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2010 Midterms: GOP Wins the House; Government Shutdown in 3...2...1...
enlightenedbum
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Gosling wrote:Welcome to the latest edition of the midterm thread. Here's the link to 538.
Basically, America is sick and tired of everybody, as can be witnessed by what is set to be a third consecutive wave election, the parties splitting the 2006-10 elections 2-1. '06 and '08 to the Dems, '10 to the GOP. The voters, far as I can tell, are either despairing to the point where they've cut out of the process, or are so utterly pissed off that they can't even vote straight and are susceptible to being misled by anyone with sufficient charisma that will tell them what they want to hear whether or not these things are actually true, not unlike a snake oil salesman from the early 1900's.
They're pissed, they're desperate, they're pretty much willing to vote for anyone or anything that will actually fix shit to a degree they will notice.
However, the message at the polls is set to be garbled to the point where it comes out as "We would like to be led by the craziest people available, and the more they can screech and poop on everything as though they were a group of howler monkeys, the better." Which... yeah. It's a train that's jumped the tracks and is set to crash into a hospital full of orphan babies in about three weeks. Fun!
So how does one keep the train from crashing into the orphan baby hospital, or at least veer it into a non-baby-intensive section of same? If you can campaign, do that. If you can donate funds to a campaign, do that. Failing that, here's a start:
This is an I Voted sticker. They give these out when you go to the polls; this design is the one you get at my precinct and the one we used here in 2008 when we did this same thing.
When you cast your general-election vote, I want you to make this sticker- or another one you happen to like better- your new avatar until Election Day. For many of you, you can do this now through early voting. By the time the polls close, the only people that should NOT be sporting these stickers are those who are too young to vote and those who are not US citizens.
You will notice I am sporting a similar sticker myself- again, the one I used for myself in '08.
OP stolen from Gosling.
Races worth watching:
Rep. Tom Periello is defending his seat in a Republican District (went for McCain even) in Virginia by defending his vote on health care. He's the only Representative to be graced with a personal rally from the President.
Rep. Alan Grayson is hated by the GOP and they badly want him destroyed. If he wins with a very very aggressive, GOP like campaign strategy it'll be an interesting case study.
The Senate races all over the place feature completely nuts Republicans. Most prominent among these are Rand Paul in Kentucky, Sharon Angle who seems likely to defeat Harry Reid in Nevada, and Ken Buck in Colorado. The three of them are Pat Toomey and Marco Rubio's best friends as by comparison those two almost look moderate.
Also worth watching is the three way Senate race in Alaska, featuring incumbent Senator Lisa Murkowski running as a write in candidate and apparently leading. The Republican who won the primary, Joe Miller, is a disaster of a candidate and is in free fall. The Democrat is lurking but remains unlikely to win. Murkowski looks like she'll hold onto her seat. If she tells the Republicans to fuck off, Lieberman style, might be worth watching.
Sadly, Russ Feingold is in serious trouble. Maybe he can pull off a miracle on Tuesday, but it seems doubtful.
Most importantly: go vote if you haven't already.
The idea that your vote is a moral statement about you or who you vote for is some backwards ass libertarian nonsense. Your vote is about society. Vote to protect the vulnerable.
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Not that it's surprising.
Just disheartening, and disappointing is all.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
I'm more amused by this ad than I ought to be.
This would be sad if it wasn't effective.
Ohio always closes late. You're not out in Ohio until after the polls close.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
Isn't Grayson the one who tried to say his opponent was an insane, Taliban-like theocrat who would impose obedience laws on women?
Martha Coakley! Even if a big chunk of it was in 2009
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She hasn't done anything crazy to report on today.
but I do have a question for you guys.
Do your school districts have Election day off? We do.
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His most aired campaign ad; Him teaching the viewers how to pronounce his name.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
The special election was on the 19th. The campaign she ran existed pretty much entirely in 2009. Although from what I remember, the shit she bothered to do in the three weeks prior was fairly good.
Zed: I was wondering why Corbett was annihilating him.
Coakley lost Ted Kennedy's seat in Massachusetts to an unknown state senator after 4 times as many Dems voted in the primary (2nd place Capuano had more votes than Brown)
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But Onorato is a dead fish that's going to cost us billions of dollars in shale drilling taxes because he decided it's more important to get his name pronounced correctly than actually campaign against Corbett.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
But it also has a lot to do with Pennsylvania as a whole thinking of itself as a special snowflake of a state that doesn't take sides and instead oscillates back and forth every 8 years.
Which is a load of crap.
Philly is blue, Pittsburgh is purple and the rest of the state is as red as the gas industry cock in Tom Corbett's mouth.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
The recent polls asked the question "Are you going to vote for <list of candidates on the ballot> or write in a candidate" without mentioning any of the write-in's names, and 37% specifically said "Write in Murkowksi."
Though that doesn't eliminate the likely LARGE number of invalid ballots due to people misspelling her name or forgetting to fill in the oval after writing in her name.
Hmmm, I guess he's using this to help get out the vote. To be fair, I'm in Franklin County, which rarely votes Republican, so it's not like he necessarily needed the ad here, but used it to make sure people went to the polls anyway. And he has run a shitty campaign from the start. I always felt Jennifer Brunner was the better November candidate and was disappointed she lost the primary.
Don't discount that approach. I had a substitute teacher in middle school named Ms. Tijoriwala, and she spent the better part of twenty minutes spelling her name out on the board. To this day, I can never, ever, forget it. :P
They still are.
Turns out, republicans still have money. And media is owned by corporations.
You would think that the internet would level out the playing field, but apparently not.
Also, every single member of my family except for me are rabid Republicans. That's just a kick in the nads.
Feel free to add me on whatever network, it's always more fun to play with people than alone
Not going to happen, she voted with them 90% of the time before. She's anti-abortion, anti-obamacare, etc. etc. About the the only thing she breaks rank for is global warming, and that's just because it's kind hard to deny it's effects when you can see firsthand how coastal erosion, directly attributed to global climate change, is literally putting rural villages in danger, and shrinking the size of the state. Given that she has the Rural vote, she'd be a fool not to do something about it.
Doesn't help that whenever I see a dem on tv, or, whatever, they're always showing off about how not-democrat like they are -_- .
I miss the days when the President wasn't completely assured of his party's nomination, though.
Or in a lot of cases they are heavily concentrated at college campuses. In '08 we had someone manning a table at CU's student center every M-F for about 2 months before the election. We got most of our student volunteers that way. This time they decided not to do that. Thus we are woefully lacking younger volunteers which in turn help talk to other young voters.
That's why I said Lieberman style, because it would be dumb and opposed to her theoretical ideology and just meant to be a dick move.
...1980? Pretty much exclusively?
Edit: 1952 also.