Politics Discussion Thread (Heated Arguing Warning)

[MJW (ya that one)]

If you do a naïve calculation Nelson would have beat Scott 641 votes (greater than 537) if it weren't for that bad ballot design. If I were a pundit I would argue that this is a blue wave year--the GOP was carried in the Senate by the worst map ever and the ND (Cramer would not have run and she would have beat up some random potato farmer if she made a meaningless vote) and FL gift-wraps. If you consider that both Nelson and Scott lagged by around 10000 votes then Scott would have still won (there's much less reason for a GOP-voter to look at the ballot because there was a bunch of uncontested races for DEMs). I would argue that the ND, MO, IN, TN candidates were very weak for DEMs for trying to be bi-partisan and Pro-Choice (WV is Pro-Life and MT is partisan) so they really don't count. The only contested state the GOP really won was Florida and only barely. Blue Wave year.