The election isn't over
Everyone is rushing with the post-mortems of these elections (including me yesterday, of course). But the election isn't over yet. Some of the key races are yet to be decided.
Among them: Florida Senate race, where a recount will certainly happen now that the vote difference is less than 0.25% currently, and is likely to narrow even further (which means that not only a machine recount will happen, but that a hand recount is likely).
Mississippi will have a run-off election on November 27th. An interesting thing is that on the Mississippi ballots, senate candidates don't have a party affiliation listed by their names. So please donate to Mike Espy. The earlier you do it, the better. (Yes, I already donated to him, and will likely do so again).
Arizona ballots are still being counted, and Kyrsten Sinema is narrowing the gap.
There are also 10+ House races that will likely go on for another several days, if not weeks. Among them is the one where I hope Rohrabacher ends up being a looser after all.
Incidentally, here is a tally for my "bellwether list":
Roy Moore: gone
Darrell Issa: gone
Dana Rohrabacher: gone (hopefully)
David Nunes: reelected. Well, here's to hoping he'll take a position in the Trump administration instead, and then will end up being fired from there, as par for the course for members of that administration.
Update: I just reread my last year's post with the "Indicators", and it turns out that I never listed Nunes as one of them -- probably because I realized that the likelihood of him not being reelected was just too small. It certainly wasn't because of the lack of well-reasoned animosity towards him.
So I suppose that means there's hope for this country -- at least if my own indicators are to be believed.
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Among them: Florida Senate race, where a recount will certainly happen now that the vote difference is less than 0.25% currently, and is likely to narrow even further (which means that not only a machine recount will happen, but that a hand recount is likely).
Mississippi will have a run-off election on November 27th. An interesting thing is that on the Mississippi ballots, senate candidates don't have a party affiliation listed by their names. So please donate to Mike Espy. The earlier you do it, the better. (Yes, I already donated to him, and will likely do so again).
Arizona ballots are still being counted, and Kyrsten Sinema is narrowing the gap.
There are also 10+ House races that will likely go on for another several days, if not weeks. Among them is the one where I hope Rohrabacher ends up being a looser after all.
Incidentally, here is a tally for my "bellwether list":
Roy Moore: gone
Darrell Issa: gone
Dana Rohrabacher: gone (hopefully)
David Nunes: reelected. Well, here's to hoping he'll take a position in the Trump administration instead, and then will end up being fired from there, as par for the course for members of that administration.
Update: I just reread my last year's post with the "Indicators", and it turns out that I never listed Nunes as one of them -- probably because I realized that the likelihood of him not being reelected was just too small. It certainly wasn't because of the lack of well-reasoned animosity towards him.
So I suppose that means there's hope for this country -- at least if my own indicators are to be believed.
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comments).
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