A New Politics Thread

[MDS]

warnock really matters for the 2024 math

we have 3 seats to defend in 24 in republican states (ohio, montana, west virginia). there are a number of others in swingy states (pa, wi, az, me, nv). the only pick up opportunity i see is texas and thats solely because ted cruz is so reviled maybe there can be a backlash there.

this is sort of a galaxy brain inside politics thing that the average citizen isnt going to care about, which is good. walker paced massively behind kemp and still lost. warnock is a heavy heavy favorite.

[General_Failure]

There are literally zero human beings who like Ted Cruz or want him representing them, and yet he's still in office. There isn't a candidate anywhere that will make the people voting for him chose any option that isn't a Republican.

[MDS]

beto, at his peak, lost by 2 points and over 200k votes in 2018. this was as friendly an atmosphere for dems and no president on the ticket. so its *possible* its just a lot of votes to make up and you have to contend with whatever presidential candidate at the top of the ballot.

im not deep in texas politics so i dont know if theres a legit candidate. youd need a very moderate latino male to even think about doing it. and then again, if cruz loses texas youre probably holding everything else.

[Rome]

White people are a lost cause in TX and FL.  What Dems need to do is to go hard in the black and Hispanic communities.  I mean throw every penny at them.  It won't make any difference in '24, but it might in '26 and especially '28.    They got killed in Dade County again.  It's completely inexplicable but counting on them while chasing feverishly after the great white moderate whale cost them in three straight elections.

Look just get better candidates and emphasize what they're doing for most Americans.  And do it every chance you get too.  When you go on the Sunday morning shows and all those fargheads want to do is talk about the horse race, ignore them and focus on the accomplishments.  Over and over and over.  Drill it into their heads.

In short, the issues are on our side.  Don't get distracted or let the GOP distract everyone with their phony bullshtein culture war garbage.

[SD]

That funhole Kari Lake lost

https://twitter.com/liz_cheney/status/1592340964982808576 46&t=Q8tlH5SZo_OqU0762CZ9pQ

[Munson]

Great news there, bad news on all the House races today. Dems slim shot at retaining the majority evaporated today unfortunately. Repubs up to 217 seats called now with a few more to come tomorrow most likely.

Hopefully they can keep it to 220-215

[PhillyPhreak54]

Of course all the AZ nut bags are screaming rigged.

It was nice seeing that scumbag Ted Cruz seething mad about the results from last week.

[Diomedes]

Missiles kill two in Poland.

Poland is a member of NATO.

[Diomedes]

Team Mitch reeling:  McConnell to face challenge from Rick Scott for leadership of senate republicans.

[Rome]

Russia done farged up.   That's how wars start, and not zesty little turf wars in Asia either.

[Diomedes]

We don't have good proof yet who fired it but Ukraine isn't firing Russian missiles.  Maybe it was fired by Russia intented for Ukraine but was disrupted by an anti-missile defense and so landed in Poland, the fact Russia is targeting anything close enough to Poland that this might happen is proof positive that Russia is extemely dangerous...like, existentially dangerous to all human life.  They're playing with nuclear fire.

[MDS]

cant stress how good it is that trump is not president right now

[Geowhizzer]

Don, Rome, and I are probably the only ones old enough to remember when this played on TV back in 1983.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-phsyn3KQM

This world I'm leaving for my kids...

[General_Failure]

Give it a couple more years, you won't be leaving any world for your kids.

[Eagaholic]

On the other hand, today the 8 billionth person on the planet was born according to UN projections. I'm not sure we're smart enough yet to be able to completely wipe ourselves out.