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J33uk posted:I know the CNN analysis is usually pretty trite but they do slip the odd good point in there. The bottom fell out of a bunch of races that it shouldn't have. Either there's a massive engagement issue with democratic voters or the President has become a huge liability. his approval rating has been ticking up lately and no one voted in this election so its the former
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Mitt Romney posted:Young white males aren't much above 50% on voting for democratic candidates if I remember the 2012 exit polls correctly. Plenty of young minority males play Call of Duty. Maybe not at the rate that young white males do, but still quite a few. I know you're half joking here though.
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fknlo posted:So basically, congress is going to continue to be completely dysfunctional, all of the blame is going to go on Obama, and the Republicans will gain the presidency as well as more senate and house seats in 2016. A democrat will be the next President 
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Twelve by Pies posted:I mean this obviously wasn't the case but wasn't there a gag about a Halo game or something coming out right before/on Election Day a few years back? I vaguely seem to recall it at least. Yep! I guess this thread doesn't want to joke even a little bit tonight.
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Nov 5, 2014 06:50
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All 9 Massachusetts Congressional districts went Democrat but the governorship went Republican? 
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If Jeff Johnson backed Strangecoin early on he might have won.
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fknlo posted:So basically, congress is going to continue to be completely dysfunctional, all of the blame is going to go on Obama, and the Republicans will gain the presidency as well as more senate and house seats in 2016. That's honestly my prediction but really I think it's a bit too far out to be concrete. It turns out when the media doesn't report honestly, people don't realize what's going on when one party decides to shut down the government until they can worm their way back in power while the other is feckless. I think they can turn it around if they dump their poo poo advisors and totally try and get people involved that understand what people are interested in.
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Josh Lyman posted:All 9 Massachusetts Congressional districts went Democrat but the governorship went Republican? Martha Coakley
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Likely. The 2018 seats would be Class 1. These seats were last elected in 2012 in which they were predicted to go more strongly Republican than they did, which means Democrats would be defending possible Republican pickups in Montana (Tester), North Dakota (Heitkamp), Indiana (Donnelly), Ohio (Brown), Missouri (McCaskill), Florida (Nelson), West Virginia (Manchin) and Virginia (Kaine). Republicans would be defending possible Democratic pickups in only Nevada (Heller) and Arizona (Flake). 2018 seems worse for the senate than 2014.
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MA electing a Republican governor isn't really news. Perhaps you've heard of this guy "Mitt Romney?" Regardless, I assume MA Dems won't be returning Coakley's calls anymore.
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Josh Lyman posted:All 9 Massachusetts Congressional districts went Democrat but the governorship went Republican? This may come as a surprise to you, but I don't think Martha Coakley is a particularly effective candidate.
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I was talking to a friend about this, but if someone ran and said "gently caress the check, pay me the minimum $1 a year, I just want to fix this poo poo" do you think they would get a huge vote just based on that alone?
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James Garfield posted:The initiative to let Nevada tax mining is ahead by 0.1%  woop
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Jagchosis posted:his approval rating has been ticking up lately and no one voted in this election so its the former Yeah, the Dems basically ran from everything that they should have run on like minimum wage increases, obamacare actually working (because it is), and rolling back voter intimidation legislation for minorities. Instead they all distanced themselves from Obama(care), said gently caress you to mnorities, and tried to appear "moderate" on winning issues like minimum wage because they are loving dumb.
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So now that the fat french gently caress is still the bloody Governor of Maine, will he try to bypass all of the propositions that got passed and continue to cut budgets? 
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Harminoff posted:I was talking to a friend about this, but if someone ran and said "gently caress the check, pay me the minimum $1 a year, I just want to fix this poo poo" do you think they would get a huge vote just based on that alone? it would make a good soundbite for election ads. IE it would get tuned out by anyone not already inclined to vote for that person
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A Winner is Jew posted:Yeah, the dems basically ran from everything that they should have run on like minimum wage increases, obamacare actually working (because it is), and rolling back voter intimidation legislation for minorities. Instead they all distanced themselves from Obama(care), said gently caress you to mnorities, and tried to appear "moderate" on winning issues like minimum wage. But but but but america is a center right country and we would get trashed by the right wing media and also obama is unpopular so we need electable moderates
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HOPE IN CONNECTICUT??? Malloy claimed victory, Foley was giving a speech that turned into basically a concession speech by the end although he said wait for final numbers.
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Harminoff posted:I was talking to a friend about this, but if someone ran and said "gently caress the check, pay me the minimum $1 a year, I just want to fix this poo poo" do you think they would get a huge vote just based on that alone? 
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The only silver lining I can take from this is MAYBE some Democratic consultants are out of jobs tonight (I doubt it).
