**Official 2022 Mid-Term Elections Thread"

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**Official House of Representatives Update**

Officially, the number right now stands at 211 Democrats & 218 Republicans. So even though all the races have not yet been called, the right wingers are claiming victory.

Of the 8 House races still not officially called:

Maine 2 - Definitely will be a Democratic "hold". Should have been called days ago.

Alaska - The Democratic Candidate Peltola has a 48 - 26 lead over Moosealini. It's insane that this wasn't called a week ago.

Colorado 3 - This one is the true nail-biter.... right now Gun Nut Barbie Boebert has a razor thin lead of 50.2 to Adam Frisch's 49.8 (not sure what CO's recount threshold is, but this one might drag on for a while. That fucking nutcase needs to go.

California 34 - This is a 51 - 48 contest between two Democrats so no reason not to call it as a win for the "D" column

California 47 - Another 51 - 48 contest between Katie Porter (D) and Scott Baugh (R) - fucking call it already. We need Katie available for House leadership, even if it ends up in the minority party.

California 13 - Another down to the wire race with 90.8% reporting. The Republican has a 50.4 - 49.6 lead over the Democrat, so this could go either way.

California 3 - A bizarrely gerrymandered district that starts somewhere east of Sacramento and runs about halfway down the Nevada state line. Apparently their ballots are delivered by carrier pigeon as they still only have 65% reporting. Currently sits at 52.3% for the Republican vs 47.7% for the Democrat.

California 22 - This is the district formerly "represented" by Devin Nunes and his tweeting cow. Another carrier pigeon district with 67.4% reported. Currently the Republican leads 52.8% to 47.2% for the Democrat

So even in the "worst case" scenario, the Democrats will get 4 of these 8 seats. The so-called "red wave" has resulted in barely a ripple.

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In other House news, it would appear that the era of the Jellyfish is over.... breaking news that Nancy Pelosi has announced that she will not seek a "leadership" role in the new "minority" Democratic House caucus. Reportedly Steny Hoyer and Jim "I don't give a fuck who won the first 6 primaries" Clyburn are also stepping back from leadership. Which is appropriate enough since they're all over 80.

That's the good news. Bad news is that they're pushing Hakeem Jeffries for the new "leader'. And while Nancy Pelosi has merely ignored progressives and pretended they don't exist, Jeffries openly HATES them and campaigns against them. He probably has as much to do with the Democrats losing 4 seats in New York as that other dumbass Sean Buttmunch Baloney did. He's tied in with that AIPAC foreign dark money PAC that rigged half of the Democratic primaries this last season, and he's also a Wall $treet shill, naturally. If that's the "best" they can do, keep the Jellyfish and her $30K ice cream freezer.

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Katie Porter was finally declared the winner, thank God! Actually, a minor miracle considering she was already an ACTUAL Democrat, running in Orange County CA (usually considered a right wing stronghold) but even more so, after redistricting made her district arguably more "Republican" than it previously was.

Now the Clinton Cult/DLC/Turd Way "conventional wisdom" would be oh, well we have to run some right wing republican-lite blue-balled dog tool for this seat because a real Democrat could never win.

Except she did win. Just like an actual Democrat was the only winner in Florida....youngest candidate ever, in fact. While 4 turd way tools lost their asses in NY, including that moron Maloney who helped screw up their entire primaries earlier this year.

Now.... let's make Katie Porter the next Democratic House leader. Not some fucking useless AIPAC tool who openly campaigns AGAINST actual progressive Democrats.

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Did antivax MAGAtts dying from Covid help kill the so-called "red wave"??

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Gotta love the irony of antisemitic MAGAtts blowing the shofar, which is a totally Jewish thing.

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Well, it was painfully close for a while, and frankly never should have been a contest at all, but.....

Raphael Warnock has won the GA runoff, and with his re-election gives the Senate a 51-49 majority.

Of course Warnock was the incumbent so he already had his job. The real gain in the Senate was John Fetterman of PA. And Chuck Schumer & the other spineless cowards in the Senate need to be reminded of that fact DAILY.

[Seshmeister]

But it was still very close and Walker won the primary easily.

What is going on? How did that guy nearly become a senator?

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Seriously, most of his voters either liked him as a football player, or somehow thought he was more of a "man of God" then the actual minister who preached from the same church pulpit as MLK. What can I say..... it's Georgia....

[Nitro Express]

Warnock got the city votes and Walker got the rural votes. Politics is stupid and sometimes running a celebrity will give you an edge but Hershel Walker was never that big of a football star. When a race is this close a lot of things can ruin a win or make a win happen. The Republicans might have won with a better candidate. You have to appeal to the swing voters to win. Hershel is an old buddy of Trump’s so that’s probably why he won the primary.

[Nitro Express]

Seriously, most of his voters either liked him as a football player, or somehow thought he was more of a "man of God" then the actual minister who preached from the same church pulpit as MLK. What can I say..... it's Georgia....

He had an R by his name. My uncle was a highly qualified candidate but he was a Democrat in a Republican district. He campaigned his ass off. His opponent hardly did anything and won the election. People vote parties not candidates.

[Nitro Express]

I don’t like political parties. They make the voters lazy and lazy voters give you the kind of government we have now.

[Nickdfresh]

Warnock got the city votes and Walker got the rural votes. Politics is stupid and sometimes running a celebrity will give you an edge but Hershel Walker was never that big of a football star. When a race is this close a lot of things can ruin a win or make a win happen. The Republicans might have won with a better candidate. You have to appeal to the swing voters to win. Hershel is an old buddy of Trump’s so that’s probably why he won the primary.

He was a football star college, NFL not as much but he had a couple good years....

[Nickdfresh]

I have to say that Walker gave one of the most conciliatory and eloquent concession speeches I've seen recently...

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Walker claimed he had at least 12 personalities. Maybe one of the "alters" gave the concession speech?