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Update: Democrats have taken the House of Representatives, while Republicans have retained control of the Senate.
Georgia's Brian Kemp Opens 'Cyber Crimes' Investigation Into State Democrats, 2 Days Before Election
Georgia Secretary of State and Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp opened an investigation into the state's Democratic Party Sunday, alleging a failed attempt to hack the Georgia voter registration system.
Previously: Exact Match Requirements Eased in Georgia Ahead of Midterms
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(Score: -1, Troll) by jmorris on Wednesday November 07 2018, @07:38AM (15 children)
So the Blue Wave didn't happen. But the forces of sanity only beat back out and proud Communists by a point or two in GA and FL so the future looks dark. Especially since FL just put over a million new Democrats on the next set of voter rolls.
Now we get to watch the raving loons shout "Impeach 45!" every day, leak every member of the Trump family's tax returns and generally carry on in the insane and lawless way Dims usually do, amped up by their hatred for Trump and the people who dared defy them by voting for him.
The Republicans (establishment) got the exact result they wanted and carefully planned for. No longer must they endure meetings with voters who insist on asking why nothing happens even though Republicans controlled the House, Senate and White House. Paul Ryan ensured nothing happened and safely takes the blame with him into his new lobbying job. Because the Country Club Republicans like to talk a good game to the voters, but they mostly agree with their good friends on the other side of the isle on most issues. Losing the Senate too would leave them out of power, and they like that part, you get the most bux the closer to power one is after all.
(Score: 5, Informative) by takyon on Wednesday November 07 2018, @08:33AM (5 children)
It was a blue wave.
1. The House of Representatives is a better measure of the mood of the country, since all of them are up for reelection every 2 years. And the Democrats picked up around 26-30 seats. Even with Republican-led gerrymandering in effect [wikipedia.org].
2. The Senate races were stacked against Democrats. 8 Republican incumbents vs. 24 Democrat incumbents. This is apparently the greatest mismatch ever for Democrats. Yet Dems managed to offer a legitimate challenge in Texas which is not supposed to happen.
3. Democrats have picked up 6 Governor seats so far.
4. The ex-felon voting rights amendment in Florida changes the voting demographics. We could see more Puerto Ricans arrive in Florida too (hundreds of thousands have relocated recently following hurricanes). If Trump is not performing well in 2020, he could lose Florida due to the new Democratic-leaning voters.
It looks like about 21 Republicans are up in 2020. If the President's popularity doesn't increase before then, that becomes a really bad omen.
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday November 07 2018, @11:34AM (2 children)
Yeah, right. Incorrigible optimist as always.
Trump can now play more divisive politics, he has the House as a scape goat for his failures; what do you reckon is more probable for his supporters:
- they will suddenly gain some ability to think with their brain and see beyond the blame deflection; *or*
- they will continue to believe whatever chaotic finger-pointing justification Trump tweets last, because so they want to?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday November 07 2018, @11:54AM (1 child)
Without a proper foil (you can only whine about Retired Obama and Heart(?)broken Hillary for so long in 2018), Trump made the election a referendum on his own performance. He explicitly encouraged this [time.com].
Polling showed an increase in Republican enthusiasm following the Kavanaugh hearings. Midterm turnout was unusually high. And yet the Democrats still gained seats. We can mostly ignore the Senate results for the reasons stated above.
Many of Trump's Republican supporters are reluctant supporters. His devoted base is a smaller portion of the electorate.
All Democrats need to do to win in 2020 is run someone who can avoid completely alienating Republicans, and can siphon off the "mainstream" ones (the Jeb Bush supporters/swamp creatures). Or let Trump be his own worst enemy and scare them off in some other direction, no matter who the Democrat is.
Note that I am not predicting a Democratic win in 2020. A lot can happen in 2 years. But I believe Trump can pull a Jimmy Carter.
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday November 07 2018, @12:26PM
The -D center is gone, so ...
