Very well done; along with you and Ravi, there are two posters here who consistently look at provable voting data; not that scum like the Broward election officials wouldn’t try to change it, but actual data like this can pin them down. Not only is Scott’s vote lead greater than in past statewide recounts, but he is in the lead, which psychologically makes it much tougher for Prune Nelson and his legion of overpaid out of state lawyers to prevail by overturning election night results. They will make mischief, but I doubt they will prevail. So the Senate will be 53-47, not great but a lot better than 51-49 when we had to depend on the whims of a revengeful, bitter McCain, and a backstabbing Murkowski. This should keep the Senate in the party until at least 2022; given the fact that New York’s senator from Alabama, Dowd, is certain to lose if the Alabama Rs pick someone who is stable and who doesn’t go to Army-Navy games instead of campaigning on the weekend before the election.
53-47 would insulate the Senate from Romney, Collins and MooCowski. 53 is a key number. There aren’t many others in the Senate that would jump on Judicial nominations.
I also fully expect the Rats to pull some sort of Kavanaugh/Moore type fiasco in the Mississippi runoff to somehow try to swing that seat back to them, but Hyde-Smith is a woman, so that will make it much more difficult for them.
Your 53 - 47 Senate assumes a McSalley loss. If she wins, it will be 54- 46.