How the hell does CA have a bunch of districts with less than half the vote in? Complete and total incompetence for that state.
Election Night 2022 Thread
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The truth is that some races have always taken days and weeks to settle. For the longest time we took for granted knowing which party won congress or who won the presidency without having final vote totals. The thing is since about 2016 elections have been very close at the presidential level and now this midterm is probably the tightest in decades so we wait.
I see some states with >99% of the vote and others dragging their feet. FL and MI both have >99% of the vote in. I really don't see why a bunch of these states out west (NV, AZ, CA) can't get their shit together.
Donald Trump said the Trumpiest thing possible about the election
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/09/politics/donald-trump-2022-election-midterms/index.html
As votes rolled in from across the country Tuesday night, Donald Trump said something truly incredible when asked about how much credit or blame he should get for the election results.
“I think if they win, I should get all of the credit, and if they lose, I should not be blamed at all,” Trump told NewsNation, adding: “But it will probably be just the opposite.”
Yes, he really said that. And, no, he wasn’t kidding. He would, quite simply, like to have his cake and eat it, too.
In Trump’s world, all good things are the direct result of his action while all bad things are definitely someone else’s fault. He is forever telling himself a story in which he is the forever hero – fighting off the losers and the haters who are dragging him down.
Case in point, this tweet from Maggie Haberman of the New York Times:
“Trump is indeed furious this morning, particularly about Mehmet Oz, and is blaming everyone who advised him to back Oz – including his wife, describing it as not her best decision, according to people close to him.”
It was his wife’s fault!
The data tell a different story.
Trump was viewed favorably by just 39% of voters, according to the exit polling, while 58% saw him in an unfavorable light. Those numbers put him below Joe Biden (41% favorable/56% unfavorable).
And there are other numbers in the exit polling that suggest Trump was a drag on Republican candidates. Almost 1 in 3 (28%) of voters said that there vote was to send a message of opposition to the former president – and they voted 90%-8% for Democrats in the House. Just 16% said their vote was a way to support Trump,
Aside from the exit poll numbers, there’s evidence of Donald Trump’s fingerprints all over this election – and not in a good way. He endorsed candidates in gubernatorial races in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Illinois and Michigan who all lost convincingly as they struggled to develop a winning general election message. (In the Arizona governor’s race, election denier – and Trump endorsee – Kari Lake trails although there is still a significant number of ballots left to count.)
On the Senate side, Trump’s record was slightly better. While Oz lost in Pennsylvania, his endorsed candidates won in North Carolina and Ohio. In Georgia, the race between Herschel Walker and Sen. Raphael Warnock is too early to call. Ditto the Arizona Senate race between Trump-backed Blake Masters and Sen. Mark Kelly. And Nevada, where Adam Laxalt, who had the Trump endorsement, leads Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto.
But, it’s a decidedly mixed record. And not one that Trump can take credit for while avoiding blame.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/09/politics/donald-trump-2022-election-midterms/index.html
As votes rolled in from across the country Tuesday night, Donald Trump said something truly incredible when asked about how much credit or blame he should get for the election results.
“I think if they win, I should get all of the credit, and if they lose, I should not be blamed at all,” Trump told NewsNation, adding: “But it will probably be just the opposite.”
Yes, he really said that. And, no, he wasn’t kidding. He would, quite simply, like to have his cake and eat it, too.
In Trump’s world, all good things are the direct result of his action while all bad things are definitely someone else’s fault. He is forever telling himself a story in which he is the forever hero – fighting off the losers and the haters who are dragging him down.
Case in point, this tweet from Maggie Haberman of the New York Times:
“Trump is indeed furious this morning, particularly about Mehmet Oz, and is blaming everyone who advised him to back Oz – including his wife, describing it as not her best decision, according to people close to him.”
It was his wife’s fault!
The data tell a different story.
Trump was viewed favorably by just 39% of voters, according to the exit polling, while 58% saw him in an unfavorable light. Those numbers put him below Joe Biden (41% favorable/56% unfavorable).
And there are other numbers in the exit polling that suggest Trump was a drag on Republican candidates. Almost 1 in 3 (28%) of voters said that there vote was to send a message of opposition to the former president – and they voted 90%-8% for Democrats in the House. Just 16% said their vote was a way to support Trump,
Aside from the exit poll numbers, there’s evidence of Donald Trump’s fingerprints all over this election – and not in a good way. He endorsed candidates in gubernatorial races in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Illinois and Michigan who all lost convincingly as they struggled to develop a winning general election message. (In the Arizona governor’s race, election denier – and Trump endorsee – Kari Lake trails although there is still a significant number of ballots left to count.)
On the Senate side, Trump’s record was slightly better. While Oz lost in Pennsylvania, his endorsed candidates won in North Carolina and Ohio. In Georgia, the race between Herschel Walker and Sen. Raphael Warnock is too early to call. Ditto the Arizona Senate race between Trump-backed Blake Masters and Sen. Mark Kelly. And Nevada, where Adam Laxalt, who had the Trump endorsement, leads Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto.
But, it’s a decidedly mixed record. And not one that Trump can take credit for while avoiding blame.
That’s the thing, elections are each state’s prerogative. Arizona is great example of this. They have their own rules around who can vote how, when and where, and how those votes votes will be considered as on time.
Cheating takes time
Not this many races. ---Mail-in voting and drop boxes need to be gotten rid of, and gotten rid of now.
Now this could get interesting quickly. Please, explain just what you think my "kind" is.
You really don't know me. For example, you probably assume I am anti-Trump.
I am not.
I very much want to see Trump-Lindell 2024. That is my preferred GOP ticket. I'm 100% pro-Trump getting the '24 GOP nomination. Either Lindell or MTG as the veep.
Tell me more about how I'm "anti-Trump."
It has always taken a long time to do final tallies. Always. Even in Florida they were still counting after the results were announced. When races are close, every vote counts. And it takes days and sometimes weeks to count them all accurately. This has always been the case. When one side wins decisively, as DeSantis and the GOP did in Florida, the winner can be called with 100% confidence soon after the polls close. This too is how it has always been.
As long as the USA remains bitterly yet very closely divided, there will be more of these delays between polls closing and winners being determined. It is as it has always been, it is just there are now a lot more close races.
But final votes have always taken days and sometimes weeks. That is why there is usually a 2 to 6 week period by law between election day and the election results getting certified by the certifying authority of a jurisdiction.