Election News Round Up 1

GOP jumps out to biggest lead in RCP average in 8 months, just in time for election.

It's only a 2.2 point lead, but this is from pollsters who consistently undersample Republicans, and a national poll of congressional voter intent is biased in favor of Democrats, anyway: Democrats are crammed into safe, ultramarine Democrat districts, and less represented in the competitive swing districts actually in play.

So what does this mean? It portends a significant wave in House races, to be sure. Thanks to the structure of generic ballot polling, Democrats generally need to get to D+4 or D+5 to hold serve in an election. An R+2.2 -- if that's where it stays -- suggests a massive set of pickups, at least in a relative sense. Don't forget that Republicans already have 212 seats in the House, so a 30-seat pickup would give them a blowout majority and put them close to 2010 territory. If this lead widens any further, it may well also point to a wave that could lift marginal GOP candidates for Senate into office as well. That is what happened in 2014, for instance, an outcome that pollsters missed entirely.

Is Kathy Hochul in trouble? Could might be!

Hochul's down to a 6.2 point average lead, which should be very worrying for her given the Democrat skew in polls and Republican enthusiasm. That average is also blown the F*** out by a completely out-of-line report that just came in from the NYT/Siena poll, claiming an 11 point lead for Hochul.

Meanwhile, Quinippiac just put the race at 4.

And Trafalgar, the much-maligned "Republican-skewing" pollster that always seems to call these races correctly, puts it at a two point race, within the margin of error.

Crime is a top issue in the campaign.

"Whether I'm in a blue county or a red county or talking to Republicans, Democrats or independents, I hear about people who care about crime and public safety," Zeldin said in an interview. "They want to take back our streets."
Crime ranks among voters' top concerns nationwide heading into Election Day, and the issue is pronounced in the Empire State -- particularly in New York City, where daily headlines about violence have even Democrats at odds over how to best address it.
Polls in New York have shown crime as a major consideration in the governor's race, and ads by underdog Zeldin and the super PACs supporting his candidacy have derided Hochul for not doing more to address crime.
"It's a flood, and Kathy Hochul isn't up to the job of fighting crime," an ominous voice in an ad from the Safe Together NY committee, a PAC backing him, says.

Below, a Zeldin ad on crime. Note that it was impossible to find this ad through Google, YouTube, and Twitter searches -- they are deliberately hiding it. Searching "Lee Zeldin campaign ad" or "Lee Zeldin campaign ad crime" fails to turn the ad up.

To find it, I had to go to Lee Zeldin's twitter account, and then scroll down post by post.

This is Kathy Hochul’s New York. 5 weeks from today, New Yorkers must FIRE Crime Wave Kathy and take back our streets!pic.twitter.com/JWytqHLMny
— Lee Zeldin (@leezeldin) October 4, 2022

Nurse Kathy should be worried. A single new video of a nasty street crime in New York state that is attributable to Hochul's support of cashless bail will probably tip this election to Zeldin.

I mean, another outrageous crime attributable to Hochul, besides this one that just happened. Disgusting.

Tuesday, Keaira Hudson’s husband was arrested & charged with many new domestic violence charges after attacking her. He was instantly released on cashless bail. Yesterday, he shot & killed Keira in front of her 3 kids. She had on a bulletproof vest. pic.twitter.com/mrkHsIWFrW
— Lee Zeldin (@leezeldin) October 7, 2022

New York's bail "reforms," which Hochul refuses to change, forbids judges from considering the danger posed by the criminal when granting or refusing bail.

So they let this guy out, who had repeatedly attacked his wife, and who was so predictably going to murder his wife that she was wearing a bullletproof vest when he murdered her.

A New York woman was allegedly shot dead by her estranged husband who was arrested on the previous day on the charges of domestic violence, police say. Keaira Hudson Bennefield, 40, who was also a mother of three, was fatally shot on Wednesday, October 5, as she sat inside her car outside her mother's home. The shooting was witnessed by two of her children who were in the back seat of the car. Police have issued an arrest warrant for Keaira's estranged husband, Adam Bennefield, in connection to the shooting.

Adam allegedly assaulted Keaira for which he was arrested but he was released from jail short after on the same day. According to People, on September 28, officers from the Cheektowaga Police Department responded to a domestic violence call at a home. Bennefield already fled the scene by the time police arrived. Keaira was advised by the officers to contact them if he returned.

Call us if he beats you again, so we can arrest him and keep him in custody for 2-3 hours before a judge sets him free.

Unless he just murders you this time.

Which he will.

Keaira posted a video of the assault on her Facebook page on the next day. Police officers arrested Bennefield and charged him with one count of third-degree assault, two counts of fourth-degree criminal mischief, one count of second-degree menacing, one count of second-degree unlawful imprisonment and one count of second-degree harassment after they saw the video on October 2. However, he was released on his own recognizance just hours after his arrest.

Hochul says your kids should wear masks at school, though.

Amazingly, "Danang Dick" Blumenthal of Connecticut, one of the most rotten of the nasty liberal Senators in a Senate full of the breed, might be in trouble as well.

Hard to believe, and this is just a single poll. Still. Worth at least noting.

Republican Senatorial candidate Leora Levy is closing the gap on Democratic Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal just weeks before the midterms, according to a new Connecticut Examiner/Fabrizio and Lee & Associates poll.
Levy is just five points behind incumbent Sen. Blumenthal, with results showing 44% to 49% with a 2.8% margin of error, the poll reported. Serving as the Republican National Committeewoman for the State of Connecticut since 2016, Levy intends to replace career politician Blumenthal's "far-left policies" that undermine "freedom and security," her website says.

Maybe DeSantis, Abbot, and Ducey need to send some illegal aliens to Yale.

Posted by: Ace at 03:00 PM

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1 Yo

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 18, 2022 03:00 PM (6VKyY)

2 I just cleaned my iPhone screen. Now I can actually read the content.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 18, 2022 03:00 PM (6VKyY)

3 Maybe Baby Killing is not threatened afterall?

Posted by: rd at October 18, 2022 03:01 PM (Z32m1)

4 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 18, 2022 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)

5 Polls be for strippers.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 18, 2022 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)

6 GOP jumps out to biggest lead in RCP average in 8 months, just in time for election.

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Oh, I'm sure this is just a natural change in the electorate and not a handful of pollsters (not all, just some) trying to get things close to right in their final polls.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 18, 2022 03:01 PM (LvTSG)

7 Step it up, swing states. I can't send money thanks to Bidenflation, I live in some of the reddest parts of MO, and we already have Voter ID. Y'all's turn.

Posted by: Catherine at October 18, 2022 03:02 PM (ZSsrh)

8 Not more poll numbers again?

Stuff makes my head hurt.

And polls are for strippers.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 18, 2022 03:02 PM (7eZvF)

9 This isn't a vote of confidence in republicans as much as it's a vote of no confidence in democrats.

That's where this country is.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 18, 2022 03:02 PM (6VKyY)

10 Ace. It this to Hochul's portfolio;

Breaking: Horse Face Hochul gets subpoenaed to appear on October 25th in NY gun rights case.

https://tinyurl.com/2jn5zuht

Posted by: Marcus T at October 18, 2022 03:02 PM (TbpGr)

11 Didn't we JUST have a thread about the reliability of polls?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 18, 2022 03:03 PM (PiwSw)

12 Damn, Sponge beat me to it.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 18, 2022 03:03 PM (7eZvF)

13 Go Lee, Go !

Posted by: runner at October 18, 2022 03:03 PM (V13WU)

14 Hochul's ads call Zeldin an extremist LOL

Posted by: steevy at October 18, 2022 03:03 PM (yezA1)

15 I see VA10 has gone to merely "lean" D as well. If Cao is really only a few points down in a district that went Biden +19 the Dems are in deep, deep trouble.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 18, 2022 03:03 PM (ESjRY)

16 Levy is just five points behind incumbent Sen. Blumenthal, with results showing 44% to 49% with a 2.8% margin of error, the poll reported.

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Meh.

As long as the DNC sends money to CT it's a win. Blumenthal will win, but needing to spend money to win in CT is good for us.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 18, 2022 03:03 PM (LvTSG)

17 TMZ is actually pointing out how shallow and vapid Meghan Markle actually is?

Posted by: rd at October 18, 2022 03:04 PM (Z32m1)

18 Republicans should adopt Merle Jeter's campaign slogan-"Don't expect much."

Posted by: mr tmz at October 18, 2022 03:04 PM (rJ48h)

19 Why is Texas pink on that map? There is nothing even close in the State right now.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 18, 2022 03:04 PM (bVYXr)

20 The Left is so vile and despicable I just don't have the words to accurately describe what they are.

Posted by: ... at October 18, 2022 03:04 PM (T1bM6)

21
In more important news than polling aggregates, my toddler just wandered in to my office and blasted out an otherworldly dump in her little pants. I'll see you guys around

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 18, 2022 03:04 PM (oINRc)

22 "Hochul says your kids should wear masks at school, though."

this is anarcho-tyranny. when the only laws that are applied are to the easily tamed, taxed, and controlled middle class.

what are you going to do, drop out of school and become a career criminal or, worse, a blue collar worker?

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at October 18, 2022 03:04 PM (MLrvz)

23 Read the content. What a maroon.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 18, 2022 03:04 PM (N1tpc)

24 This isn't a vote of confidence in republicans as much as it's a vote of no confidence in democrats.

That's where this country is.

I'll take it.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 18, 2022 03:04 PM (eOEVl)

25 17 TMZ is actually pointing out how shallow and vapid Meghan Markle actually is?
Posted by: rd at October 18, 2022 03:04 PM (Z32m1)

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"You should see what she does with her tongue. Well, what she used to do with her tongue. You know, back when I was a prince."
-Some guy named Harry

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 18, 2022 03:04 PM (LvTSG)

26 17 TMZ is actually pointing out how shallow and vapid Meghan Markle actually is?
Posted by: rd at October 18, 2022 03:04 PM (Z32m1)

That is weapons-grade cruel.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 18, 2022 03:04 PM (PiwSw)

27 https://youtu.be/l3Zy_26HtVU?t=13

SFW.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 18, 2022 03:04 PM (Zz0t1)

28 GOP jumps out to biggest lead in RCP average in 8 months, just in time for election.

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that is significant. because all of them skew toward dems, some moar heavily than others.

Posted by: runner at October 18, 2022 03:05 PM (V13WU)

29 I'm praying the polls in Michigan that say Wretched Whitmer is up are also skewed too much towards Democrats.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 18, 2022 03:05 PM (N1tpc)

30 These polls are shit. Republican's will win with landslide levels.

Also, Microsoft to fire 1000 more employees.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 18, 2022 03:05 PM (VaSD4)

31 I see VA10 has gone to merely "lean" D as well. If Cao is really only a few points down in a district that went Biden +19 the Dems are in deep, deep trouble.

Link, please.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 18, 2022 03:05 PM (eOEVl)

32

Senator Patty Murray is literally so dumb she can't walk and chew gum at the same time. Dumping her and starting to take back Washington State is perhaps the single most important Senate race of our time.

Posted by: Ruprecht at October 18, 2022 03:05 PM (UCRK6)

33 I don't believe any of this. I got my dick out for NJ governors race and we blew it. Oh well, we still got Virginia, and it is fucking glorious to have a real republican attorney general go after liberals for once.

here's to the dream. Zeldin goes after Tatiania or whatever that manhattan DA is.

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at October 18, 2022 03:05 PM (MLrvz)

34 The Best R election in memory was 2010 where it was R +6 and led to 242 House seats.

If we get R+8...wow.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 18, 2022 03:05 PM (ESjRY)

35 Hochul's down to a 6.2 point average lead, which should be very worrying for her given the Democrat skew in polls and Republican enthusiasm. That average is also blown the F*** out by a completely out-of-line report that just came in from the NYT/Siena poll, claiming an 11 point lead for Hochul.
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It will be actually shocking if a Democrat manages to not eke out a win by some means in New York State.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 18, 2022 03:06 PM (1fl3R)

36 >>>Maybe DeSantis, Abbot, and Ducey need to send some illegal aliens to Yale.
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Greenwich (where Joe Scarborough lives), or maybe Westport (because the Smug Factor is at Marthas Vineyard levels there). New Haven is already a crime-ridden cesspool.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 18, 2022 03:06 PM (PV5eN)

37 Nobody likes Hochul. There isn't a single sign in my area for her. It's all Zeldin signs.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 18, 2022 03:06 PM (TbpGr)

38 The convalescent home is calling Nancy's name.

Posted by: Axeman at October 18, 2022 03:07 PM (krQz2)

39 "Just because we looked the other way on riots, made felonies a catch and release endeavor, and are trying to outlaw self-defense does not mean we are soft on crime...."

//Kathy Hooch-Eel

Posted by: sven at October 18, 2022 03:07 PM (Lzpvj)

40 You should see what she does with her tongue. Well, what she used to do with her tongue. You know, back when I was a prince."

==

her mouth is most famous !

--south american dictators and minor saudi roayls yacht association

Posted by: runner at October 18, 2022 03:07 PM (V13WU)

41 "It's a flood, and Kathy Hochul isn't up to the job of fighting crime," an ominous voice in an ad from the Safe Together NY committee, a PAC backing him, says.
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It isn't that she's "not up to the job of fighting crime," it's that she doesn't *want* the job. She's pro-crime, not anti-crime.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 18, 2022 03:07 PM (1fl3R)

42 Who was the governor in NY before Giuliani?

That's apparently the level of hell NY will accept before they vote Republican.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 18, 2022 03:07 PM (6VKyY)

43
Oh, one more thing before I go... Hochul looks like shit, she's ugly as a mud fence. Do better, NY.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 18, 2022 03:07 PM (oINRc)

44 and maybe one day, we can go after the google tech monpolies and throw them all in jail, maybe they once took out a loan where they were off by $.03 on their valuation.

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at October 18, 2022 03:07 PM (MLrvz)

45 41 It isn't that she's "not up to the job of fighting crime," it's that she doesn't *want* the job. She's pro-crime, not anti-crime.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 18, 2022 03:07 PM (1fl3R)

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And the majority of NYers want that from their governor.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 18, 2022 03:07 PM (LvTSG)

46 The last two years have been the *worst* years America has experienced while nominally at peace.

If voters actually vote on the question of "are you better of now" no Ds should be getting re-elected...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 18, 2022 03:07 PM (ESjRY)

47 Nobody likes Hochul. There isn't a single sign in my area for her. It's all Zeldin signs.
Posted by: Marcus T at October 18, 2022 03:06 PM (TbpGr)

A few here on the North Shore of LI - but not many. She is not well liked in Nassau Cty.

Posted by: Boswell at October 18, 2022 03:08 PM (+Cgut)

48 Hochul's ads call Zeldin an extremist LOL
Posted by: steevy at October 18, 2022

She'd probably label you an extremist if you like a different flavor of milkshake than she does.

Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 18, 2022 03:08 PM (eGTCV)

49 Hoping Pennsylvania doesn't get frauded out, Fetterman has to be beaten.

Posted by: Skip at October 18, 2022 03:08 PM (xhxe8)

50 How long until the Press starts writing "How doing poorly in the polls will work for the democrats" stories?

Posted by: Darth Randall at October 18, 2022 03:08 PM (zL564)

51 this is what a wave should look like though, not where we're worrying about Ga but the left is worry about OR, CT, and NY

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at October 18, 2022 03:08 PM (MLrvz)

52 43
Oh, one more thing before I go... Hochul looks like shit, she's ugly as a mud fence. Do better, NY.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 18, 2022 03:07 PM (oINRc)

No love for the Vampira look?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 18, 2022 03:08 PM (PiwSw)

53 Who was the governor in NY before Giuliani?

IIRC, it was David Dinkins.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 18, 2022 03:08 PM (eOEVl)

54 Damn, Sponge beat me to it.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 18, 2022 03:03 PM (7eZvF)

So, you're saying I was first?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 18, 2022 03:09 PM (Zz0t1)

55 A New York woman was allegedly shot dead by her estranged husband who was arrested on the previous day on the charges of domestic violence, police say. Keaira Hudson Bennefield, 40, who was also a mother of three, was fatally shot on Wednesday, October 5, as she sat inside her car outside her mother's home. The shooting was witnessed by two of her children who were in the back seat of the car. Police have issued an arrest warrant for Keaira's estranged husband, Adam Bennefield, in connection to the shooting.
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They'll let him go again. And why not? The target of his criminal ambitions has been killed, so he'll be perfectly fine from here on out.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 18, 2022 03:09 PM (1fl3R)

56 Zeldin needs the candle to win.

Posted by: Mr. Pink at October 18, 2022 03:09 PM (+RAA2)

57 Kathy Hochul is amazingly incompetent and stupid, but mostly stupid.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at October 18, 2022 03:09 PM (z+OQR)

58 New York City, traditionally the savior of Democratic state candidates, will not turn out in enough numbers to save Hochul.

That's my prediction. Less than 400,000 of them turned out to make Eric Adams mayor, and that's before the uptick in crime that we've had this year.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 18, 2022 03:09 PM (9miN6)

59 If we get 260 R House seats, that could give us 5 or 6 reliable conservatives in the House.

Posted by: ... at October 18, 2022 03:09 PM (T1bM6)

60 Hoping Pennsylvania doesn't get frauded out, Fetterman has to be beaten.

When I look at that election on twitter it is full of leftists saying you shouldn't discriminate against a man running for Senator just because he has brain damage.

