The Hofoid House of Absurd & Ignorant Posts VII

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McCain should resign. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to see his wife (or preferably, daughter) get sworn in?

If he is still alive come 2020 (unlikely,) he should resign so that the seat will be on the ballot in 2020. That way, republicans will be more likely to hold it and will have an incumbent come 2022; holding an open seat in the 2022 midterms would be very difficult, as 2022 will more likely than not be blue-favored as Trump will, more likely than not, be re-elected.

We can't afford to lose another senate seat. I'm glad McCain made it past the special election deadline because if he didn't, chances are we'd be losing both Arizona senate seats at once, and our senate majority would be in real danger.

>As if the Republican Senate majority was not already in danger in 2018 as is, and implying that Trumps re-election is likely, let alone possible.

The senate majority isn't entirely safe, but there's probably only a ~15% chance of dems getting to 51 seats.
It takes extraordinary circumstances to unseat an incumbent president, and with the way things are going now, yes, I think  Trump is more likely to win than lose come 2020. I'm not saying he will win, just that it's somewhat more likely for him to win than lose. Dems still haven't learned to stop underestimating him, and still don't have a very unifying message. Unless they get their act together, they are risking another 4 years of Trump.
I give him 60%-65% percent chance of being re-elected. He'd probably lose if the election were held today, but just as Clinton, Obama and many other modern presidents have done, I think he'll recover after the midterms.

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The state should block people from preaching religion.

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If it is wrong to think whites becoming a minority is a negative, how the hell is it any better to think it is positive?!

White people need to bend the knee.

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https://uselectionatlas.org/POLLS/SENATE/2018/polls.php?action=indpoll&id=18120180807248

rename this thread in honor of Trafalgar Group crosstabs imo

I concur.

boom I did it

I propose "Trafalgar Trash Heap"

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If any party is the party of "identity politics" it's the Republicans. They have become the party of white identity and white nationalism.

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If any party is the party of "identity politics" it's the Republicans. They have become the party of white identity and white nationalism.

We have two major parties in this country. One of them draws about 90% of its support from members of a single group. If you're going to argue that the other major party that is the party of identity politics, you have some explaining to do.

Compared to either Democrats or independent voters, the Republican Party is more dissimilar to the make-up of the country as a whole. The same is true when you consider religion, ancestry, grandparents nationality, and so on.

Democrats have a substantial amount of representation from people of almost every category in this country, including all of those categories that are also common among independents and Republicans. In contrast, Republicans are highly reliant on a much more homogeneous base.

Yes, somebody is doing the identity politics, but something tells me that it's not the party that appeals to a broader set of demographics.

The fact that the GOP attracts a majority of the white vote doesn't make it a "white nationalist party." Whites are much less loyal to the GOP than every other major racial group is loyal to the dems.

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age (16), citizenship (in federal elections), residency (in state & local elections), and property ownership (homeowners shouldn't get to vote)

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No, McCarthy actually had legitimate concerns about infiltration by Communist sympathizers. Democrats' concerns about Putinist (to even say the phrase is laughable) infiltration of American institutions is laughable.

This is not the simple truths thread.