Election 2022 (Dems in charge of Senate. Reps take the House. Herschel Walker headed back home to ignore his children )

[Cooked Crack]

 

[Fergasun]

Peter Thiel just bought "Hillbily Effigy" author JD Vance a likely Ohio Senate seat.  JD Vance who flipped from never Trump to endorses by Trump.  Why does this guy need to be in the Senate?  He basically defended MTG speaking in front of white nationalists.

[LadySkinsFan]

I voted yesterday for my mayor and city council members. It starts at the local level on up. My neighbor doesn't vote in local elections. I have voted in every election beginning in 1972. It's our civic duty.

[EmirOfShmo]

 

[China]

Tuesday saw third lowest primary voter turnout in Ohio since 1986

 

Ohio has chosen who will go head-to-head on the November ballot, but the number of voters that came out for the spring primary was the third lowest since 1986.

 

According to Ohio Secretary of State, who overseas all state elections, the unofficial voter turnout for Tuesday’s primary was 20.64%.

 

Meaning of nearly 8 million registered voters in Ohio, only 1.6 million voted in person or by absentee.

 

The online records from the Sec. of State only go back to 1986 and there has been only two years worse than 2022, and that was May 6, 2014 with 16.95% and May 7, 2002 with 19.4%.

 

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And then people complain that there are no good candidates on the final ballot.  

[Cooked Crack]

 

[China]

A January 6 rally participant could unseat the longest-serving woman in the House

 

This is the weirdness of the 2022 midterm elections: An Ohio Republican associated with the QAnon conspiracy movement -- and who painted massive Donald Trump murals on his lawn and put out a crass rap song on his campaign website -- will face off in November against a Democrat who could become the longest-serving woman in Capitol Hill history.

Due to Ohio's newly drawn congressional map, the race is likely to be a tossup, according to professional handicappers.

J.R. Majewski, the Republican who describes himself as working in the nuclear energy industry, was born in Toledo, Ohio, in 1979 and won Tuesday's crowded Republican primary for the 9th Congressional District.

He previously told the Toledo Blade he attended the "Stop the Steal" rally on January 6, 2021, but says he didn't breach the US Capitol.

 

Rep. Marcy Kaptur, the incumbent, was first elected to represent Toledo in 1982, before Majewski was old enough to be in kindergarten. She's an old-school, union-backing Democrat -- in a place where Democrats, who have paid lip service to unions without much to show for it, have struggled to keep up.

In the decade leading up to this election, the 9th District spanned 140 miles of Lake Erie coastline -- everything in the two-plus hour drive from the Democratic stronghold of Toledo east to the Democratic stronghold of Cleveland.

Kaptur routinely won elections with more than 60% of the vote.

That old district is gone now, carved up in a redistricting process controlled by the state's Republican majority, who also had to deal with Ohio's loss of a congressional seat after the 2020 Census.

 

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[LadySkinsFan]

Well, the results of Saturday's local Cedar Park TX election are in and we remain a tiny Blue Dot! Everyone and everything I voted for won. A miracle. Thank goodness!

[China]

 

[China]

‘Ultra-MAGA’ longshot roars into contention in key Senate race

 

Kathy Barnette has been outspent 358-to-1 on TV in Pennsylvania’s GOP primary for the Senate. She hasn’t run for statewide office before. She doesn’t have former President Donald Trump’s endorsement.

 

But the ultra-MAGA commentator is surging in the polls anyway in the final weeks of one of the most expensive and closely watched races in the country.

 

This time around, her opponents Mehmet Oz and David McCormick have spent $12.4 million and $11.4 million on television commercials, respectively, according to the ad-tracking firm AdImpact. Other candidates and outside groups have bankrolled $25 million more in spots. Oz has also won a highly sought-after nod from Trump.

 

Barnette, on the other hand, has spent a paltry $137,000 on TV.

 

GOP consultants said another factor that helps explain her bump in the polls is her link to state Sen. Doug Mastriano, the frontrunner in the state’s GOP primary for governor. Mastriano and Barnette have endorsed each other and campaigned alongside each other.

 

Mastriano worked to overturn the 2020 presidential election and recently appeared at an event that promoted Q-Anon propaganda. He also went to the Capitol on Jan. 6, and has been subpoenaed by the congressional committee investigating the insurrection. He has said he left before the riot.

 

Like Mastriano, Barnette has made false statements about voter fraud in 2020. She said at a debate that it is “absolutely not” time for the GOP to move past the presidential election.

