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    Midterm Election Gameday Thread

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    11 hours ago, billsfan89 said:

     

    Gerrymandering (which is done by both parties, this is not a partisan issue) is one of the biggest and most open forms of corruption and its shocking to me in an age of such advanced technology and algorithms we allow pols of either party to make these horrid maps to their parties benefit. How there isn't an universal algorithm to draw maps in ways that make sense and avoid partisan pols running the system is shocking. 

    It's an interesting proposal but the problem is who comes up with these algorithms?  My guess is they'll just use them in different states to gerrymander the districts to their parties advantage even more.  I'm more in favor of independent commissions that seven states now have to draw district lines.

     

    Whenever I hear Democrats complain about gerrymandering, I feel like screaming then freaking vote every year like Republicans do instead of every four to gain control of more state legislatures.  If Democrats are true to there word when complaining about gerrymandering than Democrats should pass legislation in states they control calling for independent commissions to draw district lines (like they have now in five states including California and now Colorado).  This could put pressure on other states to do the same.

    Midterm Election Gameday Thread

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    1 minute ago, BeginnersMind said:

     

    Great facts there. With 46% of voters independent, it shouldn’t be so shocking when a styled moderate splits a ticket. FL has a lot of split tickets too. 

    I don't trust Florida election results given its dubious history.  How Brenda Snipes wasn't fired before this election is beyond me.

    Midterm Election Gameday Thread

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    Posted · Edited by Doc Brown

    7 hours ago, 3rdnlng said:

    I think that's strange enough that the GOP should find a way to poll Maricopa County voters re their vote. I know they're not going to change it but it could trigger an investigation.

    Not really that strange as a split ticket isn't unusual in midterms.  This one generally shifted to people voting more for a Democrat at a national level and a Senator at a state level.

     

    Arizona wasn't even the biggest difference percentage wise between the five states that elected a GOP Governor and a Democratic Senator. 

     

    Massachusetts - GOP Governor (66.9%), GOP Senator (36.3%) -  30.6% difference

    Vermont - GOP Governor (55.4%), GOP Senator (27.4%) -              28% difference

    New Hampshire - GOP Governor (52.8%), GOP Senator (31.1%) - 21.7% difference

    Arizona - GOP Governor (56.4%), GOP Senator (48%) -                  8.4% difference

    Ohio - GOP Governor (50.7%), GOP Senator (46.8%) -                    3.9% difference

     

    Incumbency matters as all these GOP governors were popular in their states above as 2014 was a red wave election.

     

    Candidate quality also matter. 

     

    ex.) Although they didn't lose....Cruz received 414,378 less votes than Abbott in Texas and Coumo received 372,085 less votes than Gillibrand in New York.

     

    Flake pry would've won reelection if he kept his mouth shut about Trump and ran again.

     

     

     

    Midterm Election Gameday Thread

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    Posted · Edited by Doc Brown

    4 hours ago, LABillzFan said:

     

    A question for the leftists here: Do you support Gillum and Nelson's push to count votes of non-US citizens?

     

    It's a yes or no question.

     

    Go.

    Based on the transcript, the lawyers are objecting in order to preserve their right to challenge Ms. Bucher's presumption that the voter wasn't a US citizen.  This whole mess is why they should have voter ID laws.  Especially in Florida.

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