Rich (BB code):
VA-07
Lib 111,729 28.5%
Con 84,849 21.6%
Nat 72,897 18.6%
Prog 60,815 15.5%
Cst 40,286 10.3%
All 21,592 5.5%
Fus 0 0%
Total 392,168
MCs elected:
Lib
Con
Nat
"Before we go on, that's Virginia's inland seventh district. One of the few places where the Conservatives are edging out the Nationals on the right-wing side, though the Liberals are ahead overall."
Rich (BB code):
NY-13
Lib 146,608 58.1%
Prog 86,317 34.2%
Fus 6,967 2.8%
Nat 6,760 2.7%
All 5,741 2.3%
Cst 0 0%
Con 0 0%
Total 252,393
MCs elected:
Lib
Prog
Lib
"And New York's thirteenth district. Interestingly, this is actually the smallest district in the US, geographically speaking, being based mostly on the northern part of the island of Manhattan. Projections suggested that all three seats would be going to the Liberals in these kinds of seats, but in fact there is a substantial vote for the Progressives, who are also getting some representation."
Rich (BB code):
FL-05
Lib 143,356 45.9%
Nat 55,491 17.8%
Prog 47,838 15.3%
Con 33,545 10.7%
Cst 22,856 7.3%
All 8,985 2.9%
Fus 0 0%
Total 312,071
MCs elected:
Lib
Lib
Nat
"And going down to Florida, this district in the north of the state is another case where the Liberals have slightly underperformed expectations - in this case the third seat going to the Nationals."
"Can we really say what expectations reasonably were in this brave new world, though?"
"Perhaps not - it is just that this was a Democratic-packed district by almost a two to one margin in the old times..."
Rich (BB code):
NY-23
Nat 81,969 28.3%
Fus 76,187 26.3%
Prog 65,729 22.7%
Lib 49,284 17%
All 16,848 5.8%
Cst 0 0%
Con 0 0%
Total 290,017
MCs elected:
Nat
Fus
Prog
"And back to New York, but quite a different part of the state indeed - a large rural district along the border with Pennsylvania, and here the Liberals language down in fourth place without representation. The Fusionists are just behind the Nationals, but it's the Progressives who take the third seat here. This district is home to the city of Ithaca..."
"Haha, like in that Simpsons episode from 1996."
"Yes, all right, that was a bit of a non sequitur, I suppose you could say it's relevant because President Obama appeared in the last episode of
The Simpsons in 2009, but let's move on."
Rich (BB code):
VA-08
Lib 177,868 48.3%
Prog 92,547 25.2%
Con 50,599 13.8%
All 20,616 5.6%
Nat 17,551 4.8%
Cst 8,704 2.4%
Fus 0 0%
Total 367,885
MCs elected:
Lib
Prog
Lib
"The Liberals are on rather firmer ground here in Virginia, in a district right next to Washington DC. This is the area known as 'NoVa', for northern Virginia, which had been trending to the left for years as DC's suburbs expanded into it."
Rich (BB code):
NY-14
Lib 87,933 45.1%
Prog 63,474 32.6%
Nat 26,616 13.7%
Fus 11,944 6.1%
All 4,956 2.5%
Cst 0 0%
Con 0 0%
Total 194,923
MCs elected:
Lib
Prog
Lib
"We appear to be ping-ponging from Virginia and New York. This fourteenth district is another urban one, taking in parts of Queens and the Bronx. I believe the Progressive candidate elected here is the young lady with an asteroid named after her whom Katty spoke to earlier."
"How lovely. Speaking of Katty, she's looking at me impatiently, but before we get to the next party, I was wondering - why haven't we had any results from Georgia yet?"
"Georgia on your mind, Andrew?"
"Don't try to be clever, Jeremy."
Rich (BB code):
VA-02
Lib 98,030 30.5%
Con 68,234 21.3%
Nat 67,528 21%
Prog 47,732 14.9%
Cst 20,932 6.5%
All 18,612 5.8%
Fus 0 0%
Total 321,068
MCs elected:
Lib
Con
Nat
"Er...well, what was I just saying about Virginia...the Conservatives just barely ahead of the Nationals here, but again the Liberals in first...this district was drawn by someone who hates cartographers and wants them to suffer, as it includes that fiddly peninsula bit and two random chunks of the mainland."
"I blame King Charles' protractor."
Rich (BB code):
FL-17
Nat 114,490 32.4%
Lib 78,925 22.3%
Con 64,938 18.4%
Prog 44,994 12.7%
Cst 40,728 11.5%
All 9,786 2.8%
Fus 0 0%
Total 353,861
MCs elected:
Nat
Lib
Con
"And Florida again. Now this big chonky boi of a district--"
"There is such a thing as trying to be too in wiv da kidz."
