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pathetic little tramp posted:Here's a scenario I see being possible in kentucky, and it's the only Hope I'm clinging to. Bevin goes hard after killing Medicaid on the first day and institutes his Medicare drug testing program on day two. The House will block any legislation he wants to pass. He'll be ineffectual until such a time as they have a republican majority. Buring Kynect down is insane, it was huge for the local IT industry, well established, and everyone loves it. Bevin absolutely is crazy enough to point a gun at its head and pull the trigger, and suddenly losing your insurance is enough to make someone go, "Yeah, but I wanted them to take insurance away from those other guys!" It's just a matter of how much damage he can do via executive fiat before people finally get sick of his schtick. I don't think the Wisconsin thing applies here. Labor relations and state budget are a vague and nebulous thing to most people. Healthcare and medicare? It punches them right in the butt when impacted, and it'll be a pretty big deal when it gets made real for them. And if not they'll be dead this time next election anyway 
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RevKrule posted:Jefferson County in Colorado voted to recall three Board of Education members. All three received had the support of AFP who funneled massive amounts of money into the state against the recall. All three basically have spent their whole tenure trying to dismantle the public education system of the second largest county in the state. It was great. We had student walk outs and protests over them. Got another three in Douglas county that need ousting as well. See if you an guess whether they are voucher toting incumbent assholes or the challengers from their pictures alone. http://douglascountynewspress.net/stories/Meet-the-school-board-candidates,197265 And woot! They did it! http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/CO/Douglas/56820/156708/Web01/en/summary.html We have twice as many registered republican voters here than democrats but Vogel and co ( vogel is an amazing speaker btw ... She got multiple standing ovations in the debate with all 6 candidates there. ) swept the school board races with 58% of the vote.
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FAUXTON posted:When they start apportioning electoral votes by district results rather than state results. Take Pennsylvania for instance. It's basically one decent city, one "actually West Virginia but close enough" city, and a bunch of inbred fucks who talk like boomhauer and say yinz in between the cities. Population-wise the majority of voters in the state are going to be in those cities, and a huge majority of those city-dwellers are not down with the GOP. Moreso in the decent city than the 'burgh, but the stats legislature can draw electoral districts so that they concentrate as much of the civilized vote into as few districts as possible, while slathering the mumbling chickenfucker hill people vote as thinly as possible across all districts while still maintaining majorities. Yeah I'm shocked but happy at the fairly large sweep the dems pulled today. Also I live in north central and I don't appreciate being called an inbred gently caress, okay. Most of my neighbors also have no visible deformities 
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Kitfox88 posted:Yeah I'm shocked but happy at the fairly large sweep the dems pulled today. Also I live in north central and I don't appreciate being called an inbred gently caress, okay. Most of my neighbors also have no visible deformities But do you talk like boomhauer and say yinz?
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Jefferson County is where we should celebrate, there is no place where the Neoliberals have been trying to gently caress up the nation more then in education and to see all three of their thugs thrown out of office is a real victory.
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Kitfox88 posted:Yeah I'm shocked but happy at the fairly large sweep the dems pulled today. Also I live in north central and I don't appreciate being called an inbred gently caress, okay. Most of my neighbors also have no visible deformities Most?  You're not really helping your case there.
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Hollismason posted:They could be kin. You don't know that. https://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/10/post_593.html He's not related to Edwin Edwards.
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FAUXTON posted:When they start apportioning electoral votes by district results rather than state results. Take Pennsylvania for instance. It's basically one decent city, one "actually West Virginia but close enough" city, and a bunch of inbred fucks who talk like boomhauer and say yinz in between the cities. Population-wise the majority of voters in the state are going to be in those cities, and a huge majority of those city-dwellers are not down with the GOP. Moreso in the decent city than the 'burgh, but the stats legislature can draw electoral districts so that they concentrate as much of the civilized vote into as few districts as possible, while slathering the mumbling chickenfucker hill people vote as thinly as possible across all districts while still maintaining majorities. goddamn you really hate poor people
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Kitfox88 posted:Yeah I'm shocked but happy at the fairly large sweep the dems pulled today. Also I live in north central and I don't appreciate being called an inbred gently caress, okay. Most of my neighbors also have no visible deformities State college is an exception. I regularly travel across the north of pa and that assessment is spot on. There needs to be genetics study done on the north half of the state to see how close consanguineous everyone is up there.
