that our real-time forecast has moved toward Republicans in the House. It’s being too aggressive, in my opinion. The model sees that a bunch of “likely Republican” districts (particularly in Florida) are now 100 percent likely to go red. But there hasn’t been the chance for Democrats to clinch many equivalent likely Democratic districts.

Hang on folks!!! This is gonna be fun!!!!

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211376328

[Delmar]

Tue Nov 6, 2018, 08:47 PM
Star Member mnhtnbb (24,262 posts)

I can't watch. Had to look away.


Turned on 6th season of House of Cards.


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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211376524

[I_B_Perky]

Paging Beth (I think that was her name... Andy's friend that was convinced diebold gave the election to the GOP)

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (25,360 posts)

Election Protection hotline has received over 17,500 calls with voter problems
The nonprofit Election Protection hotline said it had received more than 17,500 calls as of Tuesday afternoon from voters who experienced issues at their polling sites, the Associated Press reported.

Kristen Clarke, the president of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, told the AP that the figures were comparable to those reported during the 2016 presidential election, but were higher than the number of calls it received in the 2014 midterm elections.

In 2014, the hotline had received about 10,400 calls as of the same time, according to the AP.

Clarke told the AP earlier Tuesday that, for the first time ever, voters can also text the hotline about problems they experience Tuesday.

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/415358-election-protection-hotline-has-received-over-17500-calls-

All your elections are belong to diebold!!!

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211376310

[I_B_Perky]

Dummies get some good news:

applegrove (83,738 posts)

Cruz 48.4%, O'Rourke 51.0% right now.
CNN

Legends303 (305 posts)
1. It's getting closer I'm a little worried

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Cave!  We have our first sighting of election malfeasance! 

Amaryllis (7,796 posts)
9. How is TX infrastructure? There were those reports of machines flipping Beto to Ted....

 

Amimnoch (3,184 posts)
11. BETO! LIZZIE!! BETO!!! LIZZIE!!

OMG, I may end this night with a Senator that represents me!!!!

My stomach hurts.. PLLLLLEEEEeeeaaaase let it be!!!

One thing CNN and MSNBC is missing about Harris County, a number of our polling places were extended to 8pm and won’t be closing for another 15 minutes, ordered by the court. That’s why nothing from Harris is coming out yet.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211376304

[I_B_Perky]

Bad news trickles in... senate seat in Tennessee goes GOP...new thread, no replies.

manchu (633 posts)

Blackburn wins
Wonder how folks who left Bredesen over the Kavanaugh thing feels now?? Dumb.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211376712

[I_B_Perky]

Boy the dummies can't control themselves anymore.

Check this out:

alarimer (16,151 posts)

Let's face, half the people in this country are human garbage.
Why whitewash it anymore? They are ****ing racist, sexist, Nazi sympathizers. And I am DONE with any of this civility bullshit. These people need to ****ing due of their preexisting conditions.
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Some posts:

pimpbot (863 posts)
2. it is less than that

half the people that vote are human garbage. Thats like 25% of the population. The 50% that don't vote are just enablers of the human garbage.

 

bullwinkle428 (16,234 posts)
5. People wonder how the "good Germans" were able to somehow shut out and

compartmentalize all of the horrors that were taking place on behalf of the Third Reich. Well, I think that we're experiencing all of that now in real time.

And depression sets in:

vi5 (13,246 posts)
6. If we cant win in this environment..

With this much momentum and effort.....to me this feels more hopeless than 2016 which I wanted to chalk up to a combination of apathy, anomoly, and just all out surprise.

This dummie actually nails it:

Codeine (20,344 posts)
7. Meh. Way more than half of people

are human garbage. Most people suck, regardless of political affiliation.

[I_B_Perky]

Reality setting in:

brettdale (9,374 posts)

Cnn this is not a blue wave
But the democrats can still take the house. I mean what is wrong with people. The dems should be slaughtering them.

lancelyons (631 posts)
1. Im shocked.

This might mean that Americans want what trump is doing.

     My mole? You decide!


And now, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Cave!! We have our second sighting of election malfeasance:

YessirAtsaFact (1,403 posts)
2. It means the pugs have successfully rigged the map

For minority rule

 

alarimer (16,152 posts)
5. I hope they get it.

I hope they lose their jobs, lose their health care and lose their kids to overdoses. **** the deplorables.

Not with 3.9 percent unemployment dummie.

Tumbulu (4,653 posts)
4. I think that a lot of people really are

mean. Very mean and very cruel, and sanctimonious in top of it all.

Really really disheartened, I am.

I be mean!!! And cruel!!! 

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Cave... I think I can predict that the GOP will carry the day.  How? Because the dummies are now all going election malfeasance on us:

Baitball Blogger (29,584 posts)
9. I believe we're out voting them, but we need to make the election more tamper proof.

We are losing through voter suppression.

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Tue Nov 6, 2018, 09:15 PM

Star Member Kitchari (10 posts)
13. that plus

gerrymandering, intimidation, and brainwashing

I decided to burn this mole to really stir the hive:

lancelyons (631 posts)
10. The bottom line is Americans prefer what Trump is doing.

 

The last two posts:

BlueStater (5,316 posts)
12. Which is why his approval rating is consistently below 40%.

Bullshit.

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Response to brettdale (Original post)

Tue Nov 6, 2018, 09:14 PM

Star Member honest.abe (1,017 posts)
11. Yeah.. a blue high tide maybe.

