• farmgineer@nord.pub
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    10 hours ago

    My heavily-gerrymandered house district is basically a toss-up at about a third of votes counted. I still expect the R to win, sadly, but it’s closer than I expected.

    Edit: elections website says my vote was actually counted, so that’s nice.

    Edit2: down to 60 R / 40 D with a bit over half counted.

    Edit3: aaaaand they called it R with about 2/3 votes in. Shithole.

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    11 hours ago

    Is Texas for real going go blue here!!! 60% Paxton at 38% is this for real? And fucking Oklahoma please keep it up and lets get a Democrat Governor, same for Texas. Did my part in Oklahoma will be so happy if we win.

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      11 hours ago

      It’s only 25% counted, and probably mostly blue counties with that big a disparity. Once it’s 90%+ then celebrate or start biting your nails.

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    19 hours ago

    My election night tradition is to pour myself a bourbon on the rocks (or three), stay up late, and watch the results roll in.

    Last time was stressful for obvious reasons and I wound up sad drunk. Looking forward to being happy drunk tonight!

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      19 hours ago

      I only drink to celebrate or if I’m at a work event so we shall see if I’m drinking tonight (I don’t have a work event tonight so my only hope is a blue tsunami). Sure hope I get sloppy drunk.

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      16 hours ago

      It’s retirees who have time to meander to the polls in their bumper stickered golf carts during the working hours. We need workers to, borrowing some sensational headline vocabulary, slam the polls as soon as the workday is done right up until close.

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        Just fucking up in general. Broward county canʻt keep their fucking voting count reporting up so its throwing off the count. Weʻre getting lumpy updates with big vote drops instead of steady numbers. Its making it hard to see intraday signals (like we expect voting to have peaked for Rʻs but not yet for Dʻs, since most Rʻs are unemployed/ retired).