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Fuck yes! Great news!Quote:
Originally Posted by S Landreth
Opinion polls mean squit, and in fact may be dangerous.
They need to get voters off their arses and past all these Republican attempts to rig the votes.
Georgia will be 50. Walker doesn’t have a chance. So a new 51
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) is trailing her Republican opponent, Adam Laxalt, by 2 points in her bid for reelection, according to a new CNN poll released on Thursday.
With just over four weeks left until Election Day, 48 percent of likely voters said they support Laxalt, compared to the 46 percent that said they back Cortez Masto, according to the poll.
They’ve been wasting money for 3 months in NH
The GOP’s Senate campaign arm is reportedly pulling millions of dollars out of the New Hampshire Senate race and redirecting it to other states.
Politico’s Natalie Allison reported Friday that the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) said the move was a result of other ad money being spent in the state to support Don Bolduc, the Republican nominee for Senate who is attempting to defeat Sen. Maggie Hassan (D). The committee is diverting the funding to races in Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Nevada.
The announcement comes as Bolduc has faced controversy in his candidacy and his poll numbers consistently trail Hassan’s.
Bolduc, a retired Army general, won the Republican nomination last month over the more moderate establishment favorite, state Senate President Chuck Morse. Bolduc falsely claimed that former President Trump won the 2020 presidential election and once called New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) a “Chinese communist sympathizer.”
He reversed his position on the 2020 election results after winning the nomination, saying that the election was not stolen and Trump lost to President Biden.
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Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R) blamed former President Trump for embattled GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker’s campaign on Thursday as Walker’s Senate bid remains engulfed in scandal.
“[Georgia] let down the entire country,” Duncan told CNN. “Donald Trump led us down a rabbit trail post-election because he was too consumed with trying to save face from losing his election. And he ran us down a trail, and we screwed up.”
Walker’s campaign has been on defense since Monday, when The Daily Beast reported that the anti-abortion candidate had encouraged and paid for a then-girlfriend’s abortion in 2009. Walker strongly denied the allegations, which The Hill has not independently verified.
However, The Daily Beast followed up with a second story revealing that the women making the allegations was the mother of one of Walker’s children. The former NFL star’s campaign continued to struggle when his son Christian Walker, a conservative influencer, publicly criticized his father and accused him of lying about the incident.
Trump, who endorsed Walker, defended the candidate, claiming that he was “being slandered and maligned by the Fake News Media and obviously, the Democrats.”
Leaders of Oklahoma’s five largest Native American tribes are endorsing Democratic gubernatorial candidate Joy Hofmeister in her bid to oust sitting Gov. Kevin Stitt (R).
Representatives from the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Muscogee, Choctaw and Seminole Nations have cited Hofmeister’s respect for tribal sovereignty — a matter of contention between the tribes and the incumbent.
Hofmeister, who serves as Oklahoma’s state superintendent of public instruction, is a former Republican who swapped party affiliations to campaign as a Democratic challenger for Stitt’s gubernatorial seat.
The Five Tribes said in a release circulated in local media that November’s gubernatorial election in the state is “the most important in generations for all Oklahomans,” and said the stakes spurred the rare collective move to endorse Hofmeister’s campaign.
“When it comes to working with the tribal nations in Oklahoma, she understands our sovereignty is not a partisan issue or a threat, but instead is a chance to forge new partnerships while strengthening those that already exist because Oklahomans thrive together when we all work together,” the Five Tribes said.
The Five Tribes are set to announce their backing at a press conference Tuesday, according to the release. The Monday announcement comes on Indigenous Peoples Day in the U.S.
Cook Political Report rates the Oklahoma governor race as “likely Republican.”
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Physicians across Pennsylvania are politicking in unprecedented ways with less than a month to go before the midterm election, making the case that the abortion restrictions proposed by Republicans would threaten one of the state’s most important economic sectors.
They’re flanking Democrats at campaign rallies and knocking on doors in flippable state legislative districts. They are registering patients and colleagues to vote. At town halls and in ads, they warn that doctors, residents and medical students will avoid a state where they could be prosecuted for helping a patient terminate a pregnancy — damaging one of the largest and most recession-proof pieces of the economy.
Typically cautious establishment groups, such as the Pennsylvania Medical Society, are also sounding the alarm about “the potential criminalization of physicians” and urging lawmakers considering new abortion restrictions to “stay out of the exam room,” while doctors and doctors-in-training are forming newer advocacy groups like Medical Students for Choice, Physicians for Democratic Principles, Physicians for Shapiro and Fetterman, the Committee to Protect Health Care and Vot-ER.
