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2018 mid-term election

Trebuchet said:
Republican ads for the Washington 8th District have been claiming that the Democrat supports Medicare for All and it would cause income taxes to double. And much other hyperbole.
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I'd wager that for most Americans doubling their income tax to pay for healthcare would mean a net savings.
 
Two GOP Candidates Assaulted in Minnesota

The overt hatred and violence that has become prevalent from many Democrats towards Republicans in recent times is unlawful, unacceptable, and downright scary.

First-time state representative candidate Shane Mekeland suffered a concussion after getting sucker punched while speaking with constituents at a restaurant in Benton County. Mekeland told the Free Beacon he has suffered memory loss, and doctors tell him he will have a four-to-six week recovery time ahead of him. He said he was cold cocked while sitting at a high top table at a local eatery and hit his head on the floor.

Minnesota state representative Sarah Anderson was punched in the arm after spotting a man destroying Republican yard signs. She said the attack left her scared, and her attacker only desisted when she fled to her car and threw it in reverse.

"It was just insane. He was charging at me, saying, ‘Why don't you go kill yourself?'" Anderson said. "To have someone physically coming after you and attacking you is just disheartening."

-- The Washington Free Beacon (Oct 17, 2018)
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"Yet another report of conservative candidates being targeted with violence. We can’t accept attacks like these as the new normal, and we can’t shrug off the type of unhinged rhetoric that inspires and excuses assaulting others for their political beliefs."
-- Rep. Steve Scalise (Oct 17, 2018)


"Probably best to avoid being in close physical proximity to any Democrat, they’ve become unhinged and violent."
-- James Woods (Oct 18, 2018)
 
Trebuchet said:
Republican ads for the Washington 8th District have been claiming that the Democrat supports Medicare for All and it would cause income taxes to double. And much other hyperbole.
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Just saw the exact same line for my US congressional race in IL. Which is weird because the Democrat in question doesn't support single payer. It also tried to link her to a controversial State Democratic legislator, but she is running for the US Congress.

It was like two generic fill-in-the-blank attack ads mashed together.
 
JoeMorgue said:
*Looking at my mail in ballot*

Florida why is "Ban on Offshore Drilling" and "Ban on Indoor Vaping" under the same referendum so they can't be voted on separately? Personally I'm not planning on voting one way for one and the other way for the other but I can think of plenty of reasonable reasons someone might want to and forcing people to vote the same way on two totally unrelated issues is dirty pool.
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Conflating the two issues has caused me to reconsider my opposition to indoor vaping.

"Wait, indoor vaping is on par with offshore drilling? Well okay then!"
 
Dr. Keith said:
I'd wager that for most Americans doubling their income tax to pay for healthcare would mean a net savings.
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That depends.

For me, there is an amount taken out of my check, but there is also an amount that my employer pays that never passes through my check. Because of my position, I know that the employer portion is much higher than the portion that shows up on my check.

If my employer's contribution were paid to me as part of my salary, yes, it would be an increase. But if it was only the portion I pay, then it would be a noticable decrease in my take home pay.
 
Tsukasa Buddha said:
Just saw the exact same line for my US congressional race in IL. Which is weird because the Democrat in question doesn't support single payer. It also tried to link her to a controversial State Democratic legislator, but she is running for the US Congress.

It was like two generic fill-in-the-blank attack ads mashed together.
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Madigan?

It seems like every ad I see here in Illinois is either linking the Democrat to Madigan or the Republican to Rauner.

Illinois politics.
 
Yeah. People with good health care associated with their jobs would not break even. But of course, the doubling of income taxes is a ridiculous lie anyhow.

The weird thing about the Republican terror of Medicare for All is that their sponsors, the insurance companies and big corporations in general, would benefit. The insurance companies LOVE medicare because they get to sell lots of supplemental plans and even Medicare Advantage, which they charge the feds to administrate. The corporations could drop their employee health plans, but of course they would pass the savings on (nudge, nudge, wink, wink) on to their employees.
 
Tsukasa Buddha said:
McConnell did well with Kavanaugh for shoring up support for Republicans in the Senate, but I'm confused by his recent statements:



Linky.



Linky.

I mean, we all know these are the actual Republican goals, but they aren't popular messages to give before the midterms.

And Trump is busy saying that Democrats want to cut Medicare...
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As a followup, I've heard that McConnell is merely setting up for Democratic control of the House. All of a sudden, the deficit will be the biggest issue and we will have to cut social spending and in no way is any of this the fault of Republicans controlling every branch of government.
 
Dr. Keith said:
I'd wager that for most Americans doubling their income tax to pay for healthcare would mean a net savings.
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I'd bet it would too.

