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Re: The lead-up to the 2018 midterms begins
« Reply #150 on: October 03, 2018, 06:38:05 am »
Nope best let the GOP continue destroying unopposed.  It's the only way

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Re: The lead-up to the 2018 midterms begins
« Reply #151 on: October 03, 2018, 01:50:51 pm »
http://theweek.com/articles/799408/how-democratic-party-idiocy-may-cost-senate

Well, what could also do it is that Robert Menendez could very well lose in New Jersey.
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Re: The lead-up to the 2018 midterms begins
« Reply #152 on: October 03, 2018, 02:44:47 pm »
I seriously think this whole Kavannaugh thing is hurting the Democrats more than it is the Republicans and with it being so close to election it could put a stop to the blue wave that people were predicting.
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Re: The lead-up to the 2018 midterms begins
« Reply #153 on: October 03, 2018, 07:04:59 pm »
It should be fucking the republicans. But again you will see women vote for the party that promotes sex offenders.

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Re: The lead-up to the 2018 midterms begins
« Reply #154 on: October 04, 2018, 03:26:58 am »
I seriously think this whole Kavannaugh thing is hurting the Democrats more than it is the Republicans and with it being so close to election it could put a stop to the blue wave that people were predicting.

I thought so too until I started looking into it, and now I hope that people choose to have the sense to fuck over the republicans for it, because that dude's looking pretty guilty.

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Re: The lead-up to the 2018 midterms begins
« Reply #155 on: October 04, 2018, 05:02:53 pm »
I seriously think this whole Kavannaugh thing is hurting the Democrats more than it is the Republicans and with it being so close to election it could put a stop to the blue wave that people were predicting.

My suspicion is that while it might generically help the Democrats (since the public at large is more opposed to Kavanaugh than not), it's not helping them in the places where they need to win, like House districts that lean slightly Republican or, for the Senate, states like North Dakota where there is (so Nate Silver claims, anyway, without providing a link) a majority in favour of confirming Kavanaugh.

Plus, especially with the Senate, those national polls are going to poll a lot of people from places like California (where a Democratic candidate is absolutely guaranteed to win) and New York (where Gillibrand is almost certain to win), and far fewer people from places like Montana, North Dakota, or West Virginia, which are seats the Democrats really need to hold and where a pro-Kavanaugh tilt won't much impact the national result.

EDIT: Meanwhile, in a recent campaign ad, a Democratic candidate for the House literally gave out his cell phone number. (I won't say who because of forum anti-doxxing rules.)

EDIT #2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msgjzWvniNs

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Re: The lead-up to the 2018 midterms begins
« Reply #156 on: October 17, 2018, 12:35:42 am »


Apparently the Kavanaugh thing isn't hurting Democrats in the house quite as much as people thought. Or at all.

Source: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2018-midterm-election-forecast/house/
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Re: The lead-up to the 2018 midterms begins
« Reply #157 on: October 17, 2018, 12:37:54 am »
But it is in the Senate, because there they have to hold seats in states where, contrary to national opinion (largely dictated by populous states), confirming Kavanaugh was popular. Heitkamp in particular is in tough.

EDIT: And as a result, "Extreme Makeover: Judiciary Edition" may well get another two years.
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Re: The lead-up to the 2018 midterms begins
« Reply #158 on: October 17, 2018, 12:59:41 am »
Well, I can still hope Kavanaugh chokes on something.

I've seen a lot of stories and online roleplays suddenly use a lot of evil jocks named Brett lately.
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Re: The lead-up to the 2018 midterms begins
« Reply #159 on: October 17, 2018, 01:22:53 am »
It's unfortunate that a large portion of senate races that could make a difference this time around are being held in red states. The Kavannaugh thing just emboldened voters in those areas. I'm predicting Trump will win again in 2020 unfortnately, because the only thing that's really going to stop him is a tanked economy or if Mueller actually comes out with some damning evidence. And there's no one that exciting that I can see leading the Democratic party for 2020. I think some seats in the house will be lost in 2020, but not enough to flip and then the GOP will lose the Senate in 2022. Trump fatigue will kick in, his supporters will turn on him as he fails to really accomplish anything in his second term and the economy most likely heads towards collapse. The GOP will fail to put up someone as exciting as Trump in 2024 and a democratic candidate that no one can predict right now will win the presidency. Most likely a woman as the Me Too movement grows even stronger.
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Re: The lead-up to the 2018 midterms begins
« Reply #160 on: October 18, 2018, 03:36:17 pm »
Race to watch: West Virginia's 3rd Congressional district.

Trump won it by forty-nine points.

The Cook PVI on the district is R+23.

The Democratic candidate is running a hard populist left, anti-corruption campaign--one of his ads called out both Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell as having sold out West Virginians. Another specifically shamed his opponent by name for attacking his military record when he's a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan and she's a millionaire.

The polling in the district is a statistical dead heat. (538's Lite--polls-only--forecast has it as a toss-up.)

If that can flip a district that's R+23, that can work anywhere.
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Re: The lead-up to the 2018 midterms begins
« Reply #161 on: October 22, 2018, 03:38:08 pm »
I'm feeling worried. Were pretty much two weeks from the mid terms and enthusiasm for Democrats seems to have slowed. Meanwhile Trump is going out to rallies and spreading fear and lies about the opposing party and stirring up his base who seem to have a new fire under them after the whole Kavannaugh debacle while the excitement for the democrats has slowed. 538 puts dems ahead at 8.6 points for the house at the moment which is a fairly good lead, but they were wrong last election so it's hard to trust data. (Even though they were technically right the Democrats won by three million more votes, they just didn't win where it counted.)
I just need some good news.
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Re: The lead-up to the 2018 midterms begins
« Reply #162 on: October 22, 2018, 03:45:01 pm »
538 was not "wrong". They gave Trump a 30% chance to won the Electoral College based on their data, which is not a small chance. Flip a coin, get heads twice - that's *less* likely than the odds they gave Trump to win. He managed that 30% chance, which is not 538 getting it "wrong", it just means that Trump managed to beat the odds.

Remember: 538 doesn't deal in predictions, they deal in probabilities. And an 86% chance to take the House is a hell of a lot better than the 70% chance Clinton had (in fact, roughly *twice* as good.)
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Re: The lead-up to the 2018 midterms begins
« Reply #163 on: October 22, 2018, 03:56:35 pm »
Yeah there's just a lot of negative media especially on the left MSNBC has a bit from morning Joe where they're saying that the blue wave will not be as big as expected, and that dems might not win the house by much. (I just want them to win the house I don't care if they win it by 1 or 30) So it's hard to not feel negative and discouraged.
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Re: The lead-up to the 2018 midterms begins
« Reply #164 on: October 22, 2018, 04:18:54 pm »
The polls weren't wrong, particularly in the critical Rust Belt states. Trump performed at the upper edge of the margin of error. That he'd do that was around a 30% chance.

What I'm really worried about is the Democrats' chances of retaking the Senate. If they don't do that, Extreme Makeover: Judiciary Edition gets renewed for another two years, and voting rights will go right in the shitter (even more), making it even harder for Democrats to take back legislative bodies, since those voter suppression tactics always disproportionately target Democratic demographics.
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It doesn't concern you, Sister, that kind of absolutist view of the universe? Right and wrong determined solely by a single all-knowing, all powerful being whose judgment cannot be questioned and in whose name the most horrendous acts can be sanctioned without appeal?

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Being required by someone else’s religious beliefs to behave contrary to one’s sexual identity is degrading and disrespectful.