AZ-SEN: Maricopa up. Sinema expands lead to 28,000

[RandySF]

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[PJMcK]

1. Win it!

We need you!

[empedocles]

3. trump can now just shut up on this

[ToxMarz]

19. Is it too much to hope he just chokes on it

Literally!

[empedocles]

20. Well put

[brush]

2. It's over. Maricopa is the largest county and it's trending blue...

Pima where Tucson is is the next largest and that's always blue.

WooHoo.

[ProudLib72]

4. What's the number for an automatic recount?

Have we surpassed that already?

[Blue_true]

7. Way past it.

If Sinema gains again on Sunday and Monday, there is no way McSally catch her. But count all the vote anyway.

[Blue_true]

5. So much for the McSally +10 in Maricopa County that was made earlier today.

The race is playing out as I expected. The late vote are leaning more blue. That is because minority voters seem to prefer voting late, including in person and mailin or handin on Election Day.

[RandySF]

8. I texted thousands of voters across the country for two weeks.

Almost all of them waited until the last week to turn in their ballots.

[Blue_true]

11. Why is that? I mention it, but it drives me nuts that it happen.

Do you have insight from your experience directly with voters?

[RandySF]

13. It's not the foremost thing in most people's minds.

[Gore1FL]

14. There are two types of people in the Unites States.

1> Procrastinators
2> Amateurcrastinators

[Grown2Hate]

24. Or, they're like me. I LOVE getting the early ballot in AZ, taking my time to investigate the

judges, ballot initiatives, the "non-partisan" races, etc.

BUT, for some reason, I have an irrational fear of my vote not counting if I mail it in (like, maybe it gets shoved in a pile of absentee votes that end up being neglected in a runaway race; again, I know, it's an irrational fear based on almost nothing).

So, every Election Day, I show up to my polling place and drop off my sealed ballot in the little "Early Ballot" box.

I was hoping there were more like me, and it sure seems like there was!

[sweetloukillbot]

26. I'll be honest, i drop off my early ballot for the sticker

[David__77]

29. I like to drop it off as well.

And I like to do it near election day. Somehow, I get a sense of civic participation from that.

[LeftInTX]

22. Thank you for texting!

I always feel the phone numbers in VAN are wrong. I also follow some of the texts in a FB Group and it does seem like they get alot of wrong numbers. I did some phonebanking last Sunday and Monday and got a lot of, "That person doesn't live here", if they answered.

I'm glad you got through to voters!!

[RandySF]

25. It was more effective than I expected

I ran into a lot of people who forgot to fill out their ballots.

[OnDoutside]

32. Randy, what was the ratio of

"Goddamn leave me alone" to "Thanks for calling" to people just not answering ? I know my brother in Florida was plagued by phone calls, and usually ignore the call if he doesn't recognise the number.

[vercetti2021]

6. Just call it

Most the votes will favor Sinema.

[Blue_true]

9. I want Sinema to win. But count ALL the vote first.

We must act like democrats, even when we want this thing over with in Sinema's favor.

[vercetti2021]

12. Well if most are coming out of dem areas I'd say call it

But you're right.

[sweetloukillbot]

27. McSallys people believe the drop offs will favor her

I don’t see it because she lost Election Day in Maricopa as well.

[Blue_true]

30. I agree. And all year, blue voters have been the ones to turn in last minute in special elections.

[DFW]

10. This is why Republicans hate votes being counted, especially when they don't control the counting

In elections that are fairly held, they lose.

It may not always be "that simple," but it is rarely more complicated, either.

[LeftInTX]

23. Republicana actually filed suit because some rural counties had stopped counting.

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Those rural counties have now been counted and are in the total.

[George II]

15. It's now 28,673, 49.51% to 48.15% - that's 1.36% difference!

Live numbers can be found here:

https://results.arizona.vote/#/featured/4/0

1,046,252 to 1,017,579

[pdsimdars]

16. Dear God, Please let this happen here in Florida as well.

[sandensea]

17. A truly Sinematic ending.

Seriously though, I do hope HBO or Netflix can make a movie about this (and the Gillum/Nelson saga) someday.

[AZ8theist]

18. I phone banked for Sinema..

But what struck me is McSallys campaign.

Not a SINGLE positive ad by her (or the super PACs on her side) on the tee vee during the entire campaign.

EVERYTHING from McSally was NEGATIVE. Trying to paint Krysten as some sort of OH MY GOD!!! LIBERAL!! WACKO!!
( insert RW insult here _____________ )

McSally ran one shitty campaign. Period. She had NOTHING POSITIVE to offer the voters of Arizona. Happy AS SHIT she lost!!!

[gtar100]

21. And yet all those republicans voted for her.

Shows how little they actually care about picking good representation. Hell, the whole tea party surge in 2010 revealed that. And then they vote for a POS the likes of tRump. Safe to say they are a lost cause.

Good luck, Arizona! Let's hope congratulations are in order very soon.

[dalton99a]

28. Positive ads by Republicans are rare. Their M.O. is to lie, distort, attack and destroy

[Maeve]

31. Negative ads WORK....for Republicans

Not so much for our side because we are not driven by fear. Same reason 45 succeeds with his hate-fests; his base is fear-based, not reality based.