Republicans: Get Up, Get Out and Vote!

Flopping Aces ^ | 11-05-22 | Larry Brandes

[campaignPete R-CT]

I have my pen ready for 2 write-in votes

You must have experience with that

[Impy]

I think it was 2003, I wrote in “Dick Nixon” for City Clerk or something, my mom was a poll worker, I told her “that was you!!! (mad emoji)”. LOL.

I noticed there was a write in slot on my dad’s mail ballot for County Board (GOP candidate was DQed), not finding a city write in candidate list on the website I emailed the board and the City and County GOP (who didn’t reply but put me on a list) before finally getting the board’s PR guy to email me back and.....there was no write in candidate.

[Impy]

My mom just tried to early vote last minute, there was a huge line. There was no line when I went the afternoon of day 1.

[campaignPete R-CT]

I have a write-in slot for every office ... not just the ones with an unopposed candidate.

https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/SOTS/ElectionServices/Town_Ballots/2022/Plymouth.pdf

our ballots allow multi-party candidates
Complex, even on small towns

[Impy]

Here it only appears if there’s a registered write in candidate for that office. Votes for Dick Nixon are invalid.

Are you gonna vote for early voting? I oppose it, despite using it since it exists (I’m impatient) .

[campaignPete R-CT]

Early voting?
100% an abomination

[PhilCollins]

No one is on the ballot against Congressman Danny Davis. Chad Koppie is a write-in candidate, in that race. If you know anyone, who lives in the 7th Congressional District (which includes downtown Chicago, Oak Park, and Englewood), please ask them to write his name and vote for him.

[Impy]

I never shared my IL State leg gerrymanders with you guys

https://davesredistricting.org/maps#viewmap::059c8bb4-2f8e-4e49-8ca1-fb79afd8e896

https://davesredistricting.org/maps#viewmap::5f509303-247c-4ff0-ae7f-42c273f9698f

Behold.

32 State Senate districts voted GOP for AG (closest race) and Gov in 2018. 25 voted for Trump in 2020, 27 in 2016.

62 House seats went GOP for AG , plus one that didn’t but did go for Trump 2020.

32-27 R Senate and 63-55 House would be likely this year with maybe 4 additional House seats in play.

All we need is a GOP State Supreme Court (most import races in the state) to impose it by force.

[AuH2ORepublican]

Impy, if you’re thinking of submitting your maps to a judge, try not to create two state house districts with a 97% black population .... : )

[BillyBoy]

My hypothetical IL state legislature gerrymander would be much more complicated. It would require a constitutional amendment and redesign the IL state senate to be based on geographic interests like its federal counterpart. So we’d change from 59 to 102 state senators, one for EACH county. That means the 25 or so RAT senators from Crook County would ALL be gerrymandered together into ONE seat. They may ALL contest it in a runoff election, if they so desired. ;-)

I checked about a decade ago and such a hypothetical map would result in about a dozen downstate incumbents keeping their seats (albeit with geographically much smaller districts, since they’d ONLY represent their home county), and 70 vacancies with NO incumbent, resulting in an open race for those seats.

Oh, and the vast majority of those vacant seats would be in very GOP friendly counties.

[Impy]

Can I have some positive feedback? (cries) ;-D

[BillyBoy]

Silver lining, the RATS now have their OWN political equivalents to Jim Oberweis & Steve Lonegan’s endless failed attempts to get elected statewide:

BETO O’ROURKE, 0 wins-3 losses
2018 U.S. Senate race - LOST
2020 U.S. Presidential race - LOST
2022 Texas gubernatorial election - LOST

CHARLIE CRIST, 0 wins-3 losses
2010 U.S. Senate race - LOST
2014 Florida gubernatorial election - LOST
2022 Florida gubernatorial election - LOST

and this gal ain’t far behind...

STACY ABRAMS, 0 wins-2 losses
2018 Georgia Gubernatorial election - LOST
2022 Georgia Gubernatorial election - LOST

Can we get ALL THREE to run in 2024? ;-)

[AuH2ORepublican]

Sorry, I didn’t check in until today. Was there an election? : |

What a freaking disaster—except for FL, parts of NY and maybe (we don’t know for sure yet) NV, AZ and parts of CA.

[Impy]

I hate it so much. It’s very interesting I guess but jeez I was hoping for some endorphins this week.

How to even make sense of it.

Easy voting giving rats POTUS level turnout, people don’t like Trump and we nominated crap candidates like rethread Michels in WI and Blake Masters who unironically said people should read the writing of the freaking unabomber. And Abortion WAS a big deal. I mocked those endless ads for weeks.

But Florida is out of swing state column I guess and of all places.....coattails of a NY gubernatorial nominee (that didn’t even win) overcame the trends? Where the hell were GOP voters in other states?

My friend if you told me that SP Maloney would lose...and the Gay RINO would win NY-3 I’d have thought we had over 240 seats. And if you told we’d win NY-4 I’d have said 250+. By will be lucky to end up with 220? Sweating would should have been Lay-ups like John James. Boebert possibly upset. Calvert possibly upset. Areas that we knew were trending badly.

The gerrymandering scorecard looms large. Indiana INEXPLICABLY left a seat on the board. Missouri did too. Texas messed up the RGV big time and cost us a chance at 2 more seats. Friggin Sununu’s veto cost us a seat. NY court of appeals of all things saves our ass from a TOTAL disaster.

Texas and OH/NC (where we now control the State Supreme Courts) need to fix that stuff.

And by God’s mercy the Senate is still in play if Laxalt holds on....it’s insane. A 1990 style midterm with a crap economy and a President as popular as dog doo.