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Watch Marshall get elected as a result of that playground fight of a debate tonight.
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Got my voting done today. Thanks, thread.
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Mar 17, 2018 22:37
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Well, I learned something stupid tonight. My parents, they of the poor voting choices persuasion, received a little newspaper this week. Every single article was about how bad Rauner is, except for the ones about how great Ives is. There's a comparison of gubernatorial candidates, except is only includes Rauner and Ives, so it's obviously a campaign ad. It's produced by an LLC named Local Government Information Services. What a skunky name. Who are they? Well, Local Government Information Services is owned by Upstream ideas, which is owned by Dan Proft. Dan Proft the radio host, Dan Proft the Senior Fellow at IPI, Dan Proft the founder of Liberty Principles PAC. That's right, Dan Proft is leveraging Super PAC funds to write fake newspapers to support Illinois Policy Institute. Also there's like 30 of these dumb websites so I'm sure he's just spinning up more names for newspapers to keep people confused: https://lgis.co/our_publications https://capitolfax.com/2016/10/12/fec-complaint-filed-against-proft-newspapers/ gently caress dark money, and gently caress Dan Proft.
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Mar 18, 2018 03:53
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-litesa-wallace-harassment-payment-ethics-20180315-story.html loving lmao Everything in this state is dumb.
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Mar 18, 2018 04:13
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Every politician in Illinois should be fed to alligators.
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Mar 18, 2018 04:50
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There are no good candidates for governor, just ones that are less bad. Voted Friday, got in and out super fast. I used to love voting on election day, but it’s hard to pass up the convenience.
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Mar 18, 2018 15:55
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I've been voting by mail for years since I'm sometimes sent out of town for work at the last minute. It's super easy and should be that way in every state.
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Mar 18, 2018 16:25
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There's some Democratic group running "oh no Ives is just too conservative for Illinois" ads that I imagine are an attempt to troll conservatives into nominating Ives, like mccaskill did with akin a few years ago. I'm worried this will work as well as hoping Trump wins the nomination so they can have a slam dunk general election but oh wait our candidate sucks and is surrounded by scandals and is completely uninspiring if pritzker gets the nomination.
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Mar 18, 2018 16:32
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Yet again, the Democrats will lose if they gently caress this up and that’s looking very plausible.
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Mar 18, 2018 16:33
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After Trump, I believe anything is possible, but IL is way more blue than the average of the country, and Rauner has like a mid 30s favorable rating. The Dems would have to really really really screw this up to lose.
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Mar 18, 2018 18:32
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Bird in a Blender posted:After Trump, I believe anything is possible, but IL is way more blue than the average of the country, and Rauner has like a mid 30s favorable rating. The Dems would have to really really really screw this up to lose. It's insane that Rauner has a shot but he does The choices are 1a) super uninspiring political legacy guy who doesn't energize anyone, is anti-weed, anti everything and self funds to some degree, his only political thing is about cook county property taxes (kennedy) - could lose a low turnout election 1b) super rich dude with multiple FBI tapes out there of him talking poo poo with blago, is unable to say if more tapes exist (that means they probably do) and can also lose another low turnout election with 100m spent in negative advertising on both sides 1c) middle class nerd who has a history of bad votes that are hard to explain meanwhile rauner's busy trying to get as many veterans killed in quincy as he possibly can for some reason illinois loving sucks
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Mar 18, 2018 18:38
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Bird in a Blender posted:After Trump, I believe anything is possible, but IL is way more blue than the average of the country, and Rauner has like a mid 30s favorable rating. The Dems would have to really really really screw this up to lose. Yeah I'm worried about the horror of Ives getting the nomination and Democratic turnout being depressed because pritzker sucks/real bad FBI tapes come out/more shady financial things come out/#metoo accusations/whatever and Ives squeaking out a win. Super long shot obviously but I'll never rule out something like that after 2016
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Mar 18, 2018 18:42
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can't wait for the tape of JB calling Obama the hard r the day after the primary results.
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Mar 18, 2018 18:53
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https://twitter.com/MaryAnnAhernNBC/status/975429695268425734?s=19
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Mar 18, 2018 19:18
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Jesus gently caress money really does buy anything in this country.
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Mar 18, 2018 19:55
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Oracle posted:Jesus gently caress money really does buy anything in this country. where the gently caress have you been for at least the past decade. Honestly I thought JB would be higher up
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Mar 18, 2018 20:15
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Dexo posted:where the gently caress have you been for at least the past decade. Yea, I think it speaks to how weak a candidate JB is that he has poured so much money into the race, and the best he can do is 1/3 the vote. Sucks because I had some hopes Biss would be a lot closer.
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Mar 18, 2018 22:30
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drat, I voted Biss because I thought he was doing better than Kennedy and could beat Pritzker.
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Mar 18, 2018 22:35
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Are you loving kidding me.
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Mar 18, 2018 22:42
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It's basically unchanged for months now
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Mar 18, 2018 22:46
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Bird in a Blender posted:After Trump, I believe anything is possible, but IL is way more blue than the average of the country, and Rauner has like a mid 30s favorable rating. The Dems would have to really really really screw this up to lose. brugroffil posted:Yeah I'm worried about the horror of Ives getting the nomination and Democratic turnout being depressed because pritzker sucks/real bad FBI tapes come out/more shady financial things come out/#metoo accusations/whatever and Ives squeaking out a win. I've been thinking about this regularly since Pritzker ran the Rauner attack ad that stared Ives. Ives winning would be a nightmare but it totally can happen.
