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Smiling Jack posted:I DMd a three and a half year twilight 2000 campaign that was some good fluff I always liked how well PA turned out in Car Wars.
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I have my thoughts on why the Democratic Party blitzed the air waves. To me, the media buy makes sense. To the common American, all that money is wasted because the guy didn't win. For those who worked the campaign media strategy, it's very likely they saw the expenditure in cash as an awareness play. These campaigns are powered by data. It was most likely known that Ossof wasn't going to win. The money is spent on building him, and by extension, the Democratic Party into a positive entity. A brand that sticks in people's minds. Sometimes the goal isn't to win but to notch a few more percentage points of market share away from the other competitor. In that case, the objective was met. These are my thoughts, anyhow. Who knows what the actually strategy was. I'd love to know.
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He still got within five points, which is about fifteen points better than the Democrats got in November's election. If nothing else, it's a sign, along with the Montana and Kansas elections, that the Democrats can compete in even blood-red districts, and if the level of swing towards D candidates remains consistent (Which it has over the past several special elections), then it could be a potential bloodbath in 2018, especially as Trump becomes more and more unpopular. Of course, "Democrat lost, nothing matters" is still gonna be the message of the day, so 
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To give you better figures: Ossoff raised $24M locally for his campaign. Handel raised $3.5M Democratic National PACs spent $7.5M on ads for Ossoff, and GOP spent $18M So Handel couldn't raise money locally and the GOP tapped the war chest to match Ossoffs personal campaign spending to barely beat a democrat in a +20 Red district Outside money is entirely different from local campaign funds for those unfamiliar with the legalities of American politics, there are a lot of strings attached to money donated to a candidates campaign directly (Ossoffs $24M in this case). There are boundaries on where it can come from and what it can be spent on. Outside money can do what it wants
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M_Gargantua posted:To give you better figures: See now that's interesting! The GOP did spent a huge amount only to win by +5. That says a lot.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:He still got within five points, which is about fifteen points better than the Democrats got in November's election. If nothing else, it's a sign, along with the Montana and Kansas elections, that the Democrats can compete in even blood-red districts, and if the level of swing towards D candidates remains consistent (Which it has over the past several special elections), then it could be a potential bloodbath in 2018, especially as Trump becomes more and more unpopular. Yeah and your voting public is so loving stupid that they forgot 8 years of Bush because Obama black
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Two Finger posted:Yeah and your voting public is so loving stupid that they forgot 8 years of Bush because Obama black https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZvT2r828QY
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New Last Week Tonight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw6RsUhw1Q8 He is loving killing it on Trump's coal thing. Murray Energy Company sent a C&D to John Oliver. Holy poo poo was that exactly the wrong thing to do  If you tell John Oliver not to do the thing or you will sue him and threaten to take your case as far as the SCOTUS you're going to have a bad day. E: Mr. Nutter-butter loving killed it. I am dead and posting from beyond the grave. 
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orange juche posted:New Last Week Tonight Was very good
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Jun 21, 2017 04:43
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Georgia is a garbage state so this isn't exactly unexpected.
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Jun 21, 2017 04:56
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Handel Rep. 132,459 52.1% Ossoff Dem. 121,635 47.9 132,459 + 121,635 = 254094 votes GOP spent $162 per vote Dems spent $258 per vote
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Jun 21, 2017 05:00
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Casimir Radon posted:Georgia is a garbage state so this isn't exactly unexpected. Coincidentally, Ossoff made the election a referendum on Handel's wasteful spending and avoiding statements on policy instead of saying "Handel will do everything Trump and the Senate want, including destroy your employer-backed healthcare". Handel tied Ossoff to Pelosi, ISIS, and the dude who shot up the Congressional Baseball Practice. (pro tip: Republicans don't actually give a poo poo about spending, they care about whether that spending was used on anything besides tax cuts/the military.) Democrats will continue to lose close elections because they offer no policy difference from the Republicans (aside from stupid poo poo like gun control), nor do they have the balls to paint their opponents as terrorist lunatics. Therefore, why should a Republican electorate settle?
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Here's some late news that has nothing to do with the election: some weird poo poo is going down in Saudi Arabia. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/06/saudi-arabia-appoints-king-salman-son-crown-prince-170621033707437.html quote:Saudi Arabia's King Salman has appointed his son, Mohammed bin Salman, as heir, in a major reshuffle announced early on Wednesday. This might be related to the Qatar poo poo, sort of like how the State Department came out and publicly yelled at Saudi to produce evidence of Qatar funding terrorism (they both do) and Saudi didn't say poo poo.
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So is it just business as usual at the Deid while this bullshit gets hashed out?
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M_Gargantua posted:To give you better figures: I really dont think these Ezra Klein type motherfuckers are even smart enough to consider this
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Casimir Radon posted:So is it just business as usual at the Deid while this bullshit gets hashed out? I think everyone at the Deid who worry about such things figures that the House of Saud would have to have really lost the plot to gently caress with the people who actually keep them from being involved in a ground war in Iraq and a shooting war across the strait, and having to worry about their Ferrari garage being obliterated by a TBM.
