Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

One way or another, heā€™s a liar.

A democracy canā€™t function when people canā€™t distinguish facts from lies.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

ā€œThe difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.ā€

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

A tremendous foreign policy assetā€¦ to all of our adversaries.

Cancel the cowardly Times and Post and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

Innocent people do not delay justice.

Second rate reporter says what?

You donā€™t get rid of your umbrella while itā€™s still raining.

The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have powerā€¦use it!

If you still canā€™t see these things even now, maybe politics isnā€™t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

You are here: Home / Open Threads / Help Save the House! CA-22 and CA-41 Need Help Curing Ballots

Help Save the House! CA-22 and CA-41 Need Help Curing Ballots

by | 104 Comments

This post is in: ,

Help save the House by curing ballots!

Make calls to cure ballots for CO to kick Boebert to the curb!

Help Save the House! CA-22 and CA-41 Need Help Curing Ballots

šŸ‡

In-person volunteers AND phone people are needed to help in CA-41!

Phone people are needed to help in CA-22!

šŸ‡

šŸ‡

Ballot Curing for CA Congressional House Races

Help Save the House! CA-22 and CA-41 Need Help Curing Ballots 1

If anyone knows of “curing” help that is needed for other races, please let us know in the comments and I will add them up top.

Let’s win this!

Open thread.

Reader Interactions

104Comments

  1. 1.

    Mousebumples

    Thanks for front paging these, WaterGirl! I posted links in the late night thread last night, but hope more Juicers can help!

    Also – Georgia GOTV reminder that we’re doing another music/postcarding tomorrow (Tuesday) night at 8pm blog time/7pm central. šŸ˜Š

    If anyone wants to join in for postcarding but doesn’t have the scratch to buy stamps (or postcards), we can hopefully help out if you send WaterGirl an email. Not sure if we could get you supplies in time for Georgia, but I’m hoping to recruit Juicers to write postcards to Wisconsin for our April Judicial election (and maybe the February primary? šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø) – and probably even more “local” (around the country) races too!

  3. 3.

    AJ of the Mustard Search and Rescue Team

    Anyone know whether Frisch still needs help with curing?

    I don’t see any news either way on his Twitter or website.

  4. 4.

    Almost Retired

    Hoping to make time to help.Ā  Ken Calvert in 41 is an old hidebound relic of Red State California that previously could only be dislodged from office in his Inland Empire District by tactical nuclear weapons.Ā  But Riverside is becoming purple, and redistricting gave him Palm Springs with it’s large and politically active gay population.Ā  Add a charismatic Democratic candidate and this is a potential pick up.

  6. 6.

    Amir Khalid

    There’s going to be a general election in Malaysia this Saturday, the first one in Covid times. Oddly enough, there’s not a lot of enthusiasm for it that I can see. The political coalitions seem to be in a state of flux, none stands out as the best choice, the party-poster battles of previous elections are just not happening. And no one really knows who will win. There has even been talk of Malaysia winding up with its first-ever hung Parliament.

    I kind of envy you guys. Your elections are all done but the counting.

  8. 8.

    UncleEbeneezer

    The Rollins phone-bank looks like it already happened (11/12-11/13). Ā Not sure if there are ongoing/future events.

  16. 16.

    WaterGirl

    @UncleEbeneezer: I called the Rollins group and they said they have 700 names on their list, and most of them have been called and called and called, so they are going to do in-person for a couple of days and then may pick up on calling again after that.

    They don’t want to piss people off with more calls right now.

  18. 18.

    BlueGuitarist

    Not a US House candidate, but AZ *State* House candidate is looking for help making phone calls to help voters cure ballots ā€“ one of the few times people will be glad to get a phone call from someone they donā€™t know yet ā€“ Monday Tues or Wednesday:

    West Point graduate, retired Army Lt. Col. Dana Allmond, who resigned from Sinemaā€™s veteransā€™ advisory group because of the senatorā€™s lack of support for Bidenā€™s agenda, is running against an election denier in a key Tucson-area Arizona state legislative district (this guy says he left New Jersey because of the lack of freedom and oppressive government in Nj)

    Allmond and her opponent both have 53k votes; heā€™s got a few hundred more; with about 11k to count.

    With your help Allmond could win an AZ State House seat and tie the AZ State House:

    https://www.mobilize.us/missionforaz/event/542942/?share_medium=native_share&share_context=event_detail_page&force_banner=true

    Allmond is a Super Swing District candidate, so that calls to cure ballots of Dem voters will help US house, AZ State Senate, & AZ statewide candidates.