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Mar 19, 2018 03:36
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I can't figure out why there's 700 grand being dumped into the state rep primary race in biss's district (Laura Fine is moving up to take biss's seat). There's 3 indistinguishable women with school board experience and the same generic platforms, who cares which of them come out of it. I've been getting crazy amounts of mailers and seeing more and more articles about the money involved but no rationale for whyquote:Committees controlled by seven Democratic state representatives poured in $359,400 just last Tuesday and committees controlled by House Speaker Michael Madigan contributed more than $22,000 so far this month. I guess its just a squabble over party loyalty but good god that's a lot of loving money for a vote for madigan as speaker mastershakeman fucked around with this message at 14:37 on Mar 19, 2018 |
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Mar 19, 2018 14:19
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They don't have Pritzker money, but it's still 3 extremely ambitious wealthy women who have more money than they know what to do with.
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Mar 19, 2018 14:56
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peepeepants posted:I've been thinking about this regularly since Pritzker ran the Rauner attack ad that stared Ives. Ives winning would be a nightmare but it totally can happen. and already I've seen about three times an ad that says "THIS IS A CONSERVATIVE ACTION ALERT--UNION LIBERAL JB PRITZKER IS SUPPORTING JEANNIE IVES, WHO WILL WORK WITH MIKE MADIGAN. DON'T SUPPORT MADIGAN. BREAK HIM--VOTE BRUCE RAUNER!" on STL TV.
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Mar 19, 2018 18:08
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Can I switch to the timeline where marketing doesn't control every single facet of my life? gently caress campaign ads to the end of time.
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Mar 19, 2018 18:18
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xzzy posted:Can I switch to the timeline where marketing doesn't control every single facet of my life? gently caress campaign ads to the end of time. Not until corporate interest is out of politics!
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Mar 19, 2018 18:20
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withoutclass posted:Not until corporate interest is out of politics! I don't think lack of corporate interests would stop Rauner and Pritzker from spending 100m against each other over the next six months, it's going to be insufferable Also my predictions based on literally nothing: Pritzker 35, Kennedy 31, Biss 30 Lipinski over Newman by 2 Rauner by 10 Kwame by 2 over Quinn
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Mar 19, 2018 18:29
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mastershakeman posted:Kwame by 2 over Quinn No endorsements bump for Fairley?
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Mar 19, 2018 18:32
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Man_of_Teflon posted:No endorsements bump for Fairley? I think it's going to come down to name recognition vs machine for quinn and kwame, with higher turnout than normal carrying it for kwame. Who the gently caress knows though Fairley is gonna be a distant third but again I don't think there's any recent polling on this at all.
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Mar 19, 2018 18:35
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mastershakeman posted:I don't think lack of corporate interests would stop Rauner and Pritzker from spending 100m against each other over the next six months, it's going to be insufferable I'm not betting against you. This is a patently obscene amount of money for a governor's race already.
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Mar 19, 2018 19:53
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Took a look at my sample ballot for tomorrow in case I'd forgotten any races. Once I eliminated all the races with 1 or 0 people running, I'm down to five races total.
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Mar 19, 2018 20:20
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Is there any polling at all on Berrios? it's the only race I care about and I feel he's going to win just like dorothy brown did
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Mar 19, 2018 21:22
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there is a super progressive dude that I like running in my district but he is running against Danny Davis who has, to the best of my knowledge, never made a meaningful vote which I've disagreed with and is one of my favorite congressmen i mean, Danny Davis is 77 years old and this is going to be his last term but if he has health issues it's likely that a neolib shithead governor throws a John Ossoff clone at us and gently caress That. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa gently caress i don't know what the gently caress to do. ALSO: Is there some site you can put in your address and get a full sample ballot?
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Mar 20, 2018 02:59
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Junkiebev posted:there is a super progressive dude that I like running in my district but he is running against Danny Davis who has, to the best of my knowledge, never made a meaningful vote which I've disagreed with and is one of my favorite congressmen Do you live in Chicago? If so, chicagoelections.com. Also ballotready.com, but I heard you need a facebook account or something, which sucks.
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Mar 20, 2018 03:02
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Bird in a Blender posted:Do you live in Chicago? If so, chicagoelections.com. Also ballotready.com, but I heard you need a facebook account or something, which sucks. I live in Printer's Row - the google maps pin for chicago is 3 blocks away from my condo 
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Mar 20, 2018 03:06
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Junkiebev posted:ALSO: Is there some site you can put in your address and get a full sample ballot?
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Mar 20, 2018 03:06
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Bird in a Blender posted:Do you live in Chicago? If so, chicagoelections.com. Also ballotready.com, but I heard you need a facebook account or something, which sucks.
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Mar 20, 2018 03:21
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Anthony Clark is great but Danny Davis is still awesome, unlike Bobby Rush, who's a machine stooge now. You can't go wrong, either way you still have someone good in the seat.
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Mar 20, 2018 03:27
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So are any of these AG's on the democratic ballot worth anything
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