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MalcolmMasher
10/17/18 6:44:58 PM
#404:


Note that they're saying 60% of the population, not 60% of the states.
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TheRock1525
10/17/18 6:46:29 PM
#405:


MalcolmMasher posted...
Note that they're saying 60% of the population, not 60% of the states.


Yeah but as they stated it's kind of silly to go by just States instead of population. Because being the governor of Texas or California is a lot bigger deal than being the governor of Wyoming.
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NFUN
10/17/18 6:47:24 PM
#406:


TheRock1525 posted...
MalcolmMasher posted...
Note that they're saying 60% of the population, not 60% of the states.


Yeah but as they stated it's kind of silly to go by just States instead of population. Because being the governor of Texas or California is a lot bigger deal than being the governor of Wyoming.

not if you want a constitutional convention
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red sox 777
10/17/18 7:35:11 PM
#407:


1 state 1 vote, that's how it should be.
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Corrik
10/17/18 11:23:52 PM
#408:


Heller +7 last poll.

Scott +2 on Nelson in both of last 2 polls in Florida.

Donnelly maintaining slim lead on Braun.

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red sox 777
10/17/18 11:36:15 PM
#409:


I'm getting concerned about the House forecast on 538. Although, the polls-only forecast still has the GOP at 23%, which is better than 16%.
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Corrik
10/17/18 11:38:37 PM
#410:


red sox 777 posted...
I'm getting concerned about the House forecast on 538. Although, the polls-only forecast still has the GOP at 23%, which is better than 16%.

It is based on generic ballot results. Which is gonna be highly flawed because it is going to come down to individual races. I think Dems might take control of the house, but I do not think it is as dominating as that shows. Too many places don't even have polls for their races or more than one.
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red sox 777
10/17/18 11:50:00 PM
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It almost doesn't matter what the margin is, just who has the majority. House Democrats have watched Republicans enough the last 8 years to learn how to fall in line. As for the potential for a blowout, that's possible because of Republican gerrymandering - the idea is that a national vote of D+5 gives you a Republican house, without much difference from R+1, but move it to D+7 or 8 and you swing a lot of lean Republican districts at once.
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red sox 777
10/17/18 11:54:08 PM
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But the annoying thing about a Democrat House is that 1) there's no potential for any new legislation for 2 years, and 2) they will endlessly investigate Republicans in witch hunts. Like the Hillary Clinton investigations but applied to Republicans who will mostly be innocent.
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Corrik
10/18/18 1:00:09 AM
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red sox 777 posted...
It almost doesn't matter what the margin is, just who has the majority. House Democrats have watched Republicans enough the last 8 years to learn how to fall in line. As for the potential for a blowout, that's possible because of Republican gerrymandering - the idea is that a national vote of D+5 gives you a Republican house, without much difference from R+1, but move it to D+7 or 8 and you swing a lot of lean Republican districts at once.

Not really how it works. If margins drive up in Democratic areas, it won't translate to house numbers.
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ChaosTonyV4
10/18/18 1:07:52 AM
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red sox 777 posted... circa 2014
But the annoying thing about a Republican House is that 1) there's no potential for any new legislation for 2 years, and 2) they will endlessly investigate witch hunts. Like the Hillary Clinton investigations who will mostly be innocent.

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Dancedreamer
10/18/18 9:47:32 AM
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https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/crime/2018/10/15/bayshore-arrest-woman-accuses-glendale-police-racial-profiling/1602473002/

Black woman suing police department for racial profiling. They rammed into her car, put a dent in it, broke the window, and then made her crawl over broken glass. Despite her being a woman, the suspects they were looking for were all male. And drove a different car.

I hope she wins the suit.
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Reg
10/18/18 2:06:43 PM
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Eddv
10/18/18 2:07:19 PM
#417:


Nope.
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Forceful_Dragon
10/18/18 2:13:54 PM
#418:


Reg posted...
https://democrats-oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/new-emails-and-photo-show-president-intervened-directly-in-decision-not-to-sell

Somebody want to try justifying this one?


How shocking. The businessman president who didn't divest his interests in his business makes decisions that benefit his business financially.
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Suprak the Stud
10/18/18 5:46:14 PM
#419:


I've been going over some House races in my free time and I think I'm going to just briefly summarize some I find interesting just because I'm bored. (Also if you're looking for candidates to support, these might be some of the ones to look into because they're in competitive districts.

