2018 Congressional Recruitment/Fundraising/Ratings Megathread

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McSally is really bad at being a politician.

Arizona's primary electorate is generally pro-Trump and very conservative. More, then her present district. And you need to win primary first. So - explainable at least.

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WI-01: Randy Bryce raised $1.2 Million in the fourth quarter.

https://mobile.twitter.com/isaacdovere/status/952210279592493056?ref_src=twcamp%5Eshare%7Ctwsrc%5Eios%7Ctwgr%5Eother

A fool and his money are soon to part

Looks like a Jon Ossoff effect where one candidate is getting way more national money than he ought to, and it's probably a waste.

+1

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Dem registrations surfing in Kansas. Many saying GOP=done

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Purely suburban county undergoes rather standard evolution: first - from conservative Republicans to moderate one (the county was center of mostly successfull anti-Brownback challenges in Republican primaries of 2016), and then - to Democrats. Just as many Southern rural counties moved from populist to conservative Democrats, and then to Republicans, in Civil Rights era (only in reverse).

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Also I think nationalizing the race is somewhat okay when you're running against the 2nd or 3rd most powerful man in the nation.

I... have no idea what you're talking about! Bryce constantly rags on Ryan as a Trump stooge. He's "nationalizing" he race himself! Like do you want a medal because you hate people who live in coastal states? Congratulations.

I would've thought people would stop trying to have a legit argument with Bagel, the guy who thinks running a racist white Democrat in the South is a winning strategy.

Pretty sure if Bagel23 could choose, he'd run a racist white Democrat in every district.

You would run a quasi-communist in every district. How better are you then him?

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Also I think nationalizing the race is somewhat okay when you're running against the 2nd or 3rd most powerful man in the nation.

I... have no idea what you're talking about! Bryce constantly rags on Ryan as a Trump stooge. He's "nationalizing" he race himself! Like do you want a medal because you hate people who live in coastal states? Congratulations.

I would've thought people would stop trying to have a legit argument with Bagel, the guy who thinks running a racist white Democrat in the South is a winning strategy.

Pretty sure if Bagel23 could choose, he'd run a racist white Democrat in every district.

Wrong, just in districts and places where it would be beneficial, which is the vast minority of places. If I had to throw around a number, I would say only 5-10% of places would I want this.

Fully support.

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Also I think nationalizing the race is somewhat okay when you're running against the 2nd or 3rd most powerful man in the nation.

I... have no idea what you're talking about! Bryce constantly rags on Ryan as a Trump stooge. He's "nationalizing" he race himself! Like do you want a medal because you hate people who live in coastal states? Congratulations.

I would've thought people would stop trying to have a legit argument with Bagel, the guy who thinks running a racist white Democrat in the South is a winning strategy.

Pretty sure if Bagel23 could choose, he'd run a racist white Democrat in every district.

Wrong, just in districts and places where it would be beneficial, which is the vast minority of places. If I had to throw around a number, I would say only 5-10% of places would I want this.

Fully support.

The death knell for any legitimacy Bagel could hope to have in this argument.

Legitimacy is not determined by your opinion of me (of which i am proud, BTW. You know that i dislike idiots, confess it)

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Also I think nationalizing the race is somewhat okay when you're running against the 2nd or 3rd most powerful man in the nation.

I... have no idea what you're talking about! Bryce constantly rags on Ryan as a Trump stooge. He's "nationalizing" he race himself! Like do you want a medal because you hate people who live in coastal states? Congratulations.

I would've thought people would stop trying to have a legit argument with Bagel, the guy who thinks running a racist white Democrat in the South is a winning strategy.

Pretty sure if Bagel23 could choose, he'd run a racist white Democrat in every district.

Wrong, just in districts and places where it would be beneficial, which is the vast minority of places. If I had to throw around a number, I would say only 5-10% of places would I want this.

Fully support.

The death knell for any legitimacy Bagel could hope to have in this argument.

I’m wondering why I didn’t put those two clowns on ignore a long time ago.

Clowns are always very clever people. So - i feel sorry for you: you will never achieve that status.

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Former MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan is looking into running for NY-21st https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/35651/20180216/former-msnbc-host-dylan-ratigan-mulls-ny-21-run

That doesn't seem like the right candidate.

Since when do the Democrats care? They ran McGinty for PA-Sen, Emily Cain for ME-02, and Dan Malloy for CT-Gov and are about to run J.B. f**king Pritzker for IL-Gov.

All of those people have a rolodex of campaign donors or are personally rich, and none of them have a single radical idea in their heads.  That's the DCCC's definition of a perfect candidate.

Cain was, surely, superliberal for her district...

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The Democrats should coalesce around Sara Jacobs in CA-49. We don't need any more 60-something year old businessmen in congress anymore.

Who "WE"? Are you making decisions for every voter in the district?

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^ Still it'a a sort of achievement for Democrats. In the past midterm electorate was substantially more Republican.