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Finally election day! I am so sick of this midterm election cycle. This referendum on Trump is about to choose the winners and losers around DT PP. Obviously I hope my side wins, but I'm wishing the GOP best of luck too; it's the least civil gesture we should all make IMHO.

Win or lose, I'll just be happy when it's over. The next few months should also see the end of Mueller's investigation. Again, regardless of the outcome, there should be some healing afterwards.

I hope the results of all this will be a country working together again with a lot less hate. I doubt that will happen easily or maybe not at all, but that's what I would like to see.

Please post all things related to midterm elections here.

I'll just be happy to not see another ad for ahile, or get a text. Friday I received a text from both Manchin and Morrsey. I replied back the next person to text me from either campaign when I am spending time with my family will lose my vote.

Sad part is it's legal spam and nobody even bothers to read replies. Spam rules/do not call laws do not apply to political campaigns or charities including churches.

Actually I did receive a reply that they were removing me from their list.

Here was the chain I received::



My reply:

I didn't exactly use the word mess

They actually replied:

I voted this morning. Unfortunately I’m in trump county so I dunno how much good it’s gonna do, but I went ahead and knocked it out early.

I find it very curious that leading up to this mid term we have heard almost nothing about Russia.


I voted yes on Issue one, as a Libertarian drug crimes are idiotic.


I think its bull crap that people who don't work can vote to increase income tax.



I threw away any and all votes where there was a Libertarian candidate.

Mueller is following the FBI guidelines to not do anything to interfere within two months of the election. So there has been little to no activity on Russia.

And just to be fair to the other side, here is Trump's final pre-election message:

Yep. Unlike Comey, mueller isn’t causing drama right before Election Day.

Yeah I got scammed by the city of Gahanna, the more I look into it, the more I am pretty sure that voting “No” on a tax increase was actually voting “Yes” on increased taxes.

Am I wrong?

fun... I guess I should be happy I live in a township. I work in Akron so I don't avoid paying city tax but at least I'm not getting hit twice.

Hannity joins Trump on stage despite claiming he wouldn't

https://www.yahoo.com/news/hannity-joins-trump-stage-despite-claiming-wouldnt-055647812.html

Fox News is officially nothing more than a propaganda outlet.

I decided I wasn't going to vote today.

I don't care enough right now.

Stacy didn't win you over?

I was going to vote for all the D's.

Then I felt apathetic when I woke up.

I would rather get my work done than stand in a line voting for people I don't like.

And my city / county didn't have anyone running that could do anything about the issues I have locally with this town.

I get it.

I Voted

This is why I vote Absentee... it allows me an appropriate amount of apathy while still contributing to the process

I voted at 9 am. The lines were surprisingly long. For midterms, I'm usually in and out. Today I waited around 5 to 10 minutes to vote. Very unusual.

So glad Oregon has mail in ballots. I’ve not stood in line to vote for 17 years.

I'm pretty annoyed by it. Not enough to move...yet

Voted at 9am, not much of a line.

C'mon back to C-town!!

j/c

I find it amusing that any Dems actually think there's a chance of taking over the senate. That's not gonna happen. The house is a possibility but still not a lock by any means.

Here's what I think you'll see a lot of. MUCH closer margins. In states and districts where Trump won by huge margins I think those margins will be much smaller. Let's face it, those who lean left just don't turn out for mid term elections. Sure you'll see a bigger turnout this time but not the ground swell the left is looking for.

But here's the message these mid terms should send. Those who know anything about politics know mid term turn outs favor the right. And these margins are still going to be much slimmer than the support Trump got in 2016. It's a strong message and warning for 2018. People are getting tired of a president who lies consistently. Who incites and promotes violence. Who calls people names and acts like a school yard bully. Who instigates hate and division.

So they'll either listen or 2020 will be very ugly for the right.

the house and the senate are definitely two different maps.

i learned my lesson from 2016 to be confident about anything. the dems certainly have a chance to take the house, but there's a good chance the dems actually lose a couple seats in the senate.

however, just getting control of the house is a huge win for the dems, and a painful loss for the GOP/Trump.

what im particularly interested in is the governor race for Florida and Georgia. if those two states flip blue....wow bro. wow.

“GOP Tears” might come back to bite you.

It’s going to come down to youth turnout and white women.

I would be willing to bet Georgia ends up in a runoff.

I see that as the most likely possibility.

why would florida be a "wow"?

Its always a swing state in presidential elections, and since 70's has gone blue, red, blue, red

71-87 Blue
87-91 Red
91-99 Blue
99-present Red

Georgia has been Blue from about 1870-2003. They have heavily been blue in the history of the state as far as Gov was concerned.

Well they haven't elected a Democrat as governor in 20 years.

Blue is a relative term depending on climate.

And while debateable, the GOP didn’t go full-on cartoonish racist gargoyle until around 2009 or so.

There’s been a massive Overton window shift to the right on both sides in the last decade.

Its still a heavily swing state. In those 20 years there have only been 3 Gov's. Meaning they liked who they voted for.

I would not be surprised at all to see them elect a Dem, would be one of the least states I would be surprised about.

Wasn't trying to be a jerk to swish, was an honest question, but cool input mr. snarky.

I wasn't being snarky. I simply pointed out that they hadn't elected a Dem. gov. in 20 years.

Last blue presidency was 1992.

Last blue senator was 2003.

Last blue governor was 2003.

And all of them were inarguably right-wing.

It’s absolutely not a swing state, and it would be a massive shock if Kemp lost.

i didnt want to state the obvious.

Well, if you listened, I was being snarky. lol

It's a lot like here in Tennessee. To elect a Democrat, they can't be a liberal. They have to be what they called back in the day, a blue dog Democrat. More like John Kasich than Chuck Schumer. They are Democrats in name only. Otherwise they have zero shot at being elected. Pretty much how it is in Florida.

Our senate race between Marsha Blackburn and Phil Bredesen was a very nasty race. But Blackburn kept comparing Bredeson to Chcuck Schumer when everyone in Tennessee knew Bredesen wasn't some big time liberal. He's a former Governor and would never had been governor here had he been some big time liberal.

But that's the thing I think both sides lose sight of sometimes. Not every Democrat is like Nancy Pelosi and not every Republican is like Donald Trump.

Our current governor is Bill Haslam. He's a Republican but a great governor. I supported him in the last election and he has performed very well for the state. He tried to expand medicaid here like it is in Ohio but failed because the GOP led state legislature refused to pass it. He worked on and passed the Tennessee Promise which gives Tennessee students two years of free college tuition.

Luckily, our governors race has been very civil. Bill Lee against Karl dean. A clean race that focused on the issues and no dirt really thrown from either side. I actually liked both the candidates and admire how they conducted themselves during the election. It was refreshing in todays political climate.

I know but I had to throw that in...

i'm glad you talked about the atmosphere of your particular state's election cycle. its been dirtier here in ohio. the governor and attorney general race has been especially ugly in the way of attacks ads and such.

we always talk about the divide, but these politicians and their staff absolutely push it across all forms of media. really sad.

Its gonna be an interesting night ...

Things are a changin in a way they have never changed before ...

Gonna be interesting and it will more than likely lead to ... and after the last two years that ended in the complete and utter national disgrace that was the kavanaugh hearings in regards to party lines being strictly adhered too ...

Tonight could lead to even worse cooperation and more and more votes strictly along party lines among our elected representives ... REPRESENTITIVES who seem to have lost sight of the fact there elected to represent the people that elected them not the leaders ofthere party who happen to reside in NY, WI, KY or Cali depending on what party there in ...


JUST ANOTHER LOST CONCEPT on our elected officials ... SHOCKER ...