CONGRESSIONAL RESULTS MEGA THREAD

[KaiserDave]

https://twitter.com/aaronlarnavarro/status/1334524244324020226

We get it Max, you're running for Mayor

[KaiserDave]

I'm honestly shocked Zeldin did that badly

[KaiserDave]

I'm honestly shocked Zeldin did that badly

It's not when you consider that Trump lost Suffolk County 10,703 Votes to Joe Biden.

Trump LOST Suffolk? Woweee. WOW.

[KaiserDave]

Trump narrowly won Suffolk, no?

If Trump lost Suffolk county, I feel really bad for the folks at the NY GOP.

You lost Suffolk county, howwww??? Lmao

[KaiserDave]

Antonio Delgado won by 11. UTAD was never going to lose.

[KaiserDave]

According to the New York State Board of Elections Excel Sheets

NY-1

Lee Zeldin (R) 199,763  53,92 %

Nancy Goroff (D) 157,484  46,08 %

NY-2

Andrew Garbarino (R) 177,353  49,47 %

Jackie Gordon (D) 154,123  42,99 %

Harry Burger (G) 3,446  0,96 %

This should now be enough for the AP to call both Races.

Notable

Donald Trump lost Suffolk County to Joe Biden by about 11,000 Votes 351,643 to 340,940

Suffolk was close, but Trump won it narrowly 375,821 to 368,000. Above poster wasn't including the Conservative and Working Families ballot lines. 

Still a bad performance

[KaiserDave]

According to the New York State Board of Elections Excel Sheets

NY-1

Lee Zeldin (R) 199,763  53,92 %

Nancy Goroff (D) 157,484  46,08 %

NY-2

Andrew Garbarino (R) 177,353  49,47 %

Jackie Gordon (D) 154,123  42,99 %

Harry Burger (G) 3,446  0,96 %

This should now be enough for the AP to call both Races.

Notable

Donald Trump lost Suffolk County to Joe Biden by about 11,000 Votes 351,643 to 340,940

Suffolk was close, but Trump won it narrowly 375,821 to 368,000. Above poster wasn't including the Conservative and Working Families ballot lines. 

Still a bad performance

Historically sure it's bad though it's obv the NY GOP is in a terrible place as a party and has been for some time. However recent results winning Suffolk is good for Republicans seeing how they lost the county from every election from 96 until 16 when Trump flipped it back to red going against Clinton.

I mean, I suppose it's pretty irrelevant at the end of the day. The NYGOP is left to punting around with a few house seats and a small state legislature minority that shows no signs of growth.

Maybe they'll get excited for Elise Stefanik to run for governor in 2022 to lose by 15.

[KaiserDave]

who cares

[KaiserDave]

The Southernization of manners in the North and West is just as serious a threat as is the Yankification of manners in the South, which is to say very serious, actually, and well worth the concern of anybody interested in ~diversity~, ~tradition~, or both.

My wife is from Memphis.  IWas working in Bay City, Michigan in 1971.  She went to a meeting to join the YWCA.  They were promoting a movie “Racism in Mississippi.  Give me a break! LOL!

Right. Who ever heard of racism in Mississippi?

Who ever heard of racism in Bay City, Michigan.

https://www.mlive.com/news/bay-city/2015/09/racist_graffiti_in_bay_city_yo.html

oops, and in 2015 no less

[KaiserDave]

https://twitter.com/Jonas_EJ/status/1334951274844971009

Awwwwwwwww

I'd trade in Cunningham for several House Dems who lost in a second (looking at you Elaine Luria)

[KaiserDave]

I was actually one of the very few people who got ME-SEN right.



Got NC-SEN wrong though. Shame cuz I was quite bullish on Thom (and Trump in NC), but the obviously junk Marist and CNN polls made me pessimistic about the state.

Wrong thread? Or did you mean it to be here

[KaiserDave]

Democrats really needed to find a balance between being safe and still having a GOTV effort.

Just...wear masks and keep a reasonable distance. I think not having a GOTV and door knocking effort was a massive and entirely avoidable own goal.

[KaiserDave]

Democrats really needed to find a balance between being safe and still having a GOTV effort.

Just...wear masks and keep a reasonable distance. I think not having a GOTV and door knocking effort was a massive and entirely avoidable own goal.

Too easy to just blame Covid. They didn't have a strong GOTV effort 4 years ago either.

At least they had one

[KaiserDave]

Democrats really needed to find a balance between being safe and still having a GOTV effort.

Just...wear masks and keep a reasonable distance. I think not having a GOTV and door knocking effort was a massive and entirely avoidable own goal.

Too easy to just blame Covid. They didn't have a strong GOTV effort 4 years ago either.

