25 days until the election, what do you think will happen?

[Polybius]

Obviously, we all want the same results, but what do you think those results will be?

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	Democrats control the House and Senate
	11 (69%)
	Democrats control the Senate, Republicans control the House
	3 (19%)
	Democrats control the House, Republicans control the Senate
	0 (0%)
	Republicans control the House and Senate
	2 (13%)
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[mopinko]

1. willing to bet good money.

i predict kansas everywhere.

[lees1975]

2. Agree.

And then the Republicans will shriek like banshees and try to block all their losses.

[mopinko]

3. do you know who banshees shriek at, according to the legend?

their murderers. they are the ghosts of women who were either murdered or died in childbirth. since they have no bodies, they can only scream at them. w their vaginas.
to their families they croon, and spread the news, including a warning of danger nearby. guardians. grios.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/byathameandstang/2017/03/the-banshee/

[Sky Jewels]

12. Screaming Vaginas will be the name of my all-women punk band.

[mopinko]

13. lol. you need a singer?

i got a pretty good growl.

[Sky Jewels]

14. Yes! I can't carry a tune in a bucket!

[mopinko]

16. i'm in.

[Polybius]

4. Kanas they made a huge mistake by putting abortion on the ballot

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It reminded voters. I think now they are trying to downplay it.

[mopinko]

5. yeah, it's on the ballot in mich.

between that and the weed laws, they are going down soooo hard.

[Polybius]

7. Republicans will lose big in Michigan

Florida will be interesting to watch.

[mopinko]

17. i think we'll take fla too.

[Polybius]

19. Maybe Rubio loses

But DeSantis won't.

[mopinko]

22. think u have that backwards.

i think almost all these thug govs r going down, 60-40.

[Polybius]

24. I don't think either Rubio or DeSantis are losing

Florida has become more Red over the last 6 years or so. DeSantis is very high profile. The last very high profile Governor to lose was Mario Cuomo in 1994.

[mopinko]

25. we shall see, but he's a little cheato.

lotta pol want to see him go down. and they aint gonna like threats to ss in fla.

[Gaugamela]

6. The people will explain to the MAGA-Roos on the SC what they really think of them.

[meadowlander]

8. I've been disappointed too many times before.

I think Republicans will take the House but I'm prepared to be pleasantly surprised.

[Polybius]

20. Seems to be running second in this poll

We fill find out in about three weeks.

[Elessar Zappa]

9. I'm pretty confident in saying that we'll hold the Senate.

I’m much less sure about the House but I think it’s more probable than not that we’ll outperform the polls.

[Fiendish Thingy]

10. Waaay too close to call.

Polling is likely to be way off, if new registrations figures are accurate indicators of turnout.

But, the fundamentals are giving the GOP an edge, certainly in the house.

[Polybius]

11. Looks like "Democrats control the House and Senate" is winning by 86%

Let's see some more votes!

[kentuck]

15. It's depressing...

...to think that a Party that attempted a coup to overthrow our democracy may win the next election.

It does not bode well for the country.

[nuxvomica]

18. In one of my short stories, a scientist creates a strange garden

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It is full of creatures from nearby universes that are improbable in ours yet were somehow sensed by storytellers in the past: unicorns, wizards, elves, etc. He surrounds the garden in a powerful magnetic field to prevent the creatures from escaping because should any find their way into the outer world, other improbable things will occur: "we might elect a carnival barker as president, or make a chicken the pope," he warns. The Democrats taking both houses seems improbable yet this election comes on the heels of other improbable things: an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, a tortured opinion reversing Roe V. Wade, Herschel Walker forming a complete sentence in a debate, etc. So I think that historical improbability can be ignored this time around, especially considering the Democrats are favored to take the Senate and those candidates have coattails and their issues have resonance down-ticket, so I suspect the House may follow.

[Brainfodder]

21. Too many reliable republican voters dead from COVID, giving democrats the edge?

[tavernier]

23. I think there will be an election

And the winners will be determined by which party shows up the most. That’s how a democracy works. Sadly, it also means that we get the government we deserve if we don’t pay attention.

[iemanja]

26. I don't know

so I'm not guessing.

[electric_blue68]

27. thinking we'll keep both House & Senate. Maybe a bit of increases in both, I hope...

bc hopefully

•polls not collecting cell user data

•Roevember

[Johonny]

28. I think the house will come down to how well the GOP gerrymandered their districts

and Covid deaths. They're counting on a lot of people no longer alive to be voting in some of those districts.

[Polybius]

29. 18 days until the election, I have changed my vote

A lot has changed in one week.

[a kennedy]

30. So, what's your vote now?? Or am I reading your post wrong??

[Polybius]

31. Hate to say it, but I think we lose the House and Senate now

It's horrendous, but 538 has our Senate chances at 57% now, and dropping fast. What changed it for me is that I no longer think PA is a win.

[Polybius]

32. 17 more days!

It's going fast!