US Midterms

[robkelk]

Well, many polls have closed.

Here's a link to the CBC blog about the results.

No surprise that Bernie Saunders has been re-elected.

What is a surprise is that it looks like Donna Shalala will take the House seat in the Miami area's 27th district. How many decades has it been since Miami went Democrat?

And, alas, there's been more problems with voting than there were during the 2014 midterms. Quoting AP:

By Tuesday afternoon, the nonpartisan Election Protection hotline had received about 17,500 calls from voters reporting problems at their polling places. Kristen Clarke, president of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, which helps run the hotline, said that number was well ahead of the last midterm election in 2014, when it had received about 10,400 calls by the same time.

As of 8:35 ET, projections for the House are practically tied: 42 R, 41 D, (I suspect these are "safe seats") remainder insufficient information to call. 218 needed for a majority.