Election Night: Nov 2 GDT

[Governor]

23 minutes ago, ComradeKayAdams said:

 

I’m not so sure about this racism angle, Mr. Governor. The numbers I look at are various single-issue poll results. They strongly indicate the country shifting left on economic issues and right on culture war issues, yet the Democratic Party continues to run counter to this trend with woke corporatists for candidates who are fixated on Trump and critical race theory at the exclusion of demand-side macroeconomics. It’s a recipe for disaster next November and in 2024 if anyone not named Trump runs for the GOP. Republicans could easily own both chambers of Congress, the executive branch, and of course a 6-3 Supreme Court in a few years…

 

All these worker strikes emerging across the nation should be serving as political canaries in Democratic Party coal mines. The electorate appears to be screaming their unhappiness with the deadly combination of neoliberal policies and authoritarian COVD measures. But the Democrats as a whole do not listen to the people because we know they are there to serve their corporate donors first and foremost. Even the progressive voting bloc now appears to be caving to the centrist corporatists, as they’re expected to vote for that garbage bipartisan infrastructure bill well before the budget reconciliation bill, the latter of which has already been heavily gutted of legislation overwhelmingly popular with Americans (l actually lost track of what remains but any of the following is probably gone at this time: free community college, universal pre-k, child tax credit extension, paid family leave, paid medical leave, Medicare expansion including dental and eye care, prescription drug price controls, etc… plus the corporate and billionaire tax hikes to help pay for these programs). No $15 federal minimum wage or student debt relief, either. A more active and less demented president would be mediating the internal disagreements among the Democratic Party congressmen or implementing executive orders for much of the popular legislation pieces that were stripped from the BBB bill.

 

Actions, or the lack thereof, have consequences. Expect a lot of successful and perhaps unexpected Dem primary challenges against incumbents…challenges from both the economic progressive left and culturally centrist right, depending on the U.S. district. Here in the unofficial far-left capital that is NYC, I’m aware of movements already being organized to replace Ritchie Torres, Jamaal Bowman, and Mondaire Jones from the left in anticipation of their Benedict Arnold-ing the progressive movement with their BIB+BBB bill votes. Even the Progressive Chosen One a.k.a. Socialist Barbie a.k.a. AOC could be targeted (though I seriously doubt that movement would be successful). As for the rest of the country? I’m 99% sure Jayapal is in trouble. Khanna, Porter, Pressley, Tlaib, Omar, Cori Bush, Newman, and Pocan could be in trouble too. I’m less familiar with moderate Dems, but I’m sure they’re sweating profusely as well. On the plus side, I suppose the incompetency and corruption of the current Democrats is making it that much easier for us far-lefties to take over the Democratic Party at the national level! Woohoo! Commie Kay likey!

I’m not talking about the electorate as a whole. I’m talking specifically about “white women voters.”

 

We’ve been paying pretty close attention to that group over the last 10 years and it isn’t good at all. Look at the numbers.

Edited November 5, 2021 by Governor

[Doc]

You didn’t answer the question Guv. What did Trump do to Latinos?

[Governor]

1 hour ago, Over 29 years of fanhood said:

For a purported student of politics you sure miss that the public has the attention span and memory of a gnat. 
 

Virginia already forgot about Trump 😂  

I think they’re also blind like little moles.

 

It seems like culture/media has gone insane. It’s in sports too!

 

Tom Brady can struggle for 3.5 quarters and win by 1 point and it’s a great victory. Tom just being Tom.

 

We struggle for 1 half and then stomp the Dolphins and we apparently suck because we didn’t win by 30.

 

Whoever gets their narrative to stick wins. The truth/reality doesn’t even matter anymore. They can’t even wait until the votes are counted.

 

I’ve never seen so many bad takes on sports/politics in my life.

