Posted on 11/04/2014 2:08:21 AM PST by RKBA Democrat
Happy Election Day everyone! I figured I'd go ahead and get the election day thread started. Polls open on the east coast in a little less than an hour.
Please be sure to post observations of interest if you went to the polls today.
“CA-3 Tom McClintock won 60% against a faux moderate. Great news. ..”
Wow, he did great! I love him!
Is there a way upstate NY can dump NYC? NYC voters are killing us. (My apologies to the conservatives in NYC.)
We in IL would like to dump Cook County. And mind you me and Billyboy both live in Cook County!
lol
Even if you dumped 4 of the 5 boroughs (and threw in Nassau, since that’s really the 6th borough), NY State would still be Dem leaning. Unfortunately, there’s more than a few states where removing the lead city/county would shift it to the GOP. Oregon and Multnomah/Portland comes to mind. Washington and King/Seattle (or really, the Puget Sound Black Hole). Nevada and Clark/Las Vegas. Illinois and Chicago/”Crook” County. Michigan and Wayne/Detroit. Delaware and Wilmington/New Castle. Pennsylvania and Philadelphia. Virginia and Fairfax County.
I’ve said before that there’s a real problem with states where 1 county (dense urban) with often questionable voting practices can overwhelm the preference of the entirety of the rest of the state.
This could be a dividing point for the nation. Let the leftist enclaves be their own states with autonomy and let the rest alone to rule themselves under Constitutional guidelines. Watch which flourish and which self-destruct. We already know the answer.
Well, the Glenn Beck team mentioned that Voter ID is wildly popular [during the election].
Now after the O’Keefe expose, we have enough of a mandate to amend the Constitution regarding voter ID. That is, BTW, one of Mark Levin’s Liberty Amendments.
We also have another powerful mandate — no sodomite pseudo-marriage. Also wildly popular enough to amend the Constitution.
OK, you got me on that one. But’s still a great victory and I posted a thread about it.
Here are more on some undecided races:
AZ-2 Martha McSally leads freshman Democrat Ron Barber by about 1,300 votes, but there are thousands of ballots left to be counted. I did not expect it to be this close.
CA-7 It looks like Doug Ose will be returning to Congress after years away, though freshman Democrat hasn’t conceded. Ose leads by about 3,000 votes.
CA-16 Veteran ‘Rat Jim Costa is trailing by some 800 votes. A victory by Republican Johnny Tacherra was not expected at all.
CA-26 Freshman ‘Rat Julia Brownley leads state Assemblyman Jeff Gorell by 530 votes at the latest count.
CA-31 I think we lost this one, but it was a strongly ‘Rat seat. Redlands Mayor Pete Aguilar leads Paul Chabot by some 2,500 votes.
CA-52 San Diego Councilman Carl DeMaio still leads freshman ‘Rat Scott Peters by around 750 votes.
Here are some more undecided races:
MD-6 This wasn’t even on the map. Incumbent ‘Rat John Delaney leads ex-Secret Service Agent Dan Bongino by a little over 2,000 votes. If Delaney wins, it’ll be because of his large advantage in the early voting ballots.
MN-8 I had high hopes for this, but we lost. Freshman Democrat Rick Nolan edged Stewart Mills by 3,700 votes. Mills, noted for his resemblance to Brad Pitt, was thought to have star quality (though one Freeper expressed a strong dislike for him).
NY-25 Elderly Feminazi Louise Slaughter, who first won in 1986. declared victory. She leads by 625 votes at the latest count.
Slaughter probably going to recount. I am very surprised at this one.
Bongino, not entirely sure. The remaining ballots seem to be military ones. I think Bongino will have an edge. Whether its enough to close the gap, who knows. He should not be perturbed however. That seat was gerrymandered to prevent a Republican win... but now the governor’s seat is held by Larry Hogan :D
I thought Mills might pull it out as well, but the district 8 Republican party is mud, especially in terms of organization. He came damn close. All Nolan could run on was attacking his boat and his hair. Depending on the climate in 2016, I would like to see Chip Craavack return.
Dems bailing on Landrieu?
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/democrats-ads-mary-landrieu-112647.html
Thank you for linking me to that, I’m going to post it now.
I read that no one thought CA-16 could be competitive. Not true, Auh2o did IIRC!
I really want that one.
