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BIG HEADLINE posted:While I admit people still went out and voted for him after he went ~beast mode~, absentee voting in Montana is yuge because polling places are few and far between (it's a very empty state) and Gianforte already had a ton of votes before the polls even opened. Again, that doesn't matter. We know the effect it had on voters on the day of and can extrapolate thst to see that gianforte still would have won even if his assault had happened weeks earlier. Beating up reporters doesn't move the needle, and I'm not convinced that the republican base, IE. The people who would vote for Moore, will believe the news enough for it to have any effect. If any substantial proof comes out in the next month, or if he shows the slightest sign of weakness or admission that any of it is true, then he is turbofucked. If not, I'm still unconvinced that it will hurt turnout in any meaningful way, and I don't out it past republicans to come out just to spite the media.
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It seems that the talking point is "he should step aside" even though he can't step aside. That's just straight-up abandoning the seat.
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the black husserl posted:I grew up in NC too and the whole jailbait, grass on the field, "i swear officer, i thought she was 18!!!" thing was a huge part of masculine culture. i remember those jokes were common on TV too, back in the 90s. the point is that this is a part of masculine culture, not a part of southern culture the south is a dumping ground for all the cultural baggage white people don't want to deal with in their own backyards. southerners are consistently more racist, poorer, stupider, filthier, etc. nobody was running around saying jerry sandusky was indicative of upper appalachian or mid atlantic pedophile culture. i dont remember people holding up dennis hastert to prove that the midwest was full of kid diddlers. but we'll say roy moore exposes the problems with southern pedophilia and a bunch of credulous goons start nodding their heads "yes, it is because they are republicans who go to church and watch nascar as well, this makes sense"
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Alter Ego posted:Translation: "While I privately don't care, publicly I cannot support him, please don't ask me any more questions oh my god" "Clearly, he should do the honorable thing and divorce his current wife and marry a younger girl. Wait, what was the question?"
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HappyHippo posted:https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/928710627694202880?s=17 First non conditional renouncement, I think.
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Xombie posted:It seems that the talking point is "he should step aside" even though he can't step aside. That's just straight-up abandoning the seat. Yeah, we're gonna likely see an attempt at a write-in campaign by Strange Moore's campaign is denying hard (why didn't they come forward earlier, etc), and I doubt he was is gonna walk away from this race unless he is dragged away
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boner confessor posted:nobody was running around saying jerry sandusky was indicative of upper appalachian or mid atlantic pedophile culture. i dont remember people holding up dennis hastert to prove that the midwest was full of kid diddlers. but we'll say roy moore exposes the problems with southern pedophilia and a bunch of credulous goons start nodding their heads "yes, it is because they are republicans who go to church and watch nascar as well, this makes sense" No, but Sandusky and Hastert weren't the only thing standing between a Democrat and a very valuable Senate seat.
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evilweasel posted:They all hated him and supporting a pedophile has a way of hurting your next reelection campaign. The Virginia blowout has to figure in somehow too. Sticking with culture war stuff doesn't seem like a winner of a plan now. I also wonder if this is also a Weinstein-like situation where this is just confirming longstanding rumors between those in political circles.
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Is it too late for the GOP to pull Moore from the ballot for Luther Strange? Yep.
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Is it too late for the GOP to pull Moore from the ballot for Luther Strange? Yup.
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Xombie posted:It seems that the talking point is "he should step aside" even though he can't step aside. That's just straight-up abandoning the seat. I think the main GOP plan is to run Luther Strange as a write-in.
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Office Pig posted:https://twitter.com/sjcloobeck/status/928470857306980353 I don't generally advocate to eat the rich but god drat it seems like sometimes the rich really want to be eaten. EDIT: I mean the obvious thing he's saying here is 'stop advocating for socialist values' which seems like a great way to alienate the poor.
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Xombie posted:It seems that the talking point is "he should step aside" even though he can't step aside. That's just straight-up abandoning the seat. Murkowski's apparently been in contact with Luther Strange about running a write-in campaign. If the public actually believes the women, then that's probably the Republicans' best shot at keeping the seat.
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Is it too late for the GOP to pull Moore from the ballot for Luther Strange? Yeah, way too late. Ballots are already printed.
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Is it too late for the GOP to pull Moore from the ballot for Luther Strange? They won't. That would be admitting that they messed up, and that is forbidden.
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HappyHippo posted:https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/928710627694202880?s=17 I thought he couldn't withdraw, given the law of the state?
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Mr Interweb posted:Why are Republican politicians coming down on Moore so hard? Is it cause they thought he didn't have much of a chance already before this news broke? Moore was never really liked by the party, he was always an insane bigoted theocrat even for the gop, but “he fought the good fight” against Obama, so they let him slide. Now he is just problem they can’t really get rid of. So it’s not so much that he is a kid fucker, it’s that he is hated and a kid fucker.
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theflyingorc posted:Nate Silver was almost completely certain that day-of vote was suppressed by the assault, but thanks for "random medium guy" You have a source? Only thing I found was Nate talking about his expectation that there would be a roughly 3 point loss based on past scandals.
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Pakled posted:Murkowski's apparently been in contact with Luther Strange about running a write-in campaign. If the public actually believes the women, then that's probably the Republicans' best shot at keeping the seat. Trabisnikof fucked around with this message at 20:57 on Nov 9, 2017 |
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Alter Ego posted:Yep. Any chance that WaPo is sitting on a follow-up story that incriminates Moore even further?
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Caros posted:I'm talking specifically about the vote that was cast after the incident, which showed that beating up a reporter didn't actually lose gianforte votes. As in, even though it was headline news on every major network, the people who went and votes the next day statistically did not seem to care. An important part of this was the lovely response from the police and media. In a sane world he would have been arrested on the spot and spent Election Day in jail. Straight up assault like that is unacceptable and he got community service for body slamming a reporter asking legitimate questions about his policies. All of the headlines should have read “unhinged candidate commits assault for asking about his health care policies”, but instead it was treated like it was WWE or something.
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Flip Yr Wig posted:Any chance that WaPo is sitting on a follow-up story that incriminates Moore even further? Unless they have a victim who was younger than 10, how does it get worse?
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5d chess talk: Sessions steps down, runs as write-in for his old job (and wins). New AG fires Mueller.
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canepazzo posted:5d chess talk: Sessions steps down, runs as write-in for his old job (and wins). New AG fires Mueller. I think the filing date for write-ins has passed, hasn't it?
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DreamShipWrecked posted:They won't. That would be admitting that they messed up, and that is forbidden. They wouldn't admitting fault more so taking a giant poo poo on Steve Bannon for propping him up and beating their man, Luther Strange. Wasn't it last week RNC and Bannon agreed to a seize fire?
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Alter Ego posted:I think the filing date for write-ins has passed, hasn't it? Probably, but then again 
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FlamingLiberal posted:I see Infrastructure Week is going well beaten
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