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The Mid-Terms Results Thread [W:517]

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for posting the results and calls as they come in throughout the day/night.
 
Re: The Mid-Terms Results Thread

So far, the result of there being a mid term election are as follows:

Two teams fans have entered the stadium, and are sitting on opposite sides. Cheerleaders are waving pom poms, dancing, shouting, making human pyramids, and in general creating excitement. There is a guy in a donkey suit doing handstands on one side, while another in an elephant suit is running about and waving his arms. The fans on both sides are chanting and shouting. Vendors are selling $8 hot dogs, $10 cups of semi flat beer, and $30 made in China T shirts with the tea... I mean party logos on them. Tailgaters are in the parking lot picnicking on tri tip and more beer.

It's an exciting time! Let's post the scores as they come in!
 
Re: The Mid-Terms Results Thread

So far, the result of there being a mid term election are as follows:

Two teams fans have entered the stadium, and are sitting on opposite sides. Cheerleaders are waving pom poms, dancing, shouting, making human pyramids, and in general creating excitement. There is a guy in a donkey suit doing handstands on one side, while another in an elephant suit is running about and waving his arms. The fans on both sides are chanting and shouting. Vendors are selling $8 hot dogs, $10 cups of semi flat beer, and $30 made in China T shirts with the tea... I mean party logos on them. Tailgaters are in the parking lot picnicking on tri tip and more beer.

It's an exciting time! Let's post the scores as they come in!
MMC's posts seem the most consistently guilty of applying lowbrow sports commentary analysis to what should be a societal reflection on our shared future.

I can only imagine it difficult for him to post while wearing an oversized novelty foam finger.
 
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Both parties are worse then useless, IMO...so either way America loses.

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Both parties are worse then useless, IMO...so either way America loses.

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it is insanely stupid how the voters in this country (as a collective) vote. They get made at the dems, so they vote for repubs. Then they get mad at the repubs and vote for the dems. Remembering that they don't actually like dems they again vote for the repubs they dont like. It blows my mind that people continue to vote for groups of people who's collective approval ratings are constantly poor.
 
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it is insanely stupid how the voters in this country (as a collective) vote. They get made at the dems, so they vote for repubs. Then they get mad at the repubs and vote for the dems. Remembering that they don't actually like dems they again vote for the repubs they dont like. It blows my mind that people continue to vote for groups of people who's collective approval ratings are constantly poor.

I agree 100%.

And what is worse, IMO, is when these same people - who know they are voting for rotten politicians - justify it with that old 'it is your duty to vote' nonsense...like voting for someone horrible is better then not voting at all.

To me, you are doing a disservice to your country if you knowingly vote for a person who you believe will make a poor politician JUST BECAUSE they are running for the political party you like.
 
Re: The Mid-Terms Results Thread

So far, the result of there being a mid term election are as follows:

Two teams fans have entered the stadium, and are sitting on opposite sides. Cheerleaders are waving pom poms, dancing, shouting, making human pyramids, and in general creating excitement. There is a guy in a donkey suit doing handstands on one side, while another in an elephant suit is running about and waving his arms. The fans on both sides are chanting and shouting. Vendors are selling $8 hot dogs, $10 cups of semi flat beer, and $30 made in China T shirts with the tea... I mean party logos on them. Tailgaters are in the parking lot picnicking on tri tip and more beer.

It's an exciting time! Let's post the scores as they come in!

Also, there is a guy in the parking lot wearing a porcupine suit who was not invited to the game, not allowed to buy a ticket and no one will cover him. Also some random other guys in outfits who were not invited.
 
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I don't know whether to watch election results tonight, or the car shows on Discovery.

Decisions, decisions...
 
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I agree 100%.

And what is worse, IMO, is when these same people - who know they are voting for rotten politicians - justify it with that old 'it is your duty to vote' nonsense...like voting for someone horrible is better then not voting at all.

To me, you are doing a disservice to your country if you knowingly vote for a person who you believe will make a poor politician JUST BECAUSE they are running for the political party you like.

I doubt that most people actually like their own political parties. They like what that party is supposed to represent, and whatever party they "like" has them terrified of what the other party will do if they dont vote, or vote any different than their party.
 
