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Vrede too wrote:
Mon Nov 05, 2018 10:09 am
Whack9 wrote:
Mon Nov 05, 2018 7:38 am
One more day.

I can't wait to vote!

I'm curious as to Trump's reaction if the Democrats take control of the house? Will be interesting to watch.
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You didn't vote yet? You should have voted several times by now! :lol:
He's not a Dem, he just votes for them. ;)

Last look at RCP, we'll see how it does:

2018 Governor Races:
Current Governors: 16 Democrats | 33 Republicans | 1 Independent (AK)
Democrats 18
Toss Ups 12
Republicans 20

2018 Governor No Toss Ups:
Democrats 24
Republicans 26
Net Change DEM +7
Democrats 8 Pick-Ups: FL, IL, IA, ME, MI, NM, OH, WI (Walker finally gets ousted)
Republicans 1 Pick-Ups: AK

Florida Governor - DeSantis vs. Gillum: Andrew Gillum (D) +2.7

Georgia Governor - Kemp vs. Abrams: Brian Kemp (R) +2.8

Battle for the Senate 2018:
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Angus King (I-ME) currently caucus with the Democrats.
Current Senate: 49 Democrats | 51 Republicans
Democrats 43
Toss Ups 7
Republicans 50

Senate No Toss Ups 2018:
Democrats 48
Republicans 52
Net Change GOP +1
Democrats 8 Pick-Ups: AZ
Republicans 1 Pick-Ups: MO, ND
The Democrats would have to pull off a surprise in 3 states to win control of the Senate.

Florida Senate - Scott vs. Nelson: Bill Nelson (D) +2.4

Texas Senate - Cruz vs. O'Rourke: Ted Cruz (R) +6.5

Battle for the House 2018:
Current House: Republican (235), Democratic (193), Vacant (7)
Democrats 202
Toss Ups 39 (33 currently Republican, 6 currently Democrat)
Republicans 194
If the Toss Ups split 50-50:
Democrats 221 or 222
Republicans 213 or 214
There are House races in play in FL, NC & SC

Please do add in races that are important to you or predictions from other sites like:
FiveThirtyEight
Cook Political Report

Things that will affect the results:
Who does a better job turning out their likely and sporadic voters
New voters - youth and minorities mostly, will lean Dem
True true. I try not to get caught up in identifying with a political party, but at this point I identify closest with the Democrats.
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True true. I try not to get caught up in identifying with a political party, but at this point I identify closest with the Democrats.
That's why you don't vote multiple times . . . yet. ;)
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/report-ho ... t-at-voter

“If I were to wear my blackface makeup, maybe you would understand what I’m telling you,” Assistant election judge Juanita Barnes said
Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”

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“If I were to wear my blackface makeup, maybe you would understand what I’m telling you,” Assistant election judge Juanita Barnes said
... The sheriff’s office also told the station that a “citation for assault by contact” was issued to Barnes for “bumping into a female voter during an argument.”
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Comment I saw last night as the results were coming in:
This night is like the night before Christmas and the night before a colonoscopy at the same time.
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Looks like the results were about as expected.

Democrats gained control of the house. Republicans maintained control of the Senate, gaining a few seats. Democrats gained a few governorships. Michigan also legalized recreational marijuana.
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Last look at RCP, we'll see how it does:

2018 Governor Races:
Current Governors: 16 Democrats | 33 Republicans | 1 Independent (AK)
Democrats 18
Toss Ups 12
Republicans 20

2018 Governor No Toss Ups:
Democrats 24
Republicans 26
Net Change DEM +7
Democrats 8 Pick-Ups: FL, IL, Iowa, ME, MI, NM, OH, WI (Walker finally gets ousted)
Republicans 1 Pick-Ups: AK

Republicans retained: FL, Iowa, OH
GA isn't 100% certain yet, Abrams could still force a runoff. However, the odds of both that and winning the runoff are slim.
Republicans Pick-Up: AK (from Independent)

Democrat Pick-Ups: IL, MI, NM, ME, WI (Walker finally gets ousted!!!)
Surprise Democrat Pick-Ups: KS (Kobach loses!!!), NV
Net Change Dem +6 or 7

New tally, probably: 23 Dem, 27 GOP

Florida Governor - DeSantis vs. Gillum: Andrew Gillum (D) +2.7

Florida sucks, but not by much.

Georgia Governor - Kemp vs. Abrams: Brian Kemp (R) +2.8

Voter suppression works.

