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NYT/Sienna Poll: Republicans Gain On Democrats in Closing Weeks; Independent Women Shift MASSIVELY to the GOP

The Red Wave is back on.


Republicans enter the final weeks of the contest for control of Congress with a narrow but distinct advantage as the economy and inflation have surged as the dominant concerns, giving the party momentum to take back power from Democrats in next month's midterm elections, a New York Times/Siena College poll has found.

The poll shows that 49% of likely voters said they planned to vote for a Republican on Nov. 8 to represent them in Congress, compared with 45% who planned to vote for a Democrat. The result represents an improvement for Republicans since September, when Democrats held a 1-point edge among likely voters in the last Times/Siena poll. (The October poll's unrounded margin is closer to 3 points, not the 4 points that the rounded figures imply.)

Aww, you had to soften the blow. But a NYT poll showing Republicans ahead means you're in huge trouble.

Important to note: Republicans lag in national polls, and do much better in polls in competitive districts. That is, Democrats are overrepresented in non-competitive districts and underrepresented in competitive districts actually in play.

So any kind of national lead is a bigger lead in competitive districts -- nevermind the leftwing propaganda media constantly undercounting Republican voters, whether through malice, incompetence, or a characteristically toxic Regime Mix of the malice and incompetence.


With inflation unrelenting and the stock market steadily on the decline, the share of likely voters who said economic concerns were the most important issues facing America has leaped since July, to 44% from 36% -- far higher than any other issue. And voters most concerned with the economy favored Republicans overwhelmingly, by more than a 2-1 margin.

Both Democrats and Republicans have largely coalesced behind their own party's congressional candidates. But the poll showed that Republicans opened up a 10-percentage-point lead among crucial independent voters, compared with a 3-point edge for Democrats in September, as undecided voters moved toward Republicans.

Democrats lead on some issues -- namely, the issues the public doesn't prioritize highly.


While the share of voters focused on guns declined, those who identified abortion as the top issue remained flat, at 5%. There is a sizable gender split on the issue's significance: 9% of women rated it as the top issue compared with just 1% of men.

A Harvard-HarrisX poll just demonstrated how much of an issues advantage Republicans enjoyed.

The three issues the public cares about the most are, in order, price increases/inflation, the economy/jobs, and immigration.

harvardharrisissuesdominating.jpg

The three issues the public says that Republicans leaders are concerned with are, in order, immigration, price increases/inflation, and the economy/jobs.

harvardharrisrepyblicanleadersconcerns.jpg

That's a slight difference in ranking -- immigration, the public thinks, is Republican's #1 concern, whereas the public "merely" ranks it as their #3 concern. But still, the public thinks the GOP cares about the same top three the public cares about.

And now: What the public says the Democrats care about.

harvardharrisrdemocratleadersconcern.jpg

The Democrats' top four issues, the public says, are January 6 -- a three hour riot that happened two years ago, as Glenn Greenwald puts it -- abortion (euphemized as "Women's rights"), the environment and "climate change," and guns.

The economy is their fifth issue of concern. Inflation, the seventh.

Immigration, the twelfth -- and one assumes they're only thinking of the Sovereignty of Martha's Vineyard.

Cool Clownworld, bro.

coolclownworldbro.jpg

Back the Siena Poll: the Republicans' surge is driven, by no small amount, by the "massive" swing of independent women towards the GOP. Independent women have swung towards Republicans in closing weeks of campaign by Thirty-Two Fucking Points, Jack (!!!) despite Democrats going all-in on single issue of abortion until moment of crowning.

Republicans made massive gains with independent women in recent weeks as Democrats ramped up their messaging on abortion ahead of the midterm elections.

...

Of particular note was a 32 point swing among independent women toward the GOP. In September's iteration of the poll, Democrats boasted a 14 point lead among that demographic, but by October, Republicans held an 18 point advantage.

While Democratic officials and progressive commentators had suggested that the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade might lessen the expected electoral blow of the midterms, the swing toward the GOP among independent women -- the group most heavily targeted by Democratic strategists -- suggests that their focus on abortion might be to their own detriment.

In a TV segment last month, Republican operative Matt Gorman was rebuked by his fellow panelists for suggesting that abortion "is not in the top four of issues."

Yamiche Alcindor of PBS and NBC insisted that on the campaign trail "abortion comes up 90 percent of the time" when she speaks with voters. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat and former senator who lost her re-election bid in 2016, shouted over other guests to declare "I hope Matt keeps saying that everywhere he goes -- that abortion isn't really an issue here in this election. I think it is exactly what infuriates women when they hear that."


"Your mom should have aborted you" doesn't really count as "bringing the issue up."


According to a study conducted by AdImpact, Democrats spent 73 million on messaging ads about abortion in September, which is "about a third of all Democratic television ad spending," per NPR.

Posted by: Ace at 01:56 PM




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1 1st!

Posted by: GF at October 17, 2022 01:56 PM (5yd1U)

2 That is going to require a significant amount of election fortifying.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 17, 2022 01:57 PM (lTGtQ)

3 All the campaign ads I've seen have been "abortions!!!!!" when inflation is through the roof and people are hurting, so you know, good luck with that strategy....

Posted by: brak at October 17, 2022 01:57 PM (j5Tg0)

4 First to say polls are for strippers?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 17, 2022 01:57 PM (zhLdt)

5 Sponge!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 17, 2022 01:57 PM (f1WnY)

6 >>>According to a study conducted by AdImpact, Democrats spent 73 million on messaging ads about abortion in September, which is "about a third of all Democratic television ad spending," per NPR.

How much on grooming?

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at October 17, 2022 01:57 PM (yHsuS)

7 Red meat for Dave in Florida.

And the rest of us, too. I like mine rare.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 17, 2022 01:57 PM (JOtiF)

8 In before the blood-red tsunami!

Posted by: pookysgirl, small-town female voter at October 17, 2022 01:58 PM (XKZwp)

9 If the red wave materializes, we can look forward to a Republican majority in Congress that will accomplish absolutely jack shit.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 17, 2022 01:58 PM (9yUzE)

10 I saw some broadcast TV this weekend and according to the Dems every R candidate in the land is going to abduct women, knock them up, and then laugh at them while forcing them to deliver octoplets.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 17, 2022 01:58 PM (ESjRY)

11 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 17, 2022 01:58 PM (Zz0t1)

12 Pretty much every ad in AZ for the Democrats is about abortion. They are hitting that issue hard. It's basically their only issue.

Will it make a difference? I do think its a slight headwind, mainly because Republicans cant seem to get unified on a single message. Here in AZ, they bungled passing a state law to address it.

But I do think much of the same people who really care about abortion were already voting that way regardless.

Posted by: Blago at October 17, 2022 01:58 PM (PwNLq)

13 we'll just have to see how the Wave of Fraud does ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at October 17, 2022 01:58 PM (8oyo2)

14 Independent women shift. Blown with the wind.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 17, 2022 01:59 PM (4I/2K)

15 2nd to say polls are for strippers.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 17, 2022 01:59 PM (+bONN)

16 So no strippers?

Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at October 17, 2022 01:59 PM (sX1BW)

17 I assert this great shift did not happen over the course of several weeks.

I assert independent women have been leaning Republican for months, if not years, and pollsters have been intentionally hiding it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 17, 2022 01:59 PM (LvTSG)

18 I wish I believed this. I don't. Dave in FL and Kurt Schlicter (and others) seem optimistic that there will be a big red wave in November. I wish I could share their optimism.

Do the Dumocraps look scared to you? Ignore what they say. Watch what they do. They are double- and tripling-down on every terrible policy that supposedly will kill them in November, up to and including their child sexual perversions.

It’s almost like they know something we don’t. I think they do know something: they plan on stealing 2022 just like they did 2020. How are we gonna stop them? The GOP practically cheered on the steal in 2020.

Posted by: Elric Blade at October 17, 2022 01:59 PM (iFTx/)

19 If the red wave materializes, we can look forward to a Republican majority in Congress that will accomplish absolutely jack shit.

BULLSHIT

Two words

Corporate Tax Cuts.

Aw crap that's three. Just like the number of cabana boys Frank is having over tonight

Posted by: Kevin McCarthy-Luntz at October 17, 2022 01:59 PM (ESjRY)

20 It takes independent women to bring the red wave.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at October 17, 2022 02:00 PM (T4C1j)

21 How many trips to the gas station and grocery store does it take for women to get a fucking clue?

Posted by: Puddinhead at October 17, 2022 02:00 PM (KY22T)

22 note to self: arrogantly bumbling towards nuclear war has a tendency to make people vote against you.

Posted by: jc at October 17, 2022 02:00 PM (N1WXz)

23 Independent women take a massive shift on Democrats!

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 17, 2022 02:00 PM (4I/2K)

24 Independent Women Shift MASSIVELY to the GOP

It's all about the 401K. Those spa treatments are pricey yo. And let's not even talk about the price of Malbec lately

Posted by: kallisto at October 17, 2022 02:00 PM (dCxaZ)

25 Dominion Voting Systems was unavailable for comment.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 17, 2022 02:00 PM (+bONN)

26 Hmmm, independent women? Color me slightly skeptical. OTOH, it could be they are finally realizing history never ended.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 17, 2022 02:01 PM (CwQXo)

27 I was promised nood strippers. I see no nood strippers here.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at October 17, 2022 02:01 PM (906pl)

28 Sound like more Republicans are pouncing and seizing.

Posted by: Darth Randall at October 17, 2022 02:01 PM (zL564)

29 Back the Siena Poll: the Republicans' surge is driven, by no small amount, by the "massive" swing of independent women towards the GOP. Independent women have swung towards Republicans in closing weeks of campaign by Thirty-Two Fucking Points, Jack (!!!) despite Democrats going all-in on single issue of abortion until moment of crowning.

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This election is going to prove that abortion has been THE paper tiger of American politics for decades. "We can't attack it. We'll lose women voters!"

Roe gets overturned (an apocalypse-level event according to the mouthpieces of the left for the past 30 years), and women vote Republican?

What else have we been told is untouchable in politics?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 17, 2022 02:01 PM (LvTSG)

30 But I do think much of the same people who really care about abortion were already voting that way regardless.

I don't think abortion is even that important to them. It's just that they want to be the people who SAY abortion is critical, not because it is, but because it allows them to publicly preen their liberal feathers.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 17, 2022 02:01 PM (eOEVl)

31 9 If the red wave materializes, we can look forward to a Republican majority in Congress that will accomplish absolutely jack shit.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 17, 2022 01:58 PM (9yUzE)
_____________________

We'd be lucky if they accomplished jack shit. They are more likely to actively sabotage efforts to reign in the demonic Dumocrap party.

Posted by: Elric Blade at October 17, 2022 02:01 PM (iFTx/)

32 First, how many voters that care about aborting kids until birth that were not voting Dem already are there?

Then, how many of them care more about abortion then they hyperinflation and economic depression we are in?

Doesn't seem a very large number to me...

Also, if you live in a blue state R v W's repeal will have NO effect on you. So its really how much do you want young black women in the south to kill their kids?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 17, 2022 02:02 PM (ESjRY)

33 If the red wave materializes, we can look forward to a Republican majority in Congress that will accomplish absolutely jack shit.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 17, 2022 01:58 PM (9yUzE)

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Unfortunately, you are likely correct in the near term. The big thing is that thebnext couple cycles are bad for the dems in the Senate. If they lose 4-5 seats, then they're in bad shape for the next decade. 6-7 would be catastrophic.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at October 17, 2022 02:02 PM (T4C1j)

34 I was at a party this weekend, and the main topic of conversation all evening was how much everyone's 401K had lost.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 17, 2022 02:02 PM (lTGtQ)

35 Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat and former senator who lost her re-election bid in 2016, shouted over other guests to declare ...snip.... I think it is exactly what infuriates women when they hear that."

What *doesn't* infuriate your garden variety Karen?

Posted by: kallisto at October 17, 2022 02:02 PM (dCxaZ)

36 I wish I believed this. I don't. Dave in FL and Kurt Schlicter (and others) seem optimistic that there will be a big red wave in November. I wish I could share their optimism.
__

There's going to be a Red Wave, that's undeniable.

I think it would have been bigger had
A) Roe vs Wade not been overturned
B) Trump had made better endorsements in these Senate races.

It's going to be a bad night for Democrats, but it could have been an Red Tsunami had a few things come out differently.

We'll see what happens in the Senate, but that is where I have the most pessimism.

Posted by: Blago at October 17, 2022 02:02 PM (PwNLq)

37 30 But I do think much of the same people who really care about abortion were already voting that way regardless.

I don't think abortion is even that important to them. It's just that they want to be the people who SAY abortion is critical, not because it is, but because it allows them to publicly preen their liberal feathers.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 17, 2022 02:01 PM (eOEVl)
__________________

Abortion also generates a ton of money for a lot of people. They ain't giving that up without a fight.

Posted by: Elric Blade at October 17, 2022 02:02 PM (iFTx/)

38 According to a study conducted by AdImpact, Democrats spent 73 million on messaging ads about abortion in September, which is "about a third of all Democratic television ad spending," per NPR.

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Finally saw my first pro-Democrat ad in SC-1 (I just don't watch much that has ads in it, so it's an exposure thing for me, personally), and it's all abortion.

In South Carolina. I mean, I know this is SC-1. It's not exactly a rural county, but it sure ain't Columbia either.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 17, 2022 02:02 PM (LvTSG)

39 Clown world indeed

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2022 02:02 PM (Ivdso)

40 Do the Dumocraps look scared to you? Ignore what they say. Watch what they do. They are double- and tripling-down on every terrible policy that supposedly will kill them in November, up to and including their child sexual perversions.

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I think in part because they believe (and probably rightly so) that a huge GOP swing will not slow down their progress. The only branch that matters to them (and probably rightly so) is the unelected 4th branch that actually controls everything. So why be concerned. Let the GOP and their base have their victory, but progress will march on. Maybe just a bit slower than we hoped. Until the GOP actually shows some signs of reversal, they have every reason to not fear a Red wave. The good news is I think we are sending better Republicans. The bad news is there are still a bunch of bad ones.

Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at October 17, 2022 02:03 PM (sX1BW)

41 Corporate tax cuts AND amnesty for illegals.

Posted by: These Fish Sticks Are Hard As Tits at October 17, 2022 02:03 PM (3AD8C)

42 Excuse me that is Jack AND Shit!

Posted by: The Grand Old Party Emus at October 17, 2022 02:03 PM (CwQXo)

43 Do the Dumocraps look scared to you? Ignore what they say. Watch what they do. They are double- and tripling-down on every terrible policy that supposedly will kill them in November, up to and including their child sexual perversions.

Yeah, I noticed that to. It's almost like they really don't care about alienating voters. Almost as if voting didn't matter.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 17, 2022 02:03 PM (9yUzE)

44 9 If the red wave materializes, we can look forward to a Republican majority in Congress that will accomplish absolutely jack shit.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 17, 2022 01:58 PM (9yUzE)

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Are you implying impeachment votes that don't lead to convictions are nothing?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 17, 2022 02:03 PM (LvTSG)

45 So far the only ads for the IL Gov race I see on streaming services are from Pritzker and the IL AG telling me how they're going to "protect" a woman's right to an abortion in IL (and across the whole Midwest in the case of the AG). I guess Pritzker thinks the state's doing so well he can run a single-issue campaign.

Unfortunately he may be right if Chicago has its way.

Posted by: Octochicken at October 17, 2022 02:03 PM (oCS0o)

46 There's going to be a Red Wave, that's undeniable.

STEINER WILL COME

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at October 17, 2022 02:03 PM (W5wR3)

47 There will be no wave!!!11!!!1!

Posted by: greggers at October 17, 2022 02:03 PM (s9RWU)

48 We tend to have a red wave about every 28 days or so.

Posted by: Independent Women at October 17, 2022 02:03 PM (+bONN)

49 Is Dave in Florida here man? In the podcast he said something about if Republicans get to +5 on the generic ballot. I belive the term he used was "generational shift."

Dave? You here man?

Posted by: 29Victor at October 17, 2022 02:04 PM (BJKQV)

50

Look, rubes, it's very simple:

If we abort your kids now we won't have to cut your kids tits and dicks off later.

Got it?

Posted by: Your Globopedo Betters at October 17, 2022 02:04 PM (ntQL5)

51 Yamiche Alcindor of PBS and NBC insisted that on the campaign trail "abortion comes up 90 percent of the time" when she speaks with voters.

She brings it up 100% of the time, unless she forgets. I wonder if she keeps records to support her assertion? 90% sounds very sciency.

Also, "Yamiche" sounds like the scientific name for a mutated yeast infection.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 17, 2022 02:04 PM (JOtiF)

52 If the red wave materializes, we can look forward to a Republican majority in Congress that will accomplish absolutely jack shit.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 17, 2022 01:58 PM (9yUzE)

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Unfortunately, you are likely correct in the near term. The big thing is that thebnext couple cycles are bad for the dems in the Senate. If they lose 4-5 seats, then they're in bad shape for the next decade. 6-7 would be catastrophic.


You are correct, CAIE. I'll accept a pause in the active destruction of the country for the next two years, followed by tumbrels and guillotines after '24.

But, you know, it's more fun to bitch and moan.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 17, 2022 02:04 PM (eOEVl)

53 *sips umbrella drink on Caribbean island*

Posted by: GOPe at October 17, 2022 02:04 PM (PWvcU)

54 If the red wave materializes, we can look forward to a Republican majority in Congress that will accomplish absolutely jack shit.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 17, 2022 01:58 PM (9yUzE)

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Fattening our bank accounts isn't nothing, plebe.

Posted by: Bitch McConnell at October 17, 2022 02:04 PM (zL564)

55 That NBC interview of Lumpy Fetterman was truly damaging to the invalid candidate. Who watches NBC News?

Normies. They make up about 40% of PA voters

Posted by: kallisto at October 17, 2022 02:04 PM (dCxaZ)

56 Most women do the grocery shopping, so they're seeing the economic crisis first-hand.

Today I learned why we probably saw so many fields unharvested in South Dakota last week: They can't ship the harvested grain. Trucking shortage + high diesel prices + no fuel additive + looming rail strike + Mississippi going to record lows = farmers putting tarps on their harvested crops. This is going to get baaaaad.....

Posted by: pookysgirl, stocking up at October 17, 2022 02:04 PM (XKZwp)

57 We're getting closer, but I still don't believe the polls.

Because they're for strippers.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 17, 2022 02:05 PM (Zz0t1)

58 Red red wave, you make me feel so sad,
Any time I see you go, it make me feel bad
Red red wave, you make me feel so fine,
Monkey pox him Rizla pon the sweet.

Posted by: Prog Tears at October 17, 2022 02:05 PM (4I/2K)

59 Wow. Perhaps women are realizing that the commiecrat push for all transgenders all the time is harmful to them and their families and that the FNM are a bunch of mean girl journal, diary writers rather than reporters of facts. A slight ray of hope that folks will see the truth before we become a complete dystopia.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at October 17, 2022 02:05 PM (3cGpq)

60 I would trust a political poll about as much as I would the cleanliness of a stripper pole.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 17, 2022 02:05 PM (N39Ws)

61 48 We tend to have a red wave about every 28 days or so.

Posted by: Independent Women at October 17, 2022 02:03 PM (+bONN)


Not if yer jabbed and fully boosted honey

Posted by: kallisto at October 17, 2022 02:05 PM (dCxaZ)

62 Do the Dumocraps look scared to you? Ignore what they say. Watch what they do. They are double- and tripling-down on every terrible policy that supposedly will kill them in November, up to and including their child sexual perversions.
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They've been avoiding debates, while the Biden admin pushes through desperate policy after desperate policy in hopes of stirring up the base.

Jesus fucking christ, there's absolutely nothing that they could do that would satisfy you that they are in a panic. Everything is an op. Everything is somehow proof that they've won it all.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at October 17, 2022 02:05 PM (T4C1j)

63 In conversation at church yesterday (so no link), there's apparently a generic congressional preference poll floating around showing GOP +7, which is unimaginable.

Posted by: Methos at October 17, 2022 02:05 PM (kOpft)

64 I can't wait until all the Democrat mouthpieces go on about how every slice of the electorate are white people except for black women.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 17, 2022 02:06 PM (LvTSG)

65 Polls are for strippers

Posted by: Amy Schumer at October 17, 2022 02:06 PM (flINI)

66 I assert this great shift did not happen over the course of several weeks.

I assert independent women have been leaning Republican for months, if not years, and pollsters have been intentionally hiding it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

This. The only thing I can think of that might have accelerated the trend is the gas prices jumping back up. But no way do I believe a 32% jump in under a month. I think we are in the stage where pollsters try not to be so biased they look insane to their clients after the election.

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp, Ultra Dark MAGA at October 17, 2022 02:06 PM (rWFyW)

67 57 We're getting closer, but I still don't believe the polls.

Because they're for strippers.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 17, 2022 02:05 PM (Zz0t1)

Sponge not quoting Queensryche.

Sponge speak truth.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 17, 2022 02:06 PM (CwQXo)

68 "Abortion comes up 90% of the time" on the campaign trail."

"But does anyone ask if they are planted questions, hmmm?

Isn't that cOnViEnIeNt!" - Church Lady voice.

Posted by: Scott_T at October 17, 2022 02:06 PM (2waQ7)

69 The good news is I think we are sending better Republicans. The bad news is there are still a bunch of bad ones.

And that will continue until it doesn't. The trend is encouraging.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 17, 2022 02:06 PM (eOEVl)

70 Like other states, here in Oregon the commies have been running nothing but kill babies ads.

One slipped through of the democrat governor bad mouthing the republican. The ad showed a nice looking republican candidate. Someone who looks like a nice normal woman who would be fun to be around. The ad ends with a picture of the democrat candidate doing her best dyke/ Karen look asking to see your manager.

Posted by: Beartooth at October 17, 2022 02:06 PM (IP9GB)

71 but muh 'bortion?!!?!

Posted by: PP is a chop shop for babies at October 17, 2022 02:06 PM (FP2R9)

72 63 In conversation at church yesterday (so no link), there's apparently a generic congressional preference poll floating around showing GOP +7, which is unimaginable.
Posted by: Methos at October 17, 2022 02:05 PM (kOpft)

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Rasmussen.

