OH-Sen 2022: So you’re telling me there’s a chance

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Didn't see this coming at all. Hoping this doesn't embolden Dem donors to burn piles of money Joker-style on what is still most likely an unwinnable race, but they probably will anyway if only because people probably still see Ohio as The Swing State™. Maybe if Jim Jordan gets the nomination it could be a fair bit tighter than Portman's blowouts, but it still won't amount to anything.

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Cook Political now unironically believes Ohio is as competitive as Wisconsin.

Never forget Likely D Heitkamp

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He's almost certainly getting drawn out, so he really has nothing to lose. Still don't see him winning.

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This thread should not have 16 (now 17) pages. This is not a competitive race.

I mean, the Kansas 2020 race got over 45 pages of discussion and we all know how that turned out

Kansas is at least trending towards competitiveness, if somewhat more slowly than ideal. Ohio hasn't been remotely worth observing since 2014 unless Sherrod Brown is involved.

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https://twitter.com/JoshMandelOhio/status/1411023629186482180

Do you think he's ever heard of the First Amendment?

This isn't a stretch for too many people, given how ingrained and Abrahamic American civil religion has been since the 50s and how we tend to treat the latter like the former. It isn't a good thing, of course, but it's fitting red meat for the people who'll be behind him.

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Say it with me: yogic flying is real. I believe in yogic flying.

https://twitter.com/stella2020woof/status/1564606453113147399?t=b4Lwcd4wK8rb8IUi...

The army of yogic flyers will chase Vance into Lake Erie, where he'll just sink instantly. Should've tried progressive muscle relaxation smh

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S019 is an Atlas zoomer #trends-bro who thinks that elections are predetermined on the quantum level in ways that would move the Democratic Party to the right (to benefit his class interests) and not to be taken seriously.

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S019 is an Atlas zoomer #trends-bro who thinks that elections are predetermined on the quantum level in ways that would move the Democratic Party to the right (to benefit his class interests) and not to be taken seriously.

As opposed to you a primtivism socialist who thinks rain dances work.

As opposed to Tim Ryan, who is amassing his army of yogic flyers in an abandoned factory in Warren to chase JD Vance down and across the Ohio to Weirton.

Also, sigged

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In any case, if Democrats are even somewhat close here, they've almost certainly expanded their House majority.

uniform 👏 swing 👏 does 👏 not 👏 exist 👏

at any rate i don't actually expect ryan to win but i can at least see the hypothetical path and vance's margin will be pretty underwhelming for the Fundamentals™ of the Biden Midterm™ and the Trends™

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https://twitter.com/ccadelago/status/1578390683500544003

I like how they filmed it as if it were Modern Family.

It's all too fitting that Mr. Yogic Flyers would admire decade-old Awkward New Sincerity-core, but of course–

Modern Family never existed. Breaking Bad never existed. The Office never existed. Game of Thrones never existed. The Walking Dead never existed.