Us elections

[Blackwing]

How many got to vote in this very important election?

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I voted! We are still waiting for results for my district for Congress because the results are so close that it's too close to call. I'm a bit nervous about that one. The rest of the results swayed in my direction though!

I voted! We didn't vote for seats in the Senate, but we did in the House of Representatives and Governor. Both went the way I wanted them to.

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It's official, the candidate I wanted has one my district's congressional seat. Blue wave.

[Proud90sKid]

I didn't vote due to procrastinating on changing my voter address. Nor did I feel as particularly strongly as I did in the prior election. COVID is not as much of an issue anymore and the lockdowns/restrictions were the primary issue that I had with the democrats. That one issue alone really made me hate everything about them for a while. I really liked how Desantis kept us open here in Florida, but he also wants other shitty policies like keeping weed illegal over the smell. I just want a candidate that will leave me alone.

Democrats and Republicans both want some sort of control over people. One one hand, modern democrats aren't actually socially liberal, they instead believe our freedoms should hinge on what is best for the majority/social problems. As a result, many don't support marijuana legalization either until they can prove it doesn't cause some sort of social problem. Or they want to implement laws to restrict types of "dangerous speech" on social media. Not actually socially liberal is it? Republicans just claim to be small government. But what type of freedom is Desantis talking about when we can get a felony charge for possessing a THC vape pen in his "free" state? I was pulled out of my car in handcuffs because my medical marjuana was not in its original container. Would never have happened in California.

I was honestly considering moving to California before the lockdowns hit for more liberal drug laws. Their reaction to COVID has given me a lot of pause though.

P90sK, I feel your frustration when it comes to restrictions surrounding marijuana possession. I want to say, in my state — one of the bluest and most liberal — they don't always care about you having pot in your possession. They only care if you're stoned while driving, working, or in public. I will say though, some towns do fight and show resistance on this liberal policy by the state — marijuana legalization is on a town by town basis — for the most part, possession of medical and recreational marijuana is legal.

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Who is winning at the moment?

[Proud90sKid]

Originally Posted by Dawn.

Who is winning at the moment?

It's not a US presidential election year. It is the in between election. We voted for US house/senate, individual state policies, and governors. Nationally, there was not a big take over by any party. No red/blue wave.

[Mindfulness.]

Originally Posted by Proud90sKid

It's not a US presidential election year. It is the in between election. We voted for US house/senate, individual state policies, and governors. Nationally, there was not a big take over by any party. No red/blue wave.

Oh OK. Fair enough.

[MWF]

I'm pretty happy with the results! Normally, the party that is out of power normally has a huge year in the mid-terms, so the media elected Republicans to crush it. But the Dems over-performed the polls in basically every special election since the Dobbs decision, so that was mostly just hype. The US Senate is more important because they can confirm Biden's judges, but a Republican House will just waste the next two years investigating Biden's son. That's just gonna make them look stupid for the next election.

The state level is actually more encouraging if you dislike the Republican party. Election-denying Republicans overwhelmingly lost their major governor and Secretary of State races, so they can't use those offices to steal the 2024 election. Also, the dems didn't lose a single State House or Senate in any state, and even flipped control of the legislatures in Minnesota, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. That's the first time since the 1930s that the sitting president's party didn't lose a single state legislature, and that's a HUGE deal. Also, several state-level constitutional amendments went the Dems way, including legalized weed in two states.

Extremism lost! Hooray!