I don't believe it. Even if Rasmussen is right, I don't believe it when they say it. Rasmussen is dogshit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 17, 2022 02:06 PM (LvTSG)

73
But PredictIt has the Dems up by 20%!!!!!

*RIP Intrade*

Posted by: In before the troll at October 17, 2022 02:06 PM (n+4am)

74 That is, Democrats are overrepresented in non-competitive districts and underrepresented in competitive districts actually in play.
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This is the story of California, and is why California is irrelevant in terms of national electoral politics. It's a rotten borough and the Democrat will win. Some local races in that state might matter, but the state itself is completely irrelevant.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 17, 2022 02:06 PM (t0OGg)

75 I finally saw my first Democrat ad against Tudor Dixon that was not about Dixon killing women because she will not allow them to have an abortion that would save their life. This time Dixons tax plan is designed to take money from the poor and enrich Betsy DeVos.

Posted by: Jen the original at October 17, 2022 02:06 PM (gcNWh)

76

I prefer to get boosted, then fully jabbed...

Posted by: Peter Buttplug at October 17, 2022 02:07 PM (ntQL5)

77 If the red wave materializes, we can look forward to a Republican majority in Congress that will accomplish absolutely jack shit.

time for another amnesty bill!

Posted by: GOP at October 17, 2022 02:07 PM (j5Tg0)

78 If women start voting Republican watch for Democrats to start talking about repealing the 19th Amendment. Which I'm cool with.

Posted by: 29Victor at October 17, 2022 02:07 PM (BJKQV)

79 68 "Abortion comes up 90% of the time" on the campaign trail."

"But does anyone ask if they are planted questions, hmmm?

Isn't that cOnViEnIeNt!" - Church Lady voice.
Posted by: Scott_T at October 17, 2022 02:06 PM (2waQ7)

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"I also campaign exclusively at places where rich, white, progressive women congregate."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 17, 2022 02:07 PM (LvTSG)

80 But, you know, it's more fun to bitch and moan.

Nothing that Republican congresses have a documented history of never accomplishing anything (aside from spending increases and tax cuts for cronies) is not bitching and moaning.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 17, 2022 02:07 PM (9yUzE)

81 Also, "Yamiche" sounds like the scientific name for a mutated yeast infection.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 17, 2022


***
And "Alcindor" was Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's family name. Any relation?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, dreaming of Elsewhere at October 17, 2022 02:07 PM (J2vNu)

82 Want to know how pro-Democrat Siena is? Over a 10 point miss toward Democrats in 2020.

So apply that filter when thinking about this poll.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 17, 2022 02:07 PM (X1znj)

83 NBC national news is such a joke. Homosexual news readers talking about homosexual issues.
Today they had as a guest, Chelsea Manning, among others.
Not that there's anything wrong with that

Posted by: gourmand du jour, in vino veritas at October 17, 2022 02:07 PM (7NKxb)

84 "... of PBS and NBC..."

I think I've found your problem

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 17, 2022 02:07 PM (+bONN)

85 Democrats spent 73 million on messaging ads about abortion in September, which is "about a third of all Democratic television ad spending,"

Look! I make vajayjay with my hands!

Posted by: New TV ad from Gruesome Gov Newsom at October 17, 2022 02:07 PM (W5wR3)

86 I want to know the magic sauce the pollsters were using to hide a 32 point swing.

Because there was never a 32 point swing.

That kind of change doesn't happen without a massive event. And there was none in the last 3 months.

No, the R support was always there. The pollsters drank a barrel of "Dobbs will hurt Republicans!" Kool-aid

What's delicious is, the Dems actually thought the polls were correct. And now, as mentioned, the ads are cut, the issues are locked in-- it's too late

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 17, 2022 02:07 PM (Zf0+a)

87 If it's now between Yudhishthira's Dice and TheJamesMadison, will the #1 concern of discerning Morons be their choice of movie for mandatory viewings?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 17, 2022 02:07 PM (a3Q+t)

88 The good news is I think we are sending better Republicans. The bad news is there are still a bunch of bad ones.

And that will continue until it doesn't. The trend is encouraging.

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Without a doubt. At some point, the GOP is going to have to deliver a blowback to the administrative state. Somehow, someway. There are many ways to do this, but we need a Doolittle Raid type attack that lets the base know they are ready for the fight.

Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at October 17, 2022 02:07 PM (sX1BW)

89 If the red wave materializes, we can look forward to a Republican majority in Congress that will accomplish absolutely jack shit.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 17, 2022 01:58 PM (9yUzE)

i'm ok with that. it's 100 times better than the full on charge the commies have been leading in congress. and maybe we get lucky and something for us slips through...

Posted by: SturmToddler at October 17, 2022 02:08 PM (Mkvkw)

90 *tips naked pool boy*

Posted by: GOPe at October 17, 2022 02:08 PM (DTZDT)

91 They've been avoiding debates, while the Biden admin pushes through desperate policy after desperate policy in hopes of stirring up the base.

Jesus fucking christ, there's absolutely nothing that they could do that would satisfy you that they are in a panic. Everything is an op. Everything is somehow proof that they've won it all.


Tiresome, in'nt.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 17, 2022 02:08 PM (eOEVl)

92 Wait. Killing your baby and filleting their genitalia like a perch if they survive aren't your two top issues? Racists!!

Posted by: The Democrats at October 17, 2022 02:08 PM (T0jQj)

93 The Democrats' top four issues, the public says, are January 6 -- a three hour riot that happened two years ago, as Glenn Greenwald puts it -- abortion (euphemized as "Women's rights"), the environment and "climate change," and guns.
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So this is how people answered the question, "what do you think the Democrats care about?"

This makes sense, if I understand it correctly. If you've seen the news, you can answer this question and get the same answer. Unless you're based, in which case your answer will be "trying to kill me."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 17, 2022 02:08 PM (t0OGg)

94 Red meat for Dave in Florida.


Call me crazy, but what if instead of having a red wave *or* a realignment election, we have a rd wave *and* a realignment election?

Posted by: Methos at October 17, 2022 02:08 PM (kOpft)

95 The GOP is ready to take on any challenge as long as it can be solved by tax cuts and mass immigration.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 17, 2022 02:08 PM (9yUzE)

96 . Perhaps women are realizing that the commiecrat push for all transgenders all the time is harmful to them and their families and that the FNM are a bunch of mean girl journal, diary writers rather than reporters of facts.
Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at October 17, 2022 02:05 PM (3cGpq)

Or they're just pissy because the price of wine keeps going up.

Posted by: 29Victor at October 17, 2022 02:09 PM (BJKQV)

97 Yamiche Alcindor of PBS and NBC insisted that on the campaign trail "abortion comes up 90 percent of the time" when she speaks with voters.

She brings it up 100% of the time, unless she forgets. I wonder if she keeps records to support her assertion? 90% sounds very sciency.

Also, "Yamiche" sounds like the scientific name for a mutated yeast infection.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 17, 2022 02:04 PM (JOtiF)

Who is the audience of PBS and Alcindor. 90% abortion fanatics. Very sciency there, mutated yeast infection.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at October 17, 2022 02:09 PM (yHsuS)

98 Homosexual news readers

You repeat yourself.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at October 17, 2022 02:09 PM (W5wR3)

99 74 That is, Democrats are overrepresented in non-competitive districts and underrepresented in competitive districts actually in play.
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This is the story of California, and is why California is irrelevant in terms of national electoral politics. It's a rotten borough and the Democrat will win. Some local races in that state might matter, but the state itself is completely irrelevant.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 17, 2022 02:06 PM (t0OGg)

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It's also why CA wants to be earlier in the primary calendar. They know that they've hit the ceiling in terms of their effect on national politics, and with them potentially in the start of losing representation in Congress, it's one of the only avenues they have to actually increasing their influence anymore. They did lose one seat in the 2020 census, and they know they should have lost more.

If they can be first, then they can get someone like Newsom through the primaries easily. Having to send him out to interact with the hayseeds in Iowa is going to kill his candidacy like it killed Kamala's.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 17, 2022 02:09 PM (LvTSG)

100 So "Independent Women" are shifting away from Democrats.

Setting aside the obvious question - which is "what is a woman, anyway?" - how many women (however they are defined) are "independent?" How much of the electorate is it? The movement is interesting, but is it sizable all things considered?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 17, 2022 02:09 PM (t0OGg)

101 The problem for the dems is that their base won't permit them to shift towards the center. Too much internal politics on the left- if they do the activists will stay home.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at October 17, 2022 02:10 PM (T4C1j)

102 62 Do the Dumocraps look scared to you? Ignore what they say. Watch what they do. They are double- and tripling-down on every terrible policy that supposedly will kill them in November, up to and including their child sexual perversions.
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They've been avoiding debates, while the Biden admin pushes through desperate policy after desperate policy in hopes of stirring up the base.

Jesus fucking christ, there's absolutely nothing that they could do that would satisfy you that they are in a panic. Everything is an op. Everything is somehow proof that they've won it all.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at October 17, 2022 02:05 PM (T4C1j)
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You have a much different definition of "panic" than I do. They are pushing full speed ahead with the exact same far-left agenda that the country is supposedly revolting against. That's not "panic" to me.

Posted by: Elric Blade at October 17, 2022 02:10 PM (iFTx/)

103 ZZ Topp's Dusty Hill dead at age 72.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 17, 2022 02:10 PM (lf83v)

104 Back the Siena Poll: the Republicans' surge is driven, by no small amount, by the "massive" swing of independent women towards the GOP. Independent women have swung towards Republicans in closing weeks of campaign by Thirty-Two Fucking Points, Jack (!!!) despite Democrats going all-in on single issue of abortion until moment of crowning.

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Well, that's unpossible . The best plush toys in the GOP told us for decades that focusing on social issues was Not The Hill To Die On©.

Posted by: Azathoth at October 17, 2022 02:10 PM (wb1YC)

105 Vega can't win in the seventh in Virginia. She could have, but can't now. That's just a fact, and if she'd had sense enough not to veer into Akin country, adding disturbing "the rapist is in a hurry" musings, dissatisfaction with Spanberger shoring up the excesses of proggies would have carried the day.

Posted by: Sarahw at October 17, 2022 02:10 PM (g1vnC)

106 Red red wave, you make me feel so sad,
Any time I see you go, it make me feel bad
Red red wave, you make me feel so fine,
Monkey pox him Rizla pon the sweet.
Posted by: Prog Tears


I'm deeply sad that I recognize the song. That fucking thing was played over the PA every fucking day in high school for months.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 17, 2022 02:10 PM (IyrhE)

107 the demorats are about to get smoked. I don't know if Doug Mastriano will make it to the Guv office, though.

Posted by: kallisto at October 17, 2022 02:10 PM (dCxaZ)

108 Did you ever imagine we would reach the point, as a country, where we cannot even agree that the sexual mutilation of children was wrong?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 17, 2022 02:10 PM (9yUzE)

109 Maybe Karen has figured out that The Left will NEVER let go of calling their opponents Haters.

It took moving the "acceptable or not" line to bodily mutilation of pre-teens.

Karen would rather have cheaper food and gas.

Not sure that's a win, but here we are.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 17, 2022 02:10 PM (UqahJ)

110 ZZ Topp's Dusty Hill dead at age 72.

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Frank Beard remains. Keep on drumming Frank.

Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at October 17, 2022 02:11 PM (sX1BW)

111 All I know is that Nancy Pelosi held a press conference about a week ago and said that the Democrats would not only hold the House, but gain seats. She did the same thing in 2018 against conventional wisdom.

She was right in 2018. Sadly, I think when the votes are all "counted" she will be right again.

Posted by: Orson at October 17, 2022 02:11 PM (mcqqR)

112 I'm afraid that I, too, will have to vote for those disgusting Republicans, despite my ever growing hatred of them. Party motto: "Sure, we suck. But look at the other guys." And that's correct.

Of course, all this is dependent on what the D's do to fight it. And I don't believe anything is out of bounds to them. Anything.

The other bad news here is that I think, assuming a big win, the Rs may be facing total disaster if they go into their usual "Let's leave all the damage the Ds have done in place, and send fundraising letters." Which is what they always do. Maybe, just maybe, McCarthy will see the light here. Much as he dislikes the idea, he may realize he has to do something. Mitch never will. We need to replace him.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 17, 2022 02:11 PM (TgBWG)

113 If they can be first, then they can get someone like Newsom through the primaries easily. Having to send him out to interact with the hayseeds in Iowa is going to kill his candidacy like it killed Kamala's.

I dunno. The voters of Iowa take their first in the nation responsibility very seriously. Just ask them.

/sarc

Posted by: Archimedes at October 17, 2022 02:11 PM (eOEVl)

114 86 What's delicious is, the Dems actually thought the polls were correct. And now, as mentioned, the ads are cut, the issues are locked in-- it's too late
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 17, 2022 02:07 PM (Zf0+a)

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This is what their donors want. They want to go whole hog on crazy social issues that obviously don't mesh with the people like abortions for all, cutting off the kids' dicks, and no miniature American flags for anyone.

These positions have to get so toxic that no matter how much money they spend, Democrats can't win with them. That's how this will end, when Democrats turn away this donor money. So, never.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 17, 2022 02:11 PM (LvTSG)

115 But................. 100% of the dead people that vote support the Democrats according to a new CNN poll....

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at October 17, 2022 02:11 PM (X++p7)

116 I find it interesting that Siena College and the NYT have hooked up for survey.

Marist and Quinnipiac are the other two Northeast colleges that have recognized polls.

NYT usually hooks up with CBS News.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 17, 2022 02:11 PM (lf83v)

117 I wonder how many independents have gone from "I'm gonna vote R this time" to "these maniacs can never be allowed any kind of power ever again."?

Posted by: Hawkpilot at October 17, 2022 02:11 PM (Ma7Lf)

118 What's delicious is, the Dems actually thought the polls were correct. And now, as mentioned, the ads are cut, the issues are locked in-- it's too late
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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This doesn't apply to particular races which have their own dynamics but overall in US politics, your party's fate at the ballot box is set by presidential approval in May of the election year. Under 48 percent, you lose seats, and as it declines lower than 48 percent, you lose more seats. By Gallup, Biden's approval rating was 41 percent in May.

Posted by: whig at October 17, 2022 02:11 PM (CXr4y)

119 While I'm hopeful we can get the Senate back, what Id love the most is seeing Zeldin win in NY. I still think it's a longshot, even with only a few point gap, but it could have a massive effect on being the country if NY starts acting like a real state again.

The media is doing all it can to make sure this doesn't happen though, by not pressing Hochel to have debates, as she'll get trounced on every issue.

Posted by: Rbastid at October 17, 2022 02:11 PM (/HQcE)

120 You can tell how desperate we are. Just look at the posts here.

Posted by: The Democrats at October 17, 2022 02:12 PM (T0jQj)

121 Mastriano could be the dark horse.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 17, 2022 02:12 PM (PWvcU)

122 Did you ever imagine we would reach the point, as a country, where we cannot even agree that the sexual mutilation of children was wrong?

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Hey what can go wrong if we just change the definition of marriage?

Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at October 17, 2022 02:12 PM (sX1BW)

123 You have a much different definition of "panic" than I do. They are pushing full speed ahead with the exact same far-left agenda that the country is supposedly revolting against. That's not "panic" to me.
Posted by: Elric Blade at October 17, 2022 02:10 PM (iFTx/)

To me, I am just wondering if they will go whole hog here. My money is that they will. I will be happy to be surprised.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 17, 2022 02:12 PM (CwQXo)

124 mandatory movie ?

Fifth Element, hands down.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at October 17, 2022 02:12 PM (8oyo2)

125 Well, that's unpossible . The best plush toys in the GOP told us for decades that focusing on social issues was Not The Hill To Die On©.

Remember when it was rayciss to talk about crime...then some Republicans did and it led to R mayors in even absurdly leftwing places like NYC?

And more recently most CA voters...CA VOTERS...voted to ban gay marriage.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 17, 2022 02:12 PM (ESjRY)

126 Dear Voters,

You're so cute. We'll still be here, fully funded and unwavering in our ambition

F You

Posted by: EPA Dept of Energy Supply Destruction at October 17, 2022 02:12 PM (UqahJ)

127 What I've always found interesting about abortion as an issue is that the loudest activists (upper middle class white women) aren't affected by it at all.

Abortion is an abstraction for them so they'll never really vote on it. Their husbands 401k? That's a real issue with tangible consequences.

Posted by: MJ at October 17, 2022 02:12 PM (zwDuR)

128 Interestingly, the top four concerns of democrats are things that almost nobody else cares about.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 17, 2022 02:13 PM (lTGtQ)

129 ...despite Democrats going all-in on single issue of abortion until moment of crowning.

Despite, or because?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 17, 2022 02:13 PM (zhLdt)

130 121 Mastriano could be the dark horse.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 17, 2022 02:12 PM (PWvcU)

I sure do hope so

Posted by: kallisto at October 17, 2022 02:13 PM (dCxaZ)

131 ZZ Topp's Dusty Hill dead at age 72.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 17, 2022 02:10 PM (lf83v)

Beautiful plumage. Sad day for music and fans.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 17, 2022 02:13 PM (4I/2K)

132 103 ZZ Topp's Dusty Hill dead at age 72.
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He has been dead since July.

Posted by: Puddinhead at October 17, 2022 02:13 PM (KY22T)

133 Kathy Hochul is mostly known in NY as Cuomo with smaller tits.

Posted by: The Democrats at October 17, 2022 02:13 PM (T0jQj)

134 BTW, Biden's Gallup approval rating was 42 percent (virtually indistinguishable from May) in late September this year. He has bounced around from 38-44 this year in Gallup.

Posted by: whig at October 17, 2022 02:13 PM (CXr4y)

135 Yamiche Alcindor of PBS and NBC. . . .

Also, "Yamiche" sounds like the scientific name for a mutated yeast infection.

Posted by: GnuBreed

I had a bad case of Yamiche Alcindor once but Penicillin cleared that right up.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 17, 2022 02:13 PM (bJxw1)

136 Elections, like war, are motivated by hunger among the people. Hunger and economic poverty.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 17, 2022 02:14 PM (lf83v)

137 124 mandatory movie ?

Fifth Element, hands down.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at October 17, 2022 02:12 PM (8oyo2)

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Does anyone else want to negotiate?

Posted by: jc at October 17, 2022 02:14 PM (N1WXz)

138 100 So "Independent Women" are shifting away from Democrats.

Setting aside the obvious question - which is "what is a woman, anyway?" - how many women (however they are defined) are "independent?" How much of the electorate is it? The movement is interesting, but is it sizable all things considered?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 17, 2022 02:09 PM (t0OGg)
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I've long thought that "independents" were a myth. Maybe at one time they existed, but the country has been too polarized for too long for any material number of people to still waffle on GOP vs Dem. I think it's fashionable to identify as "independent" to try to muffle the stench of party affiliation. So you get a lot of voters pretending they have no party bias or affiliation.

Posted by: Elric Blade at October 17, 2022 02:14 PM (iFTx/)

139 Huh.

The normies don't like being preyed upon, who knew there would be accountability for pro-crime policies?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 17, 2022 02:14 PM (y0Q2d)

140 Hillary and the FBI are Democracy Deniers and should be treated accordingly by the Media, Twittragers, and the Federal government.

Earth to Yamiche and Claire: The only segment of the population where abortion is the number #1 issue are AWLF, gender studies majors, and single black females. Pretty much every place else it is understood that legal abortions are available on a state by state basis and if your state restricts them, one is available a few hours away in another state. All you Yamiche and Clarie fans, knock yourselves out and make it a long weekend with a dinner, a show, and an abortion. For the rest of us, getting that lunatic out of office, so we can afford to live, is what matters.

The news about the "blue surge" over the summer was a political campaign in an attempt to suppress the looming red wave and hopefully reign it in. It never was going to work and this latest round of polling is showing that. Never bought that BS for one second.

Posted by: Lost In Space at October 17, 2022 02:14 PM (3rD2r)

141
boobs

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 17, 2022 02:14 PM (V6f9+)

142 ZZ Topp's Dusty Hill dead at age 72.
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He has been dead since July.
Posted by: Puddinhead

Dusty Hill still dead at age 72?

Posted by: Tonypete at October 17, 2022 02:14 PM (bJxw1)

143
Obligatory Laurie Dhue on a stripper pole.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-DdDEoc1rI

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 17, 2022 02:14 PM (n+4am)

144 In September's iteration of the poll, Democrats boasted a 14 point lead among (Independent Women), but by October, Republicans held an 18 point advantage.

I wonder if their new-school-year children just happened to mention the weekly Drag Queen contest or the new LGBTQ+ History Month for October.

Posted by: Chuck C at October 17, 2022 02:14 PM (xttsV)

145 The commies are doing this because all the chips are in. They can't go back.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 17, 2022 02:14 PM (PWvcU)

146 27 I was promised nood strippers. I see no nood strippers here.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at October 17, 2022 02:01 PM (906pl)
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You have to pay Ace extra to get into the champagne room

Posted by: Eeyore at October 17, 2022 02:14 PM (TgBWG)

147 They know that they've hit the ceiling in terms of their effect on national politics, and with them potentially in the start of losing representation in Congress, it's one of the only avenues they have to actually increasing their influence anymore.

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Yes, a political monoculture makes CA irrelevant nationally. But they export Democracy, and now CO is irrelevant nationally. Other states are being colonized.

Their enormous population is another avenue... a few more of these turnarounds, and you're suddenly in charge of a powerful bloc of "nationally irrelevant" states.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 17, 2022 02:15 PM (oINRc)

148 "Your mom should have aborted you" doesn't really count as "bringing the issue up."




Cruel.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 17, 2022 02:15 PM (Zz0t1)

149 538 says that Fetterman, Warnock and Kelly will win. We say, pull my other finger.

Posted by: The Democrats at October 17, 2022 02:15 PM (T0jQj)

150 It's also why CA wants to be earlier in the primary calendar. ... it's one of the only avenues they have to actually increasing their influence anymore. They did lose one seat in the 2020 census, and they know they should have lost more. ...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 17, 2022 02:09 PM (LvTSG)
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California might care about that, but the Party doesn't, at least not for presidential races. California lost a seat and should have lost at least two, maybe three.

Thanks to the Great Colonization that kicked off in the aftermath of the tech wreck and during the housing bubble, the Left has flipped several states. They picked up Colorado and that will likely be a permanent flip. They picked up New Mexico and will probably keep it. They will likely get to keep Nevada, too. That's 9, 5 and 6 electoral votes, respectively. They lost 1 and picked up 20. +19 is pretty good. Even if CA lost 3 EVs, it's still +17.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 17, 2022 02:15 PM (t0OGg)

151 127 What I've always found interesting about abortion as an issue is that the loudest activists (upper middle class white women) aren't affected by it at all.

Abortion is an abstraction for them so they'll never really vote on it. Their husbands 401k? That's a real issue with tangible consequences.

Posted by: MJ
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Often it is a vote regarding their daughters and also college educated women are much more concerned about because colleges tie abortion as the keystone of women's rights.