You can't even write satire any more because nothing is more ridiculous then the real world.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 18, 2022 03:09 PM (ESjRY)

61 She'd probably label you an extremist if you like a different flavor of milkshake than she does.

That seems to be the instructions given out by the Dems to their candidates. Ryan in OH spent debate night calling J.D. Vance an extremist.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 18, 2022 03:10 PM (eOEVl)

62 I wrote governor. Should have written mayor.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 18, 2022 03:10 PM (6VKyY)

63 And Shapiro was a maIn orchestrate of the 2020 vote fraud.

Posted by: Skip at October 18, 2022 03:10 PM (xhxe8)

64 Yeah...the 'gotcha' of are you better off than 2 years ago.. that was covid at its worst!!. I was still better off..GF

Posted by: A dude in MI at October 18, 2022 03:10 PM (/6GbT)

65 If voters actually vote on the question of "are you better of now" no Ds should be getting re-elected...
Posted by: 18-1 at October 18, 2022 03:07 PM (ESjRY)
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No incumbents. There are a handful of decent incumbents, but not many.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 18, 2022 03:10 PM (1fl3R)

66 A couple of Threads ago, many of you were kvetching about gain of function.

To be fair, there is a particular gain of function many here seem to appreciate; indeed many brag about how something that's happened has significantly gained their function.

Remember, in these instances, if your gain of function lasts more than four hours, seek medical attention, whether it's here or in town.

Posted by: zombie The Bob Dole at October 18, 2022 03:10 PM (a3Q+t)

67 That seems to be the instructions given out by the Dems to their candidates. Ryan in OH spent debate night calling J.D. Vance an extremist.

If Vance wins at least Ryan can have a career playing corrupt senators in Hollywood movies.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 18, 2022 03:10 PM (ESjRY)

68 Posted by: Skip at October 18, 2022 03:08 PM (xhxe

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Indeed John Fetterman's Neck Lump's Body needs to go down to defeat.

Posted by: Axeman at October 18, 2022 03:10 PM (krQz2)

69 IIRC, it was David Dinkins.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 18, 2022 03:08 PM (eOEVl)

Pataki - or Pa-Turkey, really. Dinkins was mayor of NYC - or as Grant the radio host called him, the men's room attendant for NYC

Posted by: Boswell at October 18, 2022 03:11 PM (+Cgut)

70 GOP jumps out to biggest lead in RCP average in 8 months, just in time for election.

*

Imagine if they were campaigning.

Posted by: Gray Man at October 18, 2022 03:11 PM (KQUPm)

71 That seems to be the instructions given out by the Dems to their candidates. Ryan in OH spent debate night calling J.D. Vance an extremist.

What that tells you is that the Dems know that people think they're extremists, and they're trying to blunt its impact.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 18, 2022 03:11 PM (eOEVl)

72 65 No incumbents. There are a handful of decent incumbents, but not many.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 18, 2022 03:10 PM (1fl3R)

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"Congress is the worst, but my Congress person is pretty good."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 18, 2022 03:11 PM (LvTSG)

73 Who was the governor in NY before Giuliani?

That's apparently the level of hell NY will accept before they vote Republican.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 18, 2022 03:07 PM (6VKyY)
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Giuliani was never Governor. He was Mayor of New York City.

Posted by: Darth Randall at October 18, 2022 03:11 PM (zL564)

74 Zeldin needs the candle to win.
Posted by: Mr. Pink at October 18, 2022 03:09 PM (+RAA2)

Visit Gwyneths box candles dot com.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 18, 2022 03:11 PM (Zz0t1)

75 15 I see VA10 has gone to merely "lean" D as well. If Cao is really only a few points down in a district that went Biden +19 the Dems are in deep, deep trouble.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 18, 2022 03:03 PM (ESjRY)

I'd put every VA seat as a possible win this year b/c voter fraud won't happen...okay, maybe not the seats with Arlington in their base, but even in Nova, there will be much tighter races than expected...and maybe even a surprise or two...

I expect low turnout b/c only congressional seats are up...and that's where you're ripe for pick ups when only one side is motivated (Youngkin is currently popular, so there's nothing to GOTV for the dems and people are STILL pissed about the school trans path on top of inflation, gas prices, and low fed pay raises that don't come close to inflation...so much so on the trans stuff, that Fairfax school board could only issue a resolution for Trans month for October after Youngkin's brilliant move - they couldn't actually sue him like Alexandria is)...

Posted by: Nova local at October 18, 2022 03:11 PM (exHjb)

76 now that hispanics at lite supremacists, maybe the NYC cheating districts will be less cheaty.

lololoollllllllllolllll

oh, man, that's funny.

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at October 18, 2022 03:12 PM (MLrvz)

77 Nobody likes Hochul.

That was a terrible sitcom.

Posted by: spindrift at October 18, 2022 03:12 PM (h5TKJ)

78 Ever Fetterman ad I see on YouTube he never says much of anything, it's voice over his picture

Posted by: Skip at October 18, 2022 03:12 PM (xhxe8)

79 If voters actually vote on the question of "are you better of now" no Ds should be getting re-elected...
Posted by: 18-1 at October 18, 2022 03:07 PM (ESjRY)
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You're underestimating the Dems' ability to convince themselves of anything that benefits The Party.

Posted by: Axeman at October 18, 2022 03:12 PM (krQz2)

80 Shiny

Posted by: Holy Crap at October 18, 2022 03:12 PM (glGDV)

81 IIRC, it was David Dinkins.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 18, 2022 03:08 PM (eOEVl)

Pataki - or Pa-Turkey, really. Dinkins was mayor of NYC - or as Grant the radio host called him, the men's room attendant for NYC

Oops, you're right.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 18, 2022 03:12 PM (eOEVl)

82 If Florida and Texas are categorized only as "lean republican", I'd say this is actually much worse for the Dems and a lot more than half of those 11 toss ups are in the Rep column.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 18, 2022 03:12 PM (fs1hN)

83 63 And Shapiro was a maIn orchestrate of the 2020 vote fraud.
Posted by: Skip

and he did it right under low energy Mastriano's nose. That guy was a loser then and he's a loser now.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 18, 2022 03:12 PM (VaSD4)

84 If Fetterman and Oz are neck and neck, I give it to Fetterman.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 18, 2022 03:12 PM (ppBhU)

85 To be fair Fetterman would probably only be like the 15th most brain dead Senator....

Posted by: steevy at October 18, 2022 03:12 PM (yezA1)

86 I'm going to nuke those bastards in Saudi Arabia to punish them for not putting their oil production reduction off until after the midterms!

Posted by: Droolin' Joe Biden, Supreme Warlord! at October 18, 2022 03:12 PM (I2/tG)

87 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 18, 2022 03:07 PM (oINRc)

I don't think Lee Zeldin is exactly film star handsome either. I can't vote in NY but if I could I'd vote for him because he's seems like a decent, smart and thoughtful guy who's working his tail off to get elected. Hochul is hiding and just appearing to do "cut the ribbon" types of apperances. I don't even think she's agreed to a debate. In addition she's up to her high drawn on eyebrows in "Pay to Play" Corruption

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 18, 2022 03:13 PM (vH/6k)

88 54 Sponge, your powers of firstness are incredible.

You are truly an alpha male.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 18, 2022 03:13 PM (7eZvF)

89 Giuliani was never Governor. He was Mayor of New York City.

No wonder I was confusulated.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 18, 2022 03:13 PM (eOEVl)

90 Maybe DeSantis, Abbot, and Ducey need to send some illegal aliens to Yale.

Posted by: Ace

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Why, yes. Yes, they do. That would be both stunning and brave, in the traditional sense of both words.

Posted by: Prime Sister at October 18, 2022 03:13 PM (tQL7r)

91 84 If Fetterman and Oz are neck and neck, I give it to Fetterman.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 18, 2022 03:12 PM (ppBhU)\

Shut it down.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 18, 2022 03:13 PM (PiwSw)

92 This is all exciting but how many percentage points over Dems do Republicans really have to get to prevent the steal? Do they have to be up 10%, 15% or even 20% to beat the Dem cheating?

Posted by: President Select Decaf at October 18, 2022 03:13 PM (3JfbU)

93 To be fair Fetterman would probably only be like the 15th most brain dead Senator....

Posted by: steevy at October 18, 2022 03:12 PM (yezA1)

Shit

Posted by: ... at October 18, 2022 03:13 PM (T1bM6)

94 Imagine if the GOP had a real candidate against Hochulhu (see what I did there?). Zeldin is a lightweight human quiche that nobody heard of before. Plus, the state GOP is a gaggle of idiots and morons and surrender monkey rubbish. I think Hochulhu will squeeze by on steal, but this would be a very winnable seat if we had a better candidate and state party.

Posted by: Elric Blade at October 18, 2022 03:13 PM (iFTx/)

95 I need to talk about how we are facing Armageddon again!

That will mobilize the Democratic vote!

Posted by: Droolin' Joe Biden, Supreme Warlord! at October 18, 2022 03:14 PM (I2/tG)

96 Sponge, your powers of firstness are incredible.
You are truly an alpha male.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 18, 2022 03:13 PM (7eZvF)

*drops mic*

*puffs out chest*

*saunters away*

*trips*

*falls*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 18, 2022 03:14 PM (Zz0t1)

97 Giuliani was never Governor. He was Mayor of New York City.
Posted by: Darth Randall at October 18, 2022 03:11 PM (zL564)

Yes. I corrected myself at 62.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 18, 2022 03:14 PM (6VKyY)

98 Yeah, it was Dinkins who preceded Giuliani as MAYOR of NYC.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 18, 2022 03:14 PM (eOEVl)

99 Hey, we blew up the Nordstream pipelines!

What more do the voters want?

Posted by: Droolin' Joe Biden, Supreme Warlord! at October 18, 2022 03:15 PM (I2/tG)

100 92 This is all exciting but how many percentage points over Dems do Republicans really have to get to prevent the steal? Do they have to be up 10%, 15% or even 20% to beat the Dem cheating?
Posted by: President Select Decaf at October 18, 2022 03:13 PM (3JfbU)

Depends if all the Rs and R-candidate voters (former Ds/Is) make sure they all vote - Dems can't steal your vote if you voted it...

Posted by: Nova local at October 18, 2022 03:15 PM (exHjb)

101 I remember NOBODY thought Mario Cuomo could ever lose in NY (remember that incredible speech he gave at the DNC!!?) And then a nobody Republican named Pataki beat him.

I do think though in that era, there were more swing voters, even in blue states. Now, I'm not so sure. I think 47% of the country would still vote Dem even if gas was $10 a gallon and we had 20% inflation.

Posted by: Blago at October 18, 2022 03:15 PM (PwNLq)

102 16 Levy is just five points behind incumbent Sen. Blumenthal, with results showing 44% to 49% with a 2.8% margin of error, the poll reported.

=========

Meh.

As long as the DNC sends money to CT it's a win. Blumenthal will win, but needing to spend money to win in CT is good for us.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 18, 2022 03:03 PM (LvTSG)

I'm all-in on Levy, but I'm a little concerned. I see her signs all over the place, but I haven't seen her much locally lately. I've seen Blumenthal at three separate events in the last month. Levy went to MAL this weekend for a Trump-hosted fundraiser. She doesn't need the money - she needs people knocking on doors.

Levy needs to win, because if Blumenthal does he'll be grooming his son to take his place. Murphy is hard enough to beat as it is. A more energetic Dem in Blumenthal's seat in 2028 will doom CT.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 18, 2022 03:15 PM (9miN6)

103 Cough up a loogie sound > Hochul

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 18, 2022 03:15 PM (VaSD4)

104 I can't wait to see Hochul testifying on October 25. That should make a great campaign commercial.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 18, 2022 03:15 PM (TbpGr)

105 >>here's to the dream. Zeldin goes after Tatiania or whatever that manhattan DA is.

You might be thinking of the NY state AG Letitia James who is also in deep doo doo. The Manhattan DA is Alvin Bragg.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 18, 2022 03:16 PM (ZLI7S)

106 This isn't a vote of confidence in republicans as much as it's a vote of no confidence in democrats.

Yeah, the GOP tried to put together some Contract bullshit, but fortunately, most everyone has ignored it.

Posted by: Methos at October 18, 2022 03:16 PM (kOpft)

107 >>>If Fetterman and Oz are neck and neck, I give it to Fetterman.

>William Penn should be spinning in his grave.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at October 18, 2022 03:16 PM (z+OQR)

108 Looking at the Senate RCP has it (going from safest to least safe)

R 42/3/2
D 41/2/3
Tossups 7

If they are including polls that are systematically overcounting D votes that would make the next Senate likely R 55 or 56 - including one or two wins out of CO/CT/WA

Posted by: 18-1 at October 18, 2022 03:16 PM (ESjRY)

109 Extremist used by D's seem to consider consist-in describing Republicans-that they don't approve of abortion to the ninth month, with a whiff of they supported "insurrection" on January 6th.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 18, 2022 03:16 PM (vH/6k)

110 Whenever a Republican questions a Democrat's motives they'll be labeled "extremist" or "a threat to democracy."

That will be justification for the leftist army (Antifa, FBI, DoJ, local law enforcement, etc.) to swoop in and make life difficult for the Republican if they don't outright kill 'em. The GOP is going to face ongoing political violence the likes they've never seen.

Are they ready? Doubtful.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 18, 2022 03:16 PM (BFigT)

111 I think this year will be very bad for Dems. AZ, NV, and GA are probably all good bets for the GOP, but I wouldn't be surprised if they pick up 5, or even 6, Senate seats. It depends on how bad things get over the next couple of weeks.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at October 18, 2022 03:16 PM (wmDcS)

112 Yeah, the GOP tried to put together some Contract bullshit, but fortunately, most everyone has ignored it.

It had all the teeth of a 2 hour old baby.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 18, 2022 03:17 PM (eOEVl)

113 Fun fact: A Hochul is that nodule of phlegm you hock up.

Posted by: Axeman at October 18, 2022 03:17 PM (krQz2)

114 It's time for reasonable Democrat control in New York.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 18, 2022 03:17 PM (v6iF3)

115 No wonder I was confusulated.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 18, 2022 03:13 PM (eOEVl)

Honestly - you aren't wrong in practice - whomever rules the five boroughs rules the state, as the saying goes.

Posted by: Boswell at October 18, 2022 03:17 PM (+Cgut)

116 If Fetterman and Oz are neck and neck, I give it to Fetterman.

>William Penn should be spinning in his grave.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at October 18, 2022 03:16 PM (z+OQR)

Do not doubt my power.

Posted by: Kuato at October 18, 2022 03:17 PM (Zz0t1)

117 A couple of Threads ago, many of you were kvetching about gain of function.

*

A couple of years ago many morons were wondering out loud if the injection would be the pathway to the next release reacting with the components that were put into the mRNA shots and forced upon civilization. Remember how many people had to have them to maintain employment? To continue military service? To attend college?

That might be the key to the Boston 80% mortality strain that they were working on. It will react with the vaccination to kill people.

It's pretty brilliant, really, if your goal is a massive reduction in population.

Say, remember how China gave us the genetic mapping for the injection and then didn't use the mRNA shots themselves? Weird, huh?

https://tinyurl.com/yjmkxg5x

Posted by: Gray Man at October 18, 2022 03:17 PM (KQUPm)

118 If Fetterman and Oz are neck and neck, I give it to Fetterman.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls
__

I'm pretty cynical, but if the Dem skewing polls have that race tied, I would say Oz wins in.

I usually give around 4-5% to the Republican. Outside of that, I get pessimistic.

Posted by: Blago at October 18, 2022 03:17 PM (PwNLq)

119 Polls Are Useless! The Polls Are All Wrong! Voting Is Useless! We Are All Doomed! Doomed! Dobbs Was a Tactical Error!

Buy Electric Vehicles! I.C.E. Cars Catch Fire All The Time!

(Where is my relief? I hate working overtime! Joe, when are you punching in?)

Posted by: Electric Vehicle Guy at October 18, 2022 03:17 PM (xttsV)

120 Why is Texas pink on that map? There is nothing even close in the State right now.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 18, 2022 03:04 PM

According to Beto, in 50% of the thrice-daily emails begging for $3, the race for TX Governor is "within the margin of error".

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 18, 2022 03:17 PM (a3Q+t)

121 Some independent newsagent needs to ask Sundowner if we blew up the Russians pipeline and see if we can get a Col Jessup response

Posted by: Skip at October 18, 2022 03:17 PM (xhxe8)

122 This isn't a vote of confidence in republicans as much as it's a vote of no confidence in democrats.

That's where this country is.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 18, 2022 03:02 PM (6VKyY)

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

True, nobody is enthused or even mildly comforted by what McConnell is doing. Can you imagine the sort of results Republicans would have with someone else in that position. Republicans may win in spite of their stupidity and not because they deserve to.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at October 18, 2022 03:17 PM (3JfbU)

123 I think this year will be very bad for Dems. AZ, NV, and GA are probably all good bets for the GOP, but I wouldn't be surprised if they pick up 5, or even 6, Senate seats. It depends on how bad things get over the next couple of weeks.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at October 18, 2022 03:16 PM (wmDcS)

With SA sticking a dick to Biden, fuel prices are going up by the day. We should have $6 Diesel average and $4.20 avg Unleaded by election day.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 18, 2022 03:18 PM (Zz0t1)

124 Zeldin is a lightweight human quiche

Isn't that some French food-a pie with eggs and cheese.