The first is WV-3. The Democratic candidate is Richard Ojeda, who looks like the kind of guy who should be in an advertising broacher about the marines:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ojeda

This race has no reason being competitive because it is WV-3 and 538 rated it as one of the 20 most conservative district IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY. Think about the entire country, and then think about the demographics of what the third most district would look like. Theoretically, if Democrats won this district than Republicans should have just a handful of seats in the house, max. It has no business being competitive and 538 reports the district voted for Trump 73-23 and, going by the fundamentals of this year, the Republicans should win it by 24 points.

And yet, the two most recent polls of the race have Ojeda trailing by only 5 (Sienna College/New York Times) and only 2 (Monmouth University of approximately the same time frame). A Monmouth poll in June actually showed Ojeda UP so 2 points down is a bit of a disappointment for him!

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2018-midterm-election-forecast/house/west-virginia/3/

Why? Well, Ojeda is kind of weird. He voted for and endorsed Trump in 2016 (and won his WV state senate seat in a district that went for Trump 78-19). He's more of a populist that tends to focus on economic issues rather than social issues (even though he says that while he's pro life he doesn't want to ban abortions because that would disproportionately affect poor people). WV-3 also appears to have gotten ever so slightly more liberal since 2016, as 538 now has it as the 43rd most Republican district in the entire country (the Cook PVI has it just outside the top 20 still).

Are Republicans scared? Yes. Breitbart has started showing ads demonstrating what an EVIL LIBERAL he is (the guy who voted for Trump, yes) because he later changed his mind after seeing Trump for a while and called his presidency a train wreck.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/10/15/exclusive-tv-ads-expose-radical-west-virginia-leftist-richard-ojeda-for-opposition-to-trump/

So will he win? Nah, probably not. 538 is very pessimistic about his chances and is guessing he'll lose by 9-10 points even though all polls have been closer than that. I just think it shows Democrats could compete literally anywhere if they found the right candidates. If they lose this district by 10, there is no reason they couldn't win other presumably conservative districts if they found good candidates that resonate with the population of the district.

I just think its a cool race because you can go down the most conservative districts in the country and they are all safe red, except for this one which is surprisingly only a lead republican.
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Not_an_Owl
10/18/18 5:49:57 PM
#420:


West Virginia is a very weird state politically. It's firmly red most of the time because abortion but there are very old Democratic roots there.
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Suprak the Stud
10/18/18 5:54:27 PM
#421:


I think Montana, Alaska, and Maine are all "weirder" but yeah WV is definitely up there in terms of strangeness of local politics.
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Eddv
10/18/18 5:59:33 PM
#422:


West Virginia is very liberal economically and very conservative socially - a Kennedy style Democrat would clean up in WV
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LordoftheMorons
10/18/18 9:15:03 PM
#423:


Trump endorsing congressmen chokeslamming reporters:

https://twitter.com/meridithmcgraw/status/1053089682081239040?s=21

I guess its not surprising given that hes been covering for Saudi Arabia murdering one, but...
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Mr Lasastryke
10/18/18 9:16:50 PM
#424:


"anyone who didn't like the bodyslamming of the reporter isn't a REAL MANLY MAN" - sephyg
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GuessMyUserName
10/19/18 9:56:58 AM
#425:


http://www.ncregister.com/blog/armstrong/exorcist-and-catholics-respond-to-curse-against-kavanaugh

america go home ya drunk
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Reg
10/19/18 10:21:49 AM
#426:


LordoftheMorons posted...
Trump endorsing congressmen chokeslamming reporters:

https://twitter.com/meridithmcgraw/status/1053089682081239040?s=21

I guess its not surprising given that hes been covering for Saudi Arabia murdering one, but...

Oh you posted this before me.

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Ashethan
10/19/18 11:07:51 AM
#427:


Bodyslamming a reporter: TOTALLY OKAY! NOTHING WRONG WITH THIS AT ALL!

Confronting a Senator over their vote: NOT OKAY AT ALL!
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Kenri
10/19/18 11:10:29 AM
#428:


LordoftheMorons posted...
Trump endorsing congressmen chokeslamming reporters:

https://twitter.com/meridithmcgraw/status/1053089682081239040?s=21

I guess its not surprising given that hes been covering for Saudi Arabia murdering one, but...

*US fascism clock creeps 5 minutes closer to midnight*
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Reg
10/19/18 11:12:39 AM
#430:


Kenri posted...
LordoftheMorons posted...
Trump endorsing congressmen chokeslamming reporters:

https://twitter.com/meridithmcgraw/status/1053089682081239040?s=21

I guess its not surprising given that hes been covering for Saudi Arabia murdering one, but...