Battle for the Senate 2018:
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Angus King (I-ME) currently caucus with the Democrats.
Current Senate: 49 Democrats | 51 Republicans
Democrats 43
Toss Ups 7
Republicans 50

Senate No Toss Ups 2018:
Democrats 48
Republicans 52
Net Change GOP +1
Democrats 1 Pick-Ups: AZ
Republicans 2 Pick-Ups: MO, ND
The Democrats would have to pull off a surprise in 3 states to win control of the Senate.

Republicans Pick-Ups: IN, MO, ND
Current Dem seat, Repug leading: FL, MT
Current Repug seat, Repug leading: AZ
Current Repug seat, runoff pending, will go GOP: MS

Surprise Democrat Pick-Up: NV
Likely Net Change Repug +4
New tally, probably: 45 Dem, 55 GOP. On party line votes and filibusters nothing changes.

Florida Senate - Scott vs. Nelson: Bill Nelson (D) +2.4

Still very close:
Scot (R) 50.2%
Nelson (D) 49.8%
est. 99% in


Texas Senate - Cruz vs. O'Rourke: Ted Cruz (R) +6.5

Texas sucks, but not by much.

Battle for the House 2018:
Current House: Republican (235), Democratic (193), Vacant (7)
Democrats 202
Toss Ups 39 (33 currently Republican, 6 currently Democrat)
Republicans 194
If the Toss Ups split 50-50:
Democrats 221 or 222
Republicans 213 or 214
There are House races in play in FL, NC & SC

Likely Net Change Dem about +35
New tally, about: 230 Dem, 205 GOP. Big changes coming. Fine with me if Pelosi is not Speaker, but I hope the fight isn't ugly either way.
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Whatever happens the Indiana result won't be as big a victory or defeat as it might seem.

Obama stumps for senator who supports Trump’s wall
Given that this race didn't make the difference in Senate control, good riddance.
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Wed Oct 31, 2018 5:24 am
My NC ballot
My 2 Repug Senators are not up for election;
My severely gerrymandered House seat will stay Repug;
Vrede too wrote:
Wed Oct 31, 2018 11:11 pm
I voted Libertarian in this one to encourage them and help keep them on the ballot. I'll be pissed at myself if the Dem makes it close.
District 11
Meadows, R (59.2%)
Price, D (38.7%)
Ingram Jr., L (2%)


My Leg and other local races, many uncontested, will mostly or entirely stay Repug. :(
Entirely.

The referendums from the Repug Leg all suck. Some look like they'll fail. Hard to say, the ballot wording on several is misleading, of course.

3 passed that will make very little practical difference:
Right to Hunt and Fish
Victims' Rights
Require Photo I.D. to Vote

Income Tax Rate Cap is a shame. Either future Legs will raise other taxes or education, etc. will suffer.

2 attempts by the GOP to blatantly grab power from the Dem Gov failed by wide margins:
Judicial Merit Commission
"Bipartisan" Board of Ethics and Elections

Though I wish that all failed, the mixed result tells me that folks thought about them individually.


My only other theoretical impact will be on the statewide justice seats and the local school board. Sigh.

The justice races are interesting.
Vrede too wrote:
Wed Oct 31, 2018 11:11 pm
There weren't any judicial primaries. Not sure if a plurality in the general gets the seat or if it forces a runoff.
No runoffs despite several pluralities!

NC Supreme Court Associate Justice
Seat 1
(You may vote for ONE)
Barbara Jackson, Republican
Christopher (Chris) Anglin, Republican
Anita Earls, Democrat WON!

Repugs splitting the vote, smart.

NC Court of Appeals Judge
Seat 1
(You may vote for ONE)
Andrew T. Heath, Republican
John S. Arrowood, Democrat WON!

Normal Dem-GOP contest.

NC Court of Appeals Judge
Seat 2
(You may vote for ONE)
Jefferson G. Griffin, Republican
Tobias (Toby) Hampson, Democrat WON!
Sandra Alice Ray, Republican

Repugs splitting the vote, smart.

NC Court of Appeals Judge
Seat 3
(You may vote for ONE)
Chuck Kitchen, Republican
Michael Monaco, Sr., Libertarian
Allegra Katherine Collins, Democrat WON!

I think Libertarians take more votes from Repugs than Dems.

So, before even considering the individuals it looks like the the Dems are automatically advantaged in 2, probably 3 of the 4 races. Cool.

