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    David Bossie, 45's lead campaign challenge lawyer, has tested positive for COVID.

    It's like there is a message trying to be sent here or something ...
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    Assholes gonna *******, what else is new.

    But then that's expected of Mitch McConnell, the man who lost Arizona. Dems should be toasting him alongside Stacey Abrams, he sure helped us.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MiddleMan View Post
    and now there is a rumor that the WH head of personnel is telling staff that anyone caught looking for a new job will be immediately terminated
    Is that a threat....or a promise?
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    https://time.com/5909548/after-losse...ic-leadership/

    Cheri Bustos the woman in charge of the DCCC, i.e. the House Committee in job of overseeing campaigns for its candidates is stepping down and quitting. Which is the right thing to do given the losses of seats and the brutal criticism that AOC unleashed on the DCCC for their screwups.

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    I am completely baffled that Mitch McConnell won re-election.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Amadeus Arkham View Post
    I am completely baffled that Mitch McConnell won re-election.
    Kentucky is dirt poor and stupid

    black people still scare them in the rural parts of that state

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    Quote Originally Posted by Amadeus Arkham View Post
    I am completely baffled that Mitch McConnell won re-election.
    Nobody should be. It’s Kentucky. People have been saying for months Democrat’s were pissing away money trying to unseat him when they could have focused on any number of seats that were competitive. Mitch is like the most relevant part of that state right now

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    Quote Originally Posted by KNIGHT OF THE LAKE View Post
    Nobody should be. It’s Kentucky. People have been saying for months Democrat’s were pissing away money trying to unseat him when they could have focused on any number of seats that were competitive. Mitch is like the most relevant part of that state right now
    Even the SC race against Lindsey was a waste of money in the end. Although we did stress Lindsey out and get him begging weekly on Fox News for money. And Harrison was a good candidate who is victim of where he lives. Id like to see him do something to raise his profile elsewhere in the party though. I dont want him blocked from advancement in the party just because he lives in SC and they wont let go of Lindsey

    They over estimated the chances of winning.

    How Democrats Missed Trump’s Appeal to Latino Voters

    “More people are waking up,” said Kelly Gonzalez, who attended a Republican election party in Harlingen, in South Texas, with her husband, her 1-year-old daughter and her 7-year-old son, each of them clad in Trump gear from head to toe. In the once reliably left-leaning region, Ms. Gonzalez said her opinion of liberals — particularly young ones — had changed in the last four years. “It’s like, ‘Give me this, give me that,’ and they don’t want to work for it,” she said.
    Democrats also did not seem to account for how effective Mr. Trump’s efforts to tie their party to socialism would be, especially among Venezuelan- and Cuban-American voters in Florida.

    “If Biden gets elected, America will go down the rabbit hole of socialism into communism within the next year,” said Gilbert Fonticoba, an internet marketer, who stood with a group waving American and Trump flags in front of a polling place in the city of Hialeah outside Miami on Tuesday. He said he became unemployed after his social media accounts were disabled because of his views as a member of the Proud Boys, a far-right group, adding that his parents had fled Cuba.

    Mr. Fonticoba blamed the country’s polarization in part on the news media. “Millennials are brainwashed,” he said. “There’s a lot of dumb people that live in this country that believe the fake news.” Then, unprompted, he brought up the Proud Boys, denying that they had ties to white supremacy. “Proud Boys are for America, keeping America the way America was created,” he said. “The West is the best.”
    Oh boy. Very interesting article on missing the mark with the Latino vote. A lot of what we have been talking about for days. How the Cuban American contingent really bought into the socialism labels how pervasive the ads were. I mean believing this bs about Proud Boys? Thats just nuts lol
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    Quote Originally Posted by Amadeus Arkham View Post
    I am completely baffled that Mitch McConnell won re-election.
    As Sen. Maj. Leader, Mulep-ss Mitch has managed to bring in dough to Kentucky that keeps the oligarchs happy. Dem candidates can't compete against that effectively as long as he's Sen. Maj. Leader. The candidates the Dems ran against him, Amy McGrath barely pulled through a strong primary challenge herself, and she tried to appeal to Moderate Republicans...which as we all know isn't a significant force in US Politics on State or National Level. So it wasn't a strong competitor against him. She also didn't read McConnell in Kentucky well (not that I am saying others have).

    Plus, he has used his power to bring in money for the state. McConnell noted on the campaign trail that this year Kentucky was approved for more money in BUILD transportation grants than any other state (McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao, is the secretary of the Transportation Cabinet).

    “I believe I can make the case that I’ve been extremely effective for Kentucky and for the nation as a result of being in my leadership positions, not hiding under my desk,” McConnell said. “And dealing with the criticism that comes with that.”


    https://www.kentucky.com/news/politi...246972207.html

    McConnell has built a really solid political machine in Kentucky, and it's going to take more than a liberal former Marine to take that down.

    To be honest, for a weak candidate, McGrath actually did a lot better than I thought she would.

    Quote Originally Posted by kidfresh512 View Post
    Even the SC race against Lindsey was a waste of money in the end. Although we did stress Lindsey out and get him begging weekly on Fox News for money.
    Totally worth it.