Edited November 5, 2021 by Governor

[Chef Jim]

1 hour ago, B-Man said:

 

 

Hispanic vote migrating to GOP must terrify Democrats

By Thomas Lifson

 

It's been an article of faith for Democrats that the rising share of Hispanic voters will empower Democrats to dominate future elections.  Almost two decades ago, John Judis and Ruy Teixeira wrote The Emerging Democratic Majority, whose prophecy of Democrat demographic dominance driven in large part by Hispanic immigration (legal and illegal) inspired Biden's open border policy now flooding us with a tsunami-like human wave.

 

But the problem for the donkeys is that Hispanic voters are not reacting as predicted by those who think minority status automatically means the consciousness of being an oppressed victim in need of rescue by the statists.  

 

In 2020, Biden got 61 percent of the Hispanic vote, while Trump increased his share 8 points over 2016.  That trend line of Hispanics migrating over to the GOP appears to have continued with the election last Tuesday.

 

In Virginia, Youngkin won an absolute majority of their votes

 

 

{snip}

 

That's right: Hispanic immigrants came to this country for economic opportunity, and they and their American-born descendants see Democrat policies as truncating those opportunities.

 

Down in border state Texas, a runoff race for the state House of Representatives in a San Antonio district that is about 75% Hispanic saw another big GOP victory, shattering the idea that Hispanic voters "belong" to the Democrats.

 

 

 

Hispanic voters tend to be more oriented to church, family, and traditional sex roles than the Democrats' revolutionary vanguard.  Such values inspire contempt in the rarefied heights of politically correct elites.

 

The condescending view of Hispanics as a helpless racial minority is insulting and is being seen as such by more and more people who identify as Hispanic.

 

More at the link: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/11/hispanic_vote_migrating_to_gop_must_terrify_dems.html

 

 

 

 

 

@Governor  You truly think you'll be dead before the Hispanic vote flips red?  

[Governor]

1 minute ago, Chef Jim said:

 

@Governor  You truly think you'll be dead before the Hispanic vote flips red?  

In a presidential election?

 

Yeah, definitely. 

[Over 29 years of fanhood]

9 minutes ago, Governor said:

I think they’re also blind like little moles.

 

It seems like culture/media has gone insane. It’s in sports too!

 

Tom Brady can struggle for 3.5 quarters and win by 1 point and it’s a great victory. Tom just being Tom.

 

We struggle for 1 half and then stomp the Dolphins and we apparently suck because we didn’t win by 30.

well there you go then. I knew you’d see it my way.

[ComradeKayAdams]

33 minutes ago, Governor said:

I’m not talking about the electorate as a whole. I’m talking specifically about “white women voters.”

 

We’ve been paying pretty close attention to that group over the last 10 years and it isn’t good at all. Look at the numbers.

 

I look at lots of numbers. What numbers are you looking at which show white women becoming more racist over the past 10 years? How can such a thing even be proven conclusively?

 

And are white women becoming more racist or are we simply placing greater emphasis on other issues, i.e. perhaps becoming “racially insensitive” at worst (yes, I believe there’s a distinction between “racist” and “racially insensitive”). Maybe white women are simply prioritizing concrete domestic economic issues over seemingly abstract culture war ones? Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and what not…placing the needs of their children and other close loved ones ahead of important social causes.

 

The post-Great Recession economic anxieties of white women are not mutually exclusive from those of the rest of the electorate. The analysis in my previous post was apropos and AWESOME. Please re-read it, print it out, highlight the salient sentences, and pin it on the wall above your computer desk. I’ll be here if you have further questions and concerns, Mr. Governor.

[Chef Jim]

26 minutes ago, Governor said:

In a presidential election?

 

Yeah, definitely. 

 

Wait for it........

[Governor]

35 minutes ago, ComradeKayAdams said:

 

I look at lots of numbers. What numbers are you looking at which show white women becoming more racist over the past 10 years? How can such a thing even be proven conclusively?