That's huge.

Board of Education
(You may vote for THREE)
Stacey Caskey
Dot R. Case

I don't like the other 4 candidates for various reasons and these are the only two former teachers. The sole incumbent, Amy Lynn Holt, will probably win one seat, but who knows.
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Got handed a GOP endorsement list at the polls. They like Amy Lynn Holt and the two guys I looked at for my 3rd vote. Looks like I chose wisely in my semi-ignorance. It's sometimes hard to read between the lines with things like the Board of Education. Guess I should start with the local GOP website to make the research process go faster.
Holt, Egolf, Case elected to Henderson County School Board

Holt won with 24,603 votes, or 22.58 percent. She was followed by Egolf with 22,700 votes (20.8 percent) and Dot Case with 20,863 (19.15 percent), according to unofficial results from the N.C. Board of Elections.

Stacey Caskey took 17,162 votes; Ted Beddingfield had 16,470; and Randy Ward had 6,761.
1 out of 2 for me.
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Fri Oct 19, 2018 8:20 pm
No NC Gov. or US Senate race this year.
My US House seat (11) and Asheville's (10), both severely gerrymandered, are not in play this year. :(
However, NC may affect the US House makeup with other district races, all are currently GOP:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epoll ... e_map.html

Toss Ups:
NC9, south-central NC, McCready (D) +4 GOP barely won.
NC13, central-western NC including Greensboro, Budd (R) +4.5 GOP won.

Leans GOP:
NC2, central-eastern NC including Raleigh and Durham suburbs, Coleman (D) +1 (not sure why it "Leans GOP") GOP won.

Likely GOP:
NC8, central NC including Fayetteville GOP won.
Gerrymandering works.
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Other results that I care about:

In victory for Gov. Cooper, Republicans lose veto-proof majority in NC House

Florida passes Amendment Four, restoring voting rights to convicted felons

1.4 million potential new voters.
Kim Davis (Yes, That Kim Davis) Just Lost Her Re-election Bid To A Democrat

Elwood Caudill Jr. will be the new clerk for Rowan County after winning 4,210 votes to Davis’ 3,566
:---P

California US Senate
Feinstein 54.3%
de Leon 45.7%

I'm glad that progressive de Leon did so well.
'Year of the women': Female candidates who claimed historic victories on Tuesday

The House is getting its first two Muslim women and Massachusetts is getting its first black congresswoman following Tuesday's midterm elections, among other historic firsts.

In what some are referring to as the "pink wave," the high-profile midterm cycle produced a record number of women contenders. Several winners will take office as trailblazers, marking firsts for their race and gender. Other races are too close to call still but could produce historic outcomes.

In Massachusetts, Democrat Ayanna Pressley completed her quest to become the state's first black woman elected to Congress.

Texas elected a Latina to Congress for the first time. Two of them, in fact: Democrats Veronica Escobar of El Paso and Sylvia Garcia of Houston....

Former New Mexico state Democratic Party chairwoman Deb Haaland and Sharice Davids of Kansas became the first Native American women elected to Congress. Davids is also Kansas's first openly LGBT candidate to win a major office. Republican Yvette Herrell, a member of the Cherokee Nation, is in a hotly contested race for another open U.S. House seat in New Mexico (she won).

Democrat Letitia James became the first black woman elected to statewide office in New York. The 60-year-old will also be the state's first black attorney general.

Republican Marsha Blackburn will become Tennessee's first woman senator.

Regardless of who wins in Arizona's competitive Senate race, the state will elect either Republican Martha McSally or Democrat Kyrsten Sinema as the state's first woman to serve in the chamber.

At 29 years old, New York Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won her race and could become the youngest member of Congress....

Stacey Abrams, Democrat
Running for: Governor of Georgia
If elected: Abrams would be the country's first black female governor.

Young Kim, Republican
Running for: House of Representatives in California's 39th district
If elected: Kim would be the first Korean-American female ever elected to Congress (leading, not called yet).

Kyrsten Sinema, Democrat
Running for: Senator of Arizona
If elected: Sinema would become the country's first bisexual Senator. She is already the first bisexual Congresswoman (losing, not called yet).

...
Jared Polis becomes first openly gay person elected governor in America
The Democrat ran on a progressive platform, contrasting himself from his Republican opponent.
A record number of women were elected to the House

A record number of women are projected to win seats in the House in a massive night for female candidates across the political spectrum.

