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National Review Prognosticator: Democrats Will Win House Due to "Democrat-RINO Alliance"

This is what I imagine will happen, too. (Though I'm not sure of it.)

I mentioned in a post below that the NeverTrumpers -- who are actually the most liberal of all Republicans, but pose as the most conservative for branding purposes, and because this party has this utterly retarded I'm-more-conservative-than-you dick-measuring syndrome where no liberal Republicans can ever just admit they're liberal Republicans -- are trying to hand this election to the Democrats, because they want their precious control over the party back and they will sabotage it and empower the left until we embrace liberal Republicanism again.

So that is the less-polite version of what this article says.

RINO voters have long preferred candidates such as Bob Dole, the two George Bushes, John McCain, and Mitt Romney. So long as folks like these led the party, RINOs were happy to keep the "R" in their names even as they increasingly battled the GOP’s more conservative elements. But Trump changed all that.

Trump’s message was that America was a sinking ship, one that needed a radical change of course, and fast. Add his volatile and voluble personality to the mix and you can see why RINOs did not want to take a cruise on the SS GOP with Trump as its captain. But Trump won despite their defection.

Tuesday, however, is going to be the RINOs’ revenge. Romney-loving RINOs are coming out of their preserves with fire in their hearts and a gleam in their eyes. They are decked out in hunting gear of their own, and their prey is the Trump-backing, change-seeking GOP. They might not be able to win primaries anymore, but in league with their new friends, the Democrats, they are eager to take down some big game of their own. And they will.

The new Democrat–RINO alliance is going to retake the House, sweep the GOP out of governor’s mansions in most purple states, and end the careers of hundreds of suburban state legislators. In the Senate, it will most likely hold Republicans to a one- or two-seat gain despite an incredibly favorable map -- and may even win the Democrats a seat. Come Wednesday, the RINOs will mount their trophies on their walls and resolve to continue the hunt until the big game is caught: the orange-plumed woodpecker from Queens.

Several points:

Remember when the liberal RINOs controlling the party would brow-beat you into supporting whatever RINO they had chosen as an acceptable, liberal-leaning candidate for the party? Remember when they'd tell you you had to vote for Romney, McCain, etc.?

Well, witness their own behavior when they think they're not being deferred to enough.

Also, keep this in mind: this contingent of liberal Republicans -- RINOs -- have long claimed that they oppose Trump because he's not conservative enough to satisfy their super-duper TruConservative requirements.

When Trump delivers one conservative agenda victory after another, instead of saying "Yay, as a super-duper TruCon, that's just what I wanted!!!" they snipe about tone and manners and tweets.

It's always been a con. As I mentioned, they are liberal, urban, socially-progressive, pro-gay-marriage, pretty much pro-choice (granted, so am I on that, but I wouldn't claim that I should get to overrule 85% of the party due to my individual wishes), open borders RINOs who control a party whose largest block of voters is genuine conservatives, so they have been lying and lying and lying for years about their true political preferences.

This is why they're always selling us out with Failure Theater or, as Mark Levin calls it, "Play-Fight and Then Surrender." They have to pretend they're fighting for the conservative agenda items they're in fact adamantly, viscerally opposed to, and then cutting deals with Democrats to make sure the liberal position prevails but in a way that appears they did their Utmost to Resist.

Well, now these liars and cross-dressers have very little mask left on their faces. They are liberals. They never opposed Trump because they feared he'd be too liberal; they opposed Trump because he was not beholden to the liberal corporate donor structure and therefore might turn out to be too conservative.

Which is exactly what happened.

If these people were really Super Conservative as they claim, they'd be supporting Trump as being an upside surprise.

Instead, they still pretend they're Super-Duper-Conservative and just are now fixated on his unconservative tweeting habits.

But no one buys this. They party has been taken -- temporarily -- from the clutches of the urban, socially-liberal, corporatist RINO class that has held it in an iron grip for decades, and they are going to try to throw their second election running in order to hold the party hostage until we agree to put the party back in the hands of liberals.

This is why it's important to vote. We have not "Won" anything. We did not seize the controls of the plane, as the flight 93 election thesis has it. We merely occupied the cockpit for a short amount of time, and if the liberals who have controlled this party and who are determined to be our masters get their way and throw this election, they will put Maxine Waters into the position as head of the Financial Services Committee, Adam Schiff as head of the Government Oversight Committee, etc.

The "Democrat-RINO alliance" aims to sabotage Trump's term and indeed sabotage the economy itself to make sure that a liberal Democrat candidate wins in 2020, because that's the only way the liberal Republicans can set themselves up as the Necessary Evil you need to put in command for 2024.

If we win -- if we hold the House -- then we can tell them, "We can win with you or without you, and therefore we do not need you, and therefore you will have to accept a diminished junior role in the party, rather than being in control of it."

If they win -- and manage to do what they could not do in 2016, which is to throw an election to their Democrat co-conspirators and Cocktail Party pals -- they will say "We are indespensible, and we will vote Democrat in every race from here on out until you put us back where we deserve to be, into the Rulership Positions of this party, instructing the crazy Hobbits and wack-a-doos what 'real conservatism' is."

Spoiler alert: "Real Conservatism" for the Cruise Cuck Boys just happens to resemble the Democrat Party platform except with some deeply, deeply insincere rhetoric about the pro-life position (which they will make sure never becomes actual policy) and open borders immigration policies (which is only different from the Democrats' position in that the RINOs want to pretend it's not open borders, whereas Democrats are now comfortable embracing the true name of the position) and some favors for their corporate donors.

Which isn't even any different from the Democrats; they, of course, suck up huge amounts of corporate contributions too, and do as many favors for mega-corporations as the cucks do.


Vote like your country's life depended on it -- because it does.

I Forgot To Mention: "Mainstream Republicans" vote at high rates. This includes liberal Republicans.

However, Trump-supporting Republicans vote more like minorities or young people -- they might vote, but most of them probably won't.

Point is, we do have the power to impose our will on the RINOs -- but there's a very good chance we'll just blow it off, and then just curse impotently when Bill Kristol, AllahPundit, David French, Jonah Goldberg, and the rest of the liberal RINO gang is doing their victory laps tomorrow night.

A victory we could have denied them -- but didn't bother doing so.

Posted by: Ace of Spades at 06:17 PM




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1 1

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 05, 2018 06:18 PM (GBteo)

2 soo much content to read

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 05, 2018 06:18 PM (GBteo)

3 and, like, zero pictures.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 05, 2018 06:18 PM (GBteo)

4 Blocking Harry P!!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 05, 2018 06:20 PM (9rIkM)

5 I read the National Review like I read the NY Times which is never.

Posted by: dantesed at November 05, 2018 06:21 PM (88xKn)

6 It's not time to freak out yet!

Posted by: freaked at November 05, 2018 06:21 PM (UdKB7)

7 Romney-loving RINOs are coming out of their preserves with fire in their hearts and a gleam in their eyes"

And a dog on their roof...


Posted by: Anon a mouse at November 05, 2018 06:21 PM (6qErC)

8 from National Review. I do not give it much credence. Sounds like wish casting.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at November 05, 2018 06:21 PM (pw+jk)

9 RINO's are on the verge of extinction hopefully.


I'll leave this here as well:

On 2 November 2018, the First Circuit Court of Appeals held the Second Amendment effectively does not apply outside the home. From uscourts.gov

Posted by: Under Fire at November 05, 2018 06:21 PM (r9UYA)

10 I disagree with this analysis and I am entirely sanguine about tomorrow.

(And I was not NeverTrump but I was truly among the LastToComeAround).

I think the normals have had it. I think Kavanaugh and Caravans win. I think the GOP picks up seats.

I have not done a sophisticated contested districts analysis, but my gut tells me we're good.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 05, 2018 06:22 PM (fuK7c)

11 The most credible and respected republican media outlet is National Review.

Posted by: This is CNN at November 05, 2018 06:22 PM (pw+jk)

12 I mean, I'm not predicting anything here, but I really don't see any objective evidence that the D's are going to pick up a bunch of seats.

...Not saying it can't happen, but I don't know why we just accept as fact that that's the likely outcome.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 05, 2018 06:22 PM (GBteo)

13 Trump or Death?
Death or Trump?

You have chosen Death.
You shall have Trump.

Posted by: DaveA at November 05, 2018 06:22 PM (FhXTo)

14 Thse people don't seem to get that the choice isn't between them and Trump. It's nationalism or bust at ths point. Either way, there's no going back to the neocon/lolbertarian delusions of the Bush era.

Posted by: BunnyFooFoo at November 05, 2018 06:22 PM (0Uf+z)

15 Gainzz related question -
is there a time of day that's best for taking:

vit D
Vit B

?

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at November 05, 2018 06:23 PM (dMvl+)

16 tl;dr version:

WE MATTER
PLEASE CLAP
-the gope

Posted by: Methos at November 05, 2018 06:23 PM (CPS8G)

17 I say we keep the House, and gain 3 in the Senate.

Posted by: grammie winger at November 05, 2018 06:23 PM (lwiT4)

18 Orange. Man. BAD!!

Posted by: This is CNN at November 05, 2018 06:23 PM (pw+jk)

19 Ace is wrong.

The RINO contingent doesn't expect to ever win again.

They wanted Hillary. They knew what that meant. They were fine with it.

They've always been on the other side, they just hid it better.

Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 05, 2018 06:24 PM (cfSRQ)

20 Welcome to the Party Ace

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 05, 2018 06:24 PM (bim/x)

21 Adam Schiff as head of the Government Oversight Committee, etc.


Any AOS people live down near his district? The man is just screaming for a massive #AdamSchitt hashtag campaign.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at November 05, 2018 06:24 PM (ujg0T)

22 The most credible and respected republican media outlet is National Review.

member when they were informative?
Rove farms members.

Posted by: DaveA at November 05, 2018 06:24 PM (FhXTo)

23 >>>8 from National Review. I do not give it much credence. Sounds like wish casting.


The important thing, I think, is the admission that NeverTrump does not consist of rock-ribbed ultra-conservatives, but RINOs who want to take the party back in a socially liberal direction, with only fake gestures towards any rightist policies.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 06:24 PM (PbpT7)

24 I worry about the open seats that were formerly Republican, and redistricting in PA.

Posted by: josephistan at November 05, 2018 06:24 PM (Izzlo)

25 I have not done a sophisticated contested districts analysis, but my gut tells me we're good.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 05, 2018 06:22 PM (fuK7c)

Jump on RCP and look at the "leans D" and "likely D" races -- based on scant or no polling. Many of these are districts that Trump won.

The only way you call those "likely D" or "lean D" is if you assume the turnout is going to be much more D-heavy then it was in 2016.

Which is what all pollsters and political people are assuming. It's not a terrible assumption, historically the party out of power has more enthusiasm to get out and vote.

...but I don't know if that's a safe assumption to make this time.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 05, 2018 06:24 PM (GBteo)

26 CNN chyron says "Aides have prepared Trump for GOP House losses".

Gonna be an early night.

/s

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 05, 2018 06:25 PM (ctuyM)

27 Ace, your last two sentences are well said. And my heartfelt wish.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 05, 2018 06:25 PM (hyuyC)

28 We know what we are doing. LISTEN TO US!!!!!

Posted by: California GOP at November 05, 2018 06:25 PM (pw+jk)

29 24 I worry about the open seats that were formerly Republican, and redistricting in PA.
Posted by: josephistan at November 05, 2018 06:24 PM (Izzlo)

yeah PA is a real kick in the balls

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 05, 2018 06:25 PM (GBteo)

30 This is not a widespread phenomenon

Most all of these clowns are people that love in like DC and NoVa

Posted by: Menu at November 05, 2018 06:25 PM (R2x+j)

31
Trump or Death?
Death or Trump?

You have chosen Death.
You shall have Trump.


Posted by: DaveA----No snappy retort DaveA but Eddie Izzard's *Cake or Death* bit cannot go unmentioned. One of the best.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 05, 2018 06:25 PM (9rIkM)

32 Willowed:


Iowahawk says Demofascists are now publishing, via an app, the voting history of "your friends and neighbors" so you can harass them. He has screenshots even.

The app also instantly tells you the party affiliation of all of your contacts.
Posted by: The ARC of History


I have voted straight R since 1982. Missed Reagan in 1980 by 15 days. My party affiliation is 6 seats to the right of Judge Bork. I have to use binoculars to see the center.

I carry. Make your first shot count. You won't get a second one.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 05, 2018 06:25 PM (f/ass)

33 8
from National Review. I do not give it much credence. Sounds like wish casting.


Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at November 05, 2018 06:21 PM (pw+jk)

---
Also true.

Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 05, 2018 06:25 PM (cfSRQ)

34 I haven't a clue as to how the Governor-ships are going, though.

Posted by: grammie winger at November 05, 2018 06:25 PM (lwiT4)

35 I know the exact results...call me tomorrow night

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 05, 2018 06:25 PM (bim/x)

36 Olsen is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Prior to that, he was a vice president at the American Enterprise Institute, a vice president at the Manhattan Institute, and president of the Commonwealth Foundation. He has also been a lawyer at the firm currently known as Dechert, a clerk for the Honorable Judge Danny J. Boggs on the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, a staffer for the California Assembly Republican Caucus, and an associate at the political consulting firm of Hoffenblum-Mollrich."

...

He passionately supports the New York Yankees and Tottenham Hotspur.

Posted by: The ARC of History at November 05, 2018 06:25 PM (TEv5V)

37 Knew a new thread was coming

Posted by: Skip at November 05, 2018 06:25 PM (T4oHT)

38 8 from National Review. I do not give it much credence. Sounds like wish casting.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at November 05, 2018 06:21 PM (pw+jk)



It probably IS, but the very fact that an article like this is even *printed* says so much about them.

Just because they won't succeed doesn't mean they aren't trying.....

Posted by: Curmudgeon at November 05, 2018 06:26 PM (ujg0T)

39 *gulp


oh wait, i didn't mean it that way

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 05, 2018 06:26 PM (d7Ww2)

40 Look at the rallies.

Trump has thousands that will wait in line overnight


The Democrat stars (Obama, the FAB, Creepy Uncle Joe) are playing to tens of people and half of those are the d*ck suckers in the MFM.

Posted by: Shibumi at November 05, 2018 06:26 PM (z1Dz9)

41 Welcome to the fight, Ace.

May you help lead us to a beautiful America.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 05, 2018 06:26 PM (hyuyC)

42 Tuesday, however, is going to be the RINO's revenge. Romney-loving RINOs are coming out of their preserves with fire in their hearts and a gleam in their eyes. They are decked out in hunting gear of their own, and their prey is the Trump-backing, change-seeking GOP.




They are sucking their dicks way too early.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 05, 2018 06:26 PM (f/ass)

43 I'm paying for one of my kids to come back to New Jersey to vote tomorrow, because she failed to register in her new home. And we need her vote in NJ anyway. A quick, one day swing through the state = one vote.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, VoteRed and Be Happy at November 05, 2018 06:27 PM (HKPap)

44 The Elephant in the room is the Walkaway, whether or not they self identify. Odd that the elites don't recognize this cohort.

Posted by: kallisto at November 05, 2018 06:27 PM (+/IpI)

45 We know what we are doing. LISTEN TO US!!!!!
Posted by: California GOP"

Hey, we can do that!

/VAGOP

Posted by: Anon a mouse at November 05, 2018 06:27 PM (6qErC)

46 On a related note, the "snowflakes freak out over a joke" link in the sidebar is aggravating. I laughed at the joke, and these people keep proving they have no sense of humor.

Posted by: pookysgirl at November 05, 2018 06:28 PM (XKZwp)

47 I have been thinking lately that what you're referring to as RINO's in this post (or the GOPe) are really, in alignment terms, the lost moderate wing of the demonrat party.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 05, 2018 06:28 PM (tSXzq)

48 Who is pulling the levers around here and where is Canada?

Posted by: saf at November 05, 2018 06:28 PM (5IHGB)

49 He passionately supports the New York Yankees and Tottenham Hotspur.

Posted by: The ARC of History at November 05, 2018 06:25 PM (TEv5V)

---
Any American who supports a limey soccer club has outed himself as a traitor.

Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 05, 2018 06:28 PM (cfSRQ)

50 Vote like your country's life depended on it -- because it does.

Absolutely true. Tomorrow, I going early to vote for Rick Scott and DeSantis.

Posted by: dantesed at November 05, 2018 06:28 PM (88xKn)

51 Every, and mean every Democrat commercial here is all about how it's going to be all num ba yah after you elect them.

Yeah right.

Posted by: Skip at November 05, 2018 06:28 PM (T4oHT)

52 Olsen is a senior fellow"

Jimmy, is that you?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at November 05, 2018 06:29 PM (6qErC)

53 They never opposed Trump because they feared he'd be too liberal; they opposed Trump because he was not beholden to the liberal corporate donor structure and therefore might turn out to be too conservative.

Which is exactly what happened.






Yes.

Posted by: grammie winger at November 05, 2018 06:29 PM (lwiT4)

54 I get that the gopE is always what we thought of them. However it is surprising they are coming at us straight. Trump has made them RIP their masks of conservative off.... and proudly scream it at the top of their lungs.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at November 05, 2018 06:29 PM (pw+jk)

55 And here is the "policy advisory board" of the Ethics and Public Policy Center:

Peter Berkowitz
Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
William Kristol
Editor, The Weekly Standard
Lewis E. Lehrman
Senior Partner, L. E. Lehrman & Co., and Chairman, Lehrman Institute
Gilbert Meilaender
Professor of Theology, Valparaiso University
Mark A. Noll
Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History, University of Notre Dame

Posted by: The ARC of History at November 05, 2018 06:29 PM (TEv5V)

56 And in 2024 you know who that benefits?

Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at November 05, 2018 06:29 PM (zRwJ/)

57 Henry Olsen of the EPPC.

Thought that sounded familiar.

The same EPPC of the one and only MONA #nevertrumper CHAREN!!!!

The RINO's are gonna bust some ass.

With Evan McMuffin and Mittens Romney at the lead.

#FTIP

Posted by: golfman at November 05, 2018 06:29 PM (If3tB)

58 N ever Trump

R INO

O rganization

Posted by: Ha at November 05, 2018 06:29 PM (nqDDI)

59 Those at the top take care of those at the top.

This is unsettling for some ... in the same way that Ric Flair really wasn't trying to whip Dusty Rhodes ... but they bought their tickets all the same.

Posted by: The Midnight Rider at November 05, 2018 06:29 PM (Crzbp)

60 Vote like your country's life depended on it -- because it does.

Ace

.........

Already did in IN, and so did dragon pilot daughter and potential dragon son in law in FL. Driving dragon father to polls after day of old dragon medical shit.

Posted by: Smaug at November 05, 2018 06:29 PM (DMcz+)

61 I can't wait to vote tomorrow. I hope it's POURING here. Rain, thunder, lightning, gale-force winds. Bring. It.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 05, 2018 06:29 PM (ptqGC)

62 Well of course it's important to vote tomorrow, and to encourage everyone you trust to vote R to vote.

But I'm not willing to hand any sort of victory cred to JonahKristolCucks.

We may lose the House. If we do, it won't be by much. There are multiple factors as to why -- A complaint MFM, massive money flows to Dem candidates (Bloomberg alone dumped $110 MILLION into this cycle), the censorship of Fakebook, Goolag, and Twatter, and the usual historical complacency of the party in charge of the preezyship at the midterms.

Nevertheless, I'd like to extend an extra hearty FY to Paul Ryan and Romney, two assholes that do more damage than a hundred David French kisses.

Posted by: GnuBreed at November 05, 2018 06:29 PM (Z4rgH)

63 44 The Elephant in the room is the Walkaway, whether or not they self identify. Odd that the elites don't recognize this cohort.
Posted by: kallisto at November 05, 2018 06:27 PM (+/IpI)

____

Is that real or is it the PUMAs of 2018? Who knows?

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 06:29 PM (6nRrz)

64

You have to defeat them to deflate them.
Both the Never Trumpers and the Democrats.

Defeat to deflate, but it will be a never-ending battle as always. But we really need this win.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 05, 2018 06:30 PM (2I4LM)

65 /goes back to writing "Mrs. Hugh Romney" with hearts around it in his notebook.

Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at November 05, 2018 06:30 PM (zRwJ/)

66 Lazy bastards like Jon Stewart and his shitty little minion Stephen Colbert have devolved the state of modern "comedy" to the point where a naked, unadorned insult with no context or setting whatsoever is considered a "joke".

This little SNL pric is nothing new.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 05, 2018 06:30 PM (BRvh1)

67 42
Tuesday, however, is going to be the RINO's revenge. Romney-loving RINOs
are coming out of their preserves with fire in their hearts and a gleam
in their eyes. They are decked out in hunting gear of their own, and
their prey is the Trump-backing, change-seeking GOP.



They are sucking their dicks way too early.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 05, 2018 06:26 PM (f/ass)

---
The funny thing is that when things get hot, there will be a temporary pause in the fighting while both sides round up and execute the RINOs within their lines.

Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 05, 2018 06:30 PM (cfSRQ)

68 So, Ace didn't like the movie?
Just kidding. I like to think the RINOs have been replaced by the white middle class Independents and Union Democrats. Say your prayers morons.
Keep the faith.

Posted by: JAS at November 05, 2018 06:30 PM (3HNOQ)

69 Iowahawk says Demofascists are now publishing, via an app, the voting history of "your friends and neighbors" so you can harass them. He has screenshots even.

This is true - it is also part of an ad by Beto in Texas.

Democrats - the part of scolding nannys - who the F wants them in charge?

Posted by: batterup at November 05, 2018 06:31 PM (U2JQS)

70 Prognosticator....why I barely touched her poll.





tomorrow;.... I'M So SORRY I MISPOKED...........

Posted by: saf at November 05, 2018 06:31 PM (5IHGB)

71 I voted.
I nagged my wife until she voted.
Not much more I can but bite my fingernails for the next 24 hours.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 06:31 PM (6nRrz)

72 Well, this is a depressing post. True. But depressing.

Posted by: olddog in mo at November 05, 2018 06:31 PM (Dhht7)

73 I was told to vote for McCain and time time again that ass voted against something that stabbed the GOP in the back. F him.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at November 05, 2018 06:31 PM (dKiJG)

74 I just heard Trump tell Levin: 'lines to get into my rallys are a mile long. If all of them show up to vote we're in good shape.'

Posted by: kallisto at November 05, 2018 06:31 PM (+/IpI)

75 I'm not at all convinced the NeverTrump brigade stretches far and deep beyond the Beltway.

Trump has succeeded in nationalizing this election in a big way. A nationalized election is most noticeable in state wide offices like Senators.

We'll see but I think the cruisers overestimate their influence. They were only influential when we allowed them to be.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 05, 2018 06:31 PM (/tuJf)

76 I haven't a clue as to how the Governor-ships are going, though.
Posted by: grammie winger at November 05, 2018 06:25 PM (lwiT4)

The GOP is going to lose a few. It's the way of things. That's why you have to move the needle your way when you get the shot.

Posted by: WOPR at November 05, 2018 06:31 PM (J70i0)

77 Again we're probably going to lose the House due to historical trends and not as some sort of grand RINO-Dem alliance.

They will tell you it means Trump is finished when even they don't believe it. It's what usually happens. Of course I'll be ecstatic if we hold on to it just to own the libs if nothing else. I doubt holding on to it for another two years will produce better results than the last two years.

Anyway we're in the middle of something far larger than ourselves or political parties. There will be setbacks. There will be times when it appears all hope is lost. These things seldom move in a straight line. How nice that would be! But it's not how it happens.

Don't despair and for God's sake I don't want to come here and see anyone saying how they cried for their country because the Dems won a mid-term election that was probably going to happen no matter what (And if it happens it probably might not have happened at all if the fucking cucks in Congress had moved Trump's agenda through instead of playing fucky fucky with tax cuts and doing nothing else. I think that's going to cause some of the losses we'll probably see. They didn't do their job in supporting Trump so of what use are you?).

MAGA is not over because the Dems take half of Congress. MAGA wouldn't be over if they took both chambers of Congress. MAGA would not be over if Trump was impeached and removed from office.

Vote. Do your civic duty. And hope for the best but prepare for the worst.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 05, 2018 06:31 PM (4ErVI)

78 Little Paulie Ryno was on Fox a few minutes ago. I can't wait for his NeverTrump ass to be gone.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 05, 2018 06:31 PM (ptqGC)

79 Where, exactly, does the block of NeverTrump voters reside? I'm in Michigan, where Stabenow has an actual fight on her hands. That wouldn't be happening if NT folks were a big bloc. I'm sure there are NT'ers out there, but seriously - who takes voting advice from Jonah g and company?

Posted by: 2009Refugee at November 05, 2018 06:31 PM (2xR5z)

80 Listening to The Donald stump in Ft Wayne IND.

I appreciate a president who uses the word "crap".

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at November 05, 2018 06:31 PM (kQs4Y)

81 I want tears of sorrow and anguish.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 05, 2018 06:31 PM (nDe2U)

82 Not going to let any of this stuff get me down. Tomorrow is indeed a referendum on the future of the "Good America". I choose to believe there is still enough sanity left to carry the day. Vote as if yours will make the difference.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 05, 2018 06:31 PM (Tyii7)

83 They are Soviet moles.
Implanted before the breakup of the USSR they find the Rissian Federation to be an usurper.
Their function is to push people to the the overt socialist party.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at November 05, 2018 06:32 PM (1g7ch)

84 If the Dems win back the House, I see the GOP winning bigly in 2020, because:

a ) Coat tails: Trump will be on the ballot
b ) Blowback against how House Dems will persecute the Trump Admin.


If the GOP hold on to the House, I still see them winning bigly in 2020, because:

a ) Coat tails: Trump will be on the ballot

Posted by: Hands at November 05, 2018 06:32 PM (786Ro)

85 The Democrat stars (Obama, the FAB, Creepy Uncle
Joe) are playing to tens of people and half of those are the d*ck
suckers in the MFM.


Posted by: Shibumi at November 05, 2018 06:26 PM (z1Dz9)


LOL.

This is true, and it is amazing how distasteful these people are.
And Maxine Waters as head of the Finance Committee?
My mind boggles at the stupidity.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at November 05, 2018 06:32 PM (8iiMU)

86 Wife, kid and I voted 2 weeks ago. Still working on the older daughter who is hedging. I'm at least hoping to get her to vote for Scott Walker. I already threatened to cut her out of the will if she doesn't.

