Discussion for article #247581
Got to love the karma. I hope it’s true.
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Even in small increments it’s good news.
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Let’s make that happen, shall we?
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God I hope this is true - it would be awesome.
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It’s going to take “a Trump or a Cruz” just to sway a handful of House districts in a Presidential election year and then they gain it all back in the mid-term two years later.
that is how foolish the electorate is.
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I have said here and elsewhere that the down ticket races were the ones we needed to focus on. The real power to make changes in our government lies with Congress, not the White House. If Trump or Cruz were the nominee, this is even more crucial. Congress, both houses, act as not only a check-and-balance on the WH, they also act as a check-and-balance on each other. If the Senate can be returned to the Democrats, it can stop House radicalism and GOP WH extremism. If Clinton were elected, they can control her shifts back to GOP supported positions. Please while you follow the Presidential action, pay even closer attention to who is running for the House and Senate and make sure you get real progressives as candidates, not neo-liberal DINOs.
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Just another reason to support Hillary—she’s given over $20 million to the DNC for the purpose of helping down-ticket races.
Bernie has donated bupkis for the down-ticket races.
This shows clearly which candidate wants the Democratic party to succeed.
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Ah, hahahahahahaha! I love it! Happy Friday!
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The GOP panic meter just went to 11.
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I don’t think we have any idea how much or how little appeal Trump will have in a General Election against a person the RWNJs have demonized for 20 years.
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I posted this elsewhere, but it fits better here…
It may make sense to normal people that McConnell would cave on Garland. The risk of a GOP debacle in November gets greater and greater every week, and a moderately progressive jurist now should look a lot better to them than a more liberal jurist later that the new Dem president could pick unfettered by a Tea Party senate.
Yet McConnell is more fearful of his very real Trump/tea bagger base now than the mere risk of something worse in the future. As Lindsay Graham said, the GOP has gone “batshit crazy”, and normal rules do not apply.
I think McConnell and establishment Repugs have figured out the party needs to go through a kind of party cleansing. Only a debacle as bad or worse than 1964 can leave reasonable Repugs (if there are any left) in a position of strength to pick up the pieces and re-build from the base up. I recall Goldwater losing in large part in 1964 because he refused to disavow his John Birch Society volunteers and supporters. Now neo-Nazis and white supremacists are openly
working for Trump, and he too will not disavow them.
Get ready. I think November will be kind to anyone running with a “D” after
his/her name.
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It’s the big gamble, isn’t it? Get the most batshit insane and unlikable GOTPer out there and roll the dice. 90% chance we win big, 10% chance the world suffers for at least a generation.
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Not only down ticket Federal Races, we need to focus on State legislatures and Govs to. The Koch’s have been spending freely on these Races and kicking our asses.
The other problem is all the Dem consultants we have don’t have a clue how to get Democrats to vote.
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@DJNoll Exactly. Remember, it was the GOP state legislatures that gerrymandered cong districts in such a way after the 2010 census that voters nationwide voted for the Dem something like 1.3 mil more but lost the House by 30 some seats. We need bi-partisan statewide commissions like Iowa has to assure one man one vote.
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Ha! More please!
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Maybe, like the Trumpies are jettisoning the traditional Right Wing talking points, Moderates and Indies don’t really care about all the fake Clinton scandals.
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Right. This is why the election needs to be about him. With neo-Nazis like Duke and violent white supremacists playing a very visible role in his campaign, nonsense like e-mails and Benghazi will pale in comparison to Trump’s extremist ties.
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Hopefully. Depends on how the media chooses to present it, really.
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Democrats need to have candidates for all 435 Congressional districts. And they need them now!
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