    Her district overlaps US House AZ-06 where Democrat Kirsten Engel currently has 49.7% of the vote; hasnā€™t been called, but leaning R; crucial seat for Dem chances in US House; this is a gerrymandered district made 10 points more Republican.

    Overlaps AZ State Senate district 17, where Democratic candidate, pastor Mike Nickerson has 49.3% of the vote against an ultra maga Republican Justine Wadsack who beat the far right R incumbent in the primary. When she won the primary, the incumbent tried to get Wadsack off the ballot on a residency issue and she successfully invoked spousal to prevent her husband from testifying about where she actually lived. That’s the closest of 3 AZ State Senate districts where Dems have 49% of the vote, winning any one of them probably ties the AZ State Senate.

    More re this excellent Black woman running for AZ State house: Dana Allmond is endorsed by Care in Action (an advocacy group for domestic workers which supports candidates of color), AZ Stand for Children, Progressive Turnout Project, pro-choice groups: Emilyā€™s List, NARAL; labor unions: AFSCME, teachersā€™ union, nursesā€™ union; pro-public safety groups: Everytown for Gun Safety, Moms Demand Action; and pro-equality: Human Rights Campaign.

    She’s the mother of 4 kids, including triples born 11/11/11

  20. 20.

    zhena gogolia

    So the NYT is telling me the R’s have 222 in the House. Is that true, or are they just indulging in wishful thinking again?

    I’m at work and don’t have time to look into it. I hate them so much.

  23. 23.

    Martin

    @zhena gogolia: Still races to call. I’m not sure why today we’re getting opinions on CA races that had no new data since Friday. There’s been no new results dropped today yet. That’ll be closer to 5PM.

    Just wait. We’ll know soon enough.

  25. 25.

    Matt McIrvin

    @zhena gogolia: According to WaPo, 211 have been called for the Republicans, 204 for the Democrats. It looks like there are 222 called or leaning R at the moment. Those include these California seats, Boebert’s CO-03, and a few others. So, definitely not guaranteed R wins though some probably will be.

  31. 31.

    zhena gogolia

    This place is the ONLY source of news I can stomach.

    I just had lunch with some normies. One of them (of course) tried to bring up the parlor game of who should be our nominee in 2024. I shut that shit down right quick. (Same person used to bring up Hillary’s e-mails.) Then I was commended for my brilliant analysis of the chances of Warnock vs. Walker, which came entirely from BJ.

  33. 33.

    Ivan X

    Rollins staff have a drop-in Zoom 10-7 today, they send you the link if you fill out their form. I’m in Santa Barbara, which is 2.5 to 3 hours driving to CA-41, which I’d happily do if it would be useful. I spoke to the volunteer via the Zoom and he said [paraphrasing/interpreting], “Listen, wanna be honest, we’re down by 4,000, so while we still are going for it and can still win, we don’t want people rearranging their whole lives to get here. We do have people knocking on doors now, and if the numbers look really good in the next couple of days, then we’ll keep going, and if so then it might be worth your time.” So, I’ll check back in tomorrow/Wed and keep my fingers crossed until then. I know we’re on a wing and a prayer at this point for the House but miracles do happen and it ain’t over ’til it’s over.

  36. 36.

    Major Major Major Major

    @zhena gogolia: this can be a useful exercise though. Normies basically noticed inflation before economists were sold on the idea that it was getting bad. The median voter is a normie. Things they worry about are ā€œrealā€ even if theyā€™re ā€œfakeā€ (like the emails) if that makes senseā€¦

  42. 42.

    lowtechcyclist

    @zhena gogolia:Ā  Yeah, having a couple of kleenexes handy was a good idea.

    Comparatively trivial thought: Zelenskyy’s gonna have a hard time going back to suits and ties after this war is won.

  43. 43.

    CaseyL

    @ALurkSupreme: Speaking of whom:

    Per Bouzy:

    With CA-41, Democrats have 216 seats and need two more seats. I’m afraid I have to disagree with others, and I believe when more votes are counted, Democrats will win AZ-6, and that gets Democrats to 217. Contrary to what others say, I am not convinced CO-3 is over..

    A significant number of ballots have been cured, and the remaining votes appear to favor Adam Frisch. By Thursday, we will have more information, but this race will get closer and go to a recount. There is a realistic path to 218, and Democrats don’t need a miracle…

    So it looks like the ballot cure priorities are CA-41, CA-22, and CO-03.

  46. 46.

    Martin

    @CaseyL: Hopefully tonights CA update will give us a clearer direction of things. Should at least be more uniform across all races instead of the hodgepodge we’ve been getting.

