NC-SEN 2020: Tar Heel Tillis

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https://twitter.com/nrsc/status/1298251503942209537?s=21

This is so awful lmao

That's something straight out of Veep

People want American politics to be like The West Wing. They think it's like House of Cards. But really, it's like VEEP.

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Cunningham pitches to the anti-vaxx crowd:

https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/1305648855791341574

This is clearly a "Trump administration will push a vaccine that's not ready" pitch

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I find it interesting how much money Cunningham has raised despite him being  called a boring no name canidate by most people on atlas

Atlas is consistently wrong so.... lol

Atlas and Twitter won't admit it, but "Generic Democrat" is consistently the most popular politician in the country

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Senator Cal Cunningham (D-NC)

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If it was consensual who cares?

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https://twitter.com/jjhunt10/status/1312234821146550278?s=21

This is the tamest “sexting” I’ve ever seen

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You guys, this isn’t going to have any impact on the election...

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Honestly, there is nothing more low and despicable. He needs to drop out immediately and never again serve in a public capacity.

If you are willing to do this to your wife and to your children - there is nothing you are incapable of doing. No sin or selfish indulgence. IT seems absurd to trust such a weak, useless man with the public trust.

Evil men have no place in public life. He has no moral core, just like Trump.

He is still fighting for Satan.

Relax

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https://twitter.com/HowleyReporter/status/1313121220351623168

Makes him a bad husband, but again... everything was consensual so I'm not inclined to care.

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58% of voters heard about the Cunningham story over the weekend, and 58% say it doesn't affect their vote.

Among independent voters, 69% heard about the story. And Cunningham leads 53-34 with them anyway.

So can the bedwedding stop?

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Can this really be called a sex scandal anymore than Carter's "lust in my heart"?

Yes, because this is cheating, whereas what Carter did was not cheating.

How is this cheating if there was no sex involved?

If my wife was sexting other men, I (and most other people) would consider it cheating.

We aren't in the Dark Ages and we don't have a thought police. If some tame sexting is considered cheating then what's next? Will seeing a beautiful woman on the street and having sexual thoughts about her be considered cheating too?

I don't think it's important regarding the election or his Senate career, but what Cunningham did is obviously cheating. What are you talking about?

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I'm reading some comments online saying the woman he sexted is the wife of an enlisted (sergeant) vet and since Cunningham is an officer (lieutenant colonel) this could be a particular problem for Cunningham under military discipline/rules. But I have no idea. I assume Cunningham is very very very lucky this man appears to be a vet as opposed to someone currently enlisted.

Does anyone have any insight on this angle?

The military isn’t going to bother getting involved

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Do people actually care? Like does this really change votes...?

No, people just want a horserace.

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You guys are completely out of your minds, this will impact maybe less than 0.5% of votes

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https://twitter.com/americanledger/status/1313892287672389633

Welp

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Even the divorce attorney for Tillis's ex-wife says this is a non-story.

So just as meaningless as Cunningham's story.

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Polling has shown voters don't care about this.

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https://twitter.com/Robillard/status/1314559557138604032

Like I said, nobody cares.

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All of this bedwetting is going to look very funny on Election Day.

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https://twitter.com/josh_posts/status/1315773909309030400

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https://twitter.com/josh_posts/status/1315773909309030400

Celebrating adultery and home-wrecking to own the cons.  Guess it just goes to show that there are plenty of shameless partisan hacks in the Democratic Party too.  

Actually, it's even worse than that.  You can want Cunningham to win despite his scandal because this could be the tipping point seat for control of the Senate.  Fair enough, but that doesn't change the fact that Cunningham is a lying, pathetic excuse for a human being.  What he did was unjustifiable and utterly reprehensible.  A Democratic Senate majority is worth tolerating him for six years, but that doesn't make Cunningham any less of a deplorable scumbag.

Moreover, celebrating him for being a home-wrecking adulterer just because he happens to be a Democrat is precisely the sort of morally bankrupt partisan hackery that folks here are always complaining about whenever Trump supporters say they don't care about Trump's scandals.

Relax

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That’s where you’re wrong.  Sometimes they do, but there also have to be lines you’re not willing to cross.  Otherwise, you’ll end up with a morally bankrupt megalomaniacal monster like McConnell. Having principles is vital; the trick is knowing which you need to be willing to compromise and when you have to rigidly stick to them.

McConnell is bad because he's a conservative, not because he disregards norms.

Norms are only as good as the policies they let you pass.

I'd love if we had a Democratic McConnell, he'd get sh*t done.

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Norms are a mean, not an end.