Any other suggestions?

Posted by: Pete Seria at November 05, 2018 06:33 PM (7ZQe3)

87 Maybe Ace is taking the 'scare then to the polls' approach, or the 'it ain't over till the fat lady sings' or the 'was it over when the Germans bombed Nagasaki' or something.

Either way, vote. Vote again and vote one more time after that. Get your dead Uncles drivers license and vote with that again. Then vote as your dog.

Illegal, you say? The other side started cheating a long, long, long fucking time ago. We've just recently noticed.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 05, 2018 06:33 PM (nQHrn)

88 Political Polls @Politics_Polls
#MIsen:
Debbie Stabenow (D) 49% (+2)
John James (R) 47%

Posted by: The MSM is the Deep State's Whore at November 05, 2018 06:33 PM (sXyKU)

89 I haven't a clue as to how the Governor-ships are going, though.

Posted by: grammie winger at November 05, 2018 06:25 PM (lwiT4)


I don't care what my fellow morons here in GA say, I'm scared to death of gap-toothed Obama with a vagina. I know for a fact my sister and my husband's siblings (and mother) are voting for her.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 05, 2018 06:33 PM (ptqGC)

90 Again we're probably going to lose the House due to historical trends


I'm not so sure historical trends mean what they used to. We're in uncharted waters. Nothing is as it was.

Posted by: grammie winger at November 05, 2018 06:33 PM (lwiT4)

91 Romney-loving RINOs are coming out of their preserves with fire in their hearts and a gleam in their eyes
---
I'm going to be honest.

I hope for 60 seats in the senate so that Romney gets stuck being the fall guy who won't vote for cloture on the stuff McConnell wants to pretend he can't get done.

Posted by: Methos at November 05, 2018 06:33 PM (CPS8G)

92 Dems answer poll questions. Republicans vote.

2016 taught me that.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 05, 2018 06:34 PM (nQHrn)

93 I appreciate a president who uses the word "crap".

As in, "NeverTrumper cruisers are traitorous pieces of crap!"

Posted by: Huck Follywood, VoteRed and Be Happy at November 05, 2018 06:34 PM (HKPap)

94 Counter Goldberg post would:
1. Establish that he is the smartest person in politics
2 Suggest that you are, therefore, by definition, the stupidest
3. ?
4. Vote Democrat!



Posted by: Boswell at November 05, 2018 06:34 PM (OjnQU)

95 Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 05, 2018 06:31 PM


Standing and applauding here, boss.

Posted by: Hands at November 05, 2018 06:34 PM (786Ro)

96 We few.


We happy few.

Posted by: eleven at November 05, 2018 06:34 PM (NLLmE)

97 Let me get this straight, they could not do it in 2016, when Trump was a nobody but they can do it today ?

Posted by: runner at November 05, 2018 06:34 PM (bUjCl)

98 Well, I'm doing steaks, baked potatoes, and Caesar salad for dinner. To hell with carbs (potatoes) tonight.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 05, 2018 06:34 PM (ptqGC)

99 Jane - I'm nervous in Wisconsin too, for Scott Walker. We worked so very hard to get him and keep him. If the teachers union gets their man, we go backwards big time.

Posted by: grammie winger at November 05, 2018 06:35 PM (lwiT4)

100 https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/polls/us-elections/how-
groups-voted/groups-voted-2016/

Notice how Republicans and Independents voted. Now the stupid assholes that think they rule us want to say Donald Trump lost 11% of the Republican vote due to his failures.

If you're dumb enough to believe this, you might be a Democrat.

Posted by: trev006 at November 05, 2018 06:35 PM (6rFB/)

101 I am fascinated at "early voting" patterns which seem to suggest that Rs are higher than expected to be at this point. One might assume that is due to more Rs voting early than they traditionally would.

But what if the higher vote tallies for Rs in early voting are NOT from Rs who broke pattern and voted early, but from Ds who broke pattern and voted R? (i.e. the so called "WalkAway" voter.)

In which case, the Rs should expect to have an absolute field day tomorrow.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 05, 2018 06:35 PM (BRvh1)

102 Now I'm really depressed! I voted straight Repubican in Texas so hopefully Beto goes down in flames (at least for 2 years until he is remade as a loser who is ready for the big time), but I feel powerless for what's going on in other states. Please Morons, vote like the rest of the country depends on you.

Posted by: jayhawkone at November 05, 2018 06:35 PM (6c4Dg)

103 75
I'm not at all convinced the NeverTrump brigade stretches far and deep beyond the Beltway.



Trump has succeeded in nationalizing this election in a big way. A
nationalized election is most noticeable in state wide offices like
Senators.



We'll see but I think the cruisers overestimate their influence. They were only influential when we allowed them to be.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 05, 2018 06:31 PM (/tuJf)

---
This. There is only one Jonah Goldberg. By that I mean, he's the only one who he speaks for.

Same with David French. The notion that there are literally thousands of sexually repressed, cuck-anxious Combat Lawyers hanging on his every word is absurd. I think the reason he didn't run for president was that he knew he likely wouldn't carry his own living room.

All these guys have is a megaphone that's getting smaller by the day. They don't speak for a movement or anything else. The RINOs already changed teams two years ago, so the notion that NOW they will come out and vote is b.s.

NR needs to give their full attention to their cruise ship circle-jerk and spare us their lurid adolescent revenge fantasies.

Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 05, 2018 06:35 PM (cfSRQ)

104

Anomalies 2018

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 05, 2018 06:35 PM (2I4LM)

105 The TruCon NeverTrumpers are also cool with trannies waving their junk n your daughters' faces in public change-rooms and toilets.

Posted by: andycanuck at November 05, 2018 06:35 PM (Evws/)

106 I'm not at all convinced the NeverTrump brigade stretches far and deep beyond the Beltway.


it doesn't

Posted by: runner at November 05, 2018 06:35 PM (bUjCl)

107 Uh-oh.

Jonah G must've have called out Hank Olsen.

Nothing like a #NPC fight

Posted by: golfman at November 05, 2018 06:35 PM (If3tB)

108 Every election people say it's the most important election ever. No side wins all the time, and each side thinks it's the end of the world when they lose and each side also thinks they will never lose again when they win.

Since 1990, the only time a party has won 3 elections in a a row was 00, 02, 04 for the GOP. And 02 was kind of a fluke due to 9/11. Other than that, it's win 1 or 2, then lose 1 or 2, win, lose, win, lose, repeat forever.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 06:35 PM (6nRrz)

109 "I carry. Make your first shot count. You won't get a second one.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 05, 2018 06:25 PM (f/ass)"
A - men.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 05, 2018 06:36 PM (tSXzq)

110
Jane - I'm nervous in Wisconsin too, for Scott Walker. We worked so very
hard to get him and keep him. If the teachers union gets their man, we
go backwards big time.


Posted by: grammie winger at November 05, 2018 06:35 PM (lwiT4)


It's like people have amnesia and are pining for the Bad Old Days. I don't get it. At all.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 05, 2018 06:36 PM (ptqGC)

111 90 Again we're probably going to lose the House due to historical trends


I'm not so sure historical trends mean what they used to. We're in uncharted waters. Nothing is as it was.

osted by: grammie winger at November 05, 2018 06:33 PM (lwiT4)

True but some things from the old ways will carry forward for a bit through sheer habit. This could be one of them.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 05, 2018 06:36 PM (4ErVI)

112 We'll see but I think the cruisers overestimate their influence. They were only influential when we allowed them to be.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 05, 2018 06:31 PM (/tuJf)


Plus, they've aged. They are starting to look so desperate.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 05, 2018 06:36 PM (2I4LM)

113 If NeverTrump was a real force , Hillary would be president

Posted by: Menu at November 05, 2018 06:36 PM (R2x+j)

114 Any other suggestions?

Posted by: Pete Seria at November 05, 2018 06:33 PM (7ZQe3)


No more cheese curds at the State Fair.

Posted by: grammie winger at November 05, 2018 06:36 PM (lwiT4)

115 I plan to ignore results tomorrow night, and just seewho won on Wednesday morning.

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at November 05, 2018 06:36 PM (dMvl+)

116 Tottenham or Hottentots?

Posted by: JAS at November 05, 2018 06:37 PM (3HNOQ)

117 One thing this sick cucks never bring up is how much better it is for the country that Nancy Pelosi be Speaker than an actual GOP conservative.

I mean, Trump isn't in Congress. Jim Jordan is. Last time I checked, he was kind of popular in nominally conservative circles.

So these quislings have to really work at it to justify Pelosi as somehow better for the country than Jordan.

Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 05, 2018 06:37 PM (cfSRQ)

118 * Points finger *

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - Not as lean, Not as mean, Still a Marine at November 05, 2018 06:37 PM (+ldAm)

119 What I find most enraging about thetacucks like Goldberg is the absolute willingness to make common cause with people who will absolutely abuse the power of government, once they regain control.

That thetacuck Goldberg is willing to see persecution of conservatives for political beliefs be turned up to 11 enrages me.

It will not end well, yet these supposedly "smaht" people cannot see beyond their petty little grievance mongering.

Posted by: Blake - used trebuchet salesman at November 05, 2018 06:37 PM (qC1Sy)

120 115 I plan to ignore results tomorrow night, and just seewho won on Wednesday morning.

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at November 05, 2018 06:36 PM (dMvl+)

I applaud your self control. I will be hitting F5 on the election results page like a monkey on crack.

Posted by: IC at November 05, 2018 06:37 PM (a0IVu)

121 RINOs were not much enamored with George W. Bush in his first term. They weren't happy about him running and they didn't much like his judicial picks - W tried his best on judges; I don't hold Benedict Roberts against him .. no one knew the guy was such a treasonous twerp at the time. Yeah .. they liked his unabashed open borders mentality, even right after 9/11 and they liked some of his spending but they didn't trust his Christian belief (which was what kept him in good stead - attempting, at least, in judges).

When RINOs got to love W was for his second term, when he basically stopped listening to Cheney and Rumsfeld and turned to Condi and Colon and did a violent turn leftwards. The train wreck that was Bush's second term ... that's when the RINOs really took to him.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at November 05, 2018 06:37 PM (+NnEj)

122 Ace, check out Larry Schweikart tweets over the past few days. He's optimistic.

Posted by: Hands at November 05, 2018 06:37 PM (786Ro)

123 There's a chance that he GOPes in the GOP will ally with the Dems but I'm extremely skeptical for three reasons.

First, they don't get along. At all. Even in the broadest "F Trump" sense. The house is where the more rude and radical of politicians get into office, and with Dems that means its the "we should rip unborn babies out of women's wombs to use as torches to burn down churches" kind of Dem. Even the RINO doesn't get along with that kinda crazy.

Second, there really aren't that many GOPe types in the house. Not enough to make a big difference, at least.

Third, the GOP is figuring out that while they may not like Trump, he knows how to win and get things done and that's not only infectious but sells back home. And they like that.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 05, 2018 06:37 PM (39g3+)

124 Every Republican who is a fan of Tottenham Hotspur is going to vote against Trump.

That's what, twelve people?

Posted by: The ARC of History at November 05, 2018 06:38 PM (TEv5V)

125 Saw that video of the recent Missouri Trump rally - just hard to believe that translates somehow into a Republican loss. No one actually believes that those people, whose cars lined up for miles for a rally in the rain, aren't voting.

Posted by: Boswell at November 05, 2018 06:38 PM (OjnQU)

126

When you have no spine it's easy to suck your own dick.

Posted by: Cock Curious Cuck Cruise Captain Crystol at November 05, 2018 06:38 PM (UFLLM)

127
I hope for 60 seats in the senate so that Romney gets stuck being the fall guy who won't vote for cloture on the stuff McConnell wants to pretend he can't get done.

Posted by: Methos at November 05, 2018 06:33 PM (CPS8G)

Mormons would rapidly be less popular than Muslims if this slimy fucker pulled this off. Besides, Collins and Whorekowski will share some of the load.

I understand failing with 52 votes. With 59, you are just begging to be dragged behind the barn.

Posted by: trev006 at November 05, 2018 06:38 PM (6rFB/)

128 True but some things from the old ways will carry forward for a bit through sheer habit. This could be one of them.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 05, 2018 06:36 PM (4ErVI)

Hope for the best prepare for the worst is good advice.

Posted by: IC at November 05, 2018 06:38 PM (a0IVu)

129 The commies bank on collective public amnesia.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 05, 2018 06:39 PM (nDe2U)

130 As a lifelong Democrat, I appalled by the Demicrats continued capitulation to Republicans, such as this.

That's why I'm voting Republican to send a message.

Posted by: Joe, living dangerously at November 05, 2018 06:39 PM (kUrNA)

131 I plan to ignore results tomorrow night, and just seewho won on Wednesday morning.



Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at November 05, 2018 06:36 PM (dMvl+)




Not me. Election night is like nerd prom for me. I've got my dress picked out and everything.

Posted by: grammie winger at November 05, 2018 06:39 PM (lwiT4)

132 True but some things from the old ways will carry forward for a bit through sheer habit. This could be one of them.


Some things are entirely new. When has a President packed stadiums and had an overflow crowd watch outside on the Jumbotron for mid-terms?

It doesn't matter which side you're on for that to be a salient fact.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 05, 2018 06:39 PM (fuK7c)

133 124 Every Republican who is a fan of Tottenham Hotspur is going to vote against Trump.

That's what, twelve people?

Posted by: The ARC of History at November 05, 2018 06:38 PM (TEv5V)

Who the heck is a fan of Totthenhem Hotspur?

Posted by: IC at November 05, 2018 06:39 PM (a0IVu)

134 Are there actual RINOs outside of DC? I don't think so. I think in the ultra polarized world we live in, the vast majority is hard core team R or team D. There are no RINOs or DINOs in the real world.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 06:39 PM (6nRrz)

135 Broken glass, violent mobs,harem of nude women cant stop me from voting tomorrow

Posted by: A dude in MI at November 05, 2018 06:40 PM (OOH1c)

136 If the teachers union gets their man, we go backwards big time.
Posted by: grammie winger at November 05, 2018 06:35 PM (lwiT4)


No grammie ... you just get the man your neighbors want ... in the macro sense.

DC does not force bad government upon us ... Democracy just lets us force bad government upon ourselves.

Posted by: The Midnight Rider at November 05, 2018 06:40 PM (Crzbp)

137 The commies bank on collective public amnesia.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 05, 2018 06:39 PM (nDe2U)

And outright stupidity, ignorance, and a desire to be loved by the NY Times and their ilk

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 05, 2018 06:40 PM (bim/x)

138 RINOs voted for Hillary with great vigor and lost. Have they been cloning themselves to bolster their numbers?

Posted by: Beefy Meatball at November 05, 2018 06:40 PM (fRgt5)

139 If you believe polls, they say that Trump has the highest support among Republicans since George W. Bush after 9/11. And I'd argue the 9/11 period was a fluke, because W. also had something like an 80% approval rate.


Posted by: Mike at November 05, 2018 06:40 PM (c056A)

140 Kill the uniparty dead. Vote vote vote vote vote! I have Three people in my house that are not as political as I am. They are going too all follow my ballot to a T. Every vote on every question all the way down.


Because they all trust my judgment.



Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at November 05, 2018 06:40 PM (0OmEj)

141 The GOPe has always believed in the power of the State... it just has different goals from the Dems as to what that power should be used for.

Trump has been slowly rolling back state control, when and where he could, against the opposition of both the Dems, and GOPe.

The Trump movement, of which he is just a figurehead (IMO) is a direct threat to the Washington DC / New York / Hollyweird Cabal that have run politics for the last generation.

THAT is what they are fighting against... the deplorables.

Posted by: Don Quixote at November 05, 2018 06:40 PM (NgKpN)

142 "Romney-loving RINOs are coming out of their preserves with fire in their hearts and a gleam in their eyes."

..............

All 10 are crawling out of Osplats bungholio.

Posted by: Smaug at November 05, 2018 06:40 PM (DMcz+)

143 102 jayhawkone

I'm on it here in Kansas. Manhattan, Kansas. Part of the big 1st CD.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 05, 2018 06:40 PM (hyuyC)

144 "I'm not so sure historical trends mean what they used to. We're in uncharted waters. Nothing is as it was.


Posted by: grammie winger at November 05, 2018 06:33 PM (lwiT4)"
Spot on !This time two years ago, HC was the 90+% winner.Gaslighting and wishcasting is all they've ever had.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 05, 2018 06:41 PM (tSXzq)

145 Guys, 89% of Democrats plan to vote Democrat. The figure with Republicans? 77%.

About 15% of the party is liberal. Basically, there are some "Republicans" who are essentially Democrats except for ONE, SINGLE POINT OF DISAGREEMENT with Democrats. There are Pro-Life Liberals, for example -- yes, they're conservative on the life issue, and therefore nominal republicans, but they are liberal on all other things.

Same with the Democrats' anti-Israel position, or the Democrats blame-america-first position.

Or they're upset that the Democrats don't do ENOUGH favors for their corporate donors. (Even though the Democrats in fact do a LOT!)

There just are a lot of nominal Republicans who don't feel comfortable with the Democrats as they are but if they changed one position, they'd be happy Democrats.

That's why this group opposes us on virtually everything -- because they don't believe in conservative stuff, except for the Single Issue of Dissent from their real party (the Democrats).

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 06:41 PM (PbpT7)

146 I nominate Tom Fitton for US Attorney General.

Posted by: Under Fire at November 05, 2018 06:41 PM (r9UYA)

147 The thing about circle jerks is your standing in a circle staring at the same faces who all agree that standing in a circle and jerking it is the best thing ever.

These idiots simply live in an echo chamber where they tweet to each other and retweet and tweet again about how smart they are.

97% of the country doesn't give a fuck about Bill Kristin, the National Review, etc.

It's simply one big fucking circle jerk. These people only exist to give each other jobs and speaking engagements and book deals. No. One. Cares.

Who seriously votes one way based on what some political NPC says or writes?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 05, 2018 06:41 PM (nQHrn)

148 In any case, I expect the house to gain in Republicans slightly, and the Senate noticeably. Not to full majority status, but to far enough that people like Collins et al become meaningless in most votes.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 05, 2018 06:41 PM (39g3+)

149 141 The GOPe has always believed in the power of the State... it just has different goals from the Dems as to what that power should be used for.

___

Yep. It's like Tories in the UK now, they don't want smaller govt they just think they can manage the behemoth better than Labor.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 06:41 PM (6nRrz)

150 anyway, point is, this RINO Hole has to be filled in somehow, and I hope that some wasn't-planning-to-vote Trump supporters change their minds and actually vote.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 06:42 PM (PbpT7)

151 Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye

---------
That's a very hurtful sock.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton (')(.) at November 05, 2018 06:42 PM (Evws/)

152 As a life long African American Hispanic Asian Democrat I am appalled by unhinged racism of the Democrat party. That is why I intend to vote Republican tomorrow - to send a clear message.

Posted by: runner at November 05, 2018 06:42 PM (bUjCl)

153 63. It's real. Re: Romney. Let's face it the only place he's loved is Utah. And Hugh Hewitt's house.

Posted by: kallisto at November 05, 2018 06:42 PM (+/IpI)

154 I do not agree with Ace. I believe that with the campaigning Trump has done, and with the size of rallies and the number people who have wanted to attend, he has made himself the head of the party. Hope I am correct, but we definitely have the energy factor which he has almost single handedly created.

Posted by: LMD Outer Banker at November 05, 2018 06:43 PM (YuQLm)

155 If you're looking for a fluke PDT is just the guy to deliver one.

Posted by: freaked at November 05, 2018 06:43 PM (UdKB7)

156 Hillary Clinton (')(.)

lol

Posted by: Under Fire at November 05, 2018 06:43 PM (r9UYA)

157 In any case, I expect the house to gain in Republicans slightly, and the Senate noticeably. Not to full majority status, but to far enough that people like Collins et al become meaningless in most votes.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 05, 2018 06:41 PM (39g3+)

From your fingers to G-D's ears

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 05, 2018 06:43 PM (bim/x)

158 Manhattan, Kansas. Part of the big 1st CD.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 05, 2018 06:40 PM (hyuyC)

.....
When not in Hoosierland I am in KCMO. Manhattan KS sounds like a good MoMe location

Posted by: Smaug at November 05, 2018 06:43 PM (DMcz+)

159 Good Lord.

Katy Tur scolds evangelicals, tells them Trump's border policy is "worse than abortion."

https://tinyurl.com/ydf23y2n

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 05, 2018 06:43 PM (ptqGC)

160 Democrat-RINO Alliance - AKA - Democrats

Good lord, these mofo's always vote Democrat. Get it?

Bill Kristol and other assorted Neo-cons purposefully get guys like McCain and Romney nominated and then the vote for Obama and Hillary.

THEY NEVER VOTE REPUBLICAN. These are the people who every election a polled as Republicans who voted Democrat.

Nothing new under the sun.

We are going to keep the house tomorrow. Bank on it!

And of course, gain many seats in the Senate.

Posted by: TipTop at November 05, 2018 06:43 PM (Fd6kb)

161 Soccer moms that are uncomfortable with Trump tweets are going to love the heavily armed Nation of Islam thugs roaming their subdivision.

Posted by: Ripley at November 05, 2018 06:43 PM (NbRJx)

162 About 15% of the party is liberal. Basically, there are some "Republicans" who are essentially Democrats except for ONE, SINGLE POINT OF DISAGREEMENT with Democrats. There are Pro-Life Liberals, for example -- yes, they're conservative on the life issue, and therefore nominal republicans, but they are liberal on all other things.

Yeah for a lot of states (the "blue) ones, Republicans who win there are in this boat. They don't really like anything the GOP says, they just cannot get past that one issue.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 05, 2018 06:43 PM (39g3+)

163 Kemp (R) GA is an obnoxious jerk, in interview on FBN.
WTF is wrong with the people in GA?
*This* is the best you can find?

Posted by: Already voted at November 05, 2018 06:43 PM (8rPCR)

164 Their grift don't play that well in the hinterlands anymore.

We got twitter and Utube and Facebook and the internet so we get to see what really goes on and what lies the media and our so called betters are actually doing and how they're doing it.

Somehow they think they still have a monopoly on where we get our news.

This is why this onslaught this year with accounts being banned and other shenanigans. The left and their willing dope the NT's suddenly realized we were using the internet to find out the truth.

Can't have that so bingo bango bongo techies start chopping heads and lo and behold nothing happens in congress over it.

Pretty much dead silence.

All the enemies are lined up:

The dems, the fascists, the NT's, the deep state are all vying for voters to anoint them with the crown so they can then finish what was supposed to be done during Hillary's first 2 years.

Probably the best we can hope for is a draw and a few seats in the Senate. But that won't be enough to stop the deep state and they're the real threat. They'll be the ones to kill Trump's next 2 years. The House won't be able to do anything but neither will Trump and the Deepstate will be able to coverup and make more trouble.

Posted by: jakee308 at November 05, 2018 06:43 PM (HznPX)

165 >>>Who seriously votes one way based on what some political NPC says or writes?


I don't know if they're influenced by them so much as they share the same basic politics, that is, they're LIBERAL republicans and they only want conservative issues addressed with insincere rhetorical nods, never with actual policy.

Like border enforcement -- the liberal RINOs will permit us (oh thank you, RINO overlords) to TALK about border security, but the minute we propose any REAL action, they freak out.

Because they're open borders liberals. They just don't call themselves that. But specify any actual border enforcement action and they have objections to it.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 06:44 PM (PbpT7)

166 Ace... if the RINOs had the power to do this, we would already be in President Hillary's fun camps being re-educated. They couldn't throw the election to Scankles and they certainly won't affect the election this year.




Keep in mind that Lindsey Graham... LINDSEY GRAHAM?!?... has seen the light and he was one of the RINOiest of RINOs. The good ship Kristol is not nearly as crowded as NR imagines it is.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at November 05, 2018 06:44 PM (F/KeJ)

167 If you're looking for a fluke PDT is just the guy to deliver one.

Posted by: freaked at November 05, 2018 06:43 PM (UdKB7)



Threadwinner.

Posted by: grammie winger at November 05, 2018 06:44 PM (lwiT4)

168 145
Guys, 89% of Democrats plan to vote Democrat. The figure with Republicans? 77%.


---
Says who? Seriously, on what infallible authority do we believe this bullshit? The pollsters are *always* wrong.

You aren't going to tell me they somehow, miraculously, got this number right?

The RINOs love to think they have numbers. They don't.

Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 05, 2018 06:44 PM (cfSRQ)

169 MAGA is not over because the Dems take half of Congress. MAGA wouldn't be over if they took both chambers of Congress. MAGA would not be over if Trump was impeached and removed from office. 

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 05, 2018 06:31 PM (4ErVI)

If the President was as bad at governing as ISIS or Prime Minister Deaupy, I could see MAGA being over. The media would celebrate the failure of the American economy like a Y2K party.

Now, of course, Republicans know the Trump agenda will work. And not even a Dolchstoss will stop that.

Posted by: trev006 at November 05, 2018 06:44 PM (6rFB/)

170 Well, by 9 pm tomorrow evening, I'll probably know the outcome.

One of the advantages/disadvantages of living in CA.

By the way, IC, or any other CA denizen, have you seen any ads by Newsom? I haven't but, then again, I rarely watch regular TV any more.

My wife commented on it, as did my mom. I suggested to them Newsom is keeping a low profile because his personality tends to turn people off, so, the campaign consultants are keeping the idiot under wraps.

Posted by: Blake - used trebuchet salesman at November 05, 2018 06:44 PM (qC1Sy)

171 Well in just about 24 hours we will know if we have to implement our own personal Benedict Option and start collecting palm sized smooth stones.

But I am going to be optimistic as I refuse to believe my fellow countrymen will reward the party of Satan.


Posted by: Kreplach at November 05, 2018 06:44 PM (qxq6t)

172 The National Review is admitting that Trump was the only candidate that realized America was a sinking ship that needed saving. Everyone else wanted to hit the iceberg again.

Posted by: William Eaton at November 05, 2018 06:44 PM (MuTTO)

173 84
If the Dems win back the House, I see the GOP winning bigly in 2020, because:



a ) Coat tails: Trump will be on the ballot

b ) Blowback against how House Dems will persecute the Trump Admin.





