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'19 Special & '20 Congressional Election Thread

Here's hoping she's got some of that $42 MM warchest left to take on McConnell!
 
Happy for Jamaal Bowman. P sure this is just the first match-up for Booker.
 
Fortunately he's still good at the job he has.
 
myDeaconmyhand said:
Looks like RJ (and Kory?) were right about McGrath and Booker, RJ especially. The Kentucky absentee votes have majorly swung in McGraths favor, even in the metro counties where Booker dominated the in-person vote. At this point I dont think even winning Jefferson by 65% would put Booker ahead. I gotta take the L on this one.
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It was about the timing. If Booker had revved up his campaign sooner, he might have had a better chance with the mail-in vote.
 
if there's one thing Amy McGrath is good at, it's putting down insurgents!
 
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myDeaconmyhand said:
Looks like RJ (and Kory?) were right about McGrath and Booker, RJ especially. The Kentucky absentee votes have majorly swung in McGraths favor, even in the metro counties where Booker dominated the in-person vote. At this point I dont think even winning Jefferson by 65% would put Booker ahead. I gotta take the L on this one.
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Huh?

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The race looks pretty close to me.
 
TenaciousKory said:
100% and charging. you still in bed, ph?
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Yep.

Now Jefferson is all in and McGrath is up about 2,000. Basically she’s going to win based on people who donated and voted without knowing the competition and she has little momentum to face Mitch. Hope Booker takes on Rand Paul in two years.
 
If the election were today, Booker would win, his push just came too late.
 
On the good side, it shows Dems were very eager to weigh in on this race.
 
PhDeac said:
Yep.

Now Jefferson is all in and McGrath is up about 2,000. Basically she’s going to win based on people who donated and voted without knowing the competition and she has little momentum to face Mitch. Hope Booker takes on Rand Paul in two years.
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yeah. excited to see where the money goes on the margin markets for the KY general election

McConnell won by 16 points in 2014
 
Watching the absolute worst Democrats celebrate on Twitter brought this to mind
 
RJKarl said:
Too bad Steve Bashear is too old to run.
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Getting elected governor of a strongly red or blue state ain't anywhere near the same thing as getting elected as a US senator. First of all, the culture wars aren't as big an issue in state capitals as they are in Washington. Second, you get more crossover voting for governor than you do senator. Take MD and MA as examples. You've had multiple Pub governors in 2 of the most liberal states of the country in this young century. And that's because folks like Hogan and Baker aren't cultural conservatives, and a lot of moderate Dems will vote for them to rein in a very 1 sided general assembly. So a Larry Hogan can breeze into the governor's mansion, but even though he's popular in MD, he'd likely get stomped if he ran for senator. Liberal Marylanders want to be assured that their senator is going to vote the way they want on things like the ACA and Kavanaugh for SCOTUS. Same goes for very red KY. A Bashear can beat an unpopular Pub for governor but not an unpopular McConnell for senate. For those who would want to point out Scott Brown, I'd respond that he was an anomaly against a weak Dem that was quickly corrected the next time around.
 
Beshear would have an issue few would. He created KY Connect to cover close to a million Kentuckian's health insurance. The people of KY love that program. You'd have a popular governor who gave them health insurance running against a senator who tried to take it from them over seventy times.

In general you might be very accurate, but this wouldn't be a typical race. It's extremely rare there is ever such a clear cut issue in any election.
 
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That’s a good take, cville.
 
ChrisL68 said:
The enemy isn't your primary opponent.
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I disagree with this. Many Democrats, voters and politicians, oppose my interests in philosophy and action. It serves me no purpose for me to assume good faith in them. When I go to the doctor and am prescribed a medicine that is unaffordable, what should I think of the voters and politicians that opposed the regulations that would drive that drug cost down? There is no grey area in whether or not you can afford medicine, or innumerable other areas regarding human dignity. Politics is personal, and is very often a competition for resources. The notion that no one in my political party could be my enemy is naive. Ideologically speaking, the party line between Republicans and Democrats is arbitrary and subjective. Amy McGrath is closer in ideology to most Republicans than she is to me.
 
myDeaconmyhand said:
Amy McGrath is closer in ideology to most Republicans than she is to me.
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I don't know much of anything about McGrath or Booker and don't much care. But the national Pub party in Washington these days is a spineless personality cult of our traitorous dear leader and will vote the way he wants them to vote unless they want to be primaried. Is she really more like that group than you, or are you engaging in a bit of hyperbole?
 
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