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Next week's election week for us Yanks. Figured I'd make a thread about it so it doesn't spill into other discussions as we ramp up to Midterm Doomsday 2022 Edition.
I don't know if this is going to turn out to be a Red Wave like the infamous surge of 2010 (just a bad year all around, not only for electoral politics), but I'm sure it's going to suck.
Currently my state of Washington is looking safely blue a federal level, but there are enough swing districts at the state level such that the two chambers are going probably be closer in balance than they were before. I'm sure this will bode poorly for anyone who isn't a landlord, real estate developer, and/or a hypercapitalistic corporate taint-licker wanting to see meaningful legislation that does anything to address the incredible affordability crisis affecting myself and my fellow citizens.
Great country we got here.
I don't know if this is going to turn out to be a Red Wave like the infamous surge of 2010 (just a bad year all around, not only for electoral politics), but I'm sure it's going to suck.
Currently my state of Washington is looking safely blue a federal level, but there are enough swing districts at the state level such that the two chambers are going probably be closer in balance than they were before. I'm sure this will bode poorly for anyone who isn't a landlord, real estate developer, and/or a hypercapitalistic corporate taint-licker wanting to see meaningful legislation that does anything to address the incredible affordability crisis affecting myself and my fellow citizens.
Great country we got here.
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Fortunately those few cities outnumber the entire rest of the state so blue usually wins
It ain't gonna be good. It either goes full red because voters are dipshits and democrats ain't done shit about shit to give anybody a real reason to be enthusiastic beyond "you don't want those guys back, do you?" or its gonna stay deadlocked right down the middle.
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i've never lived in america and i'm still getting like a dozen emails/texts/phone calls a day about the midterms
And, of course,
There is some Trump-supporting ding dong running for governor as well, but he's been fucking up so bad on his campaign that I don't think there's much to worry about
... right?
that's like couple hundred votes, i can do an office with that
I am still extricating myself from their terrible list children who are constantly demanding I illegally send them money
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Fully expect Abbott and his cadre of goons to sweep every state wide office again, but hey, maybe I'll actually get surprised for once?
Guess the voter suppression laws are doing their job. For example my (suburban) county is above it's urban counterpart in early voter turnout.
Yeah like, if Democrats gain anything in Texas that's improvement and better than expected, and I don't think GOP sweeps down here is really a doomer thought, just is what it is here.
Wisely of me, I didn't use my personal phone number back when I donated, opting instead to give them the old front desk phone number when I was employed by my college's AV service. I like to think that they're still spamming those poor student workers every afternoon as they try to get through their shifts without falling asleep in a forgotten corner of the library. On balance I'd say it's even karma points for them spamming me with donation phone calls every year for their stupid Alumni Association.
Over the summer I was getting a ton of texts/calls for the R side of the PA primary, probably due to my number still having a PA area code… and some jerk named Michael that put my number in instead of his own.
I think we're all glossing over the important point here. Why IS Gordon Ramsay pretending to be British???!?
He's up against a woman who's represented this district for like 40 years and has a really good reputation for actually talking to her constituents about local issues.
Honestly not sure if she'll win this time because they've gerrymandered her district like crazy. Folding in 4 rural counties to the west in with Lucas county.
I'm not sure what else is on the ballot though honestly.
They were like "Next Tuesday? Shit! Thank you so much for reminding me! I really just needed someone to call me, I've been so out of it lately and I had honestly forgotten about the election. I'll make sure to bring my husband too! And I should probably volunteer, I can do phone-banking. Wow, thanks again!"
I've gotten good folks before but never one quite so comprehensive.
I mean, Warnock really hasn't been playing the hardball he needs to, but the larger share of the blame goes to the media's pathologic need to turn everything into a race that's so close oh boy, even if that means downplaying one side's previously-disqualifying fuck-ups and inflating the smallest gaffe on the other.
See also: Fetterman vs Oz
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You get five minutes out of a city here in Minnesota and you're in fucking Alabama.
I thought it was bad when I lived in Illinois.
Fuck. Man, I'm sorry.
Also you suck at Fantasy Football.
I didn't do anything this year! Nobody reminded me that the draft was starting and I haven't looked at what the hell the computer picked for my draft.
^5 fellow New Yorker.
I'm in NY-26 so I'm pretty much just gonna be a piled-on vote for Higgins and Hochul.
The new voting machines they're using are so ass and make things take about 5 times as long as the last time I voted.
Every individual selection is it's own page, so you have to tap the arrow to go to the next page, tap to select your candidate, tap again to go to the next page, etc, all on those shitty, unresponsive touch panels that feel like they haven't been calibrated in 5+ years
My precinct is pretty small and didn't have much local stuff so it was "only" 35 pages or so (so 70 touch panel presses), but I can't imagine how shitty it is in cities like Houston or Dallas.
And then after all that nonsense you still have to print out your paper result slip, and then go deposit that slip in a new, different machine. Absolute fucking madness
god save this town whoever ends up mayor
I'm in 20, I voted straight WF (or at least all the ones that were the same candidates as D) but there were some weird ones:
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When I used to live in Cheyenne it was disturbing that for many offices R candidates ran unopposed. It was eye opening to see with my mail in ballot there was two state level offices with Libertarian candidates running unopposed
There was a bunch of state level bond issues ranging from closing loop holes in funding education in the state. public library improvements, senior citizen facility improvements
Personally I do fear if there is even a minor red wave it is a step closer to the purge being real