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

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Gianforte needs to do damage control now.... somehow... Honestly, IMO it'd be the best if he were just honest about this entire thing and apologized publicly.

That's not enough.

Yeah, well, after a congressional candidate body slams a reporter, few things are going to be enough to lessen the damage done.

Only viable thing would be to leave and for the GOP to select someone new.

Yeah, with 24 hours left. That makes sense.

The best thing is to let it continue as is.  If Gianforte wins, deny him (not sure how this works; not familiar with congressional procedure with this). If Quist wins, so be it.

Ethical thing to do. Call it off, and renominate.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Quist handled it well.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Quist's chances have been treated lower than they are all along.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Quist's chances have been treated lower than they are all along.

Up until this, he virtually had no chance.

He was definitely the underdog, but I would not go that far, especially with such crappy polling.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Quist's chances have been treated lower than they are all along.

Up until this, he virtually had no chance.

That isn't true lol. Plenty of people here have seen a narrow Quist win. Even MT Treasurer said it was anybody's race going into this. The polling has been so dogsh*t that it's impossible to tell who was winning from it.

He was probably just basing his guesses on the predictit prices.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Looks like a socialist who plays guitar will finally have a voice in our Congress. Beautiful.

Please don't celebrate before the fat lady sings, that gives us bad mojo up in here.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

He was probably just basing his guesses on the predictit prices.

What? I always had this race as a Tossup, so please stop making stuff up.

Not you. You are cool. I'm talking about that Florida Republican.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Calling it now, Quist wins by 3.6%

This is a nightmare for anyone who is even slightly superstitious smh...

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

He was probably just basing his guesses on the predictit prices.

What? I always had this race as a Tossup, so please stop making stuff up.

Not you. You are cool. I'm talking about that Florida Republican.

Oh, sorry then, LOL. I'm a bit stressed right now, you know? This is all too much for me to "handel" (ha.ha.).

It's cool dude.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

He was probably just basing his guesses on the predictit prices.

What? I always had this race as a Tossup, so please stop making stuff up.

Not you. You are cool. I'm talking about that Florida Republican.

Why don't you check the polls instead of attacking Saint?

Yep, totally gonna go look at some Gravis polls now...

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

This crapstorm is literally one of the top things on CNN with the Garish Red breaking news font next to it, I don't think we gotta worry about under-coverage boys...

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Gianforte needs to do damage control now.... somehow... Honestly, IMO it'd be the best if he were just honest about this entire thing and apologized publicly.

That's not enough.

Yeah, well, after a congressional candidate body slams a reporter, few things are going to be enough to lessen the damage done.

It's not physically possible for most folks to body slam an adult male.

-_-.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Just my luck...I never actually pulled all of my Quist shares from PredictIt

It just keeps getting better and better...

Nice, how many you got now?

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

This crapstorm is literally one of the top things on CNN with the Garish Red breaking news font next to it, I don't think we gotta worry about under-coverage boys...

Gianforte's base isn't the CNN type. If Fox covers this, he will lose big time. He's still going to.

It's on Fox, but lower...

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Gianforte needs to do damage control now.... somehow... Honestly, IMO it'd be the best if he were just honest about this entire thing and apologized publicly.

That's not enough.

Yeah, well, after a congressional candidate body slams a reporter, few things are going to be enough to lessen the damage done.

It's not physically possible for most folks to body slam an adult male. If Gianforte can pull that off he is a major stud to be sure.

2017 GOP folks. Beta males need not apply. Must physically assault reporter to receive "stud" status.

Proof is in the pudding, isn't? This guy gets in someone's face, gets (allegedly, by his own accord) owned, and goes on twitter about broken glasses.

Pure beta move!

Yes, the voters prefer alpha males.

It's not really surprising that you are pro-violence. You probably would have still voted for Byron Looper after he shot Tommy Burks. Shameful.

It's the alt-right. You can blame violence in blue areas of the country on their ancestors too... It's their ways of doing things...

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Safe D

My god people, stop overeacting. Is this great for Quist, yes. But stop blowing this out of proportion, this race is still VERY MUCH IN PLAY, pure tossup.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

It's moments like these where you would love accurate polling to see what the race was like before this incident. If emerosn and gravis are right and it's a 15 point lead for G, then it would be pretty tough for this to actually lead to a quist win. If the race is/was within 5 or 6, it's quist's to lose now.

ing polling.

Gianforte could definitely win, but not by the ungodly numbers presented by Gravis. People need to stop referencing the polls to predict this election, they are worthless.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

So regardless of the outcome, Piano Man's victory/concession speech should be very, um, interesting tomorrow night.

Although I also think there's a good possibility we won't have a winner by tomorrow night.  We'll see.

I'm prepared to do an all nighter if that's what it takes. I got nothing to do the next day.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

This is top on Fox now. How you like em apples. WORD IS GETTING AROUND.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Deport the Gianfort! (I know I left off the e)

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Why is the right so violent?

Can you please link data and research that shows that conservatives are more violent?

No. I'm just mocking people like you who always go on about violent the left is when one of your congressional candidates just assaulted someone

Yeah, with exceptions here and there, the alt-right tries to do things with brute force, the left is usually more reasonable and tolerant... that's why we are more diverse and have the hippies. Of course there are exceptions, but I see it generally as the alt-right ideology to problem solving is brute force, while the left is more about coexistence. There are living exceptions to these broad generalizations, but overall that's what I think the ideology is.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Man I gotta thank Crazy Greg for all that meme value he's blessed us with.

Crazy Greg looks like Jared Fogle's skinny uncle.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

How many people have voted already?

About 2/3 of the electorate. But undecideds and leaners vote on election day. The GOP has to do well in election day vote to win.

Surely not ever single person votes that's registered, in other words, there won't be 100% turnout. They are already topping 70% turnout, how many more people could there even be left that want to vote tomorrow?

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Man I gotta thank Crazy Greg for all that meme value he's blessed us with.

Crazy Greg looks like Jared Fogle's skinny uncle.

Jared Fogle visited my elementary school as a kid 0.0

I'd trust him more than Drumpf around children.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

How many people have voted already?

About 2/3 of the electorate. But undecideds and leaners vote on election day. The GOP has to do well in election day vote to win.

Surely not ever single person votes that's registered, in other words, there won't be 100% turnout. They are already topping 70% turnout, how many more people could there even be left that want to vote tomorrow?

70% turnout? Is that of all eligible voters or do you mean 70% of those who voted last year have turned out?

We are at around 50% of what we got last year, but about 70% of absentee ballots are in.