***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[elpablo21]

legit chance in December?

 

[stuntman mike]

my friend’s new phone case

 

[rolaholic]

 

[elpablo21]

 

[rolaholic]

Some conservatives have warned that Trumpism is not the best way to go about at a local and state level. Sounds like those conservatives have been vindicated tonight.

GOP candidates when tiny hands comes to town to campaign in the future:

Dude has got the Sadim touch

 

[gry60]

Some conservatives have warned that Trumpism is not the best way to go about at a local and state level. Sounds like those conservatives have been vindicated tonight.

Hard to be a ethnostate nationalist when your next door neighbor is a brown oncologist and grandma might need the "neighborhood discount" in the near future.

 

[Nike Jordan]

 

[RustyShackleford]

Dean Heller, you are next *** hole

 

[gry60]

GOP candidates when tiny hands comes to town to campaign in the future:

Dude has got the Sadim touch

The Mierdas touch.

 

[whywesteppin]

my friend’s new phone case

donald looking VERY dapper, as usual.

 

[elpablo21]

 

[superblytrife]

legit chance in December?

Nah. Alabama is a different animal.

I’ve seen far more signs for a Democrat candidate than I ever have, but I also live in arguably the most progressive region of AL (which isn’t saying a whole lot). It’s gonna take a miracle for Jones to win here. This is definitely Trump country.

 

[chao7]

 

[rolaholic]

More on Georgia



Both spots are in places that went for the manbaby

 

[gry60]

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/opinion/democrats-economic-policy.html

The party’s resident “sensible centrists” are horrified: “Has the entire Democratic Party forgotten the words ‘George McGovern’?” they cry. In column after column, they have been imploring their co-partisans to remember a fundamental fact: America is a center-right nation, where nearly 70 percent of voters are moderate or conservative, and just 25 percent are liberal. Over the past eight years, Democrats lost sight of this inconvenient truth — and lost control of more than 1,000 state legislative seats, the House, the Senate and the presidency.

This argument may sound coolheaded and pragmatic. But its core premises — that American voters are hostile to progressive economics and have punished the (increasingly left-wing) Democratic Party accordingly — actually rest on ideological conviction, not empirical evidence.

In truth, the Republican Party’s dominance has little to do with the American electorate’s “center-right” ideology. We know this for two simple reasons: First, the vast majority of that electorate has no ideology, whatsoever. And second, when polled on discrete policy questions, Americans consistently express majoritarian support for a left-of-center economic agenda.

...

When we look past ideological self-identification to polling on discrete public policy questions, America appears to be far more center-left than center-right. In a recent analysis of Democracy Fund Voter Study Group survey data, the political scientist Lee Drutman found that 73.5 percent of the 2016 electorate espoused broadly left-of-center views on economic policy.

That finding is supported by polling on individual fiscal issues over the past year. Recent surveys have shown that most Americans — including majorities of Republican voters — support increasing federal financing of health care and oppose cutting taxes for the wealthy. And there’s little evidence that the Democrats’ left flank is exhausting the public’s tolerance for government intervention in the economy: Recent polls have found that over 60 percent of Americans support tuition-free public college (a majority that includes 58 percent of independents and 47 percent of Republicans); that over 60 percent of all voters favor Medicaid and Medicare buy-in programs, while a slim majority likes the sound of single-payer; and that 82 percent of voters, including 70 percent of Republicans, support new legislation expanding access to paid family and medical leave.

 

[aepps20]

Is Shia still doing that

donald looking VERY dapper, as usual.

First thing I saw ad well. Very impressed that OUR PRESIDENT ELECT looks that GOOD on a Don Phone X.

 

[Mark Antony]

https://www.nytimes.com/elections/r...ection-gillespie-northam#eln-forecast-section

https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/new-jersey-general-elections

For those that want to follow NJ and Virginia elections

The VA Beach numbers leaning towards Northam shocked me. VA getting more moderate.

 

[rolaholic]

Good article gry60

They've been pedaling that "Murica is centre-right" myth for years now ,folks are pretty receptive to left of centre economic policies when they're explained without the use of scare tactics and buzzwords which the right is so adept at utilizing to attack and hijack messages + the narrative. They're still using the McCarthyist playbook in 2017


Been a lot of understandable excitement over today's results but this is a major towards holding and building on all these gains

 

[Mark Antony]

We lit. Weed decriminalization soon come.

Not sure big tobacco will let that happen easily.

 

[RustyShackleford]

Bill De Blassio just went back-to-back.

There have also been reports of a man standing on top of a building in Washington Heightz screaming "¡Salvarme Papi Naranja, Salvarme!"

 

[rolaholic]

Anyone tired of winning yet? Sure seems the manbaby is...

 

[elpablo21]

Good article gry60


Been a lot of understandable excitement over today's results but this is a major towards holding and building on all these gains

Relevant tweet to that point

 

[rolaholic]

That's the spirit

WS has been taking L after L tonight

 

[EddieDoyers]

Relevant tweet to that point

Not that I disagree with them
But they should do that at a town hall meeting, not at an election night win

 

[rolaholic]