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2018 mid-term election

Trump Tweets

"When will Bill Nelson concede in Florida? The characters running Broward and Palm Beach voting will not be able to “find” enough votes, too much spotlight on them now!"
 
The Brower county official in charge of voting will probably not be around for long.
I have no quarrel with that. No evidence of fraud, but there seems to have been quite a bit of pure incompetence, so she should go. When it comes to basic competence, I don't give a damn about party labels. Note that over the post 48 Hours most of her defenders have gone silent.
 
ANy bets as to when we get a meltdown from Jerry Farwell Jr and the rest of the American Taliaban over Sinema, the first Bi sexual being elected to the US Senate?
You know it's coming.
 
dudalb said:
ANy bets as to when we get a meltdown from Jerry Farwell Jr and the rest of the American Taliaban over Sinema, the first Bi sexual being elected to the US Senate?
You know it's coming.
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Of course it's coming. They're as predictable as Trump tweeting something stupid.
 
SuburbanTurkey said:
The way I see it, McCain saved their bacon. There was no consensus about what to do about healthcare beyond repeal. All those years of complaining, but no actual solution. Some wanted minor tweaks, some wanted the terrible system from before the ACA, and some had no ideas whatsoever. I doubt they could put anything meaningful into place after a repeal, and for all it's flaws, the ACA was a response to a real problem in this country.
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And even better, the legislative process they used was "Eh, let's just take a chainsaw to this major part of the economy, what could go wrong?" instead of, you know, actually looking into what possible effects the legislation they scribbled up would have. I've seen what happens when people just start wrecking things because they can, and it's usually ugly.
 
Regarding ranked voting, it looks like we'll see a legal challenge:

U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin, R-Maine, has a filed a lawsuit in federal court that seeks to block state election officials from conducting the nation's first ranked-choice voting tabulation in a federal race.

The lawsuit asserts that Maine's ranked-choice voting law violates the U.S. Constitution in multiple ways. Among the claims: It does not award winners who obtain a plurality — or the most votes — but rather a majority by allowing voters to rank candidates in order of preference.

"What bothers is me is that we do not know if this vote-counting process is legal under the United States Constitution," Poliquin told reporters at the State House in Augusta. "My job is to make sure I uphold and defend the Constitution."
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Linky.

To be honest, I have reservations. They are only using it for the national legislative seats, which seems an odd place to start. I also don't like their ballot design. This (pdf warning) is their official instruction on it.
 
dudalb said:
ANy bets as to when we get a meltdown from Jerry Farwell Jr and the rest of the American Taliaban over Sinema, the first Bi sexual being elected to the US Senate?
You know it's coming.
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With a couple of Muslim women in the House and an openly gay black Governor, she might get a pass given that they're unlikely to understand what a bisexual is anyways, after all she was married to a man at one stage.
 
dudalb said:
The Brower county official in charge of voting will probably not be around for long.
I have no quarrel with that. No evidence of fraud, but there seems to have been quite a bit of pure incompetence, so she should go. When it comes to basic competence, I don't give a damn about party labels. Note that over the post 48 Hours most of her defenders have gone silent.
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She's in a tough position with a tough job and has tough restrictions imposed by rules that the Republicans made in the state. She was set up to fail, because Republicans really don't like accurate vote counts and don't like it when all voters get a voice.
 
thaiboxerken said:
She's in a tough position with a tough job and has tough restrictions imposed by rules that the Republicans made in the state. She was set up to fail, because Republicans really don't like accurate vote counts and don't like it when all voters get a voice.
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She's supposed to be doing her job. She isn't supposed to be wasting time making sure every legitimate vote gets counted.

Why, that could lead to mob rule!
 
Tsukasa Buddha said:
Regarding ranked voting, it looks like we'll see a legal challenge:

Linky.

To be honest, I have reservations. They are only using it for the national legislative seats, which seems an odd place to start. I also don't like their ballot design. This (pdf warning) is their official instruction on it.
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From a standpoint of the Constitution and precedence, I don't see how his suit has a leg to stand on. His argument is that the rank by choice ballot is a violation of the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection clause. That seems a stretch as all the voters had a choice and no one was denied the choice. But given the nature of how partisan judges can be, nothing would surprise me.
 
Belz... said:
In case anyone had doubts, McConnell is one giant douche bag.

I'd really like to see the skeletons in this guy's closet.
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To anyone who hasn't read the article, it has references to an op-ed that McConnell wrote where he supposedly calls for "bipartisanship". (Of course, in that very same article he talks about "far left" democrats... so he couldn't even make it to the end of the article without exposing his own extreme partisanship.)

Out of curiosity I took a look at the comments attached to the op-ed piece. Being on Fox news I expected 99% of the comments to be "Boo democrats Yay republicans", but in the first dozen or so I scrolled through only one was anti-Democrat. Do left-wingers make it a point of trolling the fox news web site or are there actually a lot of people pissed off at him?
 
Segnosaur said:
To anyone who hasn't read the article, it has references to an op-ed that McConnell wrote where he supposedly calls for "bipartisanship". (Of course, in that very same article he talks about "far left" democrats... so he couldn't even make it to the end of the article without exposing his own extreme partisanship.)

Out of curiosity I took a look at the comments attached to the op-ed piece. Being on Fox news I expected 99% of the comments to be "Boo democrats Yay republicans", but in the first dozen or so I scrolled through only one was anti-Democrat. Do left-wingers make it a point of trolling the fox news web site or are there actually a lot of people pissed off at him?
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Trump's Twitter feed may act like they Eye of Sauron for the Trumpists. Without his scan they fall silent.
 
dudalb said:
ANy bets as to when we get a meltdown from Jerry Farwell Jr and the rest of the American Taliaban over Sinema, the first Bi sexual being elected to the US Senate?
You know it's coming.
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I'm going to go out on a limb and say he's not the first bisexual person elected to the Senate.

ETA: ;)
 
I see the guy who posted that he was happy he would not have to see anymore of that jackass Sinema has not been around for his crow dinner.
 
dudalb said:
I see the guy who posted that he was happy he would not have to see anymore of that jackass Sinema has not been around for his crow dinner.
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Maybe the guy who crowed about Mia Love's "loss" will do the same? (It was Trump in his crazy rant about people who didn't "take the embrace" and subsequently lost.)

Love is within several hundred votes and the mail-in ballots seem to be falling in her favor. By the end of the week, she's likely facing a recount but will have the lead. Since one less Dem seat in the House won't hurt and since embarrassing that Loser, Trump is more important, I'd just as soon have an Anti-Trump Black Republican Congresswoman (from Utah, no less!) in Washington. He loses Hatch and can't really start naming parks and highway sections after the new guy, yet, so the net gain/loss is significant. As a doyen of the GOP, Hatch's support was significant. New guy? Not so much. But having another anti-Trump congress critter, is worth losing one blue seat.

Go Mia! Anchor Babies for Congress!
 
Dems picked up 2 more seats in the House today for a net gain of 32. It's now 227 Dems vs 200 GOP. Trump must be ready to blow his top. Damn, I wish I could see it happen in slow mo!

ETA: Eight seats remain open with Dems leading in 5.
 
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