âHis swing district has slightly more Democrats than Republicansâ
great job, Dâs
I donât get this strategy of voting for people you hate and then spending all night at the Town Hall trying to mao-mao the guy into voting the opposite of the way he promised he would vote.
Coffman had a perfectly respectable opponent. They could have voted for her and be home watching TV right now.
âThose of you on the extreme left will never be satisfied until Trumpâ leaves office."
I wish they would define what the extreme left is. I hate that phrasing because it is a tactic to compartmentalize people for an effect. I gather it is anyone who does not agree with them.
I resemble that remark. Iâm sure heâd consider me âextreme Leftâ. But how can that be, when my views are shared by 50-90% of the populace, and his by maybe 10-40%? Seems a rather weird definition to me.
And anyone who voted against him should just sit down and shut up, is that it?
Despite itâs obvious appeal to the GOP, fascism is not a stable arrangement and a distraction from the challenge that all political parties face at the moment, coming up with an economic model appropriate to current conditions. Bullshit about making things great no longer flies with most Americans.
Nice try Mike âŚ
But I wish I could of voted against ya last time âŚand I havenât changed my mind â
Except âŚNow I wouldnât vote for ya for dog catcher either â
My rep. is Tipton âŚeven worse â
I donât think thatâs what chethandy meant. Itâs rather that if everyone who hates Coffman voted for his opponent instead of for him, then the opponent would have won and the voters wouldnât be so angry.
So the GOP is realizing that just because they control the majority of seats and the majority of states, theyâre not really a majority party. Good, serves them right for gerrymandering their way to the top and using those AstroTurfTM grassroots groups as their base.
The âtorchedâ was figurative? Pity.
She noted that a Democratic state lawmaker who may challenge Coffman in 2018 planned to hold a town hall on the same campus Wednesday evening with no restrictions on attendance or questions.
We need a whole lot more of this. Like 200 or so more.
@antisachetdethe, I think âtorchingâ or some derivative is the word of the day at TPM:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-threatens-to-torch-more-republicans
Nate Silverâs analysis of the Kansas special election is that if we see that same sort of shift across the nation, republicans would lose 122 seats next fall. 
Nate has had his issues before, but even if heâs half right, thatâd be great.
Donât forget to join (because Lord knows the DNCC/DNC isnât gonna do anything)
I wonât get into the actual numbers at this point, but I strongly believe the general trend he is noting is very real. Dems will be showing up in bigger numbers than they have in past midterms, while republicans will be showing up in much lower numbers.
The KS seat went for Trump by 20 pointsâŚthey held on to it a squeaker. That type of shift scares the crap out of republicans. That type of shift in KANSAS pushes them into panic mode. This same trend is consistent with the early voting patterns we are seeing in GA-06 as well.
The data point that I am going to be very curious to see is, are we seeing something similar with regards to fund raising? If voters are turning against them, AND donors are tightening their wallets, while opening them to usâŚ2018 will be a historic bloodbath.
Agreed - to be honest, Iâve never really donated to a campaign before, but the site I mentioned above, along with one other, is getting a regular monthly donation from me. The site I mentioned is not funding any of the special elections (I wrote them and asked yesterday), because they canât by the provisions of their organization. Iâve also asked them, when they can, to keep showing the contributors where the money is going on the site; whose campaign is benefiting from it.
I donât trust the DNC with anything anymore.
Iâd like to see how the Dem candidates do in the rest of the specials before I get too excited.
ETA:
Dems will be showing up in bigger numbers than they have in past midterms, while republicans will be showing up in much lower numbers.
On this one, I ever so slightly disagree, Remember the graphics after the 2016 election? The same number of GOP voters showed up in each of the last three elections (including 2016). However, the Dem voter numbers dropped pretty drastically and smoothly from 2008 to 2012 to 2016. Have we learned that sitting out elections is detrimental? Stay tuned.
OT Davey, but are you the one who posted the excerpt from Tell-tale Heart? Was gonna cite it but wasnât sure.
I am a big Poe fan, but nopeâŚit wasnât me 
IMO, the DNC is better suited for building infrastructure, not donating directly to candidates. We are having a similar discussion here in our local DEC, and the general feeling isâŚspend our money on building our grass roots organization, and let the candidates take care of funding themselves. My own personal view is something of a mix on that, as local candidates (munis) need help with funding, but Federal/state level candidates should be able to feed themselves.
My point here is that, keep an eye on what Perez and Ellison are actually doing. The message they seem to be going with is to support grass roots movements across the countryâŚand if thatâs true, they will need help putting that sort of program together. But always donate your candidate monies directly to the candidates you support.
Iâve been keeping an eye on GA-06. And as far as early voting goes, the trend I indicated is most defintely holding true. Overall voting is down from 2014 (as is expected for a special election), but Dem turnout is way above republican turn out. Cook has now shifted this race to Toss Up, with a decent chance that Ossoff might win it outright without a run off.
http://cookpolitical.com/story/10306
These are special elections, howeverâŚand should be viewed with a healthy amount of skepticism. But the trend is definitely worth keeping an eye on.
There is still a very good chance, due to their organization, that the RNC could swoop in as they did in KS and ensure their seat is retained. The model has worked for them. I expect them to continue that operation. The thing is, since the make-up of GA-06 is a good bit different than the one in KS, maybe it wonât be as effective? We can only hope.
In the meantime, if one knows ANYone in GA-06, implore them to do their civic duty and send a message to the GOP all in one shot.