 

And are white women becoming more racist or are we simply placing greater emphasis on other issues, i.e. perhaps becoming “racially insensitive” at worst (yes, I believe there’s a distinction between “racist” and “racially insensitive”). Maybe white women are simply prioritizing concrete domestic economic issues over seemingly abstract culture war ones? Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and what not…placing the needs of their children and other close loved ones ahead of important social causes.

 

The post-Great Recession economic anxieties of white women are not mutually exclusive from those of the rest of the electorate. The analysis in my previous post was apropos and AWESOME. Please re-read it, print it out, highlight the salient sentences, and pin it on the wall above your computer desk. I’ll be here if you have further questions and concerns, Mr. Governor.

We need to stop pretending that it’s Betty’s husband that drives a truck in western Pennsylvania that has a problem, when the problem is actually Betty.

 

Trump increased his numbers with white women the second time around.

 

If you took 100 white women likely voters from Pennsylvania and Virginia and gave them truth serum, you would find that 65 percent of them fear change, good or bad, because they feel a sliver of their entitlement gets stripped away in the process.

 

I’m just saying that it’s time to talk about it openly. We knew this 20 years ago and refuse to address it. We can no longer pretend it isn’t happening.

Edited November 5, 2021 by Governor

[OrangeBills]

37 minutes ago, Governor said:

We need to stop pretending that it’s Betty’s husband that drives a truck in western Pennsylvania that has a problem, when the problem is actually Betty.

 

Trump increased his numbers with white women the second time around.

 

If you took 100 white women likely voters from Pennsylvania and Virginia and gave them truth serum, you would find that 65 percent of them fear change, good or bad, because they feel a sliver of their entitlement gets stripped away in the process.

 

I’m just saying that it’s time to talk about it openly. We knew this 20 years ago and refuse to address it. We can no longer pretend it isn’t happening.

 

I truly hope Leftists keep popping off about the Racism factors for the next 10 years.  It's a losing argument.  To everyone except sniveling Leftists.

[Irv]

Demented Biden and his communist buddies have botched so many things up.  At this point people just don't want to die or be in the poor house becuase of his ridiculous "America Last" agenda.  $450K to illegal scumbags separated at the border?  Ninety-nine percent of the country doesn't have $45,000 in the bank!  It doesn't matter now - race, gender, sexual orientation.  We all hate him and his communist buddies.  Failure!

 

 

[Governor]

12 minutes ago, OrangeBills said:

 

I truly hope Leftists keep popping off about the Racism factors for the next 10 years.  It's a losing argument.  To everyone except sniveling Leftists.

Well, people can talk about it now because there aren’t enough white voters out there that view things the way you do to win a presidential election, and that number shrinks each election cycle as demographics continue to change.

[Big Blitz]

On Tuesday, more than 3.2 million Virginians voted, a 27% increase from 2017, the state’s last gubernatorial election. In that race, Democrat Ralph Northam defeated Republican Ed Gillespie 53.9% to 45%.
 
But in 2017, just 2,584,906 people voted in the state. This year, with 99% of the vote counted, 3,277,931 state residents cast ballots, according to FiveThirtyEight.

 

 

 

Amazing.  

[Beach]

24 minutes ago, Big Blitz said:

On Tuesday, more than 3.2 million Virginians voted, a 27% increase from 2017, the state’s last gubernatorial election. In that race, Democrat Ralph Northam defeated Republican Ed Gillespie 53.9% to 45%.
 
But in 2017, just 2,584,906 people voted in the state. This year, with 99% of the vote counted, 3,277,931 state residents cast ballots, according to FiveThirtyEight.

 

 

 

Amazing.  

i didnt vote in 2017, honestly i wouldnt have had a clue who i woulda voted for then anyway

[Governor]

53 minutes ago, Big Blitz said:

On Tuesday, more than 3.2 million Virginians voted, a 27% increase from 2017, the state’s last gubernatorial election. In that race, Democrat Ralph Northam defeated Republican Ed Gillespie 53.9% to 45%.
 