Posted by: whig at October 17, 2022 02:15 PM (CXr4y)

152 boobs
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 17, 2022 02:14 PM (V6f9+)



My hero.

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 17, 2022 02:15 PM (Zz0t1)

153 Abortion is an abstraction for them so they'll never really vote on it. Their husbands 401k? That's a real issue with tangible consequences.

Posted by: MJ at October 17, 2022 02:12 PM (zwDuR)

I disagree- their self-satisfaction for "supporting women" by advocating for child murder is overwhelming, plus it's way easier to understand abortion (either for or against) than to get educated on fiscal policy , trade, taxes and its implications.

Posted by: LASue at October 17, 2022 02:15 PM (Ed8Zd)

154 You're right. He died in July. I just got a story from Metal Shout that said he died an hour ago.

Very wierd.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 17, 2022 02:15 PM (lf83v)

155 Do transgenders qualify as a woman ????

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at October 17, 2022 02:16 PM (X++p7)

156 This looks bad for the Democrats, so what do they do?

Ditch Biden BEFORE the elections hoping that all the glowing "First Female President!!" coverage rubs off on the Democrats?

Ditch Biden AFTER the elections so they can blame everything on Republicans being too racist to work with the "First Female President!" to "fix" our problems?

Posted by: JoeF. at October 17, 2022 02:16 PM (mR6Gs)

157 I guess purple hair lesbians threatening to withhold sex from men over Dobbs didn't convince suburban women to stand with them?

They want career-path politics; safe, nice.

Not anger and ugly.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 17, 2022 02:16 PM (Zf0+a)

158 Elections, like war, are motivated by hunger among the people. Hunger and economic poverty.

And child mutilation. Elections, like war, are motivated by three factors: hunger, economic poverty, and child mutilation. And porous borders...

I'll come in again.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 17, 2022 02:16 PM (eOEVl)

159 Of particular note was a 32 point swing among independent women toward the GOP


That's crazy !

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 17, 2022 02:16 PM (M+Lyo)

160 You have to pay Ace extra to get into the champagne room
Posted by: Eeyore

"There is no sex in the champagne room."
-- Chris Rock

Posted by: Tonypete at October 17, 2022 02:16 PM (bJxw1)

161 You have to pay Ace extra to get into the champagne room
Posted by: Eeyore at October 17, 2022 02:14 PM (TgBWG)

Moose out front shoulda told me!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at October 17, 2022 02:16 PM (906pl)

162 After they lose, they're going to nuke the filibuster and ban guns.

Posted by: torabora at October 17, 2022 02:16 PM (JH1tc)

163 boobs
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 17, 2022 02:14 PM (V6f9+)


My hero.

*fistbump*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 17, 2022 02:15 PM (Zz0t1)

:fistbump:

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 17, 2022 02:16 PM (V6f9+)

164 While I'm hopeful we can get the Senate back, what Id love the most is seeing Zeldin win in NY. I still think it's a longshot, even with only a few point gap, but it could have a massive effect on being the country if NY starts acting like a real state again. ...

Posted by: Rbastid at October 17, 2022 02:11 PM (/HQcE)
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Upstaters love joos from Longuyland. Ask me how I know.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 17, 2022 02:16 PM (y0Q2d)

165 This is unbelievable.
Officer Begs School Not to Unlock Doors for Armed Men, But Vice Principal Did the Unthinkable.

https://is.gd/Ltx9yh

Posted by: Ciampino is gobsmacked at October 17, 2022 02:17 PM (qfLjt)

166 ZZ Topp's Dusty Hill dead at age 72.
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He has been dead since July.

Posted by: Puddinhead at October 17, 2022 02:13 PM (KY22T)

Well, he's really dead, then.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at October 17, 2022 02:17 PM (yHsuS)

167 Do transgenders qualify as a woman ????
Posted by: Ferd Berfall

To me at least, that depends. Which way are they going?

It matters.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 17, 2022 02:17 PM (bJxw1)

168 They are swirling around the toilet bowl of Hillary politics with the abortion hysterics that isn't working this election. It is really all they have and both men and women are looking at their grocery bills, utility bills, fuel, etc. and that is scaring most people. That abortion is one of the top issues during these elections is pure bullshit.

Posted by: Cheri at October 17, 2022 02:17 PM (oiNtH)

169 The news about the "blue surge" over the summer was a political campaign in an attempt to suppress the looming red wave and hopefully reign it in. It never was going to work and this latest round of polling is showing that. Never bought that BS for one second.
Posted by: Lost In Space at October 17, 2022 02:14 PM


But our O.G. Electric Vehicle Guy (Hi, Joe!) has told us time and again that voting is useless and that we are all doomed. I'm so confused.

Posted by: Electric Vehicle Guy at October 17, 2022 02:17 PM (xttsV)

170 Porn Star Cherry Topedhillz dead at 105

Posted by: REDACTED at October 17, 2022 02:17 PM (us2H3)

171 boobs
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 17, 2022 02:14 PM (V6f9+)


My hero.

*fistbump*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 17, 2022 02:15 PM (Zz0t1)

:fistbump:
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 17, 2022 02:16 PM (V6f9+)

*double finger point*

Posted by: Isaac, your bartender at October 17, 2022 02:17 PM (4I/2K)

172 I've long thought that "independents" were a myth. Maybe at one time they existed, but the country has been too polarized for too long for any material number of people to still waffle on GOP vs Dem. I think it's fashionable to identify as "independent" to try to muffle the stench of party affiliation. So you get a lot of voters pretending they have no party bias or affiliation.
Posted by: Elric Blade at October 17, 2022 02:14 PM (iFTx/)
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:: raises hand ::

That's me. I despise the GOP and am not a Party member, nor do I declare myself as such.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 17, 2022 02:17 PM (t0OGg)

173 My uncle drove a Yamiche for a while in the 70s. Great mileage but it had just about zero cargo space.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 17, 2022 02:18 PM (+bONN)

174 ZZ Topp's Dusty Hill dead at age 72.
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He has been dead since July.

Posted by: Puddinhead at October 17, 2022 02:13 PM (KY22T)

Well, he's really dead, then.

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We found a voter!

- Dem Voting Strategist

Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at October 17, 2022 02:18 PM (sX1BW)

175
C'mon man!
The economy is roaring!
Ice Cream tastes great!
FOX has me at 47%!
Little Girls love me!

Posted by: Auspex at October 17, 2022 02:18 PM (j4U/Z)

176 Waving hello to V the K

Posted by: Linda Sina at October 17, 2022 02:18 PM (Yrvb3)

177 SWEET! So what we're reading in this is everyone really wants a tax cut. Because as everyone knows that fixes everything.

HA! Just kidding. You won't get that either. Somebody has to pay for all the money we'll send to Ukraine. And more planes, more bombs and more bullets for IRS agents.

Posted by: Gormless Old Prats at October 17, 2022 02:18 PM (PWI4f)

178 ZZ Topp's Dusty Hill dead at age 72.
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He has been dead since July.

Posted by: Puddinhead at October 17, 2022 02:13 PM (KY22T)

Well, he's really dead, then.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at October 17, 2022 02:17 PM (yHsuS)

Really and most sincerely dead.

Posted by: Munchkin ME at October 17, 2022 02:18 PM (4I/2K)

179
Crime is big. I've mentioned quite a few cases here that have occurred in my area. I know there's some homeless camp behind a local grocery store that appears to be the epicenter of the assaults.

I went to the state liquor monopoly store today which is within a couple hundred feet of the camp. Nobody in the store except the clerks. As I'm paying some old disheveled white dude wanders in and gets right in line behind me. Protip: If they're buying just a couple ounce bottle that's what they do - no need to shop. Seconds later a disheveled looking, hoody wearing black dude gets immediately in line behind him.



Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 17, 2022 02:18 PM (y3pKJ)

180 Abortion is my number one issue this election cycle !!!! It fills my gas tank, pays my utility bills, and puts food on my table ...... Wait a minute, hold that thought.... Let me think about this..... Killing babies pays my bills ????


Never mind.......... I will go back to Saving the Gay Hamsters as my number one issue this election..

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at October 17, 2022 02:18 PM (X++p7)

181 California might care about that, but the Party doesn't, at least not for presidential races. California lost a seat and should have lost at least two, maybe three.

Thanks to the Great Colonization that kicked off in the aftermath of the tech wreck and during the housing bubble, the Left has flipped several states. They picked up Colorado and that will likely be a permanent flip. They picked up New Mexico and will probably keep it. They will likely get to keep Nevada, too. That's 9, 5 and 6 electoral votes, respectively. They lost 1 and picked up 20. +19 is pretty good. Even if CA lost 3 EVs, it's still +17.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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That is a static analysis. The black swan event is realignment and historically we are overdue. The New Deal coalition more or less went kaput in 1968 and the competitive era of 1968-2020 has been considered its own era of dealignment from any majority party. Due to foreign and domestic crises (some forced by the regime, others not), there is a considerable chance that we are at the brink of a realigningment because the current Uniparty is simply not capable of governing anymore.

Posted by: whig at October 17, 2022 02:19 PM (CXr4y)

182 Been an Independent for 20 plus years.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 17, 2022 02:19 PM (PWvcU)

183 This election is going to prove that abortion has been THE paper tiger of American politics for decades. "We can't attack it. We'll lose women voters!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 17, 2022 02:01 PM (LvTSG)


Are politicians stupid, craven, liars or all three?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 17, 2022 02:19 PM (zhLdt)

184 That's me. I despise the GOP and am not a Party member, nor do I declare myself as such.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 17, 2022 02:17 PM (t0OGg)
______________

The only party I hate more than the GOP are the Dumocraps

Posted by: Elric Blade at October 17, 2022 02:19 PM (iFTx/)

185
independent Woman swing by 36 points the GOP!

but...abortion! but....Climate change!...but....transgenderism!...but...Hunter Biden's 9" cock!

Posted by: AOC & the Squad at October 17, 2022 02:19 PM (+oR7L)

186 That had to poll 50% more dead people to get Biden above 40%......

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at October 17, 2022 02:19 PM (X++p7)

187 There's been a few recent Fetterman rallies. I live locally and if I didn't read about them in the local rag, I'd never know they had taken place.

Just 2 days ago, he was in Nether Providence along with U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon; the Delaware County Council Chair; a state representative, and the local District Attorney, Jack Stollsteimer. Reportedly, a large photo of a Wawa store hung behind the podium and "once Fetterman appeared," he joked about of his love of the county institution and discussed his stroke. (Emphasis added.) Oct 7th, Sens. Bob Casey & Sherrod Brown stumped with John Fetterman at a rally in Erie, PA. Again, little publicity statewide.

Dave in Fl. has been outstanding.

Posted by: Lola at October 17, 2022 02:19 PM (NIYa7)

188 Yeah losing Dusty Hill was a severe blow to music. I love ZZ Top, even their later stuff.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2022 02:19 PM (Ivdso)

189 Vega can't win in the seventh in Virginia. She could have, but can't now. That's just a fact, and if she'd had sense enough not to veer into Akin country, adding disturbing "the rapist is in a hurry" musings, dissatisfaction with Spanberger shoring up the excesses of proggies would have carried the day.

Posted by: Sarahw at October 17, 2022 02:10 PM (g1vnC)

I live in this district, and I concur. Vega's toast due to completely avoidable errors.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at October 17, 2022 02:19 PM (cvNl1)

190 I'll wait until Nov 9 to do my happy dance.

Posted by: sidney at October 17, 2022 02:19 PM (Uy/WF)

191 Did you ever imagine we would reach the point, as a country, where we cannot even agree that the sexual mutilation of children was wrong?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 17, 2022 02:10 PM (9yUzE)

I should probably invest in millstones and rope.

Posted by: pookysgirl, looking for the nearest ocean at October 17, 2022 02:20 PM (XKZwp)

192 I really hope it is a Red Tsunami. We have done pretty well getting rid of RINOs and GOPe candidates. This is a long fight for the soul of the GOP and the Country.
I will vote straight Republican her in NV. Some of our candidates are not great, but the Dem is worse.

Posted by: Czech Chick at October 17, 2022 02:20 PM (haWye)

193 >143
Obligatory Laurie Dhue on a stripper pole.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-DdDEoc1rI

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 17, 2022 02:14 PM (n+4am)


**checks off another item on bucket list**

Posted by: Muad'dib at October 17, 2022 02:20 PM (sjdRT)

194 Thanks to the Great Colonization that kicked off in the aftermath of the tech wreck and during the housing bubble, the Left has flipped several states. They picked up Colorado and that will likely be a permanent flip. They picked up New Mexico and will probably keep it. They will likely get to keep Nevada, too. That's 9, 5 and 6 electoral votes, respectively. They lost 1 and picked up 20. +19 is pretty good. Even if CA lost 3 EVs, it's still +17. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Especially New Mexico. The Dems have this state by the balls and they run it like a mafia, The current governor, expanded the state budget by 40% over the last 4 years to "invest" in salaries and pensions for government workers, and free college tuition to name but 2 payoffs. In return we got and 49th place education system that and economy that ranks 44th nationally.

Posted by: Lost In Space at October 17, 2022 02:20 PM (3rD2r)

195
The GOP's war on women creates a 36 point swing of Independent women to the GOP.

Nice.

Posted by: portlandon at October 17, 2022 02:20 PM (+oR7L)

196 183 This election is going to prove that abortion has been THE paper tiger of American politics for decades. "We can't attack it. We'll lose women voters!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 17, 2022 02:01 PM (LvTSG)

Are politicians stupid, craven, liars or all three?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 17, 2022 02:19 PM (zhLdt)

========

I think they are rulers of small fiefdoms and will throw anyone and everyone under the bus to extend their power by another few metaphorical inches. Otto Preminger's Advise and Consent, in particular, shows this.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 17, 2022 02:20 PM (LvTSG)

197 This election is going to prove that abortion has been THE paper tiger of American politics for decades. "We can't attack it. We'll lose women voters!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 17, 2022 02:01 PM (LvTSG)

Are politicians stupid, craven, liars or all three?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 17, 2022 02:19 PM

(zhLdt)

Yes

Posted by: JoeF. at October 17, 2022 02:20 PM (mR6Gs)

198 124 mandatory movie ?

Fifth Element, hands down.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at October 17, 2022 02:12 PM (8oyo2)


I love that movie.

I am a meat popsicle.

Posted by: Archer at October 17, 2022 02:21 PM (gmo/4)

199 178 ZZ Topp's Dusty Hill dead at age 72.
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He has been dead since July.

Posted by: Puddinhead at October 17, 2022 02:13 PM (KY22T)

Well, he's really dead, then.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at October 17, 2022 02:17 PM (yHsuS)
Really and most sincerely dead.
Posted by: Munchkin ME at October 17, 2022 02:18 PM (4I/2K)


Pockets already gone through for loose change?

Posted by: Miracle Max at October 17, 2022 02:21 PM (1Nzxv)

200 Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

Posted by: Chevy Chase at October 17, 2022 02:21 PM (+bONN)

201 154 You're right. He died in July. I just got a story from Metal Shout that said he died an hour ago.

Very wierd.
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Don't feel bad, I got a story here that said Ann Wilson had died. She had but it wasn't the Ann Wilson of Heart I grew up with.

Posted by: Puddinhead at October 17, 2022 02:21 PM (KY22T)

202 I see many more have jumped on the "there will be no red wave" bus.

We will see on November 9th, but none of the available data supports your belief.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 17, 2022 02:21 PM (X1znj)

203 Are politicians stupid, craven, liars or all three

Yes.

Abortion forever has been on eof those third rail topics, but the bottom line is that the great majority of Americans believe that it should not be utterly legal at all times and places. The biggest group of Americans are fine with banning abortion past the first trimester. A large minority is fine with banning it for EVERYTHING except rape and the life of the mother.

I'm in the smaller group that cannot support murdering a helpless, innocent baby for the evil of its father's act.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2022 02:21 PM (Ivdso)

204 173 My uncle drove a Yamiche for a while in the 70s. Great mileage but it had just about zero cargo space.

This new version has plenty.

Posted by: E. A. Blair at October 17, 2022 02:21 PM (6b60r)

205 Sens. Bob Casey & Sherrod Brown stumped with John Fetterman at a rally in Erie, PA. Again, little publicity statewide.
Posted by: Lola

Smart move by Fetterman's campaign staff. Next to Brown, Fetterman seems warm, intelligent and gracious - by comparison.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 17, 2022 02:21 PM (bJxw1)

206 Billy Gibbons cousin Cedric won 11 Oscars

Posted by: REDACTED at October 17, 2022 02:22 PM (us2H3)

207
Do the Dumocraps look scared to you? Ignore what they say. Watch what they do. They are double- and tripling-down on every terrible policy that supposedly will kill them in November, up to and including their child sexual perversions.

It’s almost like they know something we don’t. I think they do know something: they plan on stealing 2022 just like they did 2020. How are we gonna stop them? The GOP practically cheered on the steal in 2020.
Posted by: Elric Blade at October 17, 2022 01:59 PM (iFTx

Agree. This is also my fear. And the cheating will be in-your-face blatant.

And they know there will be nothing we can do about it. No standing.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at October 17, 2022 02:22 PM (BdMk6)

208 It'd be cool if OH could get rid of Sherrod Brown, by the way.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 17, 2022 02:22 PM (LvTSG)

209 That is a static analysis. The black swan event is realignment and historically we are overdue. The New Deal coalition more or less went kaput in 1968 and the competitive era of 1968-2020 has been considered its own era of dealignment from any majority party. Due to foreign and domestic crises (some forced by the regime, others not), there is a considerable chance that we are at the brink of a realigningment because the current Uniparty is simply not capable of governing anymore.
Posted by: whig at October 17, 2022 02:19 PM (CXr4y)
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Time will tell. There appear to be black swans all over the place, but the first thing these people do when they take over is pervert elections. That makes shaking things out much, much harder. The political realignment will have no bearing on the political system if the people have no means to put their candidates into place. "We're in charge, the people be damned" is the operating model for the Democrats and for big chunks of the GOP. That will still eventually end, of course, but the mechanisms will be much, much worse than elections.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 17, 2022 02:22 PM (t0OGg)

210 I always look at pollsters questions on 2A as an indicator of nothing. "How important is Congressional action on gun control to you"? You could answer , "Sure it's important. I don't want them to take away my guns". Or "Let's confiscate them, if it only saves one life, for the chilluns". So gun control is important, because people are concerned. Even at that, it's bottom of the barrel.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 17, 2022 02:22 PM (lz5hY)

211 Did you ever imagine we would reach the point, as a country, where we cannot even agree that the sexual mutilation of children was wrong?

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Sure. Read "A Conflict of Visions." This is the endpoint of the unconstrained vision of humanity.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 17, 2022 02:22 PM (oINRc)

212 Such a fucking scam. Anyone who believes that 32% of "independent women" were actually for Democrats in September, but magically switched to Republicans in October is a FUCKING RETARD. Polling is dogshit. In that particular category of voter, your results were off by a full 32% from one month to the next. That's epic incompetence level polling

Posted by: deadrody at October 17, 2022 02:22 PM (kYmXc)

213 Yeah losing Dusty Hill was a severe blow to music. I love ZZ Top, even their later stuff.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2022 02:19 PM (Ivdso)



I'm still trying to figure out why they did that whole "remastering" thing and seemingly replaced Frank Beard with a drum machine.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 17, 2022 02:22 PM (Zz0t1)

214 Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
Posted by: Chevy Chase

Is that our top story tonight?

Posted by: Tonypete at October 17, 2022 02:22 PM (bJxw1)

215 Republican need the Senate to able to appoint Conservative Judges and we need to make Rick Scott Majority leader....

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at October 17, 2022 02:22 PM (X++p7)

216 Or at least a waypoint.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 17, 2022 02:23 PM (oINRc)

217 I live in this district, and I concur. Vega's toast due to completely avoidable errors.

I haven't seen ANY polling on Hung Cao vs. Jennifer Wexton in the 10th. Have you?

Posted by: Archimedes at October 17, 2022 02:23 PM (eOEVl)

218 Obligatory Laurie Dhue on a stripper pole.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-DdDEoc1rI

Laurie Dhue is hot, and 6' 3", oof

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 17, 2022 02:23 PM (M+Lyo)

219 We will see on November 9th, but none of the available data supports your belief.

Its not that this is based on evidence or data, its a deep mistrust of the available data and having been burned too many times in the past, particularly 2020, to trust anything electoral any more.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2022 02:23 PM (Ivdso)

220 This election is going to prove that abortion has been THE paper tiger of American politics for decades. "We can't attack it. We'll lose women voters!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 17, 2022 02:01 PM (LvTSG)


Abortion is the top issue with upper middle class women--nearly all Democrat and a majority of GOP-- who want and expect their offspring to rule.
The last thing they want is for precious Emily to have to take Tyrone's baby to term, or Ethan to knock up the maid.

Posted by: JoeF. at October 17, 2022 02:23 PM (mR6Gs)

221 Posted by: Chevy Chase

You were never funny, ever.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 17, 2022 02:23 PM (IyrhE)

222 215 Republican need the Senate to able to appoint Conservative Judges and we need to make Rick Scott Majority leader....
Posted by: Ferd Berfall at October 17, 2022 02:22 PM (X++p7)

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The Senate GOP ain't getting any conservative justices on any court over the next two years, even with a mythically large majority.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 17, 2022 02:24 PM (LvTSG)

223 172 I've long thought that "independents" were a myth. Maybe at one time they existed, but the country has been too polarized for too long for any material number of people to still waffle on GOP vs Dem. I think it's fashionable to identify as "independent" to try to muffle the stench of party affiliation. So you get a lot of voters pretending they have no party bias or affiliation.
Posted by: Elric Blade
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True independents, the last I checked, were about 5-10 percent of the electorate. Soft partisans about half of each party's coalition. But, often the soft partisans are the ones most affected by negative information about their own leaning party id and often sit out midterms.

Part of that is baked into the cake of two party government (see Downsian analysis of elections). Massive continuous crises and a government that can effectively respond to them can forge a new dominant majority for a time though. This is what is called a realignment. During the 30's, for example, the rural agrarian populist Democrats held key positions in Congress due to seniority and often fought bitterly with new urban Democrats until the 70's where the urbanites won.

Posted by: whig at October 17, 2022 02:24 PM (CXr4y)

224 I don't know how they know women are trending toward the GOP when Governor Abrams and the Black Babe on the Supreme Court could not answer what a woman was ????

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at October 17, 2022 02:24 PM (X++p7)

225 I'm in the smaller group that cannot support murdering a helpless, innocent baby for the evil of its father's act.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2022 02:21 PM (Ivdso)


And not to be unsympathetic, but "date rape" frequently is morning-after regret, not rape.