“This is the first time I’ve really seen the doctor community really activate like this,” said Lisa Goldstein, a pediatric psychiatrist who has run a shoestring get-out-the-vote operation out of her garage in the Philadelphia suburbs for the past few years. “Doctors are usually very careful in their public life, but there’s none of that feeling right now. We’re out there saying what we believe.”
It’s a major shift for Pennsylvania’s medical community — the fourth-largest job sector in the state, employing more than 400,000 people — as doctors and medical organizations are usually hesitant to wade into politics, careful to maintain good relations with both the Democratic governor and Republican legislature.
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Acyn - Ryan: I’m for Ohio. I don’t kiss anyone’s ass like him. Ohio needs an ass kicker not an ass kisser https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1579622218388344832
History.
Tim Ryan - Remember this? https://twitter.com/TimRyan/status/1579620172289265664
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- Cortez Masto and Laxalt neck and neck in Nevada Senate race — CBS News Battleground Tracker poll
Another battleground state, another toss-up contest. In one of Republicans' best pick-up opportunities, GOP challenger Adam Laxalt and Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto are neck and neck. It's a nationalized race where voters are aware of the stakes: eight in 10 of each candidate's supporters see their votes as helping their party win Senate control.
Cortez Masto is facing some of the same economic headwinds as other Democratic candidates around the country. Most Nevada voters say the state's economy is in bad shape, and she's trailing among voters hurt the most by inflation and gas prices.
As an incumbent, Cortez Masto's record offers her no clear advantage among voters here: they divide on whether the policies she's supported have done more to help or hurt Nevada. Most independents don't think they've helped, and they are backing Laxalt.
In a state where the tourism industry was rocked by the COVID pandemic, most voters say their finances were impacted by the pandemic and the measures taken to fight it. Three in four report higher prices now being difficult, including four in 10 who say it's been a hardship, slightly higher than the percentage for voters nationally. Added to this, Nevada has among the highest gas prices in the country, and most say that it's impacting their families, including half who say the hike in the price of gas is having a "a lot" of impact.
Republicans have led on the issue of the economy and inflation in other Senate battleground contests, and we see that here: Laxalt has an advantage over Cortez Masto on voters who prioritize those issues, which are the top concerns in the state.
Cortez Masto and Laxalt neck and neck in Nevada Senate race — CBS News Battleground Tracker poll - CBS News
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About those gas prices/inflation.........
McCarthy: No 'blank check' for Ukraine if GOP wins majority | AP News
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Extra
The Nevada race has generated a flurry of news in recent days, underscoring the high stakes. Last week, more than a dozen of Laxalt’s relatives endorsed Cortez Masto, something the Republican dismissed, referring to those family members as “Democrats.” A similar number of Laxalt’s relatives also decried his decision to run for governor in 2018, a race he lost. Laxalt, the grandson of former Nevada governor and U.S. Sen. Paul Laxalt, served as the state’s attorney general from 2015 to 2019.
Nevada Senate race in a dead heat - POLITICO
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It's all going to go tits up because of all these voter suppression laws.
Just a portion of Oklahoma’s debate last night. Go to 1:10 into the video
An exchange during Wednesday night’s Oklahoma gubernatorial debate underscored some common misperceptions about crime in the United States.
In the race, which polling shows to be surprisingly competitive for the conservative state, Democrat Joy Hofmeister addressed incumbent Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt during the pair’s lone scheduled debate.
“The fact is the rates of violent crime in Oklahoma are higher under your watch than New York and California,” said Hofmeister, the Oklahoma superintendent of public instruction, who switched parties last year. “That’s a fact.”
Stitt interjected “That’s not true” and laughed. When Hofmeister tried to continue, Stitt, still laughing, addressed the audience, saying, “Oklahomans, do you believe we have higher crime than New York or California? That’s what she just said.” The back-and-forth came after a lengthy and contentious discussion of the death penalty and sentence commutations.
John Roman, a senior fellow at NORC at the University of Chicago, told Yahoo News that Hofmeister’s numbers were accurate. Citing FBI data, Roman said that “Oklahoma is 12th in violence per 100,000 residents and 7th in property crime per 100,000 residents. California is similar but lower for each, and New York is much safer and below the national averages in both property and violence. Overall, putting violent crime rates and property crime rates together, Oklahoma is on the list of the top 10 highest crime rate states.”
