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03-15-2018, 04:26 PM
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Regarding the Lamb victory, which idiot Repube leaders have been casting as a win for Trumpism, lol. As if.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politic...sylvania-18th/
This was the last gasp of 10 years of successful electoral chicanery in Pennsylvania, and the Republicans couldn’t boot their candidate home even with $10 million pumped into the district from the national party and from its vast reservoir of PACs and dark money. They couldn’t organize it. They couldn’t buy it. And they couldn’t steal it. That pretty much eliminates all possible ways Republicans generally win elections these days, and bringing in the president* for a last-ditch manic episode didn’t work, either. Not even the crazy was enough.
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03-15-2018, 05:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Chicks
Regarding the Lamb victory, which idiot Repube leaders have been casting as a win for Trumpism, lol. As if.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politic...sylvania-18th/
This was the last gasp of 10 years of successful electoral chicanery in Pennsylvania, and the Republicans couldn’t boot their candidate home even with $10 million pumped into the district from the national party and from its vast reservoir of PACs and dark money. They couldn’t organize it. They couldn’t buy it. And they couldn’t steal it. That pretty much eliminates all possible ways Republicans generally win elections these days, and bringing in the president* for a last-ditch manic episode didn’t work, either. Not even the crazy was enough.
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And to think that this was in a heavily gerrymandered district.
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03-15-2018, 05:42 PM
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And to think that this was in a heavily gerrymandered district.
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Time for some serious pearl clutching in the formerly 'solid' red districts along America's byways and backwaters.
El Trumpo Naranja promised the moon and the stars to these 'lost Americans' if they would only show up to put that Obama feller in his place. Turns out, President 'Shartcannon' never had the power nor the inclination to carry out their fondest 'The South Shall Rise Again' wet dreams of taking America back to the days of Jim Crow and segregated water fountains.
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03-15-2018, 05:51 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Chicks
Regarding the Lamb victory, which idiot Repube leaders have been casting as a win for Trumpism, lol. As if.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politic...sylvania-18th/
This was the last gasp of 10 years of successful electoral chicanery in Pennsylvania, and the Republicans couldn’t boot their candidate home even with $10 million pumped into the district from the national party and from its vast reservoir of PACs and dark money. They couldn’t organize it. They couldn’t buy it. And they couldn’t steal it. That pretty much eliminates all possible ways Republicans generally win elections these days, and bringing in the president* for a last-ditch manic episode didn’t work, either. Not even the crazy was enough.
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"In any event, they were not the words of the candidate described in a statement by Speaker Paul Ryan, the zombie-eyed granny starver from the state of Wisconsin. Ryan contended that Lamb really, sort of, almost ran as, you know, a Republican.
Keep whistling, Mr. Speaker. Lamb ran specifically on preserving and protecting the social safety-net programs you're so hell-bent on destroying. And, not for nothing, but do you know what congressional district is, theoretically, anyway, more Democratic than the one Conor Lamb won on Tuesday night?
Yours.
Sleep well."
Ol' Charlie sure has a way with words.
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03-16-2018, 04:49 AM
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O so true.....
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03-16-2018, 08:23 AM
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And to think that this was in a heavily gerrymandered district.
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And if the Dems can capture the PA legislature many districts will become heavily gerrymandered in the opposite direction.
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03-16-2018, 09:04 AM
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And if the Dems can capture the PA legislature many districts will become heavily gerrymandered in the opposite direction.
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They'll likely be content with the (much more fair) court-drawn map.
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03-16-2018, 11:55 AM
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A resolution denouncing neo-Nazis dies in 36 seconds
Repubes in TN won’t even consider a simple measure denouncing Donny’s “good people”.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/16/polit...rnd/index.html
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03-19-2018, 09:40 PM
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Supreme Court denies GOP request to block new Pa. congressional map
Sorry PA Repubes, game’s up! Prepare to lose more seats, a$$holes.
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign...gressional-map
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03-19-2018, 10:28 PM
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Good news.
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