  48. 48.

    CaseyL

    Hmph.Ā  I’ve tried to open the Frisch phone-banking link – here, and on his Twitter feed – and none of them work.

  49. 49.

    Jackie

    @Jackie: Speaking of WA-3, Joe Kent is refusing to concede:

    ā€œWhat the media says is irrelevant, it[ā€˜]s another narrative designed to stop voters from ballot curing & to force me to concede – not gonna happen,ā€ Kent wrote on Twitter Saturday. ā€œWeā€™re on the streets ballot curing. The fight goes on while the talking heads talk. Power dry & check your ballot.ā€

    https://www.bigcountrynewsconnection.com/news/state/washington/race-called-but-kent-doesn-t-concede-in-washington-s-3rd-house-district/article_216369d0-5f5b-56d6-aa49-eadadbf196f0.html

  56. 56.

    rikyrah

    Skeptical BrothaĀ Ā (@skepticalbrotha) tweeted at 6:14 AM on Mon, Nov 14, 2022:
    The U.S. Supreme Court had its thumb on the scale to prevent a Democratic majority by pretending that there was some issue with the Voting Rights Act that needed its attention this term. No such issue exists. They will strike it down to prevent VRA seats in Alabama & Louisiana…

     

    Skeptical BrothaĀ Ā (@skepticalbrotha) tweeted at 6:14 AM on Mon, Nov 14, 2022:
    South Carolina and Florida as well where an aggressive DeSantis gerrymander took a VRA seat on purpose despite it being unconstitutional in Florida. Add the incompetence in NY that lost four seats and that could be what prevents Democratic control.

    Skeptical Brotha

    (@skepticalbrotha) tweeted at 6:24 AM on Mon, Nov 14, 2022:
    Whatever happens with the House, just know that huge institutional forces conspired against Democrats from the beginning, and the fact that we’re still competitive nearly a week later is a miracle by itself.

  57. 57.

    Geminid

    @rikyrah: If there is a Caucus election for Speaker Pelosi’s spot, the struggle will be titanic!- at least in the media and on Twitter. I think Jeffries will win without too much trouble, though.

    I also expect Hoyer and Clyburn to step aside if Pelosi does, and Katherine Rice (MA) and Pete Aguilar to win their spots. Rice is 59 and Aguilar is 42. Hakeem Jeffries is 51, and he is a very talented and hardworking man.

  60. 60.

    lowtechcyclist

    @rikyrah:

    Whatever happens with the House, just know that huge institutional forces conspired against Democrats from the beginning, and the fact that weā€™re still competitive nearly a week later is a miracle by itself.

    No question about it.

  61. 61.

    Old School

    @WaterGirl: Not sure what the current context is, but when I did a Google search it pulled up stories from 2018, 2019, and 2021.Ā  So even if they aren’t best friends, it certainly can’t be called a new development.

  62. 62.

    Dangerman

    I had my ballot cured the moment I dropped it off at the Elections Office; I had forgotten to date the envelope. Oh, sure, I could have been more careful and read the instructions, but it was first thing in the morning and the Doctor has ordered me to drink only decaf (whatā€™s the point?) and, really, instructions are so yesterday.

    The fix is si easy and the potential reward is so high (Boebert could go back to something more in line with her skillset like ā€¦ hold on, itā€™s coming to me ā€¦ decaf, remember? ā€¦ well, shit, she must have some skills).

  63. 63.

    Jackie

    Only two posts to choose to post onā€¦

    ā€œSome pundits on the right have decided that unmarried women are at fault for the GOPā€™s electoral dysfunction.ā€

    https://www.thebulwark.com/blame-all-the-single-ladies/

    The GQP is scraping the bottom of the barrel for losing excuses! When I was married, I voted D. I have voted Democratic my entire life.šŸ¤·šŸ¼ā€ā™€ļø

  64. 64.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Jackie: 99% of these discussions of why unmarried women are more likely to vote Democratic ignore that these numbers aren’t age-adjusted. It drives me insane.

    Probably most of what’s going on here is that being unmarried is a proxy for being younger, and the youngs are more Democratic. Not really about marriage causing conservatism or the reverse.

    It’s like the dumb study that claimed that left-handed people had a lower life expectancy. No they didn’t, it’s just that if you were really old you were probably forced to be right-handed as a child, so age at death was biased younger for left-handers.

  65. 65.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Old School:

    @WaterGirl: Not sure what the current context is, but when I did a Google search it pulled up stories fromĀ 2018,Ā 2019, andĀ 2021.Ā  So even if they arenā€™t best friends, it certainly canā€™t be called a new development.