What I don't get about the Democrats and the health care fight is how stupidly they play this game.

If I was the Democrats, I'd roll out commercials showing how Universal Coverage is almost Universal all over the Western world. Do Americans really deserve less?

The idea that the United States cannot do this is awful. I'd juxtapose commercials with middle class Americans struggling with paying insurance or hospital bills and Canadians, Brits, Norwegians, etc. smiling over how they don't worry about medical bills.

When your Congressman or Senator tells you it can't be done, just say "get it done, or get out of the way".
 
Update on indicted Hunter's challenger: He's a Palestinian Mexican Millennial Muslim Brotherhood infiltrator.

But Hunter went even lower. “Ammar Campa-Najjar is working to infiltrate Congress,” says the narrator of Hunter’s ad on YouTube. “He’s used three different names to hide his family’s ties to terrorism.”

That outraged the conservative San Diego Union-Tribune: “We endorse Campa-Najjar for Congress. He is far superior to the troubled incumbent. This fact is underlined by the despicable ad that Hunter has begun to air in recent days suggesting that his ‘Palestinian Mexican millennial’ opponent was linked to terrorist groups and was ‘working to infiltrate Congress.’”

The Union-Tribune disputed the allegation that Campa-Najjar—who was raised by his single Catholic Mexican mother after his Palestinian father left when he was a boy—is a risk to national security because his grandfather, who was killed by Israeli commandos 16 years before Campa-Najjar was born and whom he has strongly disavowed, was a terrorist who helped plan the 1972 attack on Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics.
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Linky.
 
Dr. Keith said:
I'd wager that for most Americans doubling their income tax to pay for healthcare would mean a net savings.
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And if Warren Buffett stole the money my wife and I are saving for our 10th Anniversary vacation out of my savings account, invested it, and returned it in two years after making whatever he was able to using it I'm sure I'd have more, perhaps a lot more, to spend on a vacation.

Still doesn't mean I want him to do.

"Give me your money because I can do more with it then you can" isn't argument people think it is.

A better return on investment requires voluntaryness (that needs to be a word) to be a good thing.
 
A little bad news for the republicans on the polling front (from all places, Fox news)

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/president-trump-health-care-drive-midterm-elections

Some poll highlights:
- Republicans continue to trail Democrats overall by 49%-42%. This is unchanged since September, so they don't seem to be making any headway
- One of the biggest issues in the election is health care (followed by the economy and president trump). And for those thinking health care is important, the majority prefer the Democrats
- Most people think that congress should act as a check on Trump's powers, as opposed to helping him enact his policies
- Despite the supposed economic boom that the Republicans are bragging about, the number of people who feel 'confident' about their personal economic future has dropped from 73% 3 years ago to 68% now

Of course, there are still several weeks to go, so the republicans have plenty of time to find new ways to cheat.
 
In 2016, the fundamentals that after two terms, the White House almost always changes parties were against Clinton.
Now, the fundamentals that the President's party almost always loses seat in the first Midterms are for the Democrats.
 
The Great Zaganza said:
In 2016, the fundamentals that after two terms, the White House almost always changes parties were against Clinton.
Now, the fundamentals that the President's party almost always loses seat in the first Midterms are for the Democrats.
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That has been the trend. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't be concerned that the republicans may hold on to both the Senate and the House. After all, they've done a remarkable job of gerrymandering and voter supression. And generally republican support tends to skew older and whiter (the type of people who have usually been more reliable voters.)

Frankly, I really don't understand... so many of the republican policies are disliked by people. So many people dislike Trump as a person... how can the polling results be as close as they are?
 
A Republican PAC in Arkansas has run a political ad so over the top that even the candidate they're supporting has condemned it.

A radio ad in Arkansas in support of Republican U.S. Representative French Hill aired this week featuring women with exaggerated and stereotyped African-American accents saying black voters should support Hill and Republicans because Democrats will lynch black men when “a white girl screams rape.”

In the ad, a woman says “white Democrats will be lynching black folk again.”

“We have to protect our men and boys,” the woman says. “We can’t afford to let white Democrats take us back to bad old days of race verdicts, life sentences and lynchings when a white girl screams rape.”

Hill condemned the ad Thursday, calling it “outrageous.” It was produced by Vernon Robinson of Black Americans for the President’s Agenda, a political action committee. Robinson told NBC News the ad ran in Little Rock, the state capital whose population is nearly half African-American.
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Sheesh. I haven't heard it yet (I work in Little Rock, and live just a bit outside it). I have heard his other commercials where he talks about "getting tax breaks for Arkansans and businesses to create jobs", which I basically heard as "The Kool-Aid is great! Drink the Kool-Aid!"
 
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