Election 2018 Open Thread - Part 1

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

Why is CNN already on doom mode?

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

Wolf needs to calm down, everyone's already hooked, you don't need to oversell it.

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

AZ SoS said that there are "hundreds of thousands of votes" untabulated.

We're not going to know anything about AZ until later this week.

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

AZ SoS said that there are "hundreds of thousands of votes" untabulated.

We're not going to know anything about AZ until later this week.

Yeah, anyone waiting for this one tonight/today...probably not gonna happen.

Not surprising. Though it is something that Ducey won by such a landslide margin-roughly 18 percentage points. McSally is running about 9% behind him thus far.

Does the 98% counted figure referenced on the SoS website exclude these untabulated votes?

Based on this I'm assuming not:

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/415434-no-winner-will-be-announced-in-arizona-senate-race-on-tuesday-night

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

Again, Arizona is too early to call right now. It really depends where those absentees came from.

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

That's way more early votes than 2016. That's a good sign for Sinema.

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

That's way more early votes than 2016. That's a good sign for Sinema.

Are these votes supposed to lean that D?

If it's Maricopa and AZ-01, that means that there's potentially swaths of Pima still out, where Sinema has been running up margins. The Maricopa total is the big question -- essentially, who's voting early?

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

Tester's first tweet needs to be to thank the 3rd parties for saving him once again, not his supporters, not anyone else, thank you to the spoiler votes.

If McSally wins, she needs to thank Angela Green

Wasn't Sinema a former Green Party member? That would be ironic.

I think this is part of why Angela Green's vote count is that high. There's supposedly a lot of resentment between Greens and Sinema.

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

Apparently the GOP has filed a lawsuit in AZ?

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

Remaining votes in Palm Beach. Nelson won Palm Beach 58.4%-41.6%.

https://twitter.com/talanez/status/1060632738112458754

oof, that doesnt look like enough

Eh the margin is going to come from there. It's going to come from Broward.

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

Whether you're a Nelson supporter or not, I don't understand why anyone is so keen to say that there's no need to verify the votes. Don't people, as a general principle, want people's valid votes to count?

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

Better updates on the situation above here: https://twitter.com/harrisalexc

As much as Republican elected officials are to blame, the media's hard-on for calling races quickly is also to blame. It creates the notion that the race is over (and the media doesn't deal with any of the fallout from that).

Seriously. 2000 should have been a lesson that perception is everything. When something as important as who's running the country is on the line, media should take a step back and say "Okay, let's be patient." The problem, of course, is that election night is essentially sports-level entertainment at this point. If you watched the CNN broadcast, they were making the early returns sound like first down on the opponent's 30.