Did he forget to type “as part of a Clinton Foundation/Soros funded global warming hoax”, or is that deliberately left as subtext?
Keep an eye on the GA-07.
They’re starting to count court-ordered accepted provisionals. Republican incumbent lead cut to 500 votes now. Unclear how many more ballots remain, could be as few as 480, could be hundreds more per Nate Cohn. Ballots are from a deep blue area, and breaking 70-80% towards the Democratic challenger.
KevinC
1753
Damn, Bill Mitchell needs to study himself some Tropic Thunder.
Matt_W
1754
He’s trolling. Every time someone re-posts one of his tweets, he cackles and kicks another dog into the sun.
What happens when most of your peers think you’re an asshole. Nice job, Jimmy.
Beto had quite an effect on TX.
Also, why in the fuck are judges partisan races, exactly?
The Democrats’ blue wave didn’t quite capture the great state of Texas, where Beto O’Rourke lost a close race to Ted Cruz and Greg Abbott cruised easily to a second term as governor. But further down the ballot, especially in the big cities, blue was the only color.
Nowhere was that more true than in Houston, where a combination of Beto-fever and Texas’s straight-ticket-voting option meant that every single Republican judge on the Harris County bench lost their seats to Democrats — 59 new judges, all told, including more than a dozen black women, and at least one democratic socialist…
I’d argue that local judges can have the most immediate political impact in their districts.
It leaves you pretty vulnerable to party-line voting, though. Apparently there were some pretty good judges swept out of office. Oh well.
What is the (D) house seat count now?
EDIT: I’m glad I’m not the only one who is too lazy to Google.
KevinC
1761
How many pickups does that make for the Dems now?
EDIT: Er, what BiggerBoat said.
538 still has it projected at D+38.
Democrats are currently +30 gained, with 10 seats undecided, according to that article. This NJ win should make the current count +31 with 9 seats undecided.
Right now the Democrats are on pace for 38 pickups.
It’s been a lot of fun though…every day there’s another little piece of good news. We should just keep going until Democrats hold every seat!
Menzo
1767
So in other words: a huge win for Republicans as the Democratic “blue wave” failed to come to fruition, right?
Dems at 38-39 pickups likely.
Democrats would need to have McAdams hold in the UT-04, and win the Maine ranked-vote ballot and have Gil Cisneros overtake Young Kim in Orange County to get to 39 flips.
Only chance for 40-seat pickup for Democrats is if all of the above happens, plus Bourdeaux wins the GA-07 on provisional ballots and survives a recount.
Most sites had been counting Andy Kim as a very likely pickup already. Today I believe was just NJ certifying the final vote totals.
I’m OK with local judge races having party affiliations. But then you also get weird stuff like Ohio Supreme Court justice races.
Almost all the state-wide offices in Ohio went R. The Supreme Court contenders have party affiliations (even primaries, if I recall correctly), but the affiliation does not appear on the ballot. Yet the Democrats picked up two justice seats because they were better at…
It didn’t hurt that both candidates had appealing names.
Irish and Scottish surnames, tend to be successful at the ballot box, said Dan Tokaji, an Ohio election law professor at Ohio State University. In the last eight years, Ohio voters have chosen justices named Kennedy, O’Neill, O’Donnell, O’Connor and, on Tuesday, Donnelly and Stewart.
LockerK
1770
It probably also helped that I got 3 or 4 mailers in the weeks leading up to the election with a list of “Democrat approved” judges. I believe all of the judges on that list won.
Still, the Ohio results make it hard for me to be as enthusiastic as most of the people here.
