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2018 mid-term election

Beelzebuddy said:
Now that I get to seriously contemplate a near future where the Democrats cannot even take back the House with a historically hated President to oppose, what I dread more than anything is the next three months of the media staring at each other like slack-jawed idiots going "whut happen?" while continuing to credulously report every hateful syllable Trump craps out of his orifices.
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What are you talking about, the Democrats are taking the House.

Perhaps you were misled that early returns came from the South?


In other news:FLORIDA VOTES TO RESTORE VOTING RIGHTS TO 1.5 MILLION CONVICTED FELONS
Florida voters elected to pass an amendment Tuesday restoring voting rights for convicted felons.
Amendment 4 passed with 64.1 percent of the vote.
With the passing of this measure, Florida removed itself from a small list of states that permanently barred convicted felons from voting.
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Coward Joe Donnelly turned around and slapped the Democratic Party in the face in one of his recent ads.

Turns out people tend to vote for the Republican over the Republican-lite.
 
Donal said:
Things like this fascinate me. How many people who voted for this and the initiative to restore voting rights for felons also voted Republican?

How often do we see people in even the deepest red districts favor positions that would be considered liberal but then vote for right wing candidates?
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You don't even have to go that far. Look at all the states a particular President carries, their Governors, and their Congressmen. Sure there's (sometimes strong) trends and clustering but it never lines up 100 percent.
 
Stacko said:
The Florida GOP isn't going to stand idly by and just let them vote. There's going to be more work to be done.
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It will be interesting to watch but sad if yet another GOP controlled legislature thwarts true democratic votes.

Won't be a surprise though.
 
New chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee already saying they will subpoena Trump's tax returns.
 
Donal said:
Things like this fascinate me. How many people who voted for this and the initiative to restore voting rights for felons also voted Republican?

How often do we see people in even the deepest red districts favor positions that would be considered liberal but then vote for right wing candidates?
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People suck at thinking.
 
It's going as I expected. (I never saw anybody predicting that the Democrats would win the Florida Governor's seat or the Texas Senate seat.) The numbers are generally swinging 10-25 points in the Democrats' direction since last time (40+ in O'Rourke's case, but he had a gap of 49 to make up), so the Democrats are losing the most thoroughly red places and winning the blue and slightly-less-red places. Democrats around the numerical boundary are more often winning if they stuck to their progressive guns and losing if they ran as Republican wannabes or even softened up a bit on their progressiveness like Beto "I didn't really mean Medicare for all, I just meant vaguely better health care somehow" O'Rourke. The blue wave is solid, so people saying there wouldn't be one are disappointed, but so are those who got their hopes up too much about how gigantic it would be.

Nothing here stands out as a big shock or particularly confuzzling to me. The biggest mystery of the evening is why the Republican trolls on The Young Turks' comment stream keep posting lots of blue spoons (and why there even is a blue spoon image to post). I know they're Republican trolls because sometimes the spoons are mixed with frog heads (that never made sense to me either but at least I'm familiar with it), but why spoons? Is this a way of saying "you don't get a wave, you just get a tablespoon/teaspoon"? Surely they're not huge fans of Raja, The Master Of Spoons...
 
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Hmm, the wave/spoon comparison doesn't work; they also sometimes add "clang" or "clank", so the spoons must be about some action that would make the spoons make that sound...
 
I've been watching PBS with Judy Woodruff. She had Jeff Greenfield on. Earlier when it was looking dicey, Greenfield opined that if the Dems didn't get the House it would be a round of Xanax for them. Just now she interviewed Greenfield again and it looks like Greenfield needs some Xanax!! Take that!!
 
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