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Both the RNC and the Koch Bros. are pulling money from Ron Johnson reelection bid in Wisconsin's senate race.
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deoju posted:Both the RNC and the Koch Bros. are pulling money from Ron Johnson reelection bid in Wisconsin's senate race. Johnson is a dead man walking. I just wish Kirk and Toomey had managed to gently caress up as badly as he did. Plus the added bonus of putting Feingold back in the Senate!
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Jul 21, 2016 02:17
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They already triaged Kirk a few weeks ago.
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richard burr announced yesterday he plans to retire after the next term assuming he (likely) wins
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Speaking of NC, I assume everyone knows about the NBA's decision to pull out the all-star game due to HB2, the bathroom bill McCrory blaming it on business elites and the Democrats https://twitter.com/BryanRAnderson/status/756255019415076865 https://twitter.com/katieperalta/status/756253263633285120
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Joementum posted:Got the third piece of campaign lit in the mail today from a Democrat promising to enact Bernie's agenda at the state level. Not surprising, since I'm in Vermont. Anyone seeing that in other states? Florida will be reclaimed by the reluctant Atlantic before I get that mailer.
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thethreeman posted:Speaking of NC, I assume everyone knows about the NBA's decision to pull out the all-star game due to HB2, the bathroom bill Tough talk from a carpet bagging toadie stooge TALK TO THE INVISIBLE HAND
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Well then. https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/756512231114809345
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Just came here to post that. Will this give the Dems a chance to pick up the seat, or will the jungle primary ensure that the run-off will put it in R hands?
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Franco Potente posted:Just came here to post that. Will this give the Dems a chance to pick up the seat, or will the jungle primary ensure that the run-off will put it in R hands? The KKK is a Democratic organization, so this might split the vote. On the other hand, Duke did very well the last time he ran for Governor. We'll just have to wait for some polls.
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His announcement video doesn't even try to hide it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ97gEFBH5k
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Jul 22, 2016 17:27
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The NRSC released a statement saying they will not support Duke's candidacy. Which is a thing they felt the need to do.
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Jul 22, 2016 17:33
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Joementum posted:The NRSC released a statement saying they will not support Duke's candidacy.
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Joementum posted:The NRSC released a statement saying they will not support Duke's candidacy. *unless he starts polling ahead of the others
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ufarn posted:What's generally the "best" way to white supremacists to run on the coattails of Trump - as Republicans or Independents? Republicans, just like Trump is.
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There is no reason he can't win a GOP primary.
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Jul 22, 2016 18:12
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mcmagic posted:There is no reason he can't win a GOP primary. There's no primary in Louisiana. All the candidates will be on the ballot in November. If none of them clear 50% there's a runoff in December between the top two.
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Joementum posted:There's no primary in Louisiana. All the candidates will be on the ballot in November. If none of them clear 50% there's a runoff in December between the top two. Oh . I didn't realize that. He probably can't win an election like that.
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Yeah but if he runs on an *I agree with Trump* platform, does that give Dems an opening to actually win in Louisiana? When is the filing deadline?
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mcmagic posted:Oh . I didn't realize that. He probably can't win an election like that. Louisiana ain't Mississippi, but they're still Louisiana.
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Brigadier Sockface posted:Yeah but if he runs on an *I agree with Trump* platform, does that give Dems an opening to actually win in Louisiana? When is the filing deadline? Not really. Dems only took the Governor race because of the Republican candidate's history of soliciting prostitutes, and the universal Jindal hate There are no clear leaders on either side of the race today, if I'm not mistaken. From last month: http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/louisiana-senate-poll-boustany-fleming-trail - looks like the GOP (former Dem) State Treasurer is at the top of a widely divided field with 32%, second is a GOP representative named Boustany with 10%, and the closest Dem is Foster Campbell, who I've never heard of, in third place with 9%
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mcmagic posted:Oh . I didn't realize that. He probably can't win an election like that.
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mcmagic posted:Oh . I didn't realize that. He probably can't win an election like that. Eh, it's weirder than you think. What it usually leads to is "Democrat wins with 43% to republicans crazy candidate 26% and republican moderate candidate 18%" then at the runoff people decide they sure don't want no abortion-lovin demmycrat and you end up with crazycandidate grabbing the 16% of the moderate and winning.
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hot take: i don't think duke will finish above the Democrat, and i think it'll be an r vs r runoff even if he does better then that i think the establishment r politicians will be ok, they have been all primary season. tepid take
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ufarn posted:His announcement video doesn't even try to hide it disappointed it wasn't this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q4txN1ut20&t=192s
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evilweasel posted:he got into the runoff and 55% of white people voted for him last time he tried: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Duke#1991_campaign_for_Governor_of_Louisiana Black and Hispanic people are really the only thing standing between this country and the abyss.
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mcmagic posted:Black and Hispanic people are really the only thing standing between this country and the abyss. White women generally deserve some credit.
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:White women generally deserve some credit. that would be reverse sexism against white males though
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mcmagic posted:Oh . I didn't realize that. He probably can't win an election like that. But the fact that he won't lose until November means he will be generating "KKK leader loves Trump" headlines until November.
