**Official 2022 Mid-Term Elections Thread"
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**Official Senate Update**
Nevada has finally been called with alleged "Democrat" Catherine Cortez Masto winning with 48.8% of the votes defeating Republican Adam Laxalt with 48.1%
This gives the Democrats 50 senators, so they will retain majority of the Senate regardless of the outcome of the GA runoff, by way of the VP tiebreaker. But Rev. Warnock is likely to win the runoff, so expect a 51-49 majority. Technically, Alaska has not been called yet, but (thanks to ranked choice voting in their primaries) it was a "choice" of two Republicans on their ballot, so whichever one finally wins, it doesn't change the makeup of the Senate.
Officially, the House currently stands at 203 Democrats vs 211 Republicans with 218 needed for majority. Two seats remain uncalled on the east coast: Maine 2 at 98.7% probably should have been called already, with Jared Golden (D) leading with 48.2% over Bruce Poliquin (R) with 44.9%.
Meanwhile, out west.... starting with as far west as you can go without seeing Russia from your house.... Alaska's one and only house seat SHOULD have been called a long time ago, since Mary Peltola (D) with 47.3% of the vote absolutely slaughtered Moosealini Sarah Palin herself (R) with 26.6%. Don't know why that hasn't been called yet.. unlike their dueling Republicans Senate race which is practically a tie.
The remaining House seats are all west of the Rockies: 2 in Colorado, 2 in Arizona, 2 in Oregon, and 12 in Collieforneea. And most of these are literally "too close" to call.... still holding out hope that Katie Porter wins, and Gun Nut Barbie Bobert does not!Eat Us And Smile
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Justice Democrats
"If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992Comment
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Justice Democrats
"If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992Comment
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Justice Democrats
"If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992Comment
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Justice Democrats
"If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992Comment
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The gas prices are more about production capacity and collusion than about access to oil fields. The oil companies did retrack and orphan refineries during the pandemic but have been very slow to expand production capacity and a lot of this comes from Wall St speculators pushing them to keep prices higher...
My son is an oil/gas pipeline welder. The strongest headwinds to increasing capacity is the permits and regulatory processes managed by the federal government. It's a nightmare just to get a permit to build something which the current administration is slow walking through approvals. Then once the permits are approved the EPA and DOJ are slow walking all the environmental approvals, law suits from ecology groups, etc... Then pile on the same from state and local regulatory agencies.
Just in the last couple of weeks... the FERC slowed approvals for scheduled maintenance of natural gas pipelines and distribution lines in Texas. This forced a distribution capacity problem in which the price of natural gas fell o $-2.00/mbtu meaning the production companies in West Texas had to pay to have excess natural gas trucked out of wells which can't just be shut off and they also couldn't just burn off the excess due to EPA restrictions. So the same day you have record market prices... you have pay to haul away a resource that's not meeting current demand this time of year. All because of federal regulatory issues."If you want to be a monk... you gotta cook a lot of rice...”Comment
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Justice Democrats
"If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992Comment
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Roth Army Militia
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Rikk - The new school of the Roth Army... this dude leads the pack... three words... The Sheep Pen... this dude opened alot of doors for people during this new era... he's the best of the new school.Comment
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Anyone got any examples of countries that aren't democracies that have worked out well that they would like the US to copy?Comment
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Justice Democrats
"If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992Comment
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Eat Us And Smile
Cenk For America 2024!!
Justice Democrats
"If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992Comment
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Eat Us And Smile
Cenk For America 2024!!
Justice Democrats
"If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992Comment
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Justice Democrats
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