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Interesting economic data point from the Harvard/Harris poll that was released today:quote:The poll also found that a plurality of respondents — 37 percent — say their personal financial situation is getting worse. Earlier this year, the percentage of those who said their financial situation was improving was on the rise. https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/579567-biden-approval-drops-to-43-percent-in-new-poll?rl=1
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Jaxyon posted:Bulworth has a lot of problems, but a senator getting assassinated by an insurance company exec for suggesting single-payer isn't one of them. on the flip side, that's also a legit reason to move from "here is a suitcase of cash" corruption to "here are campaign contributions and contracts" corruption. Less waste! It's been a whole Thing in Sri Lanka, although I don't think any of the major players have stated it quite like that, lol.
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Nov 3, 2021 00:20
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Willa Rogers posted:Interesting economic data point from the Harvard/Harris poll that was released today: One other thing caught my eye in this article: quote:Biden gets his lowest marks for his handling of the situation in Afghanistan. Only 33 percent say they approve of his actions there. I figured that number would have started increasing slightly by now. Especially since 34% stated they approved of troop withdrawals last year and only 25% opposed it (I assume the rest were unsure, I'm paywalled from the linked WSJ source).
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Yeah, I thought that was a weird data point, too.
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Nov 3, 2021 00:44
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That number is consistent with the CBS poll we discussed earlier in the month. Data here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16F-niG5FT7AYonia--9uOMoePRUkBAma/view
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Epinephrine posted:That number is consistent with the CBS poll we discussed earlier in the month. Oh, I didn't mean I doubt the validity of that number. I'm just saying I figured as time went on, more people would approve of the Afghanistan War finally being over. Especially since it seemed like more people were in favor of ending the war prior to it actually being ended.
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Welp. He's almost seen enough. https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1455688205227941894?s=20
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Grouchio posted:Welp. He's almost seen enough. There's a thread for this here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3983727 I went to Radford once and it kinda sucked. Cheap beer, though
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Nov 3, 2021 01:13
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Does he mean Youngkin wins by 9 in the state, or just in Radford?
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I don't understand the consistent focus on Virginia in here (not that it bothers me). Just trying to understand. Is it the only close gubernatorial, or has Virginia special significance / potential in congress? Also, I only see Bernie's posts in here these days but we should all be stanning him constantly and maybe make him into some kind of modern Steve Rogers, right? The guy's great, and he's a launchpad to discussions about how some politicians can be good and *gasp* maybe they're (exclusively) democrats / leftists!
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BRJohnson posted:I don't understand the consistent focus on Virginia in here (not that it bothers me). Just trying to understand. It's one of the few off-year governor elections, and it's been a lot more high profile than the other (NJ) because it's a +10 dem state with an outgoing dem governor that appears to be going republican as of right now.
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Nov 3, 2021 01:17
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BRJohnson posted:I don't understand the consistent focus on Virginia in here (not that it bothers me). Just trying to understand. Only 2 states have off-year elections for Governor. VA and NJ. VA is a competitive state that frequently switches between Republican and Democratic Governors. NJ is not a purple/competitive state. That's why.
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Willa Rogers posted:Does he mean Youngkin wins by 9 in the state, or just in Radford? Just Radford. Try not to get too turned on, Willa. 
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BRJohnson posted:I don't understand the consistent focus on Virginia in here (not that it bothers me). Just trying to understand. Virginia is a +10 blue state, people are paying attention to it because the R they're about to elect is a frothing nazi who's platform is turning schools into racism indoctrination camps. It's a sign that Trump's chances of returning to power and the Republican party turning our country into a single-party dictatorship due to voter apathy are much higher than we thought. Also, you know, the fact that this proves the Libs are more Owned than ever. That's probably what's really important.
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Sanguinia posted:Also, you know, the fact that this proves the Libs are more Owned than ever. That's probably what's really important. I'd say that goes without saying, but you know 
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Sanguinia posted:Virginia is a +10 blue state, people are paying attention to it because the R they're about to elect is a frothing nazi who's platform is turning schools into racism indoctrination camps. Do you really believe this?
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And before any of you get wild ideas on why McAuliffe lost, just remember: o A lot of VA is still fairly conservative even among Dems o CRT was sort of the shorthand; the anger was with schools generally o Parents are going to be angry about schools a long time; the pandemic was worst on parents without question. o There was little if any support for parents; Youngkin won't make that better, but the alternative didn't either. o It was an across-the-board failure, but it was a huge failure and frankly, covid rates among kids never justified how long schools were out. It was destroying people. o Kids, according to (my friends') teacher friends, are just loving terribly behaved now, and are performing terribly. Parents are furious. o Schools were closed longest in VA of almost any state. People are mad mad. o So never run a terminally online guy in the primaries. You might be left with a subpar candidate who beats him.
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Nov 3, 2021 01:24
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BRJohnson posted:I don't understand the consistent focus on Virginia in here (not that it bothers me). Just trying to understand. It's the only state that Biden won that the GOP has a chance (looking more likely by the minute) of winning. Eric Cantonese posted:Just Radford. Try not to get too turned on, Willa. I'm melting down with laughter rn.
