2018 mid-term election

quadraginta said:
Does Cruz just think that Texas Republicans are that gullible and stupid, or does he know for a fact that they are?
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I don't know how gullible Texas Republicans are, but ISF "skeptics" appear to be pretty gullible if they think Cruz was being serious.
 
Brainster said:
I don't know how gullible Texas Republicans are, but ISF "skeptics" appear to be pretty gullible if they think Cruz was being serious.
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You're claiming Cruz has a sense of humor?

Evidence?


And remember, you're talking about the same voters who spent eight years convinced that Obama was going to take away all their guns.

If they thought that was just a joke then the gun sales wouldn't have skyrocketed the way they did both times he won.
 
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Dr. Keith said:
I agree, but his problem is that he is not a funny person. and his followers are not funny people. So, it becomes hard to tell when they are looking and they even have a hard time telling themselves when they are joking. So, while he may have been joking, I bet my mother-in-law beloved him. Also, I bet his wife dyes her hair.
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Typo?
I'm pretty sure Cruz dyes his hair as well, he's just not as obvious about it as Trump.
 
Interesting internal Republican polling on the tax cuts:

A survey commissioned by the Republican National Committee has led the party to a glum conclusion regarding President Donald Trump’s signature legislative achievement: Voters overwhelmingly believe his tax overhaul helps the wealthy instead of average Americans.

By a 2-to-1 margin -- 61 percent to 30 percent -- respondents said the law benefits “large corporations and rich Americans” over “middle class families,” according to the survey, which was completed on Sept. 2 by the GOP firm Public Opinion Strategies and obtained by Bloomberg News.

The result was fueled by self-identified independent voters who said by a 36-point margin that large corporations and rich Americans benefit more from the tax law -- a result that was even more lopsided among Democrats. Republican voters said by a 38-point margin that the middle class benefits more.

When it comes to approval for the tax overhaul, American voters remain torn -- 44 percent favor it and 45 percent oppose it.

“Voters are evenly divided on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” the RNC-commissioned report said. “But, we’ve lost the messaging battle on the issue.”
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Linky.
 
Meanwhile, in Florida, a major DeSantis donor says about Pres Obama:
**** the Muslim ******! Oh, but he didn't mean it.
Autocensor safe version: Eff the Muslim N-word. His bold.
Screenshot here, lots more in the thread.
And then there's his wife, who appeared at a Republican Women's group alongside this idiot. Birther, Bircher, really a jack-of-all-conspiracies.
Mrs. DeSantis (I strongly suspect she wouldn't prefer "Ms.") can and probably will blame it on the group who invited him. And what does that say about their party?
But hey, it's not all bad for DeSantis! Just for his party[/URL].
 
Chris Collins, under indictment for violating insider trading laws (blatantly and poorly), has decided to begin actively campaigning again.

He's a stupid and vile criminal who has the audacity to say he must be reelected to keep the 'radical left' from implementing 'Canadian style healthcare' as if it were a bad thing, in a city that can see how much better that works by looking across the Peace Bridge.

He'll be reelected.
 
tyr_13 said:
Chris Collins, under indictment for violating insider trading laws (blatantly and poorly), has decided to begin actively campaigning again.

He's a stupid and vile criminal who has the audacity to say he must be reelected to keep the 'radical left' from implementing 'Canadian style healthcare' as if it were a bad thing, in a city that can see how much better that works by looking across the Peace Bridge.

He'll be reelected.
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He might not get re-elected. Single payer now has majority support among Republicans, too:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...y-of-gop-voters-support-medicare-for-all.html
On Thursday, Reuters-Ipsos released a poll that shows (what I believe to be) an unprecedented level of support for Medicare for All, the American left’s brand-name for a single-payer, national health-insurance plan. The survey found a whopping 70 percent support for the proposal, with 84.5 percent of Democrats — and 51 percent of Republicans — voicing their approval.
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I think Frank Luntz's messaging about Obamacare being a "massive big government takeover of healthcare!" has made it to where they can't really effectively fearmonger about "socialized medicine" any more. It just doesn't work like it did a decade ago.
 
Tsukasa Buddha said:
Interesting internal Republican polling on the tax cuts:



Linky.
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“But, we’ve lost the messaging battle on the issue.”
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I think the GOP establishment has "lost the messaging battle" on pretty much all the issues besides abortion. That's why the party loyalists voted for Donald Trump and not Cruz or Jeb.

The GOP cannot "message" their way out of people being onto them as the party of making the rich richer as their raison d'être.
 
Firestone said:
Ted Cruz tweets: "In Beto O'Rourke's own words #TXSenateDebate"

https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1043278255740973058

Listen to what Beto O'Rourke says.
This is either a very stupid tweet, or an odious dog whistle.
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It's the latter. The GOP has no interest in "small government" when it comes to black and Hispanic people, instead preferring "random or systematic state violence". If you actually like "small government", after all, the idea of police smearing someone who was murdered in his own apartment by one of their own would deeply offend you. This is why they'll go so far as to stand up for a cattle rancher that refuses to pay grazing fees, but not for black people in Ferguson, Chicago, or Baltimore when they face actual police abuse (and also why Cheeto Benito proposed that police around the nation be allowed to slam black and Latinx men into walls, scream slurs at them, and dig in their pockets and feel their genitals without apology - ie. "Stop and Frisk")

ETA: except, again, it's far too obvious to be a "dog whistle", since it's actually "Can you believe that these negros want to walk around freely?!"
 
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kellyb said:
He might not get re-elected. Single payer now has majority support among Republicans, too:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...y-of-gop-voters-support-medicare-for-all.html


I think Frank Luntz's messaging about Obamacare being a "massive big government takeover of healthcare!" has made it to where they can't really effectively fearmonger about "socialized medicine" any more. It just doesn't work like it did a decade ago.
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You don't hear much about death panels these days either.
 
Mumbles said:
It's the latter. The GOP has no interest in "small government" when it comes to black and Hispanic people, instead preferring "random or systematic state violence". If you actually like "small government", after all, the idea of police smearing someone who was murdered in his own apartment by one of their own would deeply offend you. This is why they'll go so far as to stand up for a cattle rancher that refuses to pay grazing fees, but not for black people in Ferguson, Chicago, or Baltimore when they face actual police abuse (and also why Cheeto Benito proposed that police around the nation be allowed to slam black and Latinx men into walls, scream slurs at them, and dig in their pockets and feel their genitals without apology - ie. "Stop and Frisk")

ETA: except, again, it's far too obvious to be a "dog whistle", since it's actually "Can you believe that these negros want to walk around freely?!"
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I know you are right, but still baffling that these things actually work.
 
Representative Scott Taylor, Republican of Virginia, has enjoyed a rapid political rise anchored in his valorous background as a member of the Navy SEALs, a credential with great resonance in a district that includes the world’s largest naval station and one of the highest concentrations of voters connected to the military. Fit, square-jawed and telegenic, he was expected to have a relatively easy time winning re-election in November.

But now he is threatened with a sudden fall: His campaign is facing accusations that it was part of an improper effort to help an independent candidate get on the ballot and siphon voters from his Democratic challenger. The allegations, which included using the names of dead people or voters who did not live in the district on signature petitions, were serious enough to warrant the appointment of a special prosecutor, and the independent candidate, Shaun Brown, was stricken from the ballot by the Virginia Supreme Court.

Mr. Taylor’s race is emblematic of an emerging problem for Republicans as they seek to maintain an increasingly tenuous grip on the House: A seat once considered relatively safe is now imperiled because of scandal, expanding an already broad field of Democratic opportunity.
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Linky.
 
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