Posted on 11/08/2022 7:16:22 AM PST by cll
Let the games begin. If you know of a conservative that hasn't voted yet, drag him to the polling station!
The Democrat is in third place with 9.7% of the vote. Tshibaka is in the lead with 44.8% and Murkowski is in 2nd place with 42.1%.
This means the Democrat drops out after round 1 and the second choice of the 19,000 people who voted for her get added to the totals for Tshibaka and Murkowski.
The seat will stay Republican, but it's likely that the Democrat voters will play spoiler to keep the conservative out, knowing that Murkowski swings Democrat from time to time.
-PJ
“ A party that cannot beat him in a state like Pennsylvania is dysfunctional in a deeply distressing way.”
This is the big revelation from tonight. I’d say it’s worse than the Republican Party being in bad shape…they are a dead party walking. When Democrats can essentially hold their own under these economic and societal conditions…it’s over for the opposition party. They’re dead forever.
Yep, we are essentially a One-Party State, with an opposition party as mere window dressing.
FL and TX are not being taken. NV and GA are trending GOP. MI Is likely lost.
Oz lost
The fix was in.
When Trump endorsed him I cringed.
I prefer Christians or even a regular pagan rather someone with the same belief system as Omar.
Its weird when someone says god bless and their god is allah.
The poster was talking about the Alaskan congressional seat...Palin & the other R split the vote. The Dem walked in.
The other thing is Mastriano.
He was just a poor choice to run and got soundly beaten. Totally out of his element.
I got the feeling some days after watching him speak earlier in the fall that he didn’t seem very engaged.
Oz was a horrible candidate himself, and Fetterman, if your number 1 issue is his health, I don’t know that that can be the tipping point issue you run against someone. Also, you can call someone a radical all you want, and I certainly don’t agree with his positions, but I’d say there is a portion of the country and that state that certainly do.
Not enough good people want to run for office, you’re stuck with people who have no other options in life than to be politicians.
You could tell how giddy they were on CNN and on MSNBC when it was becoming apparent there was not going to be a red wave tonight. Almost immediately they pinned the disappointing results for the GOP on Trump.
This election was full of Giant Douches vs Turd Sandwiches.
Currently, with 70% of the vote reporting, the Democrat has 46.7% of the vote, while the Republicans split 26.8% for Sarah Palin and 24.6% for Nick Begich.
When Begich drops out, will his voters have given all their votes to Palin or will they split some of that for the Democrat Peltola?
Palin will need almost all of Begich's votes to win.
Of course, with 30% of the vote still outstanding, Begich could leap past Palin. It's probably more likely that Palin's voters all gave their second choice to Begich, but I don't think I can say the same for Begich's voters.
-PJ
NV is a blue state that might get one or two odd victories now and again…but it is now reliably blue (12 years ago it was A toss up, 20 years ago red). GA is in the process of turning from red to blue. In four more years it will be solid blue.
And so it goes. We are a one party Marxist country now….and will get markedly more so in the next 5 years. Game over. If only there were another New World to go to…I guess that one’s up to God.
There still is 30% of the votes to be counted, but if Peltola stays below 50% then it will go to a round 2.
-PJ
Yup...curious to see if the R winner can get enough of those secondary votes.
We certainly have that problem here in PA. Where are our strong GOP candidates? Pat Toomey could have run for governor. Instead, he ‘retires’. I guess I can’t blame him? We had a popular Congressman here in southeastern PA, Jim Gerlach. He got out of politics 10 years ago as a relatively young man. We have waaay too many elected GOP officials who are happy to be right where they are in a safe seat, rather than trying to beat a vulnerable Democrat on the next rung on the ladder.
If the Georgia run-off is the only thing in the news -- the only thing standing between a Democrat or Republican controlled Senate -- will they do what they did in 2020 when President Trump was on the ballot and fighting with Brian Kemp and Brad Raffensperger, or will those two get behind Walker to push him over the line?
The difference between Walker and 50%+ is the Libertarian candidate. That will be the most important bridge to build for Walker.
Hopefully DJT can just stay away. Walker is probably already hurt some by the female vote. Also we don't need the reminder about how Trump told Georgians that their vote was worthless and wouldn't be counted, and so forth. We just don't need that this go around.
As far as republicans being "tribal", FR is a testament to the impossible divide we have to manage. I think Desantis in 2024 has the best chance to re-unit our party again.
I’m telling you, Mastreano cost us 4 PA seats and the Senate.
“The Republican Party is in very very bad shape if it cannot defeat John Fetterman.
Fetterman is obviously debilitated by a stroke, and his campaign wasn’t straight about his condition.
When he was in full possession of his faculties, he supported de-incarceration of violent criminals, and the approach of Philadelphia’s progressive DA, Larry Krasner.
A party that cannot beat him in a state like Pennsylvania is dysfunctional in a deeply distressing way.”
Well, when you look at it in that way...
Is that "DoughtyOne" (I think) here on FR?
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