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Chokes McGee posted:The House will block any legislation he wants to pass. He'll be ineffectual until such a time as they have a republican majority. I'm starting a Kickstarter campaign to fund cameras pointed at every poor Bevin voter 24/7 to capture the exact moment they realize he isn't just taking healthcare away from those other guys. The expression will only last a moment at best before they decide it was actually Obama's fault but if we mash a whole state's worth into one highlight reel then me might get a solid hour of pained realization.
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Will it be as good as the white people mourning Romney tumbler?
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For those of you Chicken-Littling the Democratic Party of a National Level, would you please shut the gently caress up. Even if they changed the electoral college to House districts go to winners in those districts, neither of the last four elections would have ultimately been different. And even if they went further, and changed the Senate EV's to go to the winner of those most districts in that state, it wouldn't change anything either. The difference would be MOV.
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i love reading the posts after an election goes bad cause watching the bad posters cry about losing is the only thing that gives me joy anymore
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but gently caress houston
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FAUXTON posted:When they start apportioning electoral votes by district results rather than state results. Take Pennsylvania for instance. It's basically one decent city, one "actually West Virginia but close enough" city, and a bunch of inbred fucks who talk like boomhauer and say yinz in between the cities. Population-wise the majority of voters in the state are going to be in those cities, and a huge majority of those city-dwellers are not down with the GOP. Moreso in the decent city than the 'burgh, but the stats legislature can draw electoral districts so that they concentrate as much of the civilized vote into as few districts as possible, while slathering the mumbling chickenfucker hill people vote as thinly as possible across all districts while still maintaining majorities. like look at this post, how can i not smile at it, i'm gonna have such a good day today
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FAUXTON posted:When they start apportioning electoral votes by district results rather than state results. Take Pennsylvania for instance. It's basically one decent city, one "actually West Virginia but close enough" city, and a bunch of inbred fucks who talk like boomhauer and say yinz in between the cities. Population-wise the majority of voters in the state are going to be in those cities, and a huge majority of those city-dwellers are not down with the GOP. Moreso in the decent city than the 'burgh, but the stats legislature can draw electoral districts so that they concentrate as much of the civilized vote into as few districts as possible, while slathering the mumbling chickenfucker hill people vote as thinly as possible across all districts while still maintaining majorities. Please never post about Pennsylvania again. That was embarrassing.
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zoux posted:9/11? Sorry for the late response. It's complicated, but 9/11 had nothing to do with it. If I had to sum it up, he doesn't like how he lived his life and it's made him a lot more bitter.
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So basically every interesting race went the wrong way, but there is an upside. The right wing media and their inter-network The upside is loud echoes that will make the next year truly unbelievable in politics. Also I don't think anything that happened yesterday gives us any meaningful extrapolations for the general. There were also indications that KY's Medicaid expansion might stick around. It was a campaign point that went from "burn the poo poo down" to later "not necessarily planning on going there". Unfortunately a lot of people will find out the hard way if it's gone when they need it and it shouldn't even be a question. SLOSifl fucked around with this message at 14:48 on Nov 4, 2015 |
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The amount of rending of clothes and gnashing of teeth over Kentucky makes me think a R presidency and subsequent disaster would be worth the month long meltdown.
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Mr Hootington posted:The amount of rending of clothes and gnashing of teeth over Kentucky makes me think a R presidency and subsequent disaster would be worth the month long meltdown. I was pretty much in meltdown mode for the entire 2001-2009 period.
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So I know this is preaching to the choir for this thread, but if you ever need evidence to show people that voting in local elections is important, take a look at my county: http://tompkinscountyny.gov/files/boe/Additional_Information/Past_Results_files/2015/Results_per_ED_11_3_2015.HTML Margins of 27, 11, 9, 4, and 1. An instance where literally 1 vote makes a difference for an office that probably affects your life more than big ticket national elections.