I dont think he's lightwieight at all. I just don't think he's a firebrand.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 18, 2022 03:18 PM (vH/6k)

125 Aussies doing the job. Sky News Australia:

'Struggles with the simplest of concepts': Joe Biden produces 'incomprehensible word salad'

Posted by: wth at October 18, 2022 03:18 PM (v0R5T)

126 If Fetterman and Oz are neck and neck, I give it to Fetterman.

>William Penn should be spinning in his grave.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at October 18, 2022 03:16 PM (z+OQR)
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He would rescind the land grant and revert it to his private estate.

Posted by: Axeman at October 18, 2022 03:19 PM (krQz2)

127 That republican senate candidate in Colorado is asshole. He's gonna be Murkowski with bigger boobs.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 18, 2022 03:19 PM (TbpGr)

128 If Robert Francis O'Rourke gets his ass kicked will he finally go away?

Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 18, 2022 03:19 PM (eGTCV)

129 BTW the Trafalgar generic ballot vote, which is historically much more accurate than RCP, is currently R +5. That is blowout territory.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 18, 2022 03:19 PM (ZLI7S)

130 The Manhattan DA is Alvin Bragg.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 18, 2022 03:16 PM (ZLI7S)
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Who Lee Zeldin pledged to unseat (apparently, other Republicans have discovered they also have DeSantis-like powers to suspend/fire these shitheel DA's)

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 18, 2022 03:19 PM (v6iF3)

131
According to Beto, in 50% of the thrice-daily emails begging for $3, the race for TX Governor is "within the margin of error".
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 18, 2022 03:17 PM (a3Q+t)

I don't see ANY beto signs posted. I just see the stickers from the LAST time he lost. He's got very little backing this go around.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 18, 2022 03:19 PM (Zz0t1)

132 Why don't the pollsters want to be exact? Aren't they being paid to be correct?

Posted by: torabora at October 18, 2022 03:19 PM (JH1tc)

133 This isn't a vote of confidence in republicans as much as it's a vote of no confidence in democrats.

That's where this country is.

I'll take it.
Posted by: Archimedes

///

Ditto

Posted by: Prime Sister at October 18, 2022 03:19 PM (tQL7r)

134 This isn't a vote of confidence in republicans as much as it's a vote of no confidence in democrats.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 18, 2022 03:02 PM (6VKyY)
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I'll take it.

I've been voting mostly against-Dems my entire adult life.

Posted by: Axeman at October 18, 2022 03:20 PM (krQz2)

135 True, nobody is enthused or even mildly comforted by what McConnell is doing.
______________

I'm just in it for the ca$h.
-McConnell

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 18, 2022 03:20 PM (fs1hN)

136 If Robert Francis O'Rourke gets his ass kicked will he finally go away?
Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 18, 2022 03:19 PM (eGTCV)

HELLS no. That grifter is going to get even more annoying.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 18, 2022 03:20 PM (Zz0t1)

137 Hopium is a helluva drug.

D's will hold NY and OR governors. And Lake in AZ is no lock.

Posted by: Hands at October 18, 2022 03:20 PM (786Ro)

138 One real problem for Bitch McConnell - if you look at open/D races that RCP claims are tossups it would appear AZ, NH, and NV are all going to be MAGA types that won't work with him.

Less sure about GA and NC

If there is a true red wave could we see the Bitch lose his leadership role?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 18, 2022 03:20 PM (ESjRY)

139 And the NY Post has repeatedly come out in favor of Zeldin with good reasons.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 18, 2022 03:21 PM (vH/6k)

140 With SA sticking a dick to Biden, fuel prices are going up by the day. We should have $6 Diesel average and $4.20 avg Unleaded by election day.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 18, 2022 03:18 PM (Zz0t1)

But the more important figures are $6 gallon generic milk and $4.20 generic bread by election day - then a democrat can't win...the milk is almost there, the bread is going up quick, but might not reach that (although the "brands" already have)...

Posted by: Nova local at October 18, 2022 03:21 PM (exHjb)

141 Why don't the pollsters want to be exact? Aren't they being paid to be correct?
Posted by: torabora at October 18, 2022 03:19 PM (JH1tc)

They've been wrong for decades. They're as bad as your local meteorologist.

Follow the money.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 18, 2022 03:21 PM (Zz0t1)

142 mitch was in on the 1/6 entrapment. that's why his bitch wife resigned as a PR stunt in yet another McConnell knife in trump's back.

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at October 18, 2022 03:21 PM (MLrvz)

143 Fun fact about William Penn: He happened to be in London when Peter the Great was visiting there as part of his Grand Embassy. Supposedly, Peter and Penn met, and Penn tried to convert the Tsar to Quakerism.

Would’ve loved to have been a fly on the wall in that room.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 18, 2022 03:21 PM (7eZvF)

144 That republican senate candidate in Colorado is asshole. He's gonna be Murkowski with bigger boobs.
*****
Aren't bigger boobs a good thing?

Posted by: torabora at October 18, 2022 03:21 PM (JH1tc)

145 129 BTW the Trafalgar generic ballot vote, which is historically much more accurate than RCP, is currently R +5. That is blowout territory.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 18, 2022 03:19 PM (ZLI7S)

Bloomberg Radio has a daily politics show called Sound On. Listening to it, you wouldn't know that the Dems are in big trouble come Election Day. I think that Bloomberg's 2020 order embargoing any news that reflects badly on Dems is still in effect over there.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 18, 2022 03:21 PM (9miN6)

146 Yeah, the GOP tried to put together some Contract bullshit, but fortunately, most everyone has ignored it.
Posted by: Methos

He keeps posting that crap on Truth Social and gets analized in the comments every time.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 18, 2022 03:21 PM (VaSD4)

147 no, if there were sentient members of the GOP, then Mitch should be stripped of all leadership roles. Him and Burr.

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at October 18, 2022 03:21 PM (MLrvz)

148 >>Why don't the pollsters want to be exact? Aren't they being paid to be correct?

No. At least not this far from election day.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 18, 2022 03:21 PM (ZLI7S)

149 BTW the Trafalgar generic ballot vote, which is historically much more accurate than RCP, is currently R +5. That is blowout territory.

+5 is 2014

+6 is 2010

+8 would be...the largest R hold on Congress in memory

Of course the Rs did NOTHING after their big wins in 2010 and 2014...

Posted by: 18-1 at October 18, 2022 03:22 PM (ESjRY)

150 Keaira Hudson’s husband
........

Hmmm. Something about him looks oddly familiar.

Posted by: wth at October 18, 2022 03:22 PM (v0R5T)

151
Less sure about GA and NC

If there is a true red wave could we see the Bitch lose his leadership role?
Posted by: 18-1 at October 18, 2022 03:20 PM (ESjRY)

That is the whole point - Scott, at a minimum, is coming after McConnell's gavel - he may get it with enough new senators...

Posted by: Nova local at October 18, 2022 03:22 PM (exHjb)

152 this sort of dissatisfaction is what gave Schwarzenegger his governorship of Cali.

and we all saw how quickly he fucked that up and sold out to the unions.

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at October 18, 2022 03:22 PM (MLrvz)

153 If Fetterman and Oz are neck and neck, I give it to Fetterman.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

If it’s neck and neck, then fettermans neck wins

Posted by: 7man at October 18, 2022 03:22 PM (qwO6y)

154 Hey, we blew up the Nordstream pipelines!

What more do the voters want?
Posted by: Droolin' Joe Biden, Supreme Warlord! at October 18, 2022 03:15 PM (I2/tG)
===============
Shit we pray Biden does not say, but know he probably will say.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 18, 2022 03:22 PM (v6iF3)

155 I would like Blumenthal's departure. He is an odious creature.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at October 18, 2022 03:22 PM (v2/wx)

156 True, nobody is enthused or even mildly comforted by what McConnell is doing. Can you imagine the sort of results Republicans would have with someone else in that position. Republicans may win in spite of their stupidity and not because they deserve to.
Posted by: President Select Decaf at October 18, 2022 03:17 PM (3JfbU)

I have a theory that McConnell is planning to retire after the midterms. Everything now is to try and secure a GOP majority in the Senate, while not handing control to the MAGA faction. I think that this is also why Romney won't endorse Lee: if McMullin wins then Romney becomes the senior Senator from Utah, and the narrative will be that without Romney's endorsement Lee lost, so Romney has power. That sets him up to be McConnell's heir as the "respectable" Republican leader.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at October 18, 2022 03:22 PM (wmDcS)

157 The Best R election in memory was 2010 where it was R +6 and led to 242 House seats.

If we get R+8...wow.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 18, 2022 03:05 PM (ESjRY)

Everyone will blame Biden. Few will acknowledge that the comparison to Trump made him look even worse.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 18, 2022 03:22 PM (GYIa4)

158 BTW, if you're looking for that perfect Christmas gift for the proggie in your family, Beto is currently offering 10% off campaign merchandise in his online store.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 18, 2022 03:22 PM (a3Q+t)

159
GAINZZ and No Brainz?

Did Ace do a post on "bodybuilder" and fake "vaccine" simp Doug Brignole, yet?

lolz (but a sad lolz) : this 60+ year old long-time bodybuilder took to Twitter to say how safe the fake "vaccine" was. Doug Brignole said hey if I die, then I was wrong and you "anti science" "anti-vaxxers" we're right. Guess who's D-E-A-D?

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 18, 2022 03:22 PM (dH9Bu)

160 Kathy Hochul looks the illegitimate butt-baby of Nosferatu and Sponge Bob.

Posted by: Zek at October 18, 2022 03:23 PM (fsV7e)

161 If it’s neck and neck, then fettermans neck wins

Posted by: 7man at October 18, 2022 03:22 PM (qwO6y)
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It's got that little extra to get it over the hump.

Posted by: Axeman at October 18, 2022 03:23 PM (krQz2)

162 I don't know Joe Borelli from a hole in Fetterman's head. But good grief his tweet is why we live in an age where grownups show their flair with emojis.

Posted by: Hands at October 18, 2022 03:23 PM (786Ro)

163 If Robert Francis O'Rourke gets his ass kicked will he finally go away?

And do what, get a real job? Pull the other one.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 18, 2022 03:23 PM (nfrXX)

164 I think the first to-do item on McCarthy's contract was "Develop a vaccine that works!" and I immediately thought oh for fucks sake, go back to just saying nothing at all.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 18, 2022 03:23 PM (trdmm)

165 Posted by: Hands at October 18, 2022 03:20 PM (786Ro)

I don't take drugs-except for those prescribed by a doctor and some Tylenol and I did smoke some marijuana as a kid. I think Zeldin has a chance. Everybody is aware of how bad crime is in NYC and lots of people are aware that that no bail, now jail is a Democrat idea.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 18, 2022 03:23 PM (vH/6k)

166 I dont think he's lightwieight at all. I just don't think he's a firebrand.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 18, 2022 03:18 PM (vH/6k)

He's soft, Fen, but he's certainly stronger than Pataki or anyone in NJ on the GOP side right now. Well, north NJ anyway.

The NY GOP will never have a DeSantis or anything like that - they will have these rather mushy, Rockerfeller Republicans at best - and continue to bleed out conservatives to red states just like all the blue north has for some time now.

Posted by: Boswell at October 18, 2022 03:23 PM (+Cgut)

167 The convalescent home is calling Nancy's name.
Posted by: Axeman at October 18, 2022 03:07 PM (krQz2)

I wonder if she still wants to be ambassador to Italy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 18, 2022 03:23 PM (GYIa4)

168
Crime has got to be an issue. It's not banned by FaceBroke yet, but a 'community' page my wife follows is chock full of daily petty crime (and the occasional carjacking) in our hood. So if Zucker has chased off all the (R)'s who is the audience?

(R)'s +7. Nah, make that a very girthy +8.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 18, 2022 03:24 PM (y3pKJ)

169 Hey, we blew up the Nordstream pipelines!

What more do the voters want?
Posted by: Droolin' Joe Biden, Supreme Warlord! at October 18, 2022 03:15 PM (I2/tG)

F. Joe Biden will publicly announce this in February or March 2023, as dead frozen bodies are being hauled out of European Apartment Buildings on a regular basis this winter.

That is my prediction.

Posted by: rd at October 18, 2022 03:24 PM (Z32m1)

170 Of course the Rs did NOTHING after their big wins in 2010 and 2014...
Posted by: 18-1 at October 18, 2022 03:22 PM (ESjRY)

After the last 2 years, I'd take nothing.
But, if they wanted to just repeal everything, and try to get a veto override on something, or just add "budget" stuff like "87000 fewer IRS agents" to the budget bill, to try to force Dems to pass...I'd take it and get to 2024 when we get the top office back...

Posted by: Nova local at October 18, 2022 03:24 PM (exHjb)

171 True, nobody is enthused or even mildly comforted by what McConnell is doing.

___

I bet 90%+ of voters have no idea who Mitch McConnell even is.

I think we just assume everyone else follows this as closely as we do.

Posted by: Blago at October 18, 2022 03:24 PM (PwNLq)

172 "Maybe DeSantis, Abbot, and Ducey need to send some illegal aliens to Yale."

They are already working at Yale, and attending Yale, and probably "servicing Yale" (IYKWIM) and Yale Faculty/Deans are fine with that.

So what's the difference?

Posted by: Scott_T at October 18, 2022 03:24 PM (2waQ7)

173 BTW, if you're looking for that perfect Christmas gift for the proggie in your family, Beto is currently offering 10% off campaign merchandise in his online store.

Did he ever get those monogrammed "bite proof" pillows that Hogg was working on?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 18, 2022 03:24 PM (ESjRY)

174 Shit we pray Biden does not say, but know he probably will say.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 18, 2022 03:22 PM (v6iF3)
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We'll just walk it back.

Posted by: The White House at October 18, 2022 03:24 PM (krQz2)

175 sentient members of the GOP
Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at October 18, 2022 03:21 PM

I think I see the problem.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 18, 2022 03:25 PM (a3Q+t)

176 163 If Robert Francis O'Rourke gets his ass kicked will he finally go away?

And do what, get a real job? Pull the other one.
Posted by: Oddbob at October 18, 2022

Point taken

Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 18, 2022 03:25 PM (eGTCV)

177 lolz (but a sad lolz) : this 60+ year old long-time bodybuilder took to Twitter to say how safe the fake "vaccine" was. Doug Brignole said hey if I die, then I was wrong and you "anti science" "anti-vaxxers" we're right. Guess who's D-E-A-D?

He #diedsuddenly. Can't say that on fartbook. Seriously, they banned the hashtag.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at October 18, 2022 03:25 PM (Bd6X8)

178 We'll take some illegal aliens if they're white enough.

Posted by: Harvard at October 18, 2022 03:25 PM (JH1tc)

179 I have a theory that McConnell is planning to retire after the midterms. Everything now is to try and secure a GOP majority in the Senate, while not handing control to the MAGA faction. I think that this is also why Romney won't endorse Lee: if McMullin wins then Romney becomes the senior Senator from Utah, and the narrative will be that without Romney's endorsement Lee lost, so Romney has power. That sets him up to be McConnell's heir as the "respectable" Republican leader.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at October 18, 2022 03:22 PM (wmDcS)

I completely agree with you here. I said it to a friend a couple of weeks ago - there is a nonzero chance that McConnell will resign from the Senate before he faces the prospect of being turned out of Leadership by the caucus. The only thing that holds me back from that prediction is that the KY governor would pick a Dem to replace him.

On second thought...

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 18, 2022 03:25 PM (9miN6)

180 Who was the governor in NY before Giuliani?

That's apparently the level of hell NY will accept before they vote Republican.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at October 18, 2022 03:07 PM (6VKyY)

Giuliani was only Governor of the city.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 18, 2022 03:25 PM (GYIa4)

181 We have 11 dem only races for judge here in county. Can't field any pubbies for them I guess.

Posted by: NCKate at October 18, 2022 03:25 PM (0R0Vd)

182 I think there are a lot of politicians who live on campaign funds both winning or losing

Posted by: Skip at October 18, 2022 03:25 PM (xhxe8)

183 If Robert Francis O'Rourke gets his ass kicked will he finally go away?
Posted by: That NLurker guy

No. 😔
He's gotten his ass kicked every time and yet, her he is.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 18, 2022 03:25 PM (Lk0sn)

184 I'm leaning towards the commies frauding the shit out of everything, especially given pantsshitter's apparent attempts to start a nukular war, not to mention "gain of function? what gain of function??". They think they're thisclose and can't cope with being denied.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 18, 2022 03:25 PM (llON8)

185 He's soft, Fen, but he's certainly stronger than Pataki or anyone in NJ on the GOP side right now. Well, north NJ anyway.

The NY GOP will never have a DeSantis or anything like that - they will have these rather mushy, Rockerfeller Republicans at best - and continue to bleed out conservatives to red states just like all the blue north has for some time now.
Posted by: Boswell
__

And I think some people have understanding that in a deep blue state, a non-Dem vote is the best you're going to get. And it is usually better than the alternative.

Posted by: Blago at October 18, 2022 03:26 PM (PwNLq)

186 Biden's promise to enshrine abortion will really motivate... idk, someone.

But it's totally going to turn the midterms around

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 18, 2022 03:26 PM (Zf0+a)

187 Guess who's D-E-A-D?
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 18, 2022 03:22 PM (dH9Bu)

Abe Vigoda?

Posted by: spindrift at October 18, 2022 03:26 PM (h5TKJ)

188 if McMullin wins then Romney becomes the senior Senator from Utah, and the narrative will be that without Romney's endorsement Lee lost, so Romney has power. That sets him up to be McConnell's heir as the "respectable" Republican leader.

