2026 Elections

[GoCubsGo]

Mr. Constitution.

[O Really]

They haven't called it yet, but "Norm Eisen, the former White House ethics czar who served as counsel to House Democrats during President Donald Trump's first impeachment, told progressive commentator Brian Tyler Cohen in a Saturday episode of his YouTube show that Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) has no realistic path left to beat Democratic challenger Scott Colom. "It's a mathematical impossibility at this point for Senator Hyde-Smith," Eisen said."

[GoCubsGo]

They haven't called it yet, but "Norm Eisen, the former White House ethics czar who served as counsel to House Democrats during President Donald Trump's first impeachment, told progressive commentator Brian Tyler Cohen in a Saturday episode of his YouTube show that Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) has no realistic path left to beat Democratic challenger Scott Colom. "It's a mathematical impossibility at this point for Senator Hyde-Smith," Eisen said."

Think it's gonna be a few more days, they still have mail in ballots coming in until Nov 10 and I guess they have to investigate provisional ballots individually. Bet Colom's lead increases.

[O Really]

They haven't called it yet, but "Norm Eisen, the former White House ethics czar who served as counsel to House Democrats during President Donald Trump's first impeachment, told progressive commentator Brian Tyler Cohen in a Saturday episode of his YouTube show that Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) has no realistic path left to beat Democratic challenger Scott Colom. "It's a mathematical impossibility at this point for Senator Hyde-Smith," Eisen said."

Think it's gonna be a few more days, they still have mail in ballots coming in until Nov 10 and I guess they have to investigate provisional ballots individually. Bet Colom's lead increases.

Ironically, it seems that most of the reason for so many provisional or affidavit ballots was because the "purge" dropped off a lot of eligible voters. So yeah, those are going to be mostly Colom voters.

[GoCubsGo]

Feels too true.

[O Really]

True that. I tried it, it's fun. Take a Wiki summary of a Dem candidate and compare it to a Wiki summary of his/her opponent or the incumbent. For starters, compare Annie Andrews to Darline Lightloafer. Read what Rogers (former FBI agent) said about Abdul and then read his actual bio. All these people have to do is produce some meaningful results and they can be in office for life.

[GoCubsGo]

True that. I tried it, it's fun. Take a Wiki summary of a Dem candidate and compare it to a Wiki summary of his/her opponent or the incumbent. For starters, compare Annie Andrews to Darline Lightloafer. Read what Rogers (former FBI agent) said about Abdul and then read his actual bio. All these people have to do is produce some meaningful results and they can be in office for life.

Real life.

Just look at Boobert vs. Laubacher.



Eileen Laubacher (née Haskins; born 1968/1969)[1] is a retired two-star United States Navy rear admiral[2] who served on the National Security Council under President Joe Biden.[3] She is the Democratic nominee for Colorado's 4th congressional district in 2026, challenging Republican incumbent Lauren Boebert.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_Laubacher

[GoCubsGo]

Guess it was inevitable.

[O Really]

95,815 polling places, likely more than one machine in most of them. Machines not connected to the internet, managed by 25,000 local election officials, and watched by thousands others. Hacking into a voting machine has been shown to be difficult - impossible without leaving evidence of tampering, and it would have to be done one machine at a time. Machines are stored securely before being set up for use, and protected while at the polling place. It's difficult to even fantasize how such a thing could be done without literal magic, much less set forth a plausible theory.

Unless you're the dumbest idiot in the village.

[GoCubsGo]

There you go, being all rational again.

[Vrede too]

True that. I tried it, it's fun. Take a Wiki summary of a Dem candidate and compare it to a Wiki summary of his/her opponent or the incumbent. For starters, compare Annie Andrews to Darline Lightloafer. Read what Rogers (former FBI agent) said about Abdul and then read his actual bio. All these people have to do is produce some meaningful results and they can be in office for life.

Annie is better, but I don't hold Darline's life and work experience against her. She was essentially a "community organizer" like Obama and her work involved lots of contact with government. Pediatricians are great, but that's not a lot of relevant experience, either, except that work with children will set her up for work with the GQP .

[O Really]

Usually I'm big on specific applicable experience, but a lot of the problems with repug candidates and office holders have been character issues. Darline's probably a nice person and not a slimeball, but she was willing to take a senate seat with the understanding she was owned free and clear by Tru*p.

[Vrede too]

Usually I'm big on specific applicable experience, but a lot of the problems with repug candidates and office holders have been character issues. Darline's probably a nice person and not a slimeball, but she was willing to take a senate seat with the understanding she was owned free and clear by Tru*p.

Agreed ETTD

[GoCubsGo]

Cnn has called it.

Bye bye Boobert, you're still so dumb.


Hoping Virginia Foxx is next.

[O Really]

As Coroner, I must aver I thoroughly examined her. And she's not only merely dead, she's really most sincerely dead.

[GoCubsGo]

Awwww, adorable!

[O Really]

Ya suppose his "cybersecurity team" knows about this:

It’s the popular theory that voting machines are hacked when an election doesn’t turn out the way one would like. But in order for a machine to be hacked, it has to be connected to the internet. At no time are Macoupin County machines connected to the internet. Here’s the process:

You vote on the touchscreen and print out your paper ballot. This machine is never connected to the internet.
You insert your paper ballot into the tabulator to be counted. The tabulator is never connected to the internet.
After the polls close, election judges return the tabulator and paper ballots to the Courthouse. We take the flash drive from the tabulator and insert it into a laptop. This laptop has never been and will never be connected to the internet.
Once the results are uploaded to the laptop, we take a completely different flash drive and copy over a set of results to upload to the public website on a totally different computer. This would be the only step that potentially could be hacked. But let’s say that it was, the results website would show the wrong results. But the official results on the laptop would not have changed. The paper ballots would not have changed. Sure it wouldn’t be great that our results website was showing the wrong numbers, but the actual results and count itself would not be changed whatsoever.
After Election Day, the state randomly sends us 5 precincts as well as one of the early and mail vote tabulators to retabulate or audit. We have to rerun every ballot through the same tabulator and get the exact same number of ballots cast and votes counted for each candidate. If they do not match up, we have to investigate to find the discrepancy.

[Vrede too]

Correct thread . . . but it could become 2028 Elections.

Meet Scott Colom's family, including his wife and 2 daughters

A Black frosh Senator with 2 daughters, hmmm.

[Vrede too]

The last Dem senator from Mississippi was John C. Stennis.

... Along with fellow Mississippi senator James Eastland, Stennis was a zealous supporter of racial segregation. He and Eastland supported the Dixiecrat ticket in 1948 headed by Strom Thurmond, and signed the Southern Manifesto, which called for massive resistance to the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. He also voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Civil Rights Act of 1968.

He renounced support for segregation in the early 1980s and supported the extension of the Voting Rights Act in 1982, but he voted against the establishment of Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a national holiday, instead favoring a "commemorative day" because, he claimed, he opposed additional federal holidays.

How's that for a flip? MS Dems are now redeemed.

Colom is the first Black to be elected to statewide office in ANY MS race since Reconstruction.

[GoCubsGo]

Awww, I'm gonna miss these jokes. Although they do write themselves.