Posted by: LASue at October 17, 2022 02:24 PM (Ed8Zd)

226 I'm in the smaller group that cannot support murdering a helpless, innocent baby for the evil of its father's act.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Hear! Hear!

Posted by: Tonypete at October 17, 2022 02:24 PM (bJxw1)

227 208 Losing Sherrod Brown would mean Jim Trafficant's barber would have no more customers.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 17, 2022 02:24 PM (lz5hY)

228 221 Posted by: Chevy Chase

You were never funny, ever.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 17, 2022 02:23 PM (IyrhE)

Fletch

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 17, 2022 02:24 PM (V6f9+)

229 They are swirling around the toilet bowl of Hillary politics with the abortion hysterics that isn't working this election. It is really all they have and both men and women are looking at their grocery bills, utility bills, fuel, etc. and that is scaring most people. That abortion is one of the top issues during these elections is pure bullshit.
Posted by: Cheri at October 17, 2022 02:17 PM (oiNtH)

Add in pissing off allies, dumping billions into Ukraine and now threats of nuclear war.

Posted by: Beartooth at October 17, 2022 02:24 PM (IP9GB)

230 But our O.G. Electric Vehicle Guy (Hi, Joe!) has told us time and again that voting is useless and that we are all doomed. I'm so confused.
Posted by: Electric Vehicle Guy

Family's home in Florida survived the hurricane only to have it burnt to the ground when their electric vehicle in the garage caught on fire which ended up demolishing the home. God has some sense of humor.

Posted by: Cheri at October 17, 2022 02:24 PM (oiNtH)

231 Obligatory Laurie Dhue on a stripper pole.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-DdDEoc1rI

Laurie Dhue is hot, and 6' 3", oof
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 17, 2022 02:23 PM (M+Lyo)

She's got legs
And knows how to use them

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 17, 2022 02:24 PM (4I/2K)

232 Independent Women Shift MASSIVELY to the GOP

It's all about the 401K. Those spa treatments are pricey yo. And let's not even talk about the price of Malbec lately
Posted by: kallisto

What's Malbec ?

Posted by: JT at October 17, 2022 02:24 PM (T4tVD)

233 The Nike guy has finally had it with the left wing in Oregon. He funded the Republican governor candidate and split the Democrat vote by funding an independent candidate who would have run as a Democrat if she got the D nomination.

Posted by: Lost In Space at October 17, 2022 02:24 PM (3rD2r)

234 Bob Casey is a worthless piece of shit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 17, 2022 02:24 PM (PWvcU)

235 I'm still trying to figure out why they did that whole "remastering" thing and seemingly replaced Frank Beard with a drum machine.

I think its him playing but they sweetened and boosted the drums with echo etc to make it sound like bombs going off. I like the sound on Six Pack, but it wasn't necessary, his work was perfectly fine.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2022 02:24 PM (Ivdso)

236 Next to Brown, Fetterman seems warm, intelligent and gracious - by comparison.

Since you imply Ohio, can I just say that JD Vance's YouTube ads fckg suck? Tim Ryan's ads brag about supporting Trump and don't even mention his party affiliation. Vance just calls him "Taxing Tim Ryan" which is weaksauce. I imagine Cocaine Mitch is paying for a beltway consultant to make Vance's ads, and beltway insider Repubbos cannot think of another issue besides taxes to run on.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 17, 2022 02:25 PM (9yUzE)

237 Sorry, this is bunk. There has been no reason for some mythical instant shift of just one group, except polling companies were hiding the indications hoping they could come back in the fold if they all thought they were the only one wandering off the plantation.

This shift is in the polling company, not the real country.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 17, 2022 02:25 PM (eoQWY)

238 Dusty Hill still dead at age 72?
Posted by: Tonypete at October 17, 2022


***
Like Franco, continuing his valiant fight to remain dead

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, dreaming of Elsewhere at October 17, 2022 02:25 PM (J2vNu)

239 202 I see many more have jumped on the "there will be no red wave" bus.

We will see on November 9th, but none of the available data supports your belief.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 17, 2022 02:21 PM (X1znj)

There you are. You tell em Dave!

Posted by: 29Victor at October 17, 2022 02:25 PM (BJKQV)

240 My uncle drove a Yamiche for a while in the 70s. Great mileage but it had just about zero cargo space.

This new version has plenty.

Posted by: E. A. Blair at October 17, 2022 02:21 PM (6b60r)

Was it . . . roomy?

Posted by: Hannbal Lecter at October 17, 2022 02:25 PM (yHsuS)

241 Billy Gibbons cousin Cedric won 11 Oscars

Posted by: REDACTED at October 17, 2022 02:22 PM (us2H3)

Dusty's cousin Hank won "West Texas Propane Salesman of the year" 6 times.

Posted by: Rbastid at October 17, 2022 02:25 PM (/HQcE)

242 237 This shift is in the polling company, not the real country.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 17, 2022 02:25 PM (eoQWY)

=========

But, we'll be back to believing the polls in summer of 2024.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 17, 2022 02:26 PM (LvTSG)

243 >>What's Malbec ?

It's a suburban woman/gay man thing. You wouldn't understand.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at October 17, 2022 02:26 PM (9yUzE)

244
I'll believe Uncle Festtermans chances are gone when they drag Obama out to campaign with him.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 17, 2022 02:26 PM (y3pKJ)

245 Aren't there "morning after" pills?
Why the need for infant butchering?

Posted by: gourmand du jour, in vino veritas at October 17, 2022 02:26 PM (7NKxb)

246 I disagree- their self-satisfaction for "supporting women" by advocating for child murder is overwhelming, plus it's way easier to understand abortion (either for or against) than to get educated on fiscal policy , trade, taxes and its implications.
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I agree with you but I think it's an abstraction that's totally eclipsed when they can't get the LV bag they want or can't go the Caribbean with their girls for a quick vacay.

Posted by: MJ at October 17, 2022 02:26 PM (zwDuR)

247 In 2012 and 2016, I offered to be a poll watcher in a neighboring blue state. I called and emailed both the nearby county GOP committees and the state GOP organization. The only response I ever got was to be put on countless mailing and email lists.

Posted by: Furious George at October 17, 2022 02:26 PM (CkFy6)

248 What else have we been told is untouchable in politics?

My hair. I have no need of any outside encouragement for balls deep.

Posted by: Kamala Harris at October 17, 2022 02:26 PM (EHcEg)

249 I thought Chevy was OK in the first Vacation movie.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 17, 2022 02:26 PM (cPemv)

250 There's going to be a Red Wave, that's undeniable.

I think it would have been bigger had
A) Roe vs Wade not been overturned
B) Trump had made better endorsements in these Senate races.

Posted by: Blago at October 17, 2022 02:02 PM (PwNLq)


If a smaller electoral victory is the price that must be paid for lessening, slightly, the greatest evil perpetuated in this country - and I do not except slavery - then I am willing to pay that price.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 17, 2022 02:26 PM (zhLdt)

251 Do the Dumocraps look scared to you? Ignore what they say. Watch what they do. They are double- and tripling-down on every terrible policy that supposedly will kill them in November, up to and including their child sexual perversions.

I don't think that has any relation to their electoral prospects, Democrats are also acting like they think they are going to lose. How can both of these things be true?

Because unlike wildly optimistic predictions of "Democrats out of power for a generation" and the kind of stuff Carville was saying about Republicans not that long ago, voters are fickle and have short memories. They get mad at whoever is in power and throw them out after a while.

Democrats understand this, Republicans do not. Democrats know they'll be back in power in a little while, Republicans fear its their only shot every election. Democrats know they can ram through whatever insane crap they want, no matter how much people hate it, because even if they are punished for it by being thrown out of power... they'll be back in a few election cycles.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2022 02:27 PM (Ivdso)

252 Keep in mind, where do the Democrats get 100% of their news?

A: From panels like the one linked where "abortion comes up 90% of the time."

Asking, "are they acting worried/scared?" is the wrong question.

They have intentionally cut themselves off from honest data. They don't know what they don't know. And, now they are getting a knowing.
None of them were polling in July/August. All of them were relying upon the media--chock full of "gas is down, economy issue is fading; abortion is still top issue" reporting.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 17, 2022 02:27 PM (Zf0+a)

253 Independent Women Shift MASSIVELY to the GOP

It's all about the 401K. Those spa treatments are pricey yo. And let's not even talk about the price of Malbec lately
Posted by: kallisto

What's Malbec ?
Posted by: JT at October 17, 2022 02:24 PM (T4tVD)

It's a red grape variety in South America from which wine is made in. But that's not important right now.

Posted by: Dr. Rumack at October 17, 2022 02:27 PM (4I/2K)

254 Do the Dumocraps look scared to you? Ignore what they say. Watch what they do. They are double- and tripling-down on every terrible policy that supposedly will kill them in November, up to and including their child sexual perversions.

It’s almost like they know something we don’t. I think they do know something: they plan on stealing 2022 just like they did 2020. How are we gonna stop them? The GOP practically cheered on the steal in 2020.
Posted by: Elric Blade at October 17, 2022 01:59 PM (iFTx

While i wouldn't put it past them to TRY, I think there are just too many races to try to fix with cheating.
I think the doubling down on the madness is just that --madness. They are grabbing with both hands everything that's not nailed down

Posted by: JoeF. at October 17, 2022 02:27 PM (mR6Gs)

255 Posted by: Ciampino is gobsmacked at October 17, 2022 02:17 PM (qfLjt)

the unassailable logic of #Woke NEA

Posted by: kallisto at October 17, 2022 02:27 PM (dCxaZ)

256 What else have we been told is untouchable in politics?


Dem politicians' kids.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 17, 2022 02:27 PM (NlFlr)

257 What's Malbec ?

It's a suburban woman/gay man thing. You wouldn't understand.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 17, 2022 02:27 PM (bJxw1)

258 White House: Biden thinks Fetterman is capable as himself amid questions over his health

Posted by: SMOD at October 17, 2022 02:28 PM (RHGPo)

259 It isn't that I don't believe a vast number of people are voting to the right this election, it is that a vast number of people who don't vote are going to have their votes counted this election, just like last time.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 17, 2022 02:28 PM (lTGtQ)

260 How can you not vote someone who's name rhymes with Hung Cow?

Posted by: Just Wondering at October 17, 2022 02:28 PM (+bONN)

261 Do the Dumocraps look scared to you? Ignore what they say. Watch what they do.

Posted by: Elric Blade at October 17, 2022 01:59 PM (iFTx
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They are flipping the heck out. I don't know what metrics you're looking at, but they're incapable of a course correction because they pushed all their chips on ABORTION. The ads are cut, the mailers have been printed and posted.

It's locked in, so all they can do is try to juice the base as best they can.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 17, 2022 02:28 PM (llXky)

262 I understand the negativity here but at the same time, Democrats work so hard to demoralize Republicans and make us feel isolated I really don't see the point of helping them out by talking down any good news.

Posted by: 29Victor at October 17, 2022 02:28 PM (BJKQV)

263 This shift is in the polling company, not the real country.

Now I think everyone here should be familiar with my contempt and dismissal of polls, but its not impossible that this poll is one of those late October "we gotta get the polls closer to the reality" shifts reflecting what was generally true in the past but ignored by polling companies paid to give specific results.

Time will tell.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2022 02:28 PM (Ivdso)

264 "(The October poll's unrounded margin is closer to 3 points, not the 4 points that the rounded figures imply.)"

If the margin is closer to 3 points, then the rounded value would be 3, not 4.

That the NYT (or maybe the poll people) does not understand how rounding works is completely unexpected.

Posted by: Tar Bae at October 17, 2022 02:28 PM (wgRY3)

265 I haven't seen ANY polling on Hung Cao vs. Jennifer Wexton in the 10th. Have you?

Posted by: Archimedes at October 17, 2022 02:23 PM (eOEVl)

I've not, despite actually digging for actual data a week or so back. Maybe Dave in Fl knows something?

I know the press calls the Vega and Cao races the 'most competitive' races in Virginia.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at October 17, 2022 02:29 PM (cvNl1)

266 258 White House: Biden thinks Fetterman is capable as himself amid questions over his health
Posted by: SMOD at October 17, 2022 02:28 PM (RHGPo)

And he is 100% correct

Posted by: 29Victor at October 17, 2022 02:29 PM (BJKQV)

267 I thought Chevy was OK in the first Vacation movie.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 17, 2022 02:26 PM (cPemv)


Best line in the movie wasn't uttered by his character: The family truckster, you think you hate it now, just wait until you drive it.

Posted by: Archer at October 17, 2022 02:29 PM (gmo/4)

268
Do the Dumocraps look scared to you? Ignore what they say. Watch what they do. They are double- and tripling-down on every terrible policy that supposedly will kill them in November, up to and including their child sexual perversions.

Posted by: Elric Blade at October 17, 2022 01:59 PM (iFTx/)

1990s Bill Clinton pivoted in response to mistakes, but those kind of politicians are long dead. The current set of ideologues *are* running scared and doubling down is the only way they know how to behave. They want to get their perversions in and hope that inertia in the GOP will let them get into the system and be impossible to remove.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 17, 2022 02:29 PM (eoQWY)

269 I've read that Obama has been out campaigning on behalf of Democratic candidates. But IIRC he was the kiss of death when he campaigned while president. I don't understand how he could help someone else when the only thing he can talk about is himself.

Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 17, 2022 02:29 PM (eGTCV)

270 I understand the negativity here but at the same time, Democrats work so hard to demoralize Republicans and make us feel isolated I really don't see the point of helping them out by talking down any good news.

Posted by: 29Victor at October 17, 2022 02:28 PM (BJKQV)
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Agreed. People need to accept good news when they get it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 17, 2022 02:29 PM (llXky)

271 233 The Nike guy has finally had it with the left wing in Oregon. He funded the Republican governor candidate and split the Democrat vote by funding an independent candidate who would have run as a Democrat if she got the D nomination.
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Any chance he will defund Crapperdick?

Posted by: Puddinhead at October 17, 2022 02:29 PM (KY22T)

272 95 The GOP is ready to take on any challenge as long as it can be solved by tax cuts and mass immigration.
____________

Damn straight. Now get out there and vote for Lisa Murkowski, you filthy ice encrusted, salmon smelling, gun toting rubes.

Posted by: Cocaine Mitch (R-CCP) at October 17, 2022 02:30 PM (fs1hN)

273 90% sounds very sciency.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 17, 2022 02:04 PM (JOtiF)


Nah. 90% sounds like bullshit. 91.753%. not that's sciency.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 17, 2022 02:30 PM (zhLdt)

274 I like Hung Cao’s chicken.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 17, 2022 02:30 PM (cPemv)

275 202 I see many more have jumped on the "there will be no red wave" bus.

We will see on November 9th, but none of the available data supports your belief.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 17, 2022 02:21 PM (X1znj)
___________________

I don't disagree that the polling numbers support a red wave. But with all due respect, polling numbers are just things some randos tell a guy interrupting their dinner. It's speculation. I trust things that have already happened. And what already happened is a blatant, in-your-face steal of the presidency, at least three Senate seats, at least one governorship, and dozens of House seats. I see little reason why this won't happen again. As I said above, who is gonna stop them?? You think they're not gonna just keep counting in Philly until Ogreman wins??

Posted by: Elric Blade at October 17, 2022 02:30 PM (iFTx/)

276 Time will tell. There appear to be black swans all over the place, but the first thing these people do when they take over is pervert elections. That makes shaking things out much, much harder. The political realignment will have no bearing on the political system if the people have no means to put their candidates into place. "We're in charge, the people be damned" is the operating model for the Democrats and for big chunks of the GOP. That will still eventually end, of course, but the mechanisms will be much, much worse than elections.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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Not necessarily. The politics of the Dems is based on the big cities that they rule but the economy, crime, education, transportation, etc. affect the majority of the electorate. Essentially, we have a Uniparty elite that more or less believe in the same things--these are the staffers, donors, and activists that have been miseducated in college. It is more likely we end up getting a Chavez or a Pinochet simply to strike down the corrupt oligarchy than a revolution. Coups are never popular for long.

Posted by: whig at October 17, 2022 02:30 PM (CXr4y)

277 >>Sorry, this is bunk. There has been no reason for some mythical instant shift of just one group, except polling companies were hiding the indications hoping they could come back in the fold if they all thought they were the only one wandering off the plantation.

>>This shift is in the polling company, not the real country.

Happens every election although it does appear to be getting more blatant.

Two pollsters who don't play this game, Trafalgar and People's Pundit.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 17, 2022 02:31 PM (ZLI7S)

278 IF the Repubs take back the House in bigly fashion and get 52-54 Senate Seat, the bit question is gonna be: What do the Dems do? DO they do ANY self-reflection o rod they double down on stoopid?

I am betting they go full crazy, which will be glorious to see.

Posted by: Czech Chick at October 17, 2022 02:31 PM (haWye)

279 Fletch
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards,


SUUUUUUCCCCKKKKKEEEEDDDDDDDDD Dick.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 17, 2022 02:31 PM (IyrhE)

280 217 I live in this district, and I concur. Vega's toast due to completely avoidable errors.

I haven't seen ANY polling on Hung Cao vs. Jennifer Wexton in the 10th. Have you?
Posted by: Archimedes at October 17, 2022 02:23 PM (eOEVl)

We were redistricted this year from the 10th to the 11th, which means my vote against Connolly is going to be completely useless.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at October 17, 2022 02:31 PM (906pl)

281 It's locked in, so all they can do is try to juice the base as best they can.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 17, 2022 02:28 PM (llXky)

Freshly squeezed abortion juice. Ugh.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at October 17, 2022 02:31 PM (yHsuS)

282 187 There's been a few recent Fetterman rallies. I live locally and if I didn't read about them in the local rag, I'd never know they had taken place.

Don't forget, this Thursday is the super team of Biden & Fetterman. Should be a barn burner! It will be but not for the reasons they hope.

Posted by: Cheri at October 17, 2022 02:31 PM (oiNtH)

283 Two questions:
1) Who will play the part of Peter Jennings in the media to conclude that "the American people threw a temper tantrum tonight"?

and 2) Who is going to tell GOP leadership that crime/immigration/economy are the issues consuming peoples' thoughts -- not 1/6 or improper use of pronouns?

Posted by: red speck at October 17, 2022 02:32 PM (gS3OW)

284 JJ Sefton had a link this morning emblematic of how deranged the Dems are.when it comes to the abortion issue.

https://tinyurl.com/23v46fnx

Woman (contributing writer at Boston Globe) claims she would have died at age 11 under current TX law. She claims to have had at least six abortions despite having never been pregnant. In reality she apparently has had several dilation and curettage (D & C) procedures, not because of pregnancy, but because of a medical condition that caused abnormal uterine bleeding. D & C for hemorrhage is a standard medical procedure and is not an abortion by any definition of the term. She is either plug stupid or blatantly lying. Or both.

I used to think the female reproductive system was a deep dark mystery or like a foreign country to men, but apparently it also is to women.


Posted by: Muldoon at October 17, 2022 02:32 PM (kXYt5)

285 269 I've read that Obama has been out campaigning on behalf of Democratic candidates. But IIRC he was the kiss of death when he campaigned while president. I don't understand how he could help someone else when the only thing he can talk about is himself.
Posted by: That NLurker guy
-----------------------------
Endorsements are one of the more useless things in politics as are celebrities spouting off. A few yutes are affected by such but most people never find out about it.

Posted by: whig at October 17, 2022 02:32 PM (CXr4y)

286 "Yamiche Alcindor of PBS and NBC insisted that on the campaign trail "abortion comes up 90 percent of the time" when she speaks with voters."

Either she's (he's?) only talking to people who have "shout your abortion" tshirts on, or he's (she's?) counting "I don't care about abortion, I can't pay my bills" as "abortion coming up".

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 17, 2022 02:32 PM (BlLaE)

287 I think Walker and Dr Oz will likely lose.

But I'm hopeful that Masters might pull out a win based on the enthusiasm for Lake.

There really isn't a contrast in this election like Lake v Hobbs.

Lake is confident, polished, smart, attractive, and effective.

Hobbs is weak, undisciplined, flighty, ugly, and talks in a baby girl voice.

Posted by: MJ at October 17, 2022 02:32 PM (zwDuR)

288 $20, same as in town.
Posted by: Tonypete

That train's never late !

Posted by: JT at October 17, 2022 02:32 PM (T4tVD)

289 Dave in Fl. has been outstanding.
Posted by: Lola at October 17, 2022 02:19 PM (NIYa7)
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Yes, he has.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at October 17, 2022 02:32 PM (sWM8x)

290 278 IF the Repubs take back the House in bigly fashion and get 52-54 Senate Seat, the bit question is gonna be: What do the Dems do? DO they do ANY self-reflection o rod they double down on stoopid?

I am betting they go full crazy, which will be glorious to see.
Posted by: Czech Chick at October 17, 2022 02:31 PM (haWye)

=========

These sorts of races knock out moderates, especially at the lower levels of governance like state.

So many progressives are going to have won their safe seats while running abortion ads all the time, and they'll still be in power. Yes, it's going to get worse, especially with their insane donor class.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 17, 2022 02:33 PM (LvTSG)

291 "ZZ Topp's Dusty Hill dead at age 72. "

July 28th, 2021

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, Big proponent of mixed sex marriage at October 17, 2022 02:33 PM (uLr+K)

292 In conversation at church yesterday (so no link), there's apparently a generic congressional preference poll floating around showing GOP +7, which is unimaginable.
Posted by: Methos at October 17, 2022 02:05 PM (kOpft)


Assuming the Republicans take at least one side of Congress, I hope for 1 thing... an actual budget. Shut down the government, if necessary. In fact, I'd prefer that it shuts down but give us an actual budget.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 17, 2022 02:33 PM (zhLdt)

293 I ... how do you say, love swinging independent women

Posted by: The Paolo at October 17, 2022 02:33 PM (flINI)

294 283 Two questions:
1) Who will play the part of Peter Jennings in the media to conclude that "the American people threw a temper tantrum tonight"?

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No one will have the ear of the American people as that era is gone, gone, gone. Half the population already discounts everything in the media anyway--by becoming overtly partisan, they end up only as cheerleaders for their faction in government.

Posted by: whig at October 17, 2022 02:33 PM (CXr4y)

295 I trust things that have already happened. And what already happened is a blatant, in-your-face steal of the presidency, at least three Senate seats, at least one governorship, and dozens of House seats. I see little reason why this won't happen again.

