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2 minutes ago, Tuco said:

 The Dems in Minnesota are officially called DFL : “Democratic - farm - labor”. But, a lot of the same feel in parts of Iowa and Wisconsin, then lesser so as you get into Nebraska, Kansas…

 

That's a legacy of Populism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century that stretched all the way to Texas. Unfortunately, over time we've lost that legacy. A TCU professor that is up my academic tree has a great book on it.

Image result for The People's Revolt Book. Size: 122 x 185. Source: addran.tcu.edu


 

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39 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Final Sabato Crystal Ball - 

276 Harris (MI, PA, WI, NV)
262 Trump (GA, NC, AZ)

276-262 was what the models were coalescing towards about 2 weeks ago. 

Damn so if NV is wrong we could be looking at a Final 270 Harris for the win? I’ll take it but  a bit too fucking close for my liking.

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Posted
3 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

Nebraska has more ranching because you can't grow anything in the Sand Hills.  

You can grow some mighty fine golf courses though.

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I would swap Georgia and Nevada.  If I had to pick one that I thought Kamala was going to lose, it would be Nevada.

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Posted
4 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

Spending a lot of time in all of those places (which I have).

Indiana is the outlier.  Rust Belt.  Lot of Southern feel to it - Evangelicals and such.

Southern Indiana and Southern Illinois had a lot of Southern sympathizers during the Civil War.

A woman holds a sword and a shield with "Union" on it and stands in front of three man-headed serpents. Below is written "The Copperhead Party - In Favor of a Vigorous Prosecution of Peace!"

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Posted
45 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Final Sabato Crystal Ball - 

276 Harris (MI, PA, WI, NV)
262 Trump (GA, NC, AZ)

276-262 was what the models were coalescing towards about 2 weeks ago. 

Maybe hopium, but I don’t see Trump taking all three.   Actually, I might give him Nevada or NC, and that’s all.

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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

Seen driving down Congress Ave:

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And a text chat that just came from one of our German friends - they’re nervous AF:

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Yeah I post regularly in the election thread of a very large UK-based racing board - Autosport. I keep telling them "Y'all chill. We got this", but they're shitting their pants.

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36 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

I only recently learned that women couldn't get a bank account without a man co-signing until like the 1980s.  That is fucking insane.

We still have a shit ton of accounts that never updated their signature card from that era, so you'll have joint accounts that are listed as John Smith and Mrs. John Smith. 

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Posted
13 minutes ago, Tuco said:


My two cents:

I think Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin are similar in Midwestern Popularism, but most notable in Minnesota. Not only do you get Walz as governor, but Jesse Ventura 20 years ago. The Dems in Minnesota are officially called DFL : “Democratic - farm - labor”. But, a lot of the same feel in parts of Iowa and Wisconsin, then lesser so as you get into Nebraska, Kansas…

But over the last 30 years, national politics has preempted state politics. There used to be prolife Dems in Nebraska who could win elections. Now, there aren’t any left and they wouldn’t win elections if they did exist. The Obamacare vote doomed the last Nebraskan Senator. The “all politics is local” isn’t really true anymore in the age of syndicated talk radio and cable news.

I think over the last 10 years you are seeing a resurgence of more progressive, common sense movements as a reaction to complete Republican dominance and overreach in places like Kansas, Oklahoma, and Nebraska. Hopefully that grows.

George Norris was really the only guy that pulled off peoples populism in Nebraska in a big way. Of course it’s a hell of resume 

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Posted
2 minutes ago, wood said:

Yeah I post regularly in the election thread of a very large UK-based racing board - Autosport. I keep telling them "Y'all chill. We got this", but they're shitting their pants.

Are there Chili's franchises in Europe?

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Posted
41 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

How does one go about sussing out the differences between Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, and Indiana?

Maid-Rite, chili + cinnamon roll, runzas, pork tenderloin sammich.

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3 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

Are there Chili's franchises in Europe?

 My son hit one on some base in Germany when he was coming back (or going to..I can'r remember) the M.E. 

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Posted
7 minutes ago, DaysOff said:


Don't like. 270 will be contested in the courts until J6. Need to put a boot on this motherfucker's throat.

Not to mention the extortion and blackmail efforts to pick off an unfaithful elector or two. 

Posted
Just now, Bozo_Casanova said:

Possible genius or maybe random kid who had an incredible hot streak during one election cycle Chaz Nuttycombe (his real name!) predicts 69% chance of Harris win, with 308EVs



 

This is their last go around. They did this as students and correctly predicted all VA Delegate and Senate seats last year. They are shutting down after this 

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Posted
1 minute ago, Js1 said:

@Pancho, Azealia Banks flipped to Kamala? 