In the House:

CNN projected by early Wednesday that 96 women would win House races, with 31 women newly elected to the House and 65 female incumbents.
That beats the previous record of 85 representatives, according to the Congressional Research Service.

In the Senate:

CNN projected by early Wednesday that 11 women would win Senate seats, with two newly elected women joining nine female incumbents.

In governor's races:

CNN projected at the same time that eight women — five incumbents and three non-incumbents — would win gubernatorial races.

The numbers in each category tilted largely to Democrats, with 76 of the projected female House winners coming from the Democratic Party and 11 from the Republican side.
First Muslim women in Congress: Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar

A pair of districts in the Midwest will add Muslim women to the ranks of the US Congress for the first time, CNN has projected.

Michigan Democrat Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party's nominee, will secure their respective seats in strongly Democratic districts following primary victories earlier this year that effectively decided their races.

Tlaib is endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America, a burgeoning left-wing group that also counts New York Democratic congressional nominee Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez among its members.

Omar, in addition to being one of the first Muslim women in Congress, will also be the first Somali-American member. She came to the US more than two decades ago as a refugee. Tlaib actually campaigned with Omar ahead of the latter's primary race earlier this year.

Omar also had the backing of Ocasio-Cortez in her primary race, and she will come to Congress having been an open critic of the Israeli government's treatment of Palestinians.

Omar will take the seat vacated by Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress. Ellison is leaving Congress as he vies to become Minnesota attorney general.

Tlaib will fill the seat formerly occupied by Michigan Democratic Rep. John Conyers, who left office last year amid accusations of sexual misconduct. She ran unopposed on the general election ballot following her primary win.

Tlaib is the daughter of Palestinian immigrants and became the first Muslim female member of Michigan's state legislature a decade ago. A self-styled progressive, Tlaib is a vocal critic of President Donald Trump and was arrested two years ago for disrupting a Trump speech in Detroit.

Only two other Muslims have been elected to Congress, and both are men currently in office: Ellison and Indiana Democratic Rep. Andre Carson.
Walz (D) elected governor; Ellison (D) wins A.G. race
Health concerns drive voters to back Medicaid, weed and trans rights

Health care

Voters in Utah, Idaho and Nebraska voted yes to expand Medicaid eligibility to people under 65 whose income is 138% of the federal poverty level. In Utah, that expansion is going to be funded in part by a sales tax increase.

Montana voters appear to be rejecting Medicaid expansion, they are still counting votes on this initiative. Montana's I-185 would have also raised taxes on tobacco products to help fund the expansion and other health care programs. The tobacco industry has spent millions in the state to fight the initiative since it would have doubled the cigarette tax to pay for the state's portion of Medicaid expansion....

Other health matters

In Massachusetts, preliminary voting results with Question 3 seem to suggest voters said yes to keeping a law that prohibits discrimination based on gender identity in public places like restaurants, stores, hotels and hospitals. There's no federal law that provides such protections for people who identify as transgender....
People also voted for nonpartisan districting in red and blue states. This will hurt the GOP more than the Dems.
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"Voters gave you a mandate. Use it. Protect the communities Trump attacks, investigate Trump's corruption, resist the dangerous Trump-Republican agenda and promote a bold progressive vision for America."
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Not sure how close y'all were watching, but the Dems were looking shaky in the House early, they did better later. Whew.
Vrede too wrote:
Wed Nov 07, 2018 10:42 am
Senate ...

Republicans Pick-Ups: IN, MO, ND
Current Dem seat, Repug leading: FL, MT
Current Repug seat, Repug leading: AZ
Current Repug seat, runoff pending, will go GOP: MS

Surprise Democrat Pick-Up: NV
Likely Net Change Repug +4
New tally, probably: 45 Dem, 55 GOP. On party line votes and filibusters nothing changes.

Florida Senate - Scott vs. Nelson: Bill Nelson (D) +2.4

Still very close:
Scot (R) 50.2%
Nelson (D) 49.8%
est. 99% in
Democrat Jon Tester wins re-election in Montana Senate race

Current Dem seat, Repug leading: FL

Nelson calls for recount in Florida Senate race

Likely Net Change Repug +3
New tally, probably: 46 Dem, 54 GOP.

Not too much praise for Montana, it also reelected the reporter-assaulting convict to its sole House seat, Gianforte (R).

Subject: Ready for a feminist future?

Last night was a wave for and by women--especially women of color.

