row_33 Posted April 10, 2018 Posted April 10, 2018 15 hours ago, 3rdnlng said: You may not know this but the earth is round. Tibs fell into tertiary syphilitic brain rot months ago.
Tiberius Posted April 19, 2018 Author Posted April 19, 2018 Oh? Quote “Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is in a statistical dead heat with Rep. Beto O’Rourke (Texas), his Democratic challenger, a poll released Wednesday showed. The first Quinnipiac University poll of the race deemed it too close to call. Cruz leads O’Rourke by 3 percentage points — 47 to 44 percent — which falls within the margin of error.”
Tiberius Posted April 26, 2018 Author Posted April 26, 2018 Good God! https://www.axios.com/competitive-republican-senate-races-arizona-nevada-3a5700b8-2f00-4370-b0c6-79760872d531.html Republicans better hope this is a mistake.
Tiberius Posted May 1, 2018 Author Posted May 1, 2018 Quote In an odd and turbulent political year, no state has more odd and turbulent forces in play than does Kansas. Kansas, as reliably red as any state in the nation in recent years, could elect a Democrat to the U.S. House this year for the first time in a decade. It might even elect two. That’s as good a sign as any of the Democratic... https://www.wsj.com/articles/nations-wild-political-currents-race-through-kansas-1525101910
Tiberius Posted May 1, 2018 Author Posted May 1, 2018 Well, if they want to bring this up, fine! Quote Influential figures close to President Trump want to make the midterm elections a referendum on his performance — and on his possible impeachment. The people advancing this view are mostly veterans of the 2016 campaign, including Trump’s first campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, former deputy campaign manager David Bossie and Trump’s erstwhile chief strategist Stephen Bannon, The Hill has learned. http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/385578-the-memo-trump-allies-want-to-turn-midterms-into-impeachment Democrats can just say, we will let Mueller present his evidence--or lack thereof--and go from there
B-Man Posted May 1, 2018 Posted May 1, 2018 (edited) JUST IN TIME........................................................................... A New Clinton Wave Is Coming This Spring The Clinton family has made sporadic and often subdued appearances in the 18 months (538 days) since Hillary Clinton lost her presidential election. But we’re about to see a lot more of them this spring. Why it matters: This family has been on the national stage for 26 years — all or most of the lifetime of anyone under 50. Chelsea Clinton, now 38, was 11 when her father, Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, announced his entry into the race for the Democratic presidential nomination in October 1991. He was 45 then; is 71 now. Be smart: As the 2020 presidential race ramps up, plenty of top Democrats we talk to would prefer new energy and faces to Clinton nostalgia/redemption. https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2018/04/new-clinton-wave-coming-spring/ A secret strategy for Trump’s victory? Edited May 1, 2018 by B-Man
B-Man Posted May 2, 2018 Posted May 2, 2018 Victor Davis Hanson on how “the Left has so destroyed the old protocols of the opposition party that it will be hard to resurrect them when progressives return to power” As always, read the whole thing, here’s an excerpt from Hanson’s Revolution and Worse to Come: As the Resistance goes from one ploy to the next, it ignores its string of failed prior efforts, forgetting everything and learning nothing…. Anti- and Never-Trump op-ed writers have long ago run out of superlatives. Trump is the worst, most, biggest — fill in the blank — in the history of the presidency, in the history of the world, worse even than Mao, Mussolini, Stalin, or Hitler…. Everything from the NFL to late-night comedy shows have become Trump-hating venues…. Each cycle of hysteria demands another, as the race to the bottom has descended into which celebrity or politician can discover the most provocative — or crude — Trump expletive. “S***” and “f***” are now the ordinary vocabulary of angry Democratic politicos and officeholders. Are we reaching a point in the so-far-failed Resistance where little is left except abject violence in the manner of the Roman or French Revolution? The problem for Trump’s pop-culture foes is not whether to imagine or advocate killing the president. That’s a given. They just need to agree on the means of doing so: decapitation (Kathy Griffin), incineration (David Crosby), stabbing (the Shakespeare in the Park troupe), shooting (Snoop Dogg), explosives (Madonna), old-fashioned, Lincoln-style assassination (Johnny Depp), death by elevator (Kamala Harris), hanging (a CSU professor), or simple generic assassination (a Missouri state legislator)…. Insidiously and incrementally, we are in the process of normalizing violence against the elected president of the United States. If all this fails to delegitimize Trump, fails to destroy his health, or fails to lead to a 2018 midterm Democratic sweep and subsequent impeachment, expect even greater threats of violence. The Resistance and rabid anti-Trumpers have lost confidence in the constitutional framework of elections, and they’ve flouted the tradition by which the opposition allows the in-power party to present its case to the court of public opinion….. The danger to the country this time around is that the Left has so destroyed the old protocols of the opposition party that it will be hard to resurrect them when progressives return to power. We are entering revolutionary times. The law is no longer equally applied. The media are the ministry of truth. The Democratic party is a revolutionary force. And it is all getting scary. We’ve lost the ability to reason with these people because they are so far gone. I wish it weren’t so, but we need to face reality. .
