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Iām glad sheās big enough to concede. And Iām proud of Mississippi, which is something I didnāt ever expect to say. I hope that Mississippi continues on this path, so the rest of the south can change the meaning of the old saying āthank god for Mississippiā to mean that every state has the power to change and deserves to not be given up on.
My hope: is that it encourages other southerners to turn out for votingā¦ because Mississippi (and Texas. and Kansas. and South Carolina) now breaks the illusion of, āmy vote doesnāt matter because my stateās always red, regardless of my votingā. It feels like the āSouthern Strategyā is falling apart.
I live in Louisiana, and our āgenerational farm-boyā Dem was <1% away from winning the Senate seat against a Trump sycophantā¦ I couldnāt believe we even got that close; itās fucking deep southern hoedown 'round most this state
My fear: complacency. And us US Americans are conditioned to be āLaissez-faireā about our democracy. Maybe this conservative/fascist shit will make Gen Z/A USians wayyy more aware of politics and class?
Thereās so much fucking work to be done
cries in Nebraskan
š« sorry friend, I used to live in Lincoln and still have family out there (and in Kansas). But if Kansas and Mississippi can do it, Louisiana and Nebraska can too! One dayā¦ one day
Man, Iād like to believe it. I thought maybe we had a chance with Osborne but he lost as hard as any Democrat would have. If you look at a map of counties colored by how far they swung either more Democrat or more Republican this election, Nebraska is basically highlighted in red while most of the rest of the country is blue.
If I could move, Iād move. Iām tethered here in more ways than one. But thereās no hope in this state.
And a house didnāt even need to fall out of the sky to take her out.
Good on the incumbent, Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, for not dragging this out in court.
āWhile this is not the outcome we worked for or hoped for, I respect the decision of Mississippi voters. I want to congratulate Scott Colom and wish him well as he takes on the tremendous responsibility of representing our great state.ā
Wow. Admitting defeat gracefully is seldom seen in conservative politicians these days. Very honourable of her.
One to go
Not gonna happen. The ranked-choice voting is going to prevent the other Republican and the similarly-named third-party candidate from being spoilers for the Republicans.
And Iām okay with that. I donāt want Republicans to win, but it would be ranked choice voting working as intended and is a great example of how it shouldnāt be a partisan issue.
As of earlier ranked choice wonāt change. The other candidates dont have enough votes to put Sullivan ahead. AK blue!!!
Come on AK!!
I donāt see that happening. Iām fairly confident that the other Republican candidate votes had the incumbent as second choice, and it looks like that would be enough to put him in the lead. Also the other Dan Sullivan votes are likely having the incumbent be second choice.
Would love to be wrong, but thatās my assumption of how the rankes choice votes are leaning
True, but if she crosses 50% at the end it doesnāt matter. Sheās sitting at 49% which is up from earlier in the week and last week. Definitely not certain sheās going to win, but I think itās a real possibility. If itās a runoff Iād be shocked if she wins
Itās looking good for her!
Last week, the New York Times published an analysis of ranked-choice ballots cast in Alaska, showing that Peltola likely would earn more votes than Sullivan should the race advance to ranked-choice tabulation. Each Alaska voter got to choose up to two candidates out of the four Senate candidates on the ballot, with each choice ranked as the voterās first or second choice.
Two-thirds of Daniel J. Sullivanās supporters ranked a second choice, with most of those voters supporting Ms. Peltola in subsequent rounds ā an indication that they were not intending to vote for Sen. Dan S. Sullivan, as voters who chose the incumbent senator first rarely ranked Ms. Peltola second.
https://ictnews.org/politics/election-2026/alaska-senate-race-tipping-toward-peltola/
More votes from āthe other Sullivanā go to Peltola than to Sullivan + she will probably win befor RCV.
Oh great, then the Trump admin will pull the trigger on the lawsuit saying the stunt spoiled the election.
Court says no!
Thatās true if you just add percentages. But ranked choice includes the possibility of āexhaustingā your ballot by just not listing a second or third or fourth choice. Thatās how Peltola won her house seat initially. When you think about it as a vote gap of 4000ish votes with 9000ish votes to be gained in arbitragr, Dan has to win about 50% of all of those ballots. Heāll almost definitely get 50% of the non-exhausted ballots, but the analysis Iāve seen of the RCV results released to date shows him falling well short so far of 50% of all ballots once exhaustion is accounted for
Not sure if you are cheering on a state, or the weapon Tyler used inexpertly
AK - Two Letter Abreviation for Alaska.
AK-36 or whatever - a gun-thingy.
All these easygoing Republican concessionsā¦calm before the 2028 storm? I think the fact that things are mostly going the way they should at present makes it feel unsettling.
Expect more Cletus safaris in Missā¦
NBC News Meets MAGA Republicans Who Are Scared Of Texas And Georgia Now, Tells Their Stories
https://www.wonkette.com/p/nbc-news-meets-maga-republicans-who
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Wonkette is always amazing lol
the source of the wyoming population surge of 2027-28 resulting in that state getting a second congressional seat following the 2030 census and redistricting.
