2020 US Elections

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SebastianBlue said:
It makes it 48-50 with the two GA run-offs to come, as Tilis (R) is likely winning the NC senate race.

EDIT: That’s if the Alaska senate race actually goes to Young (R), which is favoured but could change as they begin their counts.
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Ok cheers. Not been following the senate races that closely and not 100% on how it works, so maybe the flip just announced was already factored in. Just looking at GA for the second run off, wouldn't it be likely to go Rep seeing as the 3rd place dropout is a high scoring Rep?

EDIT Just looked again and the total votes Rep v Dem are 2.4M v 2.33M so perhaps boils down to how they win the 100k from other party affiliations. If that's how it works.
 
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TheRemainsOfTheDave said:
Ok cheers. Not been following the senate races that closely and not 100% on how it works, so maybe the flip just announced was already factored in. Just looking at GA for the second run off, wouldn't it be likely to go Rep seeing as the 3rd place dropout is a high scoring Rep?
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Also the Vice POTUS gets a vote so if it finishes with 51 or 52 Rep seats then the Dems only need to flip it to 50:50 and then Kamala would have a tie breaking vote.
 
roy.or.r said:
Why would any woman vote for him considering the disgusting things he has said about them?
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Is it not possible their just voting Republican? I could believe plenty of them hate Trump but look past it or just hate Democrats more than they do Trump or something.

It's not nice to see but they have their reasons I'd assume.
 
mccity said:
Is it not possible their just voting Republican? I could believe plenty of them hate Trump but look past it or just hate Democrats more than they do Trump or something.

It's not nice to see but they have their reasons I'd assume.
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While I hate trump and the republican party this is the reason basically. For whatever reason a large portion of Americans do not like the Democratic Party and it is up to the Dems to combat whatever is causing it
 
mccity said:
Is it not possible their just voting Republican? I could believe plenty of them hate Trump but look past it or just hate Democrats more than they do Trump or something.

It's not nice to see but they have their reasons I'd assume.
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Absolutely. That's an enormous part of it. Like asking someone raised Catholic to give up Catholicism just because priests are molesting kids and no one is doing anything about it. A few will; most won't.
 
TheRemainsOfTheDave said:
wouldn't it be likely to go Rep seeing as the 3rd place dropout is a high scoring Rep?
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The reason he's in third places is because Loeffler is so unpopular with republicans.

She's the wife of an insanely rich guy and was appointed senator by the governor, but she's never won an election and a lot of them do not want her, even though she is a die hard trump fan. She and her husband sold off $15m worth of stock when they got secret briefings on the coronavirus, just before the market crashed and that's been bad for her.

So the question is, will Republicans go out and vote for a woman that only got 53% of the Republican vote? Will the Trump voting block back her now that Trump is gone and it's just the elite GOP left? Will the Republicans have the same turnout without the energising presence of Trump?

Democrats will definitely all fall in behind Warnock with senate control on the line, and all he needs is those votes and some of the independent vote to get over 50%.
 
aguerrrroooooooooooo said:
While I hate trump and the republican party this is the reason basically. For whatever reason a large portion of Americans do not like the Democratic Party and it is up to the Dems to combat whatever is causing it
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It's why there are so many tweets/posts that start "I've never voted for a Democrat before in my life, but . . ." Or vice versa.
 
FogBlueInSanFran said:
It's why there are so many tweets/posts that start "I've never voted for a Democrat before in my life, but . . ." Or vice versa.
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Pretty much. While I and many others are delighted to see the back of Trump, I think people need to understand this is not neccesarily a rejection of the Republican party; hell it's not even a full throated rejection of Trumpism by Americans.

The Democrats need to put in some serious work to make sure 2024 doesn't see the country go back to the red side, with what I imagine will be a far more palpable candidate than Trump
 
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