"Sorry...but honestly, it's the size of Belgium...the Conservatives are lucky to get a third seat here."
Rich (BB code):
WV-01
Nat 134,938 55.3%
Prog 38,813 15.9%
Fus 30,996 12.7%
Lib 25,571 10.5%
All 13,576 5.6%
Cst 0 0%
Con 0 0%
Total 243,894
MCs elected:
Nat
Nat
Nat
"West Virginia's first district votes very similarly to the one we already saw, overwhelmingly National."
"Yes, evidently these dispossessed miners historically united by union labour to oppose exploitative plutocrats have decided that true change for their economic degradation can only lie in the hands of, checks notes, an exploitative plutocrat."
"Well, it's the last thing they've be expecting them to do. Also, here's a map."
"Sticks out a bit, doesn't it - even if there is a bit of commonality on the Virginia side of the border."
Rich (BB code):
NY-21
Nat 78,476 28.1%
Fus 72,005 25.8%
Prog 69,875 25%
Lib 41,885 15%
All 17,197 6.2%
Cst 0 0%
Con 0 0%
Total 279,438
MCs elected:
Nat
Fus
Prog
"Rural New York again, and this is another ch - another really big district. And this one is full of fun unpronounceable Dutch names. Anyway, to say this district actually went for the old Democrats not that long ago, a majority of votes going to the right-wing parties, with the Progressives grabbing the third."
"Andrew wanted news from Georgia, well, it appears we have news from Georgia. In fact, the Governor wants to speak to you right now."
"Ah, well that makes sense. Put him on the gigantic video screen." An annoyed Katty Kay stepped back to allow the screen to display a familiar face in front of Georgia's committee-designed flag that was just neo-Confederate enough to upset everyone else, while not being neo-Confederate enough to please the actual racists. "Governor Saakashvili, America is in the spotlight of the world here, why has your state been so long to count its votes?"
Mikheil Saakashvili frowned. "Well, that's a very confrontational way to put it, Andrew. You shouldn't forget time zones for a while, and then I had to stop the secretary of state just awarding all the votes to himself."
"Ah, you also brought him from a former Soviet republic, did you?"
"No, they're actually
worse around here than Eduard Shevardnadze was," Saakashvili explained. "Or that stooge Putin has got running Tblisi these days."
"Good old Edward Shedwardnazi, yes. So those are the reasons for the delay?"
"Partly," Saakashvili said, stepping back to reveal a window behind him, "but also because of our corporate sponsorship deal, you see."
The window loomed large in the camera view, yet the view seemed dark and almost formless. Only very bright lights within were visible, dimly illuminating the fact that it seemed to be looking into a huge, cuboidal room like a hangar. Around the edges of the light glows, the dark mass turned them a golden-brown colour. It was, in fact, rather like the effect obtained when taking two pairs of red-green 3D glasses, reversing one so the red was on top of the green and vice versa, and looking through the result at a solar eclipse against the advice of medical professionals.
Except this seemed to have a lot more bubbles.
As the camera adjusted, it became dimly visible that the floor of the huge chamber was home to many tables. Around them were people wearing wetsuits and scuba gear, with bubbles pouring from their masks and joining the others already rising to the ceiling. They appeared to be counting votes and looking at voting machines.
"We had some false starts because the acid was eating away at some of the machines," Saakashvili explained, stepping back into view.
"I see," Neil lied. "Um, exactly what is this sponsorship deal?"
"Simples," Saakashvili said, twitching. "The election here in Atlanta is sponsored by The Real Thing tee-emm, Coca-Cola--"
"--other cola-type soft drinks are available," Vine said automatically.
After several moments of Saakashvili's withering glare, he reluctantly added "but admittedly, most of them are quite shit."
"Anyway," Saakashvili continued, "as a result, the vote counting is taking place in rooms filled entirely with the delicious taste of this fine state's finest export, not counting the peaches. Although they do do Coke with peach now. Now
that's shit." He glanced at his Google Watch. "Ah yes, looks like we do have our first result now."
Rich (BB code):
GA-12
Lib 85,038 31.8%
Nat 61,583 23%
Con 49,757 18.6%
Cst 40,864 15.3%
Prog 23,899 8.9%
All 6,534 2.4%
Fus 0 0%
Total 267,674
MCs elected:
Lib
Nat
Con
"Quite a mixed result there from Georgia's twelfth district, in the eastern part of the state. The Conservatives are hanging on, as in Virginia. Governor Saakashvili, any comments?"
"
Tavisupleba and death to Putin!"
"Yes, that's fair enough."