    The 2021 story (by Chris Cillizza, eww) is about Jeffries taking (deserved) potshots at Nina Turner.Ā  AOC is only in there as a name to be thrown around and lumped in with others.Ā  Standard Cillizza vomit.

    The 2019 story is about Saikat Chakrabarti, who didn’t last much longer as AOC’s chief of staff.

    So I’m really finding nothing to see here.Ā  AOC figured out by the summer of 2019 that she wanted to be part of a winning coalition, rather than a lefty taking potshots at the party.

  66. 66.

    Martin

    @Anyway: 42 D 11R. CA lost one district. If Ds hold all 42, R will lose one due to that.

    R has 6 calls now, leading in 6, but that could fall to 4 with some good D late mail results and 3 with some *very* good D late mail results.

  67. 67.

    Martin

    @Old School: I don’t take it as ‘going after’. I take it as ‘pulling left’. I don’t see any effort from AOC to undermine the coalition.

    The media has such a hard-on for finding a Dem villain and AOC was the perfect target from the day her Insta account beat Crowley. That was supposed to cost the Dems a seat. It was supposed to undermine Pelosi.Ā Someone go look at the vote demographics this election and tell me AOC isn’t delivering for the party.

    I don’t think anyone (including AOC) is under any illusions that Jeffries isn’t the heir apparent.

  68. 68.

    WaterGirl

    @Jackie: So let’s see.

    It’s OUR FAULT that the GOP can’t get unmarried women.

    It’s OUR FAULT that WE can’t get white working class males.

    Seems like there’s something wrong there, but I can’t quite put my finger on it.

  69. 69.

    Martin

    Finally got an uncounted ballot update. It’s a mess, tbh. Says there’s 3.8 million still to count in CA, but the state updated ahead of some county submissions so some of these counties that counted over the weekend aren’t reflected. I feel a strongly worded letter to the CA SOS coming on.

  70. 70.

    WaterGirl

    @Martin:

    I donā€™t think anyone (including AOC) is under any illusions that Jeffries isnā€™t the heir apparent.

    Yeah, no one thinks he’s the double-secret heir. Ā If AOC or anyone else wanted to undermine that, they should have started a long time ago. Ā Pretty sure that ship has sailed. Ā (or is ready to sail whenever Nancy SMASH steps down)

  71. 71.

    StringOnAStick

    @Baud: I was feeling pretty good about these results and how our coalition is doing, until last night at dinner with 5 other solid D’s who were adamant that Biden is “too old to run again” and they all are “extremely disappointed in Harris” and “she’s incoherent”.Ā  The one they like is Mayor/DOT Pete B.Ā  I had a moment where I thought maybe all the time I spend reading here has me in my own bubble and it made me pretty sad.Ā  I did ask the big question though: if Biden is the nominee, will you vote for him and everyone immediately answered yes.

    So, it is obvious the age question is where the media will be working it hard for the R’s next election.Ā  Shit, some of our own voters are already working it hard.

  72. 72.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Matt McIrvin:

    Probably most of whatā€™s going on here is that being unmarried is a proxy for being younger, and the youngs are more Democratic. Not really about marriage causing conservatism or the reverse.

    I dunno.Ā  When unmarried men are voting R by 52-45 and unmarried women are voting D by 68-31, something else is going on.

    But speaking of that, I think what fuels the right-wing male pundit rage about unmarried women is that, in places like DC and NYC, they can’t fucking find a date because the single women there won’t have anything to do with a damned MAGAt.

    Tough shit, dudes. You won’t reproduce, and the species will be better for it.

  73. 73.

    Jackie

    @Matt McIrvin: Yah, Iā€™m a born lefty forced to be a righty. Which made me ambidextrous/lefty. Things I did without being observed for constant correction Iet me be a natural lefty.

  77. 77.

    UncleEbeneezer

    @lowtechcyclist: When we get to some Pew Research validated voter reports (the gold standard of post-election polling) in about six months, that give us better demographic info on this election, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the Young, White Voters Ā who went Dem, end up consisting of twice as many women as men.

  78. 78.

    Matt McIrvin

    @StringOnAStick: I’ve heard the same thing from solid liberals here: Biden’s too old, he’s “not doing anything”, he’s completely reactive, Kamala Harris is “not doing anything either”, where is she? And that Pete Buttigieg should run in 2024.

    But this talk was back in the summer before the IRA passed, around the same time that liberal blogs were going on about dumping Biden or dumping Harris, so I don’t know if attitudes have changed.

  84. 84.

