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Re: Post your mid-term updates
« Reply #50 on: October 20, 2022, 10:56:02 PM »
I've noticed Dem ads have been crediting their individual candidates with passage of acts for our benefit as if the individual candidate  "gave us" thus and so tax break or whatever and so on.  Not "sponsored" or "supported," but phrased as if they alone did the good deed.  First time I ever heard this technique.  Is this going on all over, or is it just Colorado?

Seems kinda underhanded to me.  Well, misleading anyhow.

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Re: Post your mid-term updates
« Reply #51 on: October 21, 2022, 07:05:04 AM »
I'll see dozens of candidates start to use the same phrasing on stuff within an hour or so... They've got folks in Washington pushing the narratives HARD.
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Re: Post your mid-term updates
« Reply #52 on: October 22, 2022, 08:57:39 AM »
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/patty-murray-still-leads-but-tiffany-smiley-closes-gap-in-new-wa-poll/

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Re: Post your mid-term updates
« Reply #53 on: October 22, 2022, 09:32:37 AM »
So many of the folks claiming there is going to be a "red wave" are supporting their predictions citing the many races where the Republican is "closing the gap".  Closing the gap means nothing.  There will be no red wave if the Republican challengers don't actually surpass their Democrat opponents by a substantial amount in polling.
While there are some, I've not seen that many races where the R candidate is actually ahead of the Democrat by a meaningful amount.  The R's might take the House this go around, but likely not by a large margin, and they certainly won't gain a super majority.
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Re: Post your mid-term updates
« Reply #54 on: October 22, 2022, 09:37:37 AM »
Repubs +2 in the senate and probably at least +30 House. And then they will piss it away with show legislation they know will get vetoed and circus hearings and otherwise pandering to "their base."
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Re: Post your mid-term updates
« Reply #55 on: October 22, 2022, 09:38:17 AM »
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Re: Post your mid-term updates
« Reply #56 on: October 22, 2022, 11:02:30 AM »
Heard a couple of short blurbs about Mitch McConnell allegedly trying hard to make some specific R candidates lose.

Mitt Romney too.

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Re: Post your mid-term updates
« Reply #57 on: October 22, 2022, 12:29:19 PM »
Repubs +2 in the senate and probably at least +30 House. And then they will piss it away with show legislation they know will get vetoed and circus hearings and otherwise pandering to "their base."
Yep, Democrats slip crap into spending bills and such all the time.  Republicans rarely do that.  I assume too many establishment R's just don't want to.
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Re: Post your mid-term updates
« Reply #58 on: October 22, 2022, 06:21:06 PM »
Heard a couple of short blurbs about Mitch McConnell allegedly trying hard to make some specific R candidates lose.

I'm not suprised, but where?

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Re: Post your mid-term updates
« Reply #61 on: October 22, 2022, 10:18:25 PM »
This is at least the third time that McConnell has pulled financial support from a race that could potentially be flipped or won by the Republican candidate.  McConnell and the RNC leadership have made their intentions clear:  They have no desire for the Republicans to take the Senate.
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Re: Post your mid-term updates
« Reply #62 on: October 22, 2022, 11:17:26 PM »
FWIW, there are a LOT of people in urban St. Louis who are NOT happy with the current administration.
 
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This may turn out ugly. Then again, it will probably be Democrats who get elected in this machine city, and the majority of them are pretty much just socialists.
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Re: Post your mid-term updates
« Reply #63 on: October 23, 2022, 12:31:14 PM »
Mitch is beginning to look like the POGO of the GOP: "We have met the enemy and he is us."
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Re: Post your mid-term updates
« Reply #64 on: October 23, 2022, 08:32:33 PM »
The essential attitude is... "We just got beat, so we NEED FUND RAISING!"
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Re: Post your mid-term updates
« Reply #65 on: October 23, 2022, 08:57:38 PM »
We have a far left POS, Joe Cunningham, running for governor against the Republican incumbent

He’s desperately trying to attract votes by claiming he’s going to eliminate the state income tax (he does not have the authority to do so). He’s endorsed Biden and Pelosi among numerous despicable lefty *expletive deleted*it.
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Re: Post your mid-term updates
« Reply #66 on: October 24, 2022, 07:05:39 PM »
Thought there was nothing wrong with our election system? Huh, something must of changed.

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Re: Post your mid-term updates
« Reply #67 on: October 24, 2022, 07:37:47 PM »
Pre-election Deniers

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Re: Post your mid-term updates
« Reply #68 on: October 24, 2022, 09:50:31 PM »
There are reports some Republicans might vote for Republicans, meaning election-deniers may elect other election-deniers, who will deny their own election. At the same time, the election-deniers will deny having elected said election-deniers.

At this time, it is unknown whether denial of having voted for an election-denier in an election will or will not be a defense against the charge of having voting for an election-denier in an election.
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Re: Post your mid-term updates
« Reply #69 on: October 24, 2022, 10:03:43 PM »
DeSantis lays out who "has hate in their hearts."

https://twitter.com/i/status/1584689755182317571
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Re: Post your mid-term updates
« Reply #70 on: October 25, 2022, 01:45:59 PM »
Forget the midterms, Hillary is already screeching 2024

Serial Election Denier Hillary Is Back and She Has a Warning
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Re: Post your mid-term updates
« Reply #71 on: October 25, 2022, 03:31:04 PM »
And the narrative is already out if they lose the Latino vote

AOC complains that Democrats ‘have never tried as a party’ to reach out to Latino voters
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/10/25/aoc-complains-that-democrats-have-never-tried-as-a-party-to-reach-out-to-latino-voters/
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Re: Post your mid-term updates
« Reply #72 on: October 25, 2022, 05:19:25 PM »
And the narrative is already out if they lose the Latino vote

AOC complains that Democrats ‘have never tried as a party’ to reach out to Latino voters
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2022/10/25/aoc-complains-that-democrats-have-never-tried-as-a-party-to-reach-out-to-latino-voters/

Send out Jill Biden, stat!

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Re: Post your mid-term updates
« Reply #73 on: October 25, 2022, 06:10:57 PM »
They're already claiming voter suppression in GA
More than likely means they know they've likely going to lose
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Re: Post your mid-term updates
« Reply #74 on: October 25, 2022, 06:48:44 PM »
They're already claiming voter suppression in GA
More than likely means they know they've likely going to lose
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