In all seriousness, Iād find it hilarious if just enough liberals moved to Wyoming to flip it.
Conservatives are always so super smug about how liberals have distributed themselves and they relish having all the flyover states default to red Senators.
But if some non-profit could just find a way to entice liberals to move to certain states and even fund startups to work at, or find remote positions, etcā¦it would not take that many to flip.
If I had deep pockets, Iād find some way to fund things like this.
Took them long enough
Mississippi didnāt ratify the Constitutional Amendment banning slavery until 2013
- If you mean Mississippi: look, dude, itās an election, not a spectator sport to give you a dopamine rush. Their counting process can be improved (which local outlets like the Mississippi Free Press have covered), and they brought a lot of the affidavit ballot headache on themselves by improperly purging the voter rolls through known-shitty data as a form of voter suppression, but that doesnāt change that the counting process isnāt done for your entertainment. As long as everythingās counted when the state needs to submit it (and in Mississippiās case, when the counties need to submit to the state), theyāve done their job.
- If you mean the decision desks who called it, until todayās dump from Hinds County, Colom was ahead by only about 2500 votes with about 15,000 more left. Decision desks have a reputation at stake ā built up over decades ā anytime they call a race, let alone one as watched and consequential as this one.
- And if you mean Hyde-Smith, she did this probably less than an hour after the AP called it. She did this quickly and overall has been basically fine through this process.
She did this quickly and overall has been basically fine through this process.
The concession was the big surprise to me. I donāt know anything about her but I assumed sheād drag it into the courts, which was to my understanding, the only path to a ārecountā in Mississippi
Agreed; I was surprised to see it come so quickly. I think this is a combination of:
- Knowing thereās no way to victory in the courts.
- Following the herd of the rest of Republicans federally; if sheās basically the only one standing alone crying fraud, itās probably not going to win over much public opinion.
- The fact that contesting this would probably only bring more attention to how voting in Mississippi is already heavily rigged in favor of Republicans, e.g. the purging of voter rolls. (Edit: And wanting the fire around this to die down for the 2028 election season.)
- The possibility that Colomās lead is still going to increase from here, given how heās been outperforming on affidavit and absentee ballots.
- Her not wanting to drag this out any longer, given she did just lose her Senate seat from Mississippi to a black, Democratic man.
- (Edit: @2ndDegreeOWO@lemmy.world correctly points out a huge one I completely missed: hella money.)
āHer not wanting to drag this out any longer, given she did just lose her Senate seat from Mississippi to a black, Democratic man.ā that she denied a promotion to a federal judgeship because she is MAGA trash.
100%. Even accounting for the fact sheās among a sea of Republicans who lost big this election, this has got to be pretty humiliating. I would just want it to be over in her shoes ā and apparently she agrees.
Also, keeping the campaign staff in the office, paying lawyers to prepare legal challenges ā¦ that all costs money, pretty significant money.
If you can see the writing on the wall, it may be better to cut your losses and focus on the next campaign instead.
Also unless a state outlines a mechanism for the government to pay for a recount, recounts are typically paid for by the challengerās campaign. That would have cost her millions
Probably not, given the title, but maybe they meant electing a black person.
As long as everythingās counted when the state needs to submit it (and in Mississippiās case, when the counties need to submit to the state), theyāve done their job.
Not quite. The faster theyāre done counting, the more people can start thinking about how they should engage with their new elected official. Mostly thinking of Senate leadership here, since the election for that is in 6 days. Itās not the end of the world, but itās not like nothing is gained by counting the ballots faster.
Thatās a fair consideration I hadnāt thought of. Still, I donāt think that takes away from āAs long as everythingās counted when [they] need to submit it, theyāve done their job.ā That isnāt āthereās nothing to be gained by counting faster before the deadlineā as much as it is āelection workers shouldnāt be pressured to count votes fasterā.
Like for example, when I mentioned ways to improve the counting process (noted in e.g. this video, see 4:55), I was mainly focused on alleviating the workload of election officials rather than speeding up the results for audiences. Things like more early voting (which Mississippi basically doesnāt have) speed up the count, but the primary benefit is that they make it easier for people to vote, the secondary benefit is that itās easier for election workers, and ultimately speeding up the results to audiences is a tertiary benefit at best.
As long as the results get in on time, I donāt think thereās much compelling reason to make election results go brrrr if it doesnāt improve voting accessibility or alleviate some burden on the people doing the counting.
Normally, the election boards donāt need to dig into absentee or provisional ballots because the winner has built a large enough lead with the ānormalā ballots that theyāve mathematically eliminated their opponent. (Theyāll still count them eventually, but they arenāt the deciding votes.) The margins of this race were so thin (less than half a percent) that no one was ready to call it until every vote tallied.
