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« on: August 15, 2013, 09:11:29 AM »
« edited: August 15, 2013, 01:56:10 PM by Waukesha County »

On August 2nd, Jo Bonner resigned to become vice chancellor for the University of Alabama. Primary Elections will be held on September 24th. If runoffs are required, they will be held on November 5th, the day of the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races. Then, the general election will be held on December 17th, a week after the MA-5 special election race. If runoffs are not required, the general election will be held on November 5th along with the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama%27s_1st_congressional_district_special_election,_2013

In 2012, Mitt Romney won AL-1 with 61.8% to Barack Obama's 37.4%, a 24.4% margin of victory.

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« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2013, 12:48:57 PM »

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« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2013, 01:07:52 PM »


hasn't gone dem since the early 1960s.
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« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2013, 01:08:54 PM »
« Edited: August 15, 2013, 01:34:34 PM by True Federalist »

On August 2nd, Jo Bonner resigned to become vice chancellor for the University of Alabama. Primary Elections will be held on September 24th. If runoffs are required, they will be held on September 5th, the day of the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races. Then, the general election will be held on December 17th, a week after the MA-5 special election race. If runoffs are not required, the general election will be held on September 5th along with the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races.

It's a neat trick being able to hold the runoffs before the primaries.  But I suspect that's just a typo.. Wink
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« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2013, 01:15:32 PM »


I wish, but unfortunately, no.
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« Reply #5 on: August 15, 2013, 01:40:20 PM »

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« Reply #6 on: August 15, 2013, 01:55:32 PM »

On August 2nd, Jo Bonner resigned to become vice chancellor for the University of Alabama. Primary Elections will be held on September 24th. If runoffs are required, they will be held on September 5th, the day of the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races. Then, the general election will be held on December 17th, a week after the MA-5 special election race. If runoffs are not required, the general election will be held on September 5th along with the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races.

It's a neat trick being able to hold the runoffs before the primaries.  But I suspect that's just a typo.. Wink

Oops, I meant November 5th. I'll change that.
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« Reply #7 on: August 15, 2013, 01:56:36 PM »


You think the Democrats can win this?
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« Reply #8 on: August 15, 2013, 02:00:50 PM »


Obviously everyone is being sarcastic. Democrats know where they can and can't feasibly win or be competitive, unlike some Republicans on this forum who were convinced Romney had a shot in California.
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« Reply #9 on: August 15, 2013, 02:07:11 PM »


We've gone through this before.

I was seeing if anyone would pick up on it Tongue
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« Reply #10 on: August 15, 2013, 02:22:28 PM »


Oh Damn, that was one week before I even registered here. Sorry.
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« Reply #11 on: August 15, 2013, 02:26:27 PM »


Its ok; it happens Smiley
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« Reply #12 on: August 15, 2013, 02:45:11 PM »


Obviously everyone is being sarcastic. Democrats know where they can and can't feasibly win or be competitive, unlike some Republicans on this forum who were convinced Romney had a shot in California.

Oh, its very hard to detect sarcasm. Also who said that Romney had any chance at winning California? lol that's like a democrat saying they have a shot at taking Louisiana.
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« Reply #13 on: August 15, 2013, 02:58:44 PM »
« Edited: August 15, 2013, 03:06:03 PM by Senator North Carolina Yankee »

Considering this guy's record, I would say it is an improvement.


Wasn't this the guy they used to jilt Jeff Flake out of his deserved appropriations seat, when a slot came open after Wicker resigned to become Senator?

I think he is also one of the people that Hastert used to stack the ethics committee when they voted to investigate Delay.
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« Reply #14 on: August 15, 2013, 06:23:42 PM »

Love you, guys Smiley
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« Reply #15 on: August 15, 2013, 07:17:35 PM »


Obviously everyone is being sarcastic. Democrats know where they can and can't feasibly win or be competitive, unlike some Republicans on this forum who were convinced Romney had a shot in California.

