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Tibalt posted:Haha nope! Come join us as we mope and debate whether you can PACK THE COURTS or not yey. mope. EDIT: Voluntary Bird Tax - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG1kotOyxK4
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CuddleCryptid posted:Man, can you drowsy ducks be happy for five minutes Can you not tell me how I'm allowed to feel? Like, not only do I live in Florida, all of my family does, I'm allowed to be sad and gently caress off with everyone who's trying to force me to smile about this bullshit.
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friendly 2 da void posted:It's weird how slanted the national narrative is against the Democrats. Here's an angle that I don't see enough of: 2018 winners: robert aderholt bradley byrne martha roby debbie lesko martha mcsally david schweikert rick crawford french hill steve womack bruce westerman doug lamalfa tom mcclintock david valadao doug lamborn gus bilirakis matt gaetz steve king thomas massie steve scalise justin amash tim walberg steven palazzo vicky hartzler blaine luetkemeyer jeff duncan joe wilson michael burgess john carter louie gohmert kenny marchant rob bishop david mckinley maybe winners jeff denham promoted: mulvaney losers steve knight mike coffman dennis ross chris mcdaniel (to a primary challenger. eliminated for the runoff) pete sessions retirees: ed royce lynn jenkins joe barton blake farenthold ted poe lamar smith diane black ... oh.
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evilweasel posted:The thing is, Brown isn't a senator anyone thinks of when they think of Blue Dogs. Why'd he win, when the Senators who you do think of as Blue Dogs mostly lost? Because he throws enough red meat to the chuds (like supporting the steel tariffs) without compromising any leftist positions (votes No on every Trump nominee). But Ohio is a weird loving state. North of I-70 is essentially Pennsylvania/Michigan (where Dems did really well), while south of I-70 is essentially Kentucky/Indiana (Dems.....not so much).
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Oxxidation posted:the house is an irrelevant sideshow without the senate Legislation doesn't get passed without the House, and most legislation starts in the house. It does have more of an impact than you are placing on it.
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Holy poo poo so happy Lucy McBath won, donated to her campaign this month and she was down by just 800 votes until there was a recount. She's going to do great for education and gun reform.
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friendly 2 da void posted:"The rightward shift they pushed for was completed" -- a native american lesbian just smashed a republican incumbent in Kansas. She wasn't running to the right of him. Oklahoma found that out recently too. I'm pretty sure that's what happened in the Fifth District.
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I was promised Mueller indictments and White House firings, when is that scheduled?
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CuddleCryptid posted:Man, can you drowsy ducks be happy for five minutes No, we're broken 
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Triskelli posted:She’s also ripped as hell. I want to see her clock someone on live TV. Please, if the universe can give me anything. Give me this.
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Rinkles posted:also it's not 9 according to NYT Where are you seeing this? I don't see it on their site anymore. edit: nm found it.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:It’s projected to go over 9 once the millions of CA votes come in I believe. It’s like how Trump was leading the popular vote for like an entire day after the election until CA finished counting. is it balanced for two dems running against each other in CA though?
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Wistful of Dollars posted:Waves come in many sizes. Whoops apparently I cut off the 1970s line from that quote.
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Yes, Donald Trump has endured more attacks than Lincoln, the man who was literally fired upon by a rebel army and then ultimately shot in the back of the head.
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evilweasel posted:Where are you seeing this? I don't see it on their site anymore. i couldn't find it on my phone either, but i had a tab open on my pc https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/06/us/elections/results-house-forecast.html
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Riatsala posted:I was promised Mueller indictments and White House firings, when is that scheduled? White House firings: whenever he remembers to do it Mueller indictments: I dunno I guess after runoffs?
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new era, new screen name. we did it guys, stop searching for something to feel bad about.
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I think everyone will feel a bit better once Congress is back in session for a month or two. I mean, someone will post about the Trump judicial nominees but when have people cared about that *cough* *cough*
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uh im pretty sure this is wrong, as Kemp has 50.5% and 100% of precincts are reportedly in. it's possible there's enough votes out there to send this to a runoff but its not going to one right now.
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So, can we repeal the goddamned Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 and fix the house of representatives to better reflect the actual population of each state? No? That would mean that Republicans would never EVER have the house again? Oh, ok then. 