If the GOP hold on to the House, I still see them winning bigly in 2020, because:



a ) Coat tails: Trump will be on the ballot



Posted by: Hands at November 05, 2018 06:32 PM (786Ro)

That's my prediction and not something to be down about. The only way we were ever going to purge the RINO's from Congress was for them to lose their seats and it wasn't going to happen in a primary. Give the country two more years of Russia Russia Russia! and fraudulent impeachment by a House run by Dems and 2020 will be a rout.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at November 05, 2018 06:44 PM (rnXGe)

174 I personally don't know anyone who I know voted for Trump and has told me they are unhappy with him. And this includes a fairly broad spectrum of people, different ages, different parts of the country, different income levels, etc.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 06:44 PM (6nRrz)

175 Mormons would rapidly be less popular than Muslims if this slimy fucker pulled this off. Besides, Collins and Whorekowski will share some of the load.

I understand failing with 52 votes. With 59, you are just begging to be dragged behind the barn.
Posted by: trev006 at November 05, 2018 06:38 PM (6rFB/)



After the death threats and general nastiness Susie Collins has received lately, maybe not. I get the impression that the general Left nastiness she has received IS a turning point for her. Not that she will become a hardcore Republican, but I suspect she is ticked off. And this is a good thing.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at November 05, 2018 06:45 PM (ujg0T)

176 Kemp (R) GA is an obnoxious jerk, in interview on FBN.

WTF is wrong with the people in GA?

*This* is the best you can find?

Posted by: Already voted at November 05, 2018 06:43 PM (8rPCR)


He wasn't my choice, but he'll keep Nathan Deal's pro-business policies in place. That's all that matters.

Stacey Abrams will destroy this state.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 05, 2018 06:45 PM (ptqGC)

177 Kelly Anne Conway and SHS! at the rally right now speaking.


Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at November 05, 2018 06:45 PM (8iiMU)

178 >>>154 I do not agree with Ace. I believe that with the campaigning Trump has done, and with the size of rallies and the numb

Assuming Trump supporters vote like mainstream Republicans, which the polls say they will not do. Mainstream republicans are like 88% likely to vote, but Trump supporting Republicans self-report that they're like 70% likely to vote.

That means that a lot of RINO votes are going to be cast without any offsetting Trump supporter votes.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 06:45 PM (PbpT7)

179 Jonah G> In other words, Trump is not only failing to grow the coalition he inherited but he's also failing to hold on to parts of it that the GOP once counted on. And declaring open season on RINOs doesn't seem like the best way to win them back.

DaFuq?

Posted by: golfman at November 05, 2018 06:45 PM (If3tB)

180 "want their precious control over the party again"

It's not their party anymore. we'll burn the damn thing to the ground before we surrender it back to the likes of Rombley & Bush.

Posted by: Eleanor, What the Cat Dragged In at November 05, 2018 06:45 PM (QU+qf)

181
Ace is too worried.

Remember: Donald Trump got over 62 MILLION votes.
That's the HIGHEST, BY FAR, national vote total for a Republican.

People like that man.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Creator of the at November 05, 2018 06:46 PM (n4u2O)

182 The GOPe has always believed in the power of the State... it just has different goals from the Dems as to what that power should be used for.

Sure, like the quote on the ONT a while back, the number of actual liberty-loving, individualists who want the government to be small and limited has always been very small. Most Republicans (and many social conservatives) want a big government, they just want to control the power of that big government and aim it at their pet peeves.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 05, 2018 06:46 PM (39g3+)

183 All of the Trump loving folks I know can't wait to vote tomorrow.

Posted by: CMU VET at November 05, 2018 06:46 PM (C+wjz)

184 If you're in a circle jerk staring at another man's face that's pretty gay.

Posted by: kallisto at November 05, 2018 06:46 PM (+/IpI)

185 SHS!: We are a little speechless right now because we are not used to friendly crowds.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at November 05, 2018 06:46 PM (8iiMU)

186 I personally don't know anyone who I know voted for Trump and has told me they are unhappy with him.



And a whole lot of people who weren't thrilled with Trump to begin with, are on board now.

Posted by: grammie winger at November 05, 2018 06:46 PM (lwiT4)

187 Why won't you assholes let us lose?!?

Posted by: The GOPe Election Night at November 05, 2018 06:46 PM (nQHrn)

188 145 Guys, 89% of Democrats plan to vote Democrat. The figure with Republicans? 77%. 

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 06:41 PM (PbpT7)

https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/polls/us-elections/how- 
groups-voted/groups-voted-2016/ 

This is bullshit and I won't tolerate you selling it. Ben Shapiro didn't become pro-Trump because he thought William Kristol was -increasing- in influence.

Posted by: trev006 at November 05, 2018 06:46 PM (6rFB/)

189
I should add: Donald Trump received over 62 Million LEGITIMATE votes.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Creator of the at November 05, 2018 06:47 PM (n4u2O)

190 Like border enforcement -- the liberal RINOs will permit us (oh thank you, RINO overlords) to TALK about border security, but the minute we propose any REAL action, they freak out.

Because they're open borders liberals. They just don't call themselves that. But specify any actual border enforcement action and they have objections to it.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 06:44 PM (PbpT7)

Oh fuck...

Posted by: Thom Tillis at November 05, 2018 06:47 PM (If3tB)

191 179 Jonah G> In other words, Trump is not only failing to grow the coalition he inherited but he's also failing to hold on to parts of it that the GOP once counted on. And declaring open season on RINOs doesn't seem like the best way to win them back.

DaFuq?
Posted by: golfman at November 05, 2018 06:45 PM (If3tB)

In non-cuck terms, this is referred to as "mask removal".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 05, 2018 06:47 PM (BRvh1)

192 I bet Bill Kristin wears sock suspenders.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 05, 2018 06:47 PM (nQHrn)

193 184 If you're in a circle jerk staring at another man's face that's pretty gay.
Posted by: kallisto at November 05, 2018 06:46 PM (+/IpI)


lol

Posted by: eleven at November 05, 2018 06:47 PM (NLLmE)

194 Cannot wait to vote. If the Dems win, I'm going part time. Vacation is better than working.

Posted by: nip at November 05, 2018 06:47 PM (DfGpI)

195 One poll that was kind of overlooked since it came out at the height of Kavmania was Gallup's quarterly poll on how voters view both parties. The GOP's favorable rating was the highest in 7 years. This was in late September.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/242906/republican-party-favorability-highest-seven-years.aspx

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 06:48 PM (6nRrz)

196
SHS: I'm a little over whelmed right now because I'm not use to a friendly crowd.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at November 05, 2018 06:48 PM (TAmPV)

197 I don't think Ace feels the pulse of the electorate out here in the hinterlands. Too bad.

Posted by: DanMan at November 05, 2018 06:48 PM (0SEK8)

198 192 I bet Bill Kristin wears sock suspenders.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 05, 2018 06:47 PM (nQHrn)



I bet he wears "suspenders" in the British sense of the word.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at November 05, 2018 06:48 PM (ujg0T)

199 I've got a committee meeting at church in the morning, and then strolling over to the hall to vote (my church is my polling place).

When PDT won, our first committee meeting I sit on, several people were clutching their pearls because OMG! That crass, crude Trump! I never!

Those of us in the room who voted for him gave each other the secret side-eye.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 05, 2018 06:48 PM (ptqGC)

200 Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye
---

Have you considered a college campus speaking tour with Maxine Waters' Hair?

Posted by: Shibumi at November 05, 2018 06:48 PM (z1Dz9)

201 184Is it gay if your underway? ahoy!

Posted by: A dude in MI at November 05, 2018 06:48 PM (OOH1c)

202 '*This* is the best yall can find?'

FIFYall

Posted by: freaked at November 05, 2018 06:48 PM (UdKB7)

203 I personally don't know anyone who I know voted for Trump and has told me they are unhappy with him.



And a whole lot of people who weren't thrilled with Trump to begin with, are on board now.
Posted by: grammie winger at November 05, 2018 06:46 PM (lwiT4)

^^^this

Posted by: golfman at November 05, 2018 06:49 PM (If3tB)

204 Ace:

I know you're tempering your feelings but I just cannot see the GOP losing the House now, let alone the Senate.

The enthusiasm is just too huge on our part plus the Kavanaugh Caravan cavalcade of crap over the past few months has motivated voters.

Hope I'm right and you're not!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 05, 2018 06:49 PM (/9p9e)

205 and this isn't just about Kristol or the media cucks.

"Official Republican DC" -- all the flunkies who make up the bureaucracy and think-tank posts and fundraising slots and etc -- are urban liberal Republicans too, or almost all of them.

A friend put it like this:

The Democrat Donor Class is much more leftwing than the democrat base, so they're always pulling the party to the left.

But the Republican Donor class is ALSO much more leftwing than the Republican base, so they're ALSO always pulling the party to the left.

So the net trajectory for the country is, of course, always to the left.

Trump is the only hammer big enough to break this dynamic.

we have to win this, or our short-term rebellion will probably end up failing, defeated by the Democrats with the help of the liberal RINO saboteurs on the inside.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 06:49 PM (PbpT7)

206 And a whole lot of people who weren't thrilled with Trump to begin with, are on board now.
Posted by: grammie winger at November 05, 2018 06:46 PM (lwiT4)
---------------

This is a fair point and just might be the wild card that sends the Dems packing. Or, at least allows the GOP to hold the house.

Posted by: Blake - used trebuchet salesman at November 05, 2018 06:49 PM (qC1Sy)

207


I bet Bill Kristin wears sock suspenders.


He does, but they're not his.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at November 05, 2018 06:50 PM (HaL55)

208 By the way, IC, or any other CA denizen, have you seen any ads by Newsom? I haven't but, then again, I rarely watch regular TV any more.

My wife commented on it, as did my mom. I suggested to them Newsom is keeping a low profile because his personality tends to turn people off, so, the campaign consultants are keeping the idiot under wraps.
Posted by: Blake - used trebuchet salesman at November 05, 2018 06:44 PM (qC1Sy)

Yes, that ass aired some ads during college football games..I immediately turned to another channel. I detest him. It's going to be awful having him as gov.

Posted by: IC at November 05, 2018 06:50 PM (a0IVu)

209 Don't know if this has been posted. But I'm out of my mind about this--even more about James becoming my senator, though!

@ReaganBattalion
BREAKING:

New poll: (From a democratic pollster)

Debbie Stabenow: 49%
@JohnJamesMI: 47%

Posted by: Axeman at November 05, 2018 06:50 PM (vDqXW)

210 What has changed since 2016 except a booming economy, record low unemployment. Trump keeping his promises, protecting the boarder, nominating good judges, etc.

Who the fuck is going to bail on him now? Who the fuck is so fighting mad that things are going in the right direction that they are going to run out and suddenly vote for Nancy Pelosi to be put back in charge of the house? Only people who voted for Obama/Hillary and wear pussyhats. We were never going get the lunatic vote.

IT'S THE ECONOMY STUPID!!! Always is. And it's smoking.

Posted by: TipTop at November 05, 2018 06:50 PM (Fd6kb)

211 >>anyway, point is, this RINO Hole has to be filled in somehow, and I hope that some wasn't-planning-to-vote Trump supporters change their minds and actually vote.

There were quite a few Obama Democrats who voted for Trump in 2016 for some of the reasons you outlined. Many traditional Democrats have lost their Party as the Democrat Party drifts further left.

Blue Dogs or economic/national security Democrats have no place in the modern Democrat Party. They do with the new Trump Republican Party. And while they might not be as vocal as NeverTrumpers, certainly they don't get the media attention of the cruises, they are a large and growing segment of voters. Trump could not have won without them. And he has been out whipping them into a frenzy for weeks.

We might lose the House. If these were ordinary times, we would lose the House. But I don't think it's because of the power of the NeverTrump typing monkey brigade in DC. They have increasingly limited appeal and they are preaching mainly to themselves at this point.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 05, 2018 06:50 PM (/tuJf)

212 This makes no sense, for the simple reason: what changed since 2016? Just "Trump-supporting Republicans vote more like minorities or young people -- they might vote, but most of them probably won't." - that's it?

The twitter RINOs tweet to keep their slots on the news shows, they don't actually change minds or motivate anyone who wasn't already motivated.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at November 05, 2018 06:50 PM (/qEW2)

213 197 I don't think Ace feels the pulse of the electorate out here in the hinterlands. Too bad.
Posted by: DanMan at November 05, 2018 06:48 PM (0SEK



Ace, like myself, is just afraid to get his hopes up.

And believe me, he (and I) will be more than happy to be proved wrong!

Posted by: Curmudgeon at November 05, 2018 06:50 PM (ujg0T)

214
Also remember: Donald Trump received votes from people who...voted for barack obama.

Ace believes the fake news, too much -- President Trump is not at all despised or reviled by a majority.

The people who hate President Trump are a minority -- a very, very noisy minority.

Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at November 05, 2018 06:50 PM (n4u2O)

215 Assuming Trump supporters vote like mainstream
Republicans, which the polls say they will not do. Mainstream
republicans are like 88% likely to vote, but Trump supporting
Republicans self-report that they're like 70% likely to vote.



That means that a lot of RINO votes are going to be cast without any offsetting Trump supporter votes.





Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 06:45 PM (PbpT7)

That poll is not at all supported by early voting numbers... but we have registered your concern.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at November 05, 2018 06:50 PM (F/KeJ)

216 179
Jonah G> In other words, Trump is not only failing to grow the
coalition he inherited but he's also failing to hold on to parts of it
that the GOP once counted on. And declaring open season on RINOs doesn't
seem like the best way to win them back.



DaFuq?

Posted by: golfman at November 05, 2018 06:45 PM (If3tB)

---
What's funny is that Trump IS growing the GOP. What's his approval rating among minorities? Didn't he outpoll Mighty Mitt among Hispanics?

Goldberg is utterly blinded by his own considerable bulk. Trump has brought blue-collar labor into the party. He's at 40 percent with black Americans, which is unheard of.

By the way, if that number is remotely accurate, it's going to be a huge sweep. Heck, if only 20 percent go for the GOP it's wipeout territory.

Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 05, 2018 06:50 PM (cfSRQ)

217 "This is why I'm not allowed to go Christmas shopping anymore"

https://youtu.be/QSLJxu6rDQs

Posted by: buzzion at November 05, 2018 06:51 PM (zRwJ/)

218 First!

Posted by: Tom Nicole's at November 05, 2018 06:51 PM (vDqXW)

219 boarder = border

But I bet Trump is also protecting some boarder too.

Posted by: TipTop at November 05, 2018 06:51 PM (Fd6kb)

220 63 44 The Elephant in the room is the Walkaway, whether or not they self identify. Odd that the elites don't recognize this cohort.
Posted by: kallisto at November 05, 2018 06:27 PM (+/IpI)
____
Is that real or is it the PUMAs of 2018? Who knows?
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 06:29 PM (6nRrz


#Walkaway is big enough that they organized a Washington DC march for the last weekend in October. Several thousand showed up.

The PUMAs never did that.

So we'll see.

Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at November 05, 2018 06:51 PM (+Bjf8)

221 I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of Republicans who said they planned to vote Democrat actually voted Republican.
Remember, the Left is going nuts now, not only demonizing Trump, but his voters. I've never seen anything like it. Maybe a lot of people just don't want the hassles of telling pollsters the truth.


Posted by: Mike at November 05, 2018 06:51 PM (c056A)

222 Poor Bawack has a sore thwoat....awwwwwwww.

Maybe he should borrow Steven Hawking's old speech machine.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 05, 2018 06:51 PM (ZifzP)

223 That's my prediction and not something to be down about. The only way we were ever going to purge the RINO's from Congress was for them to lose their seats and it wasn't going to happen in a primary. Give the country two more years of Russia Russia Russia! and fraudulent impeachment by a House run by Dems and 2020 will be a rout.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at November 05, 2018 06:44 PM (rnXGe)


In that scenario, the Democrat party cuts it's own throat and dies. For 50+ years.
They can impeach, they can hose the budget, whatever in the House, but they can't get that by the Senate.
Stock Market will level off (which will be a good thing), our trade will remain steady, and -- (god willing), if they produce NO budgets, it's the end of the asinine government funded colleges and 'safe spaces'.

Win.Win.Win.

Posted by: jwb7605 at November 05, 2018 06:51 PM (uU9ws)

224 The Never-Trumpers already came out in 2016 and they didn't get any scalps. The only place they seemed to exist was in Northern Virginia. The only way the Dems are going to make progress is by getting out the vote of their coalition and cheating. We'll see what happens tomorrow.

Posted by: WOPR at November 05, 2018 06:52 PM (J70i0)

225

PUMAs !!!!!

Posted by: mikeyG at November 05, 2018 06:52 PM (LL1Be)

226 ''The people who hate President Trump are a minority -- a very, very noisy minority. ''

Judging from the size of the crowds he draws wherever he goes, I'd say you are correct sir/madam.

Posted by: Tuna at November 05, 2018 06:52 PM (jm1YL)

227 This may be a dumb question, but do people know the economy is good? You'd never know it if you got the news from MSM sources.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 06:52 PM (6nRrz)

228 Ace if not for the name changes I saw your article as an episode of Gumby titled 'Pokey Gets His Groove On'

Posted by: sOME mORON at November 05, 2018 06:52 PM (ICWiF)

229 Barack Obama has every right to take credit for the booming economy we're now witnessing.

After all, he did get Trump elected.

Posted by: JAS at November 05, 2018 06:52 PM (3HNOQ)

230 The guy behind me in line at the Trump rally yesterday said he voted for BO twice. He drove 200 miles to stand 6 hours to see PDT.

Posted by: freaked at November 05, 2018 06:52 PM (UdKB7)

231 But I am going to be optimistic as I refuse to believe my fellow countrymen will reward the party of Satan.

Posted by: Kreplach at November 05, 2018 06:44 PM (qxq6t)


Really ?

Most Humans just Follow. Not much different than Dogs.

Trump is acting Alpha. Simple as that.

Posted by: The Midnight Rider at November 05, 2018 06:52 PM (Crzbp)

232 My theory is more people will vote conservative simply because Trump has spent two years showing exactly who has been shitting on them for decades. Those that knew, agreed. Those that didn't know, know now.

Payback. Record numbers.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 05, 2018 06:52 PM (nQHrn)

233 Man I hope that Walk Away thing is for realz.

Posted by: eleven at November 05, 2018 06:52 PM (NLLmE)

234 So the Trump hating Rhino's would rather vote for candidates that will destroy the very core of our country. Go Socialists////

Posted by: redridinghood at November 05, 2018 06:52 PM (hECVl)

235 We hate TRump and wants Presdent Obama back and the Demoocrats to controll Congress agin. Trump lied to the people of this cunty and he must be impreached and placed in that jail in Cuber. We needs Affartable Health Care and higher taxes

Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattlboro, VT at November 05, 2018 06:52 PM (qM84C)

236 I remain cautiously pessimistic. I already plan on having a drinky-drink tomorrow night. Remains to be seen whether it's sorrow-drowning or celebratory like 2016.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at November 05, 2018 06:53 PM (xPJvm)

237 dammit.

Posted by: mikeyG at November 05, 2018 06:53 PM (LL1Be)

238 Is it gay if your underway? ahoy!
Posted by: A dude in MI at November 05, 2018 06:48 PM (OOH1c)
---
Ahoy! No.

Posted by: Captain Kristol Meth at November 05, 2018 06:53 PM (vDqXW)

239 152 As a life long African American Hispanic Asian Democrat I am appalled by unhinged racism of the Democrat party. That is why I intend to vote Republican tomorrow - to send a clear message.

runner at November 05, 2018 06:42 PM (bUjCl)

.......

Thank you Runner!

Posted by: Smaug at November 05, 2018 06:53 PM (DMcz+)

240 For CA residents, politicaldata.org lets you track how your candidate is doing w/ early votes.

Posted by: IC at November 05, 2018 06:53 PM (a0IVu)

241 Yes, that ass aired some ads during college football games..I immediately turned to another channel. I detest him. It's going to be awful having him as gov.
Posted by: IC at November 05, 2018 06:50 PM (a0IVu)
--------------------

I have a bit over a year until I retire then I think my wife and I are out of here.

Had more than enough.

Posted by: Blake - used trebuchet salesman at November 05, 2018 06:53 PM (qC1Sy)

242 222 Poor Bawack has a sore thwoat....awwwwwwww.

Maybe he should borrow Steven Hawking's old speech machine.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 05, 2018 06:51 PM (ZifzP)



Whatever you think of the late Mr. Hawking, he never sucked cock.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at November 05, 2018 06:53 PM (ujg0T)

243 Plus don't forget the wave of hatred for whites shown by the Democrats. Only white fools vote for the Democrats at this point.

Posted by: WOPR at November 05, 2018 06:53 PM (J70i0)

244 The reason so many gopers are bailing out is because they have been exposed. They don't want to govern the way they campaigned and Trump pantsed them.

I note John Zerwas in Texas pulled out of running for state speaker of the house. He loved him some Joe Straus and Joe's name is mud now and that's why he quit too.

Posted by: DanMan at November 05, 2018 06:53 PM (0SEK8)

245 >>>
That poll is not at all supported by early voting numbers... but we have registered your concern.

you're looking at the early voting numbers and assuming all GOP votes are for the GOP candidate, when in fact actual polling says that only 77% of GOP voters plan to vote for the GOP candidate (contrasted with 89% of Democrats who plan to vote Democrat).

I'm not concern trolling. (This is ace, by the way.)

I am trying to prevent the SELF-REPORTED lower propensity to vote of Trump supporters from winding up costing us the House.

I think complacency is the enemy here, not URGENCY.

People saying "Chill out, we got this, why even bother worrying about the vote" -- you think that's a good message in an election?

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 06:53 PM (PbpT7)

246 you went Full Eeyore in 2016, ace and you're doing It again

you were wrong then and you're wrong now


P.S. nobody reads National Review


Posted by: the Man who Burps in French at November 05, 2018 06:53 PM (9HuGt)

247 Just FYI everybody: The previous Ekdahl thread hit exactly 666 comments before dying...

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 05, 2018 06:53 PM (miE9U)

248 Sex Thread


I was in the pool!

Posted by: mikeyG at November 05, 2018 06:54 PM (LL1Be)

249 "However, Trump-supporting Republicans vote more like minorities or young people -- they might vote, but most of them probably won't."

Pretty stupid and unproven statement. Congratulations!!!

Posted by: Ceasar at November 05, 2018 06:54 PM (0PXsl)

250
Barack Obama has every right to take credit for the booming economy we're now witnessing.

After all, he did get Trump elected.

Posted by: JAS



heh

Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at November 05, 2018 06:54 PM (n4u2O)

251 Spot on !This time two years ago, HC was the 90+% winner.Gaslighting and wishcasting is all they've ever had.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 05, 2018 06:41 PM (tSXzq)

They've spent two years psychologically terrorizing not just America, but their own base. Even the Doritos and Bong crowd are going to show up. A vote for any drooling retard with a D after their name promises to be a soothing balm to a psyche on fire for the last 24 months.

The good thing, and there are good things that will happen even if the Dems win, is that they won't be able to do much. They're not going to stop another potential SCOTUS pick (maybe two or even three it's absolutely a possibility). They're not stopping Trump from cramming the fed judiciary with judges. They're not stopping Trump from realigning and reworking foreign and trade policy.

And let's mention the most obvious thing: these people can't stop stomping on their own dicks. They're dumb people and who can't stop dummying it up. What they really need is very strict message control and they don't have it. If they try impeachment, I think it could go badly for them in 2020. If they don't start impeachment their own base will mutiny. Either way should provide plenty of popcorn worthy moments (amplified by Trump of course who isn't going to put his neck out for these ghouls so they can cut it).

So again, vote. Do your civic duty. Hope for the best but prepare for the worst. DO NOT CRY. MAGA continues forward beyond tomorrow.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 05, 2018 06:54 PM (4ErVI)

252 They don't want to hit the iceberg again.

They haven't yet accepted that we've hit one in the first place.

Nor do they understand that there's going to be a fight for the lifeboats and money won't buy a seat.

Posted by: jakee308 at November 05, 2018 06:54 PM (HznPX)

253


Trump was Trump before, but it seems to me the GOP has let him go, and gotten behind him.

That douche Ryan clucks sometimes.

I think they've come to grips with Trump. He's proven he can fight these idiot progs.

But it also seems the idiot progs are ramping up their efforts, because he is so effective.

I enjoy seeing that load Goldberg and all those lying jackasses sidelined. That is so good.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Raniere at November 05, 2018 06:54 PM (z8c2c)

254 C'mon with all these Bat shit Crazy Dems running around now and your telling me the Pubs will lose tomorrow? I can't believe that even with massive voter fraud..

Posted by: sOME mORON at November 05, 2018 06:54 PM (ICWiF)

255 I have a bit over a year until I retire then I think my wife and I are out of here.

Had more than enough.

Posted by: Blake - used trebuchet salesman at November 05, 2018 06:53 PM (qC1Sy)

Smart move; don't think the housing market is going to hold up. It's already going soft in some areas. Where you guys thinking of moving to?

Posted by: IC at November 05, 2018 06:54 PM (a0IVu)

256
Quick music trivia:

In which song does Elton John go "Heh"?

Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at November 05, 2018 06:55 PM (n4u2O)

257 @242 ... I imagine he'd find it difficult to give a handjob, either.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 05, 2018 06:55 PM (ZifzP)

258 Lot of doom ampersand gloom goin' on.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 05, 2018 06:55 PM (Tyii7)

259 Ballot's in the dropbox over here, boss!

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 05, 2018 06:55 PM (bzqZP)

260 re: 77%

What polling shows this? Every poll I've seen shows basically 90% of Rs will vote R and 90% of Dem swill vote Dem. Just like in every election since forever.

77%....also the supposed income of womYn compared to a man.

Funny that, huh?

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 06:55 PM (6nRrz)

261 I am going to remain optimistic we can hold the House. If my optimism is misplaced, well, at least I'll have one more night of restful sleep.

Posted by: SteveOReno , I proudly self-identify as a Moron at November 05, 2018 06:55 PM (2sCft)

262 "Hope I'm right and you're not!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 05, 2018 06:49 PM (/9p9e)"
That's my sense of things, too.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 05, 2018 06:55 PM (tSXzq)

263 So the Trump hating Rhino's would rather vote for candidates that will destroy the very core of our country. Go Socialists////
Posted by: redridinghood at November 05, 2018 06:52 PM (hECVl)

They're neo-cons and they are simply a different branch of communists. They are the ones that lost the intra-party battle in Russia and they have never forgotten it.

