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zoux posted:The article is "Millenials say why they aren't voting" so do you think they interviewed dozens and dozens of young people who gave good as hell answers to the question "Why aren't you voting" and trashed them in favor of the morons Yes, obviously. Like did you watch the corporate media coverage of Occupy Wall Street or the Iraq War? Walking past thousands of people with good-as-hell reasons to dislike the neolib economic and neocon foreign policy consensus until they find one idiot in a Guy Fawkes mask and it's "let's see what he has to say, wow what a moron folks, there you have it, it's us or some patchouli-scented hippies rubbing crystals on you"
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zoux posted:That's actually a canard I see people bitching about, but it's not true. Democrats are overwhelmingly campaigning on health care and are barely mentioning Trump at all. Right and if you notice there's been a ton of youth vote already in this midterm, but yea some are still distrusting because they have good reason to be. Again, I'm not saying it's 'fine' I'm saying I get it and I kinda think focusing anger on the voters is really gross when they're mainly reacting to a sick political system Badger of Basra posted:drat are Obama and Hillary on the ballot this year http://time.com/5438522/2018-midterm-elections-youth-voters/ People aren't 'using this as a reason not to vote' they're pointing out a flaw and saying 'BUT VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHAT' doesn't actually motivate people.
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I’m loling because I just got another volunteer text telling me to vote because I’m a young person. (I already voted)
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Frightening Knight posted:I’m loling because I just got another volunteer text telling me to vote because I’m a young person. did you respond to them that you voted (and/or had you done that before?) once I told them I voted I haven't gotten one since, though I wasn't getting them daily like others
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zoux posted:That's actually a canard I see people bitching about, but it's not true. Democrats are overwhelmingly campaigning on health care and are barely mentioning Trump at all. Campaigning on forming a blue ribbon commission to develop a sustainable initiative towards developing bespoke means tested programs to encourage access to affordable healthcare is not "running on healthcare" in any useful sense of the term. sexpig by night posted:People aren't 'using this as a reason not to vote' they're pointing out a flaw and saying 'BUT VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHAT' doesn't actually motivate people. VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHAT is also a terrible idea that just enables dipshits like feinstein, doug jones, and joe manchin to continue to goosestep our political system ever rightward.
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Marxalot posted:Campaigning on forming a blue ribbon commission to develop a sustainable initiative towards developing bespoke means tested programs to encourage access to affordable healthcare is not "running on healthcare" in any useful sense of the term. Who's doing that
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zoux posted:Who's doing that https://dccc.org/ Does someone have to link the hundred thousand times that baddems have yelled about how UHC, basic labor rights, or a >$10 minimum wage is too utopian to ever happen, and that we need to let the ~real adults in the room~ show us how real politicking is done or what? Because they've been doing it forever, and the past 2 years are no exception. Because I'm busy watching this extremely dope Jacob Whol meltdown on twitter rn
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I like how this thread has DEMS BAD cycle every two weeks or so
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hard not to when you live in one of ~the flyover states~
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Oct 30, 2018 21:24
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Per Dixie Strategies.
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Oct 30, 2018 21:28
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B- pollster on 538 rankings. ehhhhhhh Doesn't change anything the voter screens being totally broken was always the only way Beto was ever going to win.
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No Safe Word posted:did you respond to them that you voted (and/or had you done that before?) I’ve told like four different volunteers I’ve voted, they all seem to be different organizations.
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Frightening Knight posted:I’ve told like four different volunteers I’ve voted, they all seem to be different organizations. The door-knocking system is different from the phone banking system which is different from the text banking system. And for all I know, there might be more than one database for different kinds of phone banking, like they may have you ID'd for voter outreach in one and for volunteer recruitment in another.
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Badger of Basra posted:I like how this thread has DEMS BAD cycle every two weeks or so Please we can all agree TDP BAD every day of the week.
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can't believe texas dems and leftists would have a low view of the democratic party after all they've done for us
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Finally managed to drop by the early voting church and get my vote in today. Feels good to do something at the state level even if he probably won't win.
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As my wife and I were walking out our front door this weekend, a guy on a bike slowed down a bit and asked us if we had voted yet (we have Beto/Lizzie signs in our yard so it's not a huge assumption), and we just sort of instinctively said "Yup, thanks!" A beat or two later I realized it was actually my state rep, Gene Wu. Not sure if he was really canvassing or what, but he did stop and chat with my neighbor (also sign-havers) right afterwards. He's running virtually unopposed (random Libertarian opponent), so if he was canvassing it'd be either for Dems in general or for a specific candidate, I suppose.
