https://www.cbsnews.com/news/record-voter-turnout-in-2018-midterm-elections/

49% turnout - up from 36% in 2014 and 41% in 2010
Considering this Drumpf still outperformed against the average midterm for Presidents

Drumpf is a vote magnet, and he has the polarizing effect to complete the analogy perfectly.

I figured the turnout was insanely high when i started to hear left wing talking heads bringing up the "senate popular vote", something that doesn't mean anything. Politics these days are like sports, stats coming out every week you didn't know existed and couldn't give a fuck about if you tried. The "Senate popular vote" means as much to me as "3rd down conversions of 5 or less yards in the opponents half of the field on the road this year while the backup running back is in the I formation". Fuck both Joe Buck and Chris Collinsworth, seems like as good of a place as any to get that out of my system.

yeah more turnout is good from a civic responsibility standpoint but as you mentioned it ended up being a bunch of armchair folks mindlessly voting cuz orange man bad

lol @ senate popular vote saw that too and spat out my covfefe

too many morons out there think the senate AND house are "power of the people". they aren't, the house is but the senate isn't. The legislative branch has an internalized check and balance on it's own power (similar to the DOJ being subject to the requests of the POTUS but also able to investigate said POTUS). The house is representative of the population and is as pure of a democratic body that we have, the senate was specifically designed to prevent populist movements from the states, and gave each state equal power to prevent localized pockets of populist uprisings. When created the newly minted federal government feared it's own overpopulized areas, larger states came up against resistance from coalitions of smaller states and the compromise was 2 houses with similar but in many ways opposite powers and goals. There's a very specific reason they made the senate in charge of scotus appointments, and it sure as fuck wasn't to make america more democratic. it was to prevent swings of the pendulum.

edit: i was going to wait for ignorant heinrich the whipping boy to protest the senate popular vote stats, then nuke him. but sometimes a preventative nuke is best.

This post was edited by thesnipa on Nov 8 2018 08:45am

it's interesting what's happening in Florida

very close races

what are the final results or best final projections ? seems Democrats are about to get 40 seats really ? wich is the best score since a long time isnt it ?

Same thing diff reason in Arizona with the McSally race.

got it

538 projects at +37.

And it's looking like +1 for Republicans in the Senate assuming Sinema wins (which it looks like she will).

This post was edited by Voyaging on Nov 9 2018 07:37pm

massive voter fraud as well. its kinda sad