If you're suggesting that Romney would replace McConnell as the Senate Majority leader, I think you're dreaming. The revolt against such a move would be cataclysmic.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 18, 2022 03:26 PM (eOEVl)

189 How many actual conservative/small "l" libertarians are there in the Senate right now?

Hawley, Johnson, Paul...maybe Cruz and Blackburn.

Woohoo.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 18, 2022 03:26 PM (ESjRY)

190 I completely agree with you here. I said it to a friend a couple of weeks ago - there is a nonzero chance that McConnell will resign from the Senate before he faces the prospect of being turned out of Leadership by the caucus. The only thing that holds me back from that prediction is that the KY governor would pick a Dem to replace him.

On second thought...
Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 18, 2022 03:25 PM (9miN6)

If the GOP picks up two or three seats, then he can safely retire without handing over control of the Senate. The problem is I doubt he wants to hand it over to Rick Scott.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at October 18, 2022 03:26 PM (wmDcS)

191 Cough up a loogie sound > Hochul

The first thing that comes to mind when I hear that bint's name.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 18, 2022 03:26 PM (Xrfse)

192 179 The only thing that holds me back from that prediction is that the KY governor would pick a Dem to replace him.

On second thought...
Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 18, 2022 03:25 PM (9miN6)

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Except for the legislation in KY that passed last year (over the KY governor's veto) that forced a change in the process where the governor has to choose from the same party as the person retiring. McConnell will be replaced by a Republican. A McConnell Republican, but A McConnell Republican not at the head of the leadership in the Senate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 18, 2022 03:27 PM (LvTSG)

193 I completely agree with you here. I said it to a friend a couple of weeks ago - there is a nonzero chance that McConnell will resign from the Senate before he faces the prospect of being turned out of Leadership by the caucus. The only thing that holds me back from that prediction is that the KY governor would pick a Dem to replace him.

On second thought...
Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 18, 2022 03:25 PM (9miN6)

He can't - law was changed and the gov has to pick a senator from the same party from a list the party provides him...

Posted by: Nova local at October 18, 2022 03:27 PM (exHjb)

194 When a new GOPe congressman gets elected do his testes get put away for safe keeping?

Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 18, 2022 03:27 PM (eGTCV)

195 If Robert Francis O'Rourke gets his ass kicked will he finally go away?
Posted by: That NLurker guy

No. 😔
He's gotten his ass kicked every time and yet, her he is.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 18, 2022 03:25 PM (Lk0sn)
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He'll stand on as many bars and tables as he has to until you start listening to him.

Posted by: The White House at October 18, 2022 03:27 PM (krQz2)

196 Polls are for strippers. How'd ja like to see muh cans?

Posted by: Nancee Peloshee at October 18, 2022 03:27 PM (PrdT5)

197 I have a theory that McConnell is planning to retire after the midterms.

_____

He needs to go, if you're that hated by your own, you can't be an effective leader.

Honestly, a lot of these Trump picks prevailed in their primary purely because McConnell endorsed someone else and it was out of spite. You can't govern with that dynamic. Time to hang it up.

Posted by: Blago at October 18, 2022 03:27 PM (PwNLq)

198 Why did JEF select that white dude for SCOTUS?

Posted by: torabora at October 18, 2022 03:28 PM (JH1tc)

199 Weird how you have an actual DOCTOR tied with an actual PATIENT in the Pennsylvania Senate race....

Posted by: JoeF. at October 18, 2022 03:28 PM (mR6Gs)

200 163 If Robert Francis O'Rourke gets his ass kicked will he finally go away?

And do what, get a real job? Pull the other one.
Posted by: Oddbob at October 18, 2022 03:23 PM (nfrXX)

Even the most gullible big donors have a hard time giving cash to a 3 time loser. When o'rourke jumped on that gun control bullshit as a campaign promise, he killed his chances for getting elected dogcatcher in Texas.

btw recently his campaign put out a press release gloating how had raised a little bit more money than Abbott in the latest reporting period - except that 80% or so of Abbotts donations came from inside Texas, and 90% of Beto's money came from California.

Babylon Bee headline: "Beto show big lead over Abbott, in poll of Californians."

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 18, 2022 03:28 PM (trdmm)

201 >>He's soft, Fen, but he's certainly stronger than Pataki or anyone in NJ on the GOP side right now. Well, north NJ anyway.

I think being attacked by an armed nut during a campaign appearance and having a gang shootout literally in his front yard while only his two daughters were at home might have put a little steel in his spine.

NY has the largest number of people fleeing the state of any in the country. It's basically on life support. If NYers don't get rid of this idiot Hochul now the state is finished.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 18, 2022 03:28 PM (ZLI7S)

202 NYC doesn't just need a new governor. They need Batman. That's the only person who could clean that place up.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 18, 2022 03:28 PM (TbpGr)

203 If it’s neck and neck, then fettermans neck wins

Posted by: 7man at October 18, 2022 03:22 PM (qwO6y)
.......

Only if he crosses the finish line backwards.

Posted by: wth at October 18, 2022 03:28 PM (v0R5T)

204 194 When a new GOPe congressman gets elected do his testes get put away for safe keeping?
Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 18, 2022 03:27 PM (eGTCV)

I ain't sayin' nuttin'.

Posted by: Madison Cawthorn at October 18, 2022 03:28 PM (PiwSw)

205 Weird how you have an actual DOCTOR tied with an actual PATIENT in the Pennsylvania Senate race....

Pretty sure Evil Shrek needs Doctor Franken-STEIN to help him

Posted by: 18-1 at October 18, 2022 03:28 PM (ESjRY)

206
The highly reliable Philly Sports Fan index has the (D)'s at two (D) cells in popularity.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 18, 2022 03:28 PM (y3pKJ)

207 155 I would like Blumenthal's departure. He is an odious creature.
___________

I would miss the gentleman from Connecticut who has become my good friend in the work we have done together for the people of Ukraine. I implore the good people of Connecticut to reconsider.
- Lindsay Graham

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 18, 2022 03:29 PM (fs1hN)

208 TMZ is actually pointing out how shallow and vapid Meghan Markle actually is?
Posted by: rd at October 18, 2022 03:04 PM (Z32m1)

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Now that she and Harry have been shafted out of the royal family she is no longer useful to anyone. It's not even as if she was a great actress like Grace Kelly and can go back to acting. Meghan is kaput and it's only a matter of time before Harry goes back to papa.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at October 18, 2022 03:29 PM (3JfbU)

209 190 If the GOP picks up two or three seats, then he can safely retire without handing over control of the Senate. The problem is I doubt he wants to hand it over to Rick Scott.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at October 18, 2022 03:26 PM (wmDcS)

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It'd be funny if Thune goes up for the vote and loses outright to Scott.

I imagine McConnell's plan, assuming the plan to retire would be to get through the opening of the next Congress, settle the leadership as best in his favor as possible, and then retire, letting his #2 take possession of the leadership role, as long as it's not Rick Scott.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 18, 2022 03:29 PM (LvTSG)

210 Did Ace do a post on "bodybuilder" and fake "vaccine" simp Doug Brignole, yet?

lolz (but a sad lolz) : this 60+ year old long-time bodybuilder took to Twitter to say how safe the fake "vaccine" was. Doug Brignole said hey if I die, then I was wrong and you "anti science" "anti-vaxxers" we're right. Guess who's D-E-A-D?
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 18, 2022 03:22 PM (dH9Bu)

The dude tweeted that out in March 2021 on Twatter. It is eighteen months later, so I he survived his first two shots. Now if you tell me he just got boosted in the last 30 days? Then I will laugh and point.

Posted by: rd at October 18, 2022 03:29 PM (Z32m1)

211 If Robert Francis O'Rourke gets his ass kicked will he finally go away?

His entire job seems to be to take money from gullible Democrat donors while not actually ever having a chance. I'm sure he has some deal where the DNC gets half or something.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 18, 2022 03:29 PM (ZGrMX)

212 194 When a new GOPe congressman gets elected do his testes get put away for safe keeping?
Posted by: That NLurker guy

If safe keeping means In Lindsey Graham's mouth then yes.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 18, 2022 03:29 PM (VaSD4)

213 I'm not sure the Keaira Bennefield case is as simple as it seems. Police arrested the thug after she posted video of him abusing her ON FACEBOOK, in some kind of weird sympathy ploy. I don't know if she ever even made a criminal complaint. Thug was charged with a laundry list of minor crimes. He would have been released even in a sane bail system. But if this hurts Hochulhu, then I'm all for it.

Posted by: Elric Blade at October 18, 2022 03:29 PM (iFTx/)

214 If Robert Francis O'Rourke gets his ass kicked will he finally go away?
Posted by: That NLurker guy

No, he and Tank Abrams are going to keep coming back until they win something, even if it's Dancing with the Stars

Posted by: JoeF. at October 18, 2022 03:29 PM (mR6Gs)

215 90% of Beto's money came from California.

I don't really understand why this is allowed.

Posted by: spindrift at October 18, 2022 03:30 PM (h5TKJ)

216 And the NY Post has repeatedly come out in favor of Zeldin with good reasons.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Picture Elaine Benes sayin "ZEL DIN "

Posted by: JT at October 18, 2022 03:30 PM (T4tVD)

217 Except for the legislation in KY that passed last year (over the KY governor's veto) that forced a change in the process where the governor has to choose from the same party as the person retiring. McConnell will be replaced by a Republican. A McConnell Republican, but A McConnell Republican not at the head of the leadership in the Senate.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 18, 2022 03:27 PM (LvTSG)

He can't - law was changed and the gov has to pick a senator from the same party from a list the party provides him...
Posted by: Nova local at October 18, 2022 03:27 PM (exHjb)

This is great news. I like the law that KY passed, regarding picking from a list. Not perfect, but it gets us closer to life before the 17th Amendment.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 18, 2022 03:30 PM (9miN6)

218 In addition she's UP TO HER HIGH DRAWN ON EYEBROWS in "Pay to Play" Corruption
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

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What a great turn of phrase!

Posted by: Prime Sister at October 18, 2022 03:30 PM (tQL7r)

219 I see VA10 has gone to merely "lean" D as well. If Cao is really only a few points down in a district that went Biden +19 the Dems are in deep, deep trouble.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 18, 2022 03:03 PM (ESjRY)
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Can you tell me where you saw that? And, it could definitely happen. I used to live in VA-10 but was redistricted (twice, as it happens). That seat was Republican for years and years and just went Dem in 2018 since Comstock was not a great replacement for Frank Wolf.

I am adjacent to that district now and see Hung Cao signs EVERYWHERE.

Posted by: bluebell at October 18, 2022 03:30 PM (aeePL)

220 "NY has the largest number of people fleeing the state of any in the country. It's basically on life support. If NYers don't get rid of this idiot Hochul now the state is finished.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 18, 2022 03:28 PM (ZLI7S)"

The state budget is only green due to the funds Congress supplied to bail them out. The tax base is shrinking and in a few short years NY will be in real serious fiscal trouble if this continues. Democrats favorite trick has been to raise taxes. Given NY is already the highest taxed state in the nation, that will be the final straw, so to speak.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 18, 2022 03:30 PM (TbpGr)

221 Remember, in these instances, if your gain of function lasts more than four hours, seek medical attention, whether it's here or in town.
Posted by: zombie The Bob Dole at October 18, 2022 03:10 PM (a3Q+t)

That would be restoration of function, Bob. No wonder you were such a shit Senator.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 18, 2022 03:31 PM (GYIa4)

222 >>If you're suggesting that Romney would replace McConnell as the Senate Majority leader, I think you're dreaming. The revolt against such a move would be cataclysmic.

The media doesn't vote for Senate Majority Leader. Senators do. Romney wouldn't even get his own vote.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 18, 2022 03:31 PM (ZLI7S)

223 Why did JEF select that white dude for SCOTUS?

Kagan might not look particularly feminine but I am pretty sure she's got XX chromosomes

Posted by: 18-1 at October 18, 2022 03:31 PM (ESjRY)

224 , he and Tank Abrams are going to keep coming back until they win something, even if it's Dancing with the Stars
Posted by: JoeF. at October 18, 2022 03

RFO and Tank doing the Tango would be must see television.

Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 18, 2022 03:31 PM (eGTCV)

225 So I live in NY and Hochul and the Dems are running one ad against the GOP, abortion. That is it. The Dems won't talk crime, economy, cost of life, quality of life, education, nothing but abortion and how Zeldin and my congresscritter Malliotakis voted for a law to allow states to set their own standards for abortion.

Not for nothing, I don't really care what other states do regarding abortion. I don't live in those states. I care about the 40% increase in utilities, the massive increase in gas, food, and everything else necessary for everyday life. Crime is spiralling out of control and the most amount of murders in 15 years has happened on mass transit and we still got 2.5 months to go.

Posted by: Penfold at October 18, 2022 03:31 PM (Fbt5B)

226 Meghan is kaput and it's only a matter of time before Harry goes back to papa.
Posted by: President Select Decaf at October 18, 2022 03:29 PM (3JfbU)

This

Posted by: JoeF. at October 18, 2022 03:31 PM (mR6Gs)

227 Robert Francis O'Rourke will run for something else, or geta appointed to some cabinet position. Its his only job skill: running for office and losing. He's like Crist, losing is his profession.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 18, 2022 03:31 PM (Ivdso)

228 That seat was Republican for years and years and just went Dem in 2018 since Comstock was not a great replacement for Frank Wolf.

That's like saying the Titanic was not a great replacement for the Queen Mary.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 18, 2022 03:32 PM (eOEVl)

229 McConnell will be replaced by a Republican.
_________

Future News Now -
The KY Gov picks Elaine Chao as replacement for retiring Sen. McConnell

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 18, 2022 03:32 PM (fs1hN)

230 Imagine if they were campaigning.
Posted by: Gray Man at October 18, 2022 03:11 PM (KQUPm)

Campaigning is for losers. -- "President" Droolin' Joe Biden

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 18, 2022 03:32 PM (GYIa4)

231 Keira was wearing a bullet proof vest? Husband was picked up for multiple new assault charges yet was let out?

Wow.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at October 18, 2022 03:32 PM (5pTK/)

232 I think being attacked by an armed nut during a campaign appearance and having a gang shootout literally in his front yard while only his two daughters were at home might have put a little steel in his spine.

I agree; I've listened to a number of his speeches. I dont
think he's soft at all.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 18, 2022 03:32 PM (vH/6k)

233 If Zeldin becomes governor of NY, abortion will stay just as legal as it is now.

But the Dems figure they can trick enough voters I guess. Of course...if you care that much about killing your kid aren't you already voting D anyway?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 18, 2022 03:33 PM (ESjRY)

234 RFO and Tank doing the Tango would be must see television.
Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 18, 2022 03:31 PM (eGTCV)

Nope, nope. We cannot sign off on this.

Posted by: Dancing with the Stars Flooring Structural Engineers at October 18, 2022 03:33 PM (PiwSw)

235 229
Future News Now -
The KY Gov picks Elaine Chao as replacement for retiring Sen. McConnell
Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 18, 2022 03:32 PM (fs1hN)

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McConnell isn't a problem because he's a GOPe squish. He's a problem because he's a GOPe squish who is leader of the caucus and controls a lot of money.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 18, 2022 03:33 PM (LvTSG)

236 The media doesn't vote for Senate Majority Leader. Senators do. Romney wouldn't even get his own vote.

I agree, the job isn't one you get from seniority or succession, its basically the guy who can raise the most money and control the flow of finance best. That's why Pelosi keeps winning. Not because she's a great leader, is beloved, or because she gives the Democrats success, but because she's a big earner.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 18, 2022 03:33 PM (Ivdso)

237 Confirmation of everything I said on the podcast.

Let's see how it all shakes out.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 18, 2022 03:33 PM (XNGu7)

238 Why is Texas pink on that map? There is nothing even close in the State right now.
Posted by: Mister Scott

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Not purple this year? Dims are always just "one election shy of turning Texas blue." Wish casting, that's all that is.

Posted by: Prime Sister at October 18, 2022 03:33 PM (tQL7r)

239 And it is usually better than the alternative.
Posted by: Blago at October 18, 2022 03:26 PM (PwNLq)

You are, of course, correct. This is the best of a bad world and NY-ers would be insane not to take Zeldin over Hurchel - but I'm not holding my breath that Zeldin will move the needle to a more conservative NY or some sort of build a base here like DeSantis. It simply would be a temporary reprieve from insanity. His election will be a holding action, at best.

Posted by: Boswell at October 18, 2022 03:33 PM (+Cgut)

240 I am adjacent to that district now and see Hung Cao signs EVERYWHERE.

I haven't seen many here in VA-10, but there's still time. I've mentioned here before that I contacted them about donating to the campaign but they blew me off, saying they got so many emails they couldn't respond to them all. If you're doing that to potential donors, you're either terminally stupid, or doing so well that you really don't need the money.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 18, 2022 03:33 PM (eOEVl)

241 That seems to be the instructions given out by the Dems to their candidates. Ryan in OH spent debate night calling J.D. Vance an extremist.

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The response is:

You calling me an extremist reflects poorly on you rather than me. All I want is a secure border, low crime and a productive economy. Back in the day, that wasn't extreme at all.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at October 18, 2022 03:34 PM (cMXNt)

242 >>I agree; I've listened to a number of his speeches. I dont
think he's soft at all.

I think it takes a lot of guts to even run for governor as a Republican in NY.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 18, 2022 03:34 PM (ZLI7S)

243 When o'rourke jumped on that gun control bullshit as a campaign promise, he killed his chances for getting elected dogcatcher in Texas.

