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[GregTheGreat657]

We can thank the Bernie Bros who didn't vote for Hillary.

The Bernie Bros who didn't vote for Hillary are responsible for this.

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https://twitter.com/CA_Talks/status/1434329635412529161?s=20

Also in the thread they note that those who oppose are more likely to go later, either voting this coming week or day of.

What I am asking myself is, "How can the recall have any chance of success if it's only up 50-48 in Orange County?".

Only feels like yesterday folks were adamant about OC snapping back to pre-2008 partisanship & supporting the recall by double-digits

The OC of today is not the OC of 2003 or of 1983, and it's good that this forum, panic-y as it can get, gets a reality check and is reminded of that fact, let it be in form of a poll, an election result, etc.

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quote author=REAL Kimberly Guilfoyle link=topic=462148.msg8237684#msg8237684 date=1630908152 uid=32158]
I accidentally deleted my Al Gore TL, which is sad since I actually was on a roll writing it.

Anyway, here is another idea.

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October 28, 2016

COMEY: NO REASON OR NEED TO RE-OPEN THE E-MAIL INVESTIGATION.

FBI Director James Comey announced in a press conference held today at FBI headquarters that despite Republican pressures he will not be re-opening the e-mail investigation into Hillary Clinton. Republican nominee Donald Trump has already taken to twitter calling Comey a "deep state fraud'.

October 30, 2016

DNC TO DIVERT MORE MONEY TO DOWNBALLOT CANDIDATES AS TRUMP CAMPAIGN FLAILS.

Chair of the Democratic National Committee Donna Brazile has announced that due to the Clinton campaign's statement effectively saying they have the race in the bag, more money will be sent to down-ballot candidates.

November 1, 2016

TRUMP ANNOUNCES LAST-MINUTE MID-WEST TOUR.

Republican nominee Donald Trump has announced a tour of Wisconsin, Ohio, and Iowa in the lead-up to the election. Many commentators have already called this a waste of money, believing the candidate's best chances for victory rely in driving rural turnout in places like North Carolina, Virginia, and Florida.

Mrs. Krassenstein BRTD Atlas Institution ★★★★★ Posts: 92988

Trump Campaign Crashing & Burning « on: November 2, 2016 at 11:38:29 pm » Wow, I might be able to drive all the way to New York without driving through a Trump precinct!

MR. CORY BOOKER olawakandi Atlas Institution ★★★★★ Posts: 50001

Trump Campaign Crashing & Burning « on: November 2, 2016 at 11:38:55 pm » 🛑400 EV+ Dem Landslide INCOMING, Trump has no AA support  due to Entitlements ..

Florida Man Chairman Sanchez Atlas Superstar ★★★★★ Posts: 14957

Trump Campaign Crashing & Burning « on: November 2, 2016 at 11:50:01 pm » Don't believe the fake news, Trump will win.

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[GregTheGreat657]

Probably not fuzzy or even a bear.

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France is now on par with Russia in being a failed superpower that’s been declining ever since the 1970s. French power is rapidly declining, even in the Mediterranean, with countries like the UK and even war losing Italy filling the gaps.

It seems like the French experiment is coming to a close. It’s now approaching the status of a stale backwater.

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The extent to which the rich and wealthy go to avoid paying taxes fails to surprise me anymore.

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If the former President is not reinstated, then at the very least actual terrorists like the Taliban should be banned off the platform.

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This avatar would be light blue or purple in color and it would have a P as the letter.

Examples:

Chips (P-OH)
Chips (P-OH)

Kinda surprising we don't have an avatar like this I gotta say.

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Someday there'll be a Nandos and a Cava in every town in West Virginia.

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Out of everyone on Atlas? This f#%ker deserves it the most.

Love u 2 babe

Meadows! Feel like I haven't seen you in ages, darling!

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Generally green

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Sometimes it turns white and yellow in winter though

[GregTheGreat657]

I tried to make a non-partisan state legislature map, avoiding municipal splits and county splits as much as is feasible, while still having compact districts.
Of 565 municipalities in the state, only four are split: Newark, Jersey City, Clifton, and West New York. The former two are unavoidable due to population, while the latter two are forced by county nesting.

