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  1. 33 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

    I told my friends at work today to get ready for some excuse destroying reality.   We are no longer going to be able to excuse the behavior of voters in this election as 'being foolish', 'hoping Trump would change', "poor candidate in Hillary", etc.

    If we go deeper Red, or stay just as Red, then we are what we are, a shit country run by shit politicians supported by deplorable, shitty voters.     And that in fact may happen.  The Swams and Epis of the world may prevail, all while others buy donuts and shake their head muttering "tsk, tsk", while doing NOTHING.     And if that is true, then at least we will know what America  has become.   Maybe what it never was.  Maybe we are closer to the 1920s KKK marching in numbers down Pennsylvania Avenue than we are the Obama Inauguration crowds.   

    But we will know, and there will not be any doubt about who we are a country.   Not now, after last week and this week.  If you vote GOP now, then you support Trump.  And if you support Trump - now - then you own it.  We own it.   America owns it.

    We'll see.

    I hate to say it, but I think you’re right.  If the democrats don’t have a good election night, then it makes you start to think “when are these guys ever going to win?”.

    i still believe that James comey changed the trajectory of everything when he opened up his criminal investigation against Clinton less than one week before the election. Tons of people either didn’t vote or they voted for trump. Trump won Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania by a combined 70,000 votes. The rust belt is very swingy so I think Comey changed some minds.

    the GOP have had the house for 8 years and th only thing they’ve done that is noteworthy is pass deeply unpopular tax cuts that they can’t even campaign on. The GOP is lying right into the face of voters about their willingness to protect pre-existing conditions. The GOP had their shot to repeal Obamacare and they shat the bed.

    if the GOP wins this cycle, the democrats need to change everything up in the party from top to bottom. The democrats need this election badly. The party is almost non existent in state government. The gop has 33 out of 50 governorships. They control most state houses and legislatures across the country. If the democrats miss this “gimme” and don’t make some gains, then we very well could become a one party country of mouth breathing degenerates.

  2. 55 minutes ago, Patrick Bateman said:

    Is there a reason she's underperformed?  Not as familiar with Utah politics.  

    I don’t know much about it as well, but I’d say she’s underperformed because she’s black ( this is Utah people), she’s not Mormon ( I think?), and this district has utah’s Major city ( SLC). 

    The reason this race is close is because her opponent is white, Mormon, and the mayor of SLC. 

    Race matters a lot in red states. Hate to say.

  3. 30 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    I hope that’s true.

    for some reason, I assumed that mitt Romney would carry her over the line ( I hate that guy).

    things to consider:

    this is Utah.

    mia love is black

    her opponent is mormon

    This is the most liberal district in the state, but once again 

     

    it’s freaking Utah. I’d still be surprised if she loses.

     

  4. Supposedly there’s conflicting information out of Florida. 

    Gillum and Nelson have been ahead in pretty much all the polls lately, but repubs are giddy about the early vote numbers so far. The only viable explanation is that the Dems must be winning independents by a big margin or the polls are way off for some reason.

  5. 1 hour ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

    Also, I feel we are still a ways away from a D winning Tarrant.  

    I live in tarrant. Unfortunately, it always goes red no matter what. Probably the best you could hope for is that a ton of soccer moms show up, vote for Beto, and Cruz wins here by only 5 or 10 points.

  6. Do you guys think this huge spike in statewide turnout will bring any tangible benefits to the Dems?

    fletcher vs culberson = Harris county ?  Win?

    Allred vs sessions = Dallas county ?  Win?

    jones vs Hurd= Repubs are spending there again. Competitive now?

    getting even one seat in Texas would boost the Dems chances of taking the house by a bit.

  7. 1 hour ago, Js1 said:

     

    Bahahahaha 

    the paul ryan led PAC had a $100 million war chest coming into this election cycle. If we don’t win, I hope we drain that as much as the democrats have been drained in the past. I think the Dems started at 5 million this cycle by comparison.

  8. 58 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

     

    Virginia should be a blood bath for the GOP.

    The guy at the top of the GOP ticket is a white supremacist who loved the Charlottesville riots.

    everyone thinks Comstock is a goner already. Dave brat is a smarmy geek who mentions “Nancy pelosi” in every other sentence he utters. Scott Taylor had people on his staff work to get a democrat on the ballot as an Indy to split the vote, they even added dead people on to the petitions. The guy in district 5 Riggleman actually likes big foot porn.

    i can’t imagine why republicans in Virginia would be motivated to vote this year with that shit show on the ballot.

  9. 2 hours ago, GSU&UT said:

     

     

    Unless EV slows way down this week, which is the opposite of what typically happens, GA may get close to it's 2014 total vote cast. We're 200k+ past the 2014 EV total.

    Some republican insiders are already expecting a run off. That could be good for abrams actually. I think she is hella good at getting out the vote and the blacks would be motivated to elect the first black governor in the south.

  10. 1 hour ago, Stilicho said:

    Same in Oklahoma. Edmondson (D) is a bad choice for governor for the following reasons:

    1) He appears to be a replica of Nancy Pelosi (this comes from some bumfuck editorial article from bumfuck Guthrie, OK in bumfuck 2011 I believe)

    2) He's a career politician, specifically like Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi.

    3) He wants to expand Obamacare (anti-Obamacare is still a thing in this state)

    4) He backed Hillary over Trump, yes Trump (that's verbatim from the Stitt TV ad, though it should be noted, all of these things are spoken by a cow.  Literally.)