Posted by: WOPR at November 05, 2018 06:55 PM (J70i0)

264 Now McGasskill is sportin' dreadlocks. Image update, I guess.

Posted by: klaftern at November 05, 2018 06:56 PM (RuIsu)

265 People saying "Chill out, we got this, why even bother worrying about the vote" -- you think that's a good message in an election?

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 06:53 PM (PbpT7)

Is someone saying this? If so, I haven't seen it. Everywhere I go online all I'm seeing is GO VOTE! GO VOTE! GO VOTE!

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 05, 2018 06:56 PM (4ErVI)

266 158 Smaug

I've discussed this with teej and chemjeff in the distant past, but nothing happened. It would be difficult for me to pull it off these days.

Ben Had's TxMoMeet was sublime. She did such a great job, and it was so much fun. And the food... mmmmmm. From the hog to the champaign cake to the soup -- wow.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 05, 2018 06:56 PM (hyuyC)

267 >>I'm not concern trolling.


I'm concerned about your concern, Ace.


Posted by: garrett at November 05, 2018 06:56 PM (Kc4Br)

268 That poll is not at all supported by early voting numbers... but we have registered your concern.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at November 05, 2018 06:50 PM (F/KeJ)

--------------

You may want to be a little careful in responding to that guy.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at November 05, 2018 06:56 PM (I16G8)

269
P.S. nobody reads National Review


Posted by: the Man who Burps in French at November 05, 2018 06:53 PM (9HuGt)

___

Last time I was there they were begging for money from their readers, LOL.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 06:56 PM (6nRrz)

270 Hope Ace is wrong, and so does he, and so does Eeyore.

Posted by: Smaug at November 05, 2018 06:56 PM (DMcz+)

271 We're BFFs and lifelong Republicans! Wanna know who we're gonna vote for?

Posted by: James Comey and Robert Mueller at November 05, 2018 06:56 PM (uloIh)

272 So, Ace, are saying I would be well advised to send the vat of pudding back to the pudding plant?

Posted by: The Poster Formerly Known as Mr. Barky at November 05, 2018 06:56 PM (hKi6n)

273 Quick music trivia:

In which song does Elton John go "Heh"?
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at November 05, 2018 06:55 PM (n4u2O)



Cartoon balloon song.

Posted by: eleven at November 05, 2018 06:56 PM (NLLmE)

274 I think it's important to establish we COULD win, as a helpless attitude breeds inaction, and therefore, anticipation of failure breeds failure, a self-fulfilling prophecy.

However, once you've established you CAN win, that's only the first part of it -- now that you have the attitude that you CAN win, you can't just say "Well, we have high spirits."

That's what Hillary Clinton did in Wisconsin.

No, having bought into the idea you CAN win IF you do the right things, the next step is to do those right things necessary for actually winning.

"Enthusiasm" itself doesn't win elections. The enthusiasm is just a feeling. It has to be translated into actual concrete, real-world action to mean anything.

And look, polls say Trump supporters are just not as high-propensity voters as the rest of the GOP (which includes liberal Republicans).

And that's people self-reporting.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 06:56 PM (PbpT7)

275 I guess we can now see why the ratchet has moved in only one direction--leftwards--for the past 50 years or so.

Maybe Goldwater really was the last chance. In that light, Reagan's 1964 "A Time for Choosing" speech was an epitaph of sorts for America.

And recall that the Republican establishment didn't want Reagan either.

Posted by: rickl at November 05, 2018 06:56 PM (sdi6R)

276 Ahoy! My good man! Nothing is sweeter than pumping yacht-rock on election day and banging out a couple of sets of hip-thrusts on the Lido Deck!

Posted by: William Kristol, Editor-At-Large at November 05, 2018 06:56 PM (Z9C5C)

277 you're looking at the early voting numbers and assuming all GOP votes
are for the GOP candidate, when in fact actual polling says that only
77% of GOP voters plan to vote for the GOP candidate (contrasted with
89% of Democrats who plan to vote Democrat).

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"actual polling"?

Seriously? They actually contacted every one of those early voters, or did they do the usual telephone bullshit, get the result they liked and ran with it.

Right now Michigan polling has huge spreads - polls for the office are 15 points apart. Trump was 9 points behind Hillary according to the all-knowing polls and guess what? He won.

This is bullshit designed to make NR's remaining cabana boys feel better.

Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 05, 2018 06:57 PM (cfSRQ)

278 My favorite analysis is Salena Zito's about "King Cyrus Christians". After decades of being lectured by the GOPe that we weren't pragmatic enough, well, we decided to be. Maybe Trump isn't David French's ideal pastor or even choir director. So what? He's given us what we needed - someone to fight for us, unlike the "Gee, we tried, but dang it all, the court (or Congress, or Bureaus) went the other way."

I realize that Zito's example was mostly about Evangelicals, but I cannot see how any conservative Catholic can see it otherwise. Not after Little Sisters. And any other denomination, or Jews, who are watching must see what is involved. That's one thing Obama said he'd do, and did. For religious conservatives of every (non-Moslem) stripe, he did bring us together. Except for French, of course.

Posted by: Eeyore, fomerly George LeS at November 05, 2018 06:57 PM (59GGI)

279 Being in California, my vote doesn't count for much, but am going to do it anyway.

Posted by: Stu Podaso - Deranged Deplorable Dreg at November 05, 2018 06:57 PM (fl1iW)

280 WOPR:

As I recall it, the Ned Beatty speech in Network was basically the proto-neoconservative outlook on international politics. True?

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 05, 2018 06:57 PM (miE9U)

281 We're not blowing this election off Ace. And . . . we're going to win.

Posted by: Revenant at November 05, 2018 06:57 PM (sryxB)

282 Ever think that these Neo-Cons make more money from books and taking engagements when a Democrat is president? Why? When they are bashing true Conservative presidents, no one buys their shit.

When they get a Democrat elected, people buy their shit because misery loves company.

Think about it.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 05, 2018 06:57 PM (nQHrn)

283

Cartoon balloon song.


I'm not aware??

Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at November 05, 2018 06:57 PM (n4u2O)

284 The NeverTrumpers didn't vote with us in 2016. We won without them; we'll win without them tomorrow.

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at November 05, 2018 06:57 PM (j9rW+)

285 276 Ahoy! My good man! Nothing is sweeter than pumping yacht-rock on election day and banging out a couple of sets of hip-thrusts on the Lido Deck!

Posted by: William Kristol, Editor-At-Large at November 05, 2018 06:56 PM (Z9C5C)

Don't forget your strawberry daiquiris!

Posted by: IC at November 05, 2018 06:57 PM (a0IVu)

286 256 trivia answer, "Your Song"

Posted by: Joe Kidd at November 05, 2018 06:57 PM (bzqZP)

287 Barack left a vm on our machine.
He sounded mad

Posted by: Votermom's phone now on Team Gloom Sub Duty at November 05, 2018 06:58 PM (dMvl+)

288 Smart move; don't think the housing market is going to hold up. It's already going soft in some areas. Where you guys thinking of moving to?
Posted by: IC at November 05, 2018 06:54 PM (a0IVu)
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Idaho.

We own our house, so, plan to use the proceeds to buy another house outright.

We thought about TX and AZ but, in the end, I'm tired of the watering restrictions of the American Southwest and running A/C for a good solid 4 months out of the year.

Posted by: Blake - used trebuchet salesman at November 05, 2018 06:58 PM (qC1Sy)

289 Apropos of nothing, though the idea of body armor came up on the Gun Thread, here are so really really cheap LE surplus kevlar vests. You might not get something usable but two vests for $50 is a steal.

http://bit.ly/2DlrZGJ

Their site is having issues but keep trying to get in if you are interested. I bought one of each of these deals for a total of $123 delivered.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 05, 2018 06:58 PM (yQpMk)

290 >>>270 Hope Ace is wrong, and so does he, and so does Eeyore.


I believe we CAN win.

I don't know if we WILL win, because I don't know if the people who WANT the GOP to win (to keep the revolution going) are actually going to bother to show up at the polls, or if they're just gonna say "Someone else will vote the way I want, let's not sweat it" and hand a winnable election over to our enemies on the left and the even further left. (The Liberal RINOs and teh Democrats, of course.)

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 06:58 PM (PbpT7)

291
In which song does Elton John go "Heh"?


Honky Cat

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at November 05, 2018 06:58 PM (TAmPV)

292 In other words, Trump is not only failing to grow the coalition he inherited but he's also failing to hold on to parts of it that the GOP once counted on.

Wishcasting. He has so much bound up in being right about Trump as an awful person that he's just trying to defend that.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 05, 2018 06:58 PM (39g3+)

293 Also.. the Michigan Republican Party is stalking me.

I'm now getting several calls an hour from them.

Posted by: Shibumi at November 05, 2018 06:58 PM (z1Dz9)

294 Ben Had's TxMoMeet was sublime. She did such a great job, and it was so much fun. And the food... mmmmmm. From the hog to the champaign cake to the soup -- wow.

NaCly Dog at November 05, 2018 06:56 PM (hyuyC)

........

Gonna have to get on a big ole jet airalino for next MoMe,

Posted by: Smaug at November 05, 2018 06:59 PM (DMcz+)

295 Barack left a vm on our machine.
He sounded mad
Posted by: Votermom's phone now on Team Gloom Sub Duty at November 05, 2018 06:58 PM (dMvl+)


Well, he would, sound mad, wouldn't he. He's gone completely bonkers. It's the French Pox, so they say.

Posted by: hogmartin at November 05, 2018 06:59 PM (mS+Df)

296 Another MI poll shows Debbie +7.

That's sorta kinda close.

And even if it is D+7, in 2012 she won by 20+. Not sure how this translates into evidence of a blue wave.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 06:59 PM (6nRrz)

297 The wife did not want to vote Desantis, until Gillum mentioned income tax. Easy after that.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at November 05, 2018 06:59 PM (Rcghw)

298 >>>284 The NeverTrumpers didn't vote with us in 2016. We won without them; we'll win without them tomorrow.

but the suspicion is that many Trump voters are like Obama voters -- they show up for elections when he, personally, is on the ballot, but not so much when he's not.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 06:59 PM (PbpT7)

299
286 256 trivia answer, "Your Song"

Posted by: Joe Kidd



Is that the name of the song?
I just call it the If I Was A Sculptor song.

You Are Correct, btw!

Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at November 05, 2018 06:59 PM (n4u2O)

300 I saw Cautiously Optimistic open for Up Against the Wall You Commie Fuckers at the Gaslighter's Pavillion in 1972.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at November 05, 2018 06:59 PM (hjaPQ)

301 Idaho.

We own our house, so, plan to use the proceeds to buy another house outright.

We thought about TX and AZ but, in the end, I'm tired of the watering restrictions of the American Southwest and running A/C for a good solid 4 months out of the year.
Posted by: Blake - used trebuchet salesman at November 05, 2018 06:58 PM (qC1Sy)

Lovely. I lived in eastern WA for a number of years and always enjoyed my visits to Idaho. Couer d'alene and Boise..

Posted by: IC at November 05, 2018 06:59 PM (a0IVu)

302 'They've spent two years psychologically terrorizing not just America,
but their own base. Even the Doritos and Bong crowd are going to show
up. A vote for any drooling retard with a D after their name promises to
be a soothing balm to a psyche on fire for the last 24 months.
'
I disagree. The Doritos and Bong crowd are some lazy fucks and if all they've heard for the past several months is that a Blue Wave is guaranteed they are much less likely to get off their asses to vote. The people who put Trump in realize their vote matters for the first time ever.
That's just my gut. The R's could lose 50 seats or win 50 seats and I wouldn't be surprised. None of the pollsters or talking heads know shit.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at November 05, 2018 06:59 PM (rnXGe)

303 In which song does David Lee Roth go "aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh oww".

Posted by: eleven at November 05, 2018 06:59 PM (NLLmE)

304 How soon before a Dem-controlled House shuts down Government because McConnell and Trump won't triple Planned Parenthood funding and give all Dreamers immediate citizenship?

Posted by: Deep Frozen State at November 05, 2018 06:59 PM (uloIh)

305 ace, with all due respect -

I've been re-reading all the pre-election threads and actual election threads from 2016. You had a lot of the same concerns. Chin up.

Posted by: grammie winger at November 05, 2018 06:59 PM (lwiT4)

306 when in fact actual polling says that only 77% of GOP voters plan to vote for the GOP candidate (contrasted with 89% of Democrats who plan to vote Democrat). 

I'm not concern trolling. (This is ace, by the way.) 

I am trying to prevent the SELF-REPORTED lower propensity to vote of Trump supporters from winding up costing us the House. 

I think complacency is the enemy here

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 06:53 PM (PbpT7)

Dude. This isn't a lower propensity to vote, it's crossing to the other side. You're an operator, so by now you've seen enough of Trump to know how a winner thinks and how a loser thinks. Say, "The Dems will steal this thing if it's close, and they take the popular vote as the Mandate of Heaven. Fuck them up!"

Not "Here's my excuse for the loss we are going to have." That's loser talk.

Posted by: trev006 at November 05, 2018 07:00 PM (6rFB/)

307 260 re: 77%

What polling shows this? Every poll I've seen shows basically 90% of Rs will vote R and 90% of Dem swill vote Dem. Just like in every election since forever.

77%....also the supposed income of womYn compared to a man.

Funny that, huh?
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 06:55 PM (6nRrz)

97% of scientists agree with the statistics though!

Posted by: Don Quixote at November 05, 2018 07:00 PM (NgKpN)

308 @303 ... Runnin' With The Devil

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 05, 2018 07:00 PM (ZifzP)

309 Sitting here in a very toss up area of Pennsylvavia....

# of commercials for Bob Casey (well over 500 over the last month()

# of commercials for Lou Barletta (I have not seen a single one)


And, as an asside...Casey is running on Trumps accomplishments (relative to steel jobs returning to PA).

Posted by: Orson at November 05, 2018 07:00 PM (lKLdH)

310 Hecklers getting bounced at the Indiana Trumpapalooza.

" Go on back home to mama!"
Hah, my President!

Posted by: mikeyG at November 05, 2018 07:00 PM (LL1Be)

311 Blue Dogs or economic/national security Democrats have no place in the modern Democrat Party. They do with the new Trump Republican Party. And while they might not be as vocal as NeverTrumpers, certainly they don't get the media attention of the cruises, they are a large and growing segment of voters. Trump could not have won without them. And he has been out whipping them into a frenzy for weeks.

We might lose the House. If these were ordinary times, we would lose the House. But I don't think it's because of the power of the NeverTrump typing monkey brigade in DC. They have increasingly limited appeal and they are preaching mainly to themselves at this point.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 05, 2018 06:50 PM (/tuJf)

Trump Democrats do not want to vote for CoC Republicans. Neither do I come to think of it. What needs to happen is to run Trump Republicans in those areas for House seats. It hasn't happened because guess who courts the potential candidates for those races? CoC Republicans through the RNC and associated bodies.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 05, 2018 07:00 PM (4ErVI)

312 In which song does David Lee Roth go "aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh oww".

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All of them?

Posted by: Shibumi at November 05, 2018 07:00 PM (z1Dz9)

313 LOL Bill Kristol is listed as a neoconservative on Wikipedia. He sounds more like neocabanaboy with that stripper last name.

Posted by: ryukyu at November 05, 2018 07:00 PM (vKhgw)

314
Who sings:

If I was a carpenter...and you were a lady...would you marry me anyway, would you have my baby?

Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at November 05, 2018 07:00 PM (n4u2O)

315 Turgid polls indicate 100% of my ass is firmly impaled.

Posted by: Conpad at November 05, 2018 07:00 PM (uova7)

316 "275
I guess we can now see why the ratchet has moved in only one direction--leftwards--for the past 50 years or so.



Maybe Goldwater really was the last chance. In that light, Reagan's
1964 "A Time for Choosing" speech was an epitaph of sorts for America.



And recall that the Republican establishment didn't want Reagan either.

Posted by: rickl at November 05, 2018 06:56 PM (sdi6R)"Nor did they want Goldwater.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 05, 2018 07:00 PM (tSXzq)

317 Please! The negativity is killing me. Why does everybody assume Trump supporters aren't going to the polls? Geez louise. Look at his crowds. They all look pretty motivated to me. I sure am. Right now PDT is in IN for his 2nd rally of the day. He has a 3rd scheduled for 10PM. I'll be interested to see if he talks to a packed house that late. I suspect he will. I think I'll watch him instead. Furthermore, if we should lose the House I know the president has to have plans in place to deal with it and I'm guessing he'll play it to his advantage.

Posted by: Tuna at November 05, 2018 07:00 PM (jm1YL)

318 @279
Not true that your vote doesn't count if you live in Cali or some other blue state.

There are Republicans that represent districts in those states.
Get out there and vote as if your life depends on it.

Because it surely does.

Posted by: Kreplach at November 05, 2018 07:01 PM (qxq6t)

319 >>>281 We're not blowing this election off Ace. And . . . we're going to win.
Posted by: Revenant

i hope so, but... a large chunk of the RINOs are voting Democrat and the Trump coalition is just not as disciplined when it comes to voting as the main force of the GOP.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 07:01 PM (PbpT7)

320 "actual polling"


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!!


I 'actually' made Sweet Sweet Love to Kathy Ireland--and left her begging for More

Posted by: the Man who Burps in French at November 05, 2018 07:01 PM (9HuGt)

321 Cartoon balloon song is Levon.

Except it's called something else.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at November 05, 2018 07:01 PM (fuK7c)

322 The enthusiasm is just too huge on our part plus the Kavanaugh Caravan cavalcade of crap over the past few months has motivated voters.

Hope I'm right and you're not!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 05, 2018 06:49 PM (/9p9e)

Don't overestimate the power of kollidge students voting twice.

Once at the nearby polling place and by absentee from home.

Posted by: golfman at November 05, 2018 07:01 PM (If3tB)

323 Barack left a vm on our machine.


Yes. A vagina movement.

Posted by: Baracky O'Cracky at November 05, 2018 07:01 PM (Tyii7)

324

Elton John goes, "Heh...then again who knows..."

Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at November 05, 2018 07:01 PM (n4u2O)

325 worst pep talk ever

Posted by: glum at November 05, 2018 07:01 PM (wHMIo)

326 270 Hope Ace is wrong, and so does he, and so does Eeyore.
Posted by: Smaug at November 05, 2018 06:56 PM (DMcz+)


Hope all you want ...

... at some point, hope is just the stupid shit that should be ignored.

Hard times are real, and there's dusty fields, no matter where you go.

Posted by: The Midnight Rider at November 05, 2018 07:01 PM (Crzbp)

327 >>>Please! The negativity is killing me. Why does everybody assume Trump supporters aren't going to the polls?

because this is how they self-report their likelihood of voting to pollsters. This is not an assumption; this is their own self-reports about their likelihood of voting.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 07:01 PM (PbpT7)

328 ''If I was a carpenter...and you were a lady...would you marry me anyway, would you have my baby?''

Bobby Darrin

Posted by: Tuna at November 05, 2018 07:01 PM (jm1YL)

329 Last time I expressed my belief we would win, was Romney's loss.

I refuse to express hope until the votes are in.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 05, 2018 07:02 PM (ptqGC)

330 When I see Union signs for Republicans that's what makes me think it will be a Republican party tomorrow night.

Posted by: Skip at November 05, 2018 07:02 PM (T4oHT)

331 but the suspicion is that many Trump voters are like Obama voters -- they show up for elections when he, personally, is on the ballot, but not so much when he's not.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 06:59 PM (PbpT7)

.....

Well GPOTUSE has done a great job getting them off their butts. I am optimistically biting my claws.

Posted by: Smaug at November 05, 2018 07:02 PM (DMcz+)

332 Ace- take your happy pills and shut up.

Remember what the doctor said about not taking your medication? It can lead to feelings of Democrats winning.

Posted by: Joe Wagner at November 05, 2018 07:02 PM (fcynZ)

333 @315 hmm, a new commenter ?....clearly enthusiastic

Posted by: runner at November 05, 2018 07:02 PM (bUjCl)

334 Idaho has pretty high taxes, FYI. Sales tax is 6% and top income tax is 7.4%. Not CA high by any means, but not exactly a low tax state either.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 07:02 PM (6nRrz)

335
RINOs may "win", but they won't win. Any unseemly crowing and their fate will be sealed in the years to come.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 05, 2018 07:02 PM (pNxlR)

336 methinks that Ace worries a bit too much, sometimes...

but i guess that's why he gets the big bucks and hangs out with all the k3wl kids.

i just laid in a case of beer for tomorrow night.

ima drop off our ballots at the polling place, try and survive my visit to the Left LA VA, then come home and hang out here playing drinking games, good news or bad.

my one hope is that Fineswine gets kicked out of the Senate. i'm sure the Demonrats will run the table on all the other state offices, but that would make my evening.

Posted by: redc1c4 at November 05, 2018 07:02 PM (Dagiw)

337 289
Apropos of nothing, though the idea of body armor came up on the Gun
Thread, here are so really really cheap LE surplus kevlar vests. You
might not get something usable but two vests for $50 is a steal.



http://bit.ly/2DlrZGJ



Their site is having issues but keep trying to get in if you are
interested. I bought one of each of these deals for a total of $123
delivered.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 05, 2018 06:58 PM (yQpMk)

Just ignore the bullet holes and blood stains.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at November 05, 2018 07:02 PM (rnXGe)

338 PS it's not negativity for someone to say "We have to go out there and fight for every goddamned inch or we're gonna get run over."

That's generally just called "Psyching Up."

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 07:02 PM (PbpT7)

339 ''because this is how they self-report their likelihood of voting to pollsters. This is not an assumption; this is their own self-reports about their likelihood of voting. ''

Concern noted.

Posted by: Tuna at November 05, 2018 07:02 PM (jm1YL)

340 Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 05, 2018 06:33 PM (ptqGC)

I keep telling you Kemp will win. Ye of little faith.

Posted by: clutch at November 05, 2018 07:02 PM (kiSdp)

341 303 In which song does David Lee Roth go "aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh oww".
Posted by: eleven at November 05, 2018 06:59 PM (NLLmE)


All of them?

Posted by: rickl at November 05, 2018 07:02 PM (sdi6R)

342 275 I guess we can now see why the ratchet has moved in only one direction--leftwards--for the past 50 years or so.

Maybe Goldwater really was the last chance. In that light, Reagan's 1964 "A Time for Choosing" speech was an epitaph of sorts for America.

And recall that the Republican establishment didn't want Reagan either.
Posted by: rickl at November 05, 2018 06:56 PM (sdi6R)



STOP. As Eeyoreish as I am, in economic ways at least things *have* improved.

Remember Wage And Price Controls? And boneheaded "Republican" ideas like "WIN" in response?

Remember when Fred Smith had to go to court to start FedEx? "A 1977 legislative change (Public Law 95-163) removed restrictions on the routes operated by all-cargo airlines, and enabled Federal Express to purchase its first large aircraft". And shedloads of other monopolistic legislation in this same way.

A bad as some things are culturally, economically, we HAVE improved in 50 years.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at November 05, 2018 07:02 PM (ujg0T)

343 I think the Romney burn is still strong with many people.

Posted by: runner at November 05, 2018 07:03 PM (bUjCl)

344 296
Another MI poll shows Debbie +7.



That's sorta kinda close.



And even if it is D+7, in 2012 she won by 20+. Not sure how this translates into evidence of a blue wave.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 06:59 PM (6nRrz)

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And other polls show her up by 14 or 16 or whatever. They're all over the place.

Polling is based on what they think the electorate is going to look like. But what if it changed? What if the black vote has shifted? Would polling detect that, or would they simply assume they're oversampling black conservatives who they *know* only make up 10 percent of the black vote?

No one has a clue what the electorate is going to do, which is why taking this crap poll which just happens to feed *perfectly* into the Never Trump myth is so self-defeating.

These people are wrong about EVERYTHING. Why anyone would listen to them is beyond me.

Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 05, 2018 07:03 PM (cfSRQ)

345 My favorite analysis is Salena Zito's about "King Cyrus Christians". After decades of being lectured by the GOPe that we weren't pragmatic enough, well, we decided to be. Maybe Trump isn't David French's ideal pastor or even choir director.

Posted by: Eeyore, fomerly George LeS at November 05, 2018 06:57 PM (59GGI)
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That's a good point. You can't expect to steer other people with precision. If you do that, you're simply appropriating their vote.

Posted by: Captain Kristol Meth at November 05, 2018 07:03 PM (vDqXW)

346 If blacks vote in big numbers for Trump, Ye will be the lefts fall guy.

Bank it.

Posted by: Under Fire at November 05, 2018 07:03 PM (r9UYA)

347 because this is how they self-report their likelihood of voting to pollsters. This is not an assumption; this is their own self-reports about their likelihood of voting.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 07:01 PM (PbpT7)

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Where are you getting this from? Seriously. Show me a poll that says that. Because I will show you several that say the exact opposite.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 07:03 PM (6nRrz)

348 325 worst pep talk ever
Posted by: glum at November 05, 2018 07:01 PM (wHMIo)



Ewok the Fifth.

Posted by: eleven at November 05, 2018 07:03 PM (NLLmE)

349 Please! The negativity is killing me. Why does everybody assume Trump
supporters aren't going to the polls? Geez louise. Look at his crowds.



Kellyeanne Conway just made that very point.
"You are camping in the rain to get in here but you won't vote? I don't think so."

Posted by: mikeyG at November 05, 2018 07:03 PM (LL1Be)

350 we can tell them, "We can win with you or without you, and therefore we do not need you, and therefore you will have to accept a diminished junior role in the party, rather than being in control of it. And if you don't like that, make it official and GTFO"

FIFY.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at November 05, 2018 07:03 PM (/qEW2)

351 KAC re Donnely: "get em out" after GPOTUSE already threw out a few libtardian hecklers with the same line. You go Kelly!

Posted by: Smaug at November 05, 2018 07:03 PM (DMcz+)

352 There Ace goes all Eeyore again by embracing the wishcasting of people we should ignore. The lede predictions for tomorrow are way off

Turnout, turnout, turnout and I expect tomorrow we'll keep the House. And pick up five or six in the Senate

I'm not as confident as my call that Trump would win in 2016 with 300 to 310 EVs, because the House is scattered but that's where I'm at

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 05, 2018 07:03 PM (dOblz)

353
Ace is famous for this.

Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at November 05, 2018 07:03 PM (n4u2O)

354 i hope so, but... a large chunk of the RINOs are voting Democrat



Who did they vote for in 2016?