    They over estimated the chances of winning.
    We say that in hindsight, but it seemed possible at the time. Harrison did far better against Graham than McGrath did against Mitch. If not for Ginsburg's death and the SCOTUS, Graham would have lost to Harrison. His victory is not down to anything Graham did. It happened to a turn of luck that went his way. Ultimately Graham faced a challenge from a Democrat in the South of the kind that Chuck Schumer in New York or any other major Dem senator in a blue state will not face from a Republican there. At least not any time soon.

    The Dems can field and send strong candidates against major GOP candidates, but the GOP can't do that effectively against the blue states, or at least not at the moment. Beto O'Rourke came within a razor's edge of beating Ted Cruz in Texas in 2018, Cruz barely pulled through. The day the GOP can send a Red-State Beto into Blue Bastions, that's when I will start being intimidated by American conservatism.

    Right now the Dems and the GOP are a bit like the Romans and the Parthians. The Romans sent armies into Parthian territory and occassionally even got the capital, but they were never able to consolidate it. By contrast the Parthians were never in a position to take back Rome itself. That doesn't mean by overall party strength one isn't in the stronger position than the other. The Romans had greater strength compared to the Parthians, the Dems likewise more than the GOP.

    So for me, Harrison's campaign and the GA turn, as well as the strong Blue populations in TX and FL are worth looking at, and being invested in.
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    https://twitter.com/therecount/statu...058497024?s=20

    Even Fox News having to cut away from Press Sec lies

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    Yeah it looks like AOC is so far winning, at least in the media, her narrative that the House Losses were down to DCCC incompetence. The DCCC head has quit, Abigail Spanberger who went off has walked her comments back.

    https://earther.gizmodo.com/the-gree...ats-1845619942

    Using Cook Political Report’s Partisan Voting Index, Earther found four House co-sponsors who are in districts that range from very slightly Democratic to moderately Republican. Of those four, three decisively won their reelection bids, including Reps. Mike Levin, Jahana Hayes, and Peter DeFazio. The fourth, Rep. Tom Suozzi, is currently behind in his race in New York by about 4,000 votes, but is projected to “easily win” once all mail-in ballots are counted, according to Cook Political Report’s Dave Wasserman.

    Outside of Suozzi, the only Green New Deal co-sponsor to lose is Florida Rep. Debbie Murcasell-Powell. She lost what was a moderately Democratic-leaning seat, though it was previously represented by Rep. Carlos Curbelo, arguably the most outspoken Republican on climate change prior to losing the seat in 2018 to Murcasell-Powell.

    This is quick-and-dirty analysis aligns with other data showing that representatives who have sponsored and voted for progressive policies were not punished by voters. An analysis commissioned by the Sunrise Movement and Justice Democrats and shared with Intercept Washington, DC, bureau chief Ryan Grim shows that Democratic House candidates in more liberal swing districts won by greater margins than more conservative ones.

    Basically, the people who actually back progressive policies came through the election largely unscathed and, in many cases, fared better than their more conservative Democratic counterparts in swing districts.
    Also the New Republic has a piece out:
    https://newrepublic.com/article/1600...-doesnt-matter
    What if it barely matters what Democrats “talk about” or “campaign on”? What if this is less a problem of political messaging or positioning than of political education, information access, and ubiquitous propaganda? In other words, if the Democrats actively try to abandon “identity issues,” will anyone in this political environment actually stop associating them with “identity issues”? If they ran a strictly class-focused campaign, how many marginal voters would hear their messaging and believe it

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    Quote Originally Posted by Amadeus Arkham View Post
    I am completely baffled that Mitch McConnell won re-election.
    In counties where the black population was in the double digits-

    Jefferson (he lost)
    Fayette (he lost)
    Hardin (won 56%)
    Fulton (won 61%)
    Christian (won 56%)
    Union (won 66%)
    Franklin (he lost)

    The ones he lost could not get higher than 45% (and that was only in Franklin)

    Fulton has the highest black population followed by Jefferson.

    This was one of the states that voted for Kanye.

    https://www.wbko.com/2020/11/05/kent...nd-their-vote/

    Reason who folks in that state voted for Kanye

    “My thought process mostly went like this- I can throw my vote away to the Libertarian candidate every 4 years for the rest of my life but when will I have the opportunity to vote for Kanye West again? In essence, it was just a protest vote and an even better expression of my fatigue with the current political landscape than a vote for any other candidate would have been. I knew he wouldn’t win, I just wanted to show that disdain for the current political environment,” he said.

    “To way oversimplify it, I would much rather vote for a 45-year-old crazy person than a 70-75 year old one.

    This whole election has been a joke, and I knew more people feel the same way. The fact that I voted for Kanye was also to bring about awareness of a third-party platform.”


    But honestly, I’m not informed at all about Kanye’s campaign or policies.”

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    Seeing people like Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, and Newt Gingrich (who is still on cable news, somehow), whining about a "stolen election" through the weekend and into this week?

    The nation can't come together if these broken idjits don't get over themselves.

    This is the emerging Republican narrative, and it's as mentally sound as Lex Luthor blaming Superman for his hair loss.
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