Virginia Governor's Race and US Election 2017 - America Fights Back?

Amazing quote. I just love people.

Prior to the election, +4-6 seats would have been considered a good night. +10, evidence that the House is in play nationally.
Ended up +16.
Turnout, it’s a wonderful thing.

That guy has taken it on the chin tonight from actual ballot counters. There are still recounts pending in three races, and the Democrats trail in all three. They’re expected to probably win one of those, which would make it 50-50, but it isn’t a for sure thing.

Oh. ;(
Thanks for the update.

Losing a 14+ point lead isn’t any less devastating.

“Hanging Chad”-style lawsuits ahead:

The Republicans have gone from a commanding 66-34 majority in the House to an apparent 51-49 lead, with GOP candidates clinging to extraordinarily slim leads in three districts.

In one of the hard-fought House districts, the 28th, in the Fredericksburg area about 50 miles south of Washington, Republican Bob Thomas leads Democrat Joshua Cole by just 82 votes. But the state elections commission recently found 147 voters in the district and neighboring ones cast their ballots in the wrong district.

Exactly why they were assigned to the wrong districts is unclear, as the registrar responsible died in April.

Holy shit.

Simonds is the Democrat.

Yancey is the Republican incumbent.

Holy shit.

That’s it. Everything’s counted except absentees.

Regardless of who wins…youneverknow when your vote will matter.

The party controlling the Virginia state assembly may have changed due to a single vote in a single precinct.

holy effing shit

There’s no way this doesn’t become a huge court thing, right?

It already is. The district won by a Republican by under 20 votes is in court because some voters got the wrong ballots.

I’m pretty sure a single vote would by definition have to be in a single precinct :)

Ha! True enough.

So if Yancey loses then it’s a 50-50 split?

Correct. With the outstanding court case pending in the other district.