Posted by: grammie winger at November 05, 2018 07:03 PM (lwiT4)

355 Who sings:



If I was a carpenter...and you were a lady...would you marry me anyway, would you have my baby?

Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at November 05, 2018 07:00 PM (n4u2O)

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Nope.

The Who never sand that stupid song...

Posted by: redc1c4 at November 05, 2018 07:04 PM (Dagiw)

356 but the suspicion is that many Trump voters are like Obama voters -- they show up for elections when he, personally, is on the ballot, but not so much when he's not.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 06:59 PM (PbpT7)

---------------

This is why he is doing his best to all but put himself on this ballot.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at November 05, 2018 07:04 PM (I16G8)

357 Also speaking of vitamins, Bs and D make you more cheerful

Just a thought, ace

Posted by: Votermom's phone now on Team Gloom Sub Duty at November 05, 2018 07:04 PM (dMvl+)

358 lease! The negativity is killing me. Why does everybody assume Trump supporters aren't going to the polls?

because this is how they self-report their likelihood of voting to pollsters. This is not an assumption; this is their own self-reports about their likelihood of voting.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 07:01 PM (PbpT7)

Well, I told pollsters I was a 24 year old 1/2 man 1/2 lady and voted for Trump and was unlikely to vote. I wouldn't take those polls very seriously.

Posted by: LASue at November 05, 2018 07:04 PM (XROPS)

359 >>>303 In which song does David Lee Roth go "aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh oww".

panama

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 07:04 PM (PbpT7)

360 >>I don't know if we WILL win, because I don't know if the people who WANT the GOP to win (to keep the revolution going) are actually going to bother to show up at the polls, or if they're just gonna say "Someone else will vote the way I want, let's not sweat it" and hand a winnable election over to our enemies on the left and the even further left. (The Liberal RINOs and teh Democrats, of course.)

Have you seen the size of the crowds Trump has been drawing to these rallies? People are standing out in the elements including heavy rain today in Indiana for hours just for the chance to get a seat.

I don't buy the idea that these people are going through all that for a one hour speech but they won't turn out to vote. I've got almost nothing to gain by voting tomorrow. All of my choices will more than likely lose bigly. I don't care because fuck them. They aren't getting my vote and they are going to know that a lot of people don't support them.

I think there are a lot of people like me.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 05, 2018 07:04 PM (/tuJf)

361 ''Who did they vote for in 2016?''

Hillary, of course.

Posted by: Tuna at November 05, 2018 07:04 PM (jm1YL)

362 If I had to choose between a Rust Belt Trump Democrat or a CoC Republican, I'd vote for the Democrat.

The realignment is real.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 05, 2018 07:04 PM (4ErVI)

363 A bad as some things are culturally, economically, we HAVE improved in 50 years.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at November 05, 2018 07:02 PM (ujg0T)

___

Top tax rate now is 37% vs 90% in the 60s.

So yeah shit has improved in some areas.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 07:05 PM (6nRrz)

364 Total Hot Blonde Mom at 11:00 .

Yay, crowd-honeys!

Posted by: mikeyG at November 05, 2018 07:05 PM (LL1Be)

365 That poll is not at all supported by early voting numbers... but we have registered your concern.



you're looking at the early voting numbers and assuming all GOP
votes are for the GOP candidate, when in fact actual polling says that
only 77% of GOP voters plan to vote for the GOP candidate (contrasted
with 89% of Democrats who plan to vote Democrat).



I'm not concern trolling. (This is ace, by the way.)



I am trying to prevent the SELF-REPORTED lower propensity to vote of Trump supporters from winding up costing us the House.



I think complacency is the enemy here, not URGENCY.



People saying "Chill out, we got this, why even bother worrying
about the vote" -- you think that's a good message in an election?





Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 06:53 PM (PbpT7)

Hi Ace... GOPe do not tend to vote early and if I were called by a pollster, I would lie my ass off so I would not be putting much faith in the "self-reporting" part of that poll.


I am seeing no complacency in my neck of the woods where we have taken the local Republican party committee from the RINOs and have been growing like gangbusters (including at least two members who voted for Obama, were severely disappointed, and are now politically active and becoming more conservative as they learn more). The RINOs we took to party from, BTW, will mostly be voting Republican (some may split off to vote for Kaine phttew). We are energized and ready to go tomorrow.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at November 05, 2018 07:05 PM (F/KeJ)

366 You give those panty wastes too much credit. The media hacks have no power. Literally no one outside their little circle gives one eighth of a shit about what they have to say. They will not have won anything. They will not have sabotaged anything.

They don't matter.

They will CLAIM otherwise, of course, because they're useless liars. But don't buy into their bullshit.

Posted by: Apostate at November 05, 2018 07:05 PM (z2FAZ)

367 I still want Trump to use Van Halen's "Running with the Devil" or Ted Nugent's "Stranglehold" at his next rally. A great Intro/Outro combo.

Posted by: SteveOReno , I proudly self-identify as a Moron at November 05, 2018 07:05 PM (2sCft)

368 I am a bit more optimistic than ace, because 1. I really don't think wussy "mainstream Republicans" are that numerous outside of DC and media centers like NYC (Kasich did his best to oppose Trump in 2016. How did that work out for him in Ohio?) and 2. a loss of wimpy NeverTrumpers will be balanced by the Walkaway Dems who have finally recognized their party is batshit insane.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at November 05, 2018 07:05 PM (d6Ksn)

369 in what song does David Lee Roth go (squeaky-voice)aaaahhWhhoooaHHHH!!!

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 07:05 PM (PbpT7)

370 Elton John goes, "Heh...then again who knows..."

Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at November 05, 2018 07:01 PM (n4u2O)
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I really thought it was Sex Machine.

Posted by: Axeman at November 05, 2018 07:06 PM (vDqXW)

371 so youre saying rinos voted from trump in 2016 but will vote for a dem congressman in 2018. makes no sense. maybe they voted for hillary in 16 and a dem in 18. or maybe sat out 16 and will sit out 18. at the end of the day 99.9999% of voters dont get paid by big money donors like the low iq media schmucks.

Posted by: glum at November 05, 2018 07:06 PM (wHMIo)

372 I think DDs make Ace cheerful....

Posted by: runner at November 05, 2018 07:06 PM (bUjCl)

373 I've accurately predicted every Presidential race since 2000, when I was 20 years old.

Not since 2010 have I had a feeling for a mid-term like I do now: my spidey sense tells me there's going to be a Red Tsunami tomorrow, overwhelming all but the Dems in the bluest of Blue areas.
We're not going to lose the House.

Posted by: Brunette the 'Ette at November 05, 2018 07:06 PM (adsVM)

374 There was a simmering rage in the US in the runup to the 2016 election, and Trump was the manifestation.

The Democrats managed to fully re-ignite that rage with their despicable behavior during the Kavanaugh nomination.

They must be punished. Electorally.

Posted by: filbert at November 05, 2018 07:06 PM (953wK)

375 Maginot Line pep talk. We will hold unless harumph harumph. Fuck Belgium.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at November 05, 2018 07:06 PM (xzqr4)

376
I am concerned.

Are you?

[ ] Concerned
[ ] Not concerned

Posted by: NPC_Concern Troll at November 05, 2018 07:06 PM (ctuyM)

377 168 Says who? Seriously, on what infallible authority do we believe this bullshit? The pollsters are *always* wrong.

I wouldn't go that far, but certainly 2016 showed that the pollsters can be so wrong as to be ignorable. 95% Hillary? That's like a weather forecaster saying 80 degrees and sunny, and it turns out to be 30 degrees and snowing.

Why do we always get concern trolls every cycle? Because they hope they can pull off a few votes. Polling serves the same role imho.

Posted by: GnuBreed at November 05, 2018 07:06 PM (Z4rgH)

378 This is pretty much right. The cucks/liberal RINO's still would like to keep the Senate for the time being because their influence lingers there. That said...if the House stays GOP tomorrow it wouldn't be a huge shock and would be especially sweet since so many squishes retired to help their corporate RINO overlords regain power.

Vote.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at November 05, 2018 07:06 PM (HbG1t)

379 Lovely. I lived in eastern WA for a number of years and always enjoyed my visits to Idaho. Couer d'alene and Boise..
Posted by: IC at November 05, 2018 06:59 PM (a0IVu)

both of those cities are lovely, indeed. But they are becoming a bastion of californicators, thus seedbeds of liberalism. I would look further north, like Sandpoint.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 05, 2018 07:06 PM (d7Ww2)

380 Drooly trolly trolls be posting heavily tonight. Get back in your Momma's basement. Losers.

Posted by: Smaug at November 05, 2018 07:06 PM (DMcz+)

381 330
When I see Union signs for Republicans that's what makes me think it will be a Republican party tomorrow night.

Posted by: Skip at November 05, 2018 07:02 PM (T4oHT)

Another thing nobody is mentioning is that there will be MANY races too close to call tomorrow night and probably a ton of recounts. We probably won't know who controls the House for sure until the end of the week if then.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at November 05, 2018 07:06 PM (rnXGe)

382 I don't buy the idea that these people are going through all that for a one hour speech but they won't turn out to vote.


Exactly.

Posted by: grammie winger at November 05, 2018 07:06 PM (lwiT4)

383 >>>People are standing out in the elements including heavy rain today in Indiana for hours just for the chance to get a seat.

I don't buy the idea that these people are going through all that for a one hour speech but they won't turn out to vote. I've got almost nothing to gain by voting tomorrow. All of my choices will more than likely lose bigly. I don't care because fuck them. They aren't getting my vote and they are going to know that a lot of people don't support them.

I think there are a lot of people like me.

...

well I hope you're right. But I've never heard of a GOTV operation which counseled "Tell everyone everything's gonna be okay and not to sweat it, we're gonna win, easy-peasy lemon squeezy."

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 07:07 PM (PbpT7)

384
You think Chewbacca's howl would make a good ringtone?

Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at November 05, 2018 07:07 PM (n4u2O)

385 because this is how they self-report their
likelihood of voting to pollsters. This is not an assumption; this is
their own self-reports about their likelihood of voting.





Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 07:01 PM (PbpT7)

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Actually, it IS an assumption, a big one, based on sample size, demographics and a bunch of other stuff.

Look, if you want to be a pessimist, fine, got it, go there myself a lot.

But please, spare us the appeal to *polling* authority, because it has none.

Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 05, 2018 07:07 PM (cfSRQ)

386 Fuck these guys. All of them. Vote tomorrow, come hell or high water.

Posted by: Insomniac at November 05, 2018 07:07 PM (NWiLs)

387 I think concern should concern all of us.

*snaps sunglasses off*

Posted by: Horatio Caine at November 05, 2018 07:07 PM (yQpMk)

388 Did Ace engineer his new has to be a raspberry at us?

Posted by: Axeman at November 05, 2018 07:07 PM (vDqXW)

389 For the poster pushing that 77% lie...

https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/p8wvf16d2j/econTabReport.pdf

See question 90

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 07:07 PM (6nRrz)

390 >>Ace is famous for this.



Are we talking about Yogurt Enemas again?

Posted by: garrett at November 05, 2018 07:07 PM (Kc4Br)

391 >>>If I was a carpenter...and you were a lady...would you marry me anyway, would you have my baby?<<<

Karl Rove?

Posted by: William Kristol, Editor-At-Large at November 05, 2018 07:07 PM (Z9C5C)

392 white turtleneck cutie-mommy is totally doing it for me.

Wonder if she would be interested in some Transactional Vote Sex?

Posted by: mikeyG at November 05, 2018 07:07 PM (LL1Be)

393 panama
Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 07:04 PM (PbpT7)

Right after he "slides the seat back".

Posted by: golfman at November 05, 2018 07:08 PM (If3tB)

394 Right now PDT is in IN for his 2nd rally of the
day. He has a 3rd scheduled for 10PM. I'll be interested to see if he
talks to a packed house that late. I suspect he will. I think I'll
watch him instead. Furthermore, if we should lose the House I know the
president has to have plans in place to deal with it and I'm guessing
he'll play it to his advantage.

Posted by: Tuna at November 05, 2018 07:00 PM (jm1YL)

I was shocked, SHOCKED, that Donny Two Scoops was in Gary, IN the other day. That is hardcore Dem territory. I don't know if a President was ever in Gary before this.
VP Bush was the highest to visit, I believe, back in the late 80s to cut the ribbon on a continuous caster. At least that is what a former coworker told me.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at November 05, 2018 07:08 PM (8iiMU)

395 i don't know... maybe.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at November 05, 2018 07:08 PM (Pg+x7)

396 I was at a charity event. Told a guy that I have known for a while that the reason I quit Face book was because of him. He went away. Sad.

Posted by: mog smash at November 05, 2018 07:08 PM (KTDWH)

397 both of those cities are lovely, indeed. But they are becoming a bastion of californicators, thus seedbeds of liberalism. I would look further north, like Sandpoint.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 05, 2018 07:06 PM (d7Ww2)

eeeekkks...really? ugh. is there anything that lib californians can't f**k up?

Posted by: IC at November 05, 2018 07:08 PM (a0IVu)

398 If I was a carpenter...and you were a lady...would you marry me anyway, would you have my baby?
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at November 05, 2018 07:00 PM (n4u2O)


Johhny Cash ... With June Carpenter Cash ...

Posted by: The Midnight Rider at November 05, 2018 07:08 PM (Crzbp)

399 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE, MANY REPUBLICAN VOTERS ARE VOTING FOR TRUMP AND NOT THEIR LOCAL CANDIDATES PER SE.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at November 05, 2018 07:08 PM (r9UYA)

400 well I hope you're right. But I've never heard of a
GOTV operation which counseled "Tell everyone everything's gonna be okay
and not to sweat it, we're gonna win, easy-peasy lemon squeezy."





Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 07:07 PM (PbpT7)

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Exactly no one on the GOP side is saying this.


Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 05, 2018 07:08 PM (cfSRQ)

401 ace - I really do think that a significant part of your outlook comes from living where you live. Come to flyover deplorable country. We have smileys.

Posted by: grammie winger at November 05, 2018 07:08 PM (lwiT4)

402 Nice Margins ...

Posted by: The Midnight Rider at November 05, 2018 07:09 PM (Crzbp)

403 Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 07:07 PM (6n


Dude, have you no shame ?

Posted by: runner at November 05, 2018 07:09 PM (bUjCl)

404 >>in what song does David Lee Roth go (squeaky-voice)aaaahhWhhoooaHHHH!!!


Stairway to Heaven

Posted by: garrett at November 05, 2018 07:09 PM (Kc4Br)

405 346
If blacks vote in big numbers for Trump, Ye will be the lefts fall guy.

Bank it.



Posted by: Under Fire at November 05, 2018 07:03 PM (r9UYA)
Even an AA 25% break to the GOP would kill Dems.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at November 05, 2018 07:09 PM (d6Ksn)

406 364 Total Hot Blonde Mom at 11:00 .

Yay, crowd-honeys!
Posted by: mikeyG at November 05, 2018 07:05 PM (LL1Be)

......

Lots of +1s in the crowd. Conservative wymen are hot.

Posted by: Smaug at November 05, 2018 07:09 PM (DMcz+)

407 Fuck these guys. All of them. Vote tomorrow, come hell or high water.
Posted by: Insomniac at November 05, 2018 07:07 PM (NWiL

I'm like NGU.

I'll be pissed if I'm not ballot 1 at the local precinct.

And I check the optiscan every time.

Posted by: golfman at November 05, 2018 07:09 PM (If3tB)

408 Come to flyover deplorable country. We have smileys.
Posted by: grammie winger at November 05, 2018 07:08 PM (lwiT4)


Can confirm.

Posted by: hogmartin at November 05, 2018 07:09 PM (mS+Df)

409 >>>Stairway to Heaven

surprisingly, no

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 07:09 PM (PbpT7)

410 >>>If I was a carpenter...and you were a lady...would you marry me anyway, would you have my baby?

Karl Rove?
Posted by: William Kristol, Editor-At-Large at November 05, 2018 07:07 PM (Z9C5C)
+++
Fucking Paul Anka!

Posted by: SteveOReno , I proudly self-identify as a Moron at November 05, 2018 07:10 PM (2sCft)

411 As I recall it, the Ned Beatty speech in Network was basically the proto-neoconservative outlook on international politics. True?
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 05, 2018 06:57 PM (miE9U)

Never watched Network, so I couldn't say.

Posted by: WOPR at November 05, 2018 07:10 PM (J70i0)

412 Don't underestimate Trump. This will be the last time you ever do it.

Posted by: ... at November 05, 2018 07:10 PM (uEbPt)

413 Wow, late ace, and not just because I'm in Japan, right?

Don't get the GOP voters not voting GOP thing.

Thought Trump approval among GOP-ID'd
Republicans was near record levels, all-time, for such a number.

And hard to imagine the clear GOP intensity seen in early voting is *anti-Trump*?

Posted by: Rhomboid at November 05, 2018 07:10 PM (NyQaH)

414 Apropos of nothing, though the idea of body armor came up on the Gun

Thread, here are so really really cheap LE surplus kevlar vests. You

might not get something usable but two vests for $50 is a steal.

---
used body armor? might as well just wear an extra t-shirt...

body armor does NOT age well.

perspiration, body oils, etc, cause the fibers to break down.

there's a reason they get rid of them and buy new ones, and it isn't fashion.

Posted by: redc1c4 at November 05, 2018 07:10 PM (Dagiw)

415 Who sings:





If I was a carpenter...and you were a lady...would you marry me anyway, would you have my baby?



Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at November 05, 2018 07:00 PM (n4u2O)




Tim Hardin wrote that song and Johnny Cash and June Crter Cash do an excellent version of it.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at November 05, 2018 07:10 PM (F/KeJ)

416 "Democrats screw everything up. Republicans make sure it stays that way."

Any questions?

Posted by: Common Tater at November 05, 2018 07:10 PM (KeRzR)

417 I know yall hate Rove but I love how he calls Robert Francis oRourke Robert Francis ORourke.

Posted by: LASue at November 05, 2018 07:11 PM (XROPS)

418 Coeur D'Alene is getting kalifornicated, but with the good types of kalifornians. And that makes the local libs have the sadz. This is a few years old but speaks to how Coeur D'Alene has become MORE conservative as Californians moved in.

Interesting read.

https://www.inlander.com/spokane/their-own-private-idaho/Content?oid=2188944

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 07:11 PM (6nRrz)

419 actually david lee roth doesn't have a squeaky voice at the beginning of the aaaaaaahWHoooAHHHHHH.

i was confusing the squeak of like a finger on a guitar string

seriously with those hints i don't see how everyone doesn't already have this

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 07:11 PM (PbpT7)

420 *June Carter Cash

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at November 05, 2018 07:11 PM (F/KeJ)

421 Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 07:07 PM (6n

Seriously, dude, have you no shame ??

Posted by: runner at November 05, 2018 07:11 PM (bUjCl)

422 I'm somewhat optimistic about our chances to hold on to the house because of the kavanaugh spectacle. It pissed off a lot of people especially mothers to sons.

Posted by: IC at November 05, 2018 07:11 PM (a0IVu)

423 used body armor? might as well just wear an extra t-shirt...


I'd still rather have old body armor instead of a t-shirt.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 05, 2018 07:11 PM (yQpMk)

424 Pace Ace-

It isn't that the cuck-publicans vote one way or another.

Their votes are few, their money and media presence is their claim on our votes.

None of those people provided the slim Trump majorities in PA, WI, MI with their own votes.

Posted by: Miklos, actual university-credentialed political scientist at November 05, 2018 07:12 PM (zCyNd)

425 I just can't see more R's being turned off by Trump in 2018 than they were in 2016 as a percentage (and we still won). There was extra heavy group think going on before Trump was a proven commodity about "bad example to our children" and other virtue signalling and false justification for squishy R's.

Now that he's actually delivering the goods in an objective right of center manner, the remnants of the still NeverTrumpers are really the NeverCons who have permanently taken off their masks and are waiting for a European style schism of political landscape to take place to join back in.

Also this is a much more indirect non Trump election.
I just don't see any significant number R voters going out of their way and motivated to hurt Candidates (RINOS or otherwise) in order to "Stop Trump"

Posted by: TheATL at November 05, 2018 07:12 PM (r725l)

426 Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 07:07 PM (6nRrz)

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Dude. Tinyurl or bitly for links please.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at November 05, 2018 07:12 PM (I16G8)

427 The wife did not want to vote Desantis, until Gillum mentioned income tax. Easy after that.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at November 05, 2018 06:59 PM (Rcghw)
******************
Glad she saw the light.
Just curious, is she a registered Dem?
I mean the Libs have gone so far Left I don't get how anyone on the Right can not see it.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 05, 2018 07:12 PM (hECVl)

428 Don't underestimate Trump. This will be the last time you ever do it.
Posted by: ... at November 05, 2018 07:10 PM (uEbPt)

++++
This. Trump knows his base will be fired up if he gets out there and leads them. They (WE) will Vote in large numbers.

Posted by: SteveOReno , I proudly self-identify as a Moron at November 05, 2018 07:12 PM (2sCft)

429 it's the first vocalization of the track

geeze this is so obvious

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 07:12 PM (PbpT7)

430 Somebody just fainted.

Trump is floating above the crowd and healing them with his hands.




Posted by: mikeyG at November 05, 2018 07:12 PM (LL1Be)

431 I'm half a man who sells potions in a traveling show.

Posted by: Baracky O'Cracky at November 05, 2018 07:13 PM (Tyii7)

432 >>Coeur D'Alene


Unfortunately, the Neo Nazis didn't ALL leave that place. I run into a lot of Skinheads / White pride jackholes from that area at local Punk / Metal Shows.

Posted by: garrett at November 05, 2018 07:13 PM (Kc4Br)

433 It pissed off a lot of people especially mothers to sons.
Posted by: IC at November 05, 2018 07:11 PM (a0IVu)
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Remember, the fems said that you wouldn't have to worry about your son, if you taught him not to sexually assault women and attend gang rape parties.

Posted by: Axeman at November 05, 2018 07:13 PM (vDqXW)

434 As I recall it, the Ned Beatty speech in Network was basically the proto-neoconservative outlook on international politics. True?
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 05, 2018 06:57 PM (miE9U)


Also good: the international politics speech in 'Team America: World Police'.

Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at November 05, 2018 07:13 PM (+Bjf8)

435 "actual polling"


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!!


I 'actually' made Sweet Sweet Love to Kathy Ireland--and left her begging for More

Posted by: the Man who Burps in French

Kathy Ireland? You are definitely NOT 29.

Posted by: Jabroni at November 05, 2018 07:13 PM (TcM5G)

436 >>it's the first vocalization of the track


Gimme Three Steps?

Posted by: garrett at November 05, 2018 07:13 PM (Kc4Br)

437 Lurking Lurker did not lurk long enough, otherwise Lurking Lurker would know all about margin blowing.

Posted by: runner at November 05, 2018 07:13 PM (bUjCl)

438 417 I know yall hate Rove but I love how he calls Robert Francis oRourke Robert Francis ORourke.
Posted by: LASue at November 05, 2018 07:11 PM (XROPS)

___

Rove made a funny point how only in Texas would a guy named Rafael (Cruz) call himself Ted and a guy named Robert Francis, call himself Beto.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 07:13 PM (6nRrz)

439 shit I had it totally wrong.

David Lee Roth doesn't say that at the beginning of the song at all.

it was supposed to be Running With the Devil but I was wrong.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 07:13 PM (PbpT7)

440 Right after he "slides the seat back".
Posted by: golfman at November 05, 2018 07:08 PM (If3tB)

Ease the seat back.

Posted by: clutch at November 05, 2018 07:13 PM (kiSdp)

441 LOL. Trump mentioned Gary, IN, and someone fainted.


Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at November 05, 2018 07:14 PM (8iiMU)

442 Trump is out there barnstorming and working like a beast.

The man is indefatigable. He's a winner through and through!

VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! Everywhere. Even if you live in the bluest of areas VOTE!

You owe Trump and the rest of the country that much.

Posted by: TipTop at November 05, 2018 07:14 PM (Fd6kb)

443 I'd still rather have old body armor instead of a t-shirt.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 05, 2018 07:11 PM (yQpMk)


Someone has to have a video where they shoot old body armor to see what would happen to the meat on the other side.

Lookin' at you, Paul Harrell.

Posted by: hogmartin at November 05, 2018 07:14 PM (mS+Df)

444 RCP just added Arizona to their GOP total on the No toss up page. Martha McSally must have done a great anthem at the ASU football game on Saturday.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, coffee times three at November 05, 2018 07:14 PM (ggZRr)

445 437 Lurking Lurker did not lurk long enough, otherwise Lurking Lurker would know all about margin blowing.
Posted by: runner at November 05, 2018 07:13 PM (bUjCl)

Guilty as charged.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 07:14 PM (6nRrz)

446 Why do we always get concern trolls every cycle?
Because they hope they can pull off a few votes. Polling serves the same
role imho.

Posted by: GnuBreed at November 05, 2018 07:06 PM (Z4rgH)

Nobody, but nobody, will ever beat the concern troll we got on the night on the 2016 election. "Oh, noes, it's terrible! Trump will get shellacked in Florida! Just wait until Broward County comes in!" "Early returns in PA not looking good for us!" He kept it up until 9 EST. I think he called himself "Will." Might have been Kristol.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at November 05, 2018 07:14 PM (d6Ksn)

447 Actually he paused and called for doctors to assist.

He is waiting to speak again until the deplorable gets cared for.

Posted by: mikeyG at November 05, 2018 07:14 PM (LL1Be)

448 he mostly does aaaaahhhYAAAAAHHHHSsss

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 07:14 PM (PbpT7)

449 Trump is floating above the crowd and healing them with his hands.




Posted by: mikeyG at November 05, 2018 07:12 PM (LL1Be)



Legend has it, if you touch the Scalp Weasel you become immortal.

Posted by: eleven at November 05, 2018 07:14 PM (NLLmE)

450 and WHOOOOoooos!

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 07:14 PM (PbpT7)

451 Running with the Devil.

Posted by: SteveOReno , I proudly self-identify as a Moron at November 05, 2018 07:14 PM (2sCft)

452 And yet early vote turnout among R voters is up bigly for a midterm where it is measured. Historic levels. Meanwhile, early vote for the Democrats appears to be down from previous elections. I guess National Review expects me to believe that the increased turnout is from angry RINOs who, what, sat out the election last time? And they are all turning out to vote against Trump?