Across the country, women ran, women voted, and women WON, at all levels of government. Women flipped the House of Representatives for the Democrats. And beyond that, it was an election of historic firsts--in 2019 there will be at least a record-breaking 118 women in Congress.

Among these women are Deb Haaland of New Mexico, a member of the Laguna Pueblo Nation, and Sharice Davids of Kansas, a citizen of the Ho-Chunk Nation, who are the first ever Indigenous women to be elected to Congress; Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, who will be the first Muslim women in Congress; Ayanna Pressley and Jahanna Hayes, the first Black women to represent Massachusetts and Connecticut; and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest woman in history to be elected to Congress.

At the state level, women made history as well, among them UltraViolet PAC-endorsed Ruth Buffalo in North Dakota, Monica Duran in Colorado, Red Dawn Foster in South Dakota, Ana-Maria Ramos in Texas, and Raumesh Akbari in Tennessee.

And to top it off, six of the "Worst for Women" members of Congress--whom UltraViolet PAC and our allies at American Bridge campaigned against--lost their seats last night, leaving a clearer path for women to create change across the country. UltraViolet members played a significant role in helping to defeat Senator Dean Heller in Nevada, Representative Jason Lewis in Minnesota, Representative Pete Sessions in Texas, and Representative Steve Pearce in New Mexico.

Yes, there were disappointing losses in Texas, Florida, and other places, but make no mistake that last night, women--particularly women of color, Indigenous women, and queer people--fundamentally changed the direction of this country and how Democrats run and win. Now, we look to women to change how Democrats govern....

Last night was a step, but as long as poor women, immigrant women, trans women, incarcerated women, women of color, queer women, and disabled women's lives are at risk, the fight is far from over. We need to demand that Democrats promote and advance a new agenda that will lift up all people and create a more equitable society. We need to demand an end to the wave of harmful policies and politicians either openly hostile to women or who make compromises at the expense of women's lives.

That's why UltraViolet is excited to unveil the "Feminist Future Agenda", a roadmap for true champions for women. With the input of thousands of UltraViolet members across the country, this is the agenda UltraViolet members are prepared to fight for in 2019 and beyond:

An End to Gender-based Violence -- survivors must be supported and perpetrators held accountable.
Disability Justice -- all people deserve dignified, self-directed lives.
Economic Security -- so all people have what they need.
Health Care -- affordable and accessible, including mental health.
Healthy Environments -- clean air and water to nourish our communities. End climate change.
Immigrant Justice -- fair pathways to citizenship that keep families safe, together, and not incarcerated.
Justice in our "Justice System" -- an end to racist sentencing and for-profit prisons.
LGBTQ Equity -- a nation free of bullying and discrimination.
Racial Justice in every aspect of life. End white supremacy.
Reproductive Freedom -- non-judgmental care for all to create families--or not--as they choose.
Safe Communities -- where no one has to live in fear of gun violence.
Voting Rights must be expanded. End racist voter suppression tactics.

... After last night's results, momentum is on our side. That means we have the power right now to demand policies that ensure all people can live with dignity.

Women, who propelled Democrats to victory, will now push our leaders in Washington, and those who want to lead the party in 2020, to act as true champions. The "Feminist Future Agenda" is a roadmap for those champions.

It's what we demand, and it is what we deserve.

Thank you for always taking action.

-- Shaunna, Kat, Karin, Holly, Kathy, Susan, Anathea, Audine, Emma, Pilar, Natalie, Melody, Pam, Lindsay, Ryan, and Sonja, the UltraViolet team
Tree hugger groups are doing a victory lap, too. Also, civil liberties and justice groups, including for minimum wage increases in Arkansas and Missouri.
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3,920,686 votes cast in the GA Gov. race.

As of now, Kemp (R) has 50.3% of the vote. If he had only 49.9% of the vote, there would be a runoff.
Kemp needed to suppress 15,683 voters to win.

As of now, Abrams has 48.7% of the vote. If she had 50.1% of the vote, she would be GA Governor.
Kemp needed to suppress 54,890 voters to keep Abrams from winning.

Voters just elected six more scientists to Congress

The next Congress will include at least six newly elected scientists, including a nuclear engineer and a biochemist.
Their supporters say these new scientist-legislators, all of them Democrats, will bring a fact-based approach to public policy and impact such issues as nuclear disarmament and climate change.