B-Man Posted May 8, 2018 Posted May 8, 2018 Nancy Pelosi basically handed the GOP its midterm ad campaign on a silver platter when she said that the Democrats will raise taxes if they take back the House. But that’s not the story here. At least not according to USA Today: ..................Because of course. Remember, the headline couldn't just be what Pelosi said. It must be immediately neutralized with "Republicans seize on" or "Republicans pounce," per Liberal Media law . .
DC Tom Posted May 8, 2018 Posted May 8, 2018 6 minutes ago, B-Man said: Nancy Pelosi basically handed the GOP its midterm ad campaign on a silver platter when she said that the Democrats will raise taxes if they take back the House. But that’s not the story here. At least not according to USA Today: ..................Because of course. Remember, the headline couldn't just be what Pelosi said. It must be immediately neutralized with "Republicans seize on" or "Republicans pounce," per Liberal Media law . . Yeah...but they'll only raise taxes on "the rich," which everyone in their base interprets as "not me," when it really means "yes, you too."
Tiberius Posted May 8, 2018 Author Posted May 8, 2018 Now B-Man is making DR level idiotic certitudes. Oh, the GOP is going to win the mid-terms? That tax cut for the wealthy sure didn't help much in that PA election. Not at all. Republican donors demanded a tax cut, most regular working class people were not fixated on that. https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/08/politics/election-2018-republicans-democrats-taxes-health-care-aca/index.html Quote in the district-by-district battle to retake the House, many Democrats are focusing less on condemning Trump's character than on discrediting the Republican agenda. Central to that mission is arguing that the GOP has benefited the wealthy, and burdened the middle class, with its twin legislative priorities of the past 17 months: passing a large tax cut and attempting to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Most political professionals and journalists talk about "the health care repeal and the Trump tax plan as two different issues," says Jesse Ferguson, a Democratic consultant working with outside groups supporting the ACA. "The voters see them as ways Washington isn't looking out for them. ... On both of them, it's basically the same: they [Congressional Republicans] have been giving tax breaks to health insurance companies, to pharmaceutical companies and those come at the expense of people who work for a living. It means higher health care costs, eventually higher taxes, more debt for your kids, and cuts to Social Security and Medicare as you get older."
Tiberius Posted May 9, 2018 Author Posted May 9, 2018 Turnout! I just wonder if some of those were Trump Democrats showing up to vote against Manchin, but still nice to see the turnout https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/05/09/don-blankenship-tanks-in-w-va-but-the-gop-has-a-new-problem/?utm_term=.8f70ef230d0e The most closely watched race was in West Virginia featuring Don Blankenship. He’s quite a character — an ex-convict sent to prison for his role in a 2010 mine explosion that killed 29 people. He has engaged in vile race-baiting, calling Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao’s father a “wealthy China-person” and labeling her husband, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), “Cocaine Mitch” in a notorious TV ad (based on recovery of a small amount of cocaine in a ship owned by Chao’s father’s company — which has nothing to do with either McConnell or his wife). (Indicative of the spinelessness that now afflicts Republicans, McConnell refused to say before the election whether the ad was racist. Trump in the final days of the campaign spoke up, but only to say that Blankenship was not electable.) West Virginia Republican voters, to their credit, rejected Blankenship handily. The lesson here seems to be: Don’t wait for craven GOP officials to show moral leadership; it’s up to ordinary voters to summon the gumption to reject hateful candidates. Blankenship wound up in third place. Republicans should take note, however: Democratic turnout for an uncompetitive primary exceeded turnout for the hotly contested GOP nomination by more than 23,000 — continuing a pattern of high voter enthusiasm among Democrats.
