I did just see really big jumps in both the Colorado 3rd (Boebert) and Colorado 8th returns (new district) - so things might be ok! Exciting!
orald
2074
AP is reporting with 95% of ballots counted Frisch lead Bimbo by 2,201 votes out of a total 301,011 ballots cast. Tight as the bark on a tree as we say in Maine. Colorado mandates a recount when a margin of victory in an election is less than or equal to 0.5% of the winner’s vote. So that will be a spectacle.
As someone who has lived in NJ, this is how it should be.
Will we see another “Brooks Brothers Riot”? No doubt there will be much FUD about “illegals” voting and such.
My favorite description that I just heard is “Fetterman is like if a labor union was a person”.
I guess Girth Wind and Liar never learned about midterms vs. Presidential election years.
I saw that, too! It’s perfect.
Seems like Republicans spent a little too much time this cycle smelling their own farts.
Hehe. Chris Hayes described it as them getting “high on their own supply” but I like your take better.
Meanwhile, my Schadenfreude is tempered by the fact that at least the House is likely to go GOP.
In that connection, what happens in Alaska now? Ranked Choice Voting is the law there, so does the Dem have a chance?
Maybe a “Carhartt Commotion?”
Colorado has extremely well run elections - so I am not too concerned about it being a spectacle, nor about it changing more then a handful of votes
dtolman
2086
The Democratic candidate has only 10% of the vote. They will be eliminated from the race, and their votes distributed based off the ranking. Most likely they will go to Murkowski, and she’ll end up the winner.
That’s the Senate answer, but there is a House race in the same boat.
Matt_W
2088
RCV makes the dominant major party more likely to win.
dtolman
2089
Same thing in that race - apparently there is a lot of antipathy towards Palin, so if she ends up #2 its quite possible that many of those R votes will go to no one… throwing the race to the D.
Also - its quite interesting how the Alaskan Republican Party shits all over Murkowski, and she keeps winning anyway. Senate Leadership Rs are quite aware that the Alaskan Republican party is useless, so always support her to make sure she’s happy and continues to caucus with them… because she does not need them.
In a 51/49 republican senate she will serve the same role as Manchin - a wild card that you have to cater to in order to get anything done.
It didn’t seem to in the special election for Don Young’s seat, though (the Dem won), which is why I asked (about that House race, sorry for not clarifying).
So apparently Arizona won’t be finished counting until Thursday?
Oh praise Jebus, I don’t have to look at Tiffany Smiley campaign ads anymore. At least for a little while.