For some reason, the TX Democrats have my son's name associated with my phone number. So I keep getting texts about "Hey James, Beto is closing in on Abbott" or whatever their BS o' the day is. I've been trying to troll them with replies like "I heard Beto is going soft on assault weapons, what's up with that?" So far, I haven't gotten any response.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 18, 2022 03:34 PM (nfrXX)

244 I hate to burst bubbles, (ok i don't really) but this stuff about McConnell leaving his position under any circumstances is one of those things that the hoi polloi like to talk about on the internet, but which NO ONE in DC ever mentions or even takes seriously. McConnell is gonna be leader of the Senate Repubs until the day he dies. People act as if 5 new Senators will have an impact on the 40 - 45 GOP Senators that are very well paid to stay in McConnell's hip pocket.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 18, 2022 03:34 PM (trdmm)

245
Nope, nope. We cannot sign off on this.
Posted by: Dancing with the Stars Flooring Structural Engineers at October 18, 2022 03:33 PM (PiwSw)

Heh.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 18, 2022 03:34 PM (Zz0t1)

246 Can you tell me where you saw that? And, it could definitely happen. I used to live in VA-10 but was redistricted (twice, as it happens). That seat was Republican for years and years and just went Dem in 2018 since Comstock was not a great replacement for Frank Wolf.

I am adjacent to that district now and see Hung Cao signs EVERYWHERE.
Posted by: bluebell at October 18, 2022 03:30 PM (aeePL)

Hope you're voting (and bringing friends and family out) b/c I think Wexton is totally beatable...

Posted by: Nova local at October 18, 2022 03:34 PM (exHjb)

247 And on cue Hochel backed out of a debate, because Democrats only strategy is to hide from their party and record. She knows she can't defend not only Biden, but her only shit policies.

But she'll end up winning thanks to ballot stuffing in Dem strongholds, and refusing to have to answer for her failures.

I know reaching an agreement for debates can be tough, but there needs to be some minimum so voters can see, one on one, what they're voting for.

Same shit happened in VA, where a Dem Congressman backed out of a debate south her challenger (Vega) because she said one of the two moderators is biased....bitch 99.9% of moderators are biased against Republicans yet thre Republican candidates are clamoring for debates.

Posted by: Rbastid at October 18, 2022 03:35 PM (DzX3N)

248 Confirmation of everything I said on the podcast.

Let's see how it all shakes out.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 18, 2022 03:33 PM (XNGu7)
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I just finished listening to it not ten minutes ago! I hope hope hope you're right.

And I left a comment about your characterization of the Oregon gubernatorial candidate. You're correct.

Posted by: bluebell at October 18, 2022 03:35 PM (aeePL)

249 The only thing that holds me back from that prediction is that the KY governor would pick a Dem to replace him.
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KY law requires replacement from same party, IIRC.

But, a D will pick the most squishy. So, between November and January is his window.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 18, 2022 03:36 PM (Zf0+a)

250 Expect to hear a lot of BS about the Oklahoma Governor's Race. It is a red state with the Democrat candidate beating the Republican incumbent in the polls.

It is the exception that will attract all the good Democrat Media Scribes.

Posted by: rd at October 18, 2022 03:36 PM (Z32m1)

251 Lee Zeldin spent four years on Active Duty with the U.S. Army after completing ROTC and served in
different capacities, including as a Military Intelligence Officer, Prosecutor, and Military Magistrate. In
the summer of 2006, while assigned to the Army’s elite 82nd Airborne Division, Lee deployed to Iraq
with an infantry battalion of fellow paratroopers in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

I don't think anybody who served in Iraq is soft

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 18, 2022 03:36 PM (vH/6k)

252 244 I hate to burst bubbles, (ok i don't really) but this stuff about McConnell leaving his position under any circumstances is one of those things that the hoi polloi like to talk about on the internet, but which NO ONE in DC ever mentions or even takes seriously. McConnell is gonna be leader of the Senate Repubs until the day he dies. People act as if 5 new Senators will have an impact on the 40 - 45 GOP Senators that are very well paid to stay in McConnell's hip pocket.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 18, 2022 03:34 PM (trdmm)

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I don't think he's going anywhere, personally. Just playing the masturbatory "what if" game.

My greatest hope for the secret leadership vote is that a handful of Republican senators refuse the final vote to make it unanimous, that news leaks, and McConnell gets embarrassed in public.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 18, 2022 03:36 PM (LvTSG)

253 Let's not start sucking each other's dick just yet.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at October 18, 2022 03:36 PM (BdMk6)

254
TX and OK barely more than toss-ups? Can such things be?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 18, 2022 03:36 PM (1Nxff)

255 In fairness, the GOPe could fuck up a one car funeral.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 18, 2022 03:37 PM (RfgGG)

256 236 The media doesn't vote for Senate Majority Leader. Senators do. Romney wouldn't even get his own vote.

I agree, the job isn't one you get from seniority or succession, its basically the guy who can raise the most money and control the flow of finance best. That's why Pelosi keeps winning. Not because she's a great leader, is beloved, or because she gives the Democrats success, but because she's a big earner.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 18, 2022 03:33 PM (Ivdso)

I'd disagree on one point - she's a good leader. She took that 'Culture of Corruption' line after Jack Abramoff's indictment, and flogged it all the way back to a Speakership and a Dem majority all by her lonesome. Said it at every opportunity, unlike Silent Kev McCarthy and Sideshow Scalise, who are like kids on milk cartons.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 18, 2022 03:37 PM (9miN6)

257 250 Expect to hear a lot of BS about the Oklahoma Governor's Race. It is a red state with the Democrat candidate beating the Republican incumbent in the polls.

It is the exception that will attract all the good Democrat Media Scribes.
Posted by: rd at October 18, 2022 03:36 PM (Z32m1)

Is OK really gonna put a D in the gov seat?

Posted by: Nova local at October 18, 2022 03:37 PM (exHjb)

258 Sundowner has become toxic to any to close to call race, last seen at most was campaigning rambling was for Oregon Governor

Posted by: Skip at October 18, 2022 03:37 PM (xhxe8)

259 I haven't seen many here in VA-10, but there's still time. I've mentioned here before that I contacted them about donating to the campaign but they blew me off, saying they got so many emails they couldn't respond to them all. If you're doing that to potential donors, you're either terminally stupid, or doing so well that you really don't need the money.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 18, 2022 03:33 PM (eOEVl)
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Well, that was dumb of them, but I'm hoping it's the latter. I see more of his signs in the eastern part of the district than the western.

Posted by: bluebell at October 18, 2022 03:37 PM (aeePL)

260 So I keep getting texts about "Hey James, Beto is closing in on Abbott" or whatever their BS o' the day is.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 18, 2022 03:34 PM (nfrXX)
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The template has been "My, that Beto O'Roarke is really giving a run for their money!"

Posted by: Axeman at October 18, 2022 03:37 PM (krQz2)

261 Beta was supposed to be Biden's "gun guy," but he's still here, running for Gov of Texas.

He's poison and THEY know it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 18, 2022 03:38 PM (Zz0t1)

262 90% of Beto's money came from California.
........

Never underestimate the stupidity of Californians.

Posted by: wth at October 18, 2022 03:38 PM (v0R5T)

263 That story I missed is pretty insane.*

*I could literally type this every day.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 18, 2022 03:38 PM (CwQXo)

264 Isn't that some French food-a pie with eggs and cheese.

We should ask CBD. You probably sous-vide it and add maple syrup.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 18, 2022 03:38 PM (GYIa4)

265 Said it at every opportunity, unlike Silent Kev McCarthy and Sideshow Scalise, who are like kids on milk cartons.

Mark Twain's admonition about keeping your mouth shut and having people think you might be an idiot vs opening it and removing all doubt comes to mind.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 18, 2022 03:38 PM (eOEVl)

266 I don't think anybody who served in Iraq is soft
===
Totes agree.

Posted by: David French at October 18, 2022 03:38 PM (3Hf2C)

267 261 Beta was supposed to be Biden's "gun guy," but he's still here, running for Gov of Texas.

He's poison and THEY know it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 18, 2022 03:38 PM (Zz0t1)

=========

Raises a lot of cash from dumb Hollywood millionaires, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 18, 2022 03:38 PM (LvTSG)

268 Hope you're voting (and bringing friends and family out) b/c I think Wexton is totally beatable...
Posted by: Nova local at October 18, 2022 03:34 PM (exHjb)
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I'd love to vote for him but I'm no longer in that district. I'll be voting for the Republican candidate in my district, for all the good it does.

Posted by: bluebell at October 18, 2022 03:39 PM (aeePL)

269 Is Hogg Boy running for anything?

Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 18, 2022 03:39 PM (eGTCV)

270 Joey Fingers over the weekend: Overturning Roe v Wade is "affecting children, moms, grandmoms, grandpops, and all the entire generations."

"The right that I pushed hard and I finally got changed to marry couples in the privacy of their bedroom."

pronounces “Obergefell” as “Ooolofred”

"God bless you all, and may God protect our troops. Thank you. I'm sorry." [Long pause] Biden: "I was apologizing for my back."

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 18, 2022 03:39 PM (Ivdso)

271 If Robert Francis O'Rourke gets his ass kicked will he finally go away?
Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 18, 2022 03:19 PM (eGTCV)

Narrator: He will not go away.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 18, 2022 03:39 PM (GYIa4)

272 Let's not start sucking each other's dick just yet.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at October 18, 2022 03:36 PM (BdMk6)
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I hereby opt out of all future celebrations of that nature.

Posted by: Axeman at October 18, 2022 03:39 PM (krQz2)

273 I may be in the minority here, but I really hope all the MAGA candidates win, along with some squishy GOPe lite candidates in NH, CO, RI, CT, etc. I would love to see Blumenthal get retired, and the rest of these Dems just get their butts handed to them. Get them gone. We will have some Republican Squishes left in the party, but we can do more good with a heavy Republican majority. The American people want change and even the squishy Rs will have a hard time NOT voting to close the border, reign in the CDC and refuse to go along with Mush Brains and his agenda. These Rs will vote to open ANWR and drill baby drill. I know a lot of folks will not vote for a squishy R, but in times like these, a reasonable R is better than a progressive D any day of the week.

Posted by: Czech Chick at October 18, 2022 03:39 PM (haWye)

274 The Biden had another short circuit today. Yesterday's repairs did not work.

Joe Biden: “The Right That I Pushed Hard and I Finally Got Changed to Marry Couples in the Privacy of Their Bedroom”

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 18, 2022 03:40 PM (VaSD4)

275 Debates.

Democrat MN Governor Walz has not agreed to debate the challenger Dr. Jesen on KSTP's debate night. The station should just turn the stage over to the challenger for 30 minutes and call it good.

Strangely? They will debate tonight on KMSP-9. Maybe it is like Lake and Hobbs, where they take the stage separately?

Posted by: rd at October 18, 2022 03:40 PM (Z32m1)

276 Oh, joy! From Bloomberg:

"Biden’s Plan for Next Pandemic Eyes Vaccine Supply Within 130 Days"

--New National Biodefense Strategy builds on lessons from Covid

--White House at center of response to prevent agency infighting

Posted by: Prime Sister at October 18, 2022 03:40 PM (tQL7r)

277 Why is Texas pink on that map?

Someone threw it in the wash along with a red denim jacket?

Posted by: Hands at October 18, 2022 03:40 PM (786Ro)

278 250 Expect to hear a lot of BS about the Oklahoma Governor's Race. It is a red state with the Democrat candidate beating the Republican incumbent in the polls.
Posted by: rd at October 18, 2022 03:36 PM (Z32m1)

Didn't the governor there pardon some murderer because Kim Kardasian asked him to?

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at October 18, 2022 03:40 PM (t4BDZ)

279 Lee Zeldin Ad on Twitter:
"The following media includes potentially sensitive content. Change settings"

I bet; must be painful for Twitter to show it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 18, 2022 03:40 PM (ynpvh)

280 Beatoff is young and he loves commie money. He'll be around awhile.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 18, 2022 03:41 PM (RfgGG)

281 My greatest hope for the secret leadership vote is that a handful of Republican senators refuse the final vote to make it unanimous, that news leaks, and McConnell gets embarrassed in public.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 18, 2022 03:36 PM (LvTSG)

ha - and even that would be earth shattering news if it happened. And even that is very unlikely because of one little question that McConnell can ask any such Senator privately - "and what committee did you say you wanted to be on again?" Reminds me of an old Dire Straits lyric - "the man's too big, the man's too strong."

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 18, 2022 03:41 PM (trdmm)

282 I don't see ANY beto signs posted. I just see the stickers from the LAST time he lost. He's got very little backing this go around.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 18, 2022 03:19 PM (Zz0t1)

Sadly, in and around PRA I've seen several. I've suggested to my wife that we should put a homemade one that says "Beto... cuz things aren't as bad as they could be."

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 18, 2022 03:41 PM (GYIa4)

283 I think it takes a lot of guts to even run for governor as a Republican in NY.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 18, 2022 03:34 PM (ZLI7S)

That's a low bar for guts - anyone can run for Governor and get shelled and be praised for doing so...? Look, Lee is from LI, he's pretty decent - he's no Pataki - but he's no DeSantis or Trump either, he's the best you can put up right now. I'll take him, no complaints. But he's not some hardened Gen Patton of the right. Let's just try and be realistic about NY and the Northeast in general.

Posted by: Boswell at October 18, 2022 03:41 PM (+Cgut)

284 Why is Texas pink on that map?

Someone threw it in the wash along with a red denim jacket?
Posted by: Hands at October 18, 2022 03:40 PM (786Ro)
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A Handmaid's costume?

Posted by: Axeman at October 18, 2022 03:41 PM (krQz2)

285 Lee lost, so Romney has power. That sets him up to be
McConnell's heir as the "respectable" Republican leader.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile

Respectable in what way?

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at October 18, 2022 03:41 PM (NW9xb)

286 It's interesting that all along no matter what the polls said, RCP has had Oz winning and holding the red. Every day they post race changes so if you are curious that is a go to spot.
Yesterday they moved only blue congressional seats rightward either from safe to lean or lean to tossup including VA10. They are now predicting 221 seats safe so majority security so only size of the takeover at stake.
Senate at 52 Reps talking Georgia and Nevada and holding all current seats. I think AZ too but there are more possibles.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 18, 2022 03:41 PM (Y+l9t)

287 Robert Francis O'Rourke gets his ass kicked will he finally go away?
Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 18, 2022 03:19 PM (eGTCV)

Narrator: He will not go away.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 18, 2022 03:39 PM (GYIa4)
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In the interests of science, I believe Beto getting his ass kicked should thoroughly investigated. Over several studies lasting years.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at October 18, 2022 03:41 PM (5pTK/)

288 I would vote for anyone, including a Marxist, running against Eye Patch McCain. That cocksucker needs to go.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 18, 2022 03:41 PM (VaSD4)

289 Why don't the pollsters want to be exact? Aren't they being paid to be correct?
Posted by: torabora at October 18, 2022 03:19 PM (JH1tc)

The private pollsters are paid to be correct. The public pollsters are paid for something else.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 18, 2022 03:42 PM (GYIa4)

290 >>>TMZ is actually pointing out how shallow and vapid Meghan Markle actually is?

>This crazy hootchie-mama opened briefcases on a game show before Harry took her to the storage unit.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at October 18, 2022 03:42 PM (z+OQR)

291 How come Florida is pink?

Posted by: Iblis at October 18, 2022 03:42 PM (9221z)

292 Biden’s Plan for
... keeping Hunter's laptop and Ashley's Diary out of the public eye

Posted by: Hey Bloomberg what's the news on this? at October 18, 2022 03:42 PM (C7kS2)

293 277 Why is Texas pink on that map?

Someone threw it in the wash along with a red denim jacket?

Posted by: Hands at October 18, 2022 03:40 PM (786Ro)

That one f'n red sock that got into my whites...And it's not an even pink either, but a blotch her, a blotch there...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 18, 2022 03:42 PM (ynpvh)

294 Joe Biden: “The Right That I Pushed Hard and I Finally Got Changed to Marry Couples in the Privacy of Their Bedroom”
Posted by: Maj. Healey at October

Is that real? It t is unintelligible.

Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 18, 2022 03:42 PM (eGTCV)

295 If the gop were a real party they would be filing lawsuits against Twitter and Google for hiding ads like this And do it again and again every instance of it.

But the gop is a party that is interested in 3 things. Raising money, cutting taxes for Bezos and sending 18 year old kids to die in some shithole country for muhFreedom.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at October 18, 2022 03:42 PM (SicBO)

296 271 If Robert Francis O'Rourke gets his ass kicked will he finally go away?
Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 18, 2022 03:19 PM (eGTCV)

Narrator: He will not go away.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 18, 2022 03:39 PM (GYIa4)

Running for office is his job. Takes donations and pays for his "expenses". Right?

Posted by: Synova at October 18, 2022 03:43 PM (BD/yx)

297 281 ha - and even that would be earth shattering news if it happened. And even that is very unlikely because of one little question that McConnell can ask any such Senator privately - "and what committee did you say you wanted to be on again?" Reminds me of an old Dire Straits lyric - "the man's too big, the man's too strong."
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 18, 2022 03:41 PM (trdmm)

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There are going to be several senators who could say, "Put me on nothing. I'll be here in four years. You'll be dead."

That would entertain me.

