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I honestly do not know if the Dems could have tried much harder. As little TV as I watch with affiliates that are willing to take political ads, we were flooded with Cheri Beasley ads. Ted Budd started up earlier, and - while this could be a figment of my imagination - they seemed to switch from an ad that showed Budd running around with a holstered handgun up and down the border near where some of wall might still be standing to ads stressing inflation and accusing Beasley of letting felons out to roam the streets.

The question I would like answered is how many of the sorts who flipped to install Roy Cooper as governor decided that Budd was a better idea in the Senate? Really. Budd is pretty horrible.

On the bright side, as I type this, Bo Hines lost. Thank goodness. An embarrassment for the alma mater ... much worse, people were labeling him a nut the likes of MTG and Lauren Boebert.

 

The thought that the Dems have a tiny, tiny chance of retaining the House at midnight EST is pretty shocking.

We won’t know the answer for a week or two. GOP likely to take control but without a huge margin.

The Senate seems seems headed for 50-50-tiebreaker again.

This is about a good a scenario as the Dems could have hoped for (so far). Ways to go yet.

 

Here's an interesting tidbit that'll get lost in the shuffle.

Mouthy Marge T. Greene is going to retain her House seat easily in the Georgia 14th, but Democrat Marcus Flowers is getting a third of the vote in a bright red district where she got almost 75 percent two years ago. In fact, the GOP has never polled less than 70 percent since that district was formed. She's down 70,000 votes from 2020 while Flowers has 7,000 more than her opponent did (although that guy fled the state after divorcing his wife).

 

At the risk of going extremist and deflating your point - not my intention, sir - I'm still baffled, disappointed and maybe even disgusted that MTG has that much support after all the horrible crap she has done since gaining the seat. Then again, the same state sees Herschel Walker as a viable candidate for Senate and wouldn't consider Stacey Abrams after the goings-on there the last few years.

 

He won't. Runoff will tilt Warnock by 2/3 points.

 

Democracy and abortion turned out to be stronger issues than SKEERY MESSKINS and MAH GAZ PRICEZ after all. Who knew? There is a glimmer of hope for America.

 

Budd is atrocious. Hines may be worse. Shocking result.
Bo Hines wouldn't be any more of an embarrassment to NC State University than Jesse Helms was to Wake Forest College, which he quit to take a newspaper job during his senior year. Wake Forest distanced itself from Helms and I would hope State would at least play the role of Switzerland if we ever hear again from Hines, who transferred to Yale.

 

If I never hear the name Jesse Helms again, it will be too soon.

 

And Boebert is going to lose.

 

Speaking of which, abortion rights proposition up big in California. Both sports gaming proposals losing.

 

Why? By then, Trump will have declared his klandidacy and the Dawgs will be in the CFP.

 

Isn't that ticket-splitting of sorts? Strikes me as as odd combination of votes.s