But in 2017, just 2,584,906 people voted in the state. This year, with 99% of the vote counted, 3,277,931 state residents cast ballots, according to FiveThirtyEight.

 

 

 

Amazing.  

Yeah, that’s great, but you have to keep it in perspective. Turnout was “this” much higher than the last governor’s race in Virginia that had no turnout.

 

Mail-in voting has obviously helped and that’s great, but let’s not pretend that it’s anywhere near presidential turnout.

6 hours ago, Irv said:

Demented Biden and his communist buddies have botched so many things up.  At this point people just don't want to die or be in the poor house becuase of his ridiculous "America Last" agenda.  $450K to illegal scumbags separated at the border?  Ninety-nine percent of the country doesn't have $45,000 in the bank!  It doesn't matter now - race, gender, sexual orientation.  We all hate him and his communist buddies.  Failure!

 

 

I guess you didn’t see the jobs/wages numbers today. Best in my lifetime.

[Irv]

10 hours ago, Governor said:

Yeah, that’s great, but you have to keep it in perspective. Turnout was “this” much higher than the last governor’s race in Virginia that had no turnout.

 

Mail-in voting has obviously helped and that’s great, but let’s not pretend that it’s anywhere near presidential turnout.

I guess you didn’t see the jobs/wages numbers today. Best in my lifetime.

 

You must have skipped math during math class.  Pandemic wipes out 10 jobs and Demented Biden and his communist buddies take credit for 2 jobs coming back as if it's the greatest job growth in history.  If it weren't for his "America Last" agenda and handouts, 11 jobs would have been added to workforce.  Now watch as this idiot unconstitutionally demands vaccinnes.  We lose millions to the workforce when they get fired and go on unemployment.  Great job Demented Biden.  

 

I knew you were dumb but not that dumb.  

 

 

Edited November 6, 2021 by Irv

[leh-nerd skin-erd]

19 hours ago, ComradeKayAdams said:

 

I’m not so sure about this racism angle, Mr. Governor. The numbers I look at are various single-issue poll results. They strongly indicate the country shifting left on economic issues and right on culture war issues, yet the Democratic Party continues to run counter to this trend with woke corporatists for candidates who are fixated on Trump and critical race theory at the exclusion of demand-side macroeconomics. It’s a recipe for disaster next November and in 2024 if anyone not named Trump runs for the GOP. Republicans could easily own both chambers of Congress, the executive branch, and of course a 6-3 Supreme Court in a few years…

 

 

I’m actually a bit disappointed to read this post.  I recognize that the Guv likely loses out out on the free coffee if he doesn’t get all the punches on his bigotry card, but you’re “...not quite sure about…” his condescending and disrespectful characterization of a massive segment of the female voting bloc?

 

We aren’t where we were, historically speaking, but the “you can’t trust them people” trope is how we got there the first time around.  

 

There are no new ideas, just different boogeypersons. 

 

 

 

[LeviF]

On 11/4/2021 at 2:48 PM, LeviF said:

 

Now whether the GOP takes advantage of the opportunity (they won’t) is up in the air. The messaging post-Tuesday seems to indicate that they’re missing it. 

lol not even 72 hours later. Can’t make this ***** up

[B-Man]

 

 

                                                       

 

 

 

 

[B-Man]

 

 

New York Times sings Dem blues after election losses

 

by Michael Goodwin

 

How far left have Democrats gone? So far left that even The New York Times is trying to pull them back from the cliff.

 

A Friday editorial headlined “Democrats Deny Political Reality at Their Own Peril” sounded the alarm over Republican victories in last week’s elections. The piece included demands that Dems “return to the moderate policies and values that fueled the blue-wave victories in 2018 and won Joe Biden the presidency in 2020.” The argument is especially common these days, but coming from the Times it seemed revolutionary. 

 

 

https://nypost.com/2021/11/06/new-york-times-sings-democrat-blues-after-election-losses-goodwin/