ChiGoose

Looks like she’s going to pull it off.

Don’t forget that the GOP generally ran terrible candidates because they still bend the knee to their orange Godking and their policies are wildly unpopular with most Americans. This election should have been in the bag for the GOP but they ended up shooting themselves in the dick with an unregulated firearm.

Well this might be the dumbest thing I’ve read all day, so congratulations, I suppose. If the GOP really cared about stopping abortions, they would do a root cause analysis and address the causes of abortions. But they don’t, so they don’t. They just want an issue that activates the people they consider rubes to vote for them so they can funnel more money to the donor class.

I think the best bet is to wait. But nobody is better at understanding NV than Jon Ralston and he seems to believe that Cortez-Masto is a slight favorite.

49-49 with Cortez-Masto a slight favorite in NV. This has been an absolute embarrassment for the GOP

Looking like Dems get to 50 in the senate without Georgia. Definitely not certain, but trending that direction.

The comparison to Europe is a bit more nuanced. They have a lot more exceptions than American laws have. Also, since they also have universal healthcare, there is a lot easier access to medical care generally. Here, if you have a positive pregnancy test, you’re basically already four weeks into pregnancy and you may not have regular access to a doctor. If you’re someone with an irregular period, you may be at 6, 8 or more weeks before you take a test. If we really want to reduce elective abortions, we should actually focus on the root cause instead of trying to put the government into the hospital room.

The kids are alright

Well, that’s not the reason I think Elon buying Twitter is bad and dumb. I don’t have strong opinions on the twitter content moderation debate. You can curate your Twitter experience and if you find something objectionable, you can block that account. That worked fine for me. The issue I’m pointing out here is that he seems to think that the Checkmark was a product for those who received them. It’s more important as an indication to other users that the person is who they say they are. That is no longer the case. Anyone pay for a checkmark without validating their identity. Brands are small-c conservative with decisions like ad buys. Why would a brand pay money to advertise on a platform where anyone can convincingly impersonate them and harm their reputation? Revamping content moderation is fine. Combining the blue check with twitter blue and removing the validation requirement likely just killed the platform.

I'm not defending incompetence. I'm pushing back on misinformation. If people actually read the article, there was no issue with the voting machines.

I mean, the issue was with the printers, not the vote tabulation machines. It was resolved by officials changing the printer settings. But you do you, buddy.

So is the problem here that the FBI had an informant in a violent domestic terror group? Or that they wouldn't disclose that publicly during an ongoing investigation?

LOL. Can't wait to see what the results of the super secret 3D chess plan are after lighting about $100 billion on fire and hinting about bankruptcy mere weeks into Twitter ownership.

It doesn't go to runoff, then. Though it may trigger a recount. And would look bad for the outlets that called the run off. Remember that it is not the states or election agencies calling the races right now, it's the media. Media outlets using their models based on turnout, exit polls and vote tallies "call" the elections at this stage. Nothing is legally official until the states complete their counts..

Good news everyone! Lol

Given our current electoral system, partisan media environment, and geographic sorting, there is no fixing this without electoral reform and getting rid of FPTP. Only then can people successfully challenge the status quo and two-party dominance.

Well there's a thought. Hire a crazy person with a crunchy granola history who had more recently bought into QAnon type conspiracies to take out the witness. That way, liberals will blame him as a right wing crazy person and conservatives will say he was a left wing hippie and nobody will be talking about who hired him to take out Pelosi.

Interesting. What if it was a Trump-Ivanka-Biden love triangle? While all three are life-long Dems, Ivanka is much more liberal than her father, maybe she saw something in Joe. That might explain Trumps seeming hatred of Biden, he sees him as a rival not just professionally, but romantically.

Wasn't it weird when Trump called his daughter hot? That's not a word normally used in a father-daughter relationship. But it is used in other types of relationships. Makes you think, right?

The government wouldn't cover up voting mistakes. It's why states don't often certify the official election results for weeks (even after the media has called races) . Many states also conduct audits to verify the results before certification. And it's highly unlikely that an attempted coverup would be possible or successful given the strict controls around how elections are conducted.

The very idea that "the government" which is comprised of thousands and thousands of people operating at a variety of levels of government in a myriad of roles with a diversity of incentives, beliefs and opinions, is a singular entity that would decide whether or not to cover up voter fraud.

The entire premise of the question

Online voting is a terrible idea. There should always be a paper ballot for auditing. No.

The real problem was that it was different than normal so bad actors started spewing false stories of fraud and the gullible ate it up because they couldn't accept that their candidate lost.

Some surprising good news. Hopefully this trend continues: