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De Nomolos posted:What I don't get is why he chose NH. That's a pretty intelligent state. Why not Florida? No one is actually from there and they'll elect criminals if they like old people enough and know the right lies to tell. Because the Granite State has a long and storied history of Massholes who couldn't hack it moving 50 miles to the north.
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evilweasel posted:It's a lot easier for him to carpetbag his way into NH, which shares a lot of culture with Massachusetts but is considerably more conservative, than it is to go to a random state. Yes, but Florida is a state full of Massholes already, plus they're known for having 0 standards. I don't know of many truly dickish NH politicians.
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Apr 8, 2014 20:42
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De Nomolos posted:Yes, but Florida is a state full of Massholes already, plus they're known for having 0 standards. I don't know of many truly dickish NH politicians. What I want to know is why the gently caress Scott Brown is getting such a push. Seriously, what the gently caress? Does he have dirt on someone?
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Apr 8, 2014 20:44
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Nessus posted:Being the Republican senator from Florida isn't remarkable. Being the Republican senator from (insert typically blue state here - and I'm sure Brown will try for several) is. He won a statewide race in a very, VERY Democratic state, and he's (ostensibly) not crazy. Of COURSE the establishment GOP is pushing him. What they don't realize is that the race he won was one where his opponent pissed away a 30-point lead by not campaigning for months, and that a woman with no political experience cleaned his clock after he decided to act like a racist frat boy to her in the Senate debates.
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Apr 8, 2014 20:46
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Alter Ego posted:He won a statewide race in a very, VERY Democratic state, and he's (ostensibly) not crazy. Of COURSE the establishment GOP is pushing him. He won a very low turnout special election on the back of crazy old people who REALLY hated obamacare. He was a unicorn.
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Apr 8, 2014 21:31
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Alter Ego posted:What they don't realize is that the race he won was one where his opponent pissed away a 30-point lead by not campaigning for months, and that a woman with no political experience cleaned his clock after he decided to act like a racist frat boy to her in the Senate debates. Well what was she supposed to do, go shake people's hands in front of the stadium? I mean really.
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Apr 8, 2014 21:54
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De Nomolos posted:Yes, but Florida is a state full of Massholes already, plus they're known for having 0 standards. I don't know of many truly dickish NH politicians. A good tenth of the general court are total wackaloons due to the whole 1 rep per 6000 people thing in the one chamber.
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Apr 8, 2014 23:00
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De Nomolos posted:Yes, but Florida is a state full of Massholes already, plus they're known for having 0 standards. I don't know of many truly dickish NH politicians. Which Florida Senator is he going to take out? He can either RINO out of the money trying to primary Rubio in two years or get crushed by Bill Nelson/maybe have an open race in four years. Besides his truck needs a lift kit and some bigger wheels if he wants any cred for driving it around down here.
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Gyges posted:Which Florida Senator is he going to take out? He can either RINO out of the money trying to primary Rubio in two years or get crushed by Bill Nelson/maybe have an open race in four years. Besides his truck needs a lift kit and some bigger wheels if he wants any cred for driving it around down here. This was meant to be a hypothetical and a slap at my former insane state of residence than a very legit point. The real question I want to know is whether NH is really a place where the guy with MA plates on his truck can beat a popular former governor, or if this is just a ego trip.
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Apr 9, 2014 05:05
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So Thomas Ravenel (T-Rav) is running verse Graham as an independent-libertarian now. He is the former SC Treasure before he resigned because of a cocaine bust. He is also a reality TV "star" for a show on Bravo that greatly embarrasses us fine folk in Charleston. Only interesting because he actually does have money unlike the other loons running against Graham. Who knows we might have a democrat even win! Graham will still win lamentable dustman fucked around with this message at 05:38 on Apr 9, 2014 |
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Apr 9, 2014 05:30
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Has anyone other than James Shields even represented more than one state in the Senate?
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Apr 9, 2014 05:44
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evilweasel posted:It's a lot easier for him to carpetbag his way into NH, which shares a lot of culture with Massachusetts but is considerably more conservative, than it is to go to a random state. Isn't NH more a case of the state assembly having absurdly low barriers to get into it(since there's so many of them) that any real money from outside sources almost guarantees a win that causes NH to skew so heavily conservative in recent years?
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Party Plane Jones posted:Isn't NH more a case of the state assembly having absurdly low barriers to get into it(since there's so many of them) Basically, the lower chamber can have wild swings since every constituency is so small. Just look at the giant swings back and forth between Dems and Republicans in the last 3 elections http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hampshire_House_of_Representatives
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Apr 9, 2014 07:17
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De Nomolos posted:This was meant to be a hypothetical and a slap at my former insane state of residence than a very legit point. The thinking, I'm betting, is that Scott Brown has statewide name recognition - most of the other viable GOP candidates are going to have to spend time going from town to town saying "Hey, I'm <insert name here> and this is what I'm all about," and Brown doesn't have to do that. Everyone knows who he is, he's the guy that won 'Ted Kennedy's Senate seat' I don't think it'll work, because part of his name recognition lies in the fact that he's a carpetbagger, but hey, it's not the worst of all possible strategies.
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Apr 9, 2014 07:43
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There are a lot of people in Southern New Hampshire who are from Massachusetts who live there for tax purposes and commute to jobs in the metro Boston area. Scott Brown's path to victory is to hope that only those people and the back woods crowd turn out. I don't think he's got much of a chance of beating Shaheen because he is (being generous here) very stupid and she has won statewide in New Hampshire multiple times, but that's the strategy he'll be selling donors on.
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Amused to Death posted:Basically, the lower chamber can have wild swings since every constituency is so small. Just look at the giant swings back and forth between Dems and Republicans in the last 3 elections I enjoyed this link cause I learned there's like a thousand townships with population 0
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Also 50 percent of NH's media market is based in Boston. So MA politicians get free name recognition in two states.
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So should I feel bad for my friends dad that he actually lost a race for the NH house? I think it was by like 20 votes but total votes was ridiculously low. Like, most town council wards in other states have more voters.
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Party Plane Jones posted:Isn't NH more a case of the state assembly having absurdly low barriers to get into it(since there's so many of them) that any real money from outside sources almost guarantees a win that causes NH to skew so heavily conservative in recent years? No, just look at historical presidential elections and other stuff like that and compare it to the rest of New England. New Hampshire has always been more conservative than the rest, I'm not talking about the nutjob legislature.
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Apr 9, 2014 18:08
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This is...magical: Iowa Senate Campaign Ad
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Apr 9, 2014 18:59
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Franco Potente posted:This is...magical: Wanna vote for that dog
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De Nomolos posted:So should I feel bad for my friends dad that he actually lost a race for the NH house? I think it was by like 20 votes but total votes was ridiculously low. Like, most town council wards in other states have more voters. When you get into smaller political boundaries, or just lower on the ballot, it really isn't all that odd for elections to be decided by votes in the 2 digits. I had a friend who ran for council who won her distirct in re-election with less than 15 votes between her and the opponent. Some township races were decided by 30 or some votes.
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De Nomolos posted:So should I feel bad for my friends dad that he actually lost a race for the NH house? I think it was by like 20 votes but total votes was ridiculously low. Like, most town council wards in other states have more voters. Small-time races can paradoxically be harder than medium ones precisely because it's plausible to canvas all the voters.
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Franco Potente posted:This is...magical: And.. you guessed it: The Second Amendment.
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Next election we're going to see people bragging about how they didn't finish high school while they swim in an above-ground pool filled with guns.
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I bet if you had tried to guess what the big issues in the Kentucky and Iowa Senate primaries would be this year you wouldn't have picked cockfighting and castration.
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notthegoatseguy posted:When you get into smaller political boundaries, or just lower on the ballot, it really isn't all that odd for elections to be decided by votes in the 2 digits. I had a friend who ran for council who won her distirct in re-election with less than 15 votes between her and the opponent. Some township races were decided by 30 or some votes. Yeah, don't feel bad about it, Gore lost in 2000 by one vote.
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Franco Potente posted:This is...magical: I watched that with the sound off, did I miss anything important? I understand that term limits are important to him, as he brandished a gun and knife while presumably discussing the issue.
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Joementum posted:I bet if you had tried to guess what the big issues in the Kentucky and Iowa Senate primaries would be this year you wouldn't have picked cockfighting and castration. The ugly part of me that wants to dismiss the primary voters as dumb hicks would.
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Swan Oat posted:I watched that with the sound off, did I miss anything important? I understand that term limits are important to him, as he brandished a gun and knife while presumably discussing the issue. If you molested his sister he's going to shoot your balls off. He should put it on campaign signage.
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notthegoatseguy posted:When you get into smaller political boundaries, or just lower on the ballot, it really isn't all that odd for elections to be decided by votes in the 2 digits. I had a friend who ran for council who won her distirct in re-election with less than 15 votes between her and the opponent. Some township races were decided by 30 or some votes. Sometimes they're decided by a coin toss.
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Joementum posted:I bet if you had tried to guess what the big issues in the Kentucky and Iowa Senate primaries would be this year you wouldn't have picked cockfighting and castration.
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pangstrom posted:That's very very true. Maybe the next Kentucky primary field will include a champion rooster and a person in a gun costume who changes his name to "Glock".
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There was some obscure town level race around here that someone forgot to file for one year. A guy that voted early in the morning noticed this and called 7 friends and told them to go vote and write him in for it. He won with a plurality.
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pangstrom posted:That's very very true. Maybe the next Kentucky primary field will include a champion rooster and a person in a gun costume who changes his name to "Glock". It already includes a turtle, why stop there?
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So are there any more Alvin Greenes around this year? There has to be. According to Ballotpedia, Tim D'Annunzio is back in NC, running for the Hagan Senate seat as a Libertarian this time. http://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Senate_elections_in_North_Carolina,_2014#Candidates No word on whether he plans on reviving his blog, CHRIST'S WAR: https://web.archive.org/web/20120306234747/http://christswar.blogspot.com/ Sadly, it looks like the Charlotte Observer no longer has its account of his claims that Jesus will drop a 5,000 foot tall pyramid on Greenland.
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notthegoatseguy posted:When you get into smaller political boundaries, or just lower on the ballot, it really isn't all that odd for elections to be decided by votes in the 2 digits. I had a friend who ran for council who won her distirct in re-election with less than 15 votes between her and the opponent. Some township races were decided by 30 or some votes. Doesn't even have to be that small. The state senate race where I live was decided by 21 votes in 2012, out of about 90,000 total. De Nomolos posted:So are there any more Alvin Greenes around this year? There has to be. There's D'Annunzio, the dude who resigned his town council seat in Klingon, and that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr0G233lO4s Alec Bald Snatch fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Apr 10, 2014 |
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Joementum posted:I bet if you had tried to guess what the big issues in the Kentucky and Iowa Senate primaries would be this year you wouldn't have picked cockfighting and castration. 
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Rejoice! Crist is 7 points ahead of Scott in the polls and it's because people in Florida are hoppin' mad they don't have Obamacare. http://www.politicususa.com/2014/04/09/obamacare-rejection-buries-rick-scott-charlie-crist-holds-49-42-lead-florida.html 58% of Floridians think Rick Scott should have taken the medicaid expansion and that he didn't take it for purely political reasons.
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I can never read the word "cockfighting" without immediately thinking of Wilford Brimley and his love of it.
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