Also, the pissing match between Rick Scott and Mitch McConnell is public. Keep it that way, Scott.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 18, 2022 03:43 PM (LvTSG)

298 292 Biden’s Plan for
... keeping Hunter's laptop and Ashley's Diary out of the public eye

Posted by: Hey Bloomberg what's the news on this? at October 18, 2022 03:42 PM (C7kS2)

Hillary: "Wipe it with a cloth?"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 18, 2022 03:43 PM (ynpvh)

299 David Frum is calling for Biden to seize StarLink from Elon Musk, because he's insufficiently pro Our Democracy(tm). (And if that doesn't prove that Our Democracy(tm) has nothing to do with democracy, I don't know what does).

Posted by: Ian S. at October 18, 2022 03:43 PM (ZGrMX)

300 >>>Greenwich (where Joe Scarborough lives), or maybe Westport (because the Smug Factor is at Marthas Vineyard levels there). New Haven is already a crime-ridden cesspool.

Greenwich, yes. That would have been the right one.

I had trouble thinking of any actual towns in Connecticut. I couldn't even think of New Haven, so I just said "Yale."

Posted by: ace at October 18, 2022 03:43 PM (C1Zwz)

301 But the gop is a party that is interested in 3 things. Raising money, cutting taxes for Bezos and sending 18 year old kids to die in some shithole country for muhFreedom.

Lets not forget lobbyist money, playing the stock market with advance notice, and diddling children.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 18, 2022 03:44 PM (Ivdso)

302 289 Why don't the pollsters want to be exact? Aren't they being paid to be correct?
Posted by: torabora at October 18, 2022 03:19 PM (JH1tc)

The private pollsters are paid to be correct. The public pollsters are paid for something else.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 18, 2022 03:42 PM (GYIa4)

To the highest bidder.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 18, 2022 03:44 PM (ynpvh)

303 294 Joe Biden: “The Right That I Pushed Hard and I Finally Got Changed to Marry Couples in the Privacy of Their Bedroom”
Posted by: Maj. Healey at October

Is that real? It t is unintelligible.
__________

I think Joe simply wants to be in the bedrooms of married couples. Like his kids and their spouses for example.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 18, 2022 03:45 PM (fs1hN)

304 So I keep getting texts about "Hey James, Beto is closing in on Abbott" or whatever their BS o' the day is.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 18, 2022 03:34 PM (nfrXX)
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The template has been "My, that Beto O'Roarke is really giving a run for their money!"
Posted by: Axeman at October 18, 2022 03:37 PM (krQz2)

Greg Abbott 55 - Robert Francis "the Mick" O'Rourke 45.
Beto ran a surprisingly close campaign! It should be CONSIDERED A MORAL VICTORY!

Posted by: rd at October 18, 2022 03:45 PM (Z32m1)

305 If Fetterman loses, he should get his own tv series: Neck of the Woods, where he plays The Creature that terrorizes a Romanian village.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 18, 2022 03:45 PM (ppBhU)

306 Posted by: Joe XiDen at October 18, 2022 03:42 PM (SicBO)

Much of the party might be. Those that aren't elites in charge forever have a number of live wires. You not planning to vote?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 18, 2022 03:45 PM (vH/6k)

307
I want to see Harris County judge Lina Hidalgo (the Teen Gauleiter) get crushed. Corrupt, whiny-voice bitch.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 18, 2022 03:45 PM (1Nxff)

308 I had trouble thinking of any actual towns in Connecticut. I couldn't even think of New Haven, so I just said "Yale."

Posted by: ace

Survey says... **bzzzztt**

Posted by: Steve Harvey at October 18, 2022 03:45 PM (786Ro)

309 Everyone will blame Biden. Few will acknowledge that the comparison to Trump made him look even worse.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

///

I get on FB from time to time to check on folks. And I actually saw a progressive blame Biden for being dishonest and not having integrity. Whoa!

Posted by: Prime Sister at October 18, 2022 03:45 PM (tQL7r)

310 303 294 Joe Biden: “The Right That I Pushed Hard and I Finally Got Changed to Marry Couples in the Privacy of Their Bedroom”
Posted by: Maj. Healey at October
Is that real? It t is unintelligible.
__________
I think Joe simply wants to be in the bedrooms of married couples. Like his kids and their spouses for example.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 18, 2022 03:45 PM (fs1hN)

He'd prefer your pre-teen daughter's bedroom or shower...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 18, 2022 03:45 PM (ynpvh)

311 David Frum is calling for Biden to seize StarLink from Elon Musk, because he's insufficiently pro Our Democracy(tm). (And if that doesn't prove that Our Democracy(tm) has nothing to do with democracy, I don't know what does).

Apparently Our Democracy™ is incompatible with the US Constitution, in this case, the 1st and 4th Amendment.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at October 18, 2022 03:45 PM (ceWUn)

312 Augh! CAPS lock strikes again.

Posted by: rd at October 18, 2022 03:46 PM (Z32m1)

313 David Frum is calling for Biden to seize StarLink from Elon Musk, because he's insufficiently pro Our Democracy(tm). (And if that doesn't prove that Our Democracy(tm) has nothing to do with democracy, I don't know what does).
Posted by: Ian S. at October 18, 2022 03:43 PM (ZGrMX)
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There is nothing more Democratic than seizing the means of production, comrade!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 18, 2022 03:46 PM (1fl3R)

314 Running for office is his job. Takes donations and pays for his "expenses". Right?
Posted by: Synova at October 18, 2022 03:43 PM (BD/yx)
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He is the living promise to California to "Turn Texas Blue".

Posted by: Axeman at October 18, 2022 03:46 PM (krQz2)

315 Somehow gregg abbot got my phone number and sent me a text inviting me to free food and beer at the 1880 ice house in Denison, Tx next Wednesday. I might go.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 18, 2022 03:46 PM (bVYXr)

316 Pundits and bloggers are fascinated with polls, so pollsters can be hired to give results that the buyer wants to see, and thus influence people through the polling data that is then discussed on political websites and TV shows.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 18, 2022 03:46 PM (Ivdso)

317 Tuesday, Keaira Hudson’s husband was arrested & charged with many new domestic violence charges after attacking her. He was instantly released on cashless bail. Yesterday, he shot & killed Keira in front of her 3 kids. She had on a bulletproof vest.

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If you haven't included the shotgun attachment, you're doing it wrong ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Recently Jabbed & Boosted with the Nuclear War & Hurricane Vaccines at October 18, 2022 03:46 PM (5DT4r)

318 294 Joe Biden: “The Right That I Pushed Hard and I Finally Got Changed to Marry Couples in the Privacy of Their Bedroom”
Posted by: Maj. Healey at October

Is that real? It t is unintelligible.
Posted by: That NLurker

Oh, it's real.
https://tinyurl.com/yc5aufyx

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 18, 2022 03:46 PM (VaSD4)

319 304 So I keep getting texts about "Hey James, Beto is closing in on Abbott" or whatever their BS o' the day is.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 18, 2022 03:34 PM (nfrXX)
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The template has been "My, that Beto O'Roarke is really giving a run for their money!"
Posted by: Axeman at October 18, 2022 03:37 PM (krQz2)

Greg Abbott 55 - Robert Francis "the Mick" O'Rourke 45.
Beto ran a surprisingly close campaign! It should be CONSIDERED A MORAL VICTORY!

Posted by: rd at October 18, 2022 03:45 PM (Z32m1)

I read that as ORAL VICTORY. He should consider it getting reamed; an ANAL VICTORY

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 18, 2022 03:46 PM (ynpvh)

320 McConnel is not nearly as popular in Ky as people may think. There was a 2017 poll where his approve/disapprove among Trump voters was 26/66. Dated, I know, but I doubt he's gotten more popular. Just never had any real primary opposition.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 18, 2022 03:46 PM (SIZS3)

321 Let's not start sucking each other's dick just yet.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at October 18, 2022 03:36 PM (BdMk6)
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I hereby opt out of all future celebrations of that nature.
Posted by: Axeman at October 18, 2022 03:39 PM

You're opting out of not sucking?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 18, 2022 03:47 PM (a3Q+t)

322 Is that real? It t is unintelligible.

Oh, it was a humdinger of a speech, I posted several excerpts above.

He ended it by talking to a chubby hispanic girl about 4'9 by brushing her face with both hands and then holding her hand for like 90 seconds straight, talking to her. I think he figured she was a little kid. I can just guess what he was saying to her.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 18, 2022 03:47 PM (Ivdso)

323 >>>Joe Biden: “The Right That I Pushed Hard and I Finally Got Changed to Marry Couples in the Privacy of Their Bedroom”

i just saw that. wow.

Posted by: ace at October 18, 2022 03:48 PM (C1Zwz)

324 So I keep getting texts about "Hey James, Beto is closing in on Abbott" or whatever their BS o' the day is.

Is this anything like the walls closing in on Trump?

Posted by: Ian S. at October 18, 2022 03:48 PM (ZGrMX)

325 Apparently Our Democracy™ is incompatible with the US Constitution, in this case, the 1st and 4th Amendment.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at October 18, 2022 03:45 PM (ceWUn)
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But somehow compatible with "Everything [for] the State, ..., Nothing against the State" of Mussolini.

Posted by: Axeman at October 18, 2022 03:48 PM (krQz2)

326 any actual towns in Connecticut.

—

CT is pretty nice. Small towns and suburbs. There are some shitholes too for sure. But generally speaking it’s a great state. Its politics on the other hand…

Which is weird because up to the 90s it was like a New England version of Texas. No income tax even. Goes to show shit changes fast politically speaking and nothing is ever certain long term.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at October 18, 2022 03:48 PM (SicBO)

327 David Frum is calling for Biden to seize StarLink from Elon Musk, because he's insufficiently pro Our Democracy(tm).
==
He's using the wrong strategy to motivate Joe. He should tell him its filled with ice cream and smells like a little girls hair. It works for us.

Posted by: Jill Biden, First Lady of the U.S. at October 18, 2022 03:48 PM (mysma)

328 Adam Bennefield soon to get custody of his kids. "I stopped fightin' wid my wife, your honor."

Posted by: People's Court at October 18, 2022 03:48 PM (3Or4S)

329 Hahahahaha.
You do realize we ain't winning shit. We may get more votes in some races, but we ain't winning shit.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 18, 2022 03:48 PM (ZCyX4)

330 The reason that Texas is pink in that map, I think, is because of the traditionally Democrat hispanic districts down near the border that are starting to lean republican now.

btw, I'm now sure that Louie Gohmert got to where he couldn't stand the DC bullshit anymore, and got out. He was a guest of honor at a local parade last weekend, and he was telling an interviewer that the entire time he was in DC he never bought a house or rented an apartment; he just slept on a pull out sofa bed in his senate office.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 18, 2022 03:48 PM (trdmm)

331 I'm not sure the Keaira Bennefield case is as simple as it seems. Police arrested the thug after she posted video of him abusing her ON FACEBOOK, in some kind of weird sympathy ploy. I don't know if she ever even made a criminal complaint. Thug was charged with a laundry list of minor crimes. He would have been released even in a sane bail system. But if this hurts Hochulhu, then I'm all for it.
Posted by: Elric Blade at October 18, 2022 03:29 PM (iFTx/)

She knew that calling the cops would do no good, which proved to be exactly the case.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 18, 2022 03:48 PM (8iVPd)

332 I'm hoping this is more of a 1994 than a 2010.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at October 18, 2022 03:49 PM (cMXNt)

333 Why is Texas pink on that map?

A lot of communists have moved here from CA, IL and NY

Posted by: Reuben Hick at October 18, 2022 03:49 PM (ceWUn)

334 Seismic unrest is building at the world’s largest active volcano in Hawaii, where officials are urging people on the Big Island of Hawaii to pack “go bags” and prepare for the inevitable eruption of the giant Mauna Loa volcano. Yesterday, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) said that they detected 65 small-magnitude earthquakes 2-3 miles below the Mokuāʻweoweo caldera beneath the upper-elevation northwest flank of Mauna Loa, an increase in activity from the ongoing period of unrest. Global Positioning System (GPS) instrumentation on Mauna Loa continue to measure inflation at rates elevated since mid-September, indicating that magma is building inside the volcano.

Posted by: SMOD at October 18, 2022 03:49 PM (RHGPo)

335 >>>316 Pundits and bloggers are fascinated with polls, so pollsters can be hired to give results that the buyer wants to see, and thus influence people through the polling data that is then discussed on political websites and TV shows.

you guys are annoying. Sorry to drop this bomb on you, but in the month before an election, there are going to be posts on polls. Sorry if that's not your bag.

but the endless "polls are for strippers" thing is annoying. We get it. Read another post.

Posted by: ace at October 18, 2022 03:49 PM (C1Zwz)

336 Just my personal perspective -- I have voted* in every election, even no horse R runoffs. I consider it a duty. Maybe even a habit. I plan on keeping my record intact.

Ymmv. Also, I have NEVER voted for a tax increase of any sort. They will NEVER have enough of your or my money.

*Mickey Mouse needs my occasional vote.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 18, 2022 03:49 PM (JOtiF)

337 house office for gohmert, not senate of course.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 18, 2022 03:49 PM (trdmm)

338 Joe Biden: “The Right That I Pushed Hard and I Finally Got Changed to Marry Couples in the Privacy of Their Bedroom”
Posted by: Maj. Healey at October
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Can't wait for his campaign appearance with Fetterman.

Posted by: wth at October 18, 2022 03:49 PM (v0R5T)

339 >>>If Fetterman loses, he should get his own tv series: Neck of the Woods, where he plays The Creature that terrorizes a Romanian village.

>We're going to need a bigger hoodie!

Posted by: Sheriff Brody at October 18, 2022 03:49 PM (z+OQR)

340 Biden Seizes Star-Link?

I have no doubt Mr. Musk has the De-Orbit codes for all the satellites hidden in a safe place.

Hey Joe! Why are we seeing thousands of falling stars?!?!

Posted by: rd at October 18, 2022 03:50 PM (Z32m1)

341 295 If the gop were a real party they would be filing lawsuits against Twitter and Google for hiding ads like this And do it again and again every instance of it.

But the gop is a party that is interested in 3 things. Raising money, cutting taxes for Bezos and sending 18 year old kids to die in some shithole country for muhFreedom.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at October 18, 2022 03:42 PM (SicBO)

^^Agree. I want to RICO the whole MSM and social media complex. Even if we didn't actually win, just arresting and harassing the reporters and forcing even coverage would be worth it. On insty there's a link to an article about how we need a new civil rights law for the right to dissent. I'm liking that idea.

Posted by: Iris at October 18, 2022 03:50 PM (NaH5I)

342 I've lived in NY for 30 years - I've seen a lot of elections come and go - and I can just about guess within a few PCT points how these things go, red wave or not - Zeldin wins LI hands down on election night, and struggles to get any meaningful votes from Manhattan to Westchester all the way up to Duchess County - he then does okay - breakeven up state, until you get up to Buffalo and Rochester, where he gets the beaten fairly well there - he loses by 4 - 5 points...I hope I am wrong, for the sake of the state.

Posted by: Boswell at October 18, 2022 03:50 PM (+Cgut)

343 Much of the party might be. Those that aren't elites in charge forever have a number of live wires. You not planning to vote?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 18, 2022 03:45 PM (vH/6k)

I’m voting for local stuff where it does matter. Congress and senate? Writing in my dog’s name as I have for the last few elections.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at October 18, 2022 03:50 PM (SicBO)

344 329 Hahahahaha.
You do realize we ain't winning shit. We may get more votes in some races, but we ain't winning shit.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 18, 2022 03:48 PM (ZCyX4)

Could at least fertiize the back yard if it was real shit...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 18, 2022 03:50 PM (ynpvh)

345 If Fetterman loses, he should get his own tv series: Neck of the Woods, where he plays The Creature that terrorizes a Romanian village.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 18, 2022 03:45 PM

Brian Dennehey as his lump.

Posted by: Minnfidel Looking For Jackie at October 18, 2022 03:51 PM (wZdQy)

346 If the gop were a real party they would be filing lawsuits against Twitter and Google for hiding ads like this And do it again and again every instance of it.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at October 18, 2022 03:42 PM (SicBO)
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I don't think they want to lose that much money on Hawaiian judges.

Posted by: Axeman at October 18, 2022 03:51 PM (krQz2)

347 David Frum is calling for Biden to seize StarLink from Elon Musk
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Frum is Canadian IIRC. Regardless, I say we launch him over the border. He'd fit in better there along with Justin Castreau.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 18, 2022 03:51 PM (fs1hN)

348 The Right That I Pushed Hard and I Finally Got Changed to Marry Couples in the Privacy of Their Bedroom

AND into your kid's classrooms!

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at October 18, 2022 03:51 PM (cMXNt)

349 On insty there's a link to an article about how we need a new civil rights law for the right to dissent. I'm liking that idea.

"WHAT THE F**K DO YOU THINK THE FIRST AMENDMENT WAS FOR????"
--James Madison, ripping out his hair

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 18, 2022 03:51 PM (Ivdso)

350 On election day, I'm betting that Beto's final number will be in the 30's.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 18, 2022 03:51 PM (trdmm)

351 Hi Ace.

I really like poll talk😍

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 18, 2022 03:51 PM (Y+l9t)

352 The head of Germany's national cyber security agency has been sacked over allegations he kept excessively close ties to Russia, the Interior Ministry has said.

Interior Minister Nancy Faeser dismissed Arne Schoenbohm as head of the BSI agency, following reports which "damaged the necessary confidence of the public in the neutrality and impartiality" of his management, the ministry said on Tuesday.

Posted by: SMOD at October 18, 2022 03:51 PM (RHGPo)

353 Can't wait for his campaign appearance with Fetterman.
Posted by: wth at October 18, 2022 03:49 PM (v0R5T)

Someone needs to add "Putting on the Ritz!" to the rally music. Please, make it happen!