 

Her “endorsement” is a mess. A fucking mess. I don’t know that I want to even post it because it’s just….a mess.

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Posted
7 minutes ago, wood said:

Yeah I post regularly in the election thread of a very large UK-based racing board - Autosport. I keep telling them "Y'all chill. We got this", but they're shitting their pants.

I mean this is all pretty much their fault for being a bunch of pricks 300 years ago...

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Posted
1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

My understanding:

SM influencer in nyc has “pet” squirrel

someone alerts local authorities, because squirrel is not allowed to be kept in the…that ain’t legal either. 
 

Authorities confiscate and euthanize squirrel. 
 

trump morons try to use it to rally the troops. 
 

Saw later on that the influencer also does gay porn. 
 

No interest in fact checking any of the above. 

Not in NYC.  That shit happened in Pine City, NY.

 

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Posted
10 minutes ago, wood said:

Yeah I post regularly in the election thread of a very large UK-based racing board - Autosport. I keep telling them "Y'all chill. We got this", but they're shitting their pants.

You should tell them their UK-based polling firm, Focaldata, has her winning

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Posted
6 hours ago, Js1 said:

She's closing in PA (Allentown, Pittsburgh, Philly) and Walz is closing in Wisconsin and Michigan (La Crosse, Stevens Point, Milwaukee, Detroit)

Trump has the hectic schedule today: Raleigh, Reading, Pittsburgh, Grand Rapids
Vance has La Crosse, Flint, Atlanta, Newtown

The Harris campaign has the more focused schedule.  Trump/Vance are trying to hit every Midwest/east coast swing state, since Trump spent so much other time this past weekend in Virginia and New Mexico

So, it's blue wall centric (HOLD!) and if Georgia and NC happen to pull through all the better?

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12 minutes ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

Speaking for someone who showers every morning in the shadow of a ceramic crab roughly the size of VW bug, perhaps we shouldn't be so hasty about this one.

Man I missed this story originally but have seen it referenced many times, is there a pic of this thing?

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Posted
7 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

pork tenderloin sammich

Oh damn. I had forgotten about those. Last one I ate was years ago, at the Eagles Club in a dumpy midwest river town. 

Now I’m hungry for a pork tenderloin, a Busch on draft, and some old fashioned blue collar racism. 

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Posted
27 minutes ago, Royalfan5 said:

Was it the Playhouse in Council Bluffs?

Nah, some place i can't remember the name of 10 or 15 miles north of Davenport

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Posted
6 minutes ago, SizzleChest said:

So, it's blue wall centric (HOLD!) and if Georgia and NC happen to pull through all the better?

The easiest path for her is MI, PA, WI. 

Sun Belt and NV are just as important but she’s not gonna do a Hillary and ignore the 3 states that are most favorable to her and get her what she needs. 

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Posted
4 hours ago, kevwun said:

When I was a kid, the Chili's Baby Back Ribs commercial convinced me that they were possibly the greatest food on earth.  I begged my parents to go to one for months so I could try them.  They finally gave in.  I took one bite and my childhood ended.  They were fucking terrible.  They were baked in an oven after being drenched in liquid smoke.  I couldn't even eat them.  I'm honestly shocked they didn't make me eat the whole damn rack after whining about them for months.  I guess they took pity on me.

Did you even realize back then that they weren’t made out of babies?

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4 minutes ago, Hank_Hill said:

The Surl at Chilis Wednesday night
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Well then, that settles it.  None of y'all should bring strippers with you to Chili's this Wednesday.

Unless you want to.

Who am I kidding?  If you want to bring strippers, go for it.  But they're staying on YOUR tab.

9 minutes ago, Pancho said:

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Posted
23 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

Southern Indiana and Southern Illinois had a lot of Southern sympathizers during the Civil War.

A woman holds a sword and a shield with "Union" on it and stands in front of three man-headed serpents. Below is written "The Copperhead Party - In Favor of a Vigorous Prosecution of Peace!"

Southern Indiana is as HillBilly as Kentucky.  A lot of Quakers in East / Central.

As someone born on a hill on the border of Indiana/Ohio and I-70, I can confirm there are a bunch of religious hillbillies along what were underground RR routes... but they tended to mind their business until you get further north, where the klan seems to have made roots (not far from Notre Dame).



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