This country is ****ed.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211376757

[I_B_Perky]

Dummies gonna be calling the suicide hotline soon!

rufus dog (7,000 posts)

WOW - Historic night
1. Party with President having high disapproval numbers
2. What appears to be increased youth turnout
3. Huge turnout for a mid term
4. Polls had broken for challenging party

Yet somehow all the Republicans seem to be over performing.

Go figure.

honest.abe (1,019 posts)
3. If we cant win tonight...

When can we????

rzemanfl (20,633 posts)
4. The figuring was done in Moscow.

The one bright light is now ex-Felons have just as much right in Florida to have their vote not count as I do

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Tue Nov 6, 2018, 09:23 PM

Star Member uponit7771 (50,394 posts)
5. K&R, not one conforming factor leaning towards the KGOP

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Response to rufus dog (Original post)

Tue Nov 6, 2018, 09:25 PM

davekriss (3,466 posts)
8. Red Shift

2016 was stolen. 2018 will be stolen. Show elections in 2020 (if that's not what we already have).

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Tue Nov 6, 2018, 09:26 PM

dlk (2,525 posts)
9. Republicans Have Been Cheating & Getting Away With It For Many Years

We desperately need to upgrade our voting systems and rules. Our democracy won’t survive if we don’t.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211376938

[I_B_Perky]

Gloom, despair, and agony on me:

Azathoth (3,230 posts)

Time to accept that a large part of the country is buying what Trump is selling
There's no blue wave tonight. We're losing every "reach" race. If we take the House, it will be by a thin margin.

2016 could be dismissed as a fluke, people voting for a joke candidate because they were disenchanted with the system. But this is a conscious embrace of Trump and everything he stands for. We are living through a very dark time.

davekriss (3,466 posts)
3. It's the "red shift", pervasive Republican election fraud

Read Krugman's op-ed in NYTimes tonight. And weep.

GaYellowDawg (3,716 posts)
4. I hate to say it, but I agree.

I just hope we can win the House. And we are going to need an exceptional candidate to beat Trump in 2020. I'm not just talking qualified, our candidate is going to have to outshine Trump as much as Beto outshines Cruz. This feels almost as bad as 2016, because people knew this time what they were getting.

Star Member cmb1729 (23 posts)
11. Totally agree

If we do not take the House, all bets are off and people get what they deserve. This really hurts, because so many thought 2016 was a fluke.

marylandblue (6,974 posts)
6. You are just realizing it now?

I realized during the 2016 campaign, even if Trump had lost, too many Americans bought it. That's been our problem all along.

jzodda (2,118 posts)
8. I'm very discouraged

Now we will hear trump gloating for two years. If we don't take the house then we can safely say that Trump has more support then I imagined. I was sure that our side would come out in force, backed even by some moderate Republicans. Georgia and Florida run by racist trumpers. Senate gains for the other side.

I'm more unhappy now then two years ago.

This makes me happy, Jzodda. So off yourself and be done with it.

Totally Tunsie (1,924 posts)
9. That's really difficult to swallow, but it amazes me that Doturd has so much support.

What are these people thinking, and why are there so many of them with that mindset?

Because the dems policies don't work?

alarimer (16,155 posts)
17. I hate this country so much right now.

I hate at least of all Americans. I mean truly despise them. I want bad things to happen to them.

And you wonder why your candidates lose?

mtnsnake (20,024 posts)
18. I agree with you, mostly because a large part of the country only cares about one thiing,

their perceived tax break they think they're gonna get.

A large part of this country would vote for Trump again and again as long as they think he'll get them an extra few bucks in their pockets. They all know he's a world class asshole and pathological liar, but they don't give a rats ass as long as they're a few cents richer in April. Pathetic.

I like President Trump because he makes you libbies go ballistic.



https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211376878

That's about it for me folks.   Happy election day nite!

[Skul]

alarimer (16,155 posts)
17. I hate this country so much right now.

I hate at least of all Americans. I mean truly despise them. I want bad things to happen to them

ESADAH 
It's your ilk that create problems.
Y'all deserve to be throat punched with a ________ .

[Ralph Wiggum]

Great job capturing these!

Too late to completely digest this morning.  Long day & side gig tonight.  Not unexpected results, but pleasantly encouraged by big gain in the Senate.

[I_B_Perky]

Well it is the day after the election and I have some observations:

1. Back in 2006 and 2008 the dems were gonna control everything for a generation. Come 2010, the pundits were predicting that the dems was gonna increase the majority.  Yeppers they increased the majority alright... for the GOP... in historic proportions. This was with POSITIVE media coverage of obumbles and the dems.

2. Did anyone not expect the dems to take the house? The MSM was cheerleading the dems cause DAMMIT!!! Trump dares fight back at us!!!  How unfair!!!!  And it was gonna be a BLUE WAVE that would repudiate Trump cause DAMMIT!!! we decide whether the damned GOP president gets to stay in power.

So what happened? Blue tsunami wave? Nope. Blue high tide maybe... not a tsunami  though.  Senate increased to the GOP... which was expected... so it is kind of a wash. 

3. Did this refute President Trump? Not one bit. Personally I think the dems are like the dogs that catch the car they are chasing. If they don't impeach, they are gonna hear about it from the left. The sane ones know it will hurt them in 2020. Got them between a rock and a hard place.  Fun to watch the dem leadership squirm.

4. If the economy goes south, and we are due for a recession, President Trump will be able to tout it was cause the dems got the house.

5. In 2020, no matter the economy, the left is gonna flex their muscles in the primary and get some socialist in as their candidate. An unabashed one.  Which Trump will destroy. 

Feel free to add your observations, Cave Dwellers. I know the dummies are reading this.