Remember: only 99 Senate seats will be known at the end of the night

[Recursion]

The top two vote recipients in the MS special election will face a runoff on Nov. 27

There are plausible outcomes where we hold 50 seats and they hold 49, meaning we have three more weeks of this, distilled into one state election.

[Tiggeroshii]

1. It wont be likely that MS gives us our majority

Then again I didnt think it was likely that AL would contribute towards it.

[Recursion]

3. An Espy/Hyde-Smith matchup is only "Lean R". An Espy/McDaniel matchup is "Lean D" (!)

I think just like in AL the GOP hasn't really realized the recent demographic changes to the South or come to terms with the fact that they have to contest these seats now.

[Tiggeroshii]

4. I will welcome nice surprises

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

2. Yes. I like the idea of a sweep.(Brother?) Nobody knows so lets envision a big win hey?

Set our intentions for a big win. And lets make it so. Todays go day.
Three-four times the people at the polls speaks volumes to me. Americas tired of don.

[riversedge]

5. kick 🌊🌊🌊 #FlipItBlue #BlueWave2018 #VoteThemOUT

[honest.abe]

6. If we need MS to win the Senate then we have probably lost.

I think it comes down to TX or TN.

[vsrazdem]

7. I hope we know about AZ by tonight, but

Sec of States office says they will not be releasing mail in vote totals until Thursday at 5 p.m. I know for a fact that they have been counting them as they come in, as when I checked my ballot, it states the signature was verified and it was counted. I have no idea why they have to wait until Thursday.

[zipplewrath]

8. Post marked

I presume they are required to accept ballots postmarked today. So they have to wait a couple of days for them to arrive?

[vsrazdem]

9. Yes. I just heard that it is ballots from today, so hopefully we will know something.

[SoCalDem]

10. No newly elected senator will take office until sworn in

from wikipedia

January 3, 2019: The 116th Congress could convene as early as Noon (ET). The actual date and time will be set by the previous Congress.

Until then, there will be a lame duck session, with all the current senators/congress people...( a very dangerous time)

[Recursion]

11. Right, but, I mean tonight we will only know 99 of the 100 Senators who will be seated in January

And to take a plausible possibility: if Heitkamp, Bredesen, and O'Rourke lose but Sinema and Rosen win (and we hold all other incumbencies), then control of the Senate gets decided by the Nov 27 runoff in Mississippi.

[scheming daemons]

12. There is a virtually 0% chance that Espy would win in a runoff.

That's an R seat, regardless of tonight's outcome.

[Recursion]

13. Yeah, just like Alabama. Unflippable

Espy would destroy McDaniels, and Hyde-Smith has a lot of weaknesses.

[Polybius]

14. McDaniels is Roy More without the underage girls (that we know of)

Please let him make it to the runoff. His only hope is moving to AL and running there.

[scheming daemons]

15. Neither one of them are the once-in-a-lifetime bad candidate that Roy Moore was....

We can take the Senate.... but we'll need to get to 51 without Mississippi to do it.