*US fascism clock creeps 5 minutes closer to midnight*

People defend this trash, and in the next breath claim not to be fascists.
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LordoftheMorons
10/19/18 1:24:59 PM
#431:


How about that civility though...!
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Red Shifter
10/19/18 5:26:37 PM
#432:


i just opened kevin nash's twitter account and it's literally only political opinions (with a few advertisements for appearances in the middle)

https://twitter.com/RealKevinNash/status/1052554299207749632

welcome to 2018 i guess
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Suprak the Stud
10/19/18 5:58:51 PM
#433:


Is Kevin Nash really Native American?

Gonna need to see that long form DNA test to prove it.
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Jakyl25
10/19/18 6:30:14 PM
#434:


https://twitter.com/shaneharris/status/1053408821203398656?s=21

Breaking: The Saudi government's official explanation. Jamal Khashoggi was killed after a "fist fight."


Wow he got decapitated in a fist fight?? Crazy!
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KamikazePotato
10/19/18 6:34:04 PM
#435:


Mortal Kombat wasn't a video game

It was a documentary
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Suprak the Stud
10/19/18 6:57:39 PM
#436:


Clearly no one here has ever played realistic fighting simulator rock em sock em robots before.
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ChaosTonyV4
10/19/18 7:17:24 PM
#437:


https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/412261-steve-king-endorses-white-nationalist-mayoral-candidate

Steve King is traaaaaaash
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Suprak the Stud
10/19/18 7:33:05 PM
#438:


Iowa currently has three Republican members of the house and one democrat. Current polling has one comfortable flip to Democrats and one that is very close but 538 leans democrat on that race too.

The one race Democrats aren't poised to win in Iowa? Steve King's seat. What an absolutely trash area of that state.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2018-midterm-election-forecast/house/?ex_cid=rrpromo
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red sox 777
10/19/18 7:57:56 PM
#439:


That's why Steve King acts the way he does....the only thing he fears is getting primaried by someone more conservative.
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Suprak the Stud
10/19/18 8:11:59 PM
#440:


Being conservative has nothing to do with it. There are plenty of Republican congressmen as conservative as him.

There is no one as racist.
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red sox 777
10/19/18 8:20:16 PM
#441:


Anyone can claim to be more conservative than anyone else. Steve King wants to prove that he is the most conservative.
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Suprak the Stud
10/19/18 8:26:11 PM
#443:


Red Sox you're basically saying you equate "white nationalism" with conservatism.
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LetsGoSquirtle7
10/19/18 8:27:16 PM
#444:


UltimaterializerX posted...
Jobs Not Mobs!


All Ill say.

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Not_an_Owl
10/19/18 8:40:23 PM
#445:


Suprak the Stud posted...
Red Sox you're basically saying you equate "white nationalism" with conservatism.

is he wrong tho
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Peace___Frog
10/19/18 8:51:22 PM
#446:


It's funny because right wing mobs have killed far more people in the US than left wing mobs
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LetsGoSquirtle7
10/19/18 9:03:28 PM
#447:


Citation needed
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MoogleKupo141
10/19/18 9:09:55 PM
#448:


I thought the mobs were all paid protestors so mobs are jobs!
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Suprak the Stud
10/19/18 9:14:47 PM
#450:


Not reading the entire sentence to own the libs.
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LetsGoSquirtle7
10/19/18 9:22:09 PM
#451:


Citation needed.
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Suprak the Stud
10/19/18 9:26:24 PM
#452:


I shouldn't have to cite that China and the USSR aren't the US, even though they may share some of the same letters. At that point you're just illiterate and you wouldn't be able to read any of my citations anyway so what's the point, you know?

Here's something you might find interesting though Squirtle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJSVrq-6-jc" data-time="

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LetsGoSquirtle7
10/19/18 9:37:23 PM
#453:


Suprak the Stud posted...
I shouldn't have to cite that China and the USSR aren't the US, even though they may share some of the same letters. At that point you're just illiterate and you wouldn't be able to read any of my citations anyway so what's the point, you know?

Here's something you might find interesting though Squirtle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJSVrq-6-jc" data-time="


No.

I want the citation for the (lie) statement that Alt right or whatever stupid thing you are calling conservatives than the mobs of liberals.

Citation needed
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Suprak the Stud
10/19/18 9:43:41 PM
#454:


I want the citation for the (lie) statement that Alt right or whatever stupid thing you are calling conservatives than the mobs of liberals.


1) I never said anything like that
2) Please watch the video it will help with your sentence structure
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