    The entire message for statewide office in Oklahoma revolves around 1) Liberal 2) Pelosi 3.) Hillary

    And people wonder why this state is a stand-in for Arkansas when it comes to cousin-fuckery and meth lab ingenuity.

    At least they legalized medical weed.

     

    its still illegal in Texas because of Abbott and potty Patrick.

  11. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/27/trump-2018-elections-midterms-congress-943449

    Some higher level repubs are lowering expectations of keeping the house. 

    At the same time, you have to wonder if the bombs sent to democrats and the shooting today in Pittsburgh count as October surprises? It sucks that these things happened, but maybe it will make people realize that trump has divided us more than any other president in modern history. 

  12. 2 hours ago, tjhooker said:

    I was actually shocked by this story about Republicans outpacing Democrats in early voting in key states.  

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/republicans-outpacing-democrats-early-voting-key-states-nbc-news-finds-n922881?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma

    Hopefully 99% of the Fox News watching degenerates have voted by now. Most of the people who watch that channel have no lives and can vote 100x if they wanted too.

    maybe the Dems will do better this weekend when people who have jobs and kids can vote ( the surburban women)

  13. 3 minutes ago, Dnaguy said:

    Was one line for all the illegals voting?

    Very funny. No it was for convenience I guess. One line went to a place with 20 voting machines. Another went somewhere with 10. A lot of the signs outside were posted in Spanish tho.

  14. 2 hours ago, Js1 said:

    Looking at 2016 exit polling in Texas:

    Women made up 53% and Hillary was only +2.  Beto needs to do wayyyy better with women and should considering the trends
    Independents were 1/3rd of the electorate and were +14 for Trump.  They're not breaking for Republicans as much this year.
    Trump won college grades by 12 and postgrads by 1.  Hopefully the college educated voters breaking against the GOP continues this year.  College grads were 1/3rd of the electorate in Texas. -- He won white women with college degrees by 24.  That won't repeat itself.

     

    Trump won college grads by 12 and independents by 14?

    i hope people just REALLY hated Hilary or had democrat fatigue. I can’t imagine why trump would win both educated texans and unaffiliated texans. Doesn’t make sense at all.

  15. Back to politics......

    I wish I knew how to post screen shots!  The daily polls tab on both 538 and RCP are 100% blue as of 10:00 AM. Nothing, but democrats leading in the races polled. The most notable ones are huge leads in Florida for both Nelson and Gillum.

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  16. 1 hour ago, OatmealRaisinCookie said:

    Honestly, it's a tough time to be a Christian in this political environment. In my personal opinion, it is very much a "both sides" in that the right is horrible and the left is horrible. Even if the left is less horrible from a horizontal view of policies compared to GOP, they are more horrible in a deeper way on a small number of policies. Again, this is opinion and anecdote. Your experience will vary by values and community.

    If you are a Christian wanting to run for office, you won't be running under the Democrat banner most likely because of some very massive chasms between biblical values and the state of modern culture (not judging, just stating the fact).

    The evangelicals who vote for and support trump are a joke. Total bunch of hypocrites.

    lets vote for a guy whose had tons of wives, pays for strippers, then goes up to random women and grabs em by the pussy!

    total. 100%. Complete.

    christian values all the way. 

  17. 1 hour ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    The real message to the gop should be to stop putting up bad candidates.  It’s a joke that Cruz is even having to campaign more than a handful of events.   The TX gop senate candidate should be working about as hard as Abbott is right now.  How many dozens of candidates could have been put up to easily win?    Instead they are having to spend 10s of millions to keep Betos chances below 20%.

    Cruz will most likely win but the gop should be trying to understand how to get him to not run for senate in 2024.

    The sad thing is Ted Cruz isn’t even the worst candidate on the Texas ballot. Here’s whose worse:

    Dan “ potty” Patrick - the entire Texas legislative session of 2017 was a joke. The second biggest state in the country spent most of our time and attention talking about......... bathrooms. Potty Patrick wants to spearhead a bathroom bill movement all over the country. Most people go into bathrooms just to pee and get out. This guy should be locked up in an insane asylum.

    Ken “indictment” Paxton - he currently has 3 indictments, he’s still running for office, and he’s probably still ahead in the polls. He’s a big part of the lawsuit currently in the courts to kill Obamacare because the repubs were too incompetent to kill it legislatively. If the lawsuit succeeds, it would throw the healthcare system into total chaos and nobody would no longer have protection for the pre existing conditions that republicans have pretended to care about for the last month or so. The fact that millions of texans would vote for a guy currently facing charges is a total freaking joke.

    George P Bush- Oh no..... please not another one. Dear god.  The bush family in power makes me think of several things. Unnecessary wars, terrible responses to hurricanes, record high gas prices, and the prices of everything else going up because of it. 

     

    The Texas GOP ticket reeks like asshole after Abbott, but they’re all still going to win most likely. 

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  18. Detrumpis is in trouble. Gillum has led almost every single poll. Everyone knows the repubs are terrible when it comes to protecting the environment and that state is currently suffering an environmental crisis. A big part of Florida’s revenue comes from tourism and people aren’t going to want to visit nasty beaches with dead fish / marine wild life. Republicans have controlled the state since the late 90’s and they get ALL the blame. Meanwhile, hurricanes are getting stronger these days due to global warming. You’d have to be a TOTAL idiot to vote repub this year in Florida.

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