All purpose news and politics thread part VI: This Is Not The Time For Posing

[scourge]

Dont forget the Gerrymandered maps the Ohio Supreme Court rejected but were used anyway. Im sure that played a role.

Edit - The maps they rejected 3 times.

Didn't something similar happen down in Florida too?

[babyblob]

Didn't something similar happen down in Florida too?

Im not sure about that. But Wouldnt shock me. I know that DeSantis banned DOJ Election monitors from 3 counties. So that was a bit odd.

[AnakinFlair]

It's being reported by NBC News that Arizona has been called for Katie Hobbs. Maricopa County got their votes tallied, and it put her over the edge.

EDIT:
Democrat Katie Hobbs defeats MAGA favorite Kari Lake in high-stakes race for governor in Arizona

[BeastieRunner]

It's being reported by NBC News that Arizona has been called for Katie Hobbs. Maricopa County got their votes tallied, and it put her over the edge.

EDIT:
Democrat Katie Hobbs defeats MAGA favorite Kari Lake in high-stakes race for governor in Arizona

Her war room is a giant flaming pile of shit right now.

Lake's people are nuts.

[Wildling]

Arizona authorities better put out a call to not sell flammable materials to Kari Lake.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

It's being reported by NBC News that Arizona has been called for Katie Hobbs. Maricopa County got their votes tallied, and it put her over the edge.

EDIT:
Democrat Katie Hobbs defeats MAGA favorite Kari Lake in high-stakes race for governor in Arizona

Good to hear.

[Username taken]

It's being reported by NBC News that Arizona has been called for Katie Hobbs. Maricopa County got their votes tallied, and it put her over the edge.

EDIT:
Democrat Katie Hobbs defeats MAGA favorite Kari Lake in high-stakes race for governor in Arizona

Brilliant.

MAGA continues to fall.

[worstblogever]

My governor will not be a crazy person or white nationalist piece of garbage for the first time in 14 years.

Saints be praised.

[Mister Mets]

It's being reported by NBC News that Arizona has been called for Katie Hobbs. Maricopa County got their votes tallied, and it put her over the edge.

EDIT:
Democrat Katie Hobbs defeats MAGA favorite Kari Lake in high-stakes race for governor in Arizona

Excellent news. Hobbs seems like a generic Democratic politician. She might not be the best campaigner, although perhaps letting Lake hog the spotlight and go nuts was a wise strategy. But Hobbs seems to have a basic level of competence, whereas Lake was either a shameless liar on a level that we only see with Trump and some others who flame out quickly, or a nutjob. Neither is acceptable for a Governor.

Incidentally, I'm consistent in thinking that it's okay for a secretary of state to run for statewide office whether it was Max Cleland in 1996, Brian Kemp in 2018 or Katie Hobbs now.

[Kirby101]

It's hard to tell with an obvious sociopath like Lake.

[useridgoeshere]

Yes the GOP will take the House but I am not too worried about 2024.

Look at all the crazy crap they said they were going to do if they controlled the House.

Committees into Hunter Biden, The FBI, Dr Fauci, Impeach Biden

Do they really think these actions will lead to long term wins for them? Do they really think after seeing this for two years and having people like Greene on committees will make the public say

"Yea we need more of that!!"

The crazies will love it but as we have seen in this mid term the crazies do not have the power they once did.

The Senate is the 2024 concern. Tough to see any Democrats flipping a seat and quite a few opportunities for Republicans.

[Tami]

My governor will not be a crazy person or white nationalist piece of garbage for the first time in 14 years.

Saints be praised.

There is one last significant race still to be called in AZ, I think.

[Mister Mets]

Aaron Blake at the Washington Post looks at just how badly election deniers lost in key swing states.

Let’s run through some of the stats:

• The Washington Post’s tracker lists 46 competitive races featuring an election denier. The deniers have lost 31 of those races and won just seven, with eight races outstanding.
• Only two of those seven wins came in an electorate that voted for President Biden in 2020, and neither came in a district that was bluer than the country as a whole. That reinforces that the election-denier creed was a stone-cold loser in swing areas.
• The only election deniers to win governor’s races so far were incumbents. Election deniers appear to have lost all 12 races in which they were either challengers or running for an open seat, including in Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and potentially Arizona. If you include primaries in Georgia, Idaho and Nebraska, non-incumbent election deniers look like they will have gone 0 for 15. (Some have listed Nevada Gov.-elect Joe Lombardo as an election denier, but he was relatively noncommittal compared with others.)
• The most prominent election deniers running for secretary of state were nearly swept on Tuesday, and they lost in every swing state. They lost in Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota and Nevada (after also losing in Georgia in the primaries).
• The picture wasn’t much better for election deniers outside swing states. The America First Secretary of State Coalition, the most prominent group supporting election deniers to oversee state elections, lists 17 endorsements on its website. If Lake loses (the group also endorsed a couple of gubernatorial candidates), then 16 will have lost in the 2022 election cycle.
• Perhaps the most prominent election deniers in competitive Senate races were Arizona’s Blake Masters (who released an ad saying Donald Trump won the 2020 election), Nevada’s Adam Laxalt (who spearheaded Trump’s 2020 election challenges in his state) and New Hampshire’s Don Bolduc (who said the election was stolen before reversing course after the primary). Each not only lost, but also underperformed the other Republicans on the ticket. Republicans won the governor’s races in both Nevada and New Hampshire, for example. And in Arizona, Masters’s current 6.3-point deficit is six points worse than Trump’s performance in 2020 and worse than every other statewide Republican.
• Both Arizona and Michigan featured hard-line election deniers running for every statewide office. They either have already lost, or currently trail, in all seven statewide races in those states. (The one with the best shot to win: Arizona attorney general candidate Abraham Hamadeh, who currently trails by 0.4 percent.)
• The only two gubernatorial seats to go from red to blue so far came by virtue of hard-line election deniers: Geoff Diehl in Massachusetts and Dan Cox in Maryland. (Lake could soon be No. 3.) The fact that Republicans would lose these states isn’t altogether surprising. But in the primaries, these candidates effectively pushed aside a popular governor (in Massachusetts, Diehl’s candidacy made the race much less viable for Charlie Baker) and a popular governor’s preferred successor (defeating Kelly Schulz in Maryland, whom Larry Hogan endorsed). That handed these seats to Democrats on a platter.
• Some of the biggest underperformances in the House also came thanks to Trump-backed election deniers. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) leads narrowly in a district Trump carried by more than eight points in 2020. John Gibbs lost by 13 points in a Michigan district Trump lost by eight. Joe Kent lost by two points in a Washington district Trump carried by four. And perhaps the biggest loser, Ohio’s J.R. Majewski, trailed by 14 in a district Trump carried by three — a gap of 17 points. (These numbers may change slightly.)

They got their asses kicked. And Lake now joins them.

[Mister Mets]

There is one last significant race still to be called in AZ, I think.

Two congressional races were just called for Republicans in Arizona's first and sixth districts.

https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status...44162896334852

[babyblob]

It's being reported by NBC News that Arizona has been called for Katie Hobbs. Maricopa County got their votes tallied, and it put her over the edge.

EDIT:
Democrat Katie Hobbs defeats MAGA favorite Kari Lake in high-stakes race for governor in Arizona

She was talking Fraud before they called it. She is going to go all in on that now.