Election 2018 Open Thread - Part 1

[Former Dean Phillips Supporters for Haley (I guess???!?) 👁️]

Cox just gained slightly from a big dump from Fresno County, but probably not enough, unless there is another big dump coming from Kern and not much from Kings.

https://twitter.com/CATargetBot/status/1062843729784987648

[Interlocutor is just not there yet]

https://twitter.com/gelliottmorris/status/1062781998350114816

Gen Z is definitely the most conservative generation since World War II imo tbh.

Hey, I though my generation would be super conservative because of "libs and sjws owned!!!!!" videos!

"muh youtube comments"

"Tbh the awesomeness of Ben Shapiro owning the libs will convert a whole generation tbh imo."

**Insert sarcastic 'Millenial Republicans' comment here**

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

Cox just gained slightly from a big dump from Fresno County, but probably not enough, unless there is another big dump coming from Kern and not much from Kings.

https://twitter.com/CATargetBot/status/1062843729784987648

Actually, Cox got what he needed from the Fresno dump today. This race will be close.

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1062685440791244800

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

Will we be getting any updates on CA-39 and 45 today?

[Interlocutor is just not there yet]

Will we be getting any updates on CA-39 and 45 today?

Orange County is posting daily updates at 5 PM PST. LA's next update will be tomorrow or Friday.

[DrScholl]

Los Angeles County updates Fridays.

[Former Dean Phillips Supporters for Haley (I guess???!?) 👁️]

Cox just gained slightly from a big dump from Fresno County, but probably not enough, unless there is another big dump coming from Kern and not much from Kings.

https://twitter.com/CATargetBot/status/1062843729784987648

Actually, Cox got what he needed from the Fresno dump today. This race will be close.

*If* there is more coming from Kern, sure. But do we know that there is more coming from Kern? They already had a big dump a few days ago. If that is more or less the last of it, then good for Valadao. But if there is more coming from Kern, maybe Cox has a shot.

[gf20202]

It's a good thing for Dems that their majority is mostly built off more durable suburban districts rather than very Trumpy districts which probably would've been one term rentals like NC-09, KY-06, IL-12, WV-03, KS-02, etc.

Yep. Dems have good reason to be very happy about how the House elections went. Less so the Senate (depending partly on how FL turns out), but not only did Dems pick up a lot of seats in the House, but they picked up the ones that are more holdable in the future.

Downside is that there are less house seats to grab from the GOP later to protect the majority - I count around 10 left on the table, mostly in PA/NY/TX.

Isn't there a chance that the NC map changes before the 2020 elections due to court challenge? Think that would possibly open up a few more pickup opportunities.

[Skill and Chance]

Salt Lake County tightened some more in its latest update.  McAdams' lead falls to less than 1000 votes...

[DrScholl]

Kern has only updated once since election night (or early on 11/9), so there should be another vote dump coming.

[Thatkat04]

Mia Love got 51% of the latest Salt Lake County dump today. Thats a very bad number for McAdams. He needs to be winning this county by atleast 5 points to stay ahead. I would say Love is probably in the drivers seat now.

https://twitter.com/RobertGehrke/status/1062858322154532864

[Skill and Chance]

Hobbs (D) has expanded her lead to just over 6000 votes for Arizona SoS.

[Pandaguineapig]

I do think that there needs to be federal standards for voting and vote counting. These slow-count states are becoming more of a joke and are providing ample breeding ground for conspiracies. The fact that it takes the idiots in California well over a month to count all of their votes is why we can't have a national popular vote for president

[Crumpets]

I do think that there needs to be federal standards for voting and vote counting. These slow-count states are becoming more of a joke and are providing ample breeding ground for conspiracies. The fact that it takes the idiots in California well over a month to count all of their votes is why we can't have a national popular vote for president

CA and WA are all-mail states. Some of those ballots are coming from a ways away (mine included). I don't want races certified before they can count my ballot.

[Sestak]

I do think that there needs to be federal standards for voting and vote counting. These slow-count states are becoming more of a joke and are providing ample breeding ground for conspiracies. The fact that it takes the idiots in California well over a month to count all of their votes is why we can't have a national popular vote for president

CA and WA are all-mail states. Some of those ballots are coming from a ways away (mine included). I don't want races certified before they can count my ballot.

CA is not all-mail.

[Former Dean Phillips Supporters for Haley (I guess???!?) 👁️]

San Bernadino drops

[Former Dean Phillips Supporters for Haley (I guess???!?) 👁️]

And Kings in CA-21...



Not bad at all! Cox is over-performing the Hilllary #s in Kings in this batch!

So if there is more Kern, he could do it...

[Pandaguineapig]

I do think that there needs to be federal standards for voting and vote counting. These slow-count states are becoming more of a joke and are providing ample breeding ground for conspiracies. The fact that it takes the idiots in California well over a month to count all of their votes is why we can't have a national popular vote for president

CA and WA are all-mail states. Some of those ballots are coming from a ways away (mine included). I don't want races certified before they can count my ballot.

Then just allow absentee voting for those who are away and make election day a national holiday for everyone else. It's probably a good thing those states are non competitive because if a recount happened in California it would probably take nearly a year before those idiots could finalize results

[2016]

If Mia Love still pulls this out in UT-4 she may have to thank Mitt Romney to thank for.

[Gass3268]

If anything we all should go to a vote by mail system.

[Thatkat04]

If Mia Love still pulls this out in UT-4 she may have to thank Mitt Romney to thank for.

I'd say it's more that Utah County is growing very rapidly. Its probably one of if not the most Republican county with a population over 500,000. 

[ag]

If anything we all should go to a vote by mail system.

Not obvious. US, indeed, has unnecessarily complicated and non-uniform voting procedures. It is possible to achieve high voting turnout without relying on vote-by-mail (a fairly archaic system, given the day and age, anyway). Other countries have managed to figure out how to do run elections cleaner and more efficiently - and few of them, if any, rely on mail.

However, it is udeniable, this way it is more fun. I mean, imagine if we had a couple of weeks to get the results like this not merely from CA and a few others, but from the entire country!

[Beet]

Mia Love is one of the few R's I'm rooting for this cycle.

[Former Dean Phillips Supporters for Haley (I guess???!?) 👁️]

If anything we all should go to a vote by mail system.

Yep, one of many components of a new Voting Rights Act the next time Dems get a trifecta. I would say also give people the option to vote at voting centers in person though, like CO.