Frankly she might have done better if she'd actually quoted some numbers and a source and said that, like all Republicans, he's just a liar. Not punchy enough.
Oz, Fetterman in dead heat ahead of first debate
Democrat John Fetterman and Republican Mehmet Oz are squaring off in their first and only debate Tuesday as the Pennsylvania Senate race is beginning to tighten.
A new CBS News/YouGov poll, released Tuesday, shows Fetterman, the state’s lieutenant governor, with a 2-point lead over Oz, a celebrity doctor, among likely voters.
The survey shows Fetterman carrying 51% versus Oz holding 49% with a 4.4% margin of error.
Fetterman had been up by as much as 11% in a previous survey.
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51 doesn’t look as good any longer. Might be just 50.
“Rising crime. Rising prices for groceries and gas. The progressive agenda of Joe Biden and Catherine Masto are bankrupting businesses, making it harder for families to make ends meet,” the narrator says to open the ad, titled “Fight For You.”
“I will fight their progressive agenda. I fought for you as attorney general. I’ll fight for you in Washington,” Laxalt says in Spanish, who is not fluent, adding that he approves the ad “because you deserve a safer, affordable Nevada with better schools.”
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- Democrats deploy Biden and Obama to lock down Pennsylvania
President Biden and former President Obama will barnstorm the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh areas on Nov. 5 with the party's nominees for Pennsylvania governor and Senate, according to a Democrat with direct knowledge of the plans.
Why it matters: In the final days before the midterms, Democrats are deploying their party's biggest assets in Pennsylvania. The state, which was critical to Biden's 2020 election victory, could determine control of the Senate next year.
Lt. Gov. John Fetterman is locked in a close Senate race with Republican Mehmet Oz, while the current attorney general, Josh Shapiro, has maintained a lead over state Sen. Doug Mastriano in the governor's race.
The big picture: While Biden has been forgoing large political rallies that became the signature midterm political move for his predecessors, he has made several trips this year to Pennsylvania, where Fetterman hasn’t shied away from appearing with him.
On Oct. 28, Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will fundraise with Fetterman at a Pennsylvania Democratic Party dinner. Biden visited the state last week as well.
Biden flipped Pennsylvania from red to blue in 2020 and feels like he has a fingertip feel for the state, where he based his campaign.
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- Amy Siskind - New Yorkers: need that final push to vote? If Zeldin wins, he can pardon Trump from all New York charges - and we can expect that for a man loyal enough to vote against certifying the 2020 election, that is his intent. https://twitter.com/Amy_Siskind/stat...04224425525248
How the fuck is a worthless market stall trader like Oz even still in the race?
50? Might be in question now.
Second woman says Ga. Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker paid for abortion
A second woman is accusing Georgia Senate nominee Herschel Walker of pressuring her into having an abortion, calling the Republican a "hypocrite" for campaigning against abortion access while allegedly pushing her to get one in 1993.
"Herschel Walker is a hypocrite and he is not fit to be a U.S. senator," an anonymous woman who went by the name Jane Doe said in a Wednesday press conference. "We don't need people in the U.S. Senate who profess one thing and do another."
The woman is declining to share her identity out of safety concerns, according to her attorney Gloria Allred, and came forward after hearing Walker deny allegations from another woman who said he paid for her to have an abortion. NPR has not been able to independently corroborate either woman's claims.
Jane Doe said she had an affair with Walker while he was married to his first wife Cindy Grossman from 1987 until the alleged abortion in 1993, and claimed Walker drove her to an abortion clinic and paid for the procedure after she backed out of an initial attempt.
"I went to a clinic in Dallas, but I simply couldn't go through with it," the woman said. "I left the clinic in tears. When I told Herschel what had happened, he was upset and said that he was going to go back with me to the clinic the next day for me to have the abortion."
The woman, who said she is a registered independent but voted for former President Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020, said she was motivated to speak out after seeing Walker deny allegations made in a series of stories by The Daily Beast that he pressured a then-girlfriend to have two abortions.
"Particularly, I saw him state that the woman's claims were not true because he never signed any cards using the letter 'H,'" she said. "I knew that was not true because he had often signed letters to me using H."
During a press conference, Allred shared several items that Doe had from her relationship with Walker, including a photo of Walker in her hotel room while he was at a training camp in Minnesota, letters from Walker to the woman and her parents, and an alleged voicemail that Walker left while in France for the Winter Olympics in 1992.
