GA-06 and SC-05 election day & results thread

[Mr.Phips]

Why does everyone pronounce it "DeKab" even though it's Dekalb?

Probably for the same reason some people pronounce Oregon "Orogen".  

[Mr.Phips]

Democrats should seriously consider dumping Pelosi after this.  The woman has terrible political instincts  (i.e. cap and  trade)and Republicans have been able to effectively wrap her around the necks of Democrats even as a minority leader.

[Mr.Phips]

Nearly 40% of the vote in and Parnell is leading by 3% in SC-05 lol

Yet none of heavily Republican Cherokee county is in.

[Mr.Phips]

Can Dems apply some of Parnell's overperformance to Ossoff to help him win?

[Mr.Phips]

So in 2018, Democrats have a chance to almost win every Republican district.  Let's see, that means that Democrats still pick up....no seats!!? Yippee!!!

[Mr.Phips]

Reagan didn't change anything. Look at the vast stretch of counties Dukakis and Clinton won that are now Tea Party strongholds.

Nixon and Reagan clearly forced the Democrats to abandon much of their New Deal Rooseveltian ideology going into the late 70's all the way to today. Bill Clinton wouldn't have decided to end welfare as we know it, cut capital gains taxes, tough on crime laws, NAFTA, deregulation, etc. if it weren't for these men laying the groundwork for a powerful rightward shift in our politics.

Bill Clinton is a large part of the reason why Democrats are in the sad state that they are in today.  You had a Democrat who basically gave up on the populist issues that helped Democrats win all over the country in exchange for corporatist policies like NAFTA, deregulation, and capital gains tax cuts (as well as unpopular social policies like gun control) that allowed him to gain high income suburbanites (who often vote gop downballot). 

[Mr.Phips]

Reagan didn't change anything. Look at the vast stretch of counties Dukakis and Clinton won that are now Tea Party strongholds.

Nixon and Reagan clearly forced the Democrats to abandon much of their New Deal Rooseveltian ideology going into the late 70's all the way to today. Bill Clinton wouldn't have decided to end welfare as we know it, cut capital gains taxes, tough on crime laws, NAFTA, deregulation, etc. if it weren't for these men laying the groundwork for a powerful rightward shift in our politics.

Bill Clinton is a large part of the reason why Democrats are in the sad state that they are in today.  You had a Democrat who basically gave up on the populist issues that helped Democrats win all over the country in exchange for corporatist policies like NAFTA, deregulation, and capital gains tax cuts (as well as unpopular social policies like gun control) that allowed him to gain high income suburbanites (who often vote gop downballot). 

Clinton decided to trade the dem advantage in congress and at the state level for the advantage of the whitehouse. So Clinton did help them when it comes to presidential elections .

The Presidency means little without Congress.  Especially if you can't hold it for more than 8 years before losing it (see 2000 and 2016).