Here to make everything all better:
Somewhere there’s a Dick Bigger Sr.
Soon to be the “porn production capitol of the US.”
At least she told the truth.
I voted this morning here in Missouri. I hate these Midterm elections because I’m so unprepared. I’d heard about the ballot questions that made the news, and the top line candidates that have Rep and Dem next to their names. But there were so many offices where the two candidates had no party affiliation next to their names. And then a whole bunch of judges. I just voted yes to keep all the judges, and on all those offices with no party affiliation, I wasn’t sure what to do, so I just voted for the people whose names I had seen on lawn signs. Shrug? Good on them for advertising more, I guess?
I’m glad Nevada does the vote by mail thing now. Much easier to get the ballot and do all the research while filling it out than trying to prepare ahead of time.
It’s OK to leave those blank if you’re not sure.
Sometimes its cool to leave it blank or vote for the incumbent. We’ve got a sci-fi writer up here who also does some indispensable blogging about local elections and has for years. While most of her articles wouldn’t help you out directly, these two are pretty universal (at least, in your case, for future elections):
The TL;DR is that usually it’s just fine to go with the incumbent for judicial races. And you probably would have heard if someone was running for a judgeship that manifestly should not have one.
I did the thing, but one thing that irks the shit out of me is how many “elected” positions you vote for with people unopposed in this state. It’s mostly weird positions that no one even knows what they do, but “choose 4/5” and there are 4 or 5 names annoys me. Not as annoying as positions that are political (as in have a party ID) that are unopposed.
I know County Clerk or Court (I forget the actual jobs, but you get the idea) or whatever isn’t exciting, Democrats, but when I see 3 offices with “REP” and a write in, I feel like you’re not taking things seriously.
I can never understand why all these minor positions are elected and not just regular government jobs in the USA.
I assume there is some historical nepotism/corruption issue that was solved by legislation, but then resulted in a bunch of elected positions that are never opposed because of new types of nepotism and corruption.
Also:
https://twitter.com/PoliticsVerse/status/1590052499448541184
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/08/justice-department-monitors-florida-desantis/
We may see some Dem pickups in Governor’s mansions tonight. MD looks to be one.
Kentucky may follow Kansas’ lead in rejecting the abortion ban.
Wow.
Seems that gubernatorial assassination plots and declaring elections wont matter is the line in Michigan.
That, but also this:
Put abortion rights on the ballot.
MAGA, Trump-endorsed candidates had a terrible election night. Some were longshots, to be sure.
But there are going to be some fun strategy meetings about 2024 if Trump announces in the next few weeks or months.
Maybe this is when the GOP ditches Trump, especially given how DeSantis absolutely destroyed in Florida, despite having negative support from Trump.
HA HA, just kidding guys.