At least they had one

The Clinton campaign literally called a union local from out-of-state that was on a bus the week before the election heading to Detroit where the local heard from their on-the-ground sources there were problems, and told them to turn around. The Clinton campaign did not believe in low-level, person-centric politics at all.

At least they had on the ground sources

[KaiserDave]

I don't dispute that Hillary Clinton had a horrid ground operation....but at least she had one. And those often make a difference with Latino voters. The all digital approach was lazy and stupid.

[KaiserDave]

Democrats really needed to find a balance between being safe and still having a GOTV effort.

Just...wear masks and keep a reasonable distance. I think not having a GOTV and door knocking effort was a massive and entirely avoidable own goal.

Too easy to just blame Covid. They didn't have a strong GOTV effort 4 years ago either.

At least they had one

The Clinton campaign literally called a union local from out-of-state that was on a bus the week before the election heading to Detroit where the local heard from their on-the-ground sources there were problems, and told them to turn around. The Clinton campaign did not believe in low-level, person-centric politics at all.

At least they had on the ground sources

That was the union local. It wasn't the Clinton campaign. To show I'm not making sh**t up, here's the Politico article.

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/michigan-hillary-clinton-trump-232547

How Clinton lost Michigan — and blew the election
Across battlegrounds, Democrats blame HQ’s stubborn commitment to a one-size-fits-all strategy.

By EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE 12/14/2016 05:08 AM EST

Everybody could see Hillary Clinton was cooked in Iowa. So when, a week-and-a-half out, the Service Employees International Union started hearing anxiety out of Michigan, union officials decided to reroute their volunteers, giving a desperate team on the ground around Detroit some hope.

They started prepping meals and organizing hotel rooms.

SEIU — which had wanted to go to Michigan from the beginning, but been ordered not to — dialed Clinton’s top campaign aides to tell them about the new plan. According to several people familiar with the call, Brooklyn was furious.
[...]

If I had to back of the envelope simplistic two-cent take of the difference between Republicans and Democrats, it's Republicans believe in organization (Trump doesn't, but he's not really a Republican anyway) and Democrats don't. Democrats are like how Trump views things: everything comes from up top and we don't give a rat's ass about the grassroots and how they function.

I don't disagree with you. But I rather have a Clinton tier ground organization than Biden's (lack of), especially with Hispanic voters.

[KaiserDave]

I don't disagree with you. But I rather have a Clinton tier ground organization than Biden's (lack of), especially with Hispanic voters.

Okay. But this is the 2nd presidential election in a row against a severely flawed Republican nominee where Democratic local organization has failed them. I don't buy that's due entirely to Covid. In the past 6 federal elections going back to 2010, there's a grand total of 1 where it went well for the Democrats outside of the presidency: 2018. There's something systemic there.

Well, perhaps, but we wouldn't know that from 2020. We'll have to wait and see what happens in two years.

[KaiserDave]

Lol New York.

This is gonna take months

[KaiserDave]

Good news for Anthony

[KaiserDave]

Cory Gardner is delivering his farewell speech.

I have been watching

Mwahahahahhaha


(Don't worry you can enjoy Manchin's in four years)

[KaiserDave]

Is Cunningham approaching Mourdock levels of stupidity

[KaiserDave]

Is Cunningham approaching Mourdock levels of stupidity

Despite overperforming massively among Mecklenburg County Wine Moms  , Tillis got slaughtered in rural NC. Sextingham would've probably won if he did a point better in the suburbs.

And hence why he will be a staple of my dart boards for years to come

[KaiserDave]

https://twitter.com/JRosenblattTV/status/1337535076133957633

My god these people are incompetent

[KaiserDave]

Honestly, the best thing to do would be to have a do-over election. But it really didn't have to be like this.

I disagree too, the situation is very different from the one in NC-9 back in 2018, yeah the race is very close and the people who are managing electoral boards in NY should be fired but there was no electoral fraud, as long you're ahead by one vote you have won, so if after counting every ballot Tenney is ahead she should be seated, and if the democrat is ahead he should be seated.

There was absolutely no evidence of evidence of fraudulent voting affecting the outcome in NC-9. The NCBOE overturned the election because it was "tainted". Dowless McCrae has not yet been tried for anything that happened in 2018.

It is really a jump ball situation. They should do like in basketball and give possession on an alternating basis. Tenney gets the seat on this basis.

An even better approach would be split the seat. Each day there would be a lottery to decide which candidate is seated for that day. This could work regardless of the support. If you get 5% of the popular vote, there would be a 5% chance of being seated on any given day. This could even be extended across districts. All candidates in New York would show up and 27 would be selected for the day. Some days, both Tenney and Brindisi might be chosen; other days neither, and most often one or the other.

That is a very bad idea

[KaiserDave]

no