This is what I got.
County nestings:
Cumberland+Cape May 1
Salem+Gloucester+Camden 4
Burlington+Atlantic+Ocean 6
Monmouth+Middlesex+Union 9
Mercer+Somerset+Morris+Sussex 6
Warren+Hunterdon 1
Essex+Passaic 6
Bergen 4
Hudson 3
https://davesredistricting.org/join/d7305d78-fc39-4f4e-a10b-038b7fadad1c
Menendez won 25 of these seats. Murphy '17 won 29 of them. Clinton won 29. Not sure about Murphy '21 or Biden.
Btw I've added the edited blank map I made to the Gallery. Anyone is free to use it.

[GregTheGreat657]

I was wrong about this.

I knew that most Latinos did not use the term, but I really didn't think that they disliked it so intensely.

Why would anyone appreciate being called something they don't describe themselves as?

It amazes me that the same people who go out of their way to make sure they're using the correct pronouns for someone will also just unilaterally throw away the centuries-old grammar rules of a language they do not speak and that is not part of their culture, simply because it comports with their very educated postmodern worldview.

You have a good point about how hypocritical the approach used by many wokesters is.
But I would disagree strongly with the idea that "call people by what they call themselves" is how society ought to work.
Exonyms are part and parcel of how human beings talk to and understand each other. Because humanity is diverse in many, many of its aspects - including how we communicate and speak of one another.
Exonyms are as old as organized human society.
It's not "enlightened" to just drop the use of exonym because "that's not how they refer to themselves". It's just being uptight about language, force-fitting yourself to some set of silly rules on yourself that have never been particularly common in history and don't have any particular value.
Am I going to get upset because British people called America "The States" and call us "Yanks"? No. Because I have better use of my time and I'm not going to be an oversensitive human being who doesn't care if I inconvenience other people.
The problem with "Latinx" isn't that it's an exonym, the problem is that it reflects an utterly bonkers sense of what "grammatical gender" means, shoehorning in some misguided "necessary" neuter form into a Spanish-derived word (Arabic and Russian do just fine without it, and respecting human diversity also means respecting that not all languages are the same).
Until people realize that grammatical gender does not necessarily equal biological gender, then this sort of derangement will just continue to mess with linguistic convention.

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Salute.

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Jesus, Mary and Jospeh, what is this?

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Option 3.

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After watching this video, I genuinely am close to supporting a full on 1980 style boycott.

Watch the actual video, the IOC is pretty heavily implicated alongside Beijing as being in cahoots in abusing human rights…

The CCP are truly a bunch of evil, tyrannical, scumbags. Not even the USSR was this absolutely sinister in such a dystopian way.

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The Founding Fathers built a foundation for this country that has withstood the test of time and inspired us to maintain our democracy throughout the ages.
They deserve reverence. They helped create and maintain American democracy, both due to their efforts as living individuals, and due to them serving as inspirations to later men.

If Thomas Jefferson came back to life , he would welcome the criticism. The founding fathers knew that Just because something worked then, doesn’t mean it could be improved now.

They deserve respect. But they don’t deserve adoration like Gods.

You can revere someone or a group of people without thinking of them as literally perfect. None of our Founding Fathers were perfect people. The reverence does not come from them allegedly being "perfect" in any case. It comes from them helping incubate a culture of democracy, liberty, and relative stability in this country.
And their inspiration has already been improved on in numerous ways. And because we are all imperfect human beings, there will always be something to improve on.
The men who founded this nation and brought it into existence would agree with that, yes.

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Initially, I took a wait-and-see approach.  Most people would never make something like this up.  Jussie Smolett isn't most people, however.

What percentage would the previous poster get in the preceding precinct?

Please start with me.

Also happy birthday, Xing!

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I support firing Fauci, Walensky, et al, and escorting them off the property where their offices are.

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The problem, bluntly, is that for the Democratic Party to become appealing to the Fuzzy Bears of the country, a lot of people’s basic human rights would have to be thrown under the bus and liberalism would have to accept greater restrictions on or even outright eliminations of hard-won rights and protections. So it’s a non-starter.

