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Tuesday, November 20, 2018
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Sunday, November 18, 2018
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UPDATE-11/21/2018. 2018 MID-TERM ELECTIONS: MORE TRUMP DELUSIONS, MORE DEMOCRATIC APATHY.
Thursday, November 8, 2018
As of today, with the Florida recount finished, the following
is a recap of Senatorial Contests that have been concluded:
DEMOCRATS- 22 VICTORIES.
REPUBLICANS- 10 VICTORIES.
INDEPENDENTS- 2 VICTORIES.
1 UNDECIDED.
HOWEVER, SINCE THIS IS NOT A FINAL EVALUATION,
I WILL ONLY PROVIDE THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
VOTE TOTALS SO FAR:
DEMOCRATS- 50,404,363 votes (58.5%)
REPUBLICANS- 34,446,263 votes (40.0%)
DEMOCRATIC VOTERS, YOU SHOWED UP AGAIN.
CONGRATULATIONS, BE PROUD, AND PLACE ANY
BLAME WHERE IT BELONGS.
SOURCE- NEW YORK TIMES.
In 2016 I watched the Media, and the Democratic Party, ignore bogus returns in 6 States that allowed Donald Trump to enter the White House. Well, it's 2018 and they are still finding ways to keep him happy, by ignoring the obvious.
As you probably know by now, the 2018 Mid-Term elections have ended, and the Democratic Party has taken control of the U.S. House of Representatives. (As of right now, the count is 224-197, Source New York Times.)
However, Trump and the Media are emphasizing the fact that the Republicans still control the Senate, as if it is a major accomplishment. The Democrats don't seem to be questioning this assessment.
(As of right now, they have 51 seats, which is the same number held prior to the mid-term elections. Yes, they could add 2-3 seats to this total, with 3 races still not called; Source New York Times.)
Now, this is a victory, but how big is it really?
The 2018 Mid- Term elections had 35 Senate Seats to be contested.
These seats broke down the following way, according to which party occupied the office.
24 Democrats, 9 Republicans, 2 Independent.
(Caucus with the Democrats, and are usually grouped with them.)
That meant that 65 seats could not change hands. What was the make up of the seats not contested?
Republican- 42 Democrat- 23.
The Republicans had a 19 seat advantage before a single vote was cast. These numbers were the result of previous elections, and were not a reflection of Donald Trumps time in office. Now if we assume the Republicans end up with the total of 54 seats, it would mean the following:
THE TOTALS WOULD BE- DEMOCRATS- 21 WINS, REPUBLICANS- 12 WINS, INDEPENDENTS- 2 WINS.
What does this mean?
At the start of election day, The Republicans had a 19 seat advantage. In the end, it was 8 seats.
To keep majority control of the Senate, the Republicans needed to
win 9 of the 35 seats.
To gain majority control of the Senate, the Democrats needed to win 28 of the 35 seats.
With these numbers, exactly who was predicting a Democratic take over of the Senate?
In the end, the Democrats essentially won TWO-THIRDS OF THE SENATE SEATS CONTESTED ON NOVEMBER 6TH.
THIS IS A VICTORY FOR THE REPUBLICANS?
WELL DEMOCRATS, HOPE FOR MANY MORE REPUBLICAN "VICTORIES" LIKE THIS.
Friday, November 16, 2018
FLORIDA SENATE RACE HEADS TO HAND RECOUNT. NPR.
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Updated at 8 p.m. ET
As confusion continues over the outcome of multiple Florida elections, a hand recount has been ordered in that state's narrow Senate race between Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson and Republican Gov. Rick Scott. Meanwhile, in the gubernatorial contest, Republican Ron DeSantis appears headed to victory over Democrat Andrew Gillum after a machine recount did not significantly narrow the margin in that race.
Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner declared that the Senate race was within a 0.25 percent margin after a machine recount was conducted across the state, which triggers a hand recount of some ballots to be completed by noon on Sunday. Nelson continues to trail Scott by 0.15 percent, as he did before the machine recount.
The hand recount is only of ballots that registered either an undervote or an overvote in the race (an undervote is where a marking isn't read by the machine for the race; an overvote is where more than one marking is registered by machine).
The hand recount order in the Senate race, as well as a hand recount in the tight race for agriculture commissioner, came after at least three Florida counties were unable to submit results from machine recounts by a 3 p.m. deadline on Thursday.
Palm Beach County — a heavily populated Democratic stronghold in the state, which has been plagued by antiquated, failing equipment — did not meet the deadline and submitted initial tallies collected on Saturday. But they may finish machine and manual recounts in the Senate race before the final deadline on Sunday.
"It was a heroic effort," Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Susan Bucher told reporters after the Thursday deadline passed. "We were adding up our tallies, and you can see they were adding up, but we just need some more time."
According to the Tampa Bay Times, Hillsborough County also did not submit results after its recount turned up 846 fewer votes than the initial tally.
"Even though we achieved 99.84 percent success in our recount effort, we are not willing to accept that votes go unreported," Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections Craig Latimer told the Times.
In Broward County, the machine recount was completed just ahead of the deadline, but the results were not submitted on time because the election official responsible for that was unfamiliar with the website. There was also a large unexplained discrepancy between the original and new vote totals.
Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes — who has said she is likely to leave her post, as she has been under intense criticism for allegedly mismanaging the election process — said that 23 ineligible provisional ballots that had been mixed in with eligible ballots would be counted in her county's tally, which is now moot because it was not submitted on time.
According to state law, when counties do not submit recount results on time, the initial unofficial tally stands.
Broward County set the start for its hand recounts, which can be submitted on Sunday, for 7 a.m. on Friday.
Nelson, who is about 12,000 votes behind Scott in the Senate race, filed a new lawsuit after the deadline as a federal judge considered how to handle incomplete counts in Palm Beach County.
In Palm Beach County, Bucher said her staff was on track to finish the machine recount in the Senate race late Thursday, and the workers were poised to conduct the hand recount for that contest on Friday. She said there were 20 teams of people ready to begin that phase.
Not only does Palm Beach County need to recount the three statewide races. A race there for a seat in Florida's House of Representatives was decided by fewer than 50 votes, so it needs to be recounted as well. Democrat Jim Bonfiglio, who trails Republican Mike Caruso in that House race, is the plaintiff in the lawsuit requesting that the deadline be pushed back.
Palm Beach County's old technology limits the staff to recounting only one individual race at a time. When asked by District Judge Mark Walker when she could realistically finish all the recounts — for Senate, governor, agriculture commissioner and the state legislative race — Bucher said "very close to Christmas" was realistic.
Walker asked whether it would be possible to complete counts for the Senate and state legislative races, while submitting original totals for governor and agriculture commissioner, but he held off on making a ruling until at least Friday morning.
After the deadline on Thursday forced a hand recount in the Senate race, Scott called on Nelson to concede.
"We need to put this election behind us, and it is time for Bill Nelson to respect the will of the voters and graciously bring this process to an end rather than proceed with yet another count of the votes — which will yield the same result, and bring more embarrassment to the state that we both love and have served," said Scott in a statement issued by his campaign.
While Nelson launched fresh legal action right after Thursday's deadline, Gillum released a statement calling on all votes to be counted even with no hand recount ordered in the race for governor.
"We plan to do all we can to ensure that every voice is heard in this process. Voters need to know that their decision to participate in this election, and every election, matters. It is not over until every legally casted vote is counted," Gillum said.
The Florida Elections Canvassing Commission (from which Scott recused himself this week) is scheduled to meet on Tuesday, Nov. 20, to certify the results of the election.
NPR's Asma Khalid, Don Gonyea and Arnie Seipel contributed to this report.
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