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I doubt that most people actually like their own political parties. They like what that party is supposed to represent, and whatever party they "like" has them terrified of what the other party will do if they dont vote, or vote any different than their party.
I think if people were honest about it, they vote for who they dislike or distrust the least.
 
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To me, you are doing a disservice to your country if you knowingly vote for a person who you believe will make a poor politician JUST BECAUSE they are running for the political party you like.

The unfortunate reality is that there are no politicians running at all, in any race, that will make good representatives of the people. None. Ever. Our system is inherently corrupt and the only people who actually run for office are people who have no damn business being in office and it doesn't matter what party they come from or what philosophy they espouse, none of them are worth voting for, at all.
 
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Only 2 issues on the ballot. And I'm not expecting good news.

The gun control issue (expanded background checks) was backed by Bill Gates and friends/family. They've had TV ads for months, total tearjerkers. The opposition? Saw 1, period. The pockets are way too deep.

The other is school class size. Ever since the people here voted to pay for not one but two new pro sports stadiums....tore down an old one and built 2 right across the street from each other... I refuse to vote to spend a dime on schools, so I voted against that funding.
 
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The unfortunate reality is that there are no politicians running at all, in any race, that will make good representatives of the people. None. Ever. Our system is inherently corrupt and the only people who actually run for office are people who have no damn business being in office and it doesn't matter what party they come from or what philosophy they espouse, none of them are worth voting for, at all.

But some of them are worth voting against.
 
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My feelings on Dems holding the Senate are mixed.
Losing the Senate is the only way I see to get rid of Reid--besides him losing in 2016 to Governor Sandoval.
Reid is the real albatross in this election.
Yet no such equal quarter on Boehner/McConnell .
 
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Live from McConnell's election headquarters:

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(Stolen from Twitter)
 
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all expected--nothing to brag about--spent far too much money in Kentucky and couldn't help others-

with NC, NH, VA or a clean GA, DEMs hold serve in the Eastern time zone Senate-

gubernatorial races will be the DEMs big winner tonight-

16 states closing -
 
Re: The Mid-Terms Results Thread

The unfortunate reality is that there are no politicians running at all, in any race, that will make good representatives of the people. None. Ever. Our system is inherently corrupt and the only people who actually run for office are people who have no damn business being in office and it doesn't matter what party they come from or what philosophy they espouse, none of them are worth voting for, at all.

Yep, who we end up for is not someone to represent the people or the state. We are voting for what party they will represent in Washington, not us.
 
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Mitch McConnell won with 55%.
 
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Mitch McConnell won with 55%.

You sometimes wonder who actually likes these guys. If Reid also gets re-elected in 2016, I might give up on the whole voting thing entirely.
 
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Trivial remark--No keen pol expected Kasich to have a close race.
Helps when you take Medicaid Expansion at the beginning to blunt the effect with poor folks.

Most casual pols are just catching on to Kasich as a National 2016 figure--not understanding the significance of the "Adelson" summit .

 
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all expected--nothing to brag about--spent far too much money in Kentucky and couldn't help others-

with NC, NH, VA or a clean GA, DEMs hold serve in the Eastern time zone Senate-

gubernatorial races will be the DEMs big winner tonight-

16 states closing -

Whistling past the graveyard.
 
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You'll have to wait until 2016.
If newly elected Gov. Sandoval tonight runs against Reid, it will be a GOP landslide .
You sometimes wonder who actually likes these guys. If Reid also gets re-elected, I might give up on the whole voting thing entirely.
 
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Only 2 issues on the ballot. And I'm not expecting good news.

The gun control issue (expanded background checks) was backed by Bill Gates and friends/family. They've had TV ads for months, total tearjerkers. The opposition? Saw 1, period. The pockets are way too deep.

The other is school class size. Ever since the people here voted to pay for not one but two new pro sports stadiums....tore down an old one and built 2 right across the street from each other... I refuse to vote to spend a dime on schools, so I voted against that funding.
We'll see king and pierce county have record low turnout, I'm not going to be Baghdad bob on 594, but it may be closer then polls let on

Maybe if we renamed our school system "the mariners" we'd actually be willing to pay for it, the democrats literally forced my new state senator tim Sheldon out of the party because he didn't want to use tax money to fund stadiums
 
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