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday November 07 2018, @12:09PM (1 child)
A bathtub ripple, perhaps. Nate Silver on 538 promised 40 to 60 new D seats, the hilarious actual results are being actively buried in the legacy media.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by takyon on Wednesday November 07 2018, @12:38PM
I see, from the forecast on the morning of the 6th:
Which is exactly what happened, just closer to 30 than the 39-40 which was given the highest chance of occurring in 538's forecast (2.8% each).
Democrats started at 193, and are at 222 now according to CNN. That's 29 seats gained. 14 seats are still in play. They could easily get to 35-36 seats gained, which is near the middle of the 538 estimate, and not far off your 40.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Wednesday November 07 2018, @12:21PM (3 children)
Most of the -R losses seem to be neocons, which is good news. I see Walker lost a re-election in Wisconsin. Better to see the (bad) history of the party lose than the future.
Lose a neocon Walker, gain a modern Greg Pence, etc. Cruz bent the knee at the last minute to barely win which is a lesson to every legacy -R still left in the party.
As a generalization the more anti-trump the -R the more likely they lost, which is good news. The party is getting dragged kicking and screaming into the current century, which is good.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday November 07 2018, @03:22PM
I hate to see Dems wining anything right now, but we can be grateful for every neocon chased out of Washington.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Wednesday November 07 2018, @05:03PM (1 child)
Walker can only blame himself for his loss. They pulled the same election fraud when he ran eight years ago. Then they did it again in his recall. And yet again when he ran for reelection the first time. All three of those times he was clever enough to outwit them and win anyway but eventually cleverness fails. He should have conducted mass arrests after the recall of pretty much every election official in Milwaukee and Madison. Then he would have had no problems.
Evil prospers when it isn't punished. Once they figure out that cheating is all upside, it either works or if it doesn't there isn't any price to pay it is rational to cheat. This is part of the general slide into lawlessness.
(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Wednesday November 07 2018, @06:48PM
From what I understand the Foxconn boondoggle hurt him a lot. Good riddance to bad rubbish I say.
You are correct that evil prospers when good people do nothing, but I'm going to disagree with you on who occupies either position. Voter turnout was high, which tells me that good people were out doing something.
The world is full of kings and queens who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday November 07 2018, @12:25PM (3 children)
The replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsberg is coming up real soon, she's gone downhill very fast and looks like the emperor in the Star Wars films, so the senate was kinda important.
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Wednesday November 07 2018, @12:57PM (2 children)
She's 85 right now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg#Future_plans [wikipedia.org]
I'll just quote the whole health section:
She's not chowing down on Big Macs [thehill.com], she has a personal trainer, and she seems reasonably proactive about her health.
In order to win this game, she has to last the next 26 months. That gets her through the 2020 election as well as the lame duck session, when the new Republican Senate could opt to fill her seat if it becomes available. Of course, Democrats have to win at least the Senate and preferably the Senate and Presidency to fill her seat.
Put it this way: there are some people out there very interested in seeing her make it through the next 26 months. I'm sure she'll get the best health care on the planet.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 07 2018, @11:16PM (1 child)
Where do you get the energy to write and cite so much stuff nobody actually gives a fuck about?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday November 07 2018, @11:48PM
I do it fast. And plenty of people care about it, they just aren't depl0rables.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 07 2018, @04:05PM
Georgia? You mean the same Georgia that has a pattern of elections fraud by Republicans looking to suppress the votes of anybody that isn't likely to vote for them? The same Georgia that just a couple weeks ago go slapped for illegally preventing tens of thousands of people from voting because the Secretary of State who was also a candidate for Governor didn't want them to vote?
The same Georgia that had software patches by Diebold only installed on voting machines in Democrat leaning precincts during a previous election?
That Georgia?
Between the obvious strategic incompetence of the Democrats and the massive effort by Republicans to disenfranchise as many voters as possible, it's astonishing that the Democrats were still able to pick up enough seats to have a majority.