Oh, its very hard to detect sarcasm. Also who said that Romney had any chance at winning California? lol that's like a democrat saying they have a shot at taking Louisiana.

He's not around anymore (for now) but it was a poster named Politico. He was hilarious. I'll try to find the thread. I think he basically took a poll out of California and "unskewed" it and claimed that Romney could win 50-48.

I do however think Republicans are more prone to unrealistic electoral expectations than Democrats in general. Many Repubs live in that fox news bubble where they think everyone shares their political views and when they lose they freak out (a la Romney 2012). At the same time, Democrats can be kind of elitist in that they expect to lose races because everybody around them is stupid and they'll all vote for the stupid Republican.
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« Reply #16 on: August 15, 2013, 08:29:35 PM »


Obviously everyone is being sarcastic. Democrats know where they can and can't feasibly win or be competitive, unlike some Republicans on this forum who were convinced Romney had a shot in California.

Oh, its very hard to detect sarcasm. Also who said that Romney had any chance at winning California? lol that's like a democrat saying they have a shot at taking Louisiana.

He's not around anymore (for now) but it was a poster named Politico. He was hilarious. I'll try to find the thread. I think he basically took a poll out of California and "unskewed" it and claimed that Romney could win 50-48.

I do however think Republicans are more prone to unrealistic electoral expectations than Democrats in general. Many Repubs live in that fox news bubble where they think everyone shares their political views and when they lose they freak out (a la Romney 2012). At the same time, Democrats can be kind of elitist in that they expect to lose races because everybody around them is stupid and they'll all vote for the stupid Republican.


Both parties make completely unrealistic predictions that of course favor their party. Republicans have been more prone to it lately with Karl Rove (for example) trying to make his followers believe his outrageous predictions in 2012. But generally when an incumbent is in the white house the opposite party makes hopeful and unrealistic predictions.
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« Reply #17 on: August 15, 2013, 08:35:55 PM »


Obviously everyone is being sarcastic. Democrats know where they can and can't feasibly win or be competitive, unlike some Republicans on this forum who were convinced Romney had a shot in California.

Oh, its very hard to detect sarcasm. Also who said that Romney had any chance at winning California? lol that's like a democrat saying they have a shot at taking Louisiana.

He's not around anymore (for now) but it was a poster named Politico. He was hilarious. I'll try to find the thread. I think he basically took a poll out of California and "unskewed" it and claimed that Romney could win 50-48.

I do however think Republicans are more prone to unrealistic electoral expectations than Democrats in general. Many Repubs live in that fox news bubble where they think everyone shares their political views and when they lose they freak out (a la Romney 2012). At the same time, Democrats can be kind of elitist in that they expect to lose races because everybody around them is stupid and they'll all vote for the stupid Republican.


Both parties make completely unrealistic predictions that of course favor their party. Republicans have been more prone to it lately with Karl Rove (for example) trying to make his followers believe his outrageous predictions in 2012. But generally when an incumbent is in the white house the opposite party makes hopeful and unrealistic predictions.

yeah. Apparently Walter Mondale sunk into a deep depression when he lost to Reagan in 1984. If Mondale thought he was going to win I'm sure lots of his supporters did too.

But Republicans are the queens of denial at this point.
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« Reply #18 on: August 15, 2013, 10:01:13 PM »


Obviously everyone is being sarcastic. Democrats know where they can and can't feasibly win or be competitive, unlike some Republicans on this forum who were convinced Romney had a shot in California.

Oh, its very hard to detect sarcasm. Also who said that Romney had any chance at winning California? lol that's like a democrat saying they have a shot at taking Louisiana.

His idea was that California Dem turnout would be extremely depressed once they saw that triumphant President Romney would have already had enough EVs to clinch it early, after his victories in CT, NJ, MI, etc. Depressed turnout plus big enthusiasm from Rs would make it go to Romney.
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