Thread: 2018 US Midterm Elections

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Mate I'm talking about the next two years, you're talking about the next 20.

Not even the next twenty. It is changing so fast now every two years it is completely different. In two years this will be in play in Florida....

Florida restores voting rights to more than 1 million felons



https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/07/polit...hts/index.html

the democrats won a larger percentage of the popular vote this year than the republicans did in the 'tea party wave' of 2010 when they won 63 seats.

how is that possible?

gerrymandering.

fortunately the dems won the races for governor is several more states....and the courts have finally started to weigh in on gerrymandering being unconstitutional.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

And upset his base?

Yes, it's too much.

He will milk and spin the fuck out of it.

And hope another SCOTUS justice pops their clogs.

He blames democrats for obstruction now. Winning the house isn't going to change that.

i'm guessing we're not going to hear much about 'the caravan' anymore.

on second thought....miraculously 'the caravan' will be back and ready to 'invade' in october 2020.

Wow. Woke up this morning to a toss up Abrams/Kemp. Too close to call and she isn’t conceding. Lots of ballots not counted.

Go Stacey!


But, that jerk Kemp is overseeing the election. How third world is that?

Originally Posted by bsnub

Tonight a black female is in a too close to call

and what does that say about seppo women ? or the 2 party , same as it always is , non representative of the persons , system ?

Georgia is a close one. No matter who wins sure to be a recount.

so, what do the results mean?

1. trump still has the senate to confirm the judges he appoints. besides the business tax cuts and deregulation to put the economy in a higher gear than in the obama recovery, confirming conservative judges is the biggest accomplishment for trump in the eyes of conservative voters.

2. trump will try to work with the dems on an infrastructure deal like he already did on the opioid bill.

3. try again on an immigration bill that solves the problems always in the way of a solution: make sure the border is controlled before giving amnesty to the illegals already in america. trump will try the "art of the deal" again now that he has more senators who are trump supporters on his side. the dems have historically always been for enforcing the border, too; so, a deal is possible, IMO.

4. pelosi is politically smart and will try to keep the eyes on 2020 and not overplay their hand in investigating trump. if they overplay their hand, the house will go back to the republicans and trump will have an easy time defeating a dem in 2020.

the dems overplaying their hand in the kavanaugh hearings is obviously what led to the republicans getting a well needed boost in energy from the base to get out and vote. the dems might have taken the senate, if it weren't for that major mistake, IMO.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...y_Donald_Trump

As of November 4, 2018, the United States Senate has confirmed 84 Article III judges nominated by President Trump, including 2 Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, 29 judges for the United States Courts of Appeals, 53 judges for the United States District Courts, and 0 judges for the United States Court of International Trade

Originally Posted by Norton

He better work with Dems to undo the damage he did when he ended Obama care rather than fixing the few bits that needed fixing.

How do you figure he ended Obamacare - 'tis alive and well.

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^ It is alive but not well in the state of Georgia. I have a good policy with BCBS this year but they are discontinuing that kind of policy. What is left to chose from is the dregs.

So FRT turns out to a bluffing, huffing and puffing expert on US politics? Just like Earl.

Abrams, Kemp await more ballots in Georgia governor’s race

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s hotly contested and potentially historic governor’s race may not be over yet, with Democrat Stacey Abrams and Republican Brian Kemp awaiting the final accounting of absentee and provisional ballots.


With reported votes approaching 3.8 million, Kemp was just shy of 51 percent, but Abrams and her campaign said there were enough ballots outstanding, particularly absentee ballots in heavily Democratic metro Atlanta counties, to bring the Republican below the majority threshold required for victory.

MORE. https://apnews.com/28e4e4d89f914c0faf909071e61526e3


Kemp is the one in charge of counting the ballots. What could go wrong?

Originally Posted by bowie

How do you figure he ended Obamacare - 'tis alive and well.

Alive but far from well.

That is too fucking funny.

If the election for the governor of Wisconsin goes to a recount — a prospect raised by supporters of Gov. Scott Walker who lost to Tony Evers by more than 30,000 votes —the rules will be different than the last time a recount was held.
That's because Walker and the Republican-led state Legislatures tightened the state's recount law last year.
The new state law says that a candidate who loses by 1 percent or less can demand a recount.

https://eu.jsonline.com/story/news/p...16/1918417002/

One from left field ...

Dead brothel owner Dennis Hof wins Nevada race for Republicans


Nevada brothel owner Dennis Hof died on October 16 after his 72nd birthday party

A brothel-owning, evangelical Christian-backed Republican candidate who died last month has been elected to the Nevada state legislature.

Key points:

• Under Nevada law, Dennis Hof remained on the ballot even after he died
• He still attracted 68 per cent of the vote, beating Democrat candidate Lesia Romanov
• Election officials will appoint a candidate from the same party to replace Mr Hof

Dennis Hof, 72, defeated female Democratic candidate and educator Lesia Romanov in the race for Nevada's 36th Assembly District, earning about 68 per cent of the vote.

County officials said they would appoint a replacement candidate from the same party for his seat.

Originally Posted by bowie

Obamacare

It should be noted that deep red Idaho voted for Obamacare by expanding medicaid.

Originally Posted by David48atTD

One from left field ...

Dead brothel owner Dennis Hof wins Nevada race for Republicans


Nevada brothel owner Dennis Hof died on October 16 after his 72nd birthday party

A brothel-owning, evangelical Christian-backed Republican candidate who died last month has been elected to the Nevada state legislature.

Key points:

• Under Nevada law, Dennis Hof remained on the ballot even after he died
• He still attracted 68 per cent of the vote, beating Democrat candidate Lesia Romanov
• Election officials will appoint a candidate from the same party to replace Mr Hof

Dennis Hof, 72, defeated female Democratic candidate and educator Lesia Romanov in the race for Nevada's 36th Assembly District, earning about 68 per cent of the vote.

County officials said they would appoint a replacement candidate from the same party for his seat.

This should be in the "Only In America" file. It defies logic, morals, and what democracy is about.
Let me guess: The said law was devised by a Republican state government. It's an altrnative to gerrymandering; If you have a popular candidate, let him be elected even when dead and simply replace him with a non-elected person from your party, a person who may not have won the ballot if he/she had stood.

A brothel-owning, evangelical Christian-backed Republican candidate who died last month has been elected to the Nevada state legislature.

That one bit there says so much about just how screwed up US politics in general and the GOP specifically are currently.

Is there a bigger group of hypocritical cnuts than evangelicals.

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Is there a bigger group of hypocritical cnuts than evangelicals.

...interesting that their belief system would consign the miscreant to hell as Whoremaster to the Devil...just another example of Christians turning their cheeks into a Linda Blair spin...

Exactly. The hypocrisy is breathtaking.

Anything and anyone as long as it supports their narrow-minded bigotry.