Democrats flip Arizona US Senate seat with Sinema victory

[khaowong1]

23 hours ago, bristolboy said:

You know, it's possible to look this stuff up.  But I guess that's a bad idea if you need a fake narrative to console yourself:

 

Candidate	Raised	Spent	Cash on Hand	Last Report
Kyrsten Sinema (D)	$18,929,335	$19,891,427	$1,301,542	10/17/2018
Martha McSally (R)	$16,081,608	$13,557,950	$2,523,657	10/17/2018

Actually, I need a shot of Tequila to console myself.  LOL. 

[khaowong1]

The thing about it is, Arizona is a very conservative state.  You know, gun toting cowboys, and all of that.  My feeling is, the University votes did McSally in. 

[spidermike007]

On 11/13/2018 at 4:18 PM, attrayant said:

 

By whom?  Who would be stupid enough to declare a winner on either side with tens of thousands of mail-in votes still to be counted?

 

 

As of 24 hours after election night, there were still 600,000 ballots left to be counted.  They weren't mysteriously "found".  Tucson.com:

 

"More to the point, she has been outpolling Republican Martha McSally in Maricopa and Pima counties, the counties with the most uncounted ballots."

 

 

Lots of people voted who've never voted before.  Did you happen to see the turnout numbers on election night?  Arizona's early voter turnout surpasses total ballots cast in 2014 midterms:

 

"PHOENIX — More Arizonans have cast early ballots for Tuesday’s general election than all the ballots cast in the midterms four years ago.

New figures from the Secretary of State’s Office on Monday — the day before the election — showed that 1,586,783 early ballots had been turned in. By contrast, in the entire 2014 midterm elections, 1,537,671 people voted, whether early or at the polls."

 

Thank you. And we can thank Trump for encouraging first time voters, minorities and others who do not usually vote, to come out in droves, and make a strong statement of rejection of the president and his party. This election was about Trump. And he was badly humiliated. And you can see it in his attitude since the election. Did you see his sourpuss face in France recently? This man is suffering. And his suffering is more than his usual blend of misery, depression, bitterness, hatred, animosity, and malcontentedness. She won this election fair and square, despite the intense gerrymandering, by the GOP, and an extreme effort to disenfranchise minority voters. Same goes for the dozens of others who won the house.

 

It is crazy not to think of a Democratic gain of -- at least -- 35 seats in the House as anything short of a wave. (In 2014, when Republicans picked up 30 seats, it was rightly described as a national wave against then President Barack Obama.) Especially when you consider that Republicans dominated the 2011 redistricting process nationally, creating districts all over the country that tilted their way -- a high hurdle Democrats needed to overcome to win the majority. This was a huge repudiation of Trump, and his agenda.