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tranime scholar posted:I was gonna make a joke about their only textbook being the Bible but then I remembered that's basically already true for a lot of homeschool kids and now I'm sad. Hey, that's not true; what they have is even worse!
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Nov 4, 2015 14:47
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What happens in a race for a municipal position where no one is on he ballot and there's just a bunch of singular votes for write in candidates with no write-in having more votes than the others?
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Azuth0667 posted:What happens in a race for a municipal position where no one is on he ballot and there's just a bunch of singular votes for write in candidates with no write-in having more votes than the others? The universe implodes, presumably.
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Howard Coble is the handsomest ex-Congressman on TV.
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Azuth0667 posted:What happens in a race for a municipal position where no one is on he ballot and there's just a bunch of singular votes for write in candidates with no write-in having more votes than the others?
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Things that are not going to happen in American politics: EV-by-district becoming widespread, abolishing the EC, a deadlocked convention, an Article V convention, one of the two parties splintering, Donald Trump winning a nomination.
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Joementum posted:Things that are not going to happen in American politics: EV-by-district becoming widespread, abolishing the EC, a deadlocked convention, an Article V convention, one of the two parties splintering, Donald Trump winning a nomination. I am still mildly amused by the idea of a brokered convention though. Like, it would be orgasmic. It's also not happening.
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mandatory lesbian posted:i love reading the posts after an election goes bad cause watching the bad posters cry about losing is the only thing that gives me joy anymore Unfortunately soon we'll be back to posting RepubliLOLs and Fails about those dumb GOP idiots who, still, control both houses of Congress and most state governments. But Jeb! is bad! So everything's going to be fine!
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Mr Hootington posted:The amount of rending of clothes and gnashing of teeth over Kentucky makes me think a R presidency and subsequent disaster would be worth the month long meltdown. People who live in Kentucky want to live in a regressive shithole and they are going to get their wish. No reason to rend anything.
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FAUXTON posted:When they start apportioning electoral votes by district results rather than state results. Take Pennsylvania for instance. It's basically one decent city, one "actually West Virginia but close enough" city, and a bunch of inbred fucks who talk like boomhauer and say yinz in between the cities. Population-wise the majority of voters in the state are going to be in those cities, and a huge majority of those city-dwellers are not down with the GOP. Moreso in the decent city than the 'burgh, but the stats legislature can draw electoral districts so that they concentrate as much of the civilized vote into as few districts as possible, while slathering the mumbling chickenfucker hill people vote as thinly as possible across all districts while still maintaining majorities. jesus dude we get it you hate poors and think they're literally subhuman, lighten up
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Joementum posted:Howard Coble is the handsomest ex-Congressman on TV. he used to chair the house subcommittee on ip and internet despite proudly not knowing what email was nor ever using a computer
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comes along bort posted:he used to chair the house subcommittee on ip and internet despite proudly not knowing what email was nor ever using a computer
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:Looks like early results in Seattle are positive. It's been tough hearing all the depressing results come in tonight, but hey it looks like we're getting tax-payer funded elections, early childhood health/education, and a $1B transportation levy. What is it like to live in a state that isn't run by idiots?
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comes along bort posted:he used to chair the house subcommittee on ip and internet despite proudly not knowing what email was nor ever using a computer It was the only way he could be truly impartial!
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FlamingLiberal posted:Pretty par for the course when it comes to Republican committee chairmen
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Literally The Worst posted:jesus dude we get it you hate poors and think they're literally subhuman, lighten up drive through PA.
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UIApplication posted:drive through PA. done it many a time friend, i live in upstate NY and have family in NC, this does not make the people of that state subhuman
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Literally The Worst posted:jesus dude we get it you hate poors and think they're literally subhuman, lighten up That post reads less like "gently caress the poor" and more like "gently caress pennsyltuckians" gently caress pennsyltuckians
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