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'17 Specials & '18 Midterms Thread

I phone banked in VA through Run For Something this past week. If you are looking to get involved at that level then it's a great place to start, and really easy to keep up on what's going on at the grassroots level.

Also, I cannot recommend Pod Save America enough for intellectual discussion on current events (it obviously has a left "slant") and is very anti-Trump.
 
avalon said:
Her victory speech, where she said it doesn't matter who you love, how you identify, or how you rock:

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The government needs more rockers in it. :rock:

And that speech was good, it would make the founders proud
 
It is so great that a trans lady beat the self-described "biggest homophobe"!
 
Just as ridiculous as you would expect:

 
cville deac said:
In Highland's defense, the aggregate of the polls had it at just over 3% - eerily close to Hillary's number last year. Last year and last night are the 2 biggest examples I can think of in my lifetime as to how much of a difference energy and GOTV can make. Last year, Hillary excited no one, but the Pub base and disaffected midwesterners loved them some Trump. Last night, the affluent and well educated part of a purple state told Trump to go fuck himself.
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Yes. I based my statement on what pretty much all the polls said at the time. It's now clear they underestimated the Democratic vote. Having said that, I don't think the vote represents wild enthusiasm for Northam, but rather anger at Trump by Democrats (and, apparently, large numbers of independents and even some Pubs), and Northam and other statewide Democratic candidates and state legislature candidates benefited. I still don't think Northam ran a great campaign. At any rate, I'll gladly take the win, as the Democrats really needed some good news. Last night they finally got it.
 
MysteryMen said:
Yeah, I wish I could get my Republican friends to listen to Pod Save America. It is for sure left-leaning, and I'm sure some things they say would really piss off some GOPers, but they actually discuss the issues rationally and at a high intellectual level. I wish there was an equivalent on the right, instead we're stuck with Hannity.

On the other hand, everyone who's interested in foreign policy, regardless of politics, should listen to Pod Save the World. It's pretty apolitical, they often have Republican guests, and it provides really nuanced discussion of major foreign policy issues.
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Tommy Vietor is very impressive and I have learned a ton from PSTW.
 
I would hope that anyone listening to PSA would know that it's a little bit left-leaning since it's run by a bunch of former Obama operatives.

Don't know the future ambitions for that crew (whether in the current media arena or political) but I'd imagine most of them will be elected officials to the extent they want to.
 
Shooshmoo said:
Just as ridiculous as you would expect:

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Fox has always been bad, but now they're just over the top. CNN and MSNBC certainly have their flaws, but Fox has taken their efforts to a whole new level since Trump's election. And it's not just that nearly every news story is blatantly pro-GOP, pro-Trump, anti-LibDem everthing, but it's clear they deliberately feature stories that play to the prejudices and anger of their viewers - anti-Hollywood, anti-academia, etc. I also frequently see stories on the website front page on UFOs and other paranormal crap, conspiracies, sex scandals, and crime/murder stories that play to their base. It's as if the National Enquirer created it.
 
Dan Pfeiffer's (from PSA and former Obama staffer) brother Bob is a Deac and a great dude ('01 grad)
 
Wakeforest22890 said:
I would hope that anyone listening to PSA would know that it's a little bit left-leaning since it's run by a bunch of former Obama operatives.

Don't know the future ambitions for that crew (whether in the current media arena or political) but I'd imagine most of them will be elected officials to the extent they want to.
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I think they started their own consulting/media company. I don't know all the details, so just a messenger here, but some were unhappy that Vietor didn't disclose a relationship with Hillary's campaign, and favreau was in the Podesta leaks trying to smear Bernie.
 
I flipped to Fox at the top of the hour to see how they covered the election. The host wanted to talk about whether Gillespie should have embraced Trump more, but the guest pointed out that the Dems had the turnout and were more enthusiastic to vote. The host responded with, basically, "...... whyyy?"

But yeah, Gillespie got more votes than he or his opponent did in the 2014 senate race and more than McAuliffe did when he won the governor's race in 2013. The left really rocked the turnout, in crummy weather at that.
 
Deacsfan27 said:
I phone banked in VA through Run For Something this past week. If you are looking to get involved at that level then it's a great place to start, and really easy to keep up on what's going on at the grassroots level.

Also, I cannot recommend Pod Save America enough for intellectual discussion on current events (it obviously has a left "slant") and is very anti-Trump.
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MHBDemon said:
I think they started their own consulting/media company. I don't know all the details, so just a messenger here, but some were unhappy that Vietor didn't disclose a relationship with Hillary's campaign, and favreau was in the Podesta leaks trying to smear Bernie.
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I am a hardcore Friend of the Pod and a total Crooked Media evangelist (Crooked Media is the media company they started when they spun Keeping it 1600 away from The Ringer).

I primarily listen to PSA, PSTW, and Lovett or Leave It. The few Pod Save the People and With Friends Like These I've listened to are good, but I just don't have time to do them all. Haven't listened to any Crooked Conversations yet (I think the first three just came out?). They also recently launched Crooked.com and I think do blogs and stories and what not (although admittedly I haven't been to the site).

I agree that they've done a great job firing up the base and trying to get people involved in actually doing something. If you listened to the live shows in DC and RVA they had the segment "Your Tweets Are Not Enough" where they were really emphasizing GOTV, canvassing, phone banks, etc. And of course all their efforts with Swing Left and Indivisible. TrumpCareTen, etc.

At the very least, if you think the anti-Trump and R original podcast is too much, Pod Save the World really is very very well done.
 
Dave Brat is on MSNBC arguing that the Republicans lost yesterday because they failed to tell voters that the healthcare premium increases are the Dems fault.
 
 
avalon said:
Dave Brat is on MSNBC arguing that the Republicans lost yesterday because they failed to tell voters that the healthcare premium increases are the Dems fault.
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If that is his and the general Pub message next Fall, both are in for a rude awakening. Trump and the Pubs won last year in part on the message that they had a great health care plan, and that the ACA was the worst piece of legislation. Most of the electorate could at least recognize that the ACA had some serious flaws, and many voted Pub to give them a chance at solving the issue. It is now painfully evident to all but the most ardent of Fox viewers and Breitbart readers that the Pubs did not have a plan. Instead, they operated in secret, rather than holding hearings giving insurance industry, consumer reps, and AMA & AHA reps a seat at the table. Their 1st 2 iterations of their plan were opposed by the AHA, AMA and consumer groups and was only endorsed by the insurance industry. Their last iteration of a bill was panned by not only the AHA, AMA and consumers, but also by the insurance industry. There was literally no affected group who was okay with the bill.

Race baiting, foreign policy, trade issues and the like don't directly affect the average American. Health insurance and care affects us all. In fact, I can say that Trump is the 1st president ever to affect directly my life with his refusal to subsidize industry payments, and my payment is tripling, as I commented on another thread. Brat and other Pubs are cray cray if they seriously believe the majority of the public won't be blaming them for our looming health care implosion. VA voters as much said so in yesterday's exit polls. If the Pubs continue to let the ACA implode, which Trump appears wont to do, they're going to be the ones held responsible in 2018 and 2020. But if they're reading yesterday's results correctly, they should move on to Plan B and ask Lamar Alexander to save their butts by working on a bipartisan deal. Then they can trot that out there and say they fixed the ACA. That would be a much easier spin. But I doubt that that is the path they will choose.
 
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