US Mid Terms: Your Prediction and Take?
@NormanDarlo (1071)
Ireland
November 3, 2018 5:53pm CST
On November 6, the US goes to the polls. All 435 seats in the House of Representatives as well as 35 of the 100 seats in the Senate are being contested. In addition, 39 state and territory governorships are being contested. The results of these elections will be watched closely from both within the US and from outside. Looked at from Europe, it is very hard to make any prediction as to the outcome, or indeed as to its effect.
Do you have any feeling for what the results might look like? Are these elections even all that important - what might the result mean for the US and the rest of the world? Please share your take on this!
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@xFiacre (13152)
• Ireland
4 Nov 18
@normandarlo I take it with a pinch of salt. They’ll do what they’ll do, a bit like ourselves. But at least they have a functioning government unlike my lovely self up here.
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@NormanDarlo (1071)
• Ireland
5 Nov 18
Yeah, don't get me started on that. If there was ever a time to be getting down off their high horses...
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@LadyDuck (472074)
• Switzerland
5 Nov 18
@NormanDarlo They usually come pretty quicly.
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@NormanDarlo (1071)
• Ireland
5 Nov 18
I guess we'll know soon enough. I wonder how quickly the results become known.
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@NormanDarlo (1071)
• Ireland
5 Nov 18
@LadyDuck I remember the presidential election results came up quickly in 2016, but I never paid much attention to mid-term results before.
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@LaDeBoheme (2004)
• United States
5 Nov 18
@NormanDarlo I find it disturbing that many of our foreign friends have commented on this discussion while many in the US seem to not care, but it affects ALL of us in the United States.
IT IS VERY IMPORTANT that US citizens vote tomorrow. We have a president who is trying to make us isolationist, NOT great again, but ALONE again.
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@NormanDarlo (1071)
• Ireland
5 Nov 18
@LaDeBoheme There are many who feel that your president is dragging your great country through the dirt, and that it will take years for it to recover the respect it had.
@NormanDarlo (1071)
• Ireland
5 Nov 18
In Europe we are far away too, and I hope to get some insight from those nearer.
@NormanDarlo (1071)
• Ireland
5 Nov 18
Oh dear, that's a sad comment on your politicians, Courage! (Also, interesting that the obscenity filter isn't tuned in to Irishisms!)
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@Courage7 (19633)
• United States
5 Nov 18
@NormanDarlo Yeah haha its all good to me Norman
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@MommyOfEli2013 (84226)
• Rupert, Idaho
4 Nov 18
I really don't know because I don't follow this kind of stuff. But that's a good question!
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@NormanDarlo (1071)
• Ireland
5 Nov 18
Well, the outcome is likely to effect you more than me, directly at least!
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@NormanDarlo (1071)
• Ireland
5 Nov 18
@MommyOfEli2013 If you didn't have a vote (as is the case of so many unfortunate people who live in dictatorships) that would be true. But people gave their lives so that we, who live in democracies, have the right to choose who governs us.
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@MommyOfEli2013 (84226)
• Rupert, Idaho
5 Nov 18
@NormanDarlo Yes, I suppose so. I just usually feel that it is what it is, can't change it myself.
@NormanDarlo (1071)
• Ireland
5 Nov 18
Most countries are like that, though, aren't they, Alex? It's very difficult in most cases for new parties/ideas to break through the inertia of the status quo.
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@NormanDarlo (1071)
• Ireland
6 Nov 18
@ledante That is true, Alex, also here. I meant in a general sense, that politically, it is hard to combat inertia.
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@ledante (1086)
• Taipei, Taiwan
6 Nov 18
@NormanDarlo sure, but look at the UK- they have many parties which will never get a shot at PM, but can still influence votes and raise awareness on key issues. With a two party system, there are issues that both parties can agree to ignore, and they do...
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@LaDeBoheme (2004)
• United States
4 Nov 18
Predictions are the House will probably flip. Senate not so much. But if early voting is any indication, record number of voters will be turning out. I know I will be voting. I would like to see Congress flip. I have no use for the way the country is being run by 'Celebrity President' who is currently on his 'rockstar' tour on the eve of the elections firing up his buddies in his base states. (I guess he has nothing better to do, like, you know, run a country and other presidential things.) 
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@NormanDarlo (1071)
• Ireland
5 Nov 18
yeah, it's tomorrow isn't it. I wonder how soon we'll know the results?
@lookatdesktop (27134)
• Dallas, Texas
6 Nov 18
I voted. Now I will be watching and waiting all day until the final votes are in. I am not really that good at predictions.
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@NormanDarlo (1071)
• Ireland
6 Nov 18
None of us will have that long to wait now anyway. I guess I was just being impatient 
@NormanDarlo (1071)
• Ireland
5 Nov 18
Yeah, I can understand that reaction! I feel a little safer raising the matter at the distance of a continent's remove
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