And this is also contrary to something I heard DeSantis say the other day, that their data is telling them that a large number of the early GOP vote, at least in Florida, is coming from people who rarely if at vote on midterms. That doesn't sound like angry RINOs to me.

Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at November 05, 2018 07:14 PM (nu45M)

453 "Looking good!" " Thank you , doctors. Thank you, thank you!"

Posted by: mikeyG at November 05, 2018 07:15 PM (LL1Be)

454 Also, black vote. Trump with 40% or so approval...

Posted by: runner at November 05, 2018 07:15 PM (bUjCl)

455 PDT stopped talking while they deal with the person who fainted or collapsed or whatever.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at November 05, 2018 07:15 PM (8iiMU)

456 The wife did not want to vote Desantis, until Gillum mentioned income tax. Easy after that.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at November 05, 2018 06:59 PM (Rcghw)

*types

*deletes

Posted by: golfman at November 05, 2018 07:15 PM (If3tB)

457 Clutch > Van Halen

Posted by: garrett at November 05, 2018 07:15 PM (Kc4Br)

458 As I recall it, the Ned Beatty speech in Network was basically the proto-neoconservative outlook on international politics. True?

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 05, 2018 06:57 PM (miE9U)

It was the gospel of Globalism. It primarily dealt with business and how they're all linked together regardless of nation states or governments or groups of people. He said corporations run everything and eventually they would run the entire world.

Paddy was a prophet because it's absolutely incredible he predicted it, and a full decade plus before Soviet communism collapsed. Globalism couldn't exist because you couldn't simply set up a factory in a Shithole and undercut the workers back home because there was a good chance a communist insurgency was underway and if they came to power you'd lose everything.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 05, 2018 07:15 PM (4ErVI)

459 Nice Roomy Margins.

Posted by: SteveOReno , I proudly self-identify as a Moron at November 05, 2018 07:15 PM (2sCft)

460 368 I am a bit more optimistic than ace, because 1. I really don't think wussy "mainstream Republicans" are that numerous outside of DC and media centers like NYC (Kasich did his best to oppose Trump in 2016. How did that work out for him in Ohio?) and 2. a loss of wimpy NeverTrumpers will be balanced by the Walkaway Dems who have finally recognized their party is batshit insane.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at November 05, 2018 07:05 PM (d6Ksn)

______________________________

THis... I got a wake up call on what's really going on when I did a visit to my parents recently (both in late eighties). I expected them to be a little put off by Trump's antics. They are old school when propriety is involved (grammar correcting old school of complete strangers).

Well, let's put it this way. Mom voted early and went straight red ticket...Dad likes the pageantry of putting on a suit and driving to the polling place all on election day. He's going all republican as well.

Now, here's the kicker. I got a lecture from both of them that I better get in there and vote so that President Trump gets the support he deserves. I then got a lecture on the deep state, Clinton's latest racist comments, and how Jeff Sessions needs to be "put out to pasture where he can stand around with all the other dairy cows staring at passing cars."

Posted by: Orson at November 05, 2018 07:15 PM (lKLdH)

461 Unfortunately, the Neo Nazis didn't ALL leave that place. I run into a lot of Skinheads / White pride jackholes from that area at local Punk / Metal Shows.

Posted by: garrett at November 05, 2018 07:13 PM (Kc4Br)

They are an odd bunch; don't like people of color yet when I ran into them at bars, etc. inevitably one of them would try to pick me up (this was over 14 years ago). The younger ones were confused.

Posted by: IC at November 05, 2018 07:15 PM (a0IVu)

462 Martha McSally must have done a great anthem at the ASU football game on Saturday.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, coffee times three at November 05, 2018 07:14 PM (ggZRr)
She sounded great. The Commie got to do the coin flip. Commie would have sung too, but she doesn't know the words to the National Anthem.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at November 05, 2018 07:15 PM (d6Ksn)

463 Trump's like the 5th Beatle.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 05, 2018 07:16 PM (ZifzP)

464 >>>>Coeur D'Alene





Unfortunately, the Neo Nazis didn't ALL leave that place. I run
into a lot of Skinheads / White pride jackholes from that area at local
Punk / Metal Shows.

Posted by: garrett

This is true.

Also, I met Mark Furman at a gas station while I was filling up one time in north CDA. Actually seemed like a nice guy.


Posted by: Under Fire at November 05, 2018 07:16 PM (r9UYA)

465 It's so hard to generalize when you're dealing with all of these individual races.
I have no idea how everything will pan out.

Will Indies or Dems who voted for Trump in 2016 necessarily vote for a GOP Cong-person? I dunno.

Will RINOs who hate Trump really vote for a nasty moonbat over a Romneyesque GOPer? I doubt it.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at November 05, 2018 07:16 PM (Rxduq)

466 actually david lee roth doesn't have a squeaky voice at the beginning of the aaaaaaahWHoooAHHHHHH.
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That was me. On "Werewolves of London." David Lee Roth couldn't carry my jock strap.

Posted by: Warren Zevon at November 05, 2018 07:16 PM (hjaPQ)

467 I say we keep the House, and gain 3 in the Senate.
Posted by: grammie winger at November 05, 2018 06:23

Agreed, but I think we get more like 5-7 in the Senate. There may be a Cavanaugh effect, my wife HATES what they did to him, I've heard anecdotally that women are more pissed about that than men. It destroys women's credibility when just a partisan hatchet job.

Has anyone seen Uncle Palp lately, he was prolific here and then just disappeared?

Posted by: Farmer at November 05, 2018 07:16 PM (yJ1e6)

468 2
soo much content to read

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 05, 2018 06:18 PM (GBteo)

3
and, like, zero pictures.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 05, 2018 06:18 PM (GBteo)

At least there is no math.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 05, 2018 07:16 PM (UsCnO)

469 Fuhrman

Posted by: Under Fire at November 05, 2018 07:16 PM (r9UYA)

470 If the dick-gobbeling, shit-sippers at National Review had even a passing knowledge of the pulse of the country, they would be able to point to a single issue they took the lead on before it became popular.

They can't.

Fuck them naval-gazing pud pounders

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at November 05, 2018 07:16 PM (TN1P5)

471 I'm really skeptical of Ras polls when he says blacks are at 40% trump approval. I just don't buy that. 20%? Maaaaaaaaybe. But 40%? There's no way that shit is real. If it were we'd be talking about 65 GOP senate seats and 350 house seats.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 07:17 PM (6nRrz)

472 I just can't see more R's being turned off by Trump in 2018 than they were in 2016 as a percentage (and we still won). There was extra heavy group think going on before Trump was a proven commodity about "bad example to our children" and other virtue signalling and false justification for squishy R's.

Now that he's actually delivering the goods in an objective right of center manner, the remnants of the still NeverTrumpers are really the NeverCons who have permanently taken off their masks and are waiting for a European style schism of political landscape to take place to join back in.

Also this is a much more indirect non Trump election.
I just don't see any significant number R voters going out of their way and motivated to hurt Candidates (RINOS or otherwise) in order to "Stop Trump"

-------------------------------------------------------------------
Having said that, I certainly think the D vote will be more intense and have a stronger motivated (by anti Trump delirium) turnout than typical midterms and may very well have an impact on the outcome.

Posted by: TheATL at November 05, 2018 07:17 PM (r725l)

473 Karl Rove is a real dick. He doesn't even gobble them down at the bag of dicks/dick on a stick truck because that would make him a cannibal.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at November 05, 2018 07:17 PM (xzqr4)

474 Yeah. PA goes blue because the GOP here are all small towners and can't think straight.

Look at the last Gov candidates they ran.

Total morons.

The redistricting is screwing things up but the Senate race isn't affected.

And yep; no signs, no ads, no nothing. No Trump either much. He was here earlier for the special elections and hasn't really been back in the blue sections.

Still we might help with the House vote.

Posted by: jakee308 at November 05, 2018 07:17 PM (HznPX)

475 404 everybody wants some intro

Posted by: MAxIE, mentioned in dispatches at November 05, 2018 07:17 PM (9TR2V)

476 I will vote; I always do, but I'm pessimistic about my area, which used to be reliably Republican but has shifted steadily Democrat in recent years.

The phenomenon of liberals moving into conservative areas and changing them is going on all over the country. It's like a virus, and I don't see how to stop it. It does not bode well for the future.

Posted by: rickl at November 05, 2018 07:17 PM (sdi6R)

477 Welp, John (PBUH) Brennan tells Dems Republicans must be defeated.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 05, 2018 07:17 PM (ptqGC)

478 Ace needs to put the bottle doewn and get a clue.

Who the Hell did he think voted Donald Trump into office 2 years ago.

"Mainstream Republicans" vote at high rates. This includes liberal Republicans.

Then where the Hell were they when Zippy ran in '08 and '12.

Any clown that uses Erick Erickson's "cuckservative" that much is just like him, a lot of talk and no guts, somebody who'd rather see a Republican lose than a Democrat.

Posted by: formwiz at November 05, 2018 07:17 PM (3rwvI)

479 Orson - your parents are awesome.

Posted by: grammie winger at November 05, 2018 07:18 PM (lwiT4)

480 >> I met Mark Furman at a gas station while I was filling up


The Sausage King of Couer d'Alene!

Posted by: garrett at November 05, 2018 07:18 PM (Kc4Br)

481 Who sings:
If I was a carpenter...and you were a lady...would you marry me anyway, would you have my baby?

Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at November 05, 2018 07:00 PM (n4u2O)

Posted by: Tim Hardin (who already voted at November 05, 2018 07:18 PM (8rPCR)

482 Fuck Mitt Romney. Just. Fuck him.

I sucked it up and voted for him. I fucking did some volunteer work for that taint licker.

And he turned around and oh no I can't support Trump, heavens not THAT!

Fuck him in particular.

Posted by: alexthechick - Superelite Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at November 05, 2018 07:18 PM (dEQP3)

483 I'm really skeptical of Ras polls when he says blacks are at 40% trump approval.

That certainly doesn't imply they will vote for *other* Republicans, but it bodes well for Trump's reelection.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 05, 2018 07:18 PM (yQpMk)

484 You are thinking of Bret Michaels, Ace.

Posted by: garrett at November 05, 2018 07:18 PM (Kc4Br)

485 454
Also, black vote. Trump with 40% or so approval...

Posted by: runner at November 05, 2018 07:15 PM (bUjCl)

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Isn't it funny how the GOPe was all about increasing their share of the minority vote and their only idea of how to do it was be just like Democrats?

And then along comes Trump. And instead of offering more handouts, he actually provides real JOBS through fair trade agreements.

But this isn't "expanding the GOP" according to Jonah Goldberg, because it doesn't include enough affluent squishes. To Goldberg, black voters are invisible and unworthy of attention. Better to gain a handful of RINOs in northern Virginia than shift the entire voting loyalty of 13 percent of the population.

What a useless tool.

Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 05, 2018 07:18 PM (cfSRQ)

486 Legend has it, if you touch the Scalp Weasel you become immortal.
Posted by: eleven at November 05, 2018 07:14 PM (NLLmE)


It cures scrofula. And Obamacare.

Posted by: filbert at November 05, 2018 07:18 PM (953wK)

487 Well we all knew how that worked out. No worries. No Worries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1vWK2yf9Y0

Posted by: Key West Reader at November 05, 2018 07:19 PM (FMgH2)

488 The phenomenon of liberals moving into conservative
areas and changing them is going on all over the country. It's like a
virus, and I don't see how to stop it. It does not bode well for the
future.

Posted by: rickl at November 05, 2018 07:17 PM (sdi6R)


THIS. The number of these locusts who have moved to GA for the low taxes, higher quality of living, and who set about to IMMEDIATELY turn it into NY, NJ, IL, or CA is stunning.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 05, 2018 07:19 PM (ptqGC)

489 >>>475 404 everybody wants some intro


YES! I just checked. I thought it was running with the devil but everybody wants some is closer to what I was thinking. At least it has the aaaahhwhoahh combination (though not the one I was thinking of).

But I say you're right.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 07:19 PM (PbpT7)

490 Man Cruz can bloviate. Keep it pithy Ted.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 05, 2018 07:19 PM (/tuJf)

491 This is why this onslaught this year with accounts being banned and other shenanigans. The left and their willing dope the NT's suddenly realized we were using the internet to find out the truth.
---------------------

Their realization only appeared sudden. It wasn't sudden. The Left is always about three years ahead of where they seem to be. The internet takeover has been planned for a LONG time. Probably why Bambi sold it off to Europe (not sure about that though).

The bannings were going to start with a quickness under Her Hagness due to "threats to national security and the WH". Can you imagine?

Posted by: ... at November 05, 2018 07:19 PM (uEbPt)

492 475 Many bongs were immolated using that album as the soundtrack

Posted by: MAxIE, mentioned in dispatches at November 05, 2018 07:19 PM (9TR2V)

493 it was supposed to be Running With the Devil but I was wrong.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 07:13 PM (PbpT7)
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GoddamitladyyouknowIain'tlyingtoya

Posted by: DLR at November 05, 2018 07:20 PM (vDqXW)

494 What a useless tool.
Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 05, 2018 07:18 PM (cfSRQ)

He is a fool.

Posted by: runner at November 05, 2018 07:20 PM (bUjCl)

495 Something something the Enlightenment blah blah Rousseau yadda yadda Locke, and therefore the plan was that after white Americans became a demographic minority only then we would remove our masks and take our places among our liberal brothers and sisters at the head of the New American Progressive Multicultural Republic of Retributive Social Justice with our Heroes of the NAPMRRSJ medals around our necks, a new country that for once would appreciate the contributions scheming disingenuous intellectuals like myself make to the world and elevate us to the ruling elite status we deserve and I could finally rid myself of these filthy dogs I had to pretend to like in order to make me seem like a normie and then that priggish useful idiot David French I had to pretend to admire will be one of the first I get to send to the gulag but that fucking white nationalist vulgarian orange man fucked everything the fuck up...

Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at November 05, 2018 07:20 PM (DuAZ5)

496 What filbert said just above.

And Brunette, maybe, too.

My "model" for this election, as many others I know, includes the possibility of red tsunami. Never bought "blue wave", literally not for a minute.

Various reasons. I think fundamentals, except obviously for # of House GOP seats open/in Hillary districts, have always favored GOP. The Dem tantrum and ridiculous "positioning" on issues should really endanger Dem prospects.

Posted by: Rhomboid at November 05, 2018 07:20 PM (NyQaH)

497 I think Ace is being too pessimistic and gives the Cucks too much credit. Conservatives have finally had a taste of victory and we're not giving it up.

Posted by: Iblis at November 05, 2018 07:20 PM (OXWT4)

498 489 Trust me I graduated a socali high school in 1981
I KNOW

Posted by: MAxIE, mentioned in dispatches at November 05, 2018 07:20 PM (9TR2V)

499 This may be an easy one, but which song does David Lee Roth begin with:

Oh! Ohghghgh yes!
Yea-yeayyyymm!
Haaa-yah!

Posted by: Hands at November 05, 2018 07:20 PM (786Ro)

500 runner, who's the uncool tool/fool?

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 05, 2018 07:21 PM (miE9U)

501 Fuck Mitt Romney. Just. Fuck him.



I sucked it up and voted for him. I fucking did some volunteer work for that taint licker.



And he turned around and oh no I can't support Trump, heavens not THAT!



Fuck him in particular.

Posted by: alexthechick - Superelite Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at November 05, 2018 07:18 PM (dEQP3)


Please come sit with me tomorrow night. My husband will be at his weekly "meeting" with his buddies. At a pub.

I'll be sitting home trying not to drink too heavily.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 05, 2018 07:21 PM (ptqGC)

502 YES! I just checked. I thought it was running with
the devil but everybody wants some is closer to what I was thinking. At
least it has the aaaahhwhoahh combination (though not the one I was
thinking of).



But I say you're right.

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 07:19 PM (PbpT7)

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If you'd grown up during the 80s you'd have a better grasp of their music.

We try to teach, but for some things, you had to be there.

Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 05, 2018 07:21 PM (cfSRQ)

503 Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 07:07 PM (6nRrz)

........

Finally got the critique.

I got uptaken by the moment and blew the margins recently.

I know better but . . . .

36 hours margin blasting free.

If you use apple padlettes, you don't get the issue.

Posted by: Smaug at November 05, 2018 07:21 PM (DMcz+)

504 What I find most enraging about thetacucks like Goldberg is the absolute willingness to make common cause with people who will absolutely abuse the power of government, once they regain control.

That thetacuck Goldberg is willing to see persecution of conservatives for political beliefs be turned up to 11 enrages me.

It will not end well, yet these supposedly "smaht" people cannot see beyond their petty little grievance mongering.
Posted by: Blake - used trebuchet salesman at November 05, 2018 06:37 PM (qC1Sy)

Goldberg and his ilk are in the "shoot me last" division. They don't think of themselves as part of the people but above it, and the reason they aren't Democrats is that they don't even want to pretend they are for the regular man in the street. Back in the day the NRO crowd was the ultra elite fighting the Dems in the eastern Elite dens. Now the new generation doesn't have any actual accomplishments to make elite pretentions even understandable. The bulk of the Republicans even back then cared little for the NRO Ivy League Rs, this bunch isn't worth spit.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 05, 2018 07:21 PM (FTPn0)

505 Man Cruz can bloviate. Keep it pithy Ted.


Ted doesn't speak in public, he orates.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at November 05, 2018 07:21 PM (yQpMk)

506 RCP just added Arizona to their GOP total on the No toss up page. Martha McSally must have done a great anthem at the ASU football game on Saturday.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, coffee times three at November 05, 2018 07:14 PM (ggZRr)
**********************
Was it the AZ race that had a 3rd Party lib candidate that dropped out and endorsed Sinema? If so, won't that only help the Dems. or am I thinking about someone else.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 05, 2018 07:21 PM (hECVl)

507 Hands, if we answer correctly, what do we win?

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 05, 2018 07:21 PM (miE9U)

508 Fuck Mitt Romney. Just. Fuck him.


Remember when he went to visit Trump at Mar A Lago?

Trump put him in a choke hold and clipped off some of Mitt's hair. Then kicked his ass out the door.


Mitt just can't get past it.


Posted by: mikeyG at November 05, 2018 07:21 PM (LL1Be)

509 Now, here's the kicker. I got a lecture from both of them that I better get in there and vote so that President Trump gets the support he deserves. I then got a lecture on the deep state, Clinton's latest racist comments, and how Jeff Sessions needs to be "put out to pasture where he can stand around with all the other dairy cows staring at passing cars."

Posted by: Orson at November 05, 2018 07:15 PM (lKLdH)

Marvelous! May your parents live another twenty years!

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 05, 2018 07:22 PM (4ErVI)

510 471 I'm really skeptical of Ras polls when he says blacks are at 40% trump approval. I just don't buy that. 20%? Maaaaaaaaybe. But 40%? There's no way that shit is real. If it were we'd be talking about 65 GOP senate seats and 350 house seats.
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I've seen this number floating around but think there was some serious misreading or bad interpretation. What is the source for this?

I highly doubt anything over a 25% general approval rating among blacks and even that would be incredible.

There may have been a single issue of his that had that approval or something cherry picked like that.

Posted by: TheATL at November 05, 2018 07:22 PM (r725l)

511 It's true, no election is the most important election ever.

But any election could be the last.

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at November 05, 2018 07:22 PM (kSock)

512 runner, who's the uncool tool/fool?
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 05, 2018 07:21 PM (miE9U)

NAtional Review's own Jonah Goldberg.

Posted by: runner at November 05, 2018 07:22 PM (bUjCl)

513 240 For CA residents, politicaldata.org lets you track how your candidate is doing w/ early votes.
Posted by: IC at November 05, 2018 06:53 PM (a0IVu)



Thanks! Sacramento here. You?

Posted by: Curmudgeon at November 05, 2018 07:22 PM (ujg0T)

514 Man Cruz can bloviate. Keep it pithy Ted.

The Beast would have mopped the floor with his ass.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 05, 2018 07:22 PM (ptqGC)

515 >>480
>> I met Mark Furman at a gas station while I was filling up





The Sausage King of Couer d'Alene!

Posted by: garrett

lol

I've doe some off road riding northeast of CDA. I think this is where most of the skinheads hang/live. Honestly, some areas are like Appalachia.

Posted by: Under Fire at November 05, 2018 07:22 PM (r9UYA)

516 David Lee Roth and his stupid bare ass poster

Posted by: kallisto at November 05, 2018 07:22 PM (+/IpI)

517 can't wait to vote tomorrow. I hope it's POURING here. Rain, thunder, lightning, gale-force winds. Bring. It.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 05, 2018 06:29

LOL, I was thinking the same thing. Hope it rains all over eastcoast big cities and keeps the wussies Dems at home!

Posted by: Farmer at November 05, 2018 07:23 PM (yJ1e6)

518 Very well said Ace. Very well said.


We'll see what comes...



That's what she said.

Posted by: prescient11 at November 05, 2018 07:23 PM (q+HNC)

519
I'll be sitting home trying not to drink too heavily.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 05, 2018 07:21 PM (ptqGC)

Jane!!! How are you? Did you hav a good trip?

Posted by: moki at November 05, 2018 07:23 PM (mFoNl)

520 Was it the AZ race that had a 3rd Party lib
candidate that dropped out and endorsed Sinema? If so, won't that only
help the Dems. or am I thinking about someone else.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 05, 2018 07:21 PM (hECVl)

That was Montana. Breckenridge dropped out last week and endorsed Rosendale over Tester.

Posted by: Dan K. at November 05, 2018 07:23 PM (b1sqO)

521 I think the Pollsters are having a LOT of trouble getting anyone on the Right to answer their calls.

I know that the Left is not likely to be giving Pollsters false info. Whereas a LOT of Republican/Conservatives actively seek to taint their Polls.


I think you better be sure to have some Pudding Cups at hand, tomorrow night - Ace.

Posted by: garrett at November 05, 2018 07:23 PM (Kc4Br)

522 Remember when he went to visit Trump at Mar A Lago?

Trump put him in a choke hold and clipped off some of Mitt's hair. Then kicked his ass out the door.


Mitt just can't get past it.


Posted by: mikeyG at November 05, 2018 07:21 PM (LL1Be)



Awesome visual.

Posted by: eleven at November 05, 2018 07:23 PM (NLLmE)

523 drop your link into tinyurl dot com and you are good

Posted by: runner at November 05, 2018 07:23 PM (bUjCl)

524 >>>499 This may be an easy one, but which song does David Lee Roth begin with:

Oh! Ohghghgh yes!
Yea-yeayyyymm!
Haaa-yah!

...

no idea. This is an easy one?

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 07:23 PM (PbpT7)

525 Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 07:11 PM (6nRrz)

nice article. it was written in 2013.
CDA is getting liberal.
go north to Lake Pend Oreille. Or Bonner's Ferry

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 05, 2018 07:24 PM (d7Ww2)

526 FFS Trump voters do NOT self-report honestly. Most out of security considerations and the rest for humor.

See: Election 2016

Posted by: ... at November 05, 2018 07:24 PM (uEbPt)

527 Thomas Wictor: After the midterms, I hope that the perpetually fearful and faithless Trump "supporter" finally accept that they have won.

Posted by: JAS at November 05, 2018 07:24 PM (3HNOQ)

528 488
THIS. The number of these locusts who have moved to GA for the low taxes, higher quality of living, and who set about to IMMEDIATELY turn it into NY, NJ, IL, or CA is stunning.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 05, 2018 07:19 PM (ptqGC)


And also the Californians fleeing and infesting AZ, NM, CO, and NV. It's like a seed pod bursting and scattering its seeds.

Posted by: rickl at November 05, 2018 07:24 PM (sdi6R)

529 This is why this onslaught this year with accounts being banned and other shenanigans. The left and their willing dope the NT's suddenly realized we were using the internet to find out the truth.
---------------------

Their realization only appeared sudden. It wasn't sudden. The Left is always about three years ahead of where they seem to be. The internet takeover has been planned for a LONG time. Probably why Bambi sold it off to Europe (not sure about that though).

The bannings were going to start with a quickness under Her Hagness due to "threats to national security and the WH". Can you imagine?
Posted by: ... at November 05, 2018 07:19 PM (uEbPt)

I don't agree there. They were happy enough with Social and Alternative Media when it was working in their favor. The failure of the old tactics in 2016 woke them up and they are trying to put the fragments back together. Likely it won't work, bannings or not.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 05, 2018 07:24 PM (FTPn0)

530 I pray we win, that's all.


and Coeur D'Alene ? I don't think i'd fit in.

Posted by: willow at November 05, 2018 07:24 PM (iIw4v)

531 >>I've doe some off road riding northeast of CDA. I think this is where most of the skinheads hang/live. Honestly, some areas are like Appalachia.


Yeah, I mountain bike up there from time to time.

But I don't like it there.

Posted by: garrett at November 05, 2018 07:24 PM (Kc4Br)

532 Oh! Ohghghgh yes!
Yea-yeayyyymm!
Haaa-yah!
Posted by: Hands at November 05, 2018 07:20 PM (786Ro)

---------

Sounds like Gypsy Rose.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at November 05, 2018 07:24 PM (I16G8)

533 Don't forget all the illegals that Obama bussed to different cities and states for 8 years.

A lot of Democrat votes are coming from them.

They talk like voter id can stop that. It can't. Illegals get documents that look or are genuine.

They then get a DL and boom they can register and vote with NOOOO problem.

That's in ANY STATE.

We may already have lost the country to the Dems. They just misstepped for the Presidency and his popularity may last past 2020 but all that's happened is a delay and not a stake thru the heart.

Posted by: jakee308 at November 05, 2018 07:24 PM (HznPX)

534 Whatever happens tomorrow, Twitter will become even more insufferable.

Posted by: wooga at November 05, 2018 07:24 PM (U58U6)

535 >>Whereas a LOT of Republican/Conservatives actively seek to taint their Polls.

You just wanted an excuse to say taint and poll in the same sentence.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 05, 2018 07:25 PM (/tuJf)

536 and how Jeff Sessions needs to be "put out to pasture where he can stand around with all the other dairy cows staring at passing cars."

Posted by: Orson at November 05, 2018 07:15 PM



I read "around" as "aroused". What a mental image.

