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The odds of us losing Senate seats was always bigger than the odds of us gaining seats.
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Grognan posted:predicting that jacky rosen is succdem because she already is from her rep seat voting All Dems are succdems, hth
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Nov 7, 2018 12:35
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brugroffil posted:Waking up to Walker losing is very nice
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Nov 7, 2018 12:37
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youguys ready for some decorum for the next 2 years!?
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Nov 7, 2018 12:38
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Glad to wake up and see steve king win. Thanks for continuing to disappoint 4th district.
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sajobi posted:How bad is it for democrats that republicans still hold the senate? Honestly, if they're gonna have a majority, it's probably better that it be a slightly wider majority than it was, since we are no longer required to give Joe Manchin the time of day.
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Nov 7, 2018 12:47
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God drat it. Iowa didn't go all bad but Steve King still exists and we kept our republican governor. Who the gently caress were all the people that split their ticket and voted Democrat for the house but Republican for governor?
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Nov 7, 2018 12:51
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Hubbell kinda sucked.
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Nov 7, 2018 12:58
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Nasty Old Randy posted:Hubbell kinda sucked. Yeah, there were way better options in the primary. But Reynolds is garbage. And republicans now retain the governorship and both chambers of the statehouse so I guess that means Iowa does want to go all in on medicare privatization and destroying unions.
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Nov 7, 2018 13:02
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The Ol Spicy Keychain posted:It's fun watching 4chan lose its poo poo lmao
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Nov 7, 2018 13:09
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Who are the funniest flips Walker is out Rohrbacher is out Walker out lol Kobach out What happened to mr steam games?
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Nov 7, 2018 13:10
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alnilam posted:Who are the funniest flips Indicted Republican Duncan Hunter won his election.
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Nov 7, 2018 13:12
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Thoguh posted:Yeah, there were way better options in the primary. But Reynolds is garbage. And republicans now retain the governorship and both chambers of the statehouse so I guess that means Iowa does want to go all in on medicare privatization and destroying unions. Iowans are going turbo racist and deathcult.
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Nov 7, 2018 13:12
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It rules that iowa elected the bastard child of Palin and brownback
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Nov 7, 2018 13:16
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Mr Hootington posted:Iowans are going turbo racist and deathcult. It's a microcosm of the country. Dems won almost everywhere there are actually people and then the counties bordering the Missouri are full on Trump country. To bad we can't just cede them to Nebraska and South Dakota. 
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Nov 7, 2018 13:17
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Can congress do something about gerrymandering? I mean senate seems to be mainly republican because of that stupid practice. (based on that picture floating around reddit that claims 9m more people voted dem than rep.)
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Nov 7, 2018 13:22
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Senators are statewide gerrymandering does not affect them
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Nov 7, 2018 13:24
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The senate is not exactly gerrymandered per se bc it's based on states and not districts that are redrawn to maximize votes, but it's still a hosed up institution that empowers land over people I don't know if anything could be "done" about it without abolishing the senate or giving states senators based on population, both would be a major rewrite of the constitution
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Nov 7, 2018 13:26
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alnilam posted:The senate is not exactly gerrymandered per se bc it's based on states and not districts that are redrawn to maximize votes, but it's still a hosed up institution that empowers land over people I think the Constitution explicitly doesn't allow you to change the Senate structure Need to add more states
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Nov 7, 2018 13:28
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Yeah gerrymandering is a convoluted system to create conditions that are built into the stupid loving Senate by design lol
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Thoguh posted:It's a microcosm of the country. Dems won almost everywhere there are actually people and then the counties bordering the Missouri are full on Trump country. To bad we can't just cede them to Nebraska and South Dakota. My county went red for the first time since the 90z lol. They even went for clinton.
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sajobi posted:Can congress do something about gerrymandering? I mean senate seems to be mainly republican because of that stupid practice. (based on that picture floating around reddit that claims 9m more people voted dem than rep.) That pic is represented nationally, it does not break into how many more people showed up to what state. The take away from the pic of 9m more voters is that even with "increased" turn out, there was a loss so we all have to wait for the numbers to get broke down.
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brugroffil posted:I think the Constitution explicitly doesn't allow you to change the Senate structure Puerto Rico? That isnt a state right? Even tho it has bigger population that some states.
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sajobi posted:Puerto Rico? That isnt a state right? Even tho it has bigger population that some states. DC and PR statehood
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Nov 7, 2018 13:33
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Thoguh posted:It's a microcosm of the country. Dems won almost everywhere there are actually people and then the counties bordering the Missouri are full on Trump country. To bad we can't just cede them to Nebraska and South Dakota. gently caress you nobody in Nebraska wants any part of Iowa. Pawn that reeking wasteland off on goddamn Minnesota.
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Nov 7, 2018 13:37
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Good Morning C-SPAM! Who are we voting for today?! Sike! Just kidding! I'M WITH HER!!!
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Nov 7, 2018 13:40
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went to bed thinking walker won today is a good day
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Nov 7, 2018 13:41
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On one hand it sucks to have another republican senator, on the other go gently caress yourself Mccaskill. She is just about the epitome of a democrat who tries her damndest to look like a republican. In the last few weeks all her ads have been about how she loves Trump, isn't one of "those crazy democrats," and that she has a burning hatred for immigrants. When the gently caress are democrats going to learn that republicans aren't going to vote for them?
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Nov 7, 2018 13:44
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Yeah there are good and bad things about Bad Dems losing in the senate. In the short term it might be worse than it is better but in the longer term hopefully it will send a message to bad dems which is good
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Nov 7, 2018 13:48
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Good? Bad? *spits* I'm the guy with the Dem
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Nov 7, 2018 13:49
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hopefully the loss of the blue dogs signals to the democrats that diet republicanism is not a winning strategy
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Sylink posted:Senators are statewide gerrymandering does not affect them Senators are living gerrymanders
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Nov 7, 2018 13:52
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Is there an effortpost anywhere of the wins and losses with accompanying C-SPAM commentary?
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Serf posted:hopefully the loss of the blue dogs signals to the democrats that diet republicanism is not a winning strategy "Hmnnnn. Need that full fat poo poo"
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I don't think I really hold out much hope. Democrats are experts at looking at obvious changing historical trends and going "nah, let's keep doing what we're doing." gently caress me, we're gonna have 8 years of trump. Lol
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univbee posted:Is there an effortpost anywhere of the wins and losses with accompanying C-SPAM commentary? gently caress that I'mma need a gif of all of us freaking out when the 538 live tracker bugged out
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Gobblecoque posted:gently caress me, we're gonna have 8 years of trump. Lol Impressive assumption that Jr, who won't be in jail, won't run immediately after
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Gobblecoque posted:I don't think I really hold out much hope. Democrats are experts at looking at obvious changing historical trends and going "nah, let's keep doing what we're doing." I think you mean 16 years
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PostNouveau posted:gently caress that I'mma need a gif of all of us freaking out when the 538 live tracker bugged out it was terrible I felt so bad
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Schumer resign bitch
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