Politics The Official 2018 Midterm Election Thread

Started by Enigma, Aug 17, 2018, in Life Add to Reading List

  1. Enigma
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    Enigma Civil liberties > Police safety

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  2. WPG
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

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    courtesy of @Swizz

     
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  3. Sign Language
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    Sign Language We miss you Screw

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    https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomang...alize-marijuana-for-democratic-house-in-2019/

    I know this will be a hard sell in a Republican senate, but I think at least the hearings that have been outlined will be beneficial. Don’t a few republican senators support legalization?
     
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  4. joeyp363
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    Ya I watch Fox News daily. I believe in straying current on politics is very important.
     
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  5. Enigma
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    Enigma Civil liberties > Police safety

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    A few for medical usage maybe. Recreational? I don’t think so.
     
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  6. WPG
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

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    republicans love a pretext to lock people in cages
     
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  7. GawDEDEDE
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    So basically nothing happened lol, guess people can stop paying attention until 2020 again!
     
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  8. Enigma
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    Enigma Civil liberties > Police safety

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    Dems flipped the house & won numerous governorships. That’s defintley not nothing lol. Also, flashback:

     
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  9. JMG
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    JMG

    Nov 7, 2018
    Dems having the house means nothing. Huge win for Trump and Republicans tonight. Trump 2020 is almost a guarantee now. Lets keep making America great.
     
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  10. Colonel Mustang
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    Colonel Mustang it's a terrible day for rain

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    Not the blue wave it was hyped up to be, but I suppose it was a decent night for both sides. Gotta say I’m surprised.
     
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  11. Enigma
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    Enigma Civil liberties > Police safety

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    ????
     
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  12. Base Reality
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    Base Reality AKA Chewie

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    Yeah too bad this doesn’t matter.

    Both parties have things to be happy about, but overall Dems underperformed today in terms of what they actually won. This popular vote margin doesn’t matter when they didn’t win the number of seats as they should have.
     
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  13. Base Reality
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    Base Reality AKA Chewie

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    democrats*
     
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  14. Enigma
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    Enigma Civil liberties > Police safety

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    How many seats should they have won?
     
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  15. Colonel Mustang
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    Colonel Mustang it's a terrible day for rain

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    Obviously I was referring to the Senate race. I fully expected the “blue wave” to result in a sweep, but I (along with many others) was wrong. Basically, both parties have positives to take out of the night, and I feel like that alone is a slight loss for the dems.
     
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  16. Mraczewsky
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    Mraczewsky r.i.p. mac

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    So who won
     
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  17. Enigma
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    Enigma Civil liberties > Police safety

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    Dems were never favored to win the senate. The senate map this election was rough for Dems. Most the senators up for re-election were in red/trump states.
     
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  18. Colonel Mustang
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    Colonel Mustang it's a terrible day for rain

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    But favored or not with these big numbers/clearly big turnout I thought the “blue wave” could pull of a surprise or 2. I just can’t imagine the dems were all this hyped up going into this election for this result.
     
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  19. Enigma
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    Enigma Civil liberties > Police safety

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    Ehh... their highest chances at winning the senate were like 25% & that was back in like September. Their chances this morning were ~15%. It would have taken a number of red states to shockingly vote blue in order for them to pull that off. Throw in voter suppression in red states that makes life even harder for Dems, it just wasn’t likely to happen. Partisanship is almost always going to be a more important variable in these elections than turnout.
     
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

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    no one—no one—thought the democrats were gonna win the senate
     
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