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2018 mid-term election

KDLarsen said:
There's a photo collage of the newly elected representatives from each party doing the rounds, and it really sums up the state of the parties these days:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/14/congress-diversity-democrats-republicans-photo

Republicans are all white males, with a single female exception, while Democrats are a healthy mix of men and women of various enthicity.
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Yeah, but the GOP has that pirate guy. That's gotta be good for five or six diversity points.
 
I never know whether people know this or not, so I'll just say it, and you can then judge me for being clueless at your leisure ;)

'that pirate guy' is a former Navy Seal who lost his eye to an IED on deployment in Afghanistan.
 
Worm said:
I never know whether people know this or not, so I'll just say it, and you can then judge me for being clueless at your leisure ;)

'that pirate guy' is a former Navy Seal who lost his eye to an IED on deployment in Afghanistan.
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Yes, an opponent or columnists stupidly made fun of him for the "look" and got his rhetorical ass handed to him. A bit of pearl-clutching but the commenter deserved it for being so tone deaf that he didn't take time to find out the back story or worse, found it out but didn't care.

So, yeah.... I was parodying said idiot. Hoped that was apparent.
 
Foolmewunz said:
Yes, an opponent or columnists stupidly made fun of him for the "look" and got his rhetorical ass handed to him. A bit of pearl-clutching but the commenter deserved it for being so tone deaf that he didn't take time to find out the back story or worse, found it out but didn't care.

So, yeah.... I was parodying said idiot. Hoped that was apparent.
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Minor SNL character Pete Davidson made a joke about Crenshaw on Weekend Update that didn't sit well with anyone. The next week, he apologized and then Crenshaw came on to mock Davidson.
 
Foolmewunz said:
Yes, an opponent or columnists stupidly made fun of him for the "look" and got his rhetorical ass handed to him. A bit of pearl-clutching but the commenter deserved it for being so tone deaf that he didn't take time to find out the back story or worse, found it out but didn't care.

So, yeah.... I was parodying said idiot. Hoped that was apparent.
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That was on Saturday Night Live. Got a lot of press. The comedian (Pete Davidson) later invited the one-eyed politician (Dan Crenshaw) onto the show so Davidson could apologize and Crenshaw could roast Davidson.
 
WilliamSeger said:
Minor SNL character Pete Davidson made a joke about Crenshaw on Weekend Update that didn't sit well with anyone. The next week, he apologized and then Crenshaw came on to mock Davidson.
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Great job all around SNL. :rolleyes:

Not only was the SNL blowup a huge boon to Crenshaw’s campaign and public image, but it also totally blotted out any memory of the fact that the former Navy SEAL is linked to far-right conspiracy group “Tea Party,” which popularized the Pizzagate conspiracy. On August 31, Newsweek reported that Crenshaw and four other GOP nominees were or had been administrators on a popular Facebook group that bolstered the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, pushed Pizzagate, and provided a comfortable home for racist chit-chat.

When Newsweek contacted Crenshaw about the group he was listed as an administrator and had posted two of his campaign movies to the group, Crenshaw told the publication he’d “never actively managed or interacted with that page.” He then removed himself from the group.
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Update on Maine:

Democrat Jared Golden defeated Republican Rep. Bruce Poliquin in Maine's 2nd District House race -- flipping the seat after the state calculated its ranked-choice voting results.

It's the first time in the nation's history a federal race has been decided by ranked-choice voting.

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The tabulation came hours after a judge denied Poliquin's request for a temporary restraining order. The Republican had called into question the constitutionality of the ranked-choice voting process, which Maine's voters approved in a 2016 referendum and used for the first time this year.

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"It is now officially clear I won the constitutional 'one-person, one-vote' first choice election on Election Day that has been used in Maine for more than one hundred years. We will proceed with our constitutional concerns about the rank vote algorithm," Poliquin said in a statement.
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Linky.
 
WilliamSeger said:
""It is now officially clear I won the constitutional 'one-person, one-vote' first choice election on Election Day that has been used in Maine for more than one hundred years."

It's also now officially clear that the new system worked as intended.
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If he wanted to complain, he should have done so months ago (some time BEFORE the election.

After all, the rules were set in place years ago to have a ranked ballot, and that's how people voted when they cast their ballots. If voters knew their 2nd/3rd place votes in a ranked ballot weren't going to matter they may have voted differently.
 
Blue Wave continues

Today, the Democrats picked up another seat. In Orange County of all places. Katie Porter wins the 45th making it a gain of 34 seats. 6 other seats have yet to be decided. Democrats lead in 5 of them.
 
acbytesla said:
Today, the Democrats picked up another seat. In Orange County of all places. Katie Porter wins the 45th making it a gain of 34 seats. 6 other seats have yet to be decided. Democrats lead in 5 of them.
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About that:

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acbytesla said:
Today, the Democrats picked up another seat. In Orange County of all places. Katie Porter wins the 45th making it a gain of 34 seats. 6 other seats have yet to be decided. Democrats lead in 5 of them.
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Very likely the Dems wll come near to maxing out what was projected to be their ceiling.
 
It was inevitable. Urban/Rural has always been the big divide in America, not the other things we chatter on about. The "Suburbs" have always been the swing demographic.

There are no Red States and Blue States. America is a huge sea of sparsely populated Red with scattered islands of densely populated Blue. The country side still votes red in the most liberal state in the Union and the cities still vote Blue in the most conservative.

Suburbs are the last great expanse of people who haven't aligned with a tribe yet.
 
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