Posted by: Hands at November 05, 2018 07:25 PM (786Ro)

537 An estimated 15% of Trump voters also voted for Obama. Like 9 million.

Posted by: ... at November 05, 2018 07:25 PM (uEbPt)

538 The phenomenon of liberals moving into conservative areas and changing them is going on all over the country. It's like a virus, and I don't see how to stop it. It does not bode well for the future.


----

wall
barbed wire
troops

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at November 05, 2018 07:25 PM (NhgkA)

539 Jane!!! How are you? Did you hav a good trip?

Posted by: moki at November 05, 2018 07:23 PM (mFoNl)


It was amazing. We walked with a pair of wild lions (seriously), were charged by a bull elephant, and visited our African student's bro and SiL in Zimbabwe at Vic Falls. Too much to tell here, and bore everyone to tears.

And we DID experience the Rain Down In Africa....one evening in Botswana.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 05, 2018 07:25 PM (ptqGC)

540 Being in Oregon, not sure it matters in this state. The RINO in the governor's race will lose, maybe only by a point or two, but still will lose (as goes Portland, so goes the state).

Posted by: JPV at November 05, 2018 07:25 PM (T6elx)

541 Oh! Ohghghgh yes!
Yea-yeayyyymm!
Haaa-yah!
Posted by: Hands at November 05, 2018 07:20 PM (786Ro)
---
Eruption?

Posted by: Axeman at November 05, 2018 07:25 PM (vDqXW)

542 I've seen this number floating around but think there was some serious misreading or bad interpretation. What is the source for this?

I highly doubt anything over a 25% general approval rating among blacks and even that would be incredible.

There may have been a single issue of his that had that approval or something cherry picked like that.
Posted by: TheATL at November 05, 2018 07:22 PM (r725l)


It was one poll from Rasmussen that was obviously an outlier and every conservative jumped on it. IIRC the sample size was something like 30 blacks, which is ridiculously low.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 07:25 PM (6nRrz)

543 Fuck Mitt Romney. Just. Fuck him.



I sucked it up and voted for him. I fucking did some volunteer work for that taint licker.



And he turned around and oh no I can't support Trump, heavens not THAT!



Fuck him in particular.

Posted by: alexthechick - Superelite Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at November 05, 2018 07:18 PM (dEQP3)

Well yeah... fuck him in particular is a given. What did he say about Trump now?

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at November 05, 2018 07:25 PM (F/KeJ)

544 I am sad that the rally is over.

Buh Bye super hot blonde mom in the white turtleneck.


Call me!

Posted by: mikeyG at November 05, 2018 07:25 PM (LL1Be)

545 Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 07:07 PM (6nRrz)

50 lashes with a wet noodle.

Posted by: Tim Hardin (who already voted at November 05, 2018 07:26 PM (8rPCR)

546
We may already have lost the country to the Dems. They just misstepped for the Presidency and his popularity may last past 2020 but all that's happened is a delay and not a stake thru the heart.
Posted by: jakee308


Speed bump

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 05, 2018 07:26 PM (aKsyK)

547 Steyer bought the NC 9th race

Posted by: NCKate at November 05, 2018 07:26 PM (1ngXt)

548 "Trump-supporting Republicans might not vote?"

REALLY, Ace? Been reading the EV (early vote) news? They have been real troopers so far. IF there's a problem, & I did say IF, it will be with indies.

That article Ace quoted about the "DEM-RINO alliance" is from Henry Olsen. I like & admire him, but he has a huge bug up his ass about the "Obama/Trump voters," & how the failure of the GOP to cater to them is a YUUGE mistake..

A bug the size of Mothra.

Posted by: strawdog at November 05, 2018 07:26 PM (Cssks)

549 . . . did some volunteer work for that taint licker.

alexthechick - Superelite Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at November 05, 2018 07:18 PM (dEQP3)
..........

Romcuck and I agree on one thing. Like all girly parts

Posted by: Smaug at November 05, 2018 07:26 PM (DMcz+)

550 >> It's like a virus, and I don't see how to stop it.


Defund the University System.

Make sure students Vote in their Home States and NOT at Universities where they are paying out of State Tuition rates.

Posted by: garrett at November 05, 2018 07:26 PM (Kc4Br)

551 RCP just added Arizona to their GOP total on the No toss up page. Martha McSally must have done a great anthem at the ASU football game on Saturday.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, coffee times three at November 05, 2018 07:14 PM (ggZRr)
**********************
Was it the AZ race that had a 3rd Party lib candidate that dropped out and endorsed Sinema? If so, won't that only help the Dems. or am I thinking about someone else.
Posted by: redridinghood at November 05, 2018 07:21 PM (hECVl)

That was Tester in Montana, and the 3rd party guy endorsed the Republican.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 05, 2018 07:26 PM (FTPn0)

552 Half the reason Trump is getting 40%or more of the black vote is simple. You have informed black voters, discounted by the no good commie dems. Then you have the young, ill informed, who think Trump is a a bad muthafucka (I'm talkin about Trump) and (we can dig it).

Posted by: bill in arkansas at November 05, 2018 07:27 PM (xzqr4)

553 Alex, yes I'll never trust Him or a Bush again.

Posted by: willow at November 05, 2018 07:27 PM (iIw4v)

554

President Trump: "You are loyal and faithful to your country, and now you have a president who is loyal to you."


What is better than that!?!

Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at November 05, 2018 07:27 PM (n4u2O)

555 For Real Republicans, the most important issues are support of open borders, corporate tax cuts, and transgender rights.

Posted by: A Real Republican at November 05, 2018 07:27 PM (TEv5V)

556 Cradle Will Rock

Posted by: MAxIE, mentioned in dispatches at November 05, 2018 07:27 PM (9TR2V)

557
Posted by: Under Fire at November 05, 2018 07:22 PM (r9UYA)

Sandpoint?

Posted by: clutch at November 05, 2018 07:27 PM (kiSdp)

558 no idea. This is an easy one?
Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 07:23 PM



That's what I get for trying to transcribe DLR verbatim.

Answer is here
https://youtu.be/IArxakPsPE0

Posted by: Hands at November 05, 2018 07:27 PM (786Ro)

559 And also the Californians fleeing and infesting AZ, NM, CO, and NV. It's like a seed pod bursting and scattering its seeds.

Posted by: rickl at November 05, 2018 07:24 PM (sdi6R)


Two things:
(1) Jared Polis will be next governor of CO, because he dumped about $35 million of his own money to buy it,

(2) Current Governor John Hickenlooper will announce he's in the presidential race.

Hickenlooper actually acts reasonable, which is the scary part.
He didn't raise taxes, but he does loves himself "fees".

Posted by: jwb7605 at November 05, 2018 07:27 PM (uU9ws)

560 >>536
and how Jeff Sessions needs to be "put out to pasture where he can
stand around with all the other dairy cows staring at passing cars."



Posted by: Orson

I nominated Tom Fitton earlier as his replacement.

Posted by: Under Fire at November 05, 2018 07:27 PM (r9UYA)

561 I do believe there is some similarity between Obama and Trump in that many people voted for each of them but didn't really care about mid-terms.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 07:27 PM (6nRrz)

562 497
I think Ace is being too pessimistic and gives the Cucks too much
credit. Conservatives have finally had a taste of victory and we're not
giving it up.

Posted by: Iblis at November 05, 2018 07:20 PM (OXWT4)
Well, there is something to be said for being a pessimist. If the worst does happen, you've prepared yourself. if things go well, you're delighted to be proven wrong.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at November 05, 2018 07:28 PM (d6Ksn)

563 President Trump: "You are loyal and faithful to your country, and now you have a president who is loyal to you."


What is better than that!?!
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at November 05, 2018 07:27 PM (n4u2O)



Beautiful, man.

Posted by: eleven at November 05, 2018 07:28 PM (NLLmE)

564 Who sings:

If I was a carpenter

Someone who wants to make more bread than me given the amount if lettuce I just forked over for my new kitchen cabinets.

Posted by: Boswell at November 05, 2018 07:28 PM (OjnQU)

565 499 This may be an easy one, but which song does David Lee Roth begin with:

Oh! Ohghghgh yes!
Yea-yeayyyymm!
Haaa-yah!

----

trick question.


All of Them

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at November 05, 2018 07:28 PM (NhgkA)

566 I don't see how you can be so pessimistic about the Trump supporters when you see how many of them turned out in 2016 and how many show up for Trump rallies to this day. We finally broke free of the milquetoast RINOs that were constantly foisted upon us, and we are not going back.

Posted by: Dilsin at November 05, 2018 07:28 PM (3OMsg)

567 557
Posted by: Under Fire at November 05, 2018 07:22 PM (r9UYA)

Sandpoint?
Posted by: clutch at November 05, 2018 07:27 PM (kiSdp)

Sandpont, ID. Just down the mountain for Schweitzer Ski resort. Super cool town. Good breweries.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 05, 2018 07:28 PM (d7Ww2)

568 It was one poll from Rasmussen that was obviously an
outlier and every conservative jumped on it. IIRC the sample size was
something like 30 blacks, which is ridiculously low.



Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 07:25 PM (6nRrz)

---
Other polling consistently showed it double the normal level.

Which would shift whole states out of "battleground" status.

Posted by: K.N. McBride at November 05, 2018 07:28 PM (cfSRQ)

569 He didn't raise taxes, but he does loves himself "fees".
Posted by: jwb7605 at November 05, 2018 07:27 PM (uU9ws)

___

The Romeny model in Mass, so then he could honestly say he didn't raise "taxes". Yeah asshole, a $1 fee is the same as a $1 tax.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 07:28 PM (6nRrz)

570 Jane, that sounds amazing! I am so glad you had a good time!

Posted by: moki at November 05, 2018 07:28 PM (mFoNl)

571 I see that my favorite vixen feels the same way I do about Mittens.



The guy is fucking evil. Full stop.

Posted by: prescient11 at November 05, 2018 07:29 PM (q+HNC)

572 >>This may be an easy one, but which song does David Lee Roth begin with:

>Oh! Ohghghgh yes!
Yea-yeayyyymm!
Haaa-yah!



Aqualung!

Posted by: garrett at November 05, 2018 07:29 PM (Kc4Br)

573 471 I'm really skeptical of Ras polls when he says blacks are at 40% trump approval. I just don't buy that. 20%? Maaaaaaaaybe. But 40%? There's no way that shit is real. If it were we'd be talking about 65 GOP senate seats and 350 house seats.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 07:17 PM (6nRrz)
-----------------------------
Even if approval of Trump really were that high, it would NOT (for the most part) translate to votes for the GOP candidate for Congress, Senate, governor. It wouldn't mean an abandonment of the Dems in those races.

The best we could hope for is depressed turnout.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at November 05, 2018 07:29 PM (Rxduq)

574 Here's one:

OHWWWW!!

Ohh yeah, git up!

aaaahhhh

Ow! Ow!

Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 07:29 PM (PbpT7)

575
Was it the AZ race that had a 3rd Party lib candidate that dropped out and endorsed Sinema? If so, won't that only help the Dems. or am I thinking about someone else.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 05, 2018 07:21 PM (hECVl)

That was Montana. Breckenridge dropped out last week and endorsed Rosendale over Tester.


I think the Green Party lib dropped out of the AZ race.

Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at November 05, 2018 07:29 PM (TAmPV)

576 >>557


Posted by: Under Fire at November 05, 2018 07:22 PM (r9UYA)



Sandpoint?

Posted by: clutch

Not that far north. East of the lake up in the mountains.

Posted by: Under Fire at November 05, 2018 07:30 PM (r9UYA)

577 NBC EV analysis.


Hmmmm


https://tinyurl.com/yae66lnb

Posted by: Ha at November 05, 2018 07:30 PM (MAstk)

578 Shit I can't find the link right now but apparently the NYT is changing the manner in which it's electoral night needle thing works in order to save people emotional distress.

Posted by: alexthechick - Superelite Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at November 05, 2018 07:30 PM (dEQP3)

579 President Trump: "You are loyal and faithful to your country, and now you have a president who is loyal to you."
--------I am thankful he lasted through all the crapfest he and his family has had to listen to.

Posted by: willow at November 05, 2018 07:30 PM (iIw4v)

580 3rd rally of the day coming up. This will be the one with Rush and Hammity.

Posted by: freaked at November 05, 2018 07:30 PM (UdKB7)

581 I was just in another state - a conservative purplish one - and in one of the ads there the Democrat running for Congress never ONCE mentions that he's a Democrat - and he ends the commercial by smugly firing a rifle like a REAL toughguy Republican who LURRRRVES his second amendment sexually. Though he never says it of course. We call this move the the Triple Manchin.

This is what I assume these cocksucking assholes are doing all over the country. Is it effective.......?

Posted by: ... at November 05, 2018 07:30 PM (uEbPt)

582 Jane, that sounds amazing! I am so glad you had a good time!

Posted by: moki at November 05, 2018 07:28 PM (mFoNl)------------------------

Thanks. It was exhausting and thrilling and we learned a lot. About the political situation in SA from people who are living it, and saw first hand the pitiful state of Zimbabwe.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 05, 2018 07:30 PM (ptqGC)

583 If I was a carpenter

Posted by: Boswell at November 05, 2018 07:28 PM (OjnQU)
----
Me, for 50 bucks! Aaaaahhaaahahahaghheeeeee!!!

Posted by: Lounge Dave at November 05, 2018 07:30 PM (vDqXW)

584 I highly doubt anything over a 25% general approval rating among blacks and even that would be incredible.

There may have been a single issue of his that had that approval or something cherry picked like that.
Posted by: TheATL at November 05, 2018 07:22 PM (r725l)

Don't discount.

Think about the sample.

Baby mommas with kids with a job.

Middle class with baby mommas that has children.

Middle class seeing more in their paycheck.

The AA's are tired of seeing no way up.

To oversimplify, Kayne was the light.

Posted by: golfman at November 05, 2018 07:30 PM (If3tB)

585 The polls will be thrusting till their blue tomorrow.

Posted by: Celina Montgomery at November 05, 2018 07:30 PM (qTBpx)

586 alex & redbanzai

My beef with Romney is that he should have been out there dragging Rep. Mia Love (R-inc) over the finish line in Salt Lake City, instead of beating his sanctimonious gums about Trump.

STFU & do something USEFUL, Mitt.

Love is always in deep doo-doo because she's LAZY and INCOMPETENT, so we have to work extra hard to make sure she wins!

Posted by: strawdog at November 05, 2018 07:30 PM (Cssks)

587 I knew Mitt was a piece of shit when he picked that useless bottle of stale piss Paulie "Cuckboy" Ryan. Mitt hasn't changed.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 05, 2018 07:31 PM (KP5rU)

588 Shit I can't find the link right now but apparently the NYT is changing the manner in which it's electoral night needle thing works in order to save people emotional distress.

Posted by: alexthechick - Superelite Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at November 05, 2018 07:30 PM (dEQP3)

-----------------------------

That's great. Sounds like they know they're gonna lose!!!! You think they'd want to protect US from heart attacks???

Posted by: ... at November 05, 2018 07:31 PM (uEbPt)

589 The Sausage King of Couer d'Alene!

Oh, my. Does he have a newsletter?

Posted by: Shemp! and Don at November 05, 2018 07:31 PM (Tyii7)

590 Make sure students Vote in their Home States and NOT at Universities where they are paying out of State Tuition rates.

Remember the guy complaining a day or two ago that he wasn't allowed to vote in Tennessee while going to college, because his driver license and car registration was still in Georgia?

After all, his insurance rates would have gone up if he had admitted to the insurance company that he had moved. Surely lack of in-state ID, and committing insurance fraud, should not be a barrier to voting.

Posted by: The ARC of History at November 05, 2018 07:31 PM (TEv5V)

591 551 RCP just added Arizona to their GOP total on the No toss up page. Martha McSally must have done a great anthem at the ASU football game on Saturday.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, coffee times three at November 05, 2018 07:14 PM (ggZRr)
**********************
Was it the AZ race that had a 3rd Party lib candidate that dropped out and endorsed Sinema? If so, won't that only help the Dems. or am I thinking about someone else.
Posted by: redridinghood at November 05, 2018 07:21 PM (hECVl)

That was Tester in Montana, and the 3rd party guy endorsed the Republican.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 05, 2018 07:26 PM (FTPn0)



Nah, someone mentioned the opposite a day or two after the Montana one. I want to say it was in Oregon though.

Posted by: buzzion at November 05, 2018 07:31 PM (zRwJ/)

592 I would never answer poll questions in the last few years. not after irs. b.s. and union b.s.

Posted by: willow at November 05, 2018 07:32 PM (iIw4v)

593 Lol at Grassley-- he is still fucking pissed at the treatment of Kauvanugh

He is out for kills

Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories at November 05, 2018 07:32 PM (TN1P5)

594 Was it the AZ race that had a 3rd Party lib
candidate that dropped out and endorsed Sinema? If so, won't that only
help the Dems. or am I thinking about someone else.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 05, 2018 07:21 PM (hECVl)



That was Tester in Montana, and the 3rd party guy endorsed the Republican.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 05, 2018 07:26 PM (FTPn0)

The Green candidate dropped out in Arizona and endorsed Sinema. I don't see it helping her since ballots were already printed and people vote Green to lodge a protest vote. They are not likely to switch to voting Dem I think.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at November 05, 2018 07:32 PM (F/KeJ)

595 566 I don't see how you can be so pessimistic about the Trump supporters when you see how many of them turned out in 2016 and how many show up for Trump rallies to this day.
Posted by: Dilsin at November 05, 2018 07:28 PM (3OMsg)

____

It's possible Trump has a small but very loud and loyal following that will show up to rallies. It's like that joke about hockey fans in NY. The Rangers get 20K for every game, but it's the same 20K, which is the total number of fans in the entire city.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 07:32 PM (6nRrz)

596 Trump-limbaugh-Hannity hour tonight should be epic !

Posted by: runner at November 05, 2018 07:32 PM (bUjCl)

597 That was Tester in Montana, and the 3rd party guy endorsed the Republican.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 05, 2018 07:26 PM (FTPn0)

And it happened in AZ as well.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 07:33 PM (6nRrz)

598 Is this article supposed to be a joke?

It sounds like a joke.

Wait, did Captain Kristol write this?

Give me a break with this incredibly insulting failure writing.

Posted by: Deborah at November 05, 2018 07:33 PM (2m84I)

599 Steyer bought the NC 9th race

Posted by: NCKate at November 05, 2018 07:26 PM (1ngXt)
*****************
Steyer and Soros are evil.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 05, 2018 07:33 PM (hECVl)

600 Shit I can't find the link right now but apparently the NYT is changing
the manner in which it's electoral night needle thing works in order to
save people emotional distress.

--

They must be doing it for Cenk Ughur. Everytime that needle moved on election night '16, he had to change his drawers. He was greatly affected by that...and it was glorious.

Posted by: Lady in Black - Death to the Man Bun at November 05, 2018 07:33 PM (JoUsr)

601
While it's 30 min until the sun touches the yardarm, I was born in Manhattan Kansas (waves at Nacly Dog), and thus biologically it's time for a drink.

I've some nice potato vodka, can do a vodka martini +/- dirty, or vodka rocks +/- lime... whats your preference ladies and germs?

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at November 05, 2018 07:33 PM (UFLLM)

602 516 David Lee Roth and his stupid bare ass poster
Posted by: kallisto at November 05, 2018 07:22 PM (+/IpI)

Speaking of bare ass posters...

Posted by: Warai-otoko's kilt is blowin' in the wind at November 05, 2018 07:33 PM (BRvh1)

603 434 As I recall it, the Ned Beatty speech in Network was basically the proto-neoconservative outlook on international politics. True?
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 05, 2018 06:57 PM (miE9U)

Also good: the international politics speech in 'Team America: World Police'.
Posted by: OregonMuse. AoSHQ Thought Leader & Pants Monitor at November 05, 2018 07:13 PM (+Bjf

We're dicks! We're reckless, arrogant, stupid dicks! And the Film Actors Guild...are pussies. And Kim Jong Il is an asshole!

Posted by: Insomniac at November 05, 2018 07:34 PM (NWiLs)

604 578 Shit I can't find the link right now but apparently the NYT is changing the manner in which it's electoral night needle thing works in order to save people emotional distress.
Posted by: alexthechick - Superelite Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at November 05, 2018 07:30 PM (dEQP3)



So they're gonna start it out at 50/50 this time instead of 90% Dem I'm guessing.

Posted by: buzzion at November 05, 2018 07:34 PM (zRwJ/)

605 Sandpont, ID. Just down the mountain for Schweitzer Ski resort. Super cool town. Good breweries.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 05, 2018 07:28 PM (d7Ww2)

I need to find someone in southern Idaho for a possible vacation next year. Anyone here live in south or south central ID?

Posted by: clutch at November 05, 2018 07:34 PM (kiSdp)

606 574 Here's one:

OHWWWW!!

Ohh yeah, git up!

aaaahhhh

Ow! Ow!
Posted by: Hillary Clinton's Fucked-Up Seizure-Eye at November 05, 2018 07:29 PM (PbpT7)


James Brown "Sex Machine"?

Posted by: rickl at November 05, 2018 07:34 PM (sdi6R)

607 NBC EV analysis.


Hmmmm


https://tinyurl.com/yae66lnb
Posted by: Ha at November 05, 2018 07:30 PM (MAstk)

Hahahaha !

Posted by: runner at November 05, 2018 07:35 PM (bUjCl)

608 is the total number of fans


Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 07:32 PM (6nRrz)

Sure, they all follow him around on airplanes to 3 rallies a day.

Posted by: We Are the Asteroid! at November 05, 2018 07:35 PM (hMISm)

609 566
I don't see how you can be so pessimistic about the Trump supporters
when you see how many of them turned out in 2016 and how many show up
for Trump rallies to this day. We finally broke free of the milquetoast
RINOs that were constantly foisted upon us, and we are not going back.


Posted by: Dilsin at November 05, 2018 07:28 PM (3OMsg)

To be fair a significant number of people in 2016 weren't voting for Trump, they were voting against Hillary. If the R's lose badly tomorrow that's the reason.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at November 05, 2018 07:35 PM (rnXGe)

610 NBC EV analysis.





Hmmmm





https://tinyurl.com/yae66lnb

Posted by: Ha at November 05, 2018 07:30 PM (MAstk)



Wow. There's not one instance of Dems out-voting Republicans.

Posted by: grammie winger at November 05, 2018 07:36 PM (lwiT4)

611 Warming up for the next rally by watching the Macon GA rally.


Cute Georgia crowd honeys! Kids eating cotton candy!


The Golden Glow of Obama being burned in effigy!



Posted by: mikeyG at November 05, 2018 07:36 PM (LL1Be)

612 I knew Mitt was a piece of shit when he picked that useless bottle of stale piss Paulie "Cuckboy" Ryan.

To be fair to Mitt (blah blah etc etc my 2012 vote), at the time I thought Ryan was the better half of the ticket.

At the time.

Hell, I might even have been right. Cthulhu / Satan 2012! If the President dies or is impeached, he'll be replaced with someone with at least a passing interest in humanity . . .

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 05, 2018 07:36 PM (ykYG2)

613 578
Shit I can't find the link right now but apparently the NYT is changing
the manner in which it's electoral night needle thing works in order to
save people emotional distress.

Posted by: alexthechick - Superelite Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at November 05, 2018 07:30 PM (dEQP3)
That needle was the best thing the Times has done in decades. I loved checking it on election night 2016 and seeing Trump's chances improve every time I refreshed the page.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at November 05, 2018 07:36 PM (d6Ksn)

614 interesting article on in Politico today on how Beto "Blew it". It doesn't take much reading between the lines to get that the GOP-E, which in Texas is basically the Bush Family + the CoC and their hangers on, has always hated Cruz and have been itching for a "moderate" dem that they could support and use to knock Cruz out of his seat. But Beto went all hard core open-borders Impeach Trump I hate white people, and even the GOP-e couldn't get on board with that. The article quotes "republicans" who tried to tell the Beto campaign what he needed to say to win, and how disappointed they are that Beto ignored them and played to his hard core out of state prog base instead.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 05, 2018 07:36 PM (V2Yro)

615 >>I need to find someone in southern Idaho for a possible vacation next year. Anyone here live in south or south central ID?

Posted by: clutch


There is Sun Valley which is beautiful any time of the year.

Posted by: Under Fire at November 05, 2018 07:36 PM (r9UYA)

616 So is Pelosi just whistling past a graveyard or lottery wishing?

Posted by: rammajamma at November 05, 2018 07:37 PM (mJmCN)

617 Fuckin' Mia Love. What a disappointment she became.

In a previous election, her Democrat opponent sent a flyer around with her pictured darkened until she looked like Manute Bol. Very "tolerant" people.

Posted by: ... at November 05, 2018 07:37 PM (uEbPt)

618 Stalin/Beria 2020!

Let's have Real Socialism, Comrades!

Posted by: The ARC of History at November 05, 2018 07:37 PM (TEv5V)

619 577 NBC EV analysis.


Hmmmm


https://tinyurl.com/yae66lnb
Posted by: Ha at November 05, 2018 07:30 PM (MAstk)



___

Without a comparison to 2016 or 2014 that is useless info, IMO.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 07:37 PM (6nRrz)

620 To be fair a significant number of people in 2016 weren't voting for Trump, they were voting against Hillary. If the R's lose badly tomorrow that's the reason.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at November 05, 2018 07:35 PM (rnXGe)
---
That would have been funny to see that campaign in this year!

Posted by: Axeman at November 05, 2018 07:37 PM (vDqXW)

621 >>To be fair a significant number of people in 2016 weren't voting for Trump, they were voting against Hillary. If the R's lose badly tomorrow that's the reason.

And you think that sentiment is unique to Hillary? McSally doesn't excite me but if I lived in AZ I would bust my ass to vote against that Sinema psycho.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 05, 2018 07:38 PM (/tuJf)

622 Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 07:32 PM (6nRrz)



Trump isn't going to the same city over and over again.

Posted by: grammie winger at November 05, 2018 07:38 PM (lwiT4)

623 The pep talk thing is just empty, there's not one person here who was going to skip voting until they read a post. Its just content, something Ace saw and thought he had something to say about, an analysis and thoughts on the topic.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 05, 2018 07:38 PM (39g3+)

624 You got to know when to post em
Know when to tiny url em
Know when to walk away
Know when to run

Posted by: Skip at November 05, 2018 07:38 PM (T4oHT)

625 This is what I assume these cocksucking assholes are doing all over the country. Is it effective.......?

Posted by: ... at November 05, 2018 07:30 PM (uEbPt)

No. Here it's a chick with problem glasses and she makes absolutely sure you know she's a Democrat.

