MT-AL: Rob Quist (D) vs. Greg Gianforte (R) vs. Mark Wicks (L), May 25

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Not feeling great about these numbers at all, but we'll see.

ALSO WHY DOES MY WIFI CONNECTION WAIT UNTIL NOW TO START FCKING UP

WHY

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If Gianforte wins, I never want to hear another complaint about how "violent" Antifa is ever again.  In no sane country would this stuff not be a career-ender, and since the limited information we have suggests most Gianforte voters were not swayed by last night's incident, I question whether this would have made a difference a week prior.

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What is Schweitzer up to these days?

#SchweitzerWouldveWon

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Did Quist do something to piss off the people of Big Horn County?  

Native American turnout must have plummeted like Robenson County NC in 2016.

The Crow tribe endorsed the GOP candidate for the first time in a long time because the tribal economy is dependent on coal (and like, Quist's staff must have taken them for granted or something)

But they endorsed Clinton last year - not exactly a friend of coal.

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Running a candidate who supports gun control was a terrible idea.

Quist isn't pro-gun control?

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It's becoming a vicious cycle at this point. National Democrats don't support progressive Democrat enough compared to Republican opponent, progressive Democrat loses in an underdog race against Republican opponent by single-digits, and moderate Democrats regardless toss it aside as a reason why populism can't work.

If anyone really thinks this race wasn't winnable and the DCCC was right all along, you're being naive. Sure, Quist was a flawed candidate. But that doesn't mean he couldn't have beaten Gianforte if he had received more support from the party, not just outside grassroots organizations.


If you care so much about data and which races are "winnable" or not, look at this graph and see that Democrats aren't supporting their candidates as much as Republicans.

I don't get the feeling that the Democratic party is too upset about having a progressive lose.

Oh, they're not.

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I don't know if this was mentioned here earlier, and I didn't learn about this until just now, but the Free Beacon botched the selective service scandal.

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Kyung Lah confirms more voters went out to vote Gianforte because of slamgate and it helped his performance on election day

Stay classy Montana.

""""""""""""""""""""Christian nation""""""""""""""""""""

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It says a lot about how low the opinion of the democratic party is in rural areas of middle america when a reality tv star and a man who beats up reporters defeat democrats.

American culture is disgusting.  We go to church on Sundays and fck our neighbors' wives on Mondays.  We live to acquire but never to give.  We worship celebrities to the point of literally electing them into office.  And we have the gall to call ourselves godly people.  Godly?  Sodom and Gomorrah had much more wholesome folks than these creatures.

*I sedated myself a while ago, so if my posts sound wacky now I apologize

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And, we're not trying to elect our pastor

Funny how the "Christian" right touts that meme every time they nominate scumbags.

America sold its soul to the devil ages ago.

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Sooo, all the over-confidence from you guys last night and even before last night, all the predictions of a quist 2 point or 3 point win, they were all fake hope?

This happens all the time on here. You guys hype up dem chances, and then when it actually doesn't happen, you pretend you never had any "true" hope for a win.

While I generally agree with you, Atlas wasn't the only place that thought this thing was going to have a serious impact on the race. I think in this case it's fair to say Quist would have done a lot better had he actually run a good campaign, but yeah... it also shows us that polarization is still a thing.

So yes, Republicans outperformed everyone's expectations this time (I should have stuck with my original prediction and not changed it at the last minute), but I'm still taking nothing for granted in this goddamn state. Harry Enten should feel kind of stupid for saying that Tester is going to be very happy about this result, though. Congrats to Mr. Daines, who won the Daines vs. Tester/Bullock proxy war.

I even thought Quist was a shoo-in after last night, but I'm happy that the Montana voters realized that a vote for Quist was a vote for 3000 murders a day, regardless of any personal flaws in Gianforte.  And, we're not trying to elect our pastor or role model, but rather someone who will vote to lead our country in the right direction, and I am confident that Gianforte will vote in the right way.

Extreme Republican----

I love you man and find you to generally be a fairly straight-shooter type poster, but surely you must admit that this bit of hyberbole (Abortion as a major issue in the '17 MT Special Election) is a bit over the top???

Considering that Montana is actually one of the most Pro-Choice states in the nation, I find it hard to see how this explains tonight's election results.....

I get it you are excited and happy about the outcome and the election of a protegee of one of the most Anti-Choice Political candidates ever elected in the Great State of Montana.... but come on man this wasn't the reason for the election outcome at all.....

Try not to reason with someone who thinks chicken eggs are actually chicken abortions.

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Wasserman is saying quist is doing slightly better with election day voters than with early voters.

Opposite of what happened elsehwere/

It sounds like the Bernie rally and the bodyslamming happened too late to win this.

Bernie's rallies aren't enough to make up a seven-point deficit, but in hindsight it's kind of strange that they did those so late in the game.

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Fellow forum lefties pls stop fighting amongst yourselves and become hardcore misanthropes like me.  Realize that most Americans are terrible

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Silver: "A night where Democrats are losing Montana by 'only' 6 or 7 points is consistent with the sort of map you might see if Democrats were either taking over the House, or coming pretty close to it."

Take that as you will.

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Fellow forum lefties pls stop fighting amongst yourselves and become hardcore misanthropes like me.  Realize that most Americans are terrible

It's hard to not see it that way at times. I wonder if the national cultural has really shifted that far from the one that fostered:

1) Japanese-American Internment Camps
2) Trail of Tears
3) Annihilation of Native Americans
4) Colonization and depreciation of territories and citizens therein
5) 9/11 Response
6) Overall regime change
7) Preying on those who need the most

The list can go on and on. There is a serious rot. I was raised Christian, and my parents pretty much taught me the polar opposite of all of that (and they were conservative by PR standards).

I was also raised Christian, still am.  Thought about becoming a pastor.  It took me to realize that I'm a terrible Christian as well as a terrible person in general to see that it's not the job for me.  But if any country needs meaningful spiritual revival, it's this one, and American Christianity needs to be taken back from the idolaters and the hypocrites.

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Now that the election is done and dusted, I think it's time to showcase some of the highlights of the great minds on Breitbart comments:

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http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/05/25/greg-gianforte-montana-special-election-win/

And so on...

I'm becoming a gun owner.