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:I never drive stoned because I live in a 90% white suburb of 90% black city and our cops wear baseball caps and drop holsters. They killed a vet who was trying to kill himself. 9 one ?
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SwampDonkey posted:9 one ? gently caress me, I don't get your post. At all.
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I wish the cops had shot me when I was being suicidal
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That's dank brah
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Thalantos posted:I wish the cops had shot me when I was being suicidal Spicy
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SwampDonkey posted:9 one ? what are you
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Drunk at 8am
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Drunk at 8am its 5'oclock somewhere its 5 in Ukraine actually rn
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Johnny Five-Jaces posted:what are you voted 5 https://www.secretservice.gov/data/...ary_Members.pdf https://twitter.com/SecretService/status/877521745955237888 ooops edit ps gently caress you EPPD. you're not my god and you put my ID near your dick again and i personally will be back to the 915 for a visit. keep the blade(s) and take a shower you dirty loving pig SwampDonkey fucked around with this message at 15:22 on Jun 21, 2017 |
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Is it really card cracking when you ask someone for their credit card so you can totally mail them a sword with their family crest on it?
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eric is a rat bitch lol sup joey some or more person(s) mentioned her may or may not be fictional characters made up in your head as you skim the page too fast. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/06/21/pentagon-blew-28-million-uniforms-afghan-soldiers-report-says/413219001/ Legitimately torn about calling bullshit on this story. The article/IG report on the one hand is saying 'lol why did we buy woodland camo for ANA when they're a desert'. Afghanistan is not Iraq. But then, there's this part of the story: quote:In February 2007, U.S. officials training the Afghan army cruised the internet for camouflage patterns. In an email, the officials “ran across” camouflage from a company called HyperStealth and showed them to Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak. He “liked what he saw,” the report says. Now THAT is dumb as hell.
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If you don't burn your budget you'll get less in the next FY!!!!
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The citation for my Bronze Star and sweet lobbyist gig says otherwise.
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facialimpediment posted:https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/06/21/pentagon-blew-28-million-uniforms-afghan-soldiers-report-says/413219001/ Still a better procurement process than ACUs
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Pesticide20 posted:Still a better procurement process than ACUs Better than the first generation of CADPAT too. "These new uniforms have been sprayed with an infra-red blocking material, meaning they're like a STEALTH SUIT!" *material reflects body heat making them hot as balls* *degrades immediately on washing your uniforms*
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News from throughout the world, courtesy of the New York Times:Polio outbreak in Syria posted:At least 17 children in eastern Syria have been paralyzed from a recently confirmed outbreak of polio, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, punctuating the health risks to a population ravaged by more than six years of war. Islamist militants seize school in Philippines posted:MANILA — Islamist militants seized an elementary school in the restive southern Philippines on Wednesday, according to the military, which said that the gunmen might be holding hostages.
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Proof that vaccines are a scam
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hey, vaccines got bin laden, they can't be all bad Scalise upgraded to fair condition.
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Poppyseed Poundcake posted:Proof that vaccines are a scam No, the issue is that the Taliban has recently been known to pose as Aid workers and target Aid workers who are giving the vaccines, resulting in people avoiding getting them.
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CommieGIR posted:No, the issue is that the Taliban has recently been known to pose as Aid workers and target Aid workers who are giving the vaccines, resulting in people avoiding getting them. 
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CommieGIR posted:No, the issue is that the Taliban has recently been known to pose as Aid workers and target Aid workers who are giving the vaccines, resulting in people avoiding getting them. Also Western intelligence services posing as aid workers providing vaccines, resulting in the Taliban targeting aid workers. That plan clearly wasn't thought through by whatever jackass concocted it.
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facialimpediment posted:https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/06/21/pentagon-blew-28-million-uniforms-afghan-soldiers-report-says/413219001/ 1. Having lived in Wardak, green makes sense. 2. Better green than grey. 3. Letting an Afghan make a decision arbitrarily inshallah is as sound a method as anything I ever saw while deployed. Source: COIN, ROE, grey camo, the M4 rifle, $2b per year spent on air conditioning tents in afghanistan, every wedding party ever, steak & lobster night, SCIFs packed with contractors making $250k annual to annotate individual powerpoint slides for random KLs during the "surge" 2010-11, blah blah war is a meaningless game of hot potato where the potato is still believing in logic when asked to invest time, health or sanity for a greater cause.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Also Western intelligence services posing as aid workers providing vaccines, resulting in the Taliban targeting aid workers. That plan clearly wasn't thought through by whatever jackass concocted it. It was a CIA plot to test needles that had been used for vaccinations for Bin Laden's DNA, hoping that his kids were just strolling around whereeverthefuck, Pakistan. It's not like a CIA plot was really necessary to get the Taliban chasing after aid workers though. That hobby goes back to the 90s.
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