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'17 Specials & '18 Midterms Thread

ImTheCaptain said:
you're right, MDMH did, actually. i just rolled my eyes at it
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Of course you'd have this mindset. The centrists whom you believe are most pragmatic and our only option are the same authoritarian war hawks who enable our post 9/11 surveillance state and endless middle eastern war on terror. Somehow, billions of dollars year after year to drone strike muslims and spy on Americans is the most reasonable thing to do.
 
myDeaconmyhand said:
Of course you'd have this mindset. The centrists whom you believe are most pragmatic and our only option are the same authoritarian war hawks who enable our post 9/11 surveillance state and endless middle eastern war on terror. Somehow, billions of dollars year after year to drone strike muslims and spy on Americans is the most reasonable thing to do.
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I've repeatedly called to cut military expenditures and pull back from most of our misadventures abroad that don't actually serve to make us safer. a crazy centrist thought, indeed
 
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ImTheCaptain said:
I've repeatedly called to cut military expenditures and pull back from our most of our misadventures abroad that don't actually serve to make us safer. a crazy centrist thought, indeed
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What you've called for is irrelevant. If you personally want to run on a leftist anti-war platform i'll fucking volunteer for your campaign. The politicians who champion the 3rd way centrist economic policy you be prefer are sure as fuck not anti-war.
 
myDeaconmyhand said:
What you've called for is irrelevant. If you personally want to run on a leftist anti-war platform i'll fucking volunteer for your campaign. The politicians who champion the 3rd way centrist economic policy you be prefer are sure as fuck not anti-war.
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anti-war can mean a lot of thing
 
Expect to see more of this over the next two years.

 
Cory Booker grandstanding? Yep. He’s going to try to hard.
 
[h=1]Democrat wins special election in northwestern Wisconsin[/h]
Patty Schachtner defeated Republican state Rep. Adam Jarchow for an open state Senate seat Tuesday in an upset victory for struggling Wisconsin Democrats, signaling voter anger toward President Donald Trump that could cost the GOP more legislative seats in the fall elections.

Jarchow tweeted his concession to Schachtner late Tuesday evening, with returns nearly complete across five counties and Schachtner leading by more than 1,600 votes. Schachtner, the St. Croix County medical examiner and a Somerset school board member, had entered the race in northwestern Wisconsin's traditionally conservative 10th Senate District as the clear underdog.

The district has trended conservative for years. Republican Sheila Harsdorf held the Senate seat for 16 years before she resigned in November to become Gov. Scott Walker's agriculture secretary and every county in the district voted for Trump in 2016. Jarchow is in the middle of his third term representing the area in the Assembly and had built a formidable base.

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Trump won that district by 17 points. It's been a Republican seat for 20 years.
 
sailordeac said:
kinda like Virginia and West Virginia

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/01/1...ent-seeks-to-divide-golden-state-in-half.html
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Rural, red Colorado discussed dividing the state several years ago, and it went nowhere. This attempt by rural Californians will go nowhere as well. Rural areas in these blue states don't have enough people or resources to be a viable separate state, imo. Furthermore, they have no one to blame except themselves for being so politically irrelevant in their states. The California GOP has never made a serious attempt to adjust to the changing demographics of the state; they did make an almost comically inept and half-hearted attempt to woo Hispanics a few years ago. Nearly everyone that showed up for the "recruitment" meetings were older white Californians, some of whom complained about the need to stop immigration and have Latinos learn English. Colorado is basically the same - thanks to changing demographics the state is now mostly urban and suburban, diverse, and more liberal. I expect other formerly GOP-leaning states to go through these complaints as their demographics inevitably lead to political changes (NC may eventually become one 15-20 years from now). After the elections in Virginia last November, Jerry Falwell, Jr. complained about the dominance of liberal Northern Virginia suburbs, and said that these areas should rejoin the District of Columbia because they don't represent "Real" Virginians. It's not a far step from rural Virginians talking about seceding from the bluer areas of the state.
 
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Republicans give potential 2020 Trump foes a pass

Cuomo and Brown are not alone among Democrats who might challenge President Donald Trump in 2020: At least eight of them, all high-profile politicians, appear poised to avoid facing Republicans’ top-choice challenger this year.

And in many cases, that’s allowing the potential White House hopefuls to envision a 2018 spent honing their image as leaders of the anti-Trump resistance as they stockpile campaign cash — rather than having to focus on a serious GOP attempt to beat them, or just sully their image.
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Most or all of the potential presidential hopefuls probably would have won regardless. But it’s customary for a president’s party to try and tarnish the image and deplete the war chests of potential threats to their leader’s reelection.
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Still, Felts added, “in every White House in the modern era — back to Clinton — the political shop is traditionally very active in helping to recruit [such challengers]. Having sat there and done that recruitment in a tough time: If the president has bad numbers, that’s a challenge.”
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Pro-House GOP super PAC to spend $1.5M to save Pennsylvania House seat

The TV blitz is part of a broader Republican effort to keep Pennsylvania’s 18th District, which former GOP Rep. Tim Murphy recently resigned from following allegations that he asked a women with whom he was having an affair to get an abortion. President Donald Trump won the district by 20 percentage points in 2016, and a loss would be widely seen as a major blow for the party.

Trump traveled to the Pittsburgh area last week to appear with Republican candidate Rick Saccone, and Vice President Mike Pence is slated to hold an event with him on Feb 2. It is possible that Trump and Pence will make multiple stops in the district.
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It'll be interesting to see what happens next. Candidates have until March 6th to file to run in the primaries, but the window where they can start circulating petitions to get on the ballot starts on Feb 13th.
 
Republicans are going to ask for a stay from the Supreme Court, but for now, here is the timing:

Under the Supreme Court ruling, the General Assembly will have until Feb. 9 to pass a congressional map that satisfies the state constitution, and Gov. Wolf would have until Feb. 15 to accept the plan.

If lawmakers do not deliver a redrawn map by Feb. 9, or if Wolf does not sign it, the Supreme Court said it would “proceed expeditiously” to adopt its own map. In anticipation of that possibility, all parties are being given the option to submit proposals by Feb. 15.

A new map should be in place by Feb. 19, the court ordered, keeping the primary election on May 15.
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Pa. Supreme Court strikes down congressional map as unconstitutional, orders change before May primary
 
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