2023 Election Day

[BeachBumDeac]

Someone explain KY to me? Like a governor and your state government have a much higher chance of impacting your day to day than the federal.

I think it’s related to how people like democratic policies more than the Democratic Party. So they vote to have some of those policies locally while avoiding the national democratic politicians.

 

[PhDeac]

Someone explain KY to me? Like a governor and your state government have a much higher chance of impacting your day to day than the federal.

His dad was a popular KY governor from 2007-15. Republicans won big in the other races.

 

[Highland Deac]

Kind of wish this would play out better in state legislature races.

Gerrymandering in most red states makes that nearly impossible, unfortunately. It looks like control of the Virginia legislature is going to be extremely close, although the Democrats did win a couple of big state senate races.

 

[deactherunner]

His dad was a popular KY governor from 2007-15. Republicans won big in the other races.

A bit surprising that a party that supposedly does not trust government is OK with apparent nepotism?

Ugh, CNN is interviewing Vivek.

 

[PhDeac]

A bit surprising that a party that supposedly does not trust government is OK with apparent nepotism?

Ugh, CNN is interviewing Vivek.

Vivek's plan to hold men more accountable won't be very popular. Dude is flailing. He shouldn't have volunteered to go out while Ohio results are coming in.

Ohio votes to legal marijuana. Obviously it remains to be seen how the Ohio Republicans allow marijuana and abortion.

Mississippi actually too close to call for now.

 

[Louis Gossett Jr]

 

[deactherunner]

First close-ish VA house district (as defined by VPAP) went to the Dems. (HD58)

 

[PhDeac]

MSNBC switched off Beshear's speech to bring on Julian Castro to complain about Biden's 2024 strategy.
CNN is switching off to get to a table of 8 pundits spouting bullshit.

Just show the real news.

 

[deactherunner]

Danica Roem, the transgender woman who defeated her virulently anti-trans oppnent in 2017, just won her district. Her district is right about in the center in terms of partisan lean, so that's good.

 

[deactherunner]

I feel like CNN has been telling us for an hour that the abortion voters don't really like abortion, but rather (word salad).

 

[deactherunner]

NYTimes has called 20 VA senate seats for Dems, Any one of these clinches the Senate for the Dems.


Featured races only

Undecided only

• SD 8 (Lynchburg/Bedford/Campbell)​

  Candidate	Votes	Percent
  Mark Peake*Incumbent (R)	35,882	75.12%
  Donna StClair (D)	11,886	24.88%

  44 of 66 precincts; 14,742 early votes left

• SD 17 (Hampton Roads/Southside)​

  
  

  Candidate	Votes	Percent
  Emily Brewer (R)	38,481	53.02%
  Clint Jenkins (D)	34,091	46.98%

  102 of 102 precincts; 4,143 early votes left

• SD 22 (Virginia Beach)​

  
  

  Candidate	Votes	Percent
  Aaron Rouse*Incumbent (D)	15,950	51.46%
  Kevin Adams (R)	15,003	48.40%

  42 of 48 precincts; 18,128 early votes left

• SD 24 (Peninsula)​

  Candidate	Votes	Percent
  Danny Diggs (R)	31,008	49.93%
  Monty Mason*Incumbent (D)	30,957	49.85%

  43 of 43 precincts; 2,432 early votes left

• SD 27 (Fredericksburg Area)​

  Candidate	Votes	Percent
  Tara Durant (R)	33,794	48.33%
  Joel Griffin (D)	32,267	46.14%
  Monica Gary (I)	3,219	4.60%

  48 of 48 precincts; 0 early votes left

 

[PhDeac]

 

[avalon]

Dems win the State Supreme Court race in Pennsylvania.

Dems wanted to make the race about abortion, Pubs very much did not.

 

[PhDeac]

So it seems like abortion is still a winning issue for Dems. And voters like Dem incumbents who get shit done. Yet somehow this is bad for Dems in 2024?

 

[redwing42]

I think the thought is that Trump has huge coattails, but the MAGA block doesn't show when their guy isn't on the ballot. Whether that is correct or not is another thing, but that is the fear for Dems.

 

[deactherunner]

Seems VA dems have the Senate, per VPAP. The one race NYT is not calling is SD22, which is 55%-45% in favor of the D at this point. (They also have not called SD17 for the Republicans, which VPAP has).

 

[PhDeac]

 

[deactherunner]

Dems need one of these five to control the house. per VPAP

VPAP: November 7 Elections

Live election results

www.vpap.org

• HD 57 (Western Henrico)​

  Candidate	Votes	Percent
  Susanna Gibson (D)	14,985	51.29%
  David Owen (R)	14,095	48.25%

  16 of 19 precincts; 2,413 early votes left

• HD 65 (Fredericksburg Area)​

  
  

  Candidate	Votes	Percent
  Joshua Cole (D)	15,064	52.61%
  Lee Peters (R)	13,479	47.07%

  18 of 19 precincts; 0 early votes left

• HD 71 (James City/Williamsburg)​

  Candidate	Votes	Percent
  Amanda Batten*Incumbent (R)	12,004	54.02%
  Jessica Anderson (D)	10,219	45.98%

  19 of 21 precincts; 13,753 early votes left

• HD 75 (Chesterfield/Hopewell)​

  
  

  Candidate	Votes	Percent
  Carrie Coyner*Incumbent (R)	10,934	52.99%
  Stephen Miller-Pitts (D)	9,643	46.74%

  18 of 18 precincts; 0 early votes left

• HD 82 (Petersburg/Dinwiddie)​

  Candidate	Votes	Percent
  Kim Taylor*Incumbent (R)	14,141	50.23%
  Kimberly Pope Adams (D)	13,968	49.61%

  31 of 31 precincts; 0 early votes left

 

[PhDeac]

It looks like the Mississippi race will be a point or two closer than 2019 (52.1 to 46.6).

 

[deactherunner]

MS democrat just conceded?