Election 2018 Open Thread - Part 1

[Kyle Rittenhouse is a Political Prisoner]

This night is WEIRD. AS. HELL.

Nothing makes sense and everything is on fire. Welcome to the realm of the Unbeatable Titan.

[MasterJedi]

CNN calls it for Menendez.

[Ye We Can]

Calling it for Dean Heller

[Pericles]

[Badger]

Dems need someone like Beto running for president in 2020.

[Brittain33]

Ocean and Monmouth County have reported 350,000 votes on NYT. Hudson, Bergen, and Passaic have 75,000 votes. The Menendez numbers don't mean anything yet.

[RI]

CNN calls it for Menendez.

NJ gonna NJ

[Yank2133]

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https://twitter.com/burgessev/status/1059999630325366785

Another pick up for D's.

[SPQR]

Staubenow looking quite weak with 14% in.
55% in Genesee (68% in 2012), 60% in Wayne (76%).

[No War, but the War on Christmas]

Does anyone else think Democratic money will pour into Mississippi in the event it's the deciding race and it will become quickly nationalized?

[Fmr. Gov. NickG]

In VA, Spanberger is looking great up almost 2,000 in VA-07 with 97% reporting, but Taylor has pulled ahead by 1,000 in VA-02 with 91% in.

[Former Dean Phillips Supporters for Haley (I guess???!?) 👁️]

Well, Texas is looking pretty amazing. Much of the rest of the country... less so.

Texas uber alles.

What are your thoughts? I'm totally shocked, but thats probably a place I wanna see a dem win just for the reaction and cause Cruz is disgusting.

It still looks to me like cruz is favored, but it will be close. Beto has a shot if the election day vote is better than the early vote. Basically Beto is performing amazingly in the suburbs, and is doing what he needed to do there. But it is the same story as everywhere else in the country in the rurals - 2016 style results there. And there are too many rurals still left to report.

But overall, even a narrrow Beto loss is an amazingly good thing for TX Dems, and it means Dems need to contest TX in 2020. And Beto should probably be at least VP. I would say Dems should look very strongly at a Gillum/Beto or Beto/Gillum ticket if Gillum loses narrowly also.

[Beet]

Yeah, Menendez has this. It looks like Union County was a fluke.

[Storr]

CNN projects Menendez winning.

[Storebought]

Why is anyone calling the House while people are still voting? What kind of dumb logic is that, this is a good way to push down turnout.

That is the intention.

[ProudModerate2]

Kim Davis lost. Stay strong.

Get that ________ out of there!
(You fill-in the blank.)

[LAKISYLVANIA]

James ahead in Michigan, but Michigan will probably vote to legalize marijuana.

[J. J.]

CNN declared IN for Braun.

I called this before the polls closed, LOL.

I called it a few days ago.   

[°Leprechaun]

538 is a rollercoaster. GOP House chance now at 34.8%

[💥💥 brandon bro (he/him/his)]

Taylor seems to have somehow snatched the lead back in VA-02...

Outstanding areas look pretty even so I'll bet his margin holds. His lead is ~1K.

But Spanberger looks to be in great shape. 2/4 is not bad for the competitive VA races.

[Brittain33]

Does anyone else think Democratic money will pour into Mississippi in the event it's the deciding race and it will become quickly nationalized?

If they do, it will be pointless. MS won't flip in this environment (or any other we can think of.)

[7,052,770]

Dems need someone like Beto running for president in 2020.

Yep. Beto seems like the obvious best choice for 2020, assuming he doesn't win tonight.

[Former Dean Phillips Supporters for Haley (I guess???!?) 👁️]

This night is WEIRD. AS. HELL.

Not really, it is basically following your racist hick thesis quite well. It is not as though it is not possible to explain.

[J. J.]

99% in, Scott is up by 0.8. 

[RI]

R's may win multiple D House seats in MN.