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So I want to make sure I have the proper takes from last night. The bad:
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Are there any notable takeaways that I'm missing?
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evilweasel posted:uh im pretty sure this is wrong, as Kemp has 50.5% and 100% of precincts are reportedly in. it's possible there's enough votes out there to send this to a runoff but its not going to one right now. There's multiple legal issues coming out now, with Kemp having refereed his own election, multiple areas where voting was almost impossible due to equipment issues, and other issues.
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Nemo Somen posted:So I want to make sure I have the proper takes from last night. Scott Walker will now orgasm thinking of Reagan outside of the governor's mansion.
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ratbert90 posted:So, can we repeal the goddamned Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 and fix the house of representatives to better reflect the actual population of each state? If it helps, keeping the country frozen in this sort of shuddering, back-and-forth paralysis wherein moderate reforms are passed via the executive and then revoked by unpopular demagogues elected with a minority of voters is likely to erode faith in our institutions to a level where civil strife and particularism become increasingly common. 
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So it looks like Arizona and Florida Senate are still too close to call? If recounts happen and those hold or win, math changes there for the Senate in 2020 significantly right?
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Nemo Somen posted:So I want to make sure I have the proper takes from last night. Florida (Now 3rd largest state) losing the governorship for the 2020 redistricting is a massively understated loss.
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Nemo Somen posted:So I want to make sure I have the proper takes from last night. I don't think the bolded part is really true. https://twitter.com/HotlineJosh/status/1060083550270173184
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I think the Senate would be better if we gave every state 3 senators and one was reelected every cycle. That would mean every state voted for a senator, so a wave wouldn't have to worry about a bad map. Probably an easier sell than killing the senate
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TulliusCicero posted:So it looks like Arizona and Florida Senate are still too close to call? Florida's a lost cause probably, but Dems flipping AZ and keeping MT (if those happen) means that we kept the damages to a dull roar and helps significantly for 2020, yes.
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ratbert90 posted:So, can we repeal the goddamned Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 and fix the house of representatives to better reflect the actual population of each state? It's a good idea. In college I knew a lot of libertarian and right wingers who wanted its repeal, due to their feeling of "losing representation" each census. The primary argument was "But then you'd have thousands of congress men, where would they meet?" And the answer was usually " Who gives a gently caress about the logistics of it"
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Nemo Somen posted:So I want to make sure I have the proper takes from last night. Scott Walker ate poo poo
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CommieGIR posted:There's multiple legal issues coming out now, with Kemp having refereed his own election, multiple areas where voting was almost impossible due to equipment issues, and other issues. those are reasons to challenge the results and/or say that they are illegitimate, but they are not reasons to assert that a runoff is happening. a runoff should happen. but that doesn't mean one is happening.
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evilweasel posted:those are reasons to challenge the results and/or say that they are illegitimate, but they are not reasons to assert that a runoff is happening. a runoff should happen. but that doesn't mean one is happening. Tampering with the vote is a Assisting the disabled in absentee voting: 5-10 years.
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Nemo Somen posted:So I want to make sure I have the proper takes from last night. Dems picked up a couple of state houses and a half dozen or so governors, which should help limit or reverse gerrmandering in those areas.
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Nemo Somen posted:So I want to make sure I have the proper takes from last night. Lots of good proposals passed and some bad ones. Anti gerrymandering and voter suppression ones good, weed good, abortion bans bad
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:A 9 point win is a wave. You can’t spin that. It’s the largest margin of victory in a midterm since the 70s. It’s just that our Senate system is broken because of the Red States. But we broke through the gerrymandering and picked up crucial governships. Trust me, if we had pulled it out in Florida people would be feeling a whole lot different about everything. Where did you get the 9 point win? I'm seeing popular vote margins of about 7.1 in favor of Democrats. Part of this comes down to how you define "wave". Simply winning by a large margin is one perfectly valid definition, but it doesn't say very much that's interesting, saying it mostly seems like a way for democrats to pat themselves on their backs. Perhaps a better definition of a wave today would be an election which overwhelms the Republican gerrymander. For this election that was predicted to occur somewhere above 9% Democratic national margins. We clearly didn't reach that point, so I wouldn't call it a wave. I understand though why emotionally its important to take pride in the victory Democrats did achieve.
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