OH-12 Special Election: Balderson vs. O’Connor on August 7

[KingSweden]

Is anyone else finding their interest in these special elections waning as we approach election day in Nov?

We already know dems are over performing and this race is up for grabs again in a few months anyway

I guess it provides some entertainment tonight for us political
Junkies, but I have to admit by tomorrow morning I’ll have moved on to something else

*raises hand*

[Hindsight was 2020]

Not sounding good unfortunately https://mobile.twitter.com/JessicaWehrman/status/1026946024668053506

Thank you for being an Atlas stereotype.

I hope O’Connor wins but you normally don’t hear something like this if it was going good for him

[Atlas Force]

Is anyone else finding their interest in these special elections waning as we approach election day in Nov?

We already know dems are over performing and this race is up for grabs again in a few months anyway

I guess it provides some entertainment tonight for us political
Junkies, but I have to admit by tomorrow morning I’ll have moved on to something else

*raises hand*

[IceSpear]

Not sounding good unfortunately https://mobile.twitter.com/JessicaWehrman/status/1026946024668053506

Thank you for being an Atlas stereotype.

I hope O’Connor wins but you normally don’t hear something like this if it was going good for O’ Connor

Literally every single election has anecdotal turnout reports that are "good" for either side...

[MAINEiac4434]

Not sounding good unfortunately https://mobile.twitter.com/JessicaWehrman/status/1026946024668053506

Thank you for being an Atlas stereotype.

I hope O’Connor wins but you normally don’t hear something like this if it was going good for him

You hear this every single election day, Bagel.

[Darthpi – Anti-Florida Activist]

Not sounding good unfortunately https://mobile.twitter.com/JessicaWehrman/status/1026946024668053506

Thank you for being an Atlas stereotype.

I hope O’Connor wins but you normally don’t hear something like this if it was going good for him

Except always

[Antonio the Sixth]

We should really have a moratorium on all posts from noon of Election Day to when polls close.

[Hindsight was 2020]

Not sounding good unfortunately https://mobile.twitter.com/JessicaWehrman/status/1026946024668053506

Thank you for being an Atlas stereotype.

I hope O’Connor wins but you normally don’t hear something like this if it was going good for O’ Connor

Literally every single election has anecdotal turnout reports that are "good" for either side...

Problem is we have hear nothing on Danny’s end. During Pa-18 or even Bama the threads were full of reports of high turnout in dem strongholds and GOP worry

[Matty]

Can someone refresh my memory....did the final polls nail the PA 17 margin?

[Xing]

It's funny if you go back and read the PA-18 election day thread how many times the thread consensus went from "Lambslide" to "Saccone has this" over and over again, lol.

Watch how this will happen

3% in: O'Connor 56, Balderson 43

Atlas: O'Connor has this! Blue wave imminent!

4% in: O'Connor 54, Balderson 45

Atlas: Oh my god, O'Connor's sinking like a rock! Balderson's gonna win by double digits!

[Antonio the Sixth]

Not sounding good unfortunately https://mobile.twitter.com/JessicaWehrman/status/1026946024668053506

Thank you for being an Atlas stereotype.

I hope O’Connor wins but you normally don’t hear something like this if it was going good for O’ Connor

Literally every single election has anecdotal turnout reports that are "good" for either side...

Problem is we have hear nothing on Danny’s end. During Pa-18 or even Bama the threads were full of reports of high turnout in dem strongholds and GOP worry

There have been high turnout reports from Franklin County posted in this very thread...

[Virginiá]

@re: marty's post on interest in special elections

I have a hard enough time keeping track of conversation on special election day, I'm not sure how I can deal with general election for a midterm. I've never done one of those on Atlas. In 2016, I mostly paid attention to the presidential race and only went over everything else after. Without a big race at the top, my focus is split among like a dozen key states with all kinds of races.

Worst yet, it's not a neutral year, and we know Democrats are probably to make up a lot of ground lost over the past 8 years, so there is going to be a lot to pay attention to. So many competitive races is really painful on election day when you think about it

[IceSpear]

@re: marty's post on interest in special elections

I have a hard enough time keeping track of conversation on special election day, I'm not sure how I can deal with general election for a midterm. I've never done one of those on Atlas. In 2016, I mostly paid attention to the presidential race and only went over everything else after. Without a big race at the top, my focus is split among like a dozen key states with all kinds of races.

Worst yet, it's not a neutral year, and we know Democrats are probably to make up a lot of ground lost over the past 8 years, so there is going to be a lot to pay attention to.

Don't worry about it, Atlas usually crashes on election day anyway.

[Skye]

It's funny if you go back and read the PA-18 election day thread how many times the thread consensus went from "Lambslide" to "Saccone has this" over and over again, lol.

Yes, it's one of the main reasons I like looking at these threads once an election happens. It's just too entertaining.

[Virginiá]

Don't worry about it, Atlas usually crashes on election day anyway.

Not that I'm confident it will work entirely as-expected, but I've been working on a new update to try and prevent that from happening.

[new_patomic]

Hearing that it's very humid in Franklin County, which is almost as bad as rain. Not good.

Democrats also can't be seen out in the sun too, from what I've been told.

Going to be a bad night, for sure.

[BudgieForce]

Don't worry about it, Atlas usually crashes on election day anyway.

Not that I'm confident it will work entirely as-expected, but I've been working on a new update to try and prevent that from happening.

Jeez Virginia, Dave should just give you Atlas. You've spent more time trying to improve it than a majority of us combined.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Guys, whatever happens, I want to say that I'm not very satisfied with this election. We did not try our very best and we did not get the best candidate possible. I feel like a quality candidate like Andy Ginther would be figuratively skewering Balderson on a Dagestani kabob if he was our nominee.

[new_patomic]

This is one twitter report I can get behind, at least

https://twitter.com/jpelzer/status/1026962099833131008

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Despite this, I still think O'Connor has a chance, I just feel like we did not put it all on the field yall feel?

[swf541]

Despite this, I still think O'Connor has a chance, I just feel like we did not put it all on the field yall feel?

Agreed but I'm unsure besides a better candidate what could have been done without nationalizing it

[OkThen]

Not sure how useful this is?...

https://twitter.com/jpelzer/status/1026963510402547712

[Matty]

Not sure how useful this is?...

https://twitter.com/jpelzer/status/1026963510402547712

Not very useful imo

O Connor is probably outright winning republicans in certain high income burbs

[Dr. Arch]

Results pages?

[Antonio the Sixth]

Not sure how useful this is?...

https://twitter.com/jpelzer/status/1026963510402547712

That's a small sample from an anonymous rumor, of course, but if this is true it doesn't seem like the kind of margin Republicans need to pull out, does it?