2022 midterm election thread

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Looks like Kelly won the new batch in Maricopa 56-44

Kelly 43,616 (56%)
Masters 33,742 (44%)

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CNN: ~540K left to count in AZ.

Lake needs to win 52-54% of them
Hobbs needs to win 47-49% of them

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Lauren Boebert Holds Lead Over Adam Frisch as Remaining Ballots Dwindle
by Conrad Swanson
November 11, 2022

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(The Denver Post) U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert held her lead over challenger Adam Frisch into the fourth day of ballot counting in the 2022 midterm elections, with an ever-shrinking number of ballots yet to be counted.

The congresswoman took the lead in the race Thursday afternoon and gained momentum since then. As of 8 a.m. Friday, she was ahead by 1,122 votes, representing just a fraction of a percent margin between the two candidates, according to the Secretary of State’s Office.

The race is not yet over, out-of-state and overseas ballots can still be counted so long as they arrive by Wednesday, and ballots requiring additional verification can be fixed until then as well. And if the race ends with a slim-enough margin it will trigger an automatic recount, which would last into December.

Frisch’s team had hoped that thousands of ballots remaining in Pueblo County would break in his favor but as elections officials there reported new ballot counts throughout Thursday, the congresswoman’s lead grew instead.

But Boebert’s current lead sits above the automatic recount threshold of approximately 810 votes.

Read more here: https://www.denverpost.com/2022/11/11/ ... -results/

caltrek’s comment: This race holds a special meaning for me. The county where my father grew up is apparently included in Boebert’s district. I remember my father explaining to me the extreme prejudice that Hispanics faced in that county. Apparently, little has changed in the many decades in which my father moved and stayed away from this area. Boebert is arguably the looniest of the batshit crazy Right, yet many residents there seem to take so much satisfaction in angering liberals that they are more than willing to overlook her fascist ways. Thankfully, Colorado as a state is now blue. Perhaps one day soon, her district will follow. Maybe even this election if Democrats can pull off an extreme long shot based on late arriving ballots and/or a recount. There is some conciliation in the fact that the race is at least a close one.

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The GOP Latina Triple Threat That Wasn’t
by Isabela Dias
November 10, 2022

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(Mother Jones) Just a few days before the November midterms, Rep. Mayra Flores (R-Texas) exuded confidence. “If you believe the Dems will hold the House and Senate on Election Tuesday,” tweeted the 34th District incumbent, who won a special election in the summer, “then I got some oceanfront property in Arizona.” Hispanic conservatives, she announced with conviction, “are the new swing vote.”

Fast-forward to election night and the South Texas GOP candidate’s bravado turned into an uppercase-filled Twitter freakout: “The RED WAVE did not happen. Republicans and Independents stayed home. DO NOT COMPLAIN ABOUT THE RESULTS IF YOU DID NOT DO YOUR PART!” It was clear by then that Flores was on her way to losing the House race to Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, bringing her short-lived stint in Congress to an end. With more than 95 percent of votes in as of Wednesday afternoon, Gonzales, a three-term representative who switched districts, had 52.7 percent against Flores’ 44.3 percent.

(Linked article includes a Twitter feed)

For all her boldness as a candidate, Flores had not spent much time in office. In June, she flipped a historically blue seat in a low-turnout special election to fill the unexpired term of Democrat Filemon Vela, whose decision to resign before the primaries sent the party scrambling to find a competitive candidate—and paved the way for the Republican newcomer’s remarkable victory. Born in Tamaulipas, Mexico, and “raised with strong conservative values,” she became the first Republican after Reconstruction to represent the district, which has since turned bluer and more Hispanic-heavy as a result of redistricting. She was also the first Mexican-born woman to serve in Congress.

“When we’re looking at the Rio Grande Valley and Congresswoman Mayra Flores,” Melissa Morales, executive director of the voter mobilization organization Somos Votantes, told me before the elections, “we’re talking about a special election where less than 8 percent of registered voters in that district turned out. We’re not looking at what is representative of the entire district.”

Read more here: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2 ... at-wasnt/

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A record number of LGBTQ candidates claim victory in another 'rainbow wave'
Source: NBC

A record number of LGBTQ candidates won their midterm races this year, creating what some advocates are calling yet another “rainbow wave.”

Many races are still too close or too early to call, but as of Thursday afternoon, at least 400 out LGBTQ candidates had won their elections, according to the LGBTQ Victory Fund, which supports queer people running for office. That number surpasses 2020’s record of 336 and 2018’s record of 244.

At least 1,065 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people ran for office this year, with 678 of them making it to the general election, the LGBTQ Victory Institute, the research arm of the Victory Fund, reported. With at least 400 wins so far, queer candidates will have a midterm success rate of at least 58%.

Of the over 1,000 queer candidates who ran for office this year, 89% are Democrats, according to the Victory Fund. This reflects LGBTQ voters more broadly: 84% supported Democrats, while 15% supported Republicans, according to an NBC News Exit Poll released Tuesday evening.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-pol ... on_results

I won't give my opinion.

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