 

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[China]

Senate Republicans aghast at Perdue's false election claims in Georgia governor race

 

It's a refrain that former Sen. David Perdue has made a centerpiece of his campaign for governor in Georgia.

 

"The election in 2020 was rigged and stolen," Perdue asserted at a recent debate.

Perdue's former Senate GOP colleagues, however, are less than impressed.

"It's absurd," said Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, when asked about the remarks of Perdue, his former colleague. "I think the effort to try and overturn an election when there is, at this stage, no evidence of widespread fraud is detrimental to democracy and insulting to the American public."

"Hell yes," one of Perdue's closest Senate friends told CNN when asked if he was surprised by his ex-colleague's campaign transformation.

"I don't know whether he believes it or not. I really don't," said Sen. Kevin Cramer, a North Dakota Republican. "But I'm sure it's a political strategy."

Indeed, in his six years in the Senate before losing his reelection bid last year, Perdue was a mainstream Senate Republican member, a business-minded conservative who usually voted with his party.

But Perdue announced his bid in December challenging Georgia GOP Gov. Brian Kemp, blaming Kemp for his and then-Sen. Kelly Loeffler's losses, which cost Republicans the Senate, by arguing that the governor did not do enough to overturn the results.

 

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[China]

Florida’s secretary of state to resign ahead of upcoming elections

 

Florida’s secretary of state is resigning, seven months before the November elections.

 

Laurel Lee submitted her resignation to Gov. Ron DeSantis Thursday, according to the governor’s spokesperson. The resignation is effective Monday, May 16.

 

Lee’s resignation does not specifically say why she is resigning.

 

“I will continue to seek what’s best for the citizens of Florida and will always be proud of what we accomplished together,” she wrote.

 

Lee has been secretary of state since February 2019, after DeSantis’ first secretary of state, former Seminole County Supervisor of Elections Mike Ertel was forced to resign amid controversy.

 

Before then, Lee was appointed circuit court judge by former Gov. Rick Scott in 2013, serving in Hillsborough County.

 

The Florida Secretary of State’s biggest job is overseeing the Division of Elections, including candidate filings and vote tabulations. DeSantis will now have to appoint someone to take on the job, one month before candidate qualifying and with the August primaries just a few months away.

 

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[China]

 

[Passepartout]

Well it seems the Florida Secretary of State has a pretty hard time keeping help.

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[visionary]

 

[Larry]

I'm thinking, NY and CA should announce that they'll produce non-gerrymandered districts, when FL and TX do.  

[LadySkinsFan]

Early voting this week for Texas state runnoffs 

[China]

Failing Senate Candidate Wraps Escalade in Photos of Himself Doing Crime

 

America's favorite unhinged lunatic turned convicted criminal turned failing Senate candidate evidently has a new line for his colorful resume these days: driver of luxury automobile with a photo of himself holding a gun  plastered onto it.

 

 

A local man named Sean Chladek spotted Senate hopeful Mark McCloskey cruising the streets of south city this week in his Escalade, which apparently is now covered in decals related to his spectacularly failing run. One prominently featured on the back depicts the moment he and his wife inexplicably lost their minds and needlessly pulled firearms on a crowd of people that was simply walking past their house in the summer of 2020. Chladek tells RFT that when he saw the absurd sight, he felt he had to take a picture.

 

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[tshile]

The fact that 80% of voters in Ohio didn’t bother to vote in primaries is why we have the government we have. 
 

everyone’s willing to **** about it, most won’t bother to do the one thing they have actual control over which is to show up and vote once in a while

 

we have the government we deserve. 

[The Evil Genius]

Trying to figure out who the bigger GOP fraud is. Dr Oz or JD Vance?

[JCB]

7 hours ago, tshile said:

The fact that 80% of voters in Ohio didn’t bother to vote in primaries is why we have the government we have. 
 

everyone’s willing to **** about it, most won’t bother to do the one thing they have actual control over which is to show up and vote once in a while

 

we have the government we deserve. 

Preach, brother. Make it mandatory like some other democracies.

[88Comrade2000]

Polls Closed in NC. Too early to call.

 

Will be interesting to see how the key races turnout tonight.

PA polls close at 8.

Edited May 17, 2022 by 88Comrade2000

[88Comrade2000]

Early returns see Trump’s NC Senate choice Budd; crushing it. 
 

Cawthorne is losing in early numbers.

[Larry]

One of the few things that gives me political hope, is the thought of people tied to Trump, winning in the primaries. 
 

One of the things that terrifies me, is people tied to Trump, winning in the general.