Posted by: Elric Blade at October 17, 2022 02:30 PM (iFTx/)
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You're ignoring that the environment in which that happened was pandemic-justified emergency decrees that are almost everywhere no longer in place.

You're also looking past the fact that those elections were stolen in a handful of big cities. It's hard to steal hundreds of congressional districts, especially since redistricting.

Put simply, dumping 200,000 ballots in Detroit is a lot easier than holding Congress against a national wave.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 17, 2022 02:33 PM (llXky)

296 VA10 (Cao) went for Biden by 19 points in 2020.

If it is at ALL close we are looking at the high 200s for R Representatives.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 17, 2022 02:34 PM (ESjRY)

297 They are double- and tripling-down on every terrible policy that supposedly will kill them in November, up to and including their child sexual perversions.
__________

Because they are about revolution and civil war, and not elections.

Losing the elections will inspire them to civil war, which they want.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 17, 2022 02:34 PM (lf83v)

298 Welcome home, MILFs. Enjoy your fucking chardonnay.

Posted by: TheInverseAgonist at October 17, 2022 02:34 PM (yA1mk)

299 Chevy Chase was great in Vacation, Caddy Shack, and Fletch. He's been meh in a ton of stuff.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2022 02:34 PM (Ivdso)

300 D & C for hemorrhage is a standard medical procedure and is not an abortion by any definition of the term.

A family member had a D & C done at a local Catholic hospital. As long as it's not for abortion, it's not a problem.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 17, 2022 02:34 PM (I2/tG)

301 There goes my life as an "Inmis".

Involuntary Misogynist - don't wanna hate the wimminz, but they keep electing Dems and commies (birm).

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at October 17, 2022 02:34 PM (peWy1)

302 I used to think the female reproductive system was a deep dark mystery or like a foreign country to men, but apparently it also is to women.

she's just doing what commies have done forever, which is lie through her teeth

Posted by: kallisto at October 17, 2022 02:34 PM (dCxaZ)

303 Is it time to order the pudding?

Posted by: An American at October 17, 2022 02:34 PM (FjlUt)

304 In conversation at church yesterday (so no link), there's apparently a generic congressional preference poll floating around showing GOP +7, which is unimaginable.

2014 was...+5 I think?

+7 would be...wonderful

Posted by: 18-1 at October 17, 2022 02:34 PM (ESjRY)

305 I am betting they go full crazy, which will be glorious to see.
Posted by: Czech Chick at October 17, 2022 02:31 PM (haWye)

I'm betting they'll use executive orders to push their agenda and the administrative state and the DOJ to go after Republican politicians.

Posted by: 29Victor at October 17, 2022 02:34 PM (BJKQV)

306
SUUUUUUCCCCKKKKKEEEEDDDDDDDDD Dick.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 17, 2022 02:31 PM (IyrhE)



Now THAT'S a movie review.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 17, 2022 02:34 PM (Zz0t1)

307 SUUUUUUCCCCKKKKKEEEEDDDDDDDDD Dick.

Why are my ears burning?

Posted by: Barack Obama at October 17, 2022 02:35 PM (ESjRY)

308 Next year, after being sworn in to represent VA(10).

Congressman Hung, how's it hanging??

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 17, 2022 02:35 PM (4I/2K)

309 Don't forget, this Thursday is the super team of Biden & Fetterman. Should be a barn burner! It will be but not for the reasons they hope.
Posted by: Cheri at October 17, 2022


***
Which one will be playing with lit matches in the hayloft?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, dreaming of Elsewhere at October 17, 2022 02:35 PM (J2vNu)

310 Abortion should not even be an issue on a national poll. SCOTUS took that away from the national government and sent it back to the States.

Posted by: vic /s at October 17, 2022 02:35 PM (mZwKe)

311 Welcome home, MILFs. Enjoy your fucking chardonnay.
Posted by: TheInverseAgonist

What about the one's that like their vodka right out of the freezer?

Posted by: Lost In Space at October 17, 2022 02:36 PM (3rD2r)

312
The only problem this election is the '12 men on the field' rule. They're going to have to exceed the number of voters to win. Then claim that the 12th guy you can plainly see is a figment of your imagination.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 17, 2022 02:36 PM (y3pKJ)

313 Put simply, dumping 200,000 ballots in Detroit is a lot easier than holding Congress against a national wave.

Right. They cannot really afford to pay for and man a cheat in every congressional election across the country. Its just not viable. But they can do so in key elections in specific areas, targeted carefully to ensure keeping the Senate (or effectively so, like in 2020), and keeping the most hated candidates out of office.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2022 02:36 PM (Ivdso)

314 279 Fletch
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards,

SUUUUUUCCCCKKKKKEEEEDDDDDDDDD Dick.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 17, 2022 02:31 PM (IyrhE)

Well...he did get an anal probe and sang a little Andy Williams.

But tastes vary, I find Fletch to be endlessly quotable.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 17, 2022 02:36 PM (V6f9+)

315 Chevy's best role was in Dirty Work, as the degenerate gambler/surgeon who bet against the Globetrotters.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 17, 2022 02:36 PM (oINRc)

316 310 Abortion should not even be an issue on a national poll. SCOTUS took that away from the national government and sent it back to the States.
Posted by: vic /s at October 17, 2022 02:35 PM (mZwKe)

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Oh, gosh...imagine if all domestic policy were like this...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 17, 2022 02:36 PM (LvTSG)

317 This is the story of California, and is why California is irrelevant in terms of national electoral politics. It's a rotten borough and the Democrat will win. Some local races in that state might matter, but the state itself is completely irrelevant.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 17, 2022 02:06 PM (t0OGg)


Are enough Republicans running to flip the state even if they all win? Useless fucks.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 17, 2022 02:36 PM (zhLdt)

318 Put simply, dumping 200,000 ballots in Detroit is a lot easier than holding Congress against a national wave.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 17, 2022 02:33 PM (llXky)

= = =

Challenge accepted.

Posted by: Democrat Poll Workers at October 17, 2022 02:36 PM (AD14M)

319 You now, looking carefully - it's even worse than that - republicans match general voter concerns up and down the list. Not exactly, but there are several other issues where Republicans have things at about the same level as the public.

Crime and drugs are #7 on Republican lists, and #4 with the public. A spread of just 3. It is #16 with the dems, a spread of 12.

Look at the spreads for each issue and you see the dems are wildly out of alignment.

Posted by: Inspector kemp at October 17, 2022 02:36 PM (+DS2f)

320 239 202 I see many more have jumped on the "there will be no red wave" bus.

We will see on November 9th, but none of the available data supports your belief.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 17, 2022 02:21 PM (X1znj)

There you are. You tell em Dave!
Posted by: 29Victor at October 17, 2022 02:25 PM (BJKQV)

It's a self defense mechanism...

As a Bills fan, Indians fan, Browns v1.0 fan, I completely understand. You won't let yourself believe in the "possible".

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 17, 2022 02:36 PM (BgMrQ)

321 I ... how do you say, love swinging independent women
Posted by: The Paolo


As long as it's from a tree.

Same way as I love my coffee. Ground up and in the freezer.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 17, 2022 02:36 PM (NlFlr)

322 1) Who will play the part of Peter Jennings in the media to conclude that "the American people threw a temper tantrum tonight"?

Election Night 1994, I listened to the election coverage on the insane far-Left radio station in Berkeley. The commentators sounded as if they were going to hang themselves on the air, as the Red Wave rolled across the country.

With social media, it is going to be much, much better than that.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 17, 2022 02:37 PM (I2/tG)

323 I'm not saying cheating won't happen (it certainly will), but all you naysayers have to explain why Virginia flipped to red.

According to you, that was impossible - especially given its proximity to DC.

My take is that the tech overlords who actually pulled it off are going to sit this one out because governors just aren't that important - and if they fail, the DOJ won't be in charge of the investigation but angry red state AGs.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 17, 2022 02:37 PM (llXky)

324 Hamburger? Perchance.

Posted by: Mr. Pink at October 17, 2022 02:37 PM (+1Ie+)

325
Ted Kennedy is still sober after 13 years.

Congratulations Ted! keep up the good work!

Posted by: AA at October 17, 2022 02:37 PM (+oR7L)

326 Chevy was good in Spies Like Us.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 17, 2022 02:37 PM (DTZDT)

327 "Thank you doc. You ever do time?"

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 17, 2022 02:37 PM (V6f9+)

328 >IF the Repubs take back the House in bigly fashion and get 52-54 Senate Seat, the bit question is gonna be: What do the Dems do?

Spend the next two years campaigning on how the Republicans are destroying America and democracy!

Posted by: Fool Otto at October 17, 2022 02:37 PM (DB16e)

329 Congressman Hung, how's it hanging??
Posted by: Count de Monet

"Everybody Wang Hung tonight!!"

- 1986 calling

Posted by: Tonypete at October 17, 2022 02:37 PM (bJxw1)

330 we'll just have to see how the Wave of Fraud does ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at October 17, 2022 01:58 PM (8oyo2)

Pretty high wave in the Great Lake State, I'm afraid.

Posted by: clutch at October 17, 2022 02:37 PM (9UmRs)

331 Gay and Trans and Grooming isn't on ANY of those lists?

Highly Sus... as the kids say.

Posted by: ... at October 17, 2022 02:37 PM (3n7z/)

332 But tastes vary, I find Fletch to be endlessly quotable.
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Me too.

Posted by: John Cocktostin at October 17, 2022 02:37 PM (lf83v)

333 when they drag Obama out to campaign with him
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You mean like he is doing in Georgia for Warnock right now?

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 17, 2022 02:37 PM (X1znj)

334 Who or what awaken women up
Thought they all wanted their kids to be Trannie

Posted by: Skip's phone at October 17, 2022 02:37 PM (P4ODk)

335 SUUUUUUCCCCKKKKKEEEEDDDDDDDDD Dick.

John Cock-Tosen?

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at October 17, 2022 02:37 PM (OgrpQ)

336 "It's all ball bearings nowadays!"

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 17, 2022 02:38 PM (V6f9+)

337 279 Fletch
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards,

SUUUUUUCCCCKKKKKEEEEDDDDDDDDD Dick.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 17, 2022 02:31 PM (IyrhE)

Well...he did get an anal probe and sang a little Andy Williams.

But tastes vary, I find Fletch to be endlessly quotable.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 17, 2022 02:36 PM (V6f9+)

I didn't see the movie though I read the books. Good stories.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 17, 2022 02:38 PM (4I/2K)

338 I think the doubling down on the madness is just that --madness. They are grabbing with both hands everything that's not nailed down


yep JoeF

progs gotta prog.

raiding is what they do

while no one is stopping them they will go hog wild. it doesn't really mean anything. they'll do that until someone physically stops them. they're like "urban yutes" in that way.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 17, 2022 02:38 PM (w0NJk)

339 "Smile, say 'flesh'"

"Look, defenseless babies!"

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 17, 2022 02:38 PM (V6f9+)

340 SCOTUS took that away from the national government and sent it back to the States.

That's the funniest part. Abortion activists kept saying stuff like "it shouldn't be left up to 9 judges, the federal government should stay out of my womb!"

Well honey, that's just what happened. You got exactly what you wanted.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2022 02:38 PM (Ivdso)

341 That is a static analysis. The black swan event is realignment and historically we are overdue. The New Deal coalition more or less went kaput in 1968 and the competitive era of 1968-2020 has been considered its own era of dealignment from any majority party. Due to foreign and domestic crises (some forced by the regime, others not), there is a considerable chance that we are at the brink of a realigningment because the current Uniparty is simply not capable of governing anymore.
Posted by: whig at October 17, 2022 02:19 PM (CXr4y)

Plus if hispanics and women and blacks are really shifting to any extent, the Dem's baseline is in real trouble and all calculations need to be redone.

Another issue is the old style inner city fixer generation is dead or dying, and I don't know that the zealot leftist generation can swing the same coalition. To see the Bernie / progressive revolt of the last few years and now minorities, it could well be that these new folk can't keep their troops in line going forward, which will impact even fraud.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 17, 2022 02:38 PM (eoQWY)

342 You mean like he is doing in Georgia for Warnock right now?

Privately I'm very disappointed with Sen Warnock. Mike's cock is bigger...and uncut.

Posted by: Barack H Obama at October 17, 2022 02:38 PM (ESjRY)

343 CA is exporting its conservatives now and folks with families. Young guy doing the work today is from Turlock. He has three young kids. He told me that, when folks ask him why he moved here, he asks if they have ever been to CA. It can't be salvaged but the true believers will stay.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 17, 2022 02:38 PM (uz3Px)

344 But with all due respect, polling numbers are just things some randos tell a guy interrupting their dinner. It's speculation. I trust things that have already happened. And what already happened is a blatant, in-your-face steal of the presidency, at least three Senate seats, at least one governorship, and dozens of House seats. I see little reason why this won't happen again. As I said above, who is gonna stop them?? You think they're not gonna just keep counting in Philly until Ogreman wins??
Posted by: Elric Blade
------------------------------
Social sciences in general always deal with uncertain information and bad data. However, it is always able to be analyzed probabilistically using even biased sources. History, candidate information (you can rate candidates on whether they are a 'good' candidate or not pretty well), and other information can play a part. Essentially, the Dems are limited in cheat to whatever the registered voter base is and very liable to challenged if exceeding that in votes other than a few precincts in those urban areas. So, you can actually do the math to determine whether a candidate in PA for example can 'beat the cheat'.

Posted by: whig at October 17, 2022 02:38 PM (CXr4y)

345 White House sources say Joe Biden is furious The Eagles booed his wife and plans to call Don Henley personally.

Posted by: SMOD at October 17, 2022 02:38 PM (RHGPo)

346 I did not think Fletch was the least bit funny.

Posted by: Dr Rosen Rosen at October 17, 2022 02:38 PM (vN+oL)

347 "My...car just hit a water buffalo. Can I borrow your towel?"

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 17, 2022 02:38 PM (V6f9+)

348 You're ignoring that the environment in which that happened was pandemic-justified emergency decrees that are almost everywhere no longer in place.

You're also looking past the fact that those elections were stolen in a handful of big cities. It's hard to steal hundreds of congressional districts, especially since redistricting.

Put simply, dumping 200,000 ballots in Detroit is a lot easier than holding Congress against a national wave.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 17, 2022 02:33 PM (llXky)
________________________

I agree that we will likely retake the House for the reasons you mention. But I am pessimistic about the Senate also for the reasons you mention. There are big, heavily minority, deep-blue cities in PA and GA that will just keep counting -- no matter what -- until Ogreman and Worncock win. Covid emergency or no covid emergency. Ditto for NY governor.

Posted by: Elric Blade at October 17, 2022 02:38 PM (iFTx/)

349 Groceries are skyrocketing the last 8 weeks, so it's no surprise that what was an annoyance is now an emergency...

Add on to that, for many, abortion laws didn't change much anywhere, so it was another "cry wolf" by the democrats...

And some women probably were finally willing to admit they were voting R...and single women do tend to move in packs...

Posted by: Nova local at October 17, 2022 02:38 PM (exHjb)

350 That kind of change doesn't happen without a massive event. And there was none in the last 3 months.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 17, 2022 02:07 PM (Zf0+a)


In fairness, the sudden narrative that, when you think about it, nuclear war is actually a good thing is in the last three months... right?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 17, 2022 02:39 PM (zhLdt)

351 Who or what awaken women up
Thought they all wanted their kids to be Trannie
Posted by: Skip's phone at October 17, 2022 02:37 PM (P4ODk)

But to grow up a trannie you can't abort them. Blue on Blue conflict.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 17, 2022 02:39 PM (eoQWY)

352 "I'm Doctor RosenRosen."

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 17, 2022 02:39 PM (V6f9+)

353 Chevy was good in Spies Like Us.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 17, 2022 02:37 PM (DTZDT)

Agree. He had his moments in that one.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 17, 2022 02:39 PM (4I/2K)

354 ... whether through malice, incompetence, or a characteristically toxic Regime Mix of the malice and incompetence.

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Malcompetence? Not to mention Discompetence and Miscompetence ... all forms of Soulless Incontinence. confidence

Posted by: ShainS -- Triple-Jabbed & Quad-Boosted with the Biden Hurricane-22 Vaccine at October 17, 2022 02:39 PM (lNr4i)

355 Don't forget, this Thursday is the super team of Biden & Fetterman. Should be a barn burner!

Fire! BAD!!

Ice cream! Put out fire!!!!

Posted by: Festerman at October 17, 2022 02:40 PM (EHcEg)

356 323 My take is that the tech overlords who actually pulled it off are going to sit this one out because governors just aren't that important - and if they fail, the DOJ won't be in charge of the investigation but angry red state AGs.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 17, 2022 02:37 PM (llXky)

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My take is the GOPe let 2020 go. I also assert that there was a fundraising crisis in late January 2021. Mitch went from "Trump is dead" to "Trump has a place in the party, of course, why would you ask me that?" over the course of about a week.

So, Trump essentially made it known that he was going to control the money as much as he possibly could. He was going to fundraise himself and do everything he could to make is so that the RNC couldn't use his name without permission.

That changed how the GOPe and RNC approached elections from a legal perspective. They fought in VA like they refused to fight anywhere in 2020. They put up token resistance in 2020, but 2021 was an actual fight. I think it'll fight more like 2021 than 2020 in 2022.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 17, 2022 02:40 PM (LvTSG)

357 Ted Kennedy is still sober after 13 years.

Congratulations Ted! keep up the good work!
__________

Me? Drug free for 237 days.

Posted by: Brittany Griner at October 17, 2022 02:40 PM (lf83v)

358 In fairness, the sudden narrative that, when you think about it, nuclear war is actually a good thing is in the last three months... right?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 17, 2022 02:39 PM (zhLdt)

If that were the trigger foreign policy would likely be higher on the overall radar. Instead its all domestic.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 17, 2022 02:40 PM (eoQWY)

359 Hyperinflation was the dumbest thing the Dems could do.

The LIVs want to LIV. But they are seeing the bills go up and up and up.

You can't hide what Biden and co are doing when you see it every time you pay a bill or go to the store.

But the Dems got greedy...literally.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 17, 2022 02:40 PM (ESjRY)

360 >>It's a self defense mechanism...

>>As a Bills fan, Indians fan, Browns v1.0 fan, I completely understand. You won't let yourself believe in the "possible"

I'm a lifelong Jets fan and yesterday they went into Lambeau and kicked the ever living shit out of Rogers and the Packers.

Sometimes good things happen.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 17, 2022 02:40 PM (ZLI7S)

361 Another issue is the old style inner city fixer generation is dead or dying, and I don't know that the zealot leftist generation can swing the same coalition. To see the Bernie / progressive revolt of the last few years and now minorities, it could well be that these new folk can't keep their troops in line going forward, which will impact even fraud.


this is so true

the kids are lazy and incompetent

they can light fuses that's about it

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 17, 2022 02:40 PM (w0NJk)

362 43 Do the Dumocraps look scared to you? Ignore what they say. Watch what they do. They are double- and tripling-down on every terrible policy that supposedly will kill them in November, up to and including their child sexual perversions.

I think the Dims because they know that they're going to lose are going all YOLO on their creepy destroy America policies. Whatever they pass now is guaranteed locked in for two more years.

Biden will veto any legislation the Reps might pass, so I think the Dims are going to play the waiting game here and rely on the MSM.

I expect the MSM to constantly blame the Reps for anything that goes wrong, even Biden's hokey-pokey style nuclear war gambit.

And more important, they will blame the Reps for nothing happening, as in "See, you voted for MAGA and look!!! Inflations even worse!!! The dollar has collapsed!!! ETC!!!"

Which is why the Reps need to turn into pipe-hard bastards. If the Turtle was one quarter to legislating, knife-shivving genius some people think he is, he could definitely use the red wave as motivation to get some legislation over Biden by co-opting some Dims.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 17, 2022 02:40 PM (KLPy8)

363 Ted Kennedy is still sober after 13 years.

Congratulations Ted! keep up the good work!
Posted by: AA


He's stable.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 17, 2022 02:41 PM (NlFlr)

364 The first Fletch movie is very much like the book, with some Chevy Chase improvisation thrown in. Its condensed, of course, but basically the same thing. The second is an abomination before the Lord.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2022 02:41 PM (Ivdso)

365 They want 9 judges to legalize abortion through birth and THEN "stay out of it".

Posted by: ... at October 17, 2022 02:41 PM (3n7z/)

366 What kind of name is Poon anyway?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 17, 2022 02:41 PM (DTZDT)

367 PS - You know how you know the border stunts worked...Biden is bringing back Title 42 for the Venezuelans (probably just through the election)...

https://www.outlookindia.com/ international/us-president-joe-biden-brings-back -trump-era-title-42-policy-to-expel-venezuelan -migrants-news-230404

Posted by: Nova local at October 17, 2022 02:41 PM (exHjb)

368 Me? Drug free for 237 days.


what about the estrogen tho, Brittney?!?!

are they letting you wax?

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 17, 2022 02:41 PM (w0NJk)

369 If that were the trigger foreign policy would likely be higher on the overall radar. Instead its all domestic.

I think the LIVs aren't seeing lefty activists talking positively about nuclear war.

If Biden lights one off, either first or in response to Vlad they'll notice though.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 17, 2022 02:41 PM (ESjRY)

370 I think Republicans are going to win both Houses of Congress, and maybe by a huge margin. I also think that the next two years are going to be an economic nightmare and Dems are going to do (and already are doing) everything they can to make it as bad as possible.
I think that Dems will repeatedly push for bailouts or other handouts to "fix" things and Republicans will reject them. Then the president and the MSM will blame Republicans for intentionally hurting the poor and prolonging the economic agony to make Biden look bad.
The fight for control of Congress is about over, get ready for the fight for the 2024 presidential election. It's gonna be ugly.

Posted by: 29Victor at October 17, 2022 02:41 PM (BJKQV)

371 Can I borrow your tent?

Posted by: Tar Bae at October 17, 2022 02:41 PM (wgRY3)

372 What kind of name is Poon anyway?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

No worse than "Tang".

Posted by: Tonypete at October 17, 2022 02:41 PM (bJxw1)

373 366 What kind of name is Poon anyway?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 17, 2022 02:41 PM (DTZDT)

"Commanche Indian"

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 17, 2022 02:41 PM (V6f9+)

374 Right. They cannot really afford to pay for and man a cheat in every congressional election across the country. Its just not viable. But they can do so in key elections in specific areas, targeted carefully to ensure keeping the Senate (or effectively so, like in 2020), and keeping the most hated candidates out of office.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2022 02:36 PM (Ivdso)
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But doing that means they will have to significantly scale up their operations from last time.

