Election 2018 Open Thread - Part 1

[smoltchanov]

I thought NYT had unlimited articles today? I'm already out lol.

They do for couple of days if you register and login (free). I have no problems so far...

[smoltchanov]

A shame that McSally lost. I was really hoping she would win after the ED vote.

I prefer Sinema. At least in House she was a genuine moderate, unlike McSally..

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https://twitter.com/thisdog/status/1062357051756765184

Quite naturally: with RCV he loses, without - wins. And no one likes to lose)))

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Senator Sinema is probably one of my favorite victories in recent years. She's a great image for the party.

She really, really, really isn’t.  I mean winning the Senate seat is important, but there’s a legitimate argument to be made that the better woman lost.  Sinema said about a week after 9/11 that she has “no problem” with Americans joining the Taliban and fighting our country’s own soldiers in Afghanistan.  Sinema is also an exceptionally unprincipled politician who almost compulsively flip-flops, is currently calling Joe Manchin her role model, and said she was undecided on Kavanaugh (which McSally was terrible about too, don’t get me wrong).  That’s not what anyone should want as the future of the Democratic Party.

Link regarding that bit about her having no problem with Americans joining the Taliban?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nationalreview.com/news/kyrsten-sinema-senate-candidate-in-2003-i-dont-care-if-people-join-taliban/amp/

No one gives a ****.

McSally probably bought it up over a million times during the campaign and she still lost.

+100

[smoltchanov]

Tony Thurmond is up to 50.4% against Marshall Tuck’s 49.6% in CA-Superintendent.

Edit: Betty Yee is at 64.3% for controller now. Dang

That's dissapointing.

Would much rather have an educator in charge of the state's public school than a literal charter school goon like Tuck.

Thurmond has a terrible track record with schools. Why do you have an irrational hatred of charter schools. One in my hometown benefited Hispanics the most since it was located in a Hispanic part of town. Also they are both Democrats.

Why do you expect anything else from "wild eyed ultras" (in this case - of liberal stripe, though it doesn't matter)? They are the same in both parties. That's their "gut reaction". Many of them can't even give a rational explanation of it, it simply "this way"...