Election 2018 Open Thread - Part 1

[cvparty]

to win by 3.5 points, donnelly should be losing sullivan, fayette, pulaski, decatur, miami, and lawrence by ~7, 8, 15, 27, 20, and 21 points respectively. rn he's losing 10, 26, 13, 34, and 34. but results are initial rn lol

[cvparty]

omg can y'all stop freaking out we literally have a few precincts across a few counties rn
donnelly is losing grant co by 3 points now while his benchmark is around losing by 15

[cvparty]

First results in Vigo 49-46 Donnely. It seems underwhelming if it stays

That's the worst number for Donnelly so far. Bayh won here by 11 over Young. Vigo County is also ~40% in so this isn't just preliminary results.

switzerland is the worst

[cvparty]

Wassup with the NYT the formatting is broken

I THOUGHT IT WAS ME

[cvparty]

In the first round of voting in LA-SEN 2014, Mary Landrieu got more votes than Bill Cassidy, fair and square. And yet, she's not a Senator anymore. I wonder why Poliquin isn't complaining about that...

You're mixing up apples with oranges here. Cassidy beat Landrieu fair and square in a Runoff. Meanwhile in Maine a Computer decides the Race. How weird! Maine has no Runoff.

No, it's the same thing. If a non FPTP system isn't allowed, then runoffs shouldn't be allowed either. So Cassidy should be kicked out and Landrieu should take her rightful Senate seat.

LOL, imagine you were running in ME-2. Do you really want your Race decided by a Computer? The big Difference is: Runoffs ARE constitutional, Ranked-Choice Voting isn't.

umm... they are pretty much the same concept.

No, they ain't.

ranked choice voting = instant runoff voting?