I mean you get that the Democrats didn't steal the election, right? Their operatives are too dim for that - it was Zuckerberg and his ilk. Those guys have almost nothing to gain from who is governor of Michigan and since they own Cocaine Mitch, flipping the Senate isn't that much of a problem for them.

You know what's a problem? Angry state AGs pursuing criminal charges. Remember that last time the AGs in the states that they targeted were either Dem or GOPe. Those people are up for election as well, and it's going to be a lot harder to print 200,000 ballots with a half dozen offices filled in than just one X for Biden.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 17, 2022 02:42 PM (llXky)

375 oh, that's FUNNY. The white house is upset that Dr. Jill, the doctor, Biden was booed or whatever at the Sundary Night Football game.

Joe Biden is demanding to speak to Don Henley personally. garf garfg

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at October 17, 2022 02:42 PM (MLrvz)

376 The Hill: The Trump administration regularly interfered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) process for developing and issuing guidance about the coronavirus, changed scientific reports and undermined top public health officials, a congressional panel said Monday. The House select subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis said interviews, emails and other documents obtained by the panel showed how political appointees in the Trump administration took control of CDC’s public communications and overruled scientists in an effort to bend the agency to Trump’s rosy outlook on the pandemic.

.. just wait until they look at the Biden Administration

Posted by: SMOD at October 17, 2022 02:42 PM (RHGPo)

377 I'm a lifelong Jets fan and yesterday they went into Lambeau and kicked the ever living shit out of Rogers and the Packers.

Sometimes good things happen.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 17, 2022 02:40 PM (ZLI7S)

Yes, yes they did...and Aaron Rogers looks OLD.

Might be that stupid fucking hair cut, but I think not...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 17, 2022 02:42 PM (BgMrQ)

378 If Joey and Fetterman both speak in the same event what's the over/under on intelkigible words spoken?

Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 17, 2022 02:42 PM (eGTCV)

379 *Ted Kennedy is still sober after 13 years.*

Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable for comment.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at October 17, 2022 02:42 PM (+bONN)

380 Your advantage with women on abortion goes out the window when you refuse to define what a woman is, and turn all of their efforts to benefit dudes in dresses.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 17, 2022 02:42 PM (wPLaW)

381 Plus if hispanics and women and blacks are really shifting to any extent, the Dem's baseline is in real trouble and all calculations need to be redone.

Another issue is the old style inner city fixer generation is dead or dying, and I don't know that the zealot leftist generation can swing the same coalition. To see the Bernie / progressive revolt of the last few years and now minorities, it could well be that these new folk can't keep their troops in line going forward, which will impact even fraud. Posted by: Oldcat
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What you are seeing is that the Dem Party, despite its rhetoric, is the insider party and as such reflects the interest of party donors and activists--which are those of the college class. The GOPe dinosaurs, by and large, as Ace has shown, want the approval of those insiders and hate populists with a passion. The newer GOP members are turning away from corporations and toward constituents and this risks the entire grifter structure of GOPe incorporated--the campaign staff, professional party types, and well heeled donors. So, what will happen, wait and see after Nov.

Posted by: whig at October 17, 2022 02:42 PM (CXr4y)

382 The problem for the dems is that their base won't permit them to shift towards the center. Too much internal politics on the left- if they do the activists will stay home.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at October 17, 2022 02:10 PM (T4C1j)


A bigger problem for the Dems is that, should they start losing power, the groups within their coalition will start killing each other.

The Dem party only works as long as they can loot from the other side.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 17, 2022 02:42 PM (zhLdt)

383 How's that Apocalypse Clock doing? Didn't they move it under Trump because he said doody, but under Shitforbrains it hasn't budged? I guess no reason to think the world is any closer to doom these days.

Posted by: ... at October 17, 2022 02:42 PM (3n7z/)

384 Reminder. In the high water mark for election cheating of 2020, the Democrats almost lost the House.

You really think they will be able to do better this year?

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 17, 2022 02:42 PM (X1znj)

385 yes, we know detroit and other blue shit hole cities stuff their ballot boxes.

what can be done?

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at October 17, 2022 02:43 PM (MLrvz)

386 "Six foot four, actually six eight with afro"

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 17, 2022 02:43 PM (V6f9+)

387 Posted by: naturalfake at October 17, 2022 02:40 PM (KLPy

Damn. Get out of my head dude.

Posted by: 29Victor at October 17, 2022 02:43 PM (BJKQV)

388 If we had an opposition party right now they'd have a plan to repeal every damn thing Biden has done.

Now...they might not release it...but they'd have it.

I feel pretty sure the only plan the Republicans have right now is a corporate tax night and for the incoming majority leader some recreational penis at casa de Luntz.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 17, 2022 02:43 PM (ESjRY)

389 Joe Biden is demanding to speak to Don Henley personally. garf garfg
___________

LOL.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 17, 2022 02:43 PM (lf83v)

390 I guess it's time for the Democrats to start having governors and local officials institute whole new methods of voting here in the last couple weeks. The photocopy machines will be working overtime. Someone should legitimately have a tracker on Xerox help desk usage rates between now and 4:00 a.m. on election Day

Posted by: Welcome to Wokistan MFers at October 17, 2022 02:43 PM (bkf/+)

391 >>Yes, yes they did...and Aaron Rogers looks OLD.

>>Might be that stupid fucking hair cut, but I think not...

Guy has more hairdos than Trey Gowdy.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 17, 2022 02:43 PM (ZLI7S)

392 China said Monday it will delay the release of economic growth figures, as the country's leadership gathers for a major meeting set to hand President Xi Jinping a historic third term in office.

The announcement comes a day before analysts had expected Beijing to publish some of its weakest quarterly growth figures since 2020 with the economy hobbled by Covid-19 restrictions and a real estate crisis.

.. sounds like the Biden Administration

Posted by: SMOD at October 17, 2022 02:44 PM (RHGPo)

393 Democrats can stomp their feet and cry racist and let's abort babies all they want but milk is higher than gasoline and gasoline is double in price. And the odds of getting carjacked while getting milk or gas are high. And where's the baby formula, jack offs.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 17, 2022 02:44 PM (lz5hY)

394 Independent Women is a very low information voting group. I think it's quite possible that this demo moved 32 points because they simply don't give politics much thought until the TV ads are running.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at October 17, 2022 02:44 PM (vN+oL)

395 Me? Drug free for 237 days.
Posted by: Brittany Griner


Griner & Russia. Both hate America.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 17, 2022 02:44 PM (NlFlr)

396 "Send me to D.C. to take on -- to make sure I push back against work to work!"
--John "Lump" Fetterman

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2022 02:44 PM (Ivdso)

397 Tim Ryan is desperate.

His latest ad is him sitting on a couch with his wife. Saying when we disagree we have a glass of wine. They kiss after clinking wine glasses together.

Its sickening. He's a cuck, married to a wine mom. I'd feel sorry for him, but he's trying to wreck havoc on my state.

Posted by: I never watch ads, but saw a sporting event live recently at October 17, 2022 02:44 PM (tSNhz)

398 Anyone tell Shitforbrains they were booing him by proxy? The WH will pretend it was something against poor put upon Jill like anyone gives a fuck about her.

Posted by: ... at October 17, 2022 02:44 PM (3n7z/)

399 Democrats can stomp their feet and cry racist and let's abort babies all they want but milk is higher than gasoline and gasoline is double in price. And the odds of getting carjacked while getting milk or gas are high. And where's the baby formula, jack offs.
Posted by: bill in arkansas


Baby formula is in Mexico.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 17, 2022 02:45 PM (NlFlr)

400 The Dems *need* close to all black voters and 2/3s or more of hispanic voters.

Part of the freakout that led to the steal in 2020 was seeing their lead with black men crater and hispanics flirting with a 50/50 split.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 17, 2022 02:45 PM (ESjRY)

401 So, what will happen, wait and see after Nov.

Many prefer to surrender preemptively so they can get out of the parking lot before the rush.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 17, 2022 02:45 PM (eOEVl)

402 When Bill and Hill disagree, she *throws* a glass of wine.

Posted by: ... at October 17, 2022 02:45 PM (3n7z/)

403 It's all ball bearings these days.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at October 17, 2022 02:45 PM (vN+oL)

404 I mean you get that the Democrats didn't steal the election, right?


.... okayyyy

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2022 02:45 PM (Ivdso)

405 Might be that stupid fucking hair cut, but I think not...
__________

Yeah. What's up with that? Serious drunen haircut/Deliverance shit going on there.

Ya done fucked up A-A-A-ron.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 17, 2022 02:46 PM (lf83v)

406 Biden economic policy costs average Americans $34,000 in retirement savings in 2022 —study

.. then I must have about 10X average retirement savings

Posted by: SMOD at October 17, 2022 02:46 PM (RHGPo)

407 Sen Ryan looks exactly like the "default corrupt senator" hollywood casts in every movie that has one

Posted by: 18-1 at October 17, 2022 02:46 PM (ESjRY)

408 Dave in Fla a

//

some of these have been fixed, I think but others haven't. The key was for them to steal the senate via AZ, WI, GA, PA, and a couple of others. Those are the big gets.

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at October 17, 2022 02:46 PM (MLrvz)

409 Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 17, 2022 02:38 PM (uz3Px)

Turlock was American Graffiti, right?

Posted by: clutch at October 17, 2022 02:46 PM (9UmRs)

410 A bigger problem for the Dems is that, should they start losing power, the groups within their coalition will start killing each other.

The Dem party only works as long as they can loot from the other side.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 17, 2022 02:42 PM (zhLdt)

Communism is all fun and games until someone winds up with an ice ax protruding from their noggin.

Posted by: 29Victor at October 17, 2022 02:46 PM (BJKQV)

411
When me and my wife disagree, we each have an iron goblet full of infant's blood. Then we murder a couple of people and fly to a rape island.

Pretty standard stuff for older couples.

Posted by: Bill at October 17, 2022 02:47 PM (oINRc)

412 In fairness, the sudden narrative that, when you think about it, nuclear war is actually a good thing is in the last three months... right?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 17, 2022 02:39 PM (zhLdt)

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"The nuclear war will be transitory and boost the economy!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Triple-Jabbed & Quad-Boosted with the Biden Hurricane-22 Vaccine at October 17, 2022 02:47 PM (Na2pn)

413 A bigger problem for the Dems is that, should they start losing power, the groups within their coalition will start killing each other.

Turn off EBT cards for a day and the cities burn.

Turn them off for a month and I don't think Democrats would ever get elected, anywhere, again.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 17, 2022 02:47 PM (ESjRY)

414 The only reason people worry about gas prices is because they can't afford to drive out of their hellish red state to get an abortion!

Posted by: Clair McCaskill, at October 17, 2022 02:47 PM (grpr/)

415 That changed how the GOPe and RNC approached elections from a legal perspective. They fought in VA like they refused to fight anywhere in 2020. They put up token resistance in 2020, but 2021 was an actual fight. I think it'll fight more like 2021 than 2020 in 2022.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and
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Michigan's GOP has trained thousands of new poll-watchers and GOP allies have aggressively been suing for access to the polls. That terrain is going to be heavily contested this time.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 17, 2022 02:47 PM (llXky)

416 Vanessa Angel was the best moment in Spies Like Us...

Posted by: H Badger at October 17, 2022 02:47 PM (n/0Nw)

417 384 Reminder. In the high water mark for election cheating of 2020, the Democrats almost lost the House.

You really think they will be able to do better this year?
Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 17, 2022 02:42 PM (X1znj)
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Please see my comment above. I expect to win the House for the reasons you and others have mentioned. It's everything else I'm skeptical about. You can't have a big red wave if all you win is the house. I don't see how we stop the cheat in the big, deep-blue cities that will decide the Senate and governorships.

Posted by: Elric Blade at October 17, 2022 02:47 PM (iFTx/)

418 Not necessarily. The politics of the Dems is based on the big cities that they rule but the economy, crime, education, transportation, etc. affect the majority of the electorate. Essentially, we have a Uniparty elite that more or less believe in the same things--these are the staffers, donors, and activists that have been miseducated in college. It is more likely we end up getting a Chavez or a Pinochet simply to strike down the corrupt oligarchy than a revolution. Coups are never popular for long.
Posted by: whig at October 17, 2022 02:30 PM (CXr4y)
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Right, I think we're saying the same things. The ruling class is incompetent and destructive but they've also taken over and perverted every traditional mechanism. The typical result of that is eventually a coup or a revolution and the typical result of *that* is a dictator.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 17, 2022 02:48 PM (t0OGg)

419 404 I mean you get that the Democrats didn't steal the election, right?


.... okayyyy

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2022 02:45 PM (Ivdso)

This is where quoting someone without context is really really not good. At least quote what he said next.

Posted by: ... at October 17, 2022 02:48 PM (3n7z/)

420 I believe that every Trans-woman deserves government funded twerking vagina gynoplasty with a fetus pre-installed in the constructed uterus, ready for aborting during drag story hour. Until we provide that we can't call ourselves a society that provides equity and Trans affirming care to those the most in need in our society.

Posted by: Minuteman at October 17, 2022 02:48 PM (LaNzR)

421 A bigger problem for the Dems is that, should they start losing power, the groups within their coalition will start killing each other.

The Dem party only works as long as they can loot from the other side.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Even if they are in power, like California, the majority party inevitably fragments--see the kerfluffle involving the LA Council president resigning--Latinos in office versus gay white man with black adopted son.

Posted by: whig at October 17, 2022 02:48 PM (CXr4y)

422 Sen Ryan looks exactly like the "default corrupt senator" hollywood casts in every movie that has one
Posted by: 18-1 at October 17, 2022

Is he still uttering death threats against people of differing opinion?

Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 17, 2022 02:48 PM (eGTCV)

423 PS - And those most adamant about the abortion issue are not white upper-class women - they are white upper-class SINGLE woman...many of whom have no religious impulse and who do not want the "inconvenience and job effects" of their actions...

White upper class MARRIED women tend to be pro-life...

Posted by: Nova local at October 17, 2022 02:48 PM (exHjb)

424 A bigger problem for the Dems is that, should they start losing power, the groups within their coalition will start killing each other.
________

You're right. The turmoil in 1968 was driven by divisions between Democrats and not necessarily Americans. Americans disagreed on the issues, but Democrats rioted and killed and it was the unions and campus liberals of the Democrat Party behind it.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 17, 2022 02:49 PM (lf83v)

425 They want 9 judges to legalize abortion through birth and THEN "stay out of it".
Posted by: ... at October 17, 2022 02:41 PM (3n7z/)

If they got that, they would lose bigly. Because then there would be nothing to drive wymns groups to frothing madness over and their foot soldiers would start to fall away.

abortion, and guns too have to stay unsettled, its to useful for them.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 17, 2022 02:49 PM (eoQWY)

426 If the red wave materializes, we can look forward to a Republican majority in Congress that will accomplish absolutely jack shit.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
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We'd be lucky if they accomplished jack shit. They are more likely to actively sabotage efforts to reign in the demonic Dumocrap party.
Posted by: Elric Blade at October 17, 2022 02:01 PM (iFTx/)[/i
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All true. The problem is that how the incompetent GOP actually "governs" in control of congress will drive the abysmal approval of Congress down even lower and be a yoke around the neck of the GOP nominee in 2024, be it Trump or DeSantis. I fully suspect that to be the single greatest effect of the 2022 red wave.

Posted by: deadrody at October 17, 2022 02:49 PM (kYmXc)

427 Turn them off for a month and I don't think Democrats would ever get elected, anywhere, again.

"Vote for us and we'll bring EBT cards back from the evil racist Repbulicans!"
--Democrat politicians

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2022 02:49 PM (Ivdso)

428 Don't forget, this Thursday is the super team of Biden & Fetterman. Should be a barn burner!

*******


Arrrrgh! 'uttin' ah da Ritz!

Posted by: Muldoon at October 17, 2022 02:49 PM (kXYt5)

429 Commies always need enemies. It keeps the others in line.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 17, 2022 02:49 PM (DTZDT)

430 >>I feel pretty sure the only plan the Republicans have right now is a corporate tax night and for the incoming majority leader some recreational penis at casa de Luntz.

Axshually, they do have a plan. McCarthy announced it a couple weeks ago. Supposedly Newt helped craft the plan. The Commitment to America.

https://tinyurl.com/4u9y9823

Not sure how they plan to get this done with Biden in the WH but at least its something.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 17, 2022 02:49 PM (ZLI7S)

431 In five years the official Dem position on abortion will be all abortion and infanticides are permissible until the moment the child identifies as the opposite gender.

Posted by: Josh Brolin's Blistered Taint at October 17, 2022 02:50 PM (hafio)

432 You know what's a problem? Angry state AGs pursuing criminal charges. Remember that last time the AGs in the states that they targeted were either Dem or GOPe. Those people are up for election as well, and it's going to be a lot harder to print 200,000 ballots with a half dozen offices filled in than just one X for Biden.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 17, 2022 02:42 PM (llXky)

Dana Lessen is angry, but she won't pursue Dems, I assure you.

Posted by: clutch at October 17, 2022 02:50 PM (9UmRs)

433 I expect a lot of stolen elections on Nov. 8.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at October 17, 2022 02:50 PM (C1rbv)

434 Independent Women is a very low information voting group. I think it's quite possible that this demo moved 32 points because they simply don't give politics much thought until the TV ads are running.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at October 17, 2022 02:44 PM (vN+oL)
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I'm sure $5/gallon gas and the fact that they can't afford to eat at their favorite restaurant also had something to do with it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 17, 2022 02:50 PM (llXky)

435 Tim Ryan is desperate.

His latest ad is him sitting on a couch with his wife. Saying when we disagree we have a glass of wine. They kiss after clinking wine glasses together.

Its sickening. He's a cuck, married to a wine mom. I'd feel sorry for him, but he's trying to wreck havoc on my state.
Posted by: I never watch ads, but saw a sporting event live recently at October 17, 2022 02:44 PM (tSNhz)

Almost every Dem in Ohio is running without saying they are Dems and how they oppose Biden. Anyways, I saw that ad and all I could think was "you just showed your wife as a Karen."

Posted by: WiNO at October 17, 2022 02:50 PM (EpDzw)

436 We are in Illinois and the political ads on TV, every station, when from dems, are all abortion all the time. Every single one. It is sickening.

It's gotta be a turn-off for anyone that considers themself an "independent."

Posted by: Mr Gaga at October 17, 2022 02:50 PM (4ZE6o)

437 Me? Drug free for 237 days.
Posted by: Brittany Griner at October 17, 2022 02:40 PM (lf83v)

*claps*

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at October 17, 2022 02:51 PM (BdMk6)

438 426 All true. The problem is that how the incompetent GOP actually "governs" in control of congress will drive the abysmal approval of Congress down even lower and be a yoke around the neck of the GOP nominee in 2024, be it Trump or DeSantis. I fully suspect that to be the single greatest effect of the 2022 red wave.
Posted by: deadrody at October 17, 2022 02:49 PM (kYmXc)

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Nah. Congress' approval is always in the toilet. It's, "Congress sucks, but my guy is pretty awesome." Every year. That why incumbency ends up winning races.

For the voting public, the "party in power" is always the party that controls the White House, a side effect of the imperial presidency.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 17, 2022 02:51 PM (LvTSG)

439 In fairness, the sudden narrative that, when you think about it, nuclear war is actually a good thing is in the last three months... right?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 17, 2022 02:39 PM (zhLdt)


Also, how many have done the number of people significantly affected by covid / number of people significantly affected by the shot and come up with an answer not friendly to the Dems?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 17, 2022 02:51 PM (zhLdt)

440 Right, I think we're saying the same things. The ruling class is incompetent and destructive but they've also taken over and perverted every traditional mechanism. The typical result of that is eventually a coup or a revolution and the typical result of *that* is a dictator.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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Sometimes it actually results in the bastards being thrown out of office if enough of the people have had enough. Romania is at one end of the deal, Ukraine (the original orange Revolution not the second), Philippine Islands, Argentina, and some others are examples where the baduns got chucked out.

Posted by: whig at October 17, 2022 02:51 PM (CXr4y)

441 only in L.A:

this guy has a showdown with an Ubereats robot

https://tinyurl.com/bddwu5r6

Posted by: kallisto at October 17, 2022 02:51 PM (dCxaZ)

442 This is where quoting someone without context is really really not good. At least quote what he said next.

It just got stupider after that, by leaps and bounds. Social Media did not steal the election. Zuckerberg was not shutting down the vote counting and locking elections watchers out, covering up windows, and trucking crates of ballots in the dead of the night. Zuckerberg "and his ilk" did not hire thousands of mules to fill voting drop boxes with ballots. That was Democrats and their operatives.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2022 02:51 PM (Ivdso)

443 One could probably make a fun drinking game built around Biden/Fetterman speeches.

Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 17, 2022 02:52 PM (eGTCV)

444 Sometimes it actually results in the bastards being thrown out of office if enough of the people have had enough. Romania is at one end of the deal, Ukraine (the original orange Revolution not the second), Philippine Islands, Argentina, and some others are examples where the baduns got chucked out.
Posted by: whig at October 17, 2022 02:51 PM (CXr4y)
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Those were revolutions. They got new governments and new governing systems as a result of it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 17, 2022 02:52 PM (t0OGg)

445 OT The genius that is Bob Costas described how the Cleveland Indians got their new name, the Guardians. Named after the statues on the Lorain Carnegie Bridge (now the Hope Bridge, after Bob Hope). A lot of locals have always called it the longest bridge in the world, linking Africa to Puerto Rico. Racisttttt !!! name for a baseball team.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 17, 2022 02:52 PM (lz5hY)

446 A bigger problem for the Dems is that, should they start losing power, the groups within their coalition will start killing each other.

The Los Angeles city council fracas was only the start.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 17, 2022 02:52 PM (I2/tG)

447 Me? Drug free for 237 days.
Posted by: Brittany Griner at October 17, 2022 02:40 PM (lf83v)


Is Ms Griner is actually a man (and...I'm coming around to that position now) isn't it going to be really obvious when he comes back without the hormones for so long?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 17, 2022 02:52 PM (ESjRY)

448 442 It just got stupider after that, by leaps and bounds. Social Media did not steal the election. Zuckerberg was not shutting down the vote counting and locking elections watchers out, covering up windows, and trucking crates of ballots in the dead of the night. Zuckerberg "and his ilk" did not hire thousands of mules to fill voting drop boxes with ballots. That was Democrats and their operatives.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2022 02:51 PM (Ivdso)

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The Zuckerbucks sure did have an impact, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 17, 2022 02:52 PM (LvTSG)

449 I expect a lot of stolen elections on Nov. 8.
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You mean on November 8th, and 3 a.m. on November 9th, and November 10th, 11 and 14th.