Posted by: rd at October 18, 2022 03:51 PM (Z32m1)

354 Since 1994 I missed 1 primary due to a 10 or 12 hour work shift, missed.

Posted by: Skip at October 18, 2022 03:52 PM (xhxe8)

355 >>That's a low bar for guts - anyone can run for Governor and get shelled and be praised for doing so...? Look, Lee is from LI, he's pretty decent - he's no Pataki - but he's no DeSantis or Trump either, he's the best you can put up right now. I'll take him, no complaints. But he's not some hardened Gen Patton of the right. Let's just try and be realistic about NY and the Northeast in general

Having spent all of my 29 years in the northeast including roots in NY I think I'm pretty realistic about what type of R can actually get elected here. I just don't agree that Zeldin is as weak as you do. Zeldin was a very vocal Trump supporter in Congress and even went so far as to vote to not certify certain state electors. He's a full blown election denier!

For the last decade or so NY has basically been a 1 party state and taking on a turnaround is going to be a herculean task. He's not going to be DeSantis but then NY is not FL. The world is a lot different when you have not just a solid lock on the state house but also the electorate in your state.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 18, 2022 03:52 PM (ZLI7S)

356 I saw a picture of The Neck Lump Appendage Known as John Fetterman next to Dr. Oz, and one of them looked like some sort of cosplay figure.

Posted by: Axeman at October 18, 2022 03:52 PM (krQz2)

357 Jill Biden To Dress Up As Real Doctor For Halloween

Posted by: SMOD at October 18, 2022 03:52 PM (RHGPo)

358 Well TBF, most of us gals enjoy a solid poll.

Posted by: Jill Biden, First Lady of the U.S. at October 18, 2022 03:53 PM (QTTos)

359 Joe Biden: “The Right That I Pushed Hard and I Finally Got Changed to Marry Couples in the Privacy of Their Bedroom”
Posted by: Maj. Healey at October
.......

Can't wait for his campaign appearance with Fetterman.
Posted by: wth at October 18, 2022 03:49 PM

Stroke victims ward on open mic night.

Posted by: Minnfidel Looking For Jackie at October 18, 2022 03:53 PM (wZdQy)

360 Interior Minister Nancy Faeser dismissed Arne Schoenbohm as head of the BSI agency, following reports which "damaged the necessary confidence of the public in the neutrality and impartiality" of his management, the ministry said on Tuesday.
Posted by: SMOD at October 18, 2022 03:51 PM (RHGPo)
++++
Should that person be neutral and impartial? Any Russia ties notwithstanding, is this really what you want out of a spymaster? Should the chief spook be aggressively non-neutral and non-impartial? Shouldn't he be hardcore on the side of his country?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 18, 2022 03:53 PM (1fl3R)

361 287 Robert Francis O'Rourke gets his ass kicked will he finally go away?
Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 18, 2022 03:19 PM (eGTCV)

Narrator: He will not go away.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 18, 2022 03:39 PM (GYIa4)

He is making too much $$$ and gaining too much power from the out-of-state contributions to his PACs.

Posted by: JakeSpeed at October 18, 2022 03:53 PM (Vu1jV)

362 346 If the gop were a real party they would be filing lawsuits against Twitter and Google for hiding ads like this And do it again and again every instance of it.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at October 18, 2022 03:42 PM (SicBO)
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I don't think they want to lose that much money on Hawaiian judges.

Posted by: Axeman at October 18, 2022 03:51 PM (krQz2)

Mauna Loa may need a few Hawaiian judges through in to appease Pelée (not the soccer guy).

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 18, 2022 03:53 PM (ynpvh)

363 Beto is the odds on favorite to be the next guy that giseles on gisele

Sorry Tom

Posted by: East Bay Jay at October 18, 2022 03:53 PM (DePyg)

364 359 Joe Biden: “The Right That I Pushed Hard and I Finally Got Changed to Marry Couples in the Privacy of Their Bedroom”
Posted by: Maj. Healey at October
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Can't wait for his campaign appearance with Fetterman.
Posted by: wth at October 18, 2022 03:49 PM

Stroke victims ward on open mic night.
Posted by: Minnfidel Looking For Jackie at October 18, 2022 03:53 PM (wZdQy)

I...am...sofa king...re..Todd...did...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 18, 2022 03:54 PM (ynpvh)

365 Joe Biden: “The Right That I Pushed Hard and I Finally Got Changed to Marry Couples in the Privacy of Their Bedroom”
Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 18, 2022 03:40 PM (VaSD4)

That's some stutter.

Posted by: spindrift at October 18, 2022 03:54 PM (h5TKJ)

366 The CDC will vote Thursday to permanently shield Pfizer and Moderna from COVID vaccine injury liability

.. the fix is in

Posted by: SMOD at October 18, 2022 03:55 PM (RHGPo)

367 Go Tribe!

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 18, 2022 03:55 PM (Xrfse)

368 Posted by: Joe XiDen at October 18, 2022 03:50 PM (SicBO

Figures.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 18, 2022 03:55 PM (vH/6k)

369 If we're being honest, have you seen my husband? I haven't seen a solid poll 30 years.

Posted by: Nancee Peloshee at October 18, 2022 03:55 PM (QTTos)

370 366 The CDC will vote Thursday to permanently shield Pfizer and Moderna from COVID vaccine injury liability

.. the fix is in

Posted by: SMOD at October 18, 2022 03:55 PM (RHGPo)

Waiting for Fauci to get the Nobel for Medicine...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 18, 2022 03:55 PM (ynpvh)

371 Why is Texas pink on that map?

A lot of communists have moved here from CA, IL and NY
Posted by: Reuben Hick at October 18, 2022 03:49 PM (ceWUn)

I have heard a majority of the refugees heading to FL and TX are Conservatives? Has anyone studied this?

Posted by: rd at October 18, 2022 03:56 PM (Z32m1)

372 Joe Biden: “The Right That I Pushed Hard and I Finally Got Changed to Marry Couples in the Privacy of Their Bedroom”
Posted by: Maj. Healey at October
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and no serious guys until you're 30!

Posted by: wth at October 18, 2022 03:56 PM (v0R5T)

373 369 If we're being honest, have you seen my husband? I haven't seen a solid poll 30 years.
Posted by: Nancee Peloshee at October 18, 2022 03:55 PM (QTTos)

Do you know WHY I drink so much, dear?

Posted by: Paul Pelosi at October 18, 2022 03:56 PM (PiwSw)

374 Gisele? Tom Brady might have something to say about that. Although these days it would probably be good riddance.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 18, 2022 03:56 PM (trdmm)

375 Sharon has the hots for Ace's poll!

Posted by: Ruprecht at October 18, 2022 03:56 PM (UCRK6)

376 If there is an Election News Roundup 1, there must be an Election News Roundup 2 !

Posted by: runner at October 18, 2022 03:56 PM (V13WU)

377 354 Since 1994 I missed 1 primary due to a 10 or 12 hour work shift, missed.
Posted by: Skip at October 18, 2022 03:52 PM (xhxe

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I've been voting since 1988. I'm absolutely certain that if I have never voted in the past 34 years, everything would be the same as it is now.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at October 18, 2022 03:57 PM (cMXNt)

378 Posted by: Joe XiDen at October 18, 2022 03:50 PM (SicBO

Figures.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 18, 2022 03:55 PM (vH/6k)

You’re right. I should vote for McConnel’s gang of thieves instead. Lol. Maybe they will give Bezos another $200m in tax cuts and add another $10t to the debt like they did for the 4 years they had power.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at October 18, 2022 03:57 PM (SicBO)

379 I think after watching your 401k drop 25%, that dems labeling their opponents "extremists" probably carries very little weight. It's Algore's "risky scheme" all over again.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 18, 2022 03:57 PM (AW8So)

380 The CDC will vote Thursday to permanently shield Pfizer and Moderna from COVID vaccine injury liability

===

HAHAHA, they (CDC) have not such authority

Posted by: runner at October 18, 2022 03:58 PM (V13WU)

381 Maybe DeSantis, Abbot, and Ducey need to send some illegal aliens to Yale.

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Out: Handsome Dan.
In: Breakfast Taco Bell Chihuahua.

Posted by: ShainS -- Recently Jabbed & Boosted with the Nuclear War & Hurricane Vaccines at October 18, 2022 03:58 PM (rY/ZL)

382 First Amendment for dissent

I know! I know! But I want damages and the ability to prosecute not just sue in defense mode.

Posted by: Iris at October 18, 2022 03:58 PM (NaH5I)

383 371 Why is Texas pink on that map?

A lot of communists have moved here from CA, IL and NY
Posted by: Reuben Hick at October 18, 2022 03:49 PM (ceWUn)

I have heard a majority of the refugees heading to FL and TX are Conservatives? Has anyone studied this?
Posted by: rd at October 18, 2022 03:56 PM (Z32m1)

the reason we can argue about it on the internet is that nobody actually measures shit like that. Anecdotal evidence suggests they're mostly conservative.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 18, 2022 03:58 PM (trdmm)

384 and no serious guys until you're 30!
__________

*whispers creepily* I'm available and you won't be thirty for more than a decade

*yells* And I'm not a serious guy!

Posted by: President Skeevy Joe at October 18, 2022 03:58 PM (fs1hN)

385 Posted by: Joe XiDen at October 18, 2022 03:57 PM (SicBO)

I have no idea where you live, but there are some fine Republican candidates in a number of states.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 18, 2022 03:59 PM (vH/6k)

386 Yesterday, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) said that they detected 65 small-magnitude earthquakes 2-3 miles below the Mokuāʻweoweo caldera beneath the upper-elevation northwest flank of Mauna Loa, an increase in activity from the ongoing period of unrest.

I'd get antsy, too, if I had been given a twee name like that.

Posted by: Yellowstone Caldera at October 18, 2022 03:59 PM (8iVPd)

387 Paul Pelosi had a poll watcher in the jump seat when he ran that stop sign.

Posted by: torabora at October 18, 2022 03:59 PM (JH1tc)

388 He's not going to be DeSantis but then NY is not FL. The world is a lot different when you have not just a solid lock on the state house but also the electorate in your state.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 18, 2022 03:52 PM (ZLI7S)

You're going to be disappointed. Your expectations for Zeldin do not seem to align with his politics. He's fine, but he's just not changing NY or turning it red if he gets elected. He'll struggle to get anyone to go along with him and concede a lot of conservative issues and causes in order to "get along" - that is his history.

There is nothing wrong with that - but he's no battle harden leader of the right coming to NY-ers rescue -which is all that we are pointing out.

Posted by: Boswell at October 18, 2022 04:00 PM (+Cgut)

389 Stroke victims ward on open mic night.
Posted by: Minnfidel Looking For Jackie at October 18, 2022 03:53 PM (wZdQy)
........

Karaoke!

Posted by: wth at October 18, 2022 04:00 PM (v0R5T)

390 If there is an Election News Roundup 1, there must be an Election News Roundup 2 !

Nah.

Posted by: Mel Brooks at October 18, 2022 04:00 PM (nfrXX)

391 the reason we can argue about it on the internet is that nobody actually measures shit like that. Anecdotal evidence suggests they're mostly conservative.

OK, you explain then how the major cities went from reddish to dark blue in the span of 20 years.

Areas that didn't see 5%+ annual population growth managed to keep their conservative creds.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at October 18, 2022 04:00 PM (ceWUn)

392 A lot of communists have moved here from CA, IL and NY
Posted by: Reuben Hick at October 18, 2022 03:49 PM (ceWUn)

I have heard a majority of the refugees heading to FL and TX are Conservatives? Has anyone studied this?
Posted by: rd at October 18, 2022 03:56 PM (Z32m1)

the reason we can argue about it on the internet is that nobody actually measures shit like that. Anecdotal evidence suggests they're mostly conservative.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 18, 2022 03:58 PM

From what I have read the ones moving to Florida are registering to vote as republicans by a very large margin. I haven't seen anything like that reported here in Texas though.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 18, 2022 04:01 PM (bVYXr)

393 Maybe DeSantis, Abbot, and Ducey need to send some illegal aliens to Yale.

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Out: Handsome Dan Bulldog mascot.
In: Breakfast Taco Bell Chihuahua mascot.

Posted by: ShainS -- Recently Jabbed & Boosted with the Nuclear War & Hurricane Vaccines at October 18, 2022 04:01 PM (0FZZq)

394 Since 1994 I missed 1 primary due to a 10 or 12 hour work shift, missed.
Posted by: Skip at October 18, 2022 03:52

Every state I worked in had a law that your company must give you time off to vote. Which was a real PITA when federal law requires you have certain required manning at your facility. Somehow the company always made it happen.

Posted by: rd at October 18, 2022 04:01 PM (Z32m1)

395 A conversation between me and Joe would be impossible. However, we both enjoy ice cream.

Posted by: Nancee Peloshee at October 18, 2022 04:01 PM (QTTos)

396 I've been voting since 1988. I'm absolutely certain that if I have never voted in the past 34 years, everything would be the same as it is now.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at October 18, 2022 03:57 PM (cMXNt)

I'm still hopeful that one day, a candidate wins by one vote AND I voted for him/her. But that is very rare. It's a collective voice that matters, cheating aside.

Moo.

Posted by: GnuBreed at October 18, 2022 04:01 PM (JOtiF)

397 the reason we can argue about it on the internet is that nobody actually measures shit like that. Anecdotal evidence suggests they're mostly conservative.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 18, 2022 03:58 PM (trdmm)

Well if party registration is accurate, then they ARE conservatives.

I'm registered D in blue MD for reasons. They very helpfully sent me the D "No Way in Hell am I Voting for these Candidates" Ballot for Nov.

Posted by: Iris at October 18, 2022 04:01 PM (NaH5I)

398 My neck has the girth suburban women crave!

Posted by: FETTERMAN'S UNEXPLODED NECK POLYP at October 18, 2022 04:02 PM (ppBhU)

399 Web designers never stop making things better.

On Bing's Weather page I accidentally triggered a temperature widget. I can't find a way to rid myself of it.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at October 18, 2022 04:02 PM (+cejL)

400 Yesterday, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) said that they detected 65 small-magnitude earthquakes 2-3 miles below the Mokuāʻweoweo caldera

Throw in Hirono to appease the magma gods.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 18, 2022 04:02 PM (VaSD4)

401 Kyle Rittenhouse, the young man who used an AR-15 to defend himself during the August 2020 Kenosha, Wisconsin, Black Lives Matter riots, has launched a YouTube channel focused on guns.

Posted by: SMOD at October 18, 2022 04:02 PM (RHGPo)

402 Vote for Preparation H or you ain't American!

Posted by: Joe Biden at October 18, 2022 04:02 PM (M3hSG)

403 Joe Biden: “The Right That I Pushed Hard and I Finally Got Changed to Marry Couples in the Privacy of Their Bedroom”
i just saw that. wow.
Posted by: ace
I like this, too. This would be congress critter says we have a right to sex.

Alexandra M. Hunt@hunt4change
We should be moving toward a right to sex. People should be able to have sex when they feel they want to, and we need to develop services that meet people’s needs without attaching the baggage of shame or criminalization.
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Socialized government whore houses? Sounds good but I'm afraid it'd be like nude beaches; better in concept than in actuality. The entire thread is worth reading.

https://bit.ly/3CAzPby

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Smarter Than Lumpy Fetterman! at October 18, 2022 04:03 PM (FVME7)

404 Except for those few elections won by a dozen or less votes no one's vote mostly counts if they otherwise didn't vote. But you hardly could guess that would happen.

Posted by: Skip at October 18, 2022 04:03 PM (xhxe8)

405 147 no, if there were sentient members of the GOP, then Mitch should be stripped of all leadership roles. Him and Burr.
Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at October 18, 2022 03:21 PM (MLrvz)

Burr's done after this Senate term is over (thank goodness). He's retining. Comment works just as well with Tillis though. Hoping that the R running for Burr's current seat (Budd) wins and that he will not turn out to be another Burr/Tillis clone.

Posted by: Agitator at October 18, 2022 04:03 PM (8Avx7)

406 I gotta give it to Joe Bin for not spilling his ice cream cone on himself. I wonder how they keep him from doing that and not taking out an eye with a fork while eating. Top men.

Posted by: Puddinhead at October 18, 2022 04:03 PM (D8mow)

407 Stroke victims ward on open mic night.
Posted by: Minnfidel Looking For Jackie at October 18, 2022 03:53 PM (wZdQy)
........

Karaoke!
Posted by: wth at October 18, 2022 04:00 PM (v0R5T)

Biden and Fetterman at the rally:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab7NyKw0VYQ

Posted by: rd at October 18, 2022 04:04 PM (Z32m1)

408 the reason we can argue about it on the internet is that nobody actually measures shit like that. Anecdotal evidence suggests they're mostly conservative.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 18, 2022 03:58 PM (trdmm)

Trump won TX by single digits in 2020 and 2016. In 2020 it was just 5 in a basically tie national election. In 2008 by comparison when it was a blowout year for Dems nationally McCain won by 11 in TX.

So yeah the notion that new voters are rock ribbed conservatives is kinda bullshit.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at October 18, 2022 04:04 PM (SicBO)

409 I take it that Google, youtube and the like are exempt from "Equal time" laws?

Posted by: Darth Randall at October 18, 2022 04:04 PM (zL564)

410 We should be moving toward a right to sex. People should be able to have sex when they feel they want to, and we need to develop services that meet people’s needs without attaching the baggage of shame or criminalization.
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Oh Dear Gawd how I can get behind this!!!