"They bring a real wealth of experience that's really lacking in Congress today," said Shaughnessy Naughton, president of 314 Action, a political action committee devoted to electing more public officials with backgrounds in science and related fields. "There are more reality show people in Congress, including our president, than there are chemists and physicists."

The committee endorsed 13 candidates for Congress this year who had some kind of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) background. Six of them were voted in. (A seventh is leading in her race but CNN hasn't projected a winner yet.)

The current Congress boasts just a few scientists -- among them a physicist, a microbiologist, and a chemist, all in the House. Among the 535 voting members are also eight engineers (7 in the House; 1 in the Senate) and several lawmakers who come from the medical field, such as physicians, dentists and psychologists.

The reason behind the run

Naughton said that when it comes to political influence in Washington, scientists have typically stood in the sidelines. Not so much anymore.

"Traditionally among the scientific community the attitude has been science is above politics and shouldn't involved in politics," she said. "Clearly that is not working."

Since taking office President Donald Trump has withdrawn from the Paris climate agreement, questioned a UN report warning of the dire consequences of climate change and supported the EPA's rollback on carbon pollution standards.

Naughton accused President Trump and his administration of waging a "war on facts and truth" and said she's seen a recent surge in the number of scientists -- "political outsiders," she called them -- running for office to speak out on issues such as climate change and healthcare.

Here's a closer look at Congress' new scientists....
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NC Supreme Court Associate Justice
Seat 1
(You may vote for ONE)
Barbara Jackson, Republican
Christopher (Chris) Anglin, Republican
Anita Earls, Democrat WON!
Public Schools First NC says, "the Democrats now hold a 5-2 majority on the North Carolina's high court."
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Public Schools First NC says, "likely the Senate too." :thumbup:

Also: "Jahana Hayes, the 2016 National Teacher of the Year, has won her race for a U.S. House seat, representing Connecticut’s 5th district. Hayes will be the first black woman from the state to serve in Congress. “Yesterday marked 50 years since Shirley Chisholm was elected as the first African-American woman to go to Congress,” she said. “Today we made history. This history teacher is making history." We wish her the best!"
Voters in Betsy DeVos’s home state, Michigan, elect a governor who is a sharp critic. And it wasn’t the only bad news for the education secretary.

... And it wasn’t the only place DeVos’s agenda got smacked by voters. While Tuesday’s elections results weren’t all bad news for her, voters rejected her agenda in Wisconsin, Arizona, Illinois and other states. And the Democratic takeover of the House is bad news for her, too, with the majority now likely to intensify its oversight of her department....

DeVos was a major force in the troubled expansion of charter schools in Michigan, which has, by far, the highest percentage of schools operated by for-profit companies of any state. DeVos was born and raised in Michigan, where she was chairwoman of the state Republican Party.

... in Wisconsin, a Democratic education secretary, Tony Evers, took the governorship away from the Republican incumbent, Scott Walker, who was an education ally of DeVos’s.

In Arizona, voters overturned a law that had expanded the state’s school voucher program, though they did reelect a Republican governor who supports charters and vouchers.

In Illinois, Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner, who supported DeVos’s school choice agenda, lost his reelection bid to a Democrat.

And some educators who have been critical of DeVos won election to state and federal legislative seats. For example, in a historic win, Jahana Hayes, the 2016 National Teacher of the Year, won a seat in the House from Connecticut, the first black woman from the state to serve in Congress.

How will this affect DeVos and her tenure? Stay tuned.
Tim Walz, who won Minnesota’s gubernatorial election, is a 20-year classroom high school teacher. He has served as the U.S. representative from Minnesota’s first congressional district since 2007. Walz’s educational platform includes universal pre-K, stronger recruitment efforts for educators of color and eliminating vouchers.

https://www.educationdive.com/news/near ... on/541436/

Midterm elections in Trump era bring high engagement from racists, extremists

Alabama just elected ‘one of the most conservative governments we’ve ever had’
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Arizona Democrat takes late lead in tight Senate race

US Senate race that appeared to have been won by a Republican candidate was tilting in favor of her Democratic opponent on Thursday night, official results showed.

With almost all ballots counted from the November 6 election, Democratic Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema had pulled ahead to 932,870 votes against 923,260 for her opponent, Republican Congresswoman Martha McSally, who is famous for being America's first female fighter pilot to fly in combat.

A recount appeared possible in the neck-and-neck race that still had outstanding provisional and absentee ballots.