These are known as Ballot Harvesting Days.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 17, 2022 02:53 PM (lf83v)

450 I can say VA is unlikely to have any stolen house elections...who wins here will have earned it.

And I'm voting against Connolly b/c I'm hoping for a REALLY big red wave...bringing 2 other votes against with me to the poll...

Posted by: Nova local at October 17, 2022 02:53 PM (exHjb)

451 Interesting contrast. Earlier today in the Brooks' trial, the witness, a driver for Lyft, recounted his dispatch to pick up a rider that never showed up. The Lyft caller-requestor was Brooks' mom. On cross-exam, Brooks treated the Lyft driver with relative ease, respect, and kid gloves compared to the other witnesses, who he has treated with disdain and malevolence.

The Lyft driver was black. A father driving to earn money to keep his daughter in college. Solid witness.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 17, 2022 02:53 PM (4I/2K)

452 Pennsylvania won't need much voting fraud the Governor and his SoS will make up any laws they need

Posted by: Skip's phone at October 17, 2022 02:53 PM (Ywbrn)

453 Hey man......After smoking 5 joints I was talking to male 16 year old Chihuahua (It's name was Pedro to get in touch with it's Hispanic Roots) and it told me it was a Female Dog trapped in a male body and wanted to become a Transgender. So, I spent $15,000 to have an operation to make it a female dog but it died. Anyone know a good lawyer to sue the doctor for killing my dog ????

Posted by: Neel Yong from Portland, Oregan at October 17, 2022 02:53 PM (snpvX)

454 Is Ms Griner is actually a man (and...I'm coming around to that position now) isn't it going to be really obvious when he comes back without the hormones for so long?


I basically pray every day for Putin to release current photos of him

would be amusing

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 17, 2022 02:53 PM (w0NJk)

455 If there's Claire McKaskell video there should be a Not Safe for Humans warning!

Posted by: East Bay Jay at October 17, 2022 02:53 PM (DePyg)

456 The Zuckerbucks sure did have an impact, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 17, 2022 02:52 PM (LvTSG)
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Less than a half-million dollars' worth of Russian ad buys flipped the 2016 election. Zuckerbucks were at significantly larger scale.

I don't make the rules.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 17, 2022 02:54 PM (t0OGg)

457 The Zuckerbucks sure did have an impact, though.

Sure, it enabled the Democrats to pay for the work that was done and slip the money to judges to get them to decide not to hear or rule against fraud cases. But that was done by Democrats, with the help of GOPe in all likelihood.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2022 02:54 PM (Ivdso)

458 BLMLA holds 24 hour protest outside of racist commissioner DeLeon:

https://tinyurl.com/4nu8emsz

Posted by: kallisto at October 17, 2022 02:54 PM (dCxaZ)

459 I've read the pocket version of the Commitment to America. It sounds like a satire of ineffective pols blathering on and promising nothing concrete.

Example:
Secure the Border and Combat
Illegal Immigration
Fully fund effective border enforcement strategies, infrastructure, and advanced technology
to prevent illegal crossings and trafficking by cartels


Look hard. What word is missing? Hint; it's 4 letters long and starts with "w".

Posted by: Archimedes at October 17, 2022 02:54 PM (eOEVl)

460
Well, Zuckerberg *is* a Democrat operative, just like SV's pet legislators are their operatives. It's just a Party.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 17, 2022 02:54 PM (oINRc)

461 Almost every Dem in Ohio is running without saying they are Dems and how they oppose Biden. Anyways, I saw that ad and all I could think was "you just showed your wife as a Karen."
Posted by: WiNO at October 17, 2022 02:50 PM (EpDzw)

It's the same way in WNY...in terms of no party affiliation being stated.

#chickenshits

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 17, 2022 02:54 PM (BgMrQ)

462 >>That was Democrats and their operatives.

Using Zuckerberg's money and even some of his people.

And the absolute embargo on the Hunter/Joe corruption story did influence the outcome of the election. How much, hard to say, but they wouldn't have done if they didn't think it would help.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 17, 2022 02:54 PM (ZLI7S)

463 I basically pray every day for Putin to release current photos of him

would be amusing
_______

She's the tallest mobik in Ukraine.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 17, 2022 02:55 PM (lf83v)

464 "mandatory movie"

Watched Das Boot over the weekend.
I would recommend it as mandatory.

Posted by: Bosk at October 17, 2022 02:55 PM (v4L7Y)

465 Zuckerberg was not shutting down the vote counting and locking elections watchers out, covering up windows, and trucking crates of ballots in the dead of the night. Zuckerberg "and his ilk" did not hire thousands of mules to fill voting drop boxes with ballots. That was Democrats and their operatives.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2022 02:51 PM (Ivdso)
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Um, look up Zuckerbucks and get back to me.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 17, 2022 02:55 PM (llXky)

466 Named after the statues on the Lorain Carnegie Bridge (now the Hope Bridge, after Bob Hope).

Statues most people in the city don't even remember or know had a name, if they were even aware of them.

They could have gone with Spiders, but nOOOOOOooo.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2022 02:55 PM (Ivdso)

467
A bigger problem for the Dems is that, should they start losing power, the groups within their coalition will start killing each other.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland



Any trolling that we do on commie cocksucker Donk sites needs to have this goal in mind. Don't argue the conservative line, question the loyalty and commitment of their fellow travelers.

Sow discord in their ranks.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 17, 2022 02:55 PM (n+4am)

468 Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 17, 2022 02:53 PM (w0NJk)

There was a video in Instagram I saw of Griner hooping shirtless.

I’m 99% Griner is a dude. No scars in the chest area and even looks like a skinny guys chest.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at October 17, 2022 02:55 PM (YglAn)

469 Via Insty
NottheBee -
Has the media told you about the MASSIVE protests happening all over Europe right now?

No, our media hasn't reported on this.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 17, 2022 02:55 PM (fs1hN)

470 Hey! We want to murder your babies and those we don't murder, we want to switch their gender. What? Why won't you vote for me?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at October 17, 2022 02:55 PM (R8uWY)

471 Your advantage with women on abortion goes out the window when you refuse to define what a woman is, and turn all of their efforts to benefit dudes in dresses.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 17, 2022 02:42 PM (wPLaW)

That's the effect of the new trans lobby moving in on the man-hating feminists in the universities and elite institutions. Its Stalin versus Trotsky again with jobs and power on the line. And men in dresses are better at power politics that actual women, more ruthless.

So, again, in older days these would have been papered over and both sides mobilized to elect dems that would have done little for both groups. Now, one side is getting purged and no matter who wins their side is weaker.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 17, 2022 02:55 PM (eoQWY)

472 So, after the schools debacle and the big red wave in VA in 2021, anyone here should vote in all the V congressional races for the R...do NOT give up on anyone or any seat, b/c shockers can happen, even if the press seems to say they won't...I mean, especially in NoVa, we're surrounded by the blue press, so they'd never say if their candidates are in trouble...

Posted by: Nova local at October 17, 2022 02:55 PM (exHjb)

473 When Bill and Hill disagree, she *throws* a glass of wine
.
Posted by: ... at October 17, 2022 02:45 PM (3n7z/)

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He must have set up an elaborate dead man's switch that would trigger the release of where her bodies are buried in case of being Arkancided or death from Post-Traumatic Hyoid Disorder -- because I think he would have been dead for a long time now.

As Old El Rushbo used to call her: "The most cheated on woman in the world."

Posted by: ShainS -- Triple-Jabbed & Quad-Boosted with the Biden Hurricane-22 Vaccine at October 17, 2022 02:55 PM (Na2pn)

474 It really doesn't matter what the red wave does. There was a red wave in 2020 and the cheaters still found a way. In Cali, 2018, all the seats up for a change went 100% for the cheaters.

So, yes, make it harder for them to manufacture votes, but they're still going to do it.

/doom

Posted by: Harbinger of Doom at October 17, 2022 02:56 PM (T0jQj)

475 Using Zuckerberg's money and even some of his people.

Who were Democrats working for the Democratic party. Saying the Democrats didn't steal the election is just silly.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2022 02:56 PM (Ivdso)

476 By the way, is monkeypox still an emergency?

Asking for a friend.

From the Bronx.

Zoo.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 17, 2022 02:56 PM (lf83v)

477 Is Ms Griner is actually a man (and...I'm coming around to that position now) isn't it going to be really obvious when he comes back without the hormones for so long?


Brittany, now that you are back in the US, you need to shave and schedule a prostate exam.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 17, 2022 02:56 PM (NlFlr)

478 428 Don't forget, this Thursday is the super team of Biden & Fetterman. Should be a barn burner!

*******


Arrrrgh! 'uttin' ah da Ritz!
Posted by: Muldoon at October 17, 2022 02:49 PM (kXYt5)

I shouldn't laugh at this, but I do. Every time.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at October 17, 2022 02:56 PM (BdMk6)

479 Forecast for US Recession Within Year Hits 100% in Blow to Biden
A US recession is effectively certain in the next 12 months in new Bloomberg Economics model projections, a blow to President Joe Biden’s economic messaging ahead of the November midterms.

The latest recession probability models by Bloomberg economists Anna Wong and Eliza Winger forecast a higher recession probability across all timeframes, with the 12-month estimate of a downturn by October 2023 hitting 100%, up from 65% for the comparable period in the previous update.


Lol...still hasn't hit yet, but guaranteed now. Sometime after November 2022...

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at October 17, 2022 02:56 PM (ZJlxc)

480 I guess when you base your electoral messaging on that partisan activists think is important, you only get messages important to partisan activists.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at October 17, 2022 02:56 PM (R8uWY)

481 White House: Biden thinks Fetterman is capable as himself amid questions over his health
Posted by: SMOD at October 17, 2022 02:28 PM


Quite possibly the most factual endorsement I've ever seen.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 17, 2022 02:57 PM (a3Q+t)

482 Sure, it enabled the Democrats to pay for the work that was done and slip the money to judges to get them to decide not to hear or rule against fraud cases. But that was done by Democrats, with the help of GOPe in all likelihood.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2022 02:54 PM (Ivdso)
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No, it was done by Zuckerberg to keep his allies in power.

Seriously, those were not the traditional "Dem machine" operatives, which is why Biden's team was caught flatfooted. None of them knew the scale of the op because they compartmentalized it.

Core Dem leadership is utterly incompetent - Big Tech ran that op.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 17, 2022 02:57 PM (llXky)

483 Maybe if they find a term stronger than ChristoFascist they will scare more voters to their side.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at October 17, 2022 02:57 PM (R8uWY)

484 Example 2:
Curb wasteful government spending that is raising the price of groceries, gas, cars, and housing, and growing our national debt

McCarthy delenda est.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 17, 2022 02:57 PM (eOEVl)

485 There was a video in Instagram I saw of Griner hooping shirtless.

I’m 99% Griner is a dude. No scars in the chest area and even looks like a skinny guys chest.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at October 17, 2022 02:55 PM (YglAn)
_____________________________

Dude, please. I gotta eat in a few hours! LOL.

Posted by: Elric Blade at October 17, 2022 02:57 PM (iFTx/)

486 You know you people have all the wrong ideas about Ms Griner.

In fact she reminds me of my lovely wife...though Ms Griner is unfortunately circumcised.

Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at October 17, 2022 02:57 PM (ESjRY)

487 ABORTION! ABORTION! ABORTION!

And guns.

Posted by: The Democrats! at October 17, 2022 02:57 PM (I2/tG)

488 Vanessa Angel was the best moment in Spies Like Us...
Posted by: H Badger at October 17, 2022 02:47 PM (n/0Nw)

Huge tracts of land!

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 17, 2022 02:58 PM (4I/2K)

489 Oh lordie...

It's that time of year again: Medicare Enrollment

Could the commercials being any more patronizing, or ubiquitous.

It's a fight for eyeballs now between Camp Lejeune victims, and Medicare

#whoyagot

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 17, 2022 02:58 PM (BgMrQ)

490 443 Retardo and Fetterman, blended together would come out like the Witch Doctor song. "OOH EE OOh ah ah, ting tang wadda wadda bing bang." You gotta be plus 29.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 17, 2022 02:58 PM (lz5hY)

491 I don't think Democrats will fracture and destroy each other at any level of power because its

1) based on a religion so it transcends reason and logic
2) religious people are always banded together against a rival faith. Muslims will kill each other over trivial disagreements but will ride side by side to slaughter the infidel.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2022 02:58 PM (Ivdso)

492 Look hard. What word is missing? Hint; it's 4 letters long and starts with "w".
Posted by: Archimedes at October 17, 2022 02:54 PM (eOEVl)

Wimp?

Posted by: clutch at October 17, 2022 02:58 PM (9UmRs)

493 Axshually, they do have a plan. McCarthy announced it a couple weeks ago. Supposedly Newt helped craft the plan. The Commitment to America.

https://tinyurl.com/4u9y9823

Not sure how they plan to get this done with Biden in the WH but at least its something.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 17, 2022 02:49 PM (ZLI7S)

It's pretty weak sauce because they likely won't do any of it. Some of it is the standard GOPe pablum. They had the entire Fed gov't and did nothing about healthcare. Ditto with the border. Also, what do the Feds have to do with hiring local police? Saw nothing about nuking the FBI/DOJ. They might has well announce "WE BE BETTE' THAN THEM DEMS."

Posted by: WiNO at October 17, 2022 02:58 PM (EpDzw)

494 PI wasn't so much as pushing out Marcos, not the regime, for executing Aquino who was challenging him. Ditto in Mexico, the PRI had to give up power in part because of executions of rivals and corruption. Argentina's politics are notoriously fragile as are Peru's and now apparently Colombia's but candidates of the right were elected despite the opponents being the party in power. In that, I was discussing the 80's and 90's shift to the right in Latin American politics rather than the end of Galtieri. Romania is an interesting case but by and large, most the regime and its people remained in place but because virtually everyone despised the dictator and his wife, it unified them. More like a popular coup than anything.

Posted by: whig at October 17, 2022 02:58 PM (CXr4y)

495 There was a video in Instagram I saw of Griner hooping shirtless.

I’m 99% Griner is a dude. No scars in the chest area and even looks like a skinny guys chest.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at October 17, 2022 02:55 PM (YglAn)

I am less inclined just because an actual dude would be crushing women to a greater extent. Look at what the swimmers and runners do, even when they throw games. Never heard of Griener before this.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 17, 2022 02:58 PM (eoQWY)

496 It fascinates me how capable the media is in crafting a vibe that is completely divorced from reality. You have to be a windtalker to listen and interpret what is really going on by the signs.

Posted by: squid_hunt at October 17, 2022 02:59 PM (wptpM)

497 449 I expect a lot of stolen elections on Nov. 8

You mean on November 8th, and 3 a.m. on November 9th, and November 10th, 11 and 14th.

These are known as Ballot Harvesting Days.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 17, 2022 02:53 PM (lf83v)

Let's all meet under the ballot harvesting moon!

Posted by: Miracle Max at October 17, 2022 02:59 PM (1Nzxv)

498 "Black token" MSNBC host Al Sharpton said Monday on “Morning Joe” that he believed it was an “insult” the Republican Party chose Herschel Walker as their nominee in Georgia’s U.S. Senate race because he is an alternative "Black token".

Posted by: SMOD at October 17, 2022 02:59 PM (RHGPo)

499 Inflation won't go down until the government stops spending more money then it takes in.


The GOPe will spend less then the Dems but they won't stop deficit spending either.

The good news for them is LIVs blame the President for everything so...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 17, 2022 02:59 PM (ESjRY)

500 IMPOSSIBLE! We already called the election for the Dems!

Posted by: Fox News at October 17, 2022 02:59 PM (eRVYd)

501 459 What does a wren have to do with border control?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 17, 2022 02:59 PM (cPemv)

502 Arrrrgh! 'uttin' ah da Ritz!
Posted by: Muldoon at October 17, 2022 02:49 PM (kXYt5)

I shouldn't laugh at this, but I do. Every time.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at October 17, 2022 02:56 PM (BdMk6)

Biden: English speaking you trummmimprazure fuckermother?

Fetterman: Argle Bargle argel bregl

Biden: Listen Fat, I hear you !

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 17, 2022 02:59 PM (M+Lyo)

503 119 While I'm hopeful we can get the Senate back, what Id love the most is seeing Zeldin win in NY. I still think it's a longshot, even with only a few point gap, but it could have a massive effect on being the country if NY starts acting like a real state again.

The media is doing all it can to make sure this doesn't happen though, by not pressing Hochel to have debates, as she'll get trounced on every issue.

Posted by: Rbastid at October 17, 2022 02:11 PM (/HQcE)

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Not to mention that bitch AG in NY could lose (pray to God it happens).

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at October 17, 2022 02:59 PM (cMXNt)

504 "mandatory movie"

Watched Das Boot over the weekend.
I would recommend it as mandatory.
Posted by: Bosk at October 17, 2022 02:55 PM (v4L7Y)

and The Sands of Iwo Jima. Just watched it last night again. Damn.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 17, 2022 03:00 PM (4I/2K)

505 Look hard. What word is missing? Hint; it's 4 letters long and starts with "w".
Posted by: Archimedes at October 17, 2022 02:54 PM (eOEVl)
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"wine?"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 17, 2022 03:00 PM (t0OGg)

506 Twenty-two days to Election Day. The only question I have is - When the Dem election blood-bath is official, how destructive will the Democrat/Media Complex's reactive two-year (minimum) war on all of their enemies be? Minimally destructive, Moderately destructive, or Ultra destructive?

Mass arrests by the FBI? Fire bombings of every pro-life assistance center, GOP party and elected official's office, and Christian church outside of black neighborhoods? Political assassinations?

Posted by: Gref at October 17, 2022 03:00 PM (AMIL/)

507 Heh, Griner's wiki mentions he/she "practiced" b-ball with the boys team.

I'm sure he/she did...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 17, 2022 03:00 PM (ESjRY)

508 Axshually, they do have a plan. McCarthy announced it a couple weeks ago.

Even assuming its a good plan and they have the slightest inclination of following through, the time to announce and run with that was like April.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2022 03:00 PM (Ivdso)

509 I am less inclined just because an actual dude would be crushing women to a greater extent. Look at what the swimmers and runners do, even when they throw games. Never heard of Griener before this.


well he's not the only dude in the WNBA first of all

honestly maybe he's just not a great player? he does a lot of drugs, that we know, so he's a chill stoner guy. not Michael Jordan or anything!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at October 17, 2022 03:00 PM (w0NJk)

510 Are Democrats required to be insane regarding abortion and transgenderism?

Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 17, 2022 03:00 PM (eGTCV)

511 I think Republicans are going to win both Houses of Congress, and maybe by a huge margin. I also think that the next two years are going to be an economic nightmare and Dems are going to do (and already are doing) everything they can to make it as bad as possible.
I think that Dems will repeatedly push for bailouts or other handouts to "fix" things and Republicans will reject them. Then the president and the MSM will blame Republicans for intentionally hurting the poor and prolonging the economic agony to make Biden look bad.
The fight for control of Congress is about over, get ready for the fight for the 2024 presidential election. It's gonna be ugly.
Posted by: 29Victor at October 17, 2022 02:41 PM (BJKQV)
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That's my contention as well. Democrats (in or out of power) are going to force the economy down the shitter just so they can blame Republicans for their own disasters. Then somehow use that to sweep to victory in 2024.

It's a plan worthy of Pinky and the Brain, with less "Zort!"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 17, 2022 03:00 PM (YIVH2)

512 495 There was a video in Instagram I saw of Griner hooping shirtless.
I’m 99% Griner is a dude. No scars in the chest area and even looks like a skinny guys chest.


I am jealous because she, it, her, him, them, they has a better mustache then me ....

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at October 17, 2022 03:00 PM (snpvX)

513 2) religious people are always banded together against a rival faith. Muslims will kill each other over trivial disagreements but will ride side by side to slaughter the infidel.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2022 02:58 PM (Ivdso)
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Nope.

Check out the Lebanese Christians allied with Hezbullah. Or the Most Catholic King of France siding with the Protestants to take on Austria and Spain.

Heck, the leftist factions in Spain couldn't even wait for the Civil War to end before killing each other wholesale.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 17, 2022 03:00 PM (llXky)

514 Unprecedented! 400 million votes cast in the midterms!!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at October 17, 2022 03:00 PM (R8uWY)

515 When murder--ie your being in favour of murder---is your 'go to' issue you are going to be 'voter challenged' in a general election.

Posted by: Voter theater. at October 17, 2022 03:01 PM (/5Who)

516 474 It really doesn't matter what the red wave does. There was a red wave in 2020 and the cheaters still found a way. In Cali, 2018, all the seats up for a change went 100% for the cheaters.

So, yes, make it harder for them to manufacture votes, but they're still going to do it.

/doom
Posted by: Harbinger of Doom
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That is because the left coast went to the proven fraudulent mail ballot system along with vote harvesting. Arizona's was contaminated in 2020 and quite a bit has been done to stop some of the obvious ways to cheat. I think only Colorado has adopted that system since.

Posted by: whig at October 17, 2022 03:01 PM (CXr4y)

517 >>Who were Democrats working for the Democratic party. Saying the Democrats didn't steal the election is just silly.

Of course they stole it but they did it with a lot of help from Zuckerberg, some of his operatives and other social media types. Zuckerberg and his wife gave Democrats nearly $500 million much of which was used to put unsupervised dropboxes all over Democrat areas. One of his hand picked operatives took over much of the election process in Wisconsin.

Information is crucial during an election and they control the flow of a lot of it and $500 million buys a lot of Democrat nefarious tricks.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 17, 2022 03:01 PM (ZLI7S)

518 510 Are Democrats required to be insane regarding abortion and transgenderism?
Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 17, 2022 03:00 PM (eGTCV)

It's one of Alinsky's rules that never got published.

Posted by: Roy at October 17, 2022 03:01 PM (XselA)

519 I don't think Democrats will fracture and destroy each other at any level of power because its

1) based on a religion so it transcends reason and logic
2) religious people are always banded together against a rival faith. Muslims will kill each other over trivial disagreements but will ride side by side to slaughter the infidel.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2022 02:58 PM (Ivdso)

Its not "a" religion its many religions. and we can see how nasty religious warfare can get.

