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  1. 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. 

  2. 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)

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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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  6. 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. 

  7. 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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  8. 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.

  9. 4 hours ago, Js1 said:

    This is why gubernatorial elections are so important:

    https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2018/10/24/chuck-grassley-republican-democrat-iowa-senate-judiciary-committee-reynolds-hubbell-trump-election/1749335002/?fbclid=IwAR1zBlAHzDN2_GYZYXuAkXZKYs-ZiTqYcu13wbhhcRKwBEWYDn9pk7AXNSU

    Even he knows he's 85 and not up again until 2022.

    Also, rumor that Senator Kennedy could opt to run for LA Gov in 2019, resigning his seat, which would then have an appointment by Governor John Bel Edwards (D) to serve until 2020.  If the Senate is 50/50 or 51/49 R, Kennedy resigning to be replaced by a Democrat could tip the balance. 

    He said he will decide by 12/1.  If I'm JBE, I just appoint myself. 

    Whenever the GOP is losing, they resort to hate, fear, and long shot conspiracy theories. 

     

    Grassley needs to just fuck off. The dude was embarrassing in the kavanaugh hearings. 

    Democrats appear to be doing very well in Iowa this year, probably because of trumps tariffs.

  10. Good news on real clear politics......

    the governor map continues to improve for the democrats.

    race ratings changes :

    Alaska -  Likely GOP to Leans GOP

    South Dakota - leans GOP to tossup ( Wtf?)

    and the big one...... 

    Florida - Tossup to lean democrat

     The Dems have only 16 governorships right now, but they could end up with as many as 25 after the election. We could use a lot of the new governorships to our advantage in redistricting and the house map would be a lot more favorable in 4 years.

  11. 1 minute ago, tantric superman said:

    Just got some mailers from Sessions and agree, Fuck That Guy.  Nothing but paranod Pelosi bullshit.

    These guys have no fucking pride.  Their bogeyman is a 110 pound lady space cadet. 

    Make sure you show up and vote against him, his race is very close. I would if I was in his district. I’m in Fort Worth tho.

  12. I hope the very high turnout in Dallas means Pete Sessions is screwed. Fuck that guy for single handedly stonewalling weed reform in the house. The bills would have a high likelihood of passing and he would use his ability as chairman of the house rules committee to make sure they don’t go to the house floor for a vote. He needs to go.

  13. I’m going to try and vote tomorrow in Fort Worth. Wish me luck.

     

    would appreciate it if anyone had an update on how crowded the polls are out here. Will be voting for every democrat no matter what except for Lupe valdez. Sorry guys she can barely put a coherent sentence together. I can’t support her, but Beto and everyone else hell yeah! I just want to get it over with.

  14. Is it just me or does it seem like the repubs are getting desperate?

    lately I’ve heard several huge lies that anyone with a brain wouldn’t believe :

    - As republicans, we will protect pre-existing conditions! ( refer to Obamacare repeal for the truth. Actions speak louder than words)

    - if democrats win the election this year. The economy will tank.

    - If Democrat’s win the house, Maxine Waters will be in charge of your 401K and it will go down faster than you thought possible.

  15. 9 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    I’m expecting that the Texas GOP will work to shut down early voting after this election. I’m surprised Dannie Goeb isn’t publicly trying to lay the groundwork that early voting is bad. 

    Straight ticket voting has already been killed as of the 2020 election. I’m not sure they can get away with killing early voting without suffering some kind of backlash. It would piss off a lot of repubs and independents too.

  16. It’s no secret that Americans like divided government. One party rule feels like a dictatorship and I can’t imagine anyone liked the nature in how both the shity Republican “health care plan” if you want to call it that and the tax cut scam were developed. 10 crusty old white dudes in a back room wrote both bills and thrust them into people’s hands and said “vote for it, take it or leave it”. 

    I wish the Dems would remind people of that, but at least they’re hammering the repubs on their epic failure to write a good healthcare bill and they couldn’t even pass the piece of shit they came up with.

     

  17. 3 minutes ago, troph said:

    Much needed good news

    I’m assuming it’s good news too.

     

    the conventional wisdom has always been that republicans are zombies who never miss an election.

    low turnout = good for repubs 

    high turnout = bad for repubs.

     

     

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