"What I can do is, I'm trying to call you back while I'm here, but I have to call you, like, early in the morning cause it's late at night there when I'm up and the restaurant is open," Walker allegedly says in a voicemail recording. "But I keep trying to call you. I want to say I love you."
Walker has continued to deny any and all claims he paid for an abortion, including on the campaign trail Wednesday. Just before the second woman's allegations became public, Walker deflected questions from reporters by dismissing the story before specific claims had been made.
"You know, guys, I'm done with this foolishness," he said after an event in northeast Georgia. "I've already told people this is a lie."
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, who was campaigning with Walker and is one of several Senate Republicans who have made the trek to Georgia in hopes of winning the majority this November, attacked Allred and tried to downplay the accusations.
"People here are not going to tolerate it, there's going to be a backlash in Georgia," Graham said. "This is coming from L.A. It's coming from an activist Democratic celebrity lawyer who went to the 2016 convention for Hillary Clinton, and people in Georgia are not this dumb."
Walker's blanket denial of ever paying for an abortion comes as the first-time candidate has sought to walk back his hardline stance on abortion in a state that has recently seen top races decided by tens of thousands of votes.
The Trump-backed candidate previously expressed support for a federal abortion ban with no exceptions for rape, incest or the life of the mother, but falsely claimed in a recent debate that he always preferred Georgia's new law that effectively bans most abortions after cardiac activity is detected, around six weeks into pregnancy.
Walker has lagged in fundraising and most polls to Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, who has largely framed the abortion stories as part of a pattern of false statements and exaggerations surrounding Walker's campaign, like overstating his personal backstory and business accomplishments.
"We know Herschel Walker has a problem with the truth, a problem answering questions, and a problem taking responsibility for his actions," Warnock's deputy campaign manager Rachel Petri said in a statement. "Today's new report is just the latest example of a troubling pattern we have seen play out again and again and again. Herschel Walker shouldn't be representing Georgians in the U.S. Senate."
It is not yet clear how the allegations about Walker or his vehement denials will affect the Senate race, especially as more than one million Georgians have already cast their ballots.
Polling conducted after the initial stories about Walker's first alleged abortion payment saw support for the Republican slightly decline, though oftentimes within the margin of error. A recent Monmouth survey of Georgia voters already found a majority of voters have an unfavorable opinion of Walker, including a notable number of Republicans.
If no candidate wins more than 50% of the vote, the race would head to a Dec. 6 runoff that could once again decide control of the U.S. Senate.
The problem is that the MAGA wankers will accept any behaviour as long as their chimps get elected.
If a Democrat did half the things they turn a blind eye to, they'd be out on the streets.
If Allred is on her side, there’s no doubt she has her ducks in a row.
Obama cuts ad for Pennsylvania Democrats
Former President Barack Obama cut an ad for Democrats in Pennsylvania ahead of his plans to barnstorm the key battleground state with President Biden in the days before the midterm elections, Axios has learned.
Driving the news: In the ad, the former president cites two key issues that Democrats have been hammering on this cycle: the willingness of some Republicans to help overturn elections, and abortion rights.
- "In Pennsylvania you’ve got some important choices to make this year,” he says in the 15-second spot, adding that "the fate of our democracy and a woman’s right to choose are on the line."
- The ad was paid for by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
Between the lines: Obama is lending his star-power to Democrats across the country as Biden, Vice President Harris and many other national figures largely keep their distance in highly competitive races.
- In addition to Pennsylvania, he's set to campaign in Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin this week.
I know there's a good chance of them winning in Georgia again if they can get the African American voting bloc out.Quote:
Originally Posted by S Landreth
But to be honest the voter suppression measures are going to make life very difficult.
You do know that Hershel Walker is a black American college and professional football star. He is an idiot and a liar though.Quote:
Originally Posted by harrybarracuda
Well golly gosh, is he really? Can't imagine why they'd push him to run in Georgia, can you?Quote:
Originally Posted by aging one
:rolleyes:
50 - still in question
Hope the Dems show up
He will win in Georgia and with those fine qualifications will be nominated as the first black Republican Presidential candidate!Quote:
Originally Posted by aging one
And then the Idiocracy prophecy will be fulfilled.Quote:
Originally Posted by Norton
Well, I just hope the Biden administration is given the caning it deserves. Yours truly, a once was Democrat.
You silly liar, you've never been a democrat, you've always been a totalitarian brown noser. Probably a trumpanzee as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by sabang
A second woman alleges Herschel Walker paid for her abortion
A second woman has alleged that Herschel Walker, the Republican nominee in Georgia's Senate race, paid for her abortion.
