American Politics VII: Virginia Reel

[Kowani]

Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown claims victory mayoral race as write-in candidate

[Luna Amore]

who has been holding up the infrastructure bills, remind me

Snakema and Mansion.

Unofficial warning for political nicknaming.

[Corrian]

Yeah, Lumen, just go calm down for the night. I've already considered it myself. Today was stressful enough with my driving test.

At least you passed your driving test, which good job btw, be proud of that.

First try passing with a 91, with having done no driving school classes or anything, just driving with my permit, practicing in my driveway/on the private road, and having done 2 major drives (like 2 hour drives) with a friend, I feel pretty happy.

I mean I am way late to the game. I'm 27. So the fact my dads been taking me to work the WHOLE pandemic and work in general (When he went to work he'd drop me off on the way), I feel like I've just spent years observing and absorbing driving experience so it took me a lot less practice than it would if I was driving at 16.

[Arlenton]

Murphy will win in New Jersey. I have little doubt of that.

[Zurkerx]

Now NYT's making a mention. They're saying that New Jersey's counting's been somewhat haphazard(you think?) and that there really isn't any information as to what's being counted where. Every vote's being counted, obviously, they mean the counties aren't being too forward on information as to whether mailed ballots are being counted now or later.

Yeah, that's not good at all... That's going to cause confusion and chaos. Damn morons on that front...

Now back to taxes: NJ's average is $9,100.

[Corrian]

Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown claims victory mayoral race as write-in candidate

While his win is a win, it still kind of bothers me that a candidate who lost the primary tried to get on the ballot, was told he couldn't, so he just staged a write-in to win instead. While I consider write-ins legitimate it just rubs me the wrong way and bothers me that he won that way.

[Corrian]

Now NYT's making a mention. They're saying that New Jersey's counting's been somewhat haphazard(you think?) and that there really isn't any information as to what's being counted where. Every vote's being counted, obviously, they mean the counties aren't being too forward on information as to whether mailed ballots are being counted now or later.

Yeah, that's not good at all... That's going to cause confusion and chaos. Damn morons on that front...

Now back to taxes: NJ's average is $9,100.

Yeah, NJ is just a mess tonight.

Also it seems like the Virginia House of Delegates will barely be going 50-50.

[Dresderstan]

Megan Sullivan (R) wins PA Superior Court Judge race

[San Lumen]

https://www.wlwt.com/article/aftab-pure ... r/38140497

Aftab Pureval wins race for Cincinnati mayor

[Corrian]

Dems gain a legislative seat in Maine

[San Lumen]

https://triblive.com/local/gainey-grabs ... oral-race/

Ed Gainey elected first black mayor of Pittsburgh

[Corrian]

Abdullah Hammoud elected first Arab-American mayor of the U.S. city with the largest share of Arabs

[Shrillland]

All eight Texas Propositions are approved.

[San Lumen]

https://fox8.com/cleveland-mayoral-race ... oral-race/

Justin Bibb wins Cleveland mayor election

[Shrillland]

And finally for ballot measures:

New York Proposal 1(Redistricting Changes): Rejected
New York Proposal 3(Allow Same-day registration): Rejected
New York Proposal 4(Allow No-excuse Absentee Voting): Rejected

Hard to believe for New York, but 85% or thereabouts of the state is in, and a couple of those question have "Blank" as a spoiler.

[Kowani]

The Twin Cities have each passed an initiative on rent control.

St Paul's institutes a limit of 3% increases on rent.

Minneapolis's vote will authorize city officials to enable rent control.

[Senkaku]

People who are actually “finished with politics” rarely feel the need to say that more than once

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore!

Starting to think Dick made the right move getting out while the getting was good…

[Shrillland]

Here's another snippet from NYT about New Jersey's issues:

Nate Cohn Just now

An example of the difficulty in New Jersey is Bergen County, where Republicans may — or may not — be on track to hold on to their lead. One election document says they've counted heavily Democratic mail votes; another says they haven't.

[Kowani]

vs. 2020

[Corrian]

And finally for ballot measures:

New York Proposal 1(Redistricting Changes): Rejected
New York Proposal 3(Allow Same-day registration): Rejected
New York Proposal 4(Allow No-excuse Absentee Voting): Rejected

Hard to believe for New York, but 85% or thereabouts of the state is in, and a couple of those question have "Blank" as a spoiler.

The fuck is wrong with New York?

[San Lumen]

And finally for ballot measures:

New York Proposal 1(Redistricting Changes): Rejected
New York Proposal 3(Allow Same-day registration): Rejected
New York Proposal 4(Allow No-excuse Absentee Voting): Rejected

Hard to believe for New York, but 85% or thereabouts of the state is in, and a couple of those question have "Blank" as a spoiler.

I would have thought those would have passed. Im stunned they didn't. A truly awful night.

[Corrian]

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vs. 2020

I really feel like a lot of this comes down to voter apathy about the whole thing, because it feels like nothing is changing so why go out and vote in any substantial way?

Its weird, this place is weird, I hate it.

[Corrian]

Wu is the first non-white-man elected mayor of Boston in its 400-year history.

[Shrillland]

And finally for ballot measures:

New York Proposal 1(Redistricting Changes): Rejected
New York Proposal 3(Allow Same-day registration): Rejected
New York Proposal 4(Allow No-excuse Absentee Voting): Rejected

Hard to believe for New York, but 85% or thereabouts of the state is in, and a couple of those question have "Blank" as a spoiler.

The fuck is wrong with New York?

Just low turnout, really. Outside of Buffalo, there wasn't really anything competitive to drive most voters out. Turnout's an astonishingly bad 23% statewide.

[Kargintinia]

The fuck is wrong with New York?

Just low turnout, really. Outside of Buffalo, there wasn't really anything competitive to drive most voters out. Turnout's an astonishingly bad 23% statewide.

I voted in my local elections but there wasn’t many people at the polling site. (I live in NY)