Posted by: Jeff Toobin at October 18, 2022 04:04 PM (QTTos)

411 Heard Fetterman was a carpetbagger, he was originally from Great Neck.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at October 18, 2022 04:04 PM (OgrpQ)

412 the reason we can argue about it on the internet is that nobody actually measures shit like that. Anecdotal evidence suggests they're mostly conservative.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Rich Baris has.

Most of new movers to AZ and TX are conservatives. They are more GOP than natives.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 18, 2022 04:04 PM (GOe7V)

413 Fetterman and his wife are creepy... Like a low rent version of members of the Adams family

Posted by: It's me donna at October 18, 2022 04:04 PM (bs+z0)

414 I find it fascinating that way neverTrumpers rocket straight from not liking Donald Trump to being full on depraved communist totalitarian weirdos and freaks without a single stop along the way.

Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 18, 2022 04:04 PM (VdGjU)

415 We should be moving toward a right to sex. People should be able to have sex when they feel they want to, and we need to develop services that meet people’s needs without attaching the baggage of shame or criminalization.

This was discussed and voted upon by the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah before God delivered his veto.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at October 18, 2022 04:04 PM (ceWUn)

416 401 Kyle Rittenhouse, the young man who used an AR-15 to defend himself during the August 2020 Kenosha, Wisconsin, Black Lives Matter riots, has launched a YouTube channel focused on guns.
Posted by: SMOD at October 18, 2022 04:02 PM (RHGPo)

^^and 1-2-3 he's banned for offensive content?

I hope he backs up his content.

Posted by: Iris at October 18, 2022 04:05 PM (NaH5I)

417 "I'm registered D in blue MD for reasons. They very helpfully sent me the D "No Way in Hell am I Voting for these Candidates" Ballot for Nov.
Posted by: Iris "
------------------

They like to coerce you with that.
Party affiliation should be sacrosanct private.
If one wants to expose that OK.
There should be a way to conduct primaries without voters exposing their affiliation. Back in the day, Unions would damage you for wrong line voting.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at October 18, 2022 04:06 PM (+cejL)

418 I was talking with a group of my wife's lady cousins over the weekend at a wedding, and we're all from Michigan. They were asking what my reaction was to Gibbs having never disowned his college paper that the women's suffrage was a mistake.

I wasn't going to come right out and agree with him (partially because I don't totally). But I said "the chances that he would ever get to act on that is very slim".

The interesting thing is that the cousins agreed to that pragmatic point. It is better to vote for a Republican that has some "whacky (not so whacky) ideas" that they are very unlikely to be able to do anything about, for reorienting the country toward a more traditional sanity.

But it kind of illustrates the way that the media has addicted people to a sort of orthodox purity of views, rather than people easily seeing the tradeoff nature of representational politics.

Posted by: Axeman at October 18, 2022 04:06 PM (krQz2)

419 Rich Baris has.

Pffft. I'm not watching Gong Show reruns.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 18, 2022 04:06 PM (ppBhU)

420 >>> 391 the reason we can argue about it on the internet is that nobody actually measures shit like that. Anecdotal evidence suggests they're mostly conservative.

OK, you explain then how the major cities went from reddish to dark blue in the span of 20 years.

Areas that didn't see 5%+ annual population growth managed to keep their conservative creds.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at October 18, 2022 04:00 PM (ceWUn)

Which cities in any state have not gone full commie?
If commies move to any state, are they more likely to move to a city or a rural area?
Have there been any events in the past two years or so that may have caused overall patterns to shift?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 18, 2022 04:06 PM (llON8)

421 Sharon has the hots for Ace's poll!
Posted by: Ruprecht

Caught!

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at October 18, 2022 04:06 PM (Y+l9t)

422 I'm still hopeful that one day, a candidate wins by one vote AND I voted for him/her.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 18, 2022 04:01 PM (JOtiF)

That was a Soap storyline: Burt is running for sheriff. On election day he's so nervous he accidentally votes for his opponent. When they're watching the results come in on tv later, he's losing by one vote.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at October 18, 2022 04:07 PM (t4BDZ)

423 Rich Baris has.

Most of new movers to AZ and TX are conservatives. They are more GOP than natives.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 18, 2022 04:04 PM (GOe7V)

That guy gets around - first the Gong Show, now this!

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 18, 2022 04:07 PM (trdmm)

424 Most of new movers to AZ and TX are conservatives. They are more GOP than natives.
Posted by: Dave in Fla
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Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at October 18, 2022 04:07 PM (+cejL)

425 ... @hunt4change
We should be moving toward a right to sex. People should be able to have sex when they feel they want to, and we need to develop services that meet people’s needs without attaching the baggage of shame or criminalization. ...
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Smarter Than Lumpy Fetterman! at October 18, 2022 04:03 PM (FVME7)
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Soooo, huh? What's the plan, here? I can think of several things that might work to pursue this madness:
1. Government-owned whorehouses operated as a public service
2. Legalize rape
3. Mandate sexual activity between unappealing people (e.g., you *must* sleep with a trans person, etc.).
4. Regulate sex entirely, with the government playing matchmaker, with a dose of compulsion. Institutionalize and depersonalize the rape.

What drugs is this chick on? Has she considered in the slightest that this doesn't mean "I get to be a slut without shame or judgment if I do this?" Also, has she ever said the word "incel" or made fun of them? Are they included in her scheme of mandatory sex?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 18, 2022 04:07 PM (1fl3R)

426 Kyle Rittenhouse, the young man who used an AR-15 to defend himself during the August 2020 Kenosha, Wisconsin, Black Lives Matter riots, has launched a YouTube channel focused on guns.

Kyle's recently appeared on someone else's gun channel, so that's not too surprising.

At the same time, it feels a little like a trap for YouTube, like there's a lawyer behind the scenes waiting for them to ban him.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 18, 2022 04:07 PM (ZGrMX)

427 Kyle Rittenhouse, the young man who used an AR-15 to defend himself during the August 2020 Kenosha, Wisconsin, Black Lives Matter riots, has launched a YouTube channel focused on guns.

The introduction video of Rittenhouse in action montage ought to be awesome. Hope he finds some kick-ass bumper music to go with it.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at October 18, 2022 04:07 PM (ceWUn)

428 Kyle Rittenhouse, the young man who used an AR-15 to defend himself during the August 2020 Kenosha, Wisconsin, Black Lives Matter riots, has launched a YouTube channel focused on guns.

I can't imagine that that'll last long. He handled himself admirably under pressure and he absolutely was justified under the circumstances. But he's certainly no expert on guns or gun laws.

Posted by: Mel Brooks at October 18, 2022 04:07 PM (nfrXX)

429 inviting me to free food and beer at the 1880 ice house in Denison, Tx next Wednesday. I might go.
Posted by: Mister Scott

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I know where that is! Hey, as long it's free food....knock yourself out.

Posted by: Prime Sister at October 18, 2022 04:07 PM (tQL7r)

430 This afternoon, KJP was asked an SPR question I didn't quite hear - something like when will Joe stop taking oil out of SPR? KJP said, "Do you want the President to stop doing everything he can to reduce gas prices?"

Holy Cow.

Posted by: Gref at October 18, 2022 04:08 PM (AMIL/)

431 412 Rich Baris has.

Most of new movers to AZ and TX are conservatives. They are more GOP than natives.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at October 18, 2022 04:04 PM (GOe7V)

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Plus that exit poll from the Cruz vs. Beto race that showed transplants voted for Cruz but natives voted for Beto.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 18, 2022 04:08 PM (LvTSG)

432 My content sometimes backs up. I rely on All Bran cereal to deliver a severe colon blow to rectify the problem.

Posted by: Puddinhead at October 18, 2022 04:08 PM (D8mow)

433 /1000 year-old sock

Posted by: Oddbob at October 18, 2022 04:08 PM (nfrXX)

434 We should be moving toward a right to sex. People should be able to have sex when they feel they want to

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Like on a subway, with nobody but strangers around...

Posted by: Axeman at October 18, 2022 04:08 PM (krQz2)

435 We should be moving toward a right to sex. People should be able to have sex when they feel they want to

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Like on a subway, with nobody but strangers around...
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Don't forget the work based zoom conference call !!!!

Posted by: Jeff Toobin at October 18, 2022 04:09 PM (QTTos)

436 434 We should be moving toward a right to sex. People should be able to have sex when they feel they want to

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Like on a subway, with nobody but strangers around...
Posted by: Axeman at October 18, 2022 04:08 PM (krQz2)

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I'm pretty sure that the right to sex is recognized in large parts of the Muslim world.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 18, 2022 04:09 PM (LvTSG)

437 Use Qwant as your search engine. It is an actual privacy browser that doesn't censor results and I plugged in Lee Zeldin campaign ad and got a bunch of his links right off the bat, including the one with his crime video against Hocjjul. I've been using that search engine for about a month now and it really is terrific.

Posted by: Happy at October 18, 2022 04:09 PM (fQEX+)

438 Maybe if we focused on something besides people's sex lives, we could get a few things done in this country.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at October 18, 2022 04:10 PM (5HBd1)

439 I can't imagine that that'll last long. He handled himself admirably under pressure and he absolutely was justified under the circumstances. But he's certainly no expert on guns or gun laws.

He's not, but he was recently hanging out with Brandon Herrera ("The AK Guy" on YouTube).

Posted by: Ian S. at October 18, 2022 04:10 PM (ZGrMX)

440 Fetterman and his wife are creepy... Like a low rent version of members of the Adams family
Posted by: It's me donna at October 18, 2022 04:04 PM (bs+z0)
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Like the Munsters?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 18, 2022 04:10 PM (YIVH2)

441 And now for something completely different . . . life sized Han Solo in carbonite Halloween cake.

https://bit.ly/3T4YXy9

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Smarter Than Lumpy Fetterman! at October 18, 2022 04:11 PM (FVME7)

442 We should be moving toward a right to sex. People should be able to have sex when they feel they want to
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Like on a subway, with nobody but strangers around...
Posted by: Axeman at October 18, 2022 04:08 PM (krQz2)
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or on Zoom calls.

Posted by: wth at October 18, 2022 04:11 PM (v0R5T)

443 Like the Munsters?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 18, 2022 04:10 PM (YIVH2)
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Lower-rent. Low-rent Munsters.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 18, 2022 04:11 PM (1fl3R)

444 I can't imagine that that'll last long. He handled himself admirably under pressure and he absolutely was justified under the circumstances. But he's certainly no expert on guns or gun laws.

Maybe it'll be one of those journey of discovery type channels where the audience learns right along with Kyle.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at October 18, 2022 04:11 PM (Bd6X8)

445 Way too slow.

Posted by: wth at October 18, 2022 04:11 PM (v0R5T)

446 ========

Plus that exit poll from the Cruz vs. Beto race that showed transplants voted for Cruz but natives voted for Beto.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 18, 2022 04:08 PM (LvTSG)
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You can bet your bottom dollar on that.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at October 18, 2022 04:12 PM (+cejL)

447 I can't imagine that that'll last long. He handled himself admirably under pressure and he absolutely was justified under the circumstances.
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But enough about Jeffery Toobin'.

Posted by: Axeman at October 18, 2022 04:12 PM (krQz2)

448 And now for something completely different . . . life sized Han Solo in carbonite Halloween cake.

https://bit.ly/3T4YXy9

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Smarter Than Lumpy Fetterman! at October 18, 2022 04:11 PM (FVME7)

I saw a vinyl sticker you can get for a stainless steel fridge. Hilarious

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at October 18, 2022 04:12 PM (OgrpQ)

449 446 You can bet your bottom dollar on that.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at October 18, 2022 04:12 PM (+cejL)

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Maybe transplants will make Texas the state that the rest of the country seems to think it is.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 18, 2022 04:12 PM (LvTSG)

450 428 Kyle Rittenhouse, the young man who used an AR-15 to defend himself during the August 2020 Kenosha, Wisconsin, Black Lives Matter riots, has launched a YouTube channel focused on guns.

I can't imagine that that'll last long. He handled himself admirably under pressure and he absolutely was justified under the circumstances. But he's certainly no expert on guns or gun laws.
Posted by: Mel Brooks at October 18, 2022 04:07 PM (nfrXX)

He's got a couple of advantages over many 'gun experts'.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 18, 2022 04:12 PM (XvPQV)

451 People should be able to have sex when they feel they want to

Right now, people are having sex in storage units! It's barbaric!

Posted by: Alexandra Hunt at October 18, 2022 04:13 PM (h5TKJ)

452 I'm still hopeful that one day, a candidate wins by one vote AND I voted for him/her.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 18, 2022 04:01 PM (JOtiF)

That was a Soap storyline: Burt is running for sheriff. On election day he's so nervous he accidentally votes for his opponent. When they're watching the results come in on tv later, he's losing by one vote.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at October 18, 2022 04:07 PM

The wife and I were not going to vote in the last election that had some B$ stuff in it and a school bond proposal that would raise taxes. We weren't going to vote because we are over 65 and our school property taxes can't be raised but we went ahead and voted. The bond measure was defeated by one vote.

I like to think that one of us was that one vote.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 18, 2022 04:13 PM (bVYXr)

453 nood gamer tv

Posted by: SturmToddler at October 18, 2022 04:13 PM (WhsXQ)

454 We should be moving toward a right to sex. People should be able to have sex when they feel they want to

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Like on a subway, with nobody but strangers around...
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I'm now 62 years old and I lack the self discipline to keep by dick in my pants whilst on a zoom conference call with work. Do you think I'm that unusual? Here's a tip from me, when you are already in a hole, stop digging.

Posted by: Jeff Toobin at October 18, 2022 04:14 PM (PrdT5)

455 I'm pretty sure that the right to sex is recognized in large parts of the Muslim world.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for the Invisible Man with Dracula and Frankenstein's monster at October 18, 2022 04:09 PM (LvTSG)
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baa

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at October 18, 2022 04:14 PM (+cejL)

456 MN has no party registration. Everyone gets the same ballot with all the parties on it. You can only vote one party line, or the ballot is thrown out. I usually vote Dem, and against the Party Approved Candidate.

Except in 2020, they had a Presidential Primary, where you had to request a party ballot, and they actually were allowed to record your choice. I voted Bernie!

Posted by: rd at October 18, 2022 04:15 PM (Z32m1)

457 I like to think that one of us was that one vote.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 18, 2022 04:13 PM (bVYXr)
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Thank you for helping to lower my taxes.
Beers are on me.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at October 18, 2022 04:16 PM (+cejL)

458 >>You're going to be disappointed. Your expectations for Zeldin do not seem to align with his politics. He's fine, but he's just not changing NY or turning it red if he gets elected. He'll struggle to get anyone to go along with him and concede a lot of conservative issues and causes in order to "get along" - that is his history.

Again, I don't expect him to turn NY red. That is an idiotic expectation.

I expect him to get rid of some of Hochul's biggest extremes like no bail which is an absolute layup, get rid of some of the DA and make some improvement around the edges where it is possible.

On the other hand I think you are way too pessimistic about how thrilled everyone is with the direction of NY and many are not interested in changing course. That is just not supported by what's happening in the world.

Again, I don't expect Zeldin to be a conservative rock star in NY. DeSantis wouldn't be a conservative rock star in NY. He probably wouldn't even get elected. But I don't think Zeldin is as lame as you do. We'll see.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 18, 2022 04:24 PM (ZLI7S)

459 In more important news than polling aggregates, my toddler just wandered in to my office and blasted out an otherworldly dump in her little pants. I'll see you guys around
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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And Yudhishthira's Dice's daughter, tears streaming down her face, asked, "Mommy. Why do they hate President Biden so much when he shits himself in front of the Pope? I do it too. And Jerry Nadler. Does that mean the GOP hates me too??"

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at October 18, 2022 04:29 PM (yikp0)

460 369 If we're being honest, have you seen my husband? I haven't seen a solid poll 30 years.
Posted by: Nancee Peloshee at October 18, 2022 03:55 PM (QTTos)

If we're being honest, have you seen my wife? I haven't had a solid poll 30 years.

Posted by: Mr. Peloshee at October 18, 2022 04:35 PM (Vu7A1)

461 What drugs is this chick on? Has she considered in the slightest that this doesn't mean "I get to be a slut without shame or judgment if I do this?" Also, has she ever said the word "incel" or made fun of them? Are they included in her scheme of mandatory sex?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 18, 2022 04:07 PM (1fl3R)

We pretty much have what she wants right now. Only street streetwalkers even get bothered.

The secret, though is that men are wired to favor women with youth and lower 'body counts' and there's nothing you can do about that. This generation of modern 'party' women will be alone and bitter and are not well prepared for any of that.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 18, 2022 04:37 PM (eoQWY)

462 Again, I don't expect Zeldin to be a conservative rock star in NY. DeSantis wouldn't be a conservative rock star in NY. He probably wouldn't even get elected. But I don't think Zeldin is as lame as you do. We'll see.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 18, 2022 04:24 PM (ZLI7S)

If he just enforces the law and locks up criminals he might cause a surge in interest in the GOP there. It happened in the 80s and 90s in NYC for similar reasons.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 18, 2022 04:38 PM (eoQWY)

463 I don't think Democrats have to push a federal police force, because the Police State backlash to their intentional crime wave will come from Republicans.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at October 18, 2022 04:52 PM (OJLyx)

464 Not only do we get the “Sanity Bump” because every pollster relies on the correctness of their polls to stay in business, but we also now have the “RCP Bump”. Because RCP is gonna grade the pollsters from now on and presumably use that to determine how much weight to give to their results in RCP’s averages.

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