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mcmagic posted:Black and Hispanic people are really the only thing standing between this country and the abyss. hey man we asians might have saved mark warner from an upset two years back
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i saw tim kaine speaking at eden center a few years ago, i hope the gop keeps alienating nova asians and they vote in odd years
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I hope Asians have a large enough population to have a double digit influences on a vote outside of local elections in areas of high Asian density and California
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I wouldn't at all be surprised to see the jungle primary in Louisiana yielding Ordinary Republican vs David Duke with no Dems in the runoff.
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Karl Barks posted:that dude is crazy. if you tweet at him, he will try to log into your account a bunch of times to get it locked. is this the 21st century version of saying bloody mary three times into a mirror?
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This guys is running simply because all of his grandkids keep moving out of state
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Johnson is a dead man walking. I just wish Kirk and Toomey had managed to gently caress up as badly as he did. If nothing else, this is making me happy during this election season.
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So as a total outsider to FL politics, I found this article about the Senate race phenomenal: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/alan-grayson-florida-senate-race.html I'm actually a bit surprised how negative SA is about Grayson after reading this. Sure, he runs a personal hedge fund, but it sounds like he's a total anti-establishment/anti-machine/anti-"anointment" politician who's been dunking on Wall St like a populist for years: quote:But for all Grayson’s bombast and buffoonery, the Trump-of-the-left line isn’t really fair. A better comparison might be Bernie Sanders in Floridian drag. When Grayson arrived in Congress in 2009, he was assigned a seat on the House Financial Services Committee. Democratic and Republican leaders often put their freshmen members from swing districts on Financial Services since it’s a surefire way for them to raise gobs of money for what will likely be tough reelection campaigns. Grayson had other ideas. Instead of using his Financial Services perch to buck-rake — the words Goldman and Sachs appear nowhere in his FEC reports — he used it to rake Wall Street over the coals. He introduced a bill restricting salaries and bonuses for executives at financial institutions that had received federal bailout money. (The bill passed the House and died in the Senate.) He subjected Wall Street CEOs, as well as Treasury Department and Federal Reserve officials, to withering cross-examinations at committee hearings. quote:Murphy has red hair, broad shoulders, and the towel-slapping bonhomie of the college-baseball prospect he was only 15 years ago. The son of a construction magnate, Murphy initially followed his father into the GOP. In 2007, he made a $2,300 campaign donation to Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign. “When I first go to register to vote,” Murphy told me, “you know, ‘Hey, my dad’s a Republican, I guess I’m a Republican.’ I mean, it’s maybe not the right way to do it, but I think it’s how a lot of people probably do it.” Murphy explained that the subsequent rise of the tea party persuaded him to become a Democrat. In 2012, he decided to run for Congress. Fortified by $550,000 in donations from his father, Tom, to two super-pacs supporting his candidacy, Murphy beat the tea-party darling Allen West by fewer than 2,000 votes in what was that year’s most expensive House race. He was assigned to a seat on the Financial Services Committee, which he used to hoover up campaign donations. With a campaign war chest of $5.2 million in 2014 — the second-largest of any Democratic House candidate that year — Murphy won reelection by almost 20 points. lmao at Grayson on Murphy: quote:A supporter asked when the two would debate. “It’ll never happen,” Grayson replied. “His father would never give him permission to go out that night. He never wants to get too far from his juice box.” also, lmao at Grayson on Biden: quote:Perhaps, though, the episode suggests that national Democrats did not vet Murphy as carefully as they should have. Indeed, Grayson says that after he failed to get Joe Biden to endorse him — or at least not endorse Murphy — the vice-president called him to explain. “He started saying, ‘Well, Patrick is not as right-wing as you made him out to be,’ ” Grayson recalls. Grayson says Biden specifically mentioned Murphy’s stances on gay-rights issues and his leadership on repealing the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Grayson says he was puzzled, since Murphy hadn’t been elected to Congress when the policy was repealed in 2011, but he let Biden get off the phone. It was only later that he realized the vice-president had been talking about the voting record of a different Patrick Murphy, who represented Pennsylvania in Congress from 2006 to 2010 (Biden’s office denies this).
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Grayson is a wifebeating scumbag, so frankly I don't care. Patrick Murphy is a dumbass blue dog who will likely lose to Rubio, but the Florida Democratic Party is such an omnishambles that Murphy is pretty much the Democrats' best odds of winning there, and these days even Blue Dogs in the Senate like Manchin and Heitkamp are brought in line most of the time.
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Spatula City posted:Grayson is a wifebeating scumbag, so frankly I don't care. Patrick Murphy is a dumbass blue dog who will likely lose to Rubio, but the Florida Democratic Party is such an omnishambles that Murphy is pretty much the Democrats' best odds of winning there, and these days even Blue Dogs in the Senate like Manchin and Heitkamp are brought in line most of the time. ya literally the same day that great NYMag article comes out, this happens: https://twitter.com/apalmerdc/status/757986770562711552 I didn't know about the domestic abuse allegations. What a disaster of a race for Dems. Which is I guess what all the FL posters in this thread have been saying for months
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