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Trabisnikof posted:Please we can all agree TDP BAD every day of the week. If they were good they wouldn't be Texas Dems
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Already 3.35M early votes cast in Texas as of yesterdays numbers. 8 days into early voting and that number smashes both the 2014 and 2016 election totals 8 days into early voting, though percentage wise 2016 was higher at 30.6 vs 27.4 right now. None of that means anything other than this is an amazing turnout for a midterm election.
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skipdogg posted:Already 3.35M early votes cast in Texas as of yesterdays numbers. 8 days into early voting and that number smashes both the 2014 and 2016 election totals 8 days into early voting, though percentage wise 2016 was higher at 30.6 vs 27.4 right now. texas has been doing well at heeding our thread titles https://twitter.com/tbonier/status/1057097823953567744
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zoux posted:
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Shear Modulus posted:finally we will have a water park in austin and not have to drive to schlitterbahn Funny you say that https://twitter.com/st_vockrodt/status/1057400840225517573?s=19
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Chieves posted:Funny you say that This is the same guy who designed a slide that decapitated some kid, yeah?
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Badger of Basra posted:This is the same guy who designed a slide that decapitated some kid, yeah? IIRC, it decapitated the kid of a state legislator who'd championed a bill that deregulated theme park safety
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Oct 31, 2018 00:23
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Holy crap, what reality are we in?
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mastajake posted:Holy crap, what reality are we in? This seems like a Florida man story tbh
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the owner didnt design it, it was a small two-bit firm that had zero design experience who only made it to say they made the tallest slide for some tv show. I dont remember whose kid it was, but it reads way too much like a hubristic stdh story for it to be the son of a politician like that
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At the Beto rally. Cake will be playing! Also which one of you goons is this: http://imgur.com/a/QVFccE9
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:the owner didnt design it, it was a small two-bit firm that had zero design experience who only made it to say they made the tallest slide for some tv show. I dont remember whose kid it was, but it reads way too much like a hubristic stdh story for it to be the son of a politician like that Dunno if his dad passed that bill but his dad was definitely a state legislator: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/jeff-henry-verruckt-schlitterbahns-tragic-slide/ And the slide was his idea.
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This is fun: Google's polling place locator gives the wrong polling location for my apartment complex. I punched in my street address and got a location in Dallas county, despite being registered in Collin county, because Collin county is where my apartment complex is. I sent in an error report through the little Google form but who know if the algorithm will get it to somebody to fix it before next week. 
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I used to live in the Bermuda triangle, in North Dallas. It's right in the border of Denton, Dallas, and Collins. It's tough!
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saw this and thought of the texas dems~ https://twitter.com/detachment_red/status/1057428654936993793 But in more important news some chud I managed to piss off by saying Texas already seceded once ended up going through my old posts, undoubtedly saw gavin mcinnes' rear end in a top hat, and then yelled incoherently at the handmade beto sign someone posted in here a page or two back. So that's a win.
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I can't imagine even Texas democrats doing something as cynical and nihilistic as lending at the bare minimum rhetorical credence to destroying the 14th, but perhaps I simply don't have enough imagination.
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Kunabomber posted:I used to live in the Bermuda triangle, in North Dallas. It's right in the border of Denton, Dallas, and Collins. It's tough! Yep that's exactly where I'm at. I checked a couple other addresses in this zip code and they all came up with a Collin polling place so hopefully the problem is limited to this specific address.
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Office Pig posted:I can't imagine even Texas democrats doing something as cynical and nihilistic as lending at the bare minimum rhetorical credence to destroying the 14th, but perhaps I simply don't have enough imagination. I'm not really comfortable with the "party of the people" lending even "the bare minimum rhetorical credence" to blood and soil nationalism. And I'd hope that any dems in Texas would be above such a thing as well because I feel like "don't back white supremacist poo poo" is possibly the lowest loving bar. We can do this.
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Party Plane Jones posted:texas has been doing well at heeding our thread titles I just realized there is a less than zero chance of Vadez being Gov and I am afraid
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SirKibbles posted:I just realized there is a less than zero chance of Vadez being Gov and I am afraid lmfao c'mon, dude
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