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Come on Tuesday, just get it over with so I can start worrying about 2016.
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this election year has been a bumpy ride for both parties
Well, yes.
But given that it was expected to be plain sailing for the GOP and a wipeout for the Dems, that fact alone tells a huge story that the MSM and even the blogosphere is continuing to ignore.
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Thank goodness. After 10 million jobs created, a 9,300-point increase in the Dow Jones, the longest economic expansion in American history, an unemployment rate that’s gone from 10.3 to 5.9 percent, record corporate profits, a deficit reduced by two-thirds, affordable health care and the death of Osama Bin Laden, it’s comforting to know that our long national nightmare is nearly over.
And just think about what this President was going to terrorize us with next. A minimum wage increase. Clean energy and a sustainable planet. Immigration reform. For the love of God, just think about what this monster was prepared to do to this Exceptional country.
I’m just so grateful that we’ll soon have conservatives in power who know what this country needs – more tax cuts for billionaires, more drilling and fracking, Jesus in biology class and loaded guns in every hand.
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Modern leadership is all about endlessly and pointlessly ringing the land line telephones of older, contributing supporters all weekend long just before an election.
It’s like parents jamming the phones of their collegiate children only as exams begin.
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I can’t shake the feeling that it won’t make one damn bit of difference whether we have a small Republican or Democratic majority in the senate. How does that change the fact that the house doesn’t do and won’t do a goddamned thing?
Polls don’t foretell the future, they just let you know how hard you’ll have to work for your desired outcome. Of course, if you’re in one of these states and not working for your candidate, these polls probably do foretell the future. As I’ve knocked on mostly-minority “non-likely” voter doors and heard a steady stream of, “Yes, I already voted,” “Yes, I’m going to early vote,” “Yes, November 4 is circled on my calendar,” “Yes, I would like a ride to the polls,” I have to believe we’re going to win it here in Georgia.
The good news is, if you haven’t stepped in and done any work yet, today and tomorrow are the most critical opportunities to get involved, so it’s not too late to help your candidate over the top by any means. Get out there and do something!
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With the Republicans taking over the Senate, that portion of the American electorate who do not keep up with current events and politics will be forced to take note of how they “govern” and thereby will come out in droves for the 2016 election to get this democracy back on track.
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Or we could get out the vote that shows up in Presidential years but usually not midterms, and avoid two years of totally unnecessary hell. There ARE enough dem votes out there to win every one of these races. Some of them just have to be worked for a little harder than others. So let’s get out there and work! Canvassing in my area starts today at 2:00, and I’ll be at it until well after the sun goes down. Go thou and do likewise!
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I want the dems to win and I have already cast my straight democratic absentee ballot but I will tell you that I wish I could line each and every one of these pussy dems and give them a piece of my mind for running away from the President, conservadems notwithstanding. Plenty of blue state dems took the same stance and it pisses me off. The party should be ashamed of itself.
We lose races because we don’t stand up for what we believe and verbalize it = unlike the fucking republicans who are proud to boast of their racist, homophobic, women hating and poor hating policies.
I am totally disgusted
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Fair points, and I certainly wish Nunn was more progressive, in terms of both her rhetoric and her real views. In helping her, though, I also have a chance to help downticket representative candidate Brian Reese, who is a truly progressive African American. I would love to put him in the seat being vacated by Jack Kingston and once held by notorious blue dog John Barrow. There’s real good we can do this time, and it’s worth fighting for.
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More like “do-or-derp” and I’m sad to say they have almost certainly derped.
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The MSM is not about telling stories as they exist; it’s about manufacturing them to be perceived the way they want them perceived. The MSM has been in the tank for the GOP/Teatrolls from the get-go this year and has sold a narrative all about the potential take-over of the Senate, the “fundamentals” of mid-terms favoring the GOP/Teatrolls, etc. No matter how bumpy the ride or how close the elections or how tiny the majority the GOP/Teatrolls win in the Senate, the narrative will immediately shift to “oh what a mandate the GOP/Teatrolls now have…Amurikkka has turned its back on Obama completely.”
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You are probably right. But it is why there is now a whole generation growing up for whom the idea of the MSM being useless GOP shills is a default assumption of how it has always been, rather than the sad lesson hard learned that it has been for the older generation.
Required GOP approval of any new SCOTUS nominee, with several justices currently over 75. Probable elimination of EPA’s CO2-regulating authority attached to must-pass budget legislation, with Jim Inhofe the new chair of the Committee on Environment and Public Works. Promised investigations of the administration’s supposed executive overreach, with impeachment seen as worth pursuing now that the GOP has the Senate. Just for starters. Fercrissake, vote, and tell all your friends.