See my comments below…

Only way that could possibly have been better would have been if it were the Onion + Cards Against Humanity.

Only way that could possibly have been better would have been if it were the Onion + Cards Against Humanity.

Could be a combination of first time with ranked choice and too many candidates. Somebody is going to earn a degree doing the analysis here.

Fortunately, the research wasn’t that hard because it’s super easy to eliminate the looney tunes candidates.

Ex. this guy:

Still, stunning how many first round votes he got…

p.s. “Michael Necula”? Mike Neck? Spot the vampire running for office!

For one person? No. For 1/5th of the voting population? It’s a travesty.

Especially in the city council race…

These are photos of my ballot, I live in District 1. District 1 has NEVER had representation on the city council before.

This is why we voted to change the system of government, the city now has 4 districts, each district gets 3 councilmen.

Voters had a chance to rank their top 6 choices to elect 3 people per district and 20% of voters went “Nah!”

“And though it lost in Oregon, she pointed out that the measure had majority support in jurisdictions that currently use ranked choice voting, such as Multnomah (home to Portland) and Benton counties.”

Problem: In Portland, yes, a majority of voters did vote for the state wide ranked choice ballot measure… but 20% of voters completely SKIPPED the ranked choice races for Mayor and City Council.

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2024/11/portlands-ranked-choice-debut-causes-voter-engagement-to-crater-1-in-5-who-cast-ballots-chose-no-one-for-city-council.html

They had an option of ranking their top 6 choices and did not choose any.

And before computer controlled motion tracking, you could not move the camera.

So, back in the day they used a really simple camera trick called a double exposure.

https://abeautifulmess.com/how-to-shoot-a-double-exposure-in-camera/

https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/filibusters-cloture/overview.htm

“The Senate adopted new precedents in the 2010s to allow a simple majority to end debate on nominations”

With a 53-47 split, and no filibuster on nominations, there’s no way to block it.

Nope.

Even if they repealed the 22nd Amendment, we don’t allow ex post facto laws, so the repeal wouldn’t apply to him.

United States Constitution
Article 1, Section 9, Clause 3
“No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.”

Article 1, Section 10
“No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.”

In case you’re wondering, “Bill of Attainder”:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_attainder

“an act of a legislature declaring a person, or a group of people, guilty of some crime, and providing for a punishment, often without a trial. As with attainder resulting from the normal judicial process, the effect of such a bill is to nullify the targeted person’s civil rights, most notably the right to own property (and thus pass it on to heirs), the right to a title of nobility, and, in at least the original usage, the right to life itself.”

Which is weird because:

Arizona - Right to Abortion. Yes 61 to 39
Colorado - Right to Abortion. Yes 62 to 38
Florida - Right to Abortion. No 43 to 57 - Needed Yes >= 60 to pass.
Maryland - Right to Abortion. Yes 74 to 26
Missouri - Right to Abortion. Yes 52 to 48
Montana - Right to Abortion. Yes 58 to 42
Nebraska - Right to Abortion. No 52 to 48
Nebraska - Prohibit abortions after 1st Trimester - Yes 55 to 45
Nevada - Right to Abortion. Yes 64 to 36
New York - Right to Abortion. Yes 62 to 38
South Dakota - Right to Abortion. No 59 to 41

Except for Florida, Nebraska and South Dakota, looks like people do support womens rights.

Removed for civility, if you had dodged the ad hominem at the end you are 100% correct.

Zaddy energy…

I put the electric insert in one of mine, charged it in 2021… still works!

President and Senate are already called:

In the House it’s 216 R / 207 D with 218 needed for majority. We likely won’t know the full result for several days.

12 races left to call.

CA 9 - Leaning Democratic
CA 21 - Leaning Democratic
CA 47 - Leaning Democratic
ME 2 - Leaning Democratic
OH 9 - Leaning Democratic
OR 5 - Leaning Democratic - Called by local media.

AK 1 - Leaning Republican
AZ 6 - Leaning Republican
CA 13 - Leaning Republican
CA 41 - Leaning Republican
CA 45 - Leaning Republican
IA 1 - Leaning Republican

Looks like it’s going to end up 222 R to 213 D which is +2 for the Republicans and +1 for the Democrats, which makes sense because there had been 3 vacancies.

Better than Rick Scott I guess…

It’s 20% of people who cast valid ballots skipping those lines.

So they chose to vote for other things on the ballot, but skipped voting for mayor and city council, meaning they chose not to participate there.

In a state that regularly sees 60+% and 70+% participation, yeah, 20% skipping those lines is a big chunk. I don’t think we have final turnout numbers yet.

Clearly you are faking your outrage if you can’t spell “palestinian”. You’re rumbled. Banned for trolling.