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Gnomes2169
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posted November 06, 2026 01:41 PM |
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USA elections 2026
Well, looks like the results are (mostly) in, just waiting on a few more votes to be tabulated from Alaska and Mississippi: Alaska because their road system and mail-in voting laws make tabulating mailed in ballots a slog, Mississippi because they snowed around and found out by implementing basically a poll tax in order to mail-in vote and now have to check that the 20,000 mail in votes that still need to be tabulated came from people with a good enough credit score.
But even without that, it was a blue tidal wave. South Carolina went Democrat? What? South Carolina was even on the table?! Who freaking saw that coming? Kansas has their first democratic national representative and possibly governor in 90+ years, Texas went purple because Paxton is the single most despicable, rizz-less ghoul in that state's history (he was impeached by his own party for rank corruption and numerous out-right crimes just a few years ago, and only hasn't gone to jail about it because the state AG that replaced him has been protecting him... that state AG has changed too, btw, and the dude who replaced them is the one who composed the soundtrack for the first 67 episodes of the Funimation adaptation of Dragon Ball Z (and the first five english movies for the same series, too), which I just find so gawd dang funny).
And apparently, the Republicans just lost so badly that Trump isn't contesting it. He's been lashing out at other Republicans (especially the candidates he backed who lost), but doesn't appear to be trying to file court cases post-election to try and flip the races. Maybe he just doesn't have the energy to try and pull the same maneuver as he did back in 2020. Maybe he just realizes that he doesn't have the support to try and pull another January 6th. Either way, the Republican party in general seems to be shell-shocked, and the way they're talking about it is how Democratic pundits talked about things post 2024.
So, interesting night over-all. And the memes have been peak.
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posted November 06, 2026 02:06 PM |
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Edited by PandaTar at 14:10, 06 Nov 2026.
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Trump lost to his base, specially Latins. He had had an upsurge of popularity among Latins when he got Maduro, but then, the war with Iran, that he didn't say he wouldn't get his country into, prolongued more than he'd promised (somewhere he'd said that the war would end when he 'wanted'), and the America first thing ended up being somewhat forgotten as things started to drag out. ICE was also not quite trained for proper handling of the real threat within (heard there had been ICE people within Equator's own embassy, which was a diplomatic mess). And Maduro's been quite forgotten, at least in a public point of view. The Shield of Americas was settled, but people need to see results or listen to it, and only wars seem to be making the news all the time. And these dragging conflicts started to hit Americans' pockets; and that won't do. The one who came strong from all this is Rubeo now. His candidates have own in their states.
All in all, Republicans lost to their own base. Results were more like a note of protest than any Democrats' own doing, as it's shown few states swinging to democrats, including Texas.
Now, Trump will have his moment to try and fix things, and recover some popularity, like Obama and Clinton before him, whey they had been bashed in their own time in midterms, then ended their tenure with higher approving rates, whichever their faults.
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Mississippi because they snowed around and found out by implementing basically a poll tax in order to mail-in vote and now have to check that the 20,000 mail in votes that still need to be tabulated came from people with a good enough credit score.
What the hell is this? People needed to pay to vote or something like that?
In my country, voting is compulsory, you see. If you don't go, you have to justify. It's not a complicated procedure, but if you don't (you have around 90 days to do so, if I'm not mistaken), you get a small fine (about R$ 2-3.00). But you miss something like 3 elections in a row by not justifying, you can't vote. You get blocked.
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Gnomes2169
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posted November 06, 2026 03:11 PM |
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PandaTar said:
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Mississippi because they snowed around and found out by implementing basically a poll tax in order to mail-in vote and now have to check that the 20,000 mail in votes that still need to be tabulated came from people with a good enough credit score.
What the hell is this? People needed to pay to vote or something like that?
I was misremembering this, Missisippi recently had a massive voter roll purge based on credit scores, (230,000 people) but they didn't condition their mail in voting on it. That conditions all voting on having an Experian Credit score. Which is still causing problems with a portion of that last 4% of the ballots that still need to be tabulated and likely purged a large number of people who were eligible to vote for Republican candidates... and it's just the latest in the long line of partisan political idiocy that's gone on with that state.
Mississippi is a state who had an election cycle defined by GOP hubris. They are the only state in the union without state-wide recount rules for races that are as close as this one (judges in individual counties can order them, but that requires taking the results in those counties to court), because they thought they just wouldn't have close races. Their voter roll purge likely hit more of their own people than it did their opposition (people who have no credit scores tend to be more rural, after all), which hurt their turnout and gave the razor-thin margins we're seeing to their Democratic and independent opposition. Their gerrymandering wasn't nearly as effective or popular as they seem to have hoped, farmers saw their Diesel prices going up due to the war and red ink diesel being opened up to truckers (which hits rural Mississippi areas disproportionately hard), etc, etc, etc, etc. It's just a long line of self-owns that made it possible for a Democrat to take the Senate seat in what should be an unshakeable GOP stronghold state. Trump won the state by 28% of the total vote back in 2024, it shouldn't have even been on the map for Dems this election cycle, but the bungling of the state GOP and Trump's own hellishly low popularity and poor international choices both made an impossible race for the Dem's an extremely close thing.
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In my country, voting is compulsory, you see. If you don't go, you have to justify. It's not a complicated procedure, but if you don't (you have around 90 days to do so, if I'm not mistaken), you get a small fine (about R$ 2-3.00). But you miss something like 3 elections in a row by not justifying, you can't vote. You get blocked.
Voting is not compulsory in the US of A, and voter turnout tends to be significantly lower for midterms than for presidential election years... but this year was a bit higher than the last few midterms. ~124 million people voted this week, while only ~112.1 million voted in 2022, and ~120.3 million voted in 2018. Now, in terms of rate of registered voters that actually turned out, 2022 and 2018 still have higher (~69% and 79% of registered voters respectively, while 2026 only had ~63%), and we don't know just yet how much of the rate drop from this year was voter apathy, demographic shift (boomers vote at MUCH higher rates than gen Z and Millenials... and Boomers are both a smaller demographic as more age groups become eligible to vote AND the Boomers are aging out of life at increased rates, which is reducing over-all voter participation rates), etc.
There is a lot to go into there when it comes to the relationship between elected representatives, Baby Boomer over-representation, corporate power and the derth of civil housing development, how younger generations have had their representation squandered and are demotivated to participate in any level of voting because of it, etc... but I am extremely tired in this post-night-shift world, and I definitely will not be coherent typing that all out.
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posted November 06, 2026 04:48 PM |
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We had +-20% of voters not going to vote, even being compulsory. Mostly people who say: "Ah, every politician is corrupt, they're all the same." Still, they forget that not voting favors the current system and placing every politician in the same basket levels everyone to the lowest level. Politicians are not the same thing. They're not all saints, but there are people still trying to fix things in general.
Well, Missisipi is weird. Actually, in my country, we're not used to states having so much autonomy over certain decisions and laws as you have in US. There's a lot of centralized power in Brasília, and Lula does his best to stretch that grasp even further. So, for now, that much autonomy is not attainable in the foreseeable future around here.
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