U.S. Presidential race - Democrat Discussion

[belfpala]

Our state seems terrible at counting votes. Polls closed at 8:00pm and they're still not done with counting votes (at 01:00am). I want to know how the two amendments went plus Bachmann's race.

Know any good sites for tracking that?

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Bachmann won.

Fuck. /10char.

[Naxere]

Where are you seeing that? CNN has Graves up by 200ish votes with 78% reporting and the Star Trib has the same. Maybe they're just really slow at updating the site.

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Know any good sites for tracking that?

I'm just looking at CNN.com and StarTribune.com.

[obdigore]

One of my friends still in MN said he saw it on the local news. Well, he was whining about it, so I assume he thought it was official.

[stumpy]

Allen West and Joe Walsh are out.

[Grizzly Willy]

I'm betting on Rubio over Christie because A) Rubio is hispanic and the GOP really needs work there and B) He sells better. He looks nice and he speaks smoothly. Christie looks like Danny Devito's rendition of The Penguin.

I'm telling you, we need Taft Jr.!

[Wells]

Allen West and Joe Walsh are out.

Oh that's good news.

The Eagles won't be the same though.

[Mnevis]

Minnesota
6th District
81% reporting
Candidate Votes Pct.
Michele Bachmann 138,440 50.3%
Jim Graves 136,750 49.7%

[Deleted]

Republicans pretty much kept all their tea party gains in the house/senate.

[belfpala]

Republicans pretty much kept all their tea party gains in the house/senate.

If that's true, I think its to their detriment.

But... if they want to pander to the crazies...

[Elegiac]

Republicans pretty much kept all their tea party gains in the house/senate.

Yup, but they missed a lot of opportunities. The Democrats now have a solid party majority.

[obdigore]

If that's true, I think its to their detriment.

But... if they want to pander to the crazies...

I'm under the impression that most of the tea party gains were in the 2010 midterm elections and so aren't up for another couple years here...

[Grizzly Willy]

The more exposure the crazies get, the more aware of how crazy they are the public will become. Or am I being too optimistic here?

[obdigore]

The more exposure the crazies get, the more aware of how crazy they are the public will become. Or am I being too optimistic here?

Too optimistic. People are too willing to believe whatever they hear on the boob tube.

[Deleted]

Yup, but they missed a lot of opportunities. The Democrats now have a solid party majority.

"Solid party majority"?

[Elegiac]

"Solid party majority"?

51 seats without the two independents.

[Deleted]

51 seats without the two independents.

Sure, but that was the case before too wasn't it?

[belfpala]

Didactic -- it's the same as yesterday. Majority in the senate, minority in the house.

[Deleted]

Didactic -- it's the same as yesterday. Majority in the senate, minority in the house.

Dems appeared to have gained one senator, lost one governor and who knows what happens in the house.

[Elegiac]

Didactic -- it's the same as yesterday. Majority in the senate, minority in the house.

Ah, I misread the numbers. Please to forgive.

But yes, the Republicans really missed a lot of potential seat gains in the Senate.

[belfpala]

Dems appeared to have gained one senator, lost one governor and who knows what happens in the house.

All of us concede that the house remains Republican. I think.

I don't care about governors. I'm not sure how familiar you are with US politics, but a Republican governor in my state would probably be run out in tar and feathers in southern states.