***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[gil23]

White, religious folks ain’t letting go that easy. Hate to be blunt, but it is what it is.

My lady father is that I’m cool with him I hate his politics views. Fox News all the time, hardcore Christian.

 

[tay1]

Beto currently has 79 more votes

 

[d nice]

What is happening in MD with Jealous? Hogan bout to pull this out?

 

[MVP]

Disappointed but not surprised by FL.

 

[osh kosh bosh]

Y'all do this thing in american where not everyones votes count equally, so given the strangle hold Trump has on rural americans,

the senate is not going to happen in the trump era.

 

[sthebest]

Really need Gillum to pull out this W, i drove like a bat outta hell after work to make the poles and beat the lines.

 

[el Chief]

Alachua is blue pretty solidly. Home of the Gators.

Yeah, Alachua voted heavily for Gillum. Outside of South Florida, Orlando, and Tampa, the rest of the state is basically Alabama.

 

[youngogjosh]

I'ma come back tomorrow, see what the fallout is. All this speculation is killing me.

 

[RustyShackleford]

What is happening in MD with Jealous? Hogan bout to pull this out?

The race has been called for Hogan by some local outlets

 

[blastercombo]

Some places in America will NEVER change.

 

[plansb]

outside of cities and suburbs the people in america must really suck

 

[gil23]

All these ignorant rednecks still saying build that wall. I’m sorry but the wall won’t make your situation better. They follow their racist candidates because it gives them a voice to be racist and blame their ****** situation on immigrants. Poor souls

 

[HIM]

Yea, we aint ****. Don’t see how Trump doesn’t get re-elected.

 

[Belgium]

She lost by just 4,210 votes to 3,566 despite going to jail for violating the constitution and refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. She was sued and briefly jailed for contempt when she refused to comply with a court order to issue the marriage licenses. Ironically she lost to a gay man whose marriage license was denied by her.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campai...-clerk-kim-davis-loses-reelection-in-kentucky
Anti-gay marriage country clerk Kim Davis loses reelection in Kentucky
Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who was briefly jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses, lost her bid for reelection on Tuesday.
Democrat Elwood Caudill Jr. beat Davis, a Republican, in the race for Rowan County clerk by an estimated 4,210 votes to 3,566 votes with all 19 precincts reporting, according to the Lexington Herald Leader.

Davis refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses, citing her religious beliefs, after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in 2015.

She was sued by five couples and a judge ordered her to issue the marriage licenses. She spent five days in jail when she refused to comply with the decision.

The Kentucky state legislature later changed the law so clerks did not have to sign their names on the documents in response to her refusal, which made national headlines.

Caudill secured the Democratic nomination during the May primary after defeating David Ermold, a gay man who was denied a marriage license by Davis in 2015.

Davis has since risen to prominence among Republicans, earning recognition from former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas). She met Pope Francis at the White House and was invited to President Trump's first joint address to Congress in 2017.

Davis also visited Romania last year to campaign for an anti-same sex marriage law.

 

[getback]

 

[harlemtothebronx]

How ironic is it that it’s mostly democratic along the border of Texas.

Maybe more revealing than ironic, actually.

 

[flyeed]

I’m going to just speculate that if every person in our age demographic who *****es about trump and republicans actually voted democrat things would be different

Too many people got something to say but don’t get their *** up and vote. I’m pulling people’s cards from now on. You didn’t vote against trump then **** I’m not listening to your complaints.

 

[Rootin4EverybodyBlack]

The race has been called for Hogan by some local outlets

Have local outlets ever called a race and been wrong? Asking cuz I usually dont watch for local news for election results

 

[d nice]

The race has been called for Hogan by some local outlets

It's showing up on mainstream outlets now, so it must be true. Damn.

 

[blastercombo]

This isn’t about a complete overhaul. It’s about taking places here and there that once never were a possibility

 

[osh kosh bosh]

Jealous never had a shot, he was down 20 in the polling average,

 

[d nice]

The races in NJ between Kim and Mcarthur is too close to call as well as the race with Jeff Van Drew. Repubs have slight leads in both races.

 

[RustyShackleford]

The sorry of elections in America is now the GOP is consolidating power in white rural areas, faster than Dems can make inroads in the suburbs and voter suppression by the GOP has weakened urban America's power to help the Dems.

Voter suppression went it was first getting instituted was estimated to cost the Dems 1-2 points. Now with more and more laws and strategies being put in place, it might rise to 3-4 points.

It is a scray time in America when one party has to win elections by landslides just to have a chance.

 

[osh kosh bosh]

Bill Nelson should have been retired.

 

[osh kosh bosh]

The sorry of elections in America is now the GOP is consolidating power in white rural areas, faster than Dems can make inroads in the suburbs and voter suppression by the GOP has weakened urban America's power to help the Dems.

Voter suppression went it was first getting instituted was estimated to cost the Dems 1-2 points. Now with more and more laws and strategies being put in place, it might rise to 3-4 points.

It is a scray time in America when one party has to win elections by landslides just to have a chance.

plus the whole gerrymandering, and rural ovet representation in the senate.


and If the dems narrowly lose the house, The Democratic base is going to be completely radicalized.


American Democracy is doomed.