AsburySkinsFan Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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The Evil Genius Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 Gee, who saw that coming? Suppression of vote is one of the mainstays of the GOP attempting to stay in power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FanboyOf91 Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 Quote Fox & Friends First thought they booked pro-ICE Democratic congressional candidate Ann Kirkpatrick to appear on the show on Monday morning. Instead, they somehow ended up with Barbara L’Italien. After the hosts kicked it to “Kirkpatrick” and asked her to explain why she supports ICE, L’Italien — a Democratic state senator in Massachusetts who is running for Congress — delivered a very different personal message to President Trump. https://thinkprogress.org/barbara-litalien-ann-kirkpatrick-fox-and-friends-family-separation-88ad05276693/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 https://twitter.com/kkondik/status/1021764391455346689 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted July 24, 2018 Author Share Posted July 24, 2018 30 minutes ago, Cooked Crack said: Quote from the conservative commentator in that clip "It's easy to fall into that trap of thinking our kids deserve education and healthcare." Well when you put it that way..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearrock Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 Hmm.... Education and healthcare for kids. I mean some crazy wackos might even put that at the top of the to do list for governance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoCalMike Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 Wait she was "uncomfortable" because she was surrounded by people were tired of being angry? HUH? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 2 minutes ago, NoCalMike said: Wait she was "uncomfortable" because she was surrounded by people were tired of being angry? HUH? Probably a major shock to her. Couldn't believe that no one asked for their political enemies to be locked up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted July 24, 2018 Author Share Posted July 24, 2018 22 minutes ago, NoCalMike said: Wait she was "uncomfortable" because she was surrounded by people were tired of being angry? HUH? I thought it was funny because as she was talking about it, her voice was shaking and her answers made no sense. It was like she went to a gay pride parade, enjoyed it, but now has to lie to her church congregation about it. More from the Sabato Crystal Ball update: http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/ Quote Why the Democrats are now soft favorites in the House As soon as President Donald Trump was elected, the national political dynamics immediately changed. Democrats, somnolent in off-year elections in the Obama years (and also in 2016, at least in some key places), would re-energize. The historical burden of holding the White House transferred to the Republicans, and the president’s party has lost ground in 36 of 39 House midterms since the Civil War with an average loss of 33 seats. In the more recent past, since the end of World War II, the average seat loss is 26 seats, or right on the borderline of the 23 net seats the Democrats need to elect a House majority. That average includes years where the presidential party broke the historical trend and netted a few seats (1998 and 2002) or lost only a relative handful (1962 and 1990). But the presidents who presided over those midterms were popular and had other factors working in their favor. This president is not popular, and no one believes there is any chance the Republicans come out of this election with more seats than they hold now. Even just a single-digit GOP seat loss would be shocking, an outcome driven by late developments unforeseeable at this juncture. Yet, to this point, we’ve hesitated to come out and make the Democrats a favorite in the House. The Republicans have strong incumbents in some of their most vulnerable seats, and the national House map has a GOP tilt: By margin, the median House district is about four percentage points to the right of the nation based on district-level results from the 2016 presidential election. The economy is good — or, rather, baseline economic indicators are good even though there is a compelling argument that the nation’s economic gains have been unevenly distributed in recent times — and the nation is not engaged in a major foreign conflict. Recessions and war can hurt the president’s party in midterms, although their absence also does not guarantee a lack of turbulence, as any glance at national headlines these days would confirm. So what’s changed? Why do we now tilt the House to the Democrats? Well, part of the reason is simply this: In actuality, not much has changed throughout the cycle. That, in and of itself, is a problem for Republicans. Election Day is getting closer, and the president’s approval rating is still largely stuck in the low 40s, a big red warning sign that has bedeviled the party of similarly-situated presidents in past midterms. The House generic ballot, which has generally been at around a Democratic lead of between six to eight points, is at the higher end of that range right now. But more importantly for the House battle, for most of this election cycle the generic ballot has shown a consistent Democratic lead that suggests a very competitive battle for the majority. A high number of open seats — the highest number of any postwar election save 1992 — give Democrats many more targets than the GOP (Republicans are defending 41 seats without an incumbent, while Democrats are defending only 22). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 3 minutes ago, PleaseBlitz said: It was like she went to a gay pride parade, enjoyed it, but now has to lie to her church congregation about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoCalMike Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 13 minutes ago, PleaseBlitz said: I thought it was funny because as she was talking about it, her voice was shaking and her answers made no sense. It was like she went to a gay pride parade, enjoyed it, but now has to lie to her church congregation about it. Yeah you can totally see right through Fox's attempt to paint a narrative of the "angry socialists trying to take down capitalism" in order to counter the hate & vitriol clearly displayed at Trump rallies. Another false moral equivalency attempt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoCalMike Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 Well yeah, conservatives, at least the red meat base portion have been trained for 30 years to say "fake news" The sentiment didn't start with Trump, he was just the first one to start using it in every single conversation about anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 Party of Trump confirmed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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killerbee99 Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 On 7/23/2018 at 4:08 PM, FanboyOf91 said: Most African Americans are conservative democrats.... Believe in taking care of all, but not full blown hard left.... Mostly because I think of the Christian background as well.... Being a Baptist personally has me always being a slightly conservative Democrat bcos I know they will fight for minorities as well not just cater to majorities like some party does and say **** everyone else Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FanboyOf91 Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 Honestly, I think progressives do a terrible job of both communicating AND (this is important) forming political relationships with black leaders. Bernie lost when he decided that he couldn't reach out to Southern black voters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted July 25, 2018 Author Share Posted July 25, 2018 19 minutes ago, FanboyOf91 said: Honestly, I think progressives do a terrible job of both communicating AND (this is important) forming political relationships with black leaders. Bernie lost when he decided that he couldn't reach out to Southern black voters. Progressives have not really had a charismatic leader with a national profile yet. When that person emerges, I think what you said in your post will change. For now, I agree 100%. I mean seriously, the flag bearers are Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren? Coupla old white folks, one an angry weirdo, the other a career Harvard academic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FanboyOf91 Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 2 minutes ago, PleaseBlitz said: Progressives have not really had a charismatic leader with a national profile yet. When that person emerges, I think what you said in your post will change. Charisma's got nothing to do with it. Cuomo is a charisma black hole but he's probably going to get the majority of black voters unless Nixon decides to move out of her comfort zone of educated white voters. Seriously, progressives, treating black voters like white voters isn't that hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted July 25, 2018 Author Share Posted July 25, 2018 4 minutes ago, FanboyOf91 said: Charisma's got nothing to do with it. Cuomo is a charisma black hole but he's probably going to get the majority of black voters unless Nixon decides to move out of her comfort zone of educated white voters. Seriously, progressives, treating black voters like white voters isn't that hard. Cynthia Nixon isn't exactly JFK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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NoCalMike Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 "Progressive" or "Liberal" is really just code for what Democrats used to stand for before they had to keep continually shifting right after the Reagan revolution. Every since trickle down policy was put into place, any time it is attempted to reverse it, the cries of "socialism, communism, general mao" are screamed at, despite the fact that it was actually Reagan's economics that were the radical idea(s). Ever since then, when the wealth accumulation shifted radically to the wealthiest Americans, there hasn't been a single President or Democratic majority with the power to change things. Sure, we get a tiny sliver of a tax increase here and there, but it is mostly just to counter act the 15th cat given by a previous administration. I am not sure why our citizens think we can keep giving more wealth & power to the elites and not expect their stranglehold on government & policy to continue to increase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatBuzz Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 1 hour ago, NoCalMike said: , there hasn't been a single President or Democratic majority with the power to change things. The apportionment of seats in the House was based on the 2000 U.S. Census. In the November 4, 2008, elections, the Democratic Party increased its majorities in both chambers, giving President Obama a Democratic majority in the legislature for the first two years of his presidency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/111th_United_States_Congress Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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