2018 Midterm Thread

[mclay18]

Like Mitch McConnell.

 

[SV Fan]

The Republicans getting wiped out of their seats completely in Orange County (3.19M population est. 2017)...which is larger than:

This is what happens when you are the party of Tax Breaks and your tax bill screws over a bunch of upper middle class people in High state/city taxed places that normally would vote for you

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Yeah...bye bye certain tax deductions in Republican tax bill...enough to tip Orange County's individual districts I guess. Clinton did win more votes than Trump in Orange County in 2016 but the districts didn't flip until now.

To buy or not to buy? New tax law creates uncertainty for some homebuyers – Orange County Register

 

[SV Fan]

Yeah...bye bye certain tax deductions in Republican tax bill...enough to tip Orange County's individual districts I guess. Clinton did win more votes than Trump in Orange County in 2016 but the districts didn't flip until now.

To buy or not to buy? New tax law creates uncertainty for some homebuyers – Orange County Register

It is sort of funny how the Republican Tax reform completely screwed over people in the exact districts Democrats needed to win. I guess Republicans were so hell bent passing that Tax Reform for the Billionaires they could care less about how it would hurt them in the House. You can look at other places like New Jersey, Illinois and Virginia and pinpoint how the high taxed places gave the GOP a middle finger

 

[Sithborg]

Amazing how a bill written in the secrecy of night comes back to bite them in the ass.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Nelson conceded the Florida Senate election to Rick Scott. That's three divisive elections where Scott scraped by with a slim margin of victory (+1.2 in 2010, +1.0 in 2014 , +0.2 in 2018).

Nelson may have ultimately been screwed over the ballot design of Broward County.

SunSentinel - Brenda Snipes submits resignation as Broward elections supervisor

 

[Raiden]

Nelson conceded the Florida Senate election to Rick Scott. That's three divisive elections where Scott scraped by with a slim margin of victory (+1.2 in 2010, +1.0 in 2014 , +0.2 in 2018).

Nelson may have ultimately been screwed over the ballot design of Broward County.

SunSentinel - Brenda Snipes submits resignation as Broward elections supervisor

Florida is a state that has so many voter BS results in favor of GOP that the Feds should start investigating it, after the Democrats take over, that is.

 

[Sithborg]

Yeah, I am really looking forward to what kind of bull**** DeSantis is going to pull with the felon re-enfranchisement.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

California's 21st Congressional district is getting closer to a flip.


Utah's 4th district has see-sawed between the Democrat and Republican and now back to the Democrat again in the vote count.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Jackson Free Press - Hyde-Smith Demanded No Audience, No Press for Tonight’s Debate [for Mississippi Senate run-off contest]

 

[Silvermoon]

Utah proposition to battle gerrymandering set to narrowly pass

 

[THORin]

Jackson Free Press - Hyde-Smith Demanded No Audience, No Press for Tonight’s Debate [for Mississippi Senate run-off contest]

Hilarious - this woman is pathetic.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Narcissist Trump is of course going to be holding ego-stroking, fear-mongering rallies in Mississippi soon.

Roll Call - Trump Heading to Mississippi to Give Hyde-Smith a Runoff Boost

President Donald Trump will make an eleventh-hour attempt to keep a Mississippi Senate seat in Republican hands later this month when he headlines two rallies there the day before a runoff election.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Unfortunately all the stupid or reprehensible things she says or actions she's taken including in the Senate probably endears her more to a certain type of folks in Mississippi.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

NBC News - Democrats won House popular vote by largest midterm margin since Watergate
Nationally, Democrats have 53.1 percent of all votes counted while Republicans took 45.2 percent.

Details: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WxDaxD5az6kdOjJncmGph37z0BPNhV1fNAH_g7IkpC0/htmlview?sle=true#gid=0

Trump won a similar 46% of the vote in 2016. Due to the anti-Trump vote (54%) being divided between Clinton and third parties - particularly in key states which slightly tipped those states to Trump - Trump won the electoral college. Obama won a similar 52.9% of the vote in 2008 and 51% in 2012.

 

[Teelie]

So the third parties split the vote to give Trump a narrow win over Clinton in the electoral (even though she won the popular).