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Nov 3, 2021 01:26
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Youngkin is literally the opposite of frothing I could not imagine a stupider loving take on this election cycle
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Nov 3, 2021 01:26
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Sanguinia posted:It's a sign that Trump's chances of returning to power and the Republican party turning our country into a single-party dictatorship due to voter apathy are much higher than we thought. Voter turnout looks like it will be a record high for a Gubernatorial race. It's going to be around 55% instead of around the 75% it was in 2020, but it's not really a voter apathy problem. Democratic turnout is surprisingly good for an off-year election. It's just that Republican turnout in rural areas is massive and Youngkin is only losing the suburbs by 10 points instead of the 20+ Trump lost them.
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Nov 3, 2021 01:28
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What the hell are they now if American schools are not racism factories?
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Sanguinia posted:Virginia is a +10 blue state, people are paying attention to it because the R they're about to elect is a frothing nazi No he is not, he's extremely good at hiding the fact that he is a Nazi and running ads that make him seem like a reasonable centrist, he's the opposite of the Trump-esque bigot McAuliffe tried to paint him out as, even if his politics are every bit as repugnant.
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Nov 3, 2021 01:30
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For us non-Virginians, where does Youngkin fall on a scale of Mitt Romney to Donald Trump in terms of politics?
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Seph posted:For us non-Virginians, where does Youngkin fall on a scale of Mitt Romney to Donald Trump in terms of politics? He's a baby donny
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Ciprian Maricon posted:No he is not, he's extremely good at hiding the fact that he is a Nazi and running ads that make him seem like a reasonable centrist, he's the opposite of the Trump-esque bigot McAuliffe tried to paint him out as, even if his politics are every bit as repugnant. A frothing nazi that appears on the outside to be calm, reasonable and refined is the loving archtype for what a nazi is, and has been since the end of the drat war where we fought the nazis. The loving shrug-oh-well energy people are expressing over this is horrific. A +10 dem state just elected this psycho on the explicit promise that he's going to go after teachers, and nobody on this board seems to care except insofar as they get to laugh at a democrat they hate for being a loser.
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Sanguinia posted:A frothing nazi that appears on the outside to be calm, reasonable and refined is the loving archtype for what a nazi is, and has been since the end of the drat war where we fought the nazis. The loving shrug-oh-well energy people are expressing over this is horrific. A +10 dem state just elected this psycho on the explicit promise that he's going to go after teachers, and nobody on this board seems to care except insofar as they get to laugh at a democrat they hate for being a loser. Bad candidates with nonexistent messages don’t win elections in states like Virginia. Why are you upset at people who accept reality? Yeah it loving sucks the Democrats are a mess.
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Sanguinia posted:A frothing nazi that appears on the outside to be calm, reasonable and refined is the loving archtype for what a nazi is, and has been since the end of the drat war where we fought the nazis. The loving shrug-oh-well energy people are expressing over this is horrific. A +10 dem state just elected this psycho on the explicit promise that he's going to go after teachers, and nobody on this board seems to care except insofar as they get to laugh at a democrat they hate for being a loser. That overheated rhetoric is going to prove as useful for Dems next year as it's proving for T-Mac this year.
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turnip kid posted:Bad candidates with nonexistent messages don’t win elections in states like Virginia. Why are you upset at people who accept reality? Yeah it loving sucks the Democrats are a mess. T-Mac has literally already comfortably won an election for Governor of Virginia on an even vaguer platform with no accomplishments in 2013. So, that's clearly not the case.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:T-Mac has literally already comfortably won an election for Governor of Virginia on an even vaguer platform with no accomplishments in 2013. As people have pointed out, he hilariously only did that because a Libertarian got 6.5% of the vote. Maybe the Dems shouldn't be so hard on 3rd parties after all.
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Willa Rogers posted:That overheated rhetoric is going to prove as useful for Dems next year as it's proving for T-Mac this year. According to CNN's exit poll a  literal Nazi won 13% of black voters   https://www.cnn.com/election/2021/november/exit-polls/virginia/governor Hm maybe if the plan was to run on what a racist Nazi the other guy is, the Democrats shouldn't have rallied around the governor whose defense to a blackface scandal was "at least I wasn't the other guy in the KKK hood, probably?"
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:T-Mac has literally already comfortably won an election for Governor of Virginia on an even vaguer platform with no accomplishments in 2013. I'm no expert but "vague platforms and no accomplishments are good, actually" sounds like a bad plan for winning elections. But like I said I'm not an expert.
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Strange that a democrat whose entire electoral platform was “hey look at this crazy guy while having no actual policy positions” ate poo poo again . Must be nothing.
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VitalSigns posted:According to CNN's exit poll a The problem was that the Lt. Governor's got embroiled in a sexual assault scandal and the Attorney General was also caught up in his own blackface incident (which was slightly less egregious because he just liked Michael Jackson). It was an amazingly lovely situation. Oddly though, basically having Northam's national ambitions blown up put him in a position where he had to support and sign the criminal justice reform bills and other more progressive legislation that came that way. I don't think this result has much to do with Northam's baggage. McAuliffe was just not a good candidate for 2021 and sadly we all had to see that unfold in a general election.
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VitalSigns posted:According to CNN's exit poll a whoa, that Hispanic split. eta: And Asian, jesus.
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When Democrats don’t tangibly make people’s lives better and/or offer more than “I’m not the other guy”, it leaves an opening for fascists. This is going to keep happening because neoliberal capitalism is wholly unsuited for handling the crises it has created.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:When Democrats don’t tangibly make people’s lives better and/or offer more than “I’m not the other guy”, it leaves an opening for fascists. This obviously doesn't apply to Virginia because the Democrats in the state have kicked rear end pretty hard the last two years.
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