    WaterGirl

    @StringOnAStick: Maybe try to let it goes? Ā It’s media made-up bullshit, it gives them something to talk about because they sure don’t want to report on policy or on running the country or om the long-term implications of anything.

  87. 87.

    Jackie

    I just watched this on Nicolle Wallaceā€™s show. I always thought J6 was a voter decider factor, along with Roe and school shootings.

    https://www.rawstory.com/2022-polls/

    ā€œWashington Post reporter Ashley Parker said that one of the things she learned from Republican pollsters speaking to GOP voters in focus groups who revealed that despite their support for the party, they really didn’t like what happened on Jan. 6.ā€

    ā€œWhat Trump did on Jan. 6, Wallace explained, wasn’t just about his abuse of power, but it was also about turning the United States into a laughing stock of the world for undermining the governance America was most known for. The GOP candidates that Trump recruited were based only on their fealty to Trump and not to the country. It became painfully obvious the difference between those two types of candidates.ā€

  89. 89.

    Baud

    @Jackie:

    ā€œWashington Post reporter Ashley Parker said that one of the things she learned from Republican pollsters speaking to GOP voters in focus groups who revealed that despite their support for the party, they really didnā€™t like what happened on Jan. 6.ā€

    Getting through to these people was part of Biden’s strategy.

  91. 91.

    Matt McIrvin

    @WaterGirl: He’s this strange guy who kind of appointed himself the white spokesman for black liberation during the rise of BLM. Bit of a grifter.

  92. 92.

    Matt McIrvin

    @lowtechcyclist:

    I dunno.Ā  When unmarried men are voting R by 52-45 and unmarried women are voting D by 68-31, something else is going on.

    Yeah, that just indicates that young women are way more Democratic than young men, which is not much of a surprise. I’d like to see marital status and age broken out separately

    edit: here’s a Gallup one from years ago that actually does that, though it doesn’t break out gender as well:

    https://news.gallup.com/poll/121571/marriage-remains-key-predictor-party-identification.aspx

    The party/marital status association’s still pretty strong within some age groups, but not others, and it’s kind of a weird pattern.

  93. 93.

    Lumpy

    @Matt McIrvin: Ā Shaun King is not white, donā€™t blindly parrot right wing talking points. Heā€™s not someone I find reliable, but you donā€™t need to discuss his race (and get it wrong) to say that. Your ā€œnicknameā€ comment (which I had never heard before, and I used to follow him) was disgusting.

  94. 94.

    Jackie

    @Baud: Faux and MAGA were sure J6 wouldnā€™t be a blip on Republican voters. To me, in its own way, it was as shocking as 9-11 was. A terrorist threat to our democracy.

  96. 96.

    Geminid

    @Lumpy: I have not seen any right wingers saying King is white, although I expect there are. I see plenty of Black Democrats saying it though. I’m not saying it’s true, just that your characterization of these as right wing talking points is not entirely supported.

  98. 98.

    Lumpy

    @Geminid: Ā ā€œShaun King isnā€™t blackā€ is a talking point which you can find in the comments at Breitbart or Red State whenever his name comes up. Itā€™s a gross thing to say, no matter who is saying it.

  99. 99.

    Geminid

    @Lumpy: I believe you when you say this idea is pushed by people on Breitbart and other conservative sites. I’m saying that I see it it pushed by people who are not right wingers, including some Black Democrats who I respect. And for them, the issue is ancillary to their criticism of King as a grifter.

    Speaking personally though, as a white man, I Ā think the question of Sean King’s racial background is none of my business.

  102. 102.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Jackie:

    @Matt McIrvin: Yah, Iā€™m a born lefty forced to be a righty. Which made me ambidextrous/lefty. Things I did without being observed for constant correction Iet me be a natural lefty.

    As a lefthander myself, I feel lucky that that had become a rarity by the time I started school in the 1960s.

  103. 103.

    Leslie

    @lowtechcyclist: My mom was a lefty and had a teacher who tied her hand behind her back. When she started not wanting to go to school, her mother followed her one day and witnessed this. She promptly raised holy hell and got my mother transferred to a different classroom.

  104. 104.

    Jackie

    @lowtechcyclist: My kindergarten yr was ā€˜60-ā€˜61. I think I was about 9 when I started realizing my left hand was more dominant. The summer before 5th grade I started deliberately writing in cursive with my left hand. It was slower than writing right handed, but very legible. All of 5th grade I wrote lefty and got Aā€™s in penmanship! I was so proud of that! To this day I rotate between left and right when signing my signature – just in case I break an arm LOL

Comments are closed.