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LolitaSama posted:Why does it seem some districts were created in 2012 in georgia that previously didn't exist? Like the district samantha bee did a special on. https://ballotpedia.org/Georgia_House_of_Representatives_District_131 it was probably found to be a violation of the voting rights act and they were forced to redraw it
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Badger of Basra posted:it was probably found to be a violation of the voting rights act and they were forced to redraw it
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i'm pretty sure georgia house district 131 existed prior to 2012? i suspect it looked a lot different since the dems gerrymandered the map in 2000 very hard
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Concerned Citizen posted:i'm pretty sure georgia house district 131 existed prior to 2012? i suspect it looked a lot different since the dems gerrymandered the map in 2000 very hard okay theres just no wiki or ballot pedia on it that lets me know who was winning it before 2012 , maybe i could look somewhere else
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LolitaSama posted:okay theres just no wiki or ballot pedia on it that lets me know who was winning it before 2012 , maybe i could look somewhere else https://ballotpedia.org/Georgia_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2008
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Debate's over. I'll catch you over in the Predictit thread where we can arrange for some free money on whatever Republican makes it to the runoff.
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that being said he's got more tweets saying that there's like literally no dem early voters yet. probably will keep tightening until the day of
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rudatron posted:Stretch goal: full communism
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Apr 11, 2017 10:55
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i actually got a mailer for this election so apparently i live here and could actually vote! can someone cut to the chase and tell me if the democrats running are neoliberal fuckheads or if they are amenable to supporting a platform like single payer or universal college education
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comedyblissoption posted:i actually got a mailer for this election so apparently i live here and could actually vote! His website makes it seem like his platform is the same as hillary's, I think that's part of the reason why dems have poured so much money in and nothing to the berniecrats This quote:Jon studied under Madeleine Albright and former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren as an undergraduate at Georgetown University.
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Won't this guy lose badly in the run off? I mean Georgia is still full of Georgians right? (Like my wives Grandma and relatives).
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Not according to predictit, but I did a little research over at freemoney.com and it told me that buying shares against this phony in the low 50 cent range is a steal.
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Apr 12, 2017 15:43
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then i hope this dude loses by literally 1 vote so i can gloat about not voting
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Elephanthead posted:Won't this guy lose badly in the run off? I mean Georgia is still full of Georgians right? (Like my wives Grandma and relatives). At this point "lose badly" doesn't appear to be in the cards. If the GOP falls perfectly in line (as they do) he'll face a single-digit loss. Of course, that's in a second special election in June. Who the hell knows what will happen by then.
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comedyblissoption posted:then i hope this dude loses by literally 1 vote so i can gloat about not voting lol you suck. Trump will meltdown like hell if he wins
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comedyblissoption posted:then i hope this dude loses by literally 1 vote so i can gloat about not voting Please don't. Seriously, Karen Handel is a loving moron and a poo poo head. She nearly got Susan B. Komen run into the ground because, while working for them, she convinced them to announce that they were cutting off funds to Planned Parenthood and they had to relent after the public outcry. There's almost no doubt that she's his opponent in the June election and the only good thing to come from her getting elected would be at least we're getting her the gently caress out of Georgia.
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As someone who lives in an area (MN-1) that has a Republican lean but has a centrist Democrat rep (Tim Walz), I can tell you that it is still far better to have him there than any of the Republicans who ran against him. Reps can absolutely be pressured from the left, just like the Tea Party did for the right, but you're not gonna get an opportunity to do that unless that person has a "D" next to their name. Otherwise, they'll march in lock-step with Trump and Ryan. My rep makes some really infuriating votes, but he makes far more good votes than even the most centrist Republican.
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tadashi posted:Please don't. Woah I didn't realize that was the same Karen Handel lol
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dems only give a poo poo about southern states, this one will probably win.
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comedyblissoption posted:i actually got a mailer for this election so apparently i live here and could actually vote! Please just vote for the lovely Dem, as I personally think it would be cool if my parents' health insurance premiums didn't double and the House is very close on the issue. Thanks, in advance.
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Vox Nihili posted:Please just vote for the lovely Dem, as I personally think it would be cool if my parents' health insurance premiums didn't double and the House is very close on the issue. Thanks, in advance. Introduce them to accelerationism 
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Vox Nihili posted:Please just vote for the lovely Dem this needs to be the party's new slogan
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Apr 12, 2017 21:33
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tho honestly Ossoff doesn't really look that bad anti-citizens united, anti-intervention, pro-choice, etc. is pretty decent for Georgia
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Vox Nihili posted:tho honestly Ossoff doesn't really look that bad he's a hillary dem and deserves to lose to a rep
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Elephanthead posted:Won't this guy lose badly in the run off? I mean Georgia is still full of Georgians right? (Like my wives Grandma and relatives). unless there's a major shift his worst case currently is to narrowly lose the runoff which while obviously not good the fact that the republicans are eating themselves this bad is an interesting omen Vox Nihili posted:tho honestly Ossoff doesn't really look that bad Ossoff is fine, he's just an incredibly generic cute young democrat with a platform copied and pasted from the national website. Still, a generic fine dem is better than a georgia republican no matter what. sexpig by night has issued a correction as of 23:38 on Apr 12, 2017 |
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Vox Nihili posted:tho honestly Ossoff doesn't really look that bad He's pretty indicative of what you'll get from a Dem that's competitive in a district that's about 8 points towards Republican and elected Newt Gingrich for 20 loving years. I get that he's not the ideal candidate policy-wise, but by June 21, it's either gonna be Ossoff or a Republican representing the district and I know whose voting preferences I'd prefer. Plus, if Ossoff does win, you stand a reasonable chance of being able to sway, hector, or browbeat them on important votes if they waver far easier than if they are Republican, and you'll have to do it far less often.
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sexpig by night posted:Ossoff is fine, he's just an incredibly generic cute young democrat with a platform copied and pasted from the national website. Still, a generic fine dem is better than a georgia republican no matter what. showing off ossoff's han solo cosplay was seriously the dumbest possible thing the gop could have done
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Venuz Patrol posted:showing off ossoff's han solo cosplay was seriously the dumbest possible thing the gop could have done "Do you want THIS to be your representative? This guy once dressed up as a cool guy from Star Wars to make a dumb movie when he was young!" ~ Paid for by some old dude who's never seen a movie that wasn't about a soldier in the last 30 years
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Gringostar posted:he's a hillary dem and deserves to lose to a rep this is dumb and you are dumb to say it
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after their miserable performance in 2009-2010 i dont think lovely dems deserve the 20 minutes of effort it would take for me to vote sorry bros it would make trump mad and at least he's not a republican isn't good enough
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If the Dem was a further left candidate that hit all your buttons, but was behind in the polls by 40-60, would you take the 20 minutes then? Or would it be "lol republicans always win not worth 20 minutes to vote in a pointless election"?
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well obviously if he was further left he would be ahead by 40-60 because white southern suburbanites are all latent communists
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i want corporate dems to continue to lose dems retaking congress and repeating 2009-2010 and then cyclically handing it all back to the republicans again isn't what i want
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accelerationism status: embraced
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comedyblissoption posted:i want corporate dems to continue to lose
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Azathoth posted:so...you want republicans to control congress until the rich suburbs magically embrace socialism? i get that you don't like the ideologically impure democrats, but in what possible way does electing republicans help? republican lite isn't an effective platform
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comedyblissoption posted:this reasoning is why the democrats are wiped out and republicans are in control at every level of government right now
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logikv9 posted:accelerationism status: embraced 
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