2018 Midterm Election

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Tecumsehsbones said:
Meanwhile, the Republiklans are running a Congressional candidate in Floriduh who claims she was abducted by aliens.

The Miami Herald just endorsed her because, hey, in this administration she seems sane and normal.
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The good voters of Floriduh will buy it, too. Ranting against illegal aliens has been getting politicians elected there since Castro and Battista
 
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Tecumsehsbones said:
Meanwhile, the Republiklans are running a Congressional candidate in Floriduh who claims she was abducted by aliens.

The Miami Herald just endorsed her because, hey, in this administration she seems sane and normal.
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Link.
 
justducky

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Hoid said:
Jesus Christ Walter the story is all over the news.
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Walter watches Faux News and alt right websites. Stop asking for "links" Walter. Just watch reputable news sources instead. You will not be so clueless.
 
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Curious Cdn said:
That'll be the foggy Friday.
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Walter is one of them:

Trump

Trump’s Base Has Become Too Delusional for the GOP’s Own Good

By*Eric Levitz@EricLevitz

But cultivating mass delusion has also had downsides for the GOP — or, at least, for its Establishment. During the Obama years, the tail began wagging the dog — the party’s propaganda outlets went from selling the leadership’s policies to dictating them. Alarmist lies about an imminent debt crisis didn’t just provide momentum to Paul Ryan’s austerity agenda — they nearly forced*a debt default*that the Speaker (along with all of corporate America) had no interest in. And then, of course, Fox News lost control of its own audience, and the network’s*“birther” correspondent*became the GOP’s 2016 standard-bearer.

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What we’re hearing:*One of those strategists told me he’s detecting something interesting — and concerning — from focus groups of Trump voters. “You have Trump-MAGA loyalists, and their friends on Fox, who have reached a point of not believing polls and media people telling them things are going wrong, that I believe is actually causing the Republicans problems,” the strategist told me, granted anonymity in order to be candid.


“We’ve seen it in focus groups, with Republican base voters, where you’ll come up with a hypothetical that the Democrats win, and people are like, ‘That’s not going to happen, that’s stupid.’ … They’re like, ‘Oh, to hell with this crap, we were told Trump wasn’t going to win. It’s bullshit.’”
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Bar Sinister said:
Yes, but Walter lives in a little cone of ignorance.
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This will give the Democrats a strong 'Ship of State's with Elizabeth Warren, not running for President, but heading off corruption head on. In fact democrats are looking more like a fleet. This is what we need to blow out the midterms. I wonder if the Walters of the world have heard about it.

https://m.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/e...rporate-lobbyists_us_5b7c45cbe4b0348585fb1ff7

Elizabeth Warren’s Far-Reaching New Bill Aims To Actually Drain The Swamp

A key part of the Massachusetts senator's measure would require that candidates for federal office release their tax returns.

By Daniel Marans, HuffPost US

BLOOMBERG/GETTY

WASHINGTON ― Sen.*Elizabeth Warren*(D-Mass.) unveiled a sweeping plan on Tuesday to crack down on the lawful corruption she said has infected Washington policymaking.

In a speech at the National Press Club, Warren blamed the lack of public trust in government on the undue influence of wealthy special interests and laws too toothless to curb them.

She went on to announce legislation she’ll offer that contains six major reforms to remedy what she termed the “crisis of faith” in government.

The bill would reshape the federal government by, among other things, putting a “padlock” on the “revolving door” between government and the private sector; dramatically increasing regulation of lobbyists, and in some cases scaling back their activities significantly; tightening ethics standards for lawmakers, federal agencies and federal judges; and creating a new anti-corruption agency to enforce these regulations.
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https://www.axios.com/2018-midterm-...man-1c985d97-2f73-4ef0-9d5e-7e7dd23c92cf.html

A blue wave is obscuring a red exodus"


Dave Wasserman, the Cook Political Report's House analyst, says the most under-covered aspect of 2018 is that "a blue wave is obscuring a red exodus." Republican House members are retiring at a startling clip —* a trend that senior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway told me earlier this year was worrying her more than any other trend affecting the midterms.

What's happening:*There are 43 Republican seats now without an incumbent on the ballot. That's more than one out of every six Republicans in the House — a record in at least a century, Wasserman says.

Why this matters:*Just in the past eight months, the number of vulnerable Republican seats has almost doubled, according to Wasserman. Democrats need to win 23 seats to claim control of the House. Today, the Cook Political Report rates 37 Republican-held seats as toss-ups or worse. At the beginning of the year, it was only 20.

The big picture:*Wasserman says the most important sign that 2018 will be a "wave" year — with Democrats winning control of the House — is the intensity gap between the two parties. In polls, Democrats consistently rate their interest in voting as significantly higher than Republicans. And Democrats have voted in extraordinary numbers in the special elections held the past year, despite Republicans holding on to win almost all of these races.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...43eefab5daf_story.html?utm_term=.3fd02a1017ee

The GOP turns to toilets to suppress more black voters

By*Dana Milbank

Columnist

August 21 at 7:25 PM

It warms the heart to see the newfound concern that Georgia has for its disabled residents.

Election overseers were worried sick that the disabled in Randolph County, a rural hamlet*where*60 percent of residents are black and nearly a third live in poverty, might arrive at their polling place and find they had to park on grass or, worse, that there was no railing next to the toilet seat.

And so, bless their hearts, the officials did the compassionate thing:*They proposed*to close seven of the nine polling places in Randolph. Now disabled people wouldn’t have to worry about tripping on turf. They’d simply have to haul themselves*up to 30 miles*round trip to one of the two remaining precincts.
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Paul Sotello - Since so much shit comes out of her mouth, does a blowjob count as anal?...
 
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Hoid said:
Worst case prediction the dems gain 20 seats

Best case 70 - then its bye bye White Natty Prez.
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https://politicalwire.com/2018/08/22/dnc-detected-attempt-to-hack-voter-database/

DNC Detected Attempt to Hack Voter Database
August 22, 2018 at 12:47 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 36 Comments

The DNC contacted the FBI “after it detected what it believes was the beginning of a sophisticated attempt to hack into its voter database,” CNN reports.

“The DNC was alerted in the early hours of Tuesday morning by a cloud service provider and a security research firm that a fake login page had been created in an attempt to gather usernames and passwords that would allow access to the party’s database.”

“The page was designed to look like the access page Democratic Party officials and campaigns across the country use to log into a service called Votebuilder, which hosts the database… adding the DNC believed it was designed to trick people into handing over their login details.”
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