The Off-Year & Special Elections Thread

Are you that dense? It is called SARCASM..... moron.

 

So you’re saying I’m wrong about voter turnout?

Oh and GFYS, you don’t know me, you’re probably still on your parents’ insurance

#triggered

 

Free advice:

When you suggest that the large increase in voter turnout could have been driven by illegals voting, it says a LOT about you....whether you want it to or not.

So while he may not know you...he certainly knows a lot about you.

And for the record....haven’t been on my parents insurance in almost 3 decades.

 

I don’t think I was validating anything about the original sarcastic remark.

I was pivoting to the poor voter turnout, which could be a big ??? come 2018.

My home State had just ~28% participate.

 

Perfect ad for next mid terms.....

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Dem candidates in VA outpolled GOP candidates by 9 points. They appear to have fallen 1 seat short of a tie.

Imagine what the numbers would be without gerrymandering.

Imagine what the numbers would be if the Dems drew the lines and they won by 9 points.

 

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Another overlooked story from last night. Montana's capitol Helena elected a black Liberian refugee as mayor ... https://www.npr.org/sections/money/...lls-are-the-talk-of-the-town-in-la-crosse-wis

So for those of you keeping tabs, Helena Montana is latest no go zone ...

 

I may be cynical, but this seems to be a likely outcome.

Okay, it’s time for some game theory.

1) Sessions quits DOJ, runs as write-in for his old Senate seat.

2) Trump nominates a new AG.

3) New AG kills the Russia probe.

4) Roy Moore wins anyway because lol nothing matters.

— David Weigel (@daveweigel) November 9, 2017

 

Nah..... No1 is plausible. The rest unlikely...

 

I don't think Trump could get any AG nomination through the Senate now.

 

This is the same sort of person who on the next tweet crticizes Muhammed for being a pedo.

 

"It was 40 years ago," Alabama Marion County GOP chair David Hall tells me. "I really don't see the relevance of it. He was 32. She was supposedly 14. She's not saying that anything happened other than they kissed."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 9, 2017

 

Not only do these people have a moral ozone hole when it comes to people they politically support, they also can't read.

 

As I was saying, I'll be surprised if this has any effect on Moore.

 

He's going full Trump.

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30 sources. 4 women. On the record. None of whom knew one another. None of whom reached out to The Post to tell their story. https://t.co/t15cVPc1lK

— Chris Cillizza (@ChrisCillizza) November 9, 2017

 

And his voters won't be swayed. "Why those evil people against Judge Roy made him take down the ten commandments! They hate God!"

"Roy is under attack by the forces of Satan." Yeah, I will be surprised at this point if anything happens to him.

Now, if he was, say, a PA or an Ohio Republican, he would be done. But he's safe in Alabama.

If @Auriaprottu has a different take based on being there, I'll reconsider.

 

No, no different take. I expect Moore to win. It'll be controversial, but he'll win.

 

Now, if this was a Dem, he wouldn't win. This is not about an adult like Lewinsky, but a 14 year-old girl.

But if a Dem DID win, there'd be GOP supporters showing up wherever he was speaking and waving those sparkly cheerleader tops embroidered with, "Jailbait Middle School" at him.

Dems won't do that to Moore.
Why won't Dems do that to Moore?

 

I don't know all of the details, but I'm incredibly troubled and will await more details.

 

Fear of a First Amendment expression provoking a Second amendment response?

 

In other Roy Moore news, his campaign is refusing any debates under any circumstances. And this decision was made before the scandal today. The shit Alabama voters put up with.