Posted on 11/06/2019 12:27:59 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Those numbers were House races, several (A good handful) State Senate seats won by democrats did not have a GOP opponent.
You can’t count the seats where no candidate was fielded. The GOP didn’t contest 24 seats.
The numbers I posted were for the contested seats.
I was shocked that WA voted almost like a normal, sane state yesterday. Rejecting affirmative action, repealing a huge car tab tax, repealing a slew of other taxes. Socialist Sawant may have lost her seat on the Seattle City Council. It was still a bit mixed, but surprising.
There are reasons R’s don’t contest seats, and D’s don’t contest seats. Because they have absolutely no chance of winning.
When a major party doesn’t field a candidate, sometimes a third-party or independent files. In any case, in Virginia, you can write-in a candidate.
The votes for third-party and indy candidates in races without a major party candidate is always much larger than when both major parties are represented. Ditto write-ins. There are few write-ins when both major parties are represented, and a big percentage when only one major party is represented.
There potentially are other votes missing. For example, the drop-off from the Presidential vote. But, this is difficult to estimate in a year when you don’t have a Pres., U.S. Senate or Gov. race. I could maybe jimmy up an estimate as best as possible in the absence of a statewide race, but I don’t have the time.
You are assuming the Republican vote in a Democratic district will equal the average Republican vote in contested races. This is way wrong.
What happened in Pennsylvania? I have not seen any coverage of it.
We will follow the Titanic, get used to it. The only life belt I know of is Jesus Christ and His Kingdom.
That was absolutely NOT a “Republican-friendly gerrymander.” WTF is that fool smoking?
Don;t know what he’s smoking but here’s what he’s hoping...Maybe we can do another gerrymander on top of the one already forced on the state by the left-wing court
I’m not assuming anything. It’s asinine to include uncontested vote totals in the total popular vote. Even the Washington Post didn’t do it. I’m not disputing that PA, WI and MI are to the right of VA, but whether you like it or not the GOP won the popular vote in the contested races last night and they would have held the HOD under the old maps.
asinine = conversation stopper
Snowflake.
antifa thug
Sure looks fishy.
Big percentages for R wins, for all except Gov??
Unpopular enough to have that many who are voting OVERWHELMINGLY for Rs, to NOT vote for R Gov??
Sum Ting Wong.
Oh, you are definitely triggered.
He apparently missed where the courts overturned the gerrymander here, and re-drew the districts in democrat’s favor. Those were where most of the house gains were, and then there was a northern virginia seat that we barely won 2 years ago.
And we only lost 2 senate seats, again in part because of the gerrymander.
PLus, the opponent was the son of a popular democratic former governor, so he had great name recognition.
What was wrong was that Bevin ran a bad campaign and advocated a VERY unpopular proposal to put a toll on the major interstate highway bridge between the northern Kentucky cities and Cincinnati. It killed Bevin across the N. KY suburbs. He has only himself to blame.
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