Senate Election Thread (1 Viewer)

[superchuck500]

So there are 35 Senate seats contested in November. Use this thread to talk about them.

Here's a tracker site:

2020 Senate Election Interactive Map - 270toWin

Who will control the Senate? Review and predict the outcome of the 35 Senate races in the 2020 elections.

www.270towin.com

 

[Nebaghead]

Meanwhile in AZ

He takes his seat as soon as the election is certified. I think it will be the Monday before Thanksgiving.

 

[superchuck500]

 

[not2rich]

I don't know man. It seems like both complete lack of relevant experience and ignorance of basic civics are considered positives for GOP major office candidates these days.

 

[Taurus]

But is Tommy a frothing-mad Domionist?

 

[MT15]

He had another quote from the same interview where he asserted that his dad fought Socialism in WWII, if memory serves. He’s a pretty dim bulb. Good job, Alabama!

edited to add another gem: he also said that Al Gore was president for 30 days before the Supreme Court took the presidency away from him and awarded it to Bush. This is dangerously ignorant.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

And here I thought Kennedy and Cassidy were the nitwits of the South. Tuberville is about to pull a "hold my beer."

 

[DaveXA]

And here I thought Kennedy and Cassidy were the nitwits of the South. Tuberville is about to pull a "hold my beer."

What, he hasn't already? Lol.

 

[surly]

He had another quote from the same interview where he asserted that his dad fought Socialism in WWII, if memory serves. He’s a pretty dim bulb. Good job, Alabama!

edited to add another gem: he also said that Al Gore was president for 30 days before the Supreme Court took the presidency away from him and awarded it to Bush. This is dangerously ignorant.

Dana Lash said something very close to this yesterday. I wasn't paying close attention but I believe she said Gore was POTUS for 37 days. Maybe in the other reality...

 

[DaveXA]

Dana Lash said something very close to this yesterday. I wasn't paying close attention but I believe she said Gore was POTUS for 37 days. Maybe in the other reality...

I didn't see it, but I have seen people say Gore was the presumed President-elect for that length of time, which i don't think was true. I don't remember if a call was actually made, and I think Bush never trailed after the initial vote count in Florida. Gore was obviously never President and I don't remember him ever being called President-elect either. It seems to me this should be common knowledge that Gore was never President.

 

[superchuck500]

 

[Saint by the Bay]

I just...

No.

 

[superchuck500]

I didn't see it, but I have seen people say Gore was the presumed President-elect for that length of time, which i don't think was true. I don't remember if a call was actually made, and I think Bush never trailed after the initial vote count in Florida. Gore was obviously never President and I don't remember him ever being called President-elect either. It seems to me this should be common knowledge that Gore was never President.

I checked on this the other day. The election was never called for Gore as far as I could find. For a period of about two hours on election night, the networks called Florida for Gore. But then they retracted that two hours later and called Florida for Bush. Then a few hours after that they called it too close to call - and it stayed that way.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20001108/aponline183922_000.htm

 

[wardorican]

McSally concedes Arizona Senate race

Arizona Sen. Martha McSally (R) has conceded her race to Sen.-elect Mark Kelly (D) more than a week after Election Day.“With nearly all the votes counted, I called Mark Kelly this morning to congra…

thehill.com

McSally finally concedes AZ race to Kelly.

 

[DaveXA]

I checked on this the other day. The election was never called for Gore as far as I could find. For a period of about two hours on election night, the networks called Florida for Gore. But then they retracted that two hours later and called Florida for Bush. Then a few hours after that they called it too close to call - and it stayed that way.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20001108/aponline183922_000.htm

I remember them calling for Florida and retracting. That was a confusing evening for a lot of people, lol.

 

[Taurus]

Jesus wept.

Competence means nothing in Alabama.

 

[DaveXA]

Jesus wept.

Competence means nothing in Alabama.

The guy is just incredibly ignorant. Embarrassing.

 

[Booker]

I didn't see it, but I have seen people say Gore was the presumed President-elect for that length of time, which i don't think was true. I don't remember if a call was actually made, and I think Bush never trailed after the initial vote count in Florida. Gore was obviously never President and I don't remember him ever being called President-elect either. It seems to me this should be common knowledge that Gore was never President.

I checked on this the other day. The election was never called for Gore as far as I could find. For a period of about two hours on election night, the networks called Florida for Gore. But then they retracted that two hours later and called Florida for Bush. Then a few hours after that they called it too close to call - and it stayed that way.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20001108/aponline183922_000.htm

HBO has a documentary on this we happened to catch some of last night.

537 Votes | Watch the Movie on HBO | HBO.com

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Chuck is correct, Florida was briefly called for Gore, then flipped to too close to call. Fox News later made the decision to call Florida for Bush, and with it the election, and the other networks followed suit. Gore called Bush to concede, but before he could make his concession speech was told that Florida was still in play, so instead he called Bush and rescinded his concession. Eventually Florida was returned to too close to call, but as Bush had already been named the winner that narrative had been created.

Something to note is that Gore never filed suit, he simply requested the votes be recounted as per state law, first by machine and then by hand when they discovered the chad issue. Bush's side filed suit to stop the recount and eventually won when the Supreme Court ruled in his favor, effectively deciding the election.

But there was a whole lot of screwy stuff going on. The dimpled or hanging chads was a real thing -- holes were supposed to be punched in the ballots when people made their selections, but the machines in some heavily Democratic areas were old and underserviced. So just like a two or three hole punch that gets so full of those chads that it won't punch holes anymore until you empty it, the same thing happened with machines that weren't regularly emptied -- people's votes weren't being counted because it was too jammed with chads to allow a hole to be punched (thus 'dimpled' or 'hanging' chads).

Then you had the infamous butterfly ballots in one area, where there were thousands of over votes where people accidentally voted for Pat Buchanan and then tried to punch the ballot for Gore as well, nullifying the vote for either (and Buchanan also received a disproportionately high number of votes). Plus there were a lot of screwy local politics (Jeb Bush was Governor, Katherine Harris was both Secretary of State and Co-Chair Bush's campaign in Florida), you had Republican activists flown in to stage "grass roots" protests, plus the whole Elian Gonzales thing had created a lot of anti-Democratic Party sentiment in the Cuban community that came into play.

 

[MT15]

Yes, if you get corrected for saying something stupid, the best thing to do is double down on your own stupidity. Of course......