And religious people don't always band together. France allied with the Ottomans against the Hapsburgs in the 1500 or 1600s

Posted by: Oldcat at October 17, 2022 03:01 PM (eoQWY)

520 "Black token" MSNBC host Al Sharpton said Monday on “Morning Joe” that he believed it was an “insult” the Republican Party chose Herschel Walker as their nominee in Georgia’s U.S. Senate race because he is an alternative "Black token".
Posted by: SMOD at October 17, 2022 02:59 PM (RHGPo)



WTF does that even mean?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 17, 2022 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)

521 The GOPe will spend less then the Dems but they won't stop deficit spending either.

"Our new continuing resolution only raises spending by 87% as much as the Democrats! Donate now to help us fight against Joe Biden's reckless spending!"
--Republican Party email

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2022 03:01 PM (Ivdso)

522 466 Said it before, they could have kept the Indians, ditched Chief Wahoo, and had Mr. Patel, owner manager of the Travelers Budget Inn as a mascot.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at October 17, 2022 03:01 PM (lz5hY)

523 Massive polling errors as dems unexpectedly pull 80% in every race!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at October 17, 2022 03:01 PM (R8uWY)

524 Stolen from Zip's place

https://tinyurl.com/3wmamtjr

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice, Big proponent of mixed sex marriage at October 17, 2022 03:01 PM (uLr+K)

525 What word is missing? Hint; it's 4 letters long and starts with "w".
Posted by: Archimedes at October 17, 2022 02:54 PM


Wang?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 17, 2022 03:02 PM (a3Q+t)

526 I think Zuck is going to be a lot more circumspect this election. He's under real scrutiny for trying to make Meta a monopoly.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 17, 2022 03:02 PM (eOEVl)

527 From a commenter at Althouse:

"I guess national suicide is not selling as a policy choice."

Posted by: Floridachick at October 17, 2022 03:02 PM (Uk/+L)

528 Griner might be liking russian women prisoners, Katya ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 17, 2022 03:02 PM (M+Lyo)

529 Democrats are strong as hell.

Posted by: Joey Biden at October 17, 2022 03:02 PM (QYPq3)

530
Politico: Kinzinger: Not clear what will happen if Trump refuses to testify

Cheez-n-rice, numbnuts, this is not hard to figure out. You'll continue to sit around with your thumbs jammed up your ass for another 2-1/2 months until your term ends and you are asked to vacate your office and leave the building.

Fall on your knees and thank your Creator for having a functioning autonomous nervous system, because that is as far as tour giftedness goes.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at October 17, 2022 03:02 PM (pNxlR)

531 Maybe someone should tell Al that dems have used blacks as tokens for 150 years.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at October 17, 2022 03:03 PM (R8uWY)

532 What word is missing? Hint; it's 4 letters long and starts with "w".
Posted by: Archimedes at October 17, 2022 02:54 PM

Wang?


I'm beginning to think you guys aren't really trying.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 17, 2022 03:03 PM (eOEVl)

533 Check out the Lebanese Christians allied with Hezbullah. Or the Most Catholic King of France siding with the Protestants to take on Austria and Spain.

And that was for?

Political power.

And the historical norm is as I stated it no matter what exceptions you pluck from history.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2022 03:03 PM (Ivdso)

534 I dunno. Republicans are largely running on the issues and those issues are embedded in the GOP Agenda. They aren't running on the "We Aren't Democrats" dodge. And incidentally they are largely winning as a result. Not sure how you abandon that after winning on it.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 17, 2022 03:04 PM (T0jQj)

535 I think Zuck is going to be a lot more circumspect this election. He's under real scrutiny for trying to make Meta a monopoly.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 17, 2022 03:02 PM (eOEVl)
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That's hilarious. He will be more circumspect because he got a talking to about it. Meta already *is* a monopoly and it doesn't matter at all. The FTC is on Team Monopoly and has been for a long time. Big Tech is immune to monopoly laws.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 17, 2022 03:04 PM (t0OGg)

536 >>Even assuming its a good plan and they have the slightest inclination of following through, the time to announce and run with that was like April.

Remember when Newt did the Contract With America?

It was announced 6 weeks before the election in 1994, pretty much exactly the same time as this one. That worked out pretty well.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 17, 2022 03:04 PM (ZLI7S)

537 That's my contention as well. Democrats (in or out of power) are going to force the economy down the shitter just so they can blame Republicans for their own disasters. Then somehow use that to sweep to victory in 2024.

It's a plan worthy of Pinky and the Brain, with less "Zort!"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 17, 2022 03:00 PM (YIVH2)

its a very, very tall order to get the people to blame Congress over the President for economic and/or foreign affairs issues. Especially if they propose something and it gets vetoed or slow-rolled.

The Congressional GOP may be bad at PR, but so far Biden and the Dems are far worse at it.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 17, 2022 03:04 PM (eoQWY)

538 It just got stupider after that, by leaps and bounds.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2022 02:51 PM (Ivdso)

Not my point. The missing context made it look like he was saying the election wasn't stolen.

Posted by: ... at October 17, 2022 03:04 PM (3n7z/)

539 Not sure how they plan to get this done with Biden in the WH but at least its something. Posted by: JackStraw

It's pretty weak sauce because they likely won't do any of it. Some of it is the standard GOPe pablum. They had the entire Fed gov't and did nothing about healthcare. Ditto with the border. Also, what do the Feds have to do with hiring local police? Saw nothing about nuking the FBI/DOJ. They might has well announce "WE BE BETTE' THAN THEM DEMS." Posted by: WiNO
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Better King Log than King Stork.

Posted by: whig at October 17, 2022 03:04 PM (CXr4y)

540 Britney Griner is a man.

https://is.gd/Z5BSgG

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 17, 2022 03:04 PM (Zz0t1)

541 @282. Thanks for the reminder. No leaving the house as traffic on I-95 around the airport will be unbearable once again.

Philly is always politically interesting. Shapiro will be a big factor, as he is statewide. Then there's Johnny Doc, the Philly powerhouse, with federal charges against him. His lawyers, from Scalon's (she represents PA's 5th District) husband's law firm, have - reportedly - asked to quit the case. And then there's his brother Kevin, a Democratic Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice, but with little to nothing thus far that may be hinky & brother associated.

Guess we'll see.

Posted by: Lola at October 17, 2022 03:04 PM (NIYa7)

542 Frankly the Dems haven't gone "all in" yet. I won't be satisfied unti they pass a law to swap our current USA flag with the LBGT Q+ flag.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at October 17, 2022 03:04 PM (cMXNt)

543 White House: Biden thinks Fetterman is capable as himself amid questions over his health
Posted by: SMOD at October 17, 2022 02:28 PM (RHGPo)

Window lickers unite!

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 17, 2022 03:04 PM (VwHCD)

544 Said it before, they could have kept the Indians, ditched Chief Wahoo, and had Mr. Patel, owner manager of the Travelers Budget Inn as a mascot.

Just get rid of the mascot entirely and leave the background like Land O Lakes did. Keep the land, eliminate the Indian.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2022 03:04 PM (Ivdso)

545 Not to mention that bitch AG in NY could lose (pray to God it happens).
___________

MAGA Ken,

A lot of Andrew Cuomo's people here in the Capital District want her gone for what she did to him.

I think she is in trouble. I could be wrong, but a lot of people detest her.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 17, 2022 03:05 PM (lf83v)

546 It's nice to see that the DNC still can't spend money wisely.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at October 17, 2022 03:05 PM (qZdIZ)

547 I dunno. Republicans are largely running on the issues and those issues are embedded in the GOP Agenda. They aren't running on the "We Aren't Democrats" dodge. And incidentally they are largely winning as a result. Not sure how you abandon that after winning on it.

I'm optimistic, but the GOP can still lose. The best way to do it is to start in with the same old disingenuous blather that says nothing, and reminds the voters why they hate the GOPe.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 17, 2022 03:05 PM (eOEVl)

548 Britney Griner is a man.

First clue: the cutesy stripper name. Trannies almost always pick a name that comes from a pole dancer.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2022 03:05 PM (Ivdso)

549 Here's another poll result.

Wife went to a playoff game last week Cleveland v. Tampa Bay.

They showed a picture of Sherrod Brown on the Jumbotron.

Everyone booed. Loudly.

Posted by: I never watch ads, but saw a sporting event live recently at October 17, 2022 03:06 PM (X81ac)

550 376 is hilarious

The CDC figured out what caused all the bad and unscientific pronouncements during Covid and it's Trump.

I think Trump has moved from Lefty's head to the entire body, down to their filthy toenails. Lefty needs an exorcist, not the NYTs.

Posted by: East Bay Jay at October 17, 2022 03:06 PM (DePyg)

551 off, sock

Posted by: Chuck C at October 17, 2022 03:06 PM (xttsV)

552 Britney Griner is a man.

https://is.gd/Z5BSgG

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 17, 2022 03:04 PM (Zz0t1)

Holy shit, it IS a man.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 17, 2022 03:06 PM (VwHCD)

553 It's a fight for eyeballs now between Camp Lejeune victims, and Medicare

#whoyagot
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at October 17, 2022


***
Lessee, we've had Jimmie "JJ" Walker, Joe Namath, and even William Shatner hawking these Medicare supplement plans. Somebody new (i.e., old) showed up the other day for one program; I can't hink who.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, dreaming of Elsewhere at October 17, 2022 03:07 PM (J2vNu)

554 I'd like republicans to run on the whole democrats encouraged rioting through 2020 and are now arresting peaceful republican protestors thing

but that's just me. I don't like that if Biden had actually not fucked everything up, the gop and the electorate would be ok with the full on fascism the left is doing right now.

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at October 17, 2022 03:07 PM (MLrvz)

555 Wang?

I'm beginning to think you guys aren't really trying.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 17, 2022 03:03 PM


So we're wong?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 17, 2022 03:07 PM (a3Q+t)

556 535 I think Zuck is going to be a lot more circumspect this election. He's under real scrutiny for trying to make Meta a monopoly. Posted by: Archimedes
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That's hilarious. He will be more circumspect because he got a talking to about it. Meta already *is* a monopoly and it doesn't matter at all. The FTC is on Team Monopoly and has been for a long time. Big Tech is immune to monopoly laws. Posted by: Joe Mannix
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The down market is more likely to affect what Zuck is doing. He has lost paper worth recently more than a lot of billionaires whole fortunes. Fakebook is also under a two way pincer attack from Apple and Google in ad dollars--that is likely to accelerate during economic downturn and scarcer corporate ad spending. Plus, the Metaverse right now is proving to be Second Life redux and a huge money sink for Meta.

Posted by: whig at October 17, 2022 03:07 PM (CXr4y)

557 I think that Dems will repeatedly push for bailouts or other handouts to "fix" things and Republicans will reject them. Then the president and the MSM will blame Republicans for intentionally hurting the poor and prolonging the economic agony to make Biden look bad.
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Consider whether the middle class--excluded from but paying for every prior "help for the poor"--will have an appetite for this ploy.

You're not poor, you can't afford food, you don't want a handout, and the Dems are ... demanding handouts for the poor.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 17, 2022 03:07 PM (Zf0+a)

558 I think the LIVs aren't seeing lefty activists talking positively about nuclear war.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 17, 2022 02:41 PM (ESjRY)


Didn't Neil deGrasse Tyson, one of THE oracles of SCIENCE, say that a few tactical nukes were no biggie?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 17, 2022 03:07 PM (zhLdt)

559 Britney Griner is a man.

https://is.gd/Z5BSgG
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 17, 2022 03:04 PM (Zz0t1)

we like tits here at AOS, but not those kind

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 17, 2022 03:07 PM (M+Lyo)

560 Britney Griner is a man.

https://is.gd/Z5BSgG

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 17, 2022 03:04 PM (Zz0t1)

Holy shit, it IS a man.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 17, 2022 03:06 PM (VwHCD)

Well so he is.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 17, 2022 03:08 PM (eoQWY)

561 The CDC figured out what caused all the bad and unscientific pronouncements during Covid and it's Trump.

///

yeah, tucker made fun of this a few weeks back on the first "blame trump for the vaxxines" trial balloon that went up.

no one is saluting that flag being run up the flagpole.

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at October 17, 2022 03:08 PM (MLrvz)

562 Lessee, we've had Jimmie "JJ" Walker, Joe Namath, and even William Shatner hawking these Medicare supplement plans. Somebody new (i.e., old) showed up the other day for one program; I can't hink who.
____________

Chuck Woolery?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at October 17, 2022 03:08 PM (lf83v)

563
Didn't Neil deGrasse Tyson, one of THE oracles of SCIENCE, say that a few tactical nukes were no biggie?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 17, 2022 03:07 PM (zhLdt)



Putting the ass in Tyson.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 17, 2022 03:08 PM (Zz0t1)

564 Britney Griner is a man.

https://is.gd/Z5BSgG
Posted by: Sponge

☝🏿
Hamburger.

Posted by: Mr. Pink at October 17, 2022 03:08 PM (+1Ie+)

565 The down market is more likely to affect what Zuck is doing. He has lost paper worth recently more than a lot of billionaires whole fortunes. Fakebook is also under a two way pincer attack from Apple and Google in ad dollars--that is likely to accelerate during economic downturn and scarcer corporate ad spending. Plus, the Metaverse right now is proving to be Second Life redux and a huge money sink for Meta.
Posted by: whig at October 17, 2022 03:07 PM (CXr4y)
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Yup, that too. He has way less hypothetical wealth now than he did then.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 17, 2022 03:09 PM (t0OGg)

566 And the historical norm is as I stated it no matter what exceptions you pluck from history.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2022 03:03 PM (Ivdso)
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You used the term "always," which was objectively false.

If you're now going to say "well, if they can profit politically" then that undermines your entire point because the various Dem factions can and will sell each other out to profit politically.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 17, 2022 03:09 PM (llXky)

567 The FTC is on Team Monopoly and has been for a long time. Big Tech is immune to monopoly laws.

Absolutely true. They have several areas they don't give a crap about and big tech and entertainment are two of the biggest. Why? My guess is they either think it doesn't matter who is in charge of them, or they get huge dump truck fulls of cash to overlook these sectors.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2022 03:09 PM (Ivdso)

568 NOOD Joe groping another tween

Posted by: 18-1 at October 17, 2022 03:09 PM (ESjRY)

569 Nood.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 17, 2022 03:09 PM (cPemv)

570 well, zero hedge reports that one poll shows trump losing to harris. this proves that polls might not be meaningful. same poll has trump beating biden, but well within the margin of cheating in all the big cities.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 17, 2022 03:09 PM (kFrCu)

571 547 I dunno. Republicans are largely running on the issues and those issues are embedded in the GOP Agenda. They aren't running on the "We Aren't Democrats" dodge. And incidentally they are largely winning as a result. Not sure how you abandon that after winning on it.

I'm optimistic, but the GOP can still lose. The best way to do it is to start in with the same old disingenuous blather that says nothing, and reminds the voters why they hate the GOPe. Posted by: Archimedes
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Most people are retrospective voters that punish the in party rather than prospective voters believing what a party pushes out. The 1980 slogan for the GOP in Congress was 'Had Enough' and a Tip O'Neill lookalike running a car out of gas ad. GOP gained twelve Senate seats to take the majority and over 20-25 seats in the House.

Posted by: whig at October 17, 2022 03:10 PM (CXr4y)

572 I'm optimistic, but the GOP can still lose. The best way to do it is to start in with the same old disingenuous blather that says nothing, and reminds the voters why they hate the GOPe.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 17, 2022 03:05 PM (eOEVl)

The best way to avoid that is to purge the GOPe from the leadership ranks of the party.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 17, 2022 03:10 PM (eoQWY)

573 570 well, zero hedge reports that one poll shows trump losing to harris. this proves that polls might not be meaningful. same poll has trump beating biden, but well within the margin of cheating in all the big cities.
Posted by: gnats local 678
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Zero Hedge is okay on economics and some foreign issues but pretty shitty on political coverage.

Posted by: whig at October 17, 2022 03:11 PM (CXr4y)

574 You used the term "always," which was objectively false.

You're right, I retract the always and replace it with "historically the greatest percentage of the time" added to "because we're talking about politics, using examples where people band together to get more power politically is irrelevant to the discussion."

because if Democrats lose tons of power and align with Republicans to retain power, nothing has been changed or harmed about the Democratic Party. They have not fractured or been destroyed.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 17, 2022 03:11 PM (Ivdso)

575 The genius that is Bob Costas
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Bob Costas makes me long for the mediocrity that is Joe Buck.

Posted by: That's pretty freaking bad at October 17, 2022 03:11 PM (aA8DL)

576 White House: Biden thinks Fetterman is capable as himself amid questions over his health
Posted by: SMOD at October 17, 2022 02:28 PM (RHGPo)

Window lickers unite!
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 17, 2022 03:04 PM (VwHCD)

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"You have nothing to lose but your panes!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Triple-Jabbed & Quad-Boosted with the Biden Hurricane-22 Vaccine at October 17, 2022 03:11 PM (G8dTy)

577 Majority of women voters don't GAS about abortion.
Majority of women voters are responsible people and can take care of themselves. Abortion is another aspect of the internationalize of women and they resent it. They know it's not choice for them but control by others.

Let the Democrats talk, it's a loss for them.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at October 17, 2022 03:12 PM (6WsnZ)

578 October Harvard-CAPS Harris Poll

AMERICANS BLAME BIDEN AND THE FED FOR INFLATION

55% of Americans blame Biden for inflation – including 42% of Democrats.

58% are not confident in the Biden administration's ability to keep inflation at bay.

Americans are worried about the Fed: 74% think the Fed will cause a recession.

84% of voters think the US is in a recession now or will be in one by next year.

Posted by: SMOD at October 17, 2022 03:13 PM (RHGPo)

579 The 1980 slogan for the GOP in Congress was 'Had Enough' and a Tip O'Neill lookalike running a car out of gas ad. GOP gained twelve Senate seats to take the majority and over 20-25 seats in the House.
Posted by: whig at October 17, 2022 03:10 PM (CXr4y)

That was surely a disaster, but most of that was a pro-Reagan anti-Carter coattail effect. It flushed out a lot of crap - one of my college roommates had been a senate Page for a bit and was exulting in the heads being collected - but the next big shift in Congressional politics was the South deserting the Dems because of liberalism.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 17, 2022 03:13 PM (eoQWY)

580 571 547 I dunno. Republicans are largely running on the issues and those issues are embedded in the GOP Agenda. They aren't running on the "We Aren't Democrats" dodge. And incidentally they are largely winning as a result.
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I told you I was going to teach Republicans how to win
_Donald Trump

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at October 17, 2022 03:14 PM (6WsnZ)

581 In 2012, the Obama White House recognized Fetterman as one of a dozen AmeriCorps Alums who were “Champions of Change.”

I always thought the progressives had to pick & well place him politically during B's administration. It's only unraveled a bit with Fetterman suffering the stoke. But if FJB's around, and his son, Beau, was also still in government following a stroke, it stands to reason this administration would be required to push Fetterman.

Posted by: Lola at October 17, 2022 03:14 PM (NIYa7)

582
Just get rid of the mascot entirely and leave the background like Land O Lakes did. Keep the land, eliminate the Indian.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor


Funny, I always thought that the Donks and woke types were friends to the First Peoples, now you tell me that they want to eliminate them.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 17, 2022 03:14 PM (n+4am)

583 President Joe Biden appeared to forget which century he was in during a campaign speech in Portland over the weekend, referring to life in 1922. “Look, in 1922 the price for one blood pressure drug that millions of Medicare patients — beneficiaries — rely on went up one — went up by 500 percent,” he said without correcting himself.

Posted by: SMOD at October 17, 2022 03:14 PM (RHGPo)

584 The GOP can smell a win, so what do they do? Do they create an agenda based on what their voters that just put them in office want? Nope they are going to attack entitlements, which just makes you wonder if they understand what inflation is, which is an attack on entitlements. That job is already done, but they have to do it some more. They are either stupid or controlled opposition. If you're wondering they're controlled opposition.

Posted by: DFCtomm at October 17, 2022 03:15 PM (OHy0b)

585 Republicans Gain ? NOOOOO ... Republicans extend LEAD over Dems ... Gain implies the Dems are ahead ...

Posted by: The Dark Lord at October 17, 2022 03:26 PM (5cMUX)

586 Listen, Miss Clare. You do not speak for women, you do not speak for me. I am infuriated you think killing babies is something near and dear to my heart, which I can assure you, it is not. I am fine with this being sent back to states where it belongs, but I still find y’all disgusting. Animals care for them young better!

Hugs and kisses,

Piper

Posted by: Piper at October 17, 2022 03:31 PM (0GTCG)

587 This. The only thing I can think of that might have accelerated the trend is the gas prices jumping back up. But no way do I believe a 32% jump in under a month. I think we are in the stage where pollsters try not to be so biased they look insane to their clients after the election.
Posted by: MaureenTheTemp, Ultra Dark MAGA at October 17, 2022 02:06 PM (rWFyW)
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Well RCP did say they were re-evaluating how polls get rated in their aggregation.

Posted by: Black JEM at October 17, 2022 03:36 PM (xWZcb)

588 Without a doubt. At some point, the GOP is going to have to deliver a blowback to the administrative state. Somehow, someway. There are many ways to do this, but we need a Doolittle Raid type attack that lets the base know they are ready for the fight.
Posted by: SH (No more Roe) at October 17, 2022 02:07 PM (sX1BW)
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Justice Alito concurs.

Posted by: Black JEM at October 17, 2022 03:37 PM (xWZcb)

589 Thanks to the Great Colonization that kicked off in the aftermath of the tech wreck and during the housing bubble, the Left has flipped several states. They picked up Colorado and that will likely be a permanent flip. They picked up New Mexico and will probably keep it. They will likely get to keep Nevada, too. That's 9, 5 and 6 electoral votes, respectively. They lost 1 and picked up 20. +19 is pretty good. Even if CA lost 3 EVs, it's still +17.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 17, 2022 02:15 PM (t0OGg)
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Joe - Joe - Joe

Nevada is flipping red. The hispanics have voted on closing down Vegas during covid. They have indicated they weren't pleased. I'm struggling to find any but the craziest leftist polling saying anything different.

Posted by: Black JEM at October 17, 2022 03:44 PM (xWZcb)

590 Yeah, sounds like the polls deciding to call it strait. I don't buy such a flip. Also, it looks like the Ds have long kidded themselves on abortion.

Posted by: Don at October 17, 2022 03:48 PM (Q7knO)

591 Oh great, so the suburban wine moms are back on board.
You idiots gave us Biden , because Trump was too mean .
Go eff yourselves.

Posted by: Gobagoo at October 17, 2022 04:40 PM (p6YZo)

592 they "fixed" the polls to say what they want, why wouldn't they just "fix" the election(s) to match the "fixed" polls?

then it all appears legit... to them.

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Posted by: Christopher R Taylor


Funny, I always thought that the Donks and woke types were friends to the First Peoples, now you tell me that they want to eliminate them.
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