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Amused to Death posted:HOPE IN CONNECTICUT??? Isn't it a bit early for that? Radish posted:The only silver lining I can take from this is MAYBE some Democratic consultants are out of jobs tonight (I doubt it). The likelihood of democrats learning is about the same as tea-partiers learning not to run their wingnut candidates in primaries.
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I'm resigned to living in the most conservative, poverty-stricken state in the union, but it was still a bummer that a local judge I like lost. Let's drink malt liquor.
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Harminoff posted:I was talking to a friend about this, but if someone ran and said "gently caress the check, pay me the minimum $1 a year, I just want to fix this poo poo" do you think they would get a huge vote just based on that alone? Government needs more fantastically rich people good idea
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Radish posted:The only silver lining I can take from this is MAYBE some Democratic consultants are out of jobs tonight (I doubt it). Nah, they gotta go through the infighting and arguing over what went wrong first.
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Nov 5, 2014 06:57
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Looks like Wendy Davis lost by 21 or so points. To quote the great Bob Uecker, the Democrat's attempt to turn Texas blue was juuuuuuust a bit outside.
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seriously i know massachusetts is the land of terrible politicians (romney, brown, kerry, ducockis) but why the gently caress did they run one of the worst candidates of the 21st century a second time? an autistic manchild would be a more effective campaigner than coakley
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Godinster posted:Honest question: Protip: it's impossible to remove money from politics unless you remove capital from private control. fknlo posted:Doubt it. Gonna get some Grand Bargains up in this bitch! Remember how every Grand Bargain ever fell through because republicans got too demanding? Yeah there won't be any now either. Kiwi Ghost Chips posted:A democrat will be the next President Same!
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Twelve by Pies posted:Couple of Republican posters showed up, said they were happy about the results, has now turned into trolling and "Eat it, libs, we're now free from your poo poo." I read the last page and it seemed to be "post competing anecdotes on how your health insurance premiums went up or down in the past year or twi" like that was the end-all be-all metric so I assumed everything else wasn't worth reading, thanks for confirming.
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Not a chance. All you'd have to do is bring up the large soda ban and he'd be ridiculed into submission.
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JosefStalinator posted:Isn't it a bit early for that? look, don't make me start drinking again. Basically Malloy says he probably won and Foley says he probably lost. Still very, very, very close though
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Jagchosis posted:seriously i know massachusetts is the land of terrible politicians (romney, brown, kerry, ducockis) but why the gently caress did they run one of the worst candidates of the 21st century a second time? an autistic manchild would be a more effective campaigner than coakley Because Massachusetts has a permanent state legislature supermajority that can handily override all vetos. So Massholes feel like it's safe to grab a republican governor now and again.
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skaboomizzy posted:So Alex loving Sink (who couldn't win a vacant House seat in a swing district) outperformed "Democrat" Charlie Crist. Wonderful. gently caress this state. Well Scott had the advantage of coming from the same party as Crist after his tenure so it's not as though he had much advantage there. With almost 100% of ballots in (we're missing a bunch of Provisional and Overseas ballots as well as some Absentee ballots), it's Scott confirmed for victory with 2,856,957 votes (48.22%) against Crist with 2,784,771 votes (47%). The spread is ~72 thousand. In comparison, in 2010, Scott won with 2,619,335 votes (48.87%) against Alex Sink with 2,557,785 votes (47.72%) for a spread of about 61.5 thousand votes. Yeah, Sink performed better than Crist, but not by much and it didn't help that neither were so unpopular that the Libertarian candidate got 3.75% of the vote (~220,000).
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Crazy Ted posted:Not a chance. All you'd have to do is bring up the large soda ban and he'd be ridiculed into submission. He's also the anti-gun bogeyman. He's also short, Jewish, and remarkably uncharismatic. I was just trying to say that it's been done.
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Goetta posted:Government needs more fantastically rich people good idea Seriously though... Even in the House, most of your expenses are paid outside of salary, right? Travel to/from home, allowance for staff salaries, office infrastructure, franking, etc. It would be a fun experiment.
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tatankatonk posted:Actually I think it might have been the deliberate political choices of the Democratic Party leadership for the past 6 years Yeah, basically Obama being like 'thanks kids, I'm out to do nothing you care about" for the last 4-6 years did not help.
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zakharov posted:He's also the anti-gun bogeyman. He's also short, Jewish, and remarkably uncharismatic. I was just trying to say that it's been done. more importantly he'll be 74 in 2016.
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zakharov posted:He's also the anti-gun bogeyman. He's also short, Jewish, and remarkably uncharismatic. I was just trying to say that it's been done.
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