Every election denier who sought to become the top election official in a critical battleground state lost at the polls this year, as voters roundly rejected extreme partisans who promised to restrict voting and overhaul the electoral process.
The national repudiation of this coalition reached its apex on Saturday, when Cisco Aguilar, the Democratic candidate for secretary of state in Nevada, defeated Jim Marchant, according to The Associated Press. Mr. Marchant, the Republican nominee, had helped organize a national right-wing slate of candidates under the name “America First.”... “When my coalition of secretary of state candidates around the country get elected, we’re going to fix the whole country, and President Trump is going to be president again in 2024,” Mr. Marchant said at a rally held by the former president in October.
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They were pretty upfront that their plan was to steal the next election and enough of the voters have had their fill of that shit.
If you go surf around, you'll find
The next meeting of the Fascist Political Action Conference should be worthy of heavy mockery. Maybe they'll break out the Russian flags again.
And then there is this:
Well, Lindsey was right. pic.twitter.com/1FDcxCCja5
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) November 13, 2022
Miss Lindsey deserves special acknowledgement for shooting his own party in the foot. If there was any chance that the Trumpers could shout down abortion as an issue, he deep-sixed that with his proposal for a Federal abortion ban. Because everyone who was campaigning on the issue could then point out that the Rethuglicans would go whole-hog for a maternal-slavery bill.
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We also did well in races for state legislatures that could receive new power over elections if SCOTUS thinks they should have it. Something we should continue to prioritize as they are cheap and one of the bastions of Republican political power.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
I voted as usual. And as I watched the election returns, I felt a sort of relief, that they turned out how they did. Because I thought that the results were honest, accurate, and showed the will of the people.
I live in Michigan, where the state turned Blue completely, at the capitol level. The local level, there was a large mix the way that it always is, with both Republicans and Democrats winning. There were 3 proposals on the ballot, with #3 being about abortion which passed. The first 2 also passed, which I was not so thrilled about, but since we have elections for just such a reason, I accept that as the will of the people of our state.
I am bothered by how long it takes to finalize our election results. They can have a lottery drawing, worth over 2 billion dollars, selling millions of tickets and within just a couple of hours of the drawing, they know just where the ticket was sold at, what time it was sold, and how many other tickets the person bought when they bought the winning ticket. If they are able to do that, it seems that they could figure out a way to count the ballots for an election, before midnight on election day, when the voting normally stops at the latest by 8 pm local time.
I am hopeful that the Republicans have the decency to work together with the Democrats to address the problems of the day, rather than obstruct, but since we know that is unlikely, I hope that they at least don't harm things.
If we had a system where everybody used identical ballots and everything could be electronically tabulated, that might work.
McCarthy is taking his cues from Gingrich, so I am looking forward to more obstructionism for the sake of doing that. I have not forgotten that, in the depths of the Great Recession, McConnell said that his number one priority was torpedoing the Obama presidency.
The GOP is in the grips of extremists. I see nothing changing anytime soon.
The Republicans lost so many of this midterm elections because of people like McCarthy and McConnell. As leaders, they should have understood the things that mattered to the voters. Here in Michigan, it was obvious that abortion was the biggest thing that separated the candidates for governor, and the thing that won Governor Whitmer another term.
The people in Michigan were not in love with her, but they were much less in love with Tudor Dixon, a far right wing candidate, who the Democrats effectively ran ads on television attacking her record on abortion and education, hooking her up with former Sec. of Ed. Betsy DeVos, who was her big donor. While people in Michigan are not happy with our school system, they don't want what they perceive an outsider to come in with her millions and force a school voucher system on them. While not bothering to debate the whole school voucher system, the fact is, when it is brought up, the first thing that people see is religious schools, and that is untouchable as far as they are concerned. They don't want their money spent on religious instruction, period.
As of right now, the talking heads are saying that the Republicans are taking the house. I am not so certain of that, given the fact that they also said that the Republicans were taking the Senate. I think that they need to wait until the votes are actually counted.
Living in NC, one of the very few outliers of this election, it's pretty obvious who voted for what. We didn't get the youth vote, because we don't have enough young. What will matter in the coming years is who supplies the children. If it's right wingers we will be lost.
Pigpen, some states take longer to count the ballots because of more mail-in ballots are being used and the Republicans in some states (not Michigan, 2 days ahead) refuse to let the clerks pre-check in the ballots and have done everything they can to show that the mail-in ballots can be used for fraud. It's like the way they say government doesn't work for the people and try to get elected to make sure it doesn't. Also, many districts have trouble getting help for a couple day job due to threats on election workers and most cannot take off one job to work another.
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