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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I am angry that Sara Gideon conceded to Susan Collins. There are still uncounted votes. This is fuckery. I don't care if she has information telling her she's likely to lose. In an election like this one, you count every fricking vote.
I would really like to be cautiously optimistic but so far this election feels like everything that went wrong in 2000 and 2016 all at once.
This is where I live.
Wow! My county elected its first sheriff who is a woman and who's queer. That's amazing and awesome!
Thank you for sharing this, Teppy. I couldn't see the good news, on account of my rage fog.
My old state house district in Texas that I worked so hard in last cycle still f’in went red. 68% voter turnout.
I'm missing out on getting a Dem rep by like 1.5%, which is what got siphoned off into third-party candidates.
I haven't looked at any of the news yet, and I may put it off until after I catch up on three days of Slack messages for work.
I worked a 17 hour day yesterday, got a few hours of sleep, and I'm back at it again today. I'm too busy to be as pissed as I want to be about the third-party candidates siphoning off votes in super tight races, but at least I'm actively working to prevent election misinformation from spreading online.
Fucking Susan Collins.Agreed. So tired of her "I'm concerned" act while rubber-stamping everything.
Reading the results of the Wisconsin district races is infuriating. Dems win all their races by 30+ points and the GOP all of theirs by a comfortable 10%. So many "wasted" Dem votes by our ridiculous gerrymandering.
Thank you for your work, shrift.
Someone on Twitter pointed out what seems to be happening with the Senate--the goddamn Lincoln Project and the other never-Trumpers did exactly what they set out to do: created a way for GOP voters queasy over Trump to feel comfortable and happy voting for Biden while continuing to vote GOP the entire rest of the way down, as if Trump was the party's only problem and everyone else is just peachy.
I never liked or trusted them and I never gave them a dime. Ass them all right in the ear. In 2022 I want to plow them all under and salt the earth.
What lisah said -- thank you, shrift!
On the third-party thing, MA just voted down ranked-choice voting, which is a bummer.
I assume voting against Amy Coney Barrett kept Susan Collins's job (added to the regular incumbent advantage), but people better not assume this is a turning point for her.