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It's Election Watch Party time!

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Welcome one and all to the inaugural Uncharted Blue election watch. Polls closed at 6:00 ET in some parts Indiana and Kentucky, but will be open another hour in the larger parts of each state. Settle in for a long night (and possibly week) among friends.

We'll be here talk about the election from top to bottom—presidential, Senate, House, ballot initiatives. But first, a PSA about exit polls.

Don't look at early releases from exit polls, including most important issue questions. Exit polls are only useful after (a) voting is done, (b) they're finished collecting exit poll data, and (c) they have weighted the exit poll data to the results

Kevin Collins (@kwcollins.bsky.social) 2024-11-05T22:33:59.311Z

Update: Iowa is just messing with us now.

And there are more (likely Russia-originated) bomb threats at heavily Black polling stations in Georgia, disrupting voting and delaying closings in some counties.

Update: Sure, dude.

Update: Vermont is in first for Harris.

Indiana called for Trump.

Update:

It's gonna be a battle for the 60% threshold in Florida: with roughly half of the vote counted already, the abortion rights measure is ahead 58% to 42%.

Taniel (@taniel.bsky.social) 2024-11-06T00:23:52.901Z

Also, polls are closing in North Carolina.

Update: AP has called West Virginia for Trump and GOP Jim Justice for the Senate seat being vacated by Joe Manchin. See ya, Joe. We won't miss you.

Update: Take a deep breath for the last wave of poll closings and calls from AP.

  • Harris: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, Rhode Island
  • Trump: Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee

Update: Here's some good news from a red state.

RESULT: Pamela Goodwine wins Kentucky's supreme court race. Goodwine was the candidate backed by Dems in this nonpartisan race; she defeats the candidate backed by conservatives. (This was not statewide.) Retiring justice was conservative, so this takes the court a step left. Context:

Taniel (@taniel.bsky.social) 2024-11-06T01:30:22.357Z

Update: Delaware elects Dem Lisa Blunt Rochester to the U.S. Senate. She's the first Black woman to represent the state in the Senate.

Update: Another nice one from Kentucky.

RESULT: Kentuckians have rejected Amendment 2, the ballot measure that would have allowed public funding to go to private schools.

Taniel (@taniel.bsky.social) 2024-11-06T01:48:34.734Z

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