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Tuesday, November 5th Election Results: Virginia, Kentucky and Mississippi
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They sent McGrath to die so she wouldn't muck up a competitive race, but what if it's ShyamalanTwist.gif and the Senate race was actually the competitive race?!
Republicans on suicide watch
This guy has 3 pairs of glasses
Dave Wasserman @Redistrict
No other way to say it: turnout in Mississippi looks really pathetic.
10:50 PM - Nov 5, 2019
No other way to say it: turnout in Mississippi looks really pathetic.
10:50 PM - Nov 5, 2019
The suburbs snapping back so hard to the Dems over the last few years is a hugely positive sign for 2020.
Thanks for the reassurances and good vibes everyone, I'll need them as Bevin drags this out.
For those curious about KY, the easiest way to understand our politics is that we always run terrible candidates nearly across the board, so people tend to vote on party lines, and very specifically the typical single voter issues of guns and abortion swing people towards the Republican party. It's a sad state of affairs, but Democrats have very traditionally put up fairly poor candidates for most positions to begin with, individuals who just don't resonate with the voters as people and thus fail to overcome any party lines they otherwise might through likability. If Beshear indeed takes this election as he should based upon tonight's results, he'll have succeeded specifically because he campaigned on that sort of platform of reaching out to Kentuckians and as a likable alternative to the famously unpopular and unlikable Matt Bevin.
Which is why I do have a small amount of hope for Amy McGrath. It's still a long shot to get Mitch removed, but she's one of the better candidates I've seen in a while. If sports broadcaster Matt Jones runs, he might be better positioned to take on McConnel actually given he's a well liked presence in the state. Again, it's a long shot, but a senate seat in KY might indeed be in play in 2020.
For those curious about KY, the easiest way to understand our politics is that we always run terrible candidates nearly across the board, so people tend to vote on party lines, and very specifically the typical single voter issues of guns and abortion swing people towards the Republican party. It's a sad state of affairs, but Democrats have very traditionally put up fairly poor candidates for most positions to begin with, individuals who just don't resonate with the voters as people and thus fail to overcome any party lines they otherwise might through likability. If Beshear indeed takes this election as he should based upon tonight's results, he'll have succeeded specifically because he campaigned on that sort of platform of reaching out to Kentuckians and as a likable alternative to the famously unpopular and unlikable Matt Bevin.
Which is why I do have a small amount of hope for Amy McGrath. It's still a long shot to get Mitch removed, but she's one of the better candidates I've seen in a while. If sports broadcaster Matt Jones runs, he might be better positioned to take on McConnel actually given he's a well liked presence in the state. Again, it's a long shot, but a senate seat in KY might indeed be in play in 2020.
It's simple: People are fed up with Trump & the GOP's bullshit.
Nervous about ballot initiatives here in Washington. Turn out potentially worse than normal in King county (Seattle), Dems
Make strong margins here, but struggle in most of the state.
Make strong margins here, but struggle in most of the state.
Check out Mike Broihier. He's my favorite Senate primary candidate of them all.
McGrath has a clear tactic, and its "laser focus on Mitch and dont criticize Trump because otherwise I might be killed" which...is certainly...an strategy.
Only time will tell if she"ll make it work but, to be honest, she"s walking a fine line between pissing off conversatives and making sure she has her base motivated.
I thought people were mostly attracted to the motion controls and easy to understand touch screen gimmicks
Looks like the amazon democrats have early leads in Seattle City council races.
King Countyis defeating the car tab initiative, but the state is starting to catch up
King Countyis defeating the car tab initiative, but the state is starting to catch up
Car tab initiative is going to win. King county voters voting no at 56% clip. It's down 8 percent
Affirmative Action is getting repealed if the no votes hold onto .5% lead
Affirmative Action is getting repealed if the no votes hold onto .5% lead
It's still the worst suburban Philly county but yay for Delco.
LMAO Trump team got McConnel to stroke Trump's fragile ass ego.
"If the Republicans sweep these 3 red-state gubernatorial races ... I think you're going to have nothing but impeachment to thank,"
@chucktodd
says on #MTPDaily.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump#ElectionNight Won 5 out of 6 elections in Kentucky, including 5 great candidates that I spoke for and introduced last night. @MattBevin picked up at least 15 points in last days, but perhaps not enough (Fake News will blame Trump!). Winning in Mississippi Governor race!
11:37 PM - Nov 5, 2019
Nah, not really. Even if a historic blue wave carried McGrath and she outfounded McConnell by double the money and she ran a perfect campaign, the race would still be Lean R.
Its possible but Beto"s race against Ted was more likely to be a pickup and it ultimately wasnt.
How the black community didn't abandon that state entirely long ago is beyond me. The Great Migration sort of achieved it but the state is still 35% black.
It's not as easy as people think to move when you are in poverty.
I dunno, there's definitely positives out of tonight (Virginia going all blue), but I wouldn't be getting too ahead of ourselves.
Bevin was incredibly disliked in Kentucky for his idiotic attack on teachers, and he never quite recovered from it. I think the election is more of a reflection of Bevin as an awful candidate than Democrats claiming a huge scalp.
In every other race in Kentucky, Republicans won easily, and we've seen how Mississippi went. I wouldn't be reading too much into this as a rejection of Trump. Bevin losing is an anomaly, in my opinion, not the continuation of a trend.
Bevin was incredibly disliked in Kentucky for his idiotic attack on teachers, and he never quite recovered from it. I think the election is more of a reflection of Bevin as an awful candidate than Democrats claiming a huge scalp.
In every other race in Kentucky, Republicans won easily, and we've seen how Mississippi went. I wouldn't be reading too much into this as a rejection of Trump. Bevin losing is an anomaly, in my opinion, not the continuation of a trend.
Yup. I told my wife it feels like Washington is socially liberal, but fiscally conservative. Vote yes on pot and gay marriage, vote no on new taxes.
If King county does not come out in huge support of a initiative, they will never pass. Hell, the car tabs only got 56% no in king, it needed to be at 65-66% to have a shot.
If King county does not come out in huge support of a initiative, they will never pass. Hell, the car tabs only got 56% no in king, it needed to be at 65-66% to have a shot.
Holy shit. He really thinks that he got Bevin 15 points in the last week L O L
Bevin losing tonight is great for the state, but Amy "I probably would've voted for Kavanaugh" McGrath is still going to get destroyed by McConnell.
Bevin wound up uniquely unpopular because he, as a state politician, got actual blame for issues like fucking over teachers that congresspeople usually get away with by doing more indirectly. Bevin also got none of the credit for things like anti-choice judges that make R senators popular with their base. Then, Bevin also injected himself into every second of everything like a wannabe Trump and acted like a crass asshole that it was impossible for his potential voters to ignore. He layered a bonus Trumpian effect atop the normal trump effect and made tons of people who otherwise voted straight R vote for beshear.
McConnell will get more credit for appointing religious extremists to lifetime judgeships, less blame for ruining the lives of his constituents, and will not constantly be on the news making incredibly dumb unforced errors that annoy the fuck out of people. He's probably still safe unless our candidate turns out to be an absolute campaign beast and the economy completely dies in 6 months.