Official 2022 Congressional Election Results Thread

[Hope For A New Era]

Thinking out loud about Kennedy's potential run for governor - it would be a fascinating way to (briefly) get the Senate to 52 Democratic seats, since John Bel Edwards would get temporary appointment privileges until a special election. He'd probably pick a fairly conservative Democrat, so it's unlikely the filibuster gets removed, but things could suddenly get very interesting if not.

Without a majority in the house it doesn't really matter.

We pray for special elections.

[Gass3268]

https://twitter.com/TylerDinucci/status/1592219856086388737?s=20&t=ADxgHlwXk...

[wbrocks67]

Thinking out loud about Kennedy's potential run for governor - it would be a fascinating way to (briefly) get the Senate to 52 Democratic seats, since John Bel Edwards would get temporary appointment privileges until a special election. He'd probably pick a fairly conservative Democrat, so it's unlikely the filibuster gets removed, but things could suddenly get very interesting if not.

Without a majority in the house it doesn't really matter.

We pray for special elections.

Biden needs to appoint Brian Fitzpatrick to something.

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1592196037829328897

[wbrocks67]

Also, Trump won Pinal by 17.3%, so Lake is still struggling to even match his margin there, even with R+27 drops.

[Person Man]

Few states are ever truly out of reach for the minority party, at least in certain statewide contests. Re: JBE, Hogan or Kelly winning governor's offices of otherwise hostile states.

But Colorado now has a 46 - 19 Dem state House majority, a 23 - 12 state Senate majority, and Democrats not only control all the statewide row offices but totally blew out the Governor's race as well. Colorado Republicans are going to be a miserable husk of a party for quite a while, I think. And that will largely apply even if they manage to pull off an upset in a governor's race sometime in the next couple decades.

Colorado is New California. Florida is New Texas.

[wbrocks67]

Pinal is close to maxing out, with, what, 20K left in Pima in this part of the district? Gonna be very close.

https://twitter.com/rpyers/status/1592219706517524482

[coloradocowboi]

A lot of colorado transplants are to the left of me.... I expect CO trend to continue. It may become out of reach for the GOP..

“Become”? It already is. The GOP did better in the Illinois governor’s race with a nut on the ballot, and did better against Chuck Schumer in the Senate even though O’Dea is extremely moderate.

Colorado is basically the California of the Rockies at this point. CO-03 is only a cycle or two removed from the marijuana hippies that are moving there in droves flipping it.

Sometimes it’s hippies. Sometimes it’s research scientists. And looking at the CO 7 results compared to the polls, the gop should def be more concerned with the college educated voters they leave on the table every time

[Virginiá]

Biden needs to appoint Brian Fitzpatrick to something.

Fitzpatrick and Bacon reading their fortune cookies after dinner:

[2016]

The Pinal County Drop pushed Ciscomanis lead to over 2000 Votes now in AZ-6.

This might be called by the Networks tonight.

[jamestroll]

Few states are ever truly out of reach for the minority party, at least in certain statewide contests. Re: JBE, Hogan or Kelly winning governor's offices of otherwise hostile states.

But Colorado now has a 46 - 19 Dem state House majority, a 23 - 12 state Senate majority, and Democrats not only control all the statewide row offices but totally blew out the Governor's race as well. Colorado Republicans are going to be a miserable husk of a party for quite a while, I think. And that will largely apply even if they manage to pull off an upset in a governor's race sometime in the next couple decades.

I am glad I helped with that.

Though some of the transplant hippies are annoying tbh.

[TheReckoning]

Why no call out of ME-2 yet?

[Hope For A New Era]

Why no call out of ME-2 yet?

RCV is slow, apparently.

[TheReckoning]

Why no call out of ME-2 yet?

RCV is slow, apparently.

Just another reason to oppose it.

[Smash255]

Why no call out of ME-2 yet?

RCV.  although it is pretty much certain the Democrats will have it, a call isn't going to be made until anything with the ranked choice is known.

[Ferguson97]

https://twitter.com/Garrett_Archer/status/1592222141193539584

[Person Man]

Few states are ever truly out of reach for the minority party, at least in certain statewide contests. Re: JBE, Hogan or Kelly winning governor's offices of otherwise hostile states.

But Colorado now has a 46 - 19 Dem state House majority, a 23 - 12 state Senate majority, and Democrats not only control all the statewide row offices but totally blew out the Governor's race as well. Colorado Republicans are going to be a miserable husk of a party for quite a while, I think. And that will largely apply even if they manage to pull off an upset in a governor's race sometime in the next couple decades.

I am glad I helped with that.

Though some of the transplant hippies are annoying tbh.

Some of them are really cool, some of them really, really suck. My neighbor’s place was smelly.

[jamestroll]

A lot of colorado transplants are to the left of me.... I expect CO trend to continue. It may become out of reach for the GOP..

“Become”? It already is. The GOP did better in the Illinois governor’s race with a nut on the ballot, and did better against Chuck Schumer in the Senate even though O’Dea is extremely moderate.

First, I already made the point that CO dems have marginally out performed Illinois Democrats in initial returns. Final balloting out of Cook County may change that.

Second, Illinois Democrats literally did not run candidates down state.

Third, this is just one election .. it is always wise to proceed with caution

But CO and IL voting the same in 2024 wouldn't shock me.

[Person Man]

https://twitter.com/Garrett_Archer/status/1592222141193539584

Are things expected tighten by that much?

[jamestroll]

Few states are ever truly out of reach for the minority party, at least in certain statewide contests. Re: JBE, Hogan or Kelly winning governor's offices of otherwise hostile states.

But Colorado now has a 46 - 19 Dem state House majority, a 23 - 12 state Senate majority, and Democrats not only control all the statewide row offices but totally blew out the Governor's race as well. Colorado Republicans are going to be a miserable husk of a party for quite a while, I think. And that will largely apply even if they manage to pull off an upset in a governor's race sometime in the next couple decades.

I am glad I helped with that.

Though some of the transplant hippies are annoying tbh.

Some of them are really cool, some of them really, really suck. My neighbor’s place was smelly.

..... ... i have that exact situation right now.. seems like drugs..  and of course they have a subaru with bald tires... and got over confident in a recent snow storm and slide to the side of the road.. while my tiny car went up the canyon just fine because I was more cautious.

[Ferguson97]

https://twitter.com/Garrett_Archer/status/1592222141193539584

Are things expected tighten by that much?

Net

Lake+1251
Masters+1135
Hamadeh+1299
Finchem+1115

Not good enough for Lake. Probably not enough for Hamadeh.

Finchem and Masters already had the race called against them, so irrelevant.

And it wasn't included there, but the superintendent's race remains a nailbiter - 625 votes.

[brucejoel99]

https://twitter.com/joepostingg/status/1592197635297120259

[Roll Roons]

Long past time to call this one:
https://twitter.com/rpyers/status/1592221984955707392?cxt=HHwWgMDRjbPd2pgsAAAA

[Dani Rose]

If this incoming House majority is as much of a nightmare as it looks like, any chance we get Republican defections? Say someone like Fitzpatrick has enough of lunatics running the show.

[Spectator]

If this incoming House majority is as much of a nightmare as it looks like, any chance we get Republican defections? Say someone like Fitzpatrick has enough of lunatics running the show.

Fitzpatrick didn’t vote to impeach Trump, so I don’t see any feasible world in which he would survive a Democrat primary based on that alone. Same with Bacon and Garcia.