She's down by 9 points

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 05, 2018 07:38 PM (4ErVI)

626 Posted by: Under Fire at November 05, 2018 07:36 PM (r9UYA)

I don't ski, I bird hunt. I'd like to find some in Idaho falls or west of there.

Posted by: clutch at November 05, 2018 07:38 PM (kiSdp)

627 601
While it's 30 min until the sun touches the yardarm, I was born in Manhattan Kansas (waves at Nacly Dog), and thus biologically it's time for a drink.

I've some nice potato vodka, can do a vodka martini +/- dirty, or vodka rocks +/- lime... whats your preference ladies and germs?
Posted by: In Vino Veritits at November 05, 2018 07:33 PM (UFLLM)
----------------
Small world: my husband and his whole family are from there. His grandparents owned the grocery store, back in the day.

Posted by: Brunette the 'Ette at November 05, 2018 07:38 PM (adsVM)

628 Pelosi's play is win-win-win.

If it comes true, she pulled a Trump and talked it into existence.

If it comes true, it hides Democrat cheating.

If it doesn't come true, Republicans cheated.


Posted by: ... at November 05, 2018 07:38 PM (uEbPt)

629 I've some nice potato vodka, can do a vodka martini +/- dirty, or vodka rocks +/- lime... whats your preference ladies and germs?
Posted by: In Vino Veritits

vodka tonic, plz

Posted by: Tim Hardin (who already voted at November 05, 2018 07:38 PM (8rPCR)

630 To be fair a significant number of people in 2016 weren't voting for Trump, they were voting against Hillary.

Not sure if you intented this in your comment, but here in Front Range CO the antiHillary voters went for McMuffin or Green Party or (especially) the pothead. They weren't voting for Trump... and didn't vote for Trump.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 05, 2018 07:39 PM (ykYG2)

631 "To be fair to Mitt (blah blah etc etc my 2012 vote), at the time I thought Ryan was the better half of the ticket."
Yep. The horde was excited about Ryan in 2012. We were once under the impression he was a solid conservative. Dahmer's coworkers were once under the impression he was a nice, quiet guy.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at November 05, 2018 07:39 PM (d6Ksn)

632 Everyone in this household votes conservative and gets a REAL threat: food with-held until 2020. (I am the cook of the house).

We vote tomorrow. Then off to the Legion for watching the returns.

Posted by: Cicero Boom chicka boom Kaboom! Kid at November 05, 2018 07:39 PM (D6K3O)

633 Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at November 05, 2018 07:38 PM (4ErVI)

Oh good, thank you!

Posted by: ... at November 05, 2018 07:39 PM (uEbPt)

634 Where do you get that Trump Republicans are likely to stay home? I think that maybe Trump democrats might not care about the midterms as much as supporting Trump in the Presidential elections, but I think his Republican supporters are very fired up.

Posted by: josephistan at November 05, 2018 07:39 PM (Izzlo)

635 One of the big reasons I want to keep the House, is that the Kruise Kucks will be cut off by their Democrat paymasters for failing to deliver enough RINO votes. Hopefully Bill Kristol dies up to his neck in debt with nobody to mourn his sorry carcass.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 05, 2018 07:39 PM (J9381)

636 To be fair to Mitt (blah blah etc etc my 2012 vote), at the time I thought Ryan was the better half of the ticket.

At the time. "

Me too. Ryan has been one of the greatest political disappointments to me as a politician. He said all the right things - and then whenever it was time to make a decision, he instantly folded like a cheap lawn chair.

Meanwhile "conservative" John Boehner is now out shilling for Pot for Everybody!

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 05, 2018 07:39 PM (V2Yro)

637 Who sings:

If I was a carpenter


I think Bobby Darrin sang it first.

Posted by: Jewells45 at November 05, 2018 07:39 PM (dUJdY)

638 >>617
Fuckin' Mia Love. What a disappointment she became.

Utah knows how to bring the disappointment.

Posted by: Under Fire at November 05, 2018 07:39 PM (r9UYA)

639 Nice job on the margins dickweed

Posted by: NativeNH at November 05, 2018 07:39 PM (dtRY5)

640 Americans vote their wallets. We hold the line.

Posted by: john doe at November 05, 2018 07:39 PM (WX+x0)

641 Rev says Trump is on the ballot. People will vote R because they know Trump needs as much help in the house and senate as he can possibly get. People want to help him get it. That's why they'll vote. They want to give Trump what he needs to get the job done.

Posted by: grammie winger at November 05, 2018 07:40 PM (lwiT4)

642 I mean, its not like if we care enough of really are passionate enough that will change anything in the election. People will vote, or they won't based on personal pressures and general cultural moods. In this case, there's a big cultural mood to get out there and pull that lever.

Expect something big in the news tomorrow, though. Something designed to get people thinking of government as daddy or Trump as a monster.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 05, 2018 07:40 PM (39g3+)

643 McSally doesn't excite me but if I lived in AZ I would bust my ass to vote against that Sinema psycho.

Like when Udall was running that extra-creepy pro-abortion campaign. One thing to be pro-choice(-ish) like our host. Quite another to harp on that topic on. every. stump. speech.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 05, 2018 07:40 PM (ykYG2)

644 Well, Ace, let me put this politely.

My sources tell me that your body is currently at or above maximum capacity with the by-products of digested food.

Mainstream (middle-class) Republicans vote at high rates but only a small percentage of them are NeverTrump liberals. As for the blue-collar Republicans, they didn't vote in midterms because they didn't feel that they had anything to vote for. This year they do.

Have you been watching Trump's rallies? Obama on his best day couldn't whip up a crowd the way Trump does, and they would have to offer free beer and bratwurst along with free concerts by big-name singers just to fill the venues.

Change elections happen when times are bad. We currently have peace and prosperity.

"It's the economy, stupid." - Some rapist

Posted by: Jaqen H'ghar at November 05, 2018 07:40 PM (5fSr7)

645 All of this talk about a sausage king certainly is giving us a case of the vapors!

Posted by: Shemp! and Don at November 05, 2018 07:40 PM (Tyii7)

646 622 Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 07:32 PM (6nRrz)



Trump isn't going to the same city over and over again.

Posted by: grammie winger at November 05, 2018 07:38 PM (lwiT4)

__

Yeah obviously, but the point is a small but vocal minority makes it seem like they represent the majority when they don't. I'm not saying that's the case, but it could be. You just don't know. It's why I don't put much faith in rally sizes or lawn signs or bumper stickers, or whatever.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 07:41 PM (6nRrz)

647 blog keeps blinking out on me...upgrade ??

Posted by: runner at November 05, 2018 07:41 PM (bUjCl)

648 If two wolves decide to eat the sheep tomorrow ... whatever shall I do ?

Posted by: The Midnight Rider at November 05, 2018 07:41 PM (Crzbp)

649 In Vino Veritits

Are you Elvira on TV?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 05, 2018 07:41 PM (hyuyC)

650 And you think that sentiment is unique to Hillary?
McSally doesn't excite me but if I lived in AZ I would bust my ass to
vote against that Sinema psycho.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 05, 2018 07:38 PM (/tuJf)

Absolutely. You think the folks who voted for Obama twice and then voted Trump did so because they liked Trump?

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at November 05, 2018 07:41 PM (rnXGe)

651 >>I don't ski, I bird hunt. I'd like to find some in Idaho falls or west of there.

Posted by: clutch at November 05, 2018 07:38 PM (kiSdp)

Arco area. Arco was the first atomic powered city. Right down the road from the National Lab. Night hunting is all the rage. The grouse glow in the dark.

Posted by: Under Fire at November 05, 2018 07:42 PM (r9UYA)

652 even the GOP-e couldn't get on board with that

The article also pointed out that Beto did absolutely no outreach to Republicans.

This is a common belief on the Left - that the road to victory solely lies in mobilizing the Democratic base groups, since Republicans are icky and fascist, and will all soon be dead anyway.

You can find plenty of Leftist commentators who argue that it is a complete waste of time trying to switch the votes of Republicans. Crush them, don't convert them, is the underly message.

Posted by: The ARC of History at November 05, 2018 07:42 PM (TEv5V)

653 640 Americans vote their wallets.
Posted by: john doe at November 05, 2018 07:39 PM (WX+x0)


The FSA votes your wallet, too.

Posted by: rickl at November 05, 2018 07:42 PM (sdi6R)

654
The Sausage King of Couer d'Alene!

Was that a song by Redbone?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 05, 2018 07:42 PM (aKsyK)

655 The article quotes "republicans" who tried to tell the Beto campaign what he needed to say to win, and how disappointed they are that Beto ignored them and played to his hard core out of state prog base instead.

Because Beto was in it for the grift all along.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 05, 2018 07:42 PM (ykYG2)

656 574 As I said an hour ago Cradle Will Rock

have you seen junior's grades?

Posted by: MAxIE, mentioned in dispatches at November 05, 2018 07:42 PM (9TR2V)

657 What a disappointment she became.

What did she do? I must have missed it.

Posted by: Jewells45 at November 05, 2018 07:42 PM (dUJdY)

658 Polite NOOD

Posted by: josephistan at November 05, 2018 07:42 PM (Izzlo)

659 Nood. Bad guy vandal and what the MAIM (Mainstream Agit-Prop and Indoctrination Media) said.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 05, 2018 07:43 PM (hyuyC)

660 They want to give Trump what he needs to get the job done.
Posted by: grammie winger at November 05, 2018 07:40 PM (lwiT4)

It could have been better for the Dems to bide their time and keep their powder dry. All their antics did precisely nothing to stymie Trump's agenda, and now they look like utter fools, driving away any cautious Trump voters that were looking to jump ship.

Granted, most of the antics were from the Senate, not the House, but people by and large don't really give a shit which is which.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 05, 2018 07:43 PM (BRvh1)

661 nood

Posted by: MAxIE, mentioned in dispatches at November 05, 2018 07:43 PM (9TR2V)

662 If two wolves decide to eat the sheep tomorrow ...

ooh...SO edgy!
I hope you were wearing ironic hipster glasses when you typed it.

Posted by: mikeyG at November 05, 2018 07:43 PM (LL1Be)

663 if paul ryan were a muppet he would be some pink pussy hat with googly eyes sewn on.

Posted by: yankeefifth at November 05, 2018 07:44 PM (MTjB1)

664 Who sings:
If I was a carpenter
---
I think Bobby Darrin sang it first.
Posted by: Jewells45
===
A-HEM!

Posted by: Tim Hardin (who already voted at November 05, 2018 07:44 PM (8rPCR)

665 If the RINOS help the Dems take the house, the Dems will surely look favorably on the RINOS and work with them in a bipartisan way. Surely. They wouldn't just turn around and shiv the RINOS, would they?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 05, 2018 07:44 PM (dNzKv)

666 649
In Vino Veritits


Are you Elvira on TV?

Posted by: NaCly Dog

Not that I've noticed. Although many women have accused me of being a Horror.

Tim, no tonic, sorry. I can shake it up real good if you want?

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at November 05, 2018 07:44 PM (UFLLM)

667
Deborah at November 05, 2018 07:33 PM (2m84I) and others like minded.

.........

Stop dissin' Ace, please. I get the angst. He and the COBs provide amazing content. He is worried. And that is ok.

Posted by: Smaug at November 05, 2018 07:45 PM (DMcz+)

668 Hordgis...

Come!

Posted by: Comrade Hrothgar at November 05, 2018 07:45 PM (n9EOP)

669 Nood.

Posted by: Brunette the 'Ette at November 05, 2018 07:45 PM (adsVM)

670 I think even more people would show up for the rallys if they thought they wouldn't be so crowded.

Posted by: freaked at November 05, 2018 07:45 PM (UdKB7)

671 639: John Boehner is here?

Posted by: chavez the hugo at November 05, 2018 07:45 PM (KP5rU)

672 >>Yeah obviously, but the point is a small but vocal minority makes it seem like they represent the majority when they don't. I'm not saying that's the case, but it could be. You just don't know. It's why I don't put much faith in rally sizes or lawn signs or bumper stickers, or whatever.

No, it really can't be. Trump beat 15 people for the nomination, beat Hillary and has done nothing but exactly what he said he was going to do and produced a record economy, great judges, etc.. There is no way his support has gone down, if anything it has grown in size and intensity.

He's drawing bigger crowds now than he did during the 2016 election. It's astounding how much support he is getting. The only question is can he translate that support to the various Rep and Senate candidates and help drag them over the line but there really isn't any question about his personal support.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 05, 2018 07:45 PM (/tuJf)

673 In Vino Veritits

Carry on then, my wayward son.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 05, 2018 07:45 PM (hyuyC)

674 I left the GOP because of McCain, McConnell, Romney, the Gang of Eight, Bush, Bush, and McCain. (I hate McCain enough to mention him twice.) And a host of other sins, but you get my message.
Before that, I served on the party committee for my assembly district here in Southern California. Got frustrated as hell at the Gray Davis recall, when we had a real chance to elect Tom McClintock and got Arnold Schwartzenhamster instead ("it's California! He's electable!). With a few brilliant exceptions, California's GOP is feckless. So, I said, feck them.
I would never have thought in a thousand years that it would be Lindsey Graham who might be on the verge of bringing me back to the GOP.
Ace, I swear to Cthulhu I hope your analysis is wrong. If you're right, I back to "let it burn."

Posted by: Qoheleth at November 05, 2018 07:45 PM (iIzG7)

675 Not sure if you intented this in your comment, but
here in Front Range CO the antiHillary voters went for McMuffin or Green
Party or (especially) the pothead. They weren't voting for Trump... and
didn't vote for Trump.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 05, 2018 07:39 PM (ykYG2)

That reinforces my point. Those people won't be protest-voting tomorrow, they'll come back home to the Dem candidate running.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at November 05, 2018 07:46 PM (rnXGe)

676 I do believe there is some similarity between Obama and Trump in that many people voted for each of them but didn't really care about mid-terms.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at November 05, 2018 07:27 PM (6nRrz)

------------------------------

Come back in about 30 hours and we'll discuss this theory in depth.

Posted by: ... at November 05, 2018 07:47 PM (uEbPt)

677 Absolutely. You think the folks who voted for Obama twice and then voted Trump did so because they liked Trump?
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at November 05, 2018 07:41 PM (rnXGe)

i think a lot of people who voted that pattern are simply apolitical, and approach a presidential election as an episode of Survivor or Dancing With The Stars.

They want to vote for a personality.

Obama offered a fresh, hopeful, kumbaya kinda aura first time around, and second time around all he had to do was sit there and let Mitt Romney look like Mitt Romney.

Trump vs. Hillary? In a battle of personality? No contest.

Now, how that analysis transfers into a midterm election is anybody's guess. I really believe we're in uncharted territory right now.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 05, 2018 07:47 PM (BRvh1)

678 I'm really skeptical of Ras polls when he says blacks are at 40% trump approval. I just don't buy that. 20%? Maaaaaaaaybe. But 40%? There's no way that shit is real. If it were we'd be talking about 65 GOP senate seats and 350 house seats.

We're talking 40% theoretical, "yeah I guess Trump's been doing okay"; versus 90+% practical, "I'm voting for the person Of My Background here in Florida / Georgia".

"Trump support" in the black community this year means nothing in the South. It might mean something in Michigan. Maybe in Texas, also, O'Rourke's Hispandering will cost him.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at November 05, 2018 07:47 PM (ykYG2)

679 641
Rev says Trump is on the ballot. People will vote R because they know
Trump needs as much help in the house and senate as he can possibly get.
People want to help him get it. That's why they'll vote. They want to
give Trump what he needs to get the job done.

I think he's right. I'll be pulling the red lever here in Crook County just to make them count it and hope for a small long shot.

Posted by: dartist at November 05, 2018 07:48 PM (K22Va)

680 Now, how that analysis transfers into a midterm
election is anybody's guess. I really believe we're in uncharted
territory right now.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 05, 2018 07:47 PM (BRvh1)

Totally agree with the uncharted territory.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at November 05, 2018 07:49 PM (rnXGe)

681 nah Brah

For every RINO who has exposed himself as a globohomo licking the nutsacks of bankers and warmongers, there are 20 union member dems who walked away, a dozen black dem inner city dwellers who walked away, and 100 dudes tired of pretending they could put up with their magenta haired shrill harpie girlfriends for a minute longer who walked away. More than a few women of all stripes have walked away, now that they see more pay coming into their households, contrary to the dire predictions of Paul Krugman and his coterie of women's studies professors.

More than just the masks of the RINOs that have fallen away.

Posted by: JonnyVM at November 05, 2018 07:50 PM (n4DRu)

682 I think we need more polls to help us know how to think correctly.....

Posted by: Garbone at November 05, 2018 07:50 PM (9dH/8)

683 very interesting on McCallum's show on Fox:

On voter key issues, the independents were much more closely aligned with the Rs than the Ds.

And they especially didn't like Barky as a D spokesperson. Heh

Posted by: Marybeth at November 05, 2018 07:50 PM (MEgUr)

684 " Someone has to have a video where they shoot old body armor to see what would happen to the meat on the other side.



Lookin' at you, Paul Harrell. "

Old military stuff that didn't get used overseas tends to hold up really well, at roughly a IIIA level of performance.

Used cop armor is generally in bad shape unless it's the nicer stuff that has individual waterproof covers for each panel, but even then, it's going be be like buying a used jock strap.

Get regular Kevlar and its variants, new or used - it's the most durable. Avoid Twaron and Dyneema soft armor. Some of that other stuff doesn't work worth a damn against contact shots, and some manufacturers were idiots and failed to protect their material from light exposure as they should.

$200-$250 will get you a moderately decent new IIIA vest. Don't be afraid to search Ebay for firms that sell Israeli stuff. Also quite a bunch of new-old-stock good brand name concealable cut armor in tan/military colors that was intended for contractors.

Posted by: lurker at November 05, 2018 07:51 PM (eAshZ)

685 I hope you were wearing ironic hipster glasses when you typed it.
Posted by: mikeyG at November 05, 2018 07:43 PM (LL1Be)


Just the opposite ...

... simply a comment on my part of how important I look at this election.

Win, Lose, or Draw - I will do what I do. Sadly - without a young Vickie Lawrence.

Posted by: The Midnight Rider at November 05, 2018 07:51 PM (Crzbp)

686 Mia Love issued a statement in October of 2016 that she would not vote for candidate Donald Trump. She also said in January of 2018 that his reported comments about "shithole countries" were racist and demanded an apology.

On the other hand she votes with Trump's position 96% of the time which is more than I expected to see when I looked it up.

Posted by: ... at November 05, 2018 07:51 PM (uEbPt)

687 The Democreep party may be panicking in the People's Republic of New Jersey. I got a robo-call tonight, a recorded message from Spartacus hisself urging me to come out and vote tomorrow to "help stop Donald Trump." I live in a red area of a blue state. No political party has called here for years. The last Democrook I voted for was Jimmy Carter over 4 decades ago. The last thing I plan to do is help Spartacus and Sticky Menendez stop Donald Trump. If these SOBs are wasting their time and money calling me, they must've gone thru the bottom of the barrel already and are digging their way to China.

Posted by: Moe Mentum at November 05, 2018 07:52 PM (r/d2m)

688 Early vote story is grim for Dems everywhere, except NV, where it's still not good news.

Not magic signs of the future, but much much better than polling.

MI Senate remains my favorite upset hope, and polls there have been showing near-tie, which gives real hope.

And it's possible eastern time "key" House races may make it an early night, as far as House. If no/little Dem success in east - to include some FL seats in danger of flipping GOP, and that NH seat - then Dem path to taking House gets much narrower.

Posted by: Rhomboid at November 05, 2018 07:52 PM (NyQaH)

689 The company I work for... the Owner and her Office Manager are both Deep Blue Dems.

Either of them would gladly slobber all over Beto Robert Francis if they had the chance.

As it happens, the boss scheduled the annual Staff Meeting...her, the office and all the drivers, for 9 am this Wednesday morning.

If things go right Tuesday night, I expect to be met by a very grouchy boss, with both she and the Office Manager wearing black, and trying to hide the the red-rimmed, tear ravaged eyes.

It will be GLORIOUS.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 05, 2018 07:54 PM (QzJWU)

690 How much difference do these Never Trump "opinion shapers" really make, especially to
voters aligned with Trump? Are there millions of voters having their opinions shaped by these weasels? Or are they mostly just pissing into the wind?

In terms of getting out the conservative vote and keeping this thing of ours rolling, the Democrats have played a role that dwarfs any negative effect of essays or TV discussions by these RINO maggots: public railroading attempts, illegal alien caravan, and violent mobs and all the rest. Visual and visceral rather than refined and cerebral.

After 2012 I'm prepared for the worst, but you know, the Democrats' dream of a world without rules cuts both ways.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at November 05, 2018 07:55 PM (iSI0i)

691 I have many friends and acquaintances that are very pro Trump. I have a a lesser number of friends or aquaintences that are very anti Trump and/or pro democrat. I have NEVER met a single regular person who thinks or votes like Kristal et al. Their money, party influence etc may affect elections but their voting bloc is smaller in number than transsexuals. So I disagree with the premise of this article.

Posted by: Douglucy at November 05, 2018 07:57 PM (gBNW4)

692 My 86 yr old dad is in ICU and asked me to make sure he got an absentee ballot so he could vote. It came in the mail today and took it up to him. He filled it out, signed it and sealed it. I drove 24 miles to deliver it to our County Elections office today. There are a lot of these quiet voters.

Posted by: Stella TwoCents at November 05, 2018 07:58 PM (Z0huu)

693 "i hope so, but... a large chunk of the RINOs are voting Democrat and the Trump coalition is just not as disciplined when it comes to voting as the main force of the GOP."

Clueless bullshit.

Posted by: Octopussy at November 05, 2018 07:59 PM (I4A43)

694 Keep in mind that Lindsey Graham... LINDSEY GRAHAM?!?... has seen the light and he was one of the RINOiest of RINOs. The good ship Kristol is not nearly as crowded as NR imagines it is.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at November 05, 2018 06:44 PM (F/KeJ)


Lindsey Graham is not to be trusted, he will go to bat for a fellow RINO but he will throw you or I under the bus in the blink of an eye.

Lindsey Graham is still the same snake-in-the-grass he was before Kavanaugh.

Posted by: shoey at November 05, 2018 08:08 PM (lOf8d)

695 RINO's at the National Review can bite moi.

MAGA

VOTE, please. Even if you have to drag your sick carcass out of bed. Go do this, darlin'

Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Infidel Queen at November 05, 2018 08:17 PM (J5mzk)

696 stella, hope your dad is okay.

Posted by: vivi at November 05, 2018 08:55 PM (11H2y)

697 Trump is a consistent winner. He'll win the day tomorrow, too, despite not being on the ballot.

Posted by: Locke Common at November 05, 2018 09:15 PM (yM7Is)

698 From an earlier comment:
"MAGA is not over because the Dems take half of Congress. MAGA wouldn't be over if they took both chambers of Congress. MAGA would not be over if Trump was impeached and removed from office. "

It would be over, and we would not have another candidate like him because no Republican at the national level has the courage and funds to do what he's done. As a base, we refuse to help GOTV.

Posted by: mhurst at November 05, 2018 09:18 PM (l/QFU)

699 Mrs. Went to see trump today. Said he looked great. She was very happy after the rally. Full house in Cleveland. People standing outside. I think it's gonna be a good day tomorrow. He was very relaxed and confident. Renacci gonna be close. DeWine also.

Posted by: Simplemind at November 05, 2018 09:27 PM (ZuGkg)

700 Ace is right as far as it goes, but let's remember that McCain and Romney won the GOP primary with the same process Trump did. They were not my choices in the primary, but nobody is going to claim they were worse than Obama.

But as my old buddy Rush Limbaugh said, back in the days I could listen to him daily in the 80's: "we probably needed to go thru Carter to get to Reagan." If we needed Obama to get Trump, well then, my only quibble is why did we need 8 fucking years, why couldn't 4 have been enough?

Posted by: Kazinski at November 05, 2018 09:34 PM (EMfUO)

701 Apart from, say, Bill Kristol, Mitt Romney, Jonah Goldberg, David French, Brett Stephens ... who are we talking about? Writings like this seem aimed at a specific group. Did I get most of them, or are there a bunch more?

Posted by: debsim at November 05, 2018 10:02 PM (bz0gL)

702 (557) Stopped for gas in Sandpoint in '94. I remember it 'cause it was creepy.

Posted by: klaftern at November 05, 2018 10:05 PM (RuIsu)

703 A good, historical analysis of the RINOs. Rush Limbaugh led me on to
this several years ago, but not as graphic and succinct as this descriptionby the Ace.

Hopefully, most God-loving Americans will vote to keep President
Trump (and thank God, again, not President 'her') free of the liberalsand Democrats and other riff-raff who would change our country to a fulland God-less society, with the libs in control from here on out.

Nuff sed fch sends

Posted by: Horner, Fentress C. at November 06, 2018 05:45 AM (9jtjt)

704 if they succeed I'll never vote again
they are the reason people had lost faith in politics, and I was just about there in terms of giving up on it forever, until Trump came along

Posted by: dw at November 06, 2018 06:18 AM (stPAM)

705 When we defeat our enemies, we treat their wounded and handle captives humanely. But traitors? Traitors we hang.

Posted by: Fenrisulven at November 06, 2018 06:25 AM (DnnDt)

706 GOP holds House and gains 5 in Senate.

My polling is as statisically valid and those polls on RCP.

Posted by: Polled My Dick at November 06, 2018 07:06 AM (wHMIo)

707 Paul Ryan gone is a huge victory!

Anything else is gravy.

Posted by: Polled My Dick at November 06, 2018 07:08 AM (wHMIo)

708 A lot of my family members are voting republican for the first time because of Trump.

Posted by: demoncrat at November 06, 2018 07:15 AM (i1/SQ)

709 Regardless of whether the republicans keep or loose the house, the republican party is changing during this election. Nearly all of the "retiring" republicans whose seats are now "up for grabs" are liberals. Some of those seats may end up in democrat hands, but many of them will be filled by actual conservative republicans.

Even if the republicans loose the house, the Tea Party will win this election.

Posted by: fretlesst at November 06, 2018 06:01 PM (sGtp+)

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