The big picture: Walker has taken a strong anti-abortion stance in the hotly contested Senate race during this year's midterm election cycle, and has denied both allegations against him.
Driving the news: The woman, who was identified by attorney Gloria Allred as "Jane Doe," during a news conference Wednesday claimed Walker had "pressured" her into getting an abortion after she learned she was pregnant in April 1993.
- "I was devastated because I felt that I had been pressured into having an abortion."
- The woman said she was motivated to come forward because she had seen Walker deny another woman's allegations that he paid for her to have an abortion.
- "Particularly, I saw him state that the woman's claims were not true because he never signed any cards using the letter 'H,'" Doe said.
- "I knew that was not true because he had often signed letters to me using 'H.'"
- She said she preferred to remain anonymous for “fear of reprisals” against herself, her family and her livelihood.
Details: Doe said she had begun an intimate relationship with Walker in the late '80s in Dallas while he was playing football for the Cowboys.
- "After discussing the pregnancy with Herschel several times, he encouraged me to have an abortion and gave me the money to do so," Doe said.
- "I went to a clinic in Dallas, but I simply couldn't go through with it. I left the clinic in tears. When I told Herschel what had happened, he was upset and said that he was going to go back with me to the clinic the next day for me to have the abortion. He then drove me to the clinic the following day and waited for hours in the parking lot until I came out."
- "He then drove me to get medications and supplies as prescribed and then drove me home."
Of note: Doe, who said she is a registered independent and voted for former President Trump in 2016 and 2020, said, "I do not believe that Herschel is morally fit to be a U.S. senator."
What he's saying: Walker has denied the latest allegation, accusing Democrats of "doing and saying anything they can to win this seat."
- "I’ve already told people this is a lie, and I’m not going to entertain, continue to carry a lie along,” Walker said at a Wednesday campaign stop.
It won't matter. Like the lying kunt that endorsed him all Walker has to do is deny, deny, deny.Quote:
Originally Posted by S Landreth
Something to ponder re elections in the US.
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Let's not forget that black voters also have a very religious side to them ... Abortion is a no-no
Not the case any more as they are more likely to vote Democrat regardless of the abortion position.Quote:
Originally Posted by panama hat
maybe a little different in GeorgiaQuote:
Originally Posted by panama hat
- A new poll released Wednesday shows that a majority of Georgians — particularly Black voters — continue to oppose the state’s new restrictive abortion law.
Nearly 62% objected overall, with about 54% saying they strongly opposed it. Black respondents were the most adamantly against it, with 86.4% of them saying they firmly disapprove of the law.
When asked how a candidate’s position on abortion would factor into their decision-making at the ballot box, 47% of those surveyed — including 76% of Black respondents — said they are more likely to back someone who will protect access.
Seems you're correct and I stand corrected.Quote:
Originally Posted by harrybarracuda
Thank you, SLQuote:
Originally Posted by S Landreth
Black churches (yes, the churches are still segregated) in the south tend to be baptist and are more liberal than the Catholic Church or nutcase evangelicals, for example.
Less than a week and maybe not even 50
That's because the GOP voteriggers are voterigging.Quote:
Originally Posted by S Landreth
kind of wish it were true, but nope.
Looks more and more Joe will be faced with a GOP Senate and House for next 2 years. Nothing Joe wants passed will be and you can be sure a new House Select Committee will be formed to investigate Hunter Biden.
More division and finger pointing again.
^looks that way
Sabato’s Crystal Ball predicts GOP control of Senate with 51 seats
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Today. The Dems will lose the house and signs are pointing towards the Dems losing the senate also.
Dems need 50.
#49 – I doubt Oz wins.
#50 – After all that has come out during this election cycle about Walker it should frighten even Georgia voters. Hope all of the reports about a strong early voter turnout of Dems proves to be true.
#51 – would be extra but I don’t think Cortez Masto will pull it off. Hope I’m wrong
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For the next two years the republicans will try to repeal Obama Care (starting point will be 55), repeal Inflation Reduction Act., impeach Biden and maybe cut money going to Ukraine
Huge win for Fetterman in Pennsylvania! Big blow for Republicans.
Loss of Governorship and Senate seat doesn't bode well for GOP.
So glad Fetterman won. I’m hoping Warnock will win over that brain damaged Herchel Walker. I reckon Walker was banged about the head too much during his football career.