When she announced her US Senate candidacy, McSally took on a new mission: shifting rightward to make herself palatable to President Donald Trump, essentially squeezing out two extremists who likely would sink the party's chances if either one snatched the nomination.
Wow. Won't change things much, but would sure be demoralizing for Repugs. Anyhow, McSally is not an awful candidate, does this mean that AZ is on the verge of flipping blue for the long term?
... Florida's election appeared headed for a mandatory recount with Rick Scott, the state's term-limited governor up by just 17,344 votes, or 0.22 percent, against Democratic Senator Bill Nelson....
Probably won't flip the result, but could.

Judge refuses to limit Arizona vote count, sets hearing

No one should be surprised by Repug demands to not count citizen votes. They detest democracy and know that they can't win on the issues. So, they rely on gerrymandering, dark money, Russian help and MASSIVE voter suppression.
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Fri Nov 09, 2018 9:39 am
Arizona Democrat takes late lead in tight Senate race

US Senate race that appeared to have been won by a Republican candidate was tilting in favor of her Democratic opponent on Thursday night, official results showed.

With almost all ballots counted from the November 6 election, Democratic Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema had pulled ahead to 932,870 votes against 923,260 for her opponent, Republican Congresswoman Martha McSally, who is famous for being America's first female fighter pilot to fly in combat.

A recount appeared possible in the neck-and-neck race that still had outstanding provisional and absentee ballots.

When she announced her US Senate candidacy, McSally took on a new mission: shifting rightward to make herself palatable to President Donald Trump, essentially squeezing out two extremists who likely would sink the party's chances if either one snatched the nomination.
Wow. Won't change things much, but would sure be demoralizing for Repugs. Anyhow, McSally is not an awful candidate, does this mean that AZ is on the verge of flipping blue for the long term?
... Florida's election appeared headed for a mandatory recount with Rick Scott, the state's term-limited governor up by just 17,344 votes, or 0.22 percent, against Democratic Senator Bill Nelson....
Probably won't flip the result, but could.

Judge refuses to limit Arizona vote count, sets hearing

No one should be surprised by Repug demands to not count citizen votes. They detest democracy and know that they can't win on the issues. So, they rely on gerrymandering, dark money, Russian help and MASSIVE voter suppression.

And as in 2000, the SC to appoint senators and governors, or so trump implied this morning.
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Democrat Kyrsten Sinema wins Arizona US Senate seat

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Urging Florida To Ignore Military Votes Fits Trump's True Pattern With The Troops

Two days after skipping a visit to an American military cemetery near Paris because it was raining, President Donald Trump called for effectively disenfranchising overseas military members voting in Florida, raising further questions about the draft-evading president’s commitment to the armed services.

“The Florida Election should be called in favor of Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis in that large numbers of new ballots showed up out of nowhere, and many ballots are missing or forged,” Trump tweeted early on Monday, the observed Veterans Day holiday for the federal government. “An honest vote count is no longer possible-ballots massively infected. Must go with Election Night!”

Scott and DeSantis are the GOP’s candidates for U.S. senator and governor in Florida whose election-night margins of victory have resulted in legally mandated recounts.

But skipping those recounts would not only violate state law, it would ignore the ballots of tens of thousands of Florida-based troops deployed overseas. Those ballots are supposed to be counted if they arrive by this coming Friday.

“It’s a nice commentary from the commander-in-chief on Veterans Day,” said Will Fischer, who served in Iraq as a Marine and is now with the VoteVets group.

Less than two-and-a-half hours after Trump’s 7:44 a.m. tweet, the White House announced that Trump would remain there with no public events for the rest of the day.

“He’s not going to Arlington. He’s not even going up to Walter Reed,” Fischer said. “Once again, Donald Trump only sees the military as props. If it doesn’t benefit him, he’s not going to do it.”

Arlington National Cemetery is minutes from the White House across the Potomac River in Virginia. Walter Reed is the Army hospital a short helicopter ride away in Bethesda, Maryland, where service members wounded in combat are treated.

The White House did not respond to repeated queries about the president’s lack of a schedule on Monday. Nor did it respond to questions about Trump’s decision to cancel a visit to the American cemetery in France on Saturday and instead remain indoors tweeting, rather than go to an alternate site closer by....
To be fair, the rain makes his bone spurs act up.

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The Florida Election should be called in favor of Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis in that large numbers of new ballots showed up out of nowhere, and many ballots are missing or forged. An honest vote count is no longer possible-ballots massively infected. Must go with Election Night!
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You sound nervous.

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