| mrstickball said: Tomorrow is election day in America. Starting at around 6:30am, EST, Americans will go to the polls to vote for every member of congress (our lower house), and approximately one-third of the senate. A large number of governors races will also be up for grabs, and state-wide elections as well. There are a ton of issues and candidates on the ballot. This will be the first electtion I will be able to talk about for over a year on election day, as I've been a poll worker the past few times (for primaries, special and general elections...Hard work). Of note, there are probably 3 things VGC-ers outside the US may care about: 1. Republican surge in Congress. Current averages have the Democrats taking the worst beating in almost 100 years. If the 'average' scenario plays out, then the GOP will pick up a whopping 67 seats. That is essentially a total reverse from the last congress, which had the GOP being walloped by a margin of 255-178. If average projections hold, Republicans will hold the house by a margin of 246-189, or approximately 57% to 43%. 2. California is voting to legalize marijuana for personal consumption, AKA prop 19. I'm very interested in if this passes. Polling for the measure have been the most erratic I can think of. Some polls have it losing by 10%, to passing by 20%. Crazy times. 3. If the GOP will take, or split the Senate. Averages have the Republicans taking a few spots, but with Dems keeping a 51 to 49 majority. However, there are about 7 seats still within the margin of error, which could swing the election either way.
On a personal note, for my state's elections, I will be voting mostly 3rd party, as the GOP and Democratic candidates are awful. In our treasury election, only one candidate has a degree or experience in anything related to finances...The Libertarian candidate. The same can be said for state auditor. |
1) Should be interesting....
2) It will fail because everyone who would vote for it will be high and forget to vote. (not joking, i know a bunch of people like this) Hope it passes.
3) Doesn't seem to matter.... I mean, being the majority with 51 ain't that much different from being a minority with 49.
A 50-50 split would be fun. Don't even know what happens then. Democrats get majority leader because of Biden?
As for Ohio Politicians... it does come close to the top of the list for corrupt politicians. Espiecally locally.