In a liberal democratic republic, it’s a very dangerous road to go down when you start rolling back the rights of ordinary people even after you might have “excessively” expanded them with say, expansive readings of the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. This is part of why I am opposed to the efforts to overturn Roe v Wade, as I am to a lot of new restrictions on gun ownership, many regulations of speech, domestic terrorism statutes, anything making life harder for social minorities of any kind (racial, ethnic, religious, sexual), or the various efforts of the “freedom FROM religion” types. For the same reasons, I have also long been wary at best of many COVID restrictions.

Unlike some people here, I don’t believe that Fuzzy Bear is “merely” a bigot. Let me put it this way: I believe that FB’s religious and theological views are sincerely held and that what could easily be considered bigotry comes from a place of genuine religious doctrine. In other words, I see little evidence of him starting with the premise that gay sex or being transgender etc. is sinful and using religion as a legitimizer for prejudices; I do believe he comes to his views based on his reading of the Bible, and he is very far from alone among Christians (or conservative religious people in general) in that. As a “liberal” Christian myself, I vehemently disagree with Fuzzy Bear’s view of the Bible, but it would be dishonest of me to not acknowledge that it is a very common, mainstream view among Christians in the US and globally,

But what does this all mean for a Democratic coalition that is “socially moderate and economically populist?” Ultimately, Democrats will have to choose economic populism to win anything close to a strong majority—they’ll never be able to out-capitalist Republicans no matter how neoliberal some of them get. As for social and cultural issues, the only way to get so many people who are passionately invested in opposing views on these subjects on the same team is for all sides to call a cease-fire in the Culture War, agree to disagree, and focus exclusively on the economic side (along with foreign policy, potentially). Otherwise, the same toxic patterns will continue to sabotage efforts to broaden the party’s appeal and regain any significant number of social conservatives who have defected.

Not really sure how coherent this post is, I’m rambling on several different subjects. Eh, hope you find something useful in it.

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Trump would win with record low Dem turnout

Your map shows Stalin winning D.C.

I can't see DC voting for Trump

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Oh, hardly just that period your entire claimed personal history in multiple threads is highly spurious and just screams Internet troll. GG wiz you say, sure I think it was justifiable for for the United States to turn away Jewish refugees from the holocaust, but I understand this because I'm part black, part Indian, my parents suffered discrimination in South Africa, Oh and my grandparent fled Poland to escape the Nazis. Not to mention my family are recent immigrants to Australia. Honest! Now an issue on trans rights comes up for you to bash, and you're conveniently trans as well.

Impossible? No. But everything you've claimed about your back history, like the rest of your posting history, just screams "edgy teenage troll".  It would be foolish To take anything you claim At face value.

Badger is questioning Pie's gender identity. You should add this to your complaint, Klob

 That's  a usual and grossly  Disingenuous post, as in A-day ending in Y, from Mr. Reactionary. I am questioning his entire back story because or no because it is ludicrous and everything this kid is posted just screams teenage  Is edge Queen troll.  Everything about this  Person screams typical Internet BS "I'm totally and honestly a black guy, but I think Obama is the worst for totally real"  One would have to be a fool, which scans here, to take anything and I mean anything this kid posts without a Boulder of salt.

And per usual as well, a typical Tactic by him to grasp at straws to claim anti trans transbigotry after they assiduously and aggressively defend law simply defend Republican state laws bashing gay and transpeople people. "See, we're not the real bigots, liberals are!"

Caitlyn Jenner is a trans person - the group is not a monolith. Pieman may be a teenager with much to learn about the world, but that doesn't mean you should willfully misgender her, even if you think she's lying. You just don't have a strong enough case that she is.

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From a broad historical standpoint, probably 1994, given how that swept out a lot of Democratic presence and ended Dems' dominance downballot.

I have two issues with this.

1. Post 1980, the Democratic majorities in the Congressional and State level were probably always going to fall once a Democrat was Elected President. They might not have held for as long as they did without the 1