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this is the thread to discuss the 2018 congressional and senate elections on one side we have the republican party, "the party of lincoln". they made a retard president and will likely be responsible for more deaths than any political party since the National Socialist German Workers Party. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80x7svyKR1Q on the other side we have the democrats, mostly a collection of bought and paid for assholes who represent a different set of rich people from the republicans. genereally more sane and better at maintaining our capitalist empire. extremely bad at getting the power to do that though  polls indicate the democrats will probably win the house and could even win the senate.  thanks and enjoy the thread, 
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The Unlife Aquatic posted:is trump going to try to dissolve the senate and house if the dems win? i bet he will god i hope so
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Jan 5, 2018 01:46
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Frijolero posted:Despite their best efforts, the Democrats are going to make good gains this year. yeah im pretty sure they will, probably take the house. but i was also absolutely convinced hillary would win and i despised that rear end in a top hat
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Jan 5, 2018 01:51
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well hopefully they do win big because theyll win even bigger in 2020 and president bernie will hopefully have enough dems to sideline blue dog assholes but lol
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Jan 5, 2018 02:08
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http://www.thecrosstab.com/2018-midterms-forecast/
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Jan 5, 2018 21:16
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 the race is tightening for some inexplicable reasons
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Jan 20, 2018 11:29
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Comrayn posted:bigger mess: dems or Jeb!? jeb is an honorary democrat
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Jan 26, 2018 06:32
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https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/redistricting-maps/#Competitive this is kinda cool
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Jan 26, 2018 06:47
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pfizerman posted:lol jebocrat the democratic party will finalize realize the great opportunity to steal the moderate conservatives from the Republicans and nominate a Jeb/Booker ticket
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Jan 26, 2018 07:04
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hillary isnt running again
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Jan 26, 2018 23:53
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https://twitter.com/mcpli/status/969745418899935232 More democrats have early voted in TX than republicans lmao
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Mar 3, 2018 03:18
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80x7svyKR1Q
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Apr 11, 2018 19:00
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 this is in 4 months yall
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Jul 9, 2018 14:45
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/30/upshot/99-days-till-midterm-elections-battleground.html decent article on the midterms. seems optimistic for the dems dems are doing better in rural and working class areas than previously thought.
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Jul 31, 2018 02:15
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https://twitter.com/jakehonig/status/1029058751603585029
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Aug 14, 2018 10:38
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nate has released his house projections. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2018-midterm-election-forecast/house/ look good for the dems! america is already great friends
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Aug 19, 2018 11:45
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less than a month off and democrats are 1. probably going to not win control of the senate 2. probably going to win the house
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Oct 13, 2018 07:31
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a dem house at war with the rest of the federal government is gonna be fun
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Oct 17, 2018 18:10
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Oct 18, 2018 18:20
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Lawman 0 posted:Turns out his wife beat the poo poo out of him op lol i thought this was a weird bad joke but apparently not https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/17/unsealed-divorce-records-rep-keith-ellison-says-ex-wife-abused-him/
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Oct 18, 2018 20:05
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Mokelumne Trekka posted:I belong to the hardcore nothing matters camp except for one thing that does matter: peoples money. Yeah people saying that an economic crisis and recession wouldn't hurt Trump are pretty silly. The status quo is always held against the President, and aside for his most blind partisans the blame would fall on Trump.
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Oct 19, 2018 05:12
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Xelkelvos posted:Not voting for the Dems in a D vs. R race has never pushed the Dems Leftward. tell that to the populist party, the progressive party, and the socialist party
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Oct 25, 2018 11:46
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I disagree that it's impossible to takeover the party from within to push it left, just very difficult and compromising, and it requires institutions and movements outside of it threatening it, including a leftist third party. If they successfully hold off the Bernie wing of the party the only choice will be a third party
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Oct 25, 2018 11:49
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beto is oss off 2.0
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Nov 1, 2018 05:36
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Get rid of the house and Senate and replace them with the committee of public safety
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Nov 1, 2018 16:52
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Typo posted:basically the thing americans refuse to accept because they think that the US government is best in the world is that parliamentary systems are superior for the 21st century. I don't want this because it just absolutely neuters everyone and you end up with neolib centrists running everything into the ground leaving no choice but the far right. See: Europe
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Nov 1, 2018 17:25
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Parliamentary systems are superior I insist as salvini and orban shovel another Muslim child into a meat grinder while macron jerks off in the corner
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Nov 1, 2018 17:27
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AFancyQuestionMark posted:As opposed to what's happening under the current system? At least there is potential in a two party system for a more radical shift - Trump taking over the GOP, or say a Bernie takeover of the dems. A multiparty parliamentary system totally guarantees a centrist path until it utterly fails and collapses.
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Nov 1, 2018 17:41
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AFancyQuestionMark posted:There is no magic system of government that's going to nullify real strong trends in the attitudes and culture of the population itself, without also being autocratic. Even then, as strongman dictator/council of elders/vanguard party you still need to pay attention to the whims of the larger population, or at least some significant segments of it. You can't pull full communism out of thin air and expect everyone to go along with it. Yeah jiggering with the mechanisms of bourgeois democracy ultimately results in little difference, the only solution is it's destruction. Anyways, about those midterms,
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Nov 1, 2018 17:44
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jBrereton posted:Reminder that the german equivalent of the dems literally went into government with the german republicans twice in the last 20 instead of working with the DSA and Greens, which they could have but chose not to for similar reasons the Dems would do so today. Yep and this is 100% what would happen in the US
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Nov 1, 2018 18:58
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https://twitter.com/PoliticsReid/status/1058532803263062019?s=19 Remember all this poo poo before 2016 lol. The more good sounding news I hear the more pessimistic I become
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Nov 3, 2018 03:44
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Typo posted:agree lol yeah the article mentions its "almost at 2016 levels!!" which is, uh, not good news?
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Nov 3, 2018 08:05
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Thoguh posted:Is there a good list of what races to be watching tommorow to know if our descent into further facism over the coming years will at least include minority prison guards? https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2018-midterm-election-forecast/house/?ex_cid=rrpromo basically the grey ones on the hex map
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Nov 5, 2018 19:02
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https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1059585561109950465?s=19
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Nov 6, 2018 03:17
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Love Stole the Day posted:Reminder that if the Democrats take the Senate then Bernie Sanders will be the Chairman of the Budget Committee drat no wonder the democrats are self sabotaging bad enough to lose the senate
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Nov 6, 2018 16:08
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are the milk drinkers shook yet
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Nov 6, 2018 16:55
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Radirot posted:What was voter turnout like 50 years ago? 50 years and 1 day ago Richard Nixon was elected
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Nov 6, 2018 17:00
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Mons Hubris posted:70% chance Rs keep the House yikes lol owned
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Nov 7, 2018 02:45
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pic of me going to the polls
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Nov 7, 2018 02:48
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Dolomite posted:just to the northwest ah yeah, i cant believe beto is losing in Wise County,
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