B-Man Posted May 9, 2018 Posted May 9, 2018 (edited) ELECTION: Trump-Endorsed Ohio Senate Candidate Jim Renacci Blows Out Four Opponents. And “Tolbert” commented on a previous post: Ohio Governor Primary Democrat vote tally – 560,258 Republican vote tally – 720,000 Perhaps that blue wave really isn’t happening. Tuesday Primaries Ended With Strong GOP Candidates for November . . Edited May 9, 2018 by B-Man
B-Man Posted May 9, 2018 Posted May 9, 2018 Big drop in the generic ballot for Dems, down to just a **three-point** advantage over the GOP and within the margin of error, according to new CNN poll. Had been 16 point advantage in February, per CNN poll at time. Quote The Hill✔@thehill NEW POLL: Dems' lead in generic House ballot falls to 3 points http://hill.cm/6DNSJpV 4:49 PM - May 9, 2018
Koko78 Posted May 9, 2018 Posted May 9, 2018 56 minutes ago, B-Man said: Big drop in the generic ballot for Dems, down to just a **three-point** advantage over the GOP and within the margin of error, according to new CNN poll. Had been 16 point advantage in February, per CNN poll at time. So if the 'blue wave' doesn't happen, are we going to get another book about "What Happened?" 1
DC Tom Posted May 9, 2018 Posted May 9, 2018 27 minutes ago, Koko78 said: So if the 'blue wave' doesn't happen, are we going to get another book about "What Happened?" Funny thing is, Hillary Clinton will blame everyone else...and it will still be her fault. 2
IDBillzFan Posted May 9, 2018 Posted May 9, 2018 1 hour ago, B-Man said: Big drop in the generic ballot for Dems, down to just a **three-point** advantage over the GOP and within the margin of error, according to new CNN poll. Had been 16 point advantage in February, per CNN poll at time. Is this was a fire bell in the night looks like?
Dante Posted May 10, 2018 Posted May 10, 2018 On 5/8/2018 at 10:45 AM, DC Tom said: Yeah...but they'll only raise taxes on "the rich," which everyone in their base interprets as "not me," when it really means "yes, you too." When the definition of "rich" is a combined household income of 100K or more lol
row_33 Posted May 10, 2018 Posted May 10, 2018 21 hours ago, Dante said: When the definition of "rich" is a combined household income of 100K or more lol "rich" is anyone that a person doesn't like
Tiberius Posted May 11, 2018 Author Posted May 11, 2018 (edited) Awesome Quote Republicans redrew congressional districts across the country in 2010 in an attempt to consign Democrats to a semipermanent House minority. But in 2018, the long-successful GOP insurance policy is at risk of backfiring in a big way — not only carving a path for a takeover, but possibly allowing for bigger Democratic gains. In many states, Republicans maximized gains in the House by spreading GOP voters across as many districts as possible. Typically, that left Democrats with around 40 to 45 percent of the vote in those districts, making them difficult under normal circumstances for the minority party to contest.But this election year is anything but normal. Many of the once-secure 55-45 Republican districts are very much in play, even in states that have not had competitive congressional races since 2012, the year new maps were installed. And North Carolina and Ohio — where Democrats chose nominees in primaries on Tuesday — are turning into the prime examples. Quote https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/10/gerrymandering-midterms-democrats-house-seats-579890 Edited May 11, 2018 by Tiberius
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