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silverscreenselect wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 08, 2022 9:59 pm

All the states count votes differently, but I've noticed a trend that Democrats jump out to early leads as early and/or mail-in votes are counted, then Republican same day votes get counted quickly in the rural areas, bringing down the margins or putting them in the lead, then the same-day vote in the larger cities gets counted, bumping up Democratic totals again.

Steve Kornacki has been doing a good job in the close races of showing how candidates are doing vs. Trump/Biden in 2020 and also how much of the vote remains in which counties. That gives a better idea of how the race stands in some of these elections. Based on this, Fetterman seems to be in very good shape in PA.

Weyoun wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 09, 2022 8:31 am

Kari Lake reminds me of a local broadcaster named Wendy Bell. She was kicked off the local news because she was suggesting, basically, that police should be free to shoot Black people in the streets if they were protesting, even if they weren’t doing anything violent. A bit gauche!

Anyway she has that same sort of suburban, scared of the big cities outlook, and is fit with close cropped hair also.

Someone you’re mildly embarrassed is a member of your country club. Certainly no one you want to elect governor

Spock wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 09, 2022 9:44 am

Weyoun wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 09, 2022 8:31 am

Kari Lake reminds me of a local broadcaster named Wendy Bell. She was kicked off the local news because she was suggesting, basically, that police should be free to shoot Black people in the streets if they were protesting, even if they weren’t doing anything violent. A bit gauche!

Anyway she has that same sort of suburban, scared of the big cities outlook, and is fit with close cropped hair also.

Someone you’re mildly embarrassed is a member of your country club. Certainly no one you want to elect governor

Boy, you are big on the whole "Scared of the big cities" thing aren't you.

My wife has a first cousin once removed who graduated from Compton, California in 1956 and she describes it as an absolutely beautiful place. She now lives in the far exurbs and hasn't been back to Compton in decades.

When we went to her house in 2016, she said she has talked to some of the long-time African-American truck drivers in their family business and asked them if they would take her on a short visit to Compton.

They told her that they don't even go there.

Do these African-American truck drivers have the "suburban, scared of big cities" outlook of which you speak?

Weyoun wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 09, 2022 8:31 am

Kari Lake reminds me of a local broadcaster named Wendy Bell. She was kicked off the local news because she was suggesting, basically, that police should be free to shoot Black people in the streets if they were protesting, even if they weren’t doing anything violent. A bit gauche!

Anyway she has that same sort of suburban, scared of the big cities outlook, and is fit with close cropped hair also.

Someone you’re mildly embarrassed is a member of your country club. Certainly no one you want to elect governor

Weyoun wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 09, 2022 10:37 am

Spock wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 09, 2022 9:44 am

Weyoun wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 09, 2022 8:31 am

Kari Lake reminds me of a local broadcaster named Wendy Bell. She was kicked off the local news because she was suggesting, basically, that police should be free to shoot Black people in the streets if they were protesting, even if they weren’t doing anything violent. A bit gauche!

Anyway she has that same sort of suburban, scared of the big cities outlook, and is fit with close cropped hair also.

Someone you’re mildly embarrassed is a member of your country club. Certainly no one you want to elect governor

Boy, you are big on the whole "Scared of the big cities" thing aren't you.

My wife has a first cousin once removed who graduated from Compton, California in 1956 and she describes it as an absolutely beautiful place. She now lives in the far exurbs and hasn't been back to Compton in decades.

When we went to her house in 2016, she said she has talked to some of the long-time African-American truck drivers in their family business and asked them if they would take her on a short visit to Compton.

They told her that they don't even go there.

Do these African-American truck drivers have the "suburban, scared of big cities" outlook of which you speak?

Do you always take one example to mean it applies universally? Westwood is also part of Los Angeles. Should I be scared to visit Westwood?

jarnon wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 10, 2022 10:23 pm

Let the infighting commence.

silverscreenselect wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 10, 2022 10:43 pm

jarnon wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 10, 2022 10:23 pm

Let the infighting commence.

The same Republicans who spent the last two years groveling at Trump's feet are now blaming him for their poor showing.

Bob Juch wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 14, 2022 9:31 pm

With 98% of the ballots counted, Katie Hobbs has been declared the winner. She's about 21,000 votes ahead.

I haven't seen anything about Kari Lake calling for a recount; I wouldn't be surprised if she did.

Republican officials in a rural Arizona county refused Monday to certify the 2022 election despite no evidence of anything wrong with the count, a decision that was quickly challenged in court by the state’s top election official. The refusal to certify by Cochise County in southeastern Arizona comes amid pressure from prominent Republicans to reject results showing Democrats winning top races.

Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat who narrowly won the race for governor, asked a judge to order county officials to canvass the election, which she said is an obligation under Arizona law. Lawyers representing a Cochise County voter and a group of retirees filed a similar lawsuit Monday, the deadline for counties to approve the official tally of votes, known as the canvass. The two Republican county supervisors delayed the canvass vote until Friday, when they want to hear once more about concerns over the certification of ballot tabulators, though election officials have repeatedly said the equipment is properly approved.

State Elections Director Kori Lorick wrote in a letter last week that Hobbs is required by law to approve the statewide canvass by next week and will have to exclude Cochise County’s votes if they aren’t received in time. That would threaten to flip the victor in at least two close races — a U.S. House seat and state schools chief — from a Republican to a Democrat. Hobbs’ lawsuit asks the Cochise County Superior Court to order officials to certify by Thursday. Failing to certify would undermine the will of the county’s voters “and sow further confusion and doubt about the integrity of Arizona’s election system,” lawyers for Hobbs wrote.

Plaintiffs lacked an adequate factual or legal basis to support the wideranging constitutional claims they raised or the extraordinary relief they requested.
Plaintiffs filled the gaps between their factual assertions, claimed injuries, and requested relief with false, misleading, and speculative allegations.

Plaintiffs either failed to conduct the reasonable factual and legal inquiry required under Rule 11, or they conducted such an inquiry and filed this lawsuit anyway. Either way, no reasonable attorney, “after conducting an objectively reasonable inquiry into the facts and law, would have found the complaint to be well-founded.”