Notice that the caravan totally disappeared as an issue as soon as the votes were cast -- not just Fox News, but mainstream media too. Guys, you really need to take a hard look in the mirror and ask why you're so easily played 2/— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) November 9, 2018
Sabrina Siddiqui:
Among the most eye-catching was a statistic showing Democrats led Republicans by more than 12 million votes in Senate races, and yet still suffered losses on the night and failed to win a majority of seats in the chamber.
It looks like massive voter suppression and outright election fraud happened in Florida. The number of people on this platform alone who’ve reported not receiving absentee ballots or submitting ballots that were not counted suggests thousands and thousands of people are affected.— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) November 8, 2018
Matthew Zeitlin:
About 24,000 ballots in Broward County registered a vote in the governor's race but not for the Senate race.
The discrepancy with the Senate race tally is consistent down the ballot, with more votes cast in lower-profile races like commissioner of agriculture, chief financial officer, and attorney general than in the Senate race, according to the preliminary county results.
Charles Pierce:
A reminder: what we are talking about here is the counting of votes, which is the basic fundamental process for every election. We are not talking about recounts and chads and all that other nonsense that is surely coming down the pike because this is Florida, man. We are talking about counting the votes. And Scott is using his authority as governor to ratfck that process with armed law-enforcement personnel. Somebody get this guy a white suit with some braid, and a balcony on which to stand.
“More than 1,800 machines sat idle in storage in three of the state’s largest and most heavily Democratic counties. While some voters waited in hours-long lines in Fulton County, 700 of those machines sat in a warehouse in downtown Atlanta.” https://t.co/ynlcUNi1pI— Ava DuVernay (@ava) November 9, 2018
Kay Steiger, Li Zhou, Tara Golshan, and P.R. Lockhart:
[L]awyers for Abrams's campaign held their own press conference, where they explained why the candidate would not be conceding the election and blamed Kemp for a number of issues on Election Day, which saw voters in a handful of precincts with large nonwhite populations deal with hours-long lines, an insufficient number of voting machines, and a dearth of provisional ballots.
Abrams's campaign also noted that ballots were still being counted in some counties, despite these countries previously reporting that all votes were in. As an example, Abrams campaign manager Lauren Groh-Wargo mentioned Cobb County, which reported some 300 additional votes this morning. Groh-Wargo and other members of Abrams's campaign also said they had spoken with college students living out of state who sent back absentee ballots well before the deadline but have yet to receive confirmation of their ballots being counted.
Early Voting:
- Gwinnett County was caught purging absentee ballots
- A fed judge ordered it to stop
- @BrianKempGA filed an emergency motion to block the court’s ruling
- The motion was denied
Today:
- Gwinnett County voting machines have “technical issues” #VoterSuppression pic.twitter.com/PkkjETDFLE— Brenna Simon (@BrennaSimonSays) November 6, 2018
Cameron Joseph:
Rep. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) has pulled into the lead in Arizona’s slow-crawling Senate race.
New ballots released by populous Maricopa and Pima Counties Thursday evening gave Sinema a lead of just over 9,600 votes over Rep. Martha McSally (R-AZ) in their tight battle for the Senate.
McSally had led since election night. But there are still almost a half-million outstanding ballots in the state, which is notoriously slow at tallying its election results because of a heavy reliance on mail voting. That’s more than one fifth of the total vote, plenty to swing the election either way.
The Arizona GOP is suing to prevent the counting of mail ballots.
Cindy McCain is not pleased. https://t.co/VbMLqSisGP— Andrew Damitio, Market Environmentalist 🏗🌐 (@andrewdamitio) November 9, 2018
Voting precinct closed after gunman arrives in Palm Bay, authorities say https://t.co/O8OcGx9IfR pic.twitter.com/ui38avkblp— Orlando Sentinel (@orlandosentinel) November 6, 2018
‘Flat out voter intimidation’: Trump supporter with barking German shepherd parks outside Virginia polling place. He told campaign workers he worked for Border Security & had 200 dogs & was headed to the border! https://t.co/IScFkmKEcX— Colleen Grotti🦅🕊🌊 (@colleengrott) November 7, 2018
Alex Pareene:
The only appeal the conservative movement has left is white panic. And they ― not just the demagogues like Donald Trump, but also the supposedly responsible wonks like Paul Ryan, and every shade of Republican in between ― are shameless and irresponsible enough to go to that well again and again, if it helps them maintain power. The caravan ad is the entire Republican midterm message, and they are actively restricting the electorate to exclude the people who wouldn’t fall for it. An entire political party stands united in its defense of the prevailing racial order, and its politicians are more than happy to say so in their campaigns. The racism isn't some oafish slip-up; it's the point.
What makes that story so difficult for the mainstream press to tell?
Day after the election, Pentagon announces no longer calling US military mission on southern border ‘Operation Faithful Patriot’. Now calling it ‘border support.” No reason given for the change.— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) November 7, 2018Elliott Hannon:
A day after the midterms, the stakes of the Trump presidency were again on display Wednesday, as Patrick Casey, the leader of the white nationalist neo-Nazi group Identity Evropa visited the White House. Casey posted pictures on Twitter of the South Lawn of the White House along with the caption "Evropa has landed at the White House!"