Nolan is a Packer’s fan, and had other factors making him not a great demographic fit. Too bad. It shouldn’t be impossible to take it in ‘16 though, with the right candidate.
MD-6=fraud
Well, in the jungle primary, the four Republicans combined to get 51.6% to the two Democrats’ 48.4%, and Johnny Tacherra has a name that could fool Mexican-American voters that he was Hispanic (he’s actually Portuguese-American (Azorean, to be specific), same as Democrat incumbent Jim Costa, and same as Central Valley GOP Congressmen Devin Nunes and David Vadalao), and Costa nearly lost in 2010 under the old lines, and the district is far less Democrat than the 2012 presidential; election results would have one believe ... so, yes, it was in the outer periphery of my radar. But the GOP spent no money at all there and I thought that 5 or 6 CA seats would flip before the CA-16.
There still are some absentee votes left to count, and it’s going to be close. Remember, Costa was down about by this much in 2010, and he able to beat Vidak after they counted the absentees.
Did they conduct an exit poll in the CD? I would love to know what percentage of the Hispanic vote Tacherra won in that Hispanic-majority CD as compared to Vidak in 2010; if it was higher for Tacherra, then it was the Spanish-sounding name that put him over the top, and it would serve as evidence in favor of my hypothesis that Vidak would have won in 2010 had his surname ended in an L instead of in a K.
I’m sure that is true for many states, but NYC is so bad - it’s the abortion capital of the nation, and they elect mayors such as communist-loving DiBlasio.
Upstate folks have been saying for years they want to rid themselves from NYC, but what set me off again is that conservative Rob Astorino would have won the gubernatorial race if it were up to upstate.
The Sienna polster reiterated our feelings on tv yesterday, but told us with a happy-looking smile that we need NYC money. Even IF that’s true, I say NYC can keep their money, and we’ll keep our FREEDOMS. Gov. Cuomo even has brought up the confiscation word; who knows what he will do now that he is reelected?
I was looking at the numbers on Dave Leip (I thought the numbers looked odd, at least rather low, so I didn’t know if the tallies were correct). In any event, I went and added up the numbers that were there 1.9 million+ for Cuomo and just under 1.5 million for Astorino. Removing the 5 boroughs of NYC, you’re right, Astorino would’ve won by a margin of just over 89,000 votes (1,301,000 to 1,211,000).
I thought it was odd that Astorino didn’t win Staten Island and he also didn’t carry his own county (Westchester), which he only got less than 42% in. He certainly didn’t get the support he deserved as a first-tier challenger (in the money department, for starters). That big tub of guts from New Jersey was happy to see him go down in flames, the RINO pig that he is and didn’t lift a finger (despite the fact that it was his JOB to help Astorino !).
I heard that many gun owners don’t vote. 10,000 of them rallied at the Capital after Cuomo’s so-called SAFE Act, and one guy admitted to a talk show host that he did not vote.
Don’t they realize that voting Cuomo out of office is even more effective that protesting. I do admire them for protesting, but they must do both. They also could have donated to Astorino’s campaign. There are millions of gun owners in NYS, and if they gave even a small amount Astorino could have gotten his message out more.
ALSO, don’t discount VOTER FRAUD. Dems are famous for that.
I don’t know if it’s true, but someone on Twitter tweeted that busloads from another county came to Westchester County. Someone I respect tremendously retweeted it, which makes me think it’s at least plausible.
P.S. I’m furious at Chris Chrisie. It’s as if he wanted Cuomo to win.
Christie helped a liberal Republican with the governor’s race in CA, who voted for Obama, and was a long shot, but yet would not help conservative Astorino.
Valadao is Portuguese too? I didn’t know that. That’s a lot of political success for Central Valley Portuguese-Americans.
Astorino didn’t get a fraction of the help and support he needed, and we saw that for most of the past year. Cuomo, as one of the potential 2016 Presidential candidates, should’ve been heavily targeted for defeat (or at least held to winning by a brutal, narrow and demoralizing margin).
I would absolutely accuse Crispy Crème of wanting Cuomo to win. An Astorino victory would’ve sucked the air out of his sails, leaving him as the “big state” Governor and rock star there and Christie as second banana. He similarly did nothing to help the GOP with the Senate races (both the special and the general won by his leftist Dem buddy, Cory Booker).
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