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

So the third parties split the vote to give Trump a narrow win over Clinton in the electoral (even though she won the popular).

Which is why the ardent "progressives" need to start looking at themselves and see how they contributed not only once but twice to driving the country into a ditch for the sake of their "purity" and sense of moral superiority. They did it in 2000 and they did it again in 2016.


Look... We should have more parties. The thing is as recent history shows we are too evenly divided with close elections on the presidential level for third parties to do anything but act as spoilers. Nader, the Greens and yes, even sainted Bernie all contributed to the ascendancy of officials who are in fact antithetical to everything they claim to want policy wise. What third parties of any political stripe, right, left or center SHOULD be focusing on is the congress. Work a few years to build up numbers in the senate and house. Persuade the nation via legislative debate and being part of passing laws. After that they can field candidates for the executive. As it stands now though, especially for progressive types, they just end up siphoning off enough votes to allow the side they are diametrically opposed to a pass to the White House and then we all have to pay the consequences.


Or in simpler language: **** Susan Sarandon.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Sources:
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
national-1789-present - United States Elections Project
2018g - United States Elections Project
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WxDaxD5az6kdOjJncmGph37z0BPNhV1fNAH_g7IkpC0/htmlview

 

[Iceman]

Which is why the ardent "progressives" need to start looking at themselves and see how they contributed not only once but twice to driving the country into a ditch for the sake of their "purity" and sense of moral superiority. They did it in 2000 and they did it again in 2016.


Look... We should have more parties. The thing is as recent history shows we are too evenly divided with close elections on the presidential level for third parties to do anything but act as spoilers. Nader, the Greens and yes, even sainted Bernie all contributed to the ascendancy of officials who are in fact antithetical to everything they claim to want policy wise. What third parties of any political stripe, right, left or center SHOULD be focusing on is the congress. Work a few years to build up numbers in the senate and house. Persuade the nation via legislative debate and being part of passing laws. After that they can field candidates for the executive. As it stands now though, especially for progressive types, they just end up siphoning off enough votes to allow the side they are diametrically opposed to a pass to the White House and then we all have to pay the consequences.


Or in simpler language: **** Susan Sarandon.

I have been saying this for years.

 

[Raiden]

Which is why the ardent "progressives" need to start looking at themselves and see how they contributed not only once but twice to driving the country into a ditch for the sake of their "purity" and sense of moral superiority. They did it in 2000 and they did it again in 2016.


Look... We should have more parties. The thing is as recent history shows we are too evenly divided with close elections on the presidential level for third parties to do anything but act as spoilers. Nader, the Greens and yes, even sainted Bernie all contributed to the ascendancy of officials who are in fact antithetical to everything they claim to want policy wise. What third parties of any political stripe, right, left or center SHOULD be focusing on is the congress. Work a few years to build up numbers in the senate and house. Persuade the nation via legislative debate and being part of passing laws. After that they can field candidates for the executive. As it stands now though, especially for progressive types, they just end up siphoning off enough votes to allow the side they are diametrically opposed to a pass to the White House and then we all have to pay the consequences.


Or in simpler language: **** Susan Sarandon.

100% agreed. Sarandon even had the audacity to go to an anti-Trump rally. Hey genius, it was YOU who helped putting Trump in the WH in the first place!

 

[THORin]

Ugh, I hate Susan Sarandon with a passion for what she did.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Hyde-Smith pushed resolution praising Confederate soldier's effort to 'defend his homeland' - CNNPolitics

 

[THORin]

That is...gods, I don't even know what to say anymore. It's not surprising at all! I'm not shocked in the slightest that she is a disgusting racist, because this happens all the time now, and the Republicans get away with it! If she wins, I will be so crushed and disappointed, though.

 

[Sithborg]

To be fair, it would be a bigger shock if she wasn't a racist. The south still needs a lot of work in that regards.

 

[Raiden]

To be fair, it would be a bigger shock if she wasn't a racist. The south still needs a lot of work in that regards.

I think a lot of South's latent racism came out when Obama was elected as the first black president, then after Trump went to the WH those racist people felt that their discrimination can now be open and accepted like a legitimate thing.