2019 Off Year Elections in the United States--Pray for Virginia ;)

[ballettmaus]

What, is Yertle hiding them in his shell?

No idea what is going on there but they both had about 2,000 more votes about half an hour ago.

 

[VALuvsMKwan]

No idea what is going on there but they both had about 2,000 more votes about half an hour ago.

Or did Moscow Mitch and Putin-boy Paul call in the hacker reinforcements?

 

[clairecloutier]

I voted this afternoon. Just local elections, but actually, the local politics in my city are quite heated right now, with big debates going on about schools and development.

It’s looking like a great night for Dems!! winning in VA, maybe winning in KY?? Wow!!

 

[ballettmaus]

Or did Moscow Mitch and Putin-boy Paul call in the hacker reinforcements?

Wouldn't only one of them lose votes in that case?

Now they've both gained about 3,000.

 

[VALuvsMKwan]

Wouldn't only one of them lose votes in that case?

Now they've both gained about 3,000.

I didn't say that they were skilled hackers.

 

[ballettmaus]

WaPo is reporting that Democrats are projected to flip both chambers and picked up two Senate and four House seats. https://www.washingtonpost.com/polls-open-in-virginia-balance-of-power-in-state-government-is-at-stake/2019/11/05/bdb57972-ff5b-11e9-8501-2a7123a38c58_story.html

 

[rfisher]

All counties in KY are now at 100%. The last counties that were not at 100% are very rural with very small vote counts. BESHERS WON BIG IN Frankfort, Louisville and Lexington. The ads from the GOP were nasty. But the realnirony is the stubborn asses in the rural counties that went red are the ones who had the most to lose as Bevins wants to slash Medicaid that most depend on. He also has tried to gut higher education appropriations which is why will the college towns went for Beshers.

 

[VALuvsMKwan]

I guess the Orange One, in his own words, will be said now to have suffered the greatest defeat in the history of the world. He wouldn't lie, now, would he?

'You can't let that happen to me!' Trump begs Kentucky fans to block defeat of GOP gov.

The president has invested significant political clout in the governor's race, which should be a shoo-in for the GOP incumbent in this deep-red state.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[ballettmaus]

I guess the Orange One, in his own words, will be said now to have suffered the greatest defeat in the history of the world. He wouldn't lie, now, would he?

'You can't let that happen to me!' Trump begs Kentucky fans to block defeat of GOP gov.

The president has invested significant political clout in the governor's race, which should be a shoo-in for the GOP incumbent in this deep-red state.

www.nbcnews.com

Republicans are already saying it's because the GOP candidate is so unpopular and had Trump not gone, the race wouldn't have been so close

 

[skatemomaz]

I guess the Orange One, in his own words, will be said now to have suffered the greatest defeat in the history of the world. He wouldn't lie, now, would he?

'You can't let that happen to me!' Trump begs Kentucky fans to block defeat of GOP gov.

The president has invested significant political clout in the governor's race, which should be a shoo-in for the GOP incumbent in this deep-red state.

www.nbcnews.com

He’ll be gaslighting us by early morning while he sits on his golden “throne” tweeting.

 

[caseyedwards]

The same things are clear that were clear in 2017 and 2018!! If republicans want a future in America they must take the golden opportunity they have to impeach and remove trump this year. Trump is like their biggest problem and they can end that problem by working with democrats to make pence president so he can make nikki Haley vp and then just run Haley with kasich in 2020

 

[Zemgirl]

WaPo is reporting that Democrats are projected to flip both chambers and picked up two Senate and four House seats. https://www.washingtonpost.com/polls-open-in-virginia-balance-of-power-in-state-government-is-at-stake/2019/11/05/bdb57972-ff5b-11e9-8501-2a7123a38c58_story.html

Both came close to flipping last time, so no surprise. The House of Delegates only had a Republican majority because one race ended up tied and they picked a name out of a hat, or by coin toss or something like that.*

Bevin was not popular in Kentucky - Republicans won all the other offices up for a vote. He is currently refusing to concede... though the margin is fairly narrow (enough to trigger a recount?)

* ETA: it was a glass bowl. But no random draw this time!

Democrat wins seat she lost in glass-bowl drawing that gave Va. GOP House control in 2017

A GOP legislative candidate who won in 2017 after his name was drawn from a bowl, cementing Republican control of the House of Delegates, has lost his bid for re-election. Democrat Shelly Simonds defeated Republican Del. David Yancey in Tuesday's race for the 94th District. The contest was a...

wjla.com

 

[ballettmaus]

Both came close to flipping last time, so no surprise. The House of Delegates only had a Republican majority because one race ended up tied and they picked a name out of a hat, or by coin toss or something like that.

Bevin was not popular in Kentucky - Republicans won all the other offices up for a vote. He is currently refusing to concede... though the margin is fairly narrow (enough to trigger a recount?)

If I understood CNN correctly, there is no automatic recount in KY but a recount (counting each ballot again) or a recanvas (checking vote tallies and if they were transmitted correctly) can be requested.

 

[ballettmaus]

One of the Democrats who flipped a seat on the county level is the woman who flipped Trump the finger and lost her job. She was elected to the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors and her district includes Trump's golf course. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/virginia-cyclist-who-flipped-off-trump-wins-loudoun-county-seat-representing-his-golf-club/2019/11/05/e8aa11dc-003d-11ea-8bab-0fc209e065a8_story.html

 

[canbelto]

Trump doesnt seem aware that the governor of KY lost:
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Donald J. Trump on Twitter

“Our big Kentucky Rally on Monday night had a massive impact on all of the races. The increase in Governors race was at least 15 points, and maybe 20! Will be in Louisiana for @EddieRispone on Wednesday night. Big Rally!”

twitter.com

 

[pollyanna]

In the KY governors race, Bevin refuses to concede to Beshear, citing voting irregularities.

A Bevin-Beshear recount? Here's what could happen in the Kentucky governor's race

As if matters couldn't get more complicated, Republican Senate President Robert Stivers then told reporters that a joint session of the Kentucky General Assembly may eventually decide the winner, citing a provision in the state constitution that hasn't been used in 120 years.

Bevin said he "wanted the process to be followed" under law before he made a concession, referring to unspecified "irregularities" that were "corroborated."

The first step in that process under Kentucky law, when it comes to election results that are contested, should be as familiar to Bevin as anyone else in the state, as he won a razor-thin victory in the Republican gubernatorial primary of 2015 by margin of just 83 votes over now Rep. James Comer.

 

[pollyanna]

Kentucky's Republican Senate president says the GOP-led legislature may pick the next governor

Republican Senate President Robert Stivers suggested a dicier option Tuesday night: Let the GOP state legislature decide the winner. Section 90 of the state Constitution says "contested elections for governor and lieutenant governor shall be determined by both houses of the General Assembly, according to such regulations as may be established by law." Stivers said his staff believes that might apply in this case. The last "contested" governors race was in 1899, the Courier Journal reports.

Sam Marcosson, a constitutional law professor at the University of Louisville, told the Courier Journal that Republicans can't just make up a legal procedure to review the election, and warned that it's a risky "proposition to suggest that the General Assembly would take vague allegations of unspecified irregularities and call into question a gubernatorial election." Joshua Douglas, a professor at the University of Kentucky Law School, explained that Bevin would have to call a special session of the General Assembly, then a panel of eight House members and three senators "would hear evidence and make a final determination. And that determination would be final."

 

[CaliSteve]

Kentucky's Republican Senate president says the GOP-led legislature may pick the next governor

Why am I not surprised at these antics. Beshear won.

 

[clairecloutier]

Why am I not surprised at these antics. Beshear won.

Once again, just further proof that the GOP will stop at nothing to try and hold onto power.

They are contemptible.

 

[BlueRidge]

I'm glad the Democrats won Virginia. I just hope they have a strategy for building a durable majority because I need them to stay in control.

 

[PRlady]

Kentucky's Republican Senate president says the GOP-led legislature may pick the next governor

The democratic (small d) recession continues. It's amazing how the GOP can blatantly suppress votes and refuse to admit results, or take away the powers of a newly-elected Dem as in NC and there isn't much of a public outcry. Modern democracy is increasingly fragile even in its birthplace.

 

[Mozart]

Trump doesnt seem aware that the governor of KY lost:
.

Donald J. Trump on Twitter

“Our big Kentucky Rally on Monday night had a massive impact on all of the races. The increase in Governors race was at least 15 points, and maybe 20! Will be in Louisiana for @EddieRispone on Wednesday night. Big Rally!”

twitter.com

Also this tweet:

Donald J. Trump on Twitter

“Based on the Kentucky results, Mitch McConnell @senatemajldr will win BIG in Kentucky next year!”

twitter.com

 

[BlueRidge]

Also this tweet:

Donald J. Trump on Twitter

“Based on the Kentucky results, Mitch McConnell @senatemajldr will win BIG in Kentucky next year!”

twitter.com

Soviet style: you just erase the person who failed and act like they never existed.

 

[Susan1]

Also this tweet:

Donald J. Trump on Twitter

“Based on the Kentucky results, Mitch McConnell @senatemajldr will win BIG in Kentucky next year!”

twitter.com

Just more "alternative facts". Someone will believe him. Pathetic.

 

[Sparks]

In the KY governors race, Bevin refuses to concede to Beshear, citing voting irregularities.

A Bevin-Beshear recount? Here's what could happen in the Kentucky governor's race

Just another man who can't take NO as an answer.

 

[pollyanna]

Bevin officially requests election recanvass in Kentucky governor race

“The people of Kentucky deserve a fair and honest election," stated Bevin campaign manager Davis Paine in the release. "With reports of irregularities, we are exercising the right to ensure that every lawful vote was counted.”

The news release did not provide any specific example of voting irregularities, and Bevin's campaign and office have not replied to multiple requests asking for any of those alleged examples.

Now that he has officially requested the recanvass, I fear irregularities in the recanvassing process. Will any of the votes be thrown out? I just don't trust this.

 

[CaliSteve]

Bevin officially requests election recanvass in Kentucky governor race



Now that he has officially requested the recanvass, I fear irregularities in the recanvassing process. Will any of the votes be thrown out? I just don't trust this.

Bevin is a p***k!

 

[CaliSteve]

Once again, just further proof that the GOP will stop at nothing to try and hold onto power.

They are contemptible.

Yup!

 

[CaliSteve]

Just more "alternative facts". Someone will believe him. Pathetic.

Last night Moscow Mitch had major diarrhea and he will have it again in November 2020.

 

[ballettmaus]

Now that he has officially requested the recanvass, I fear irregularities in the recanvassing process. Will any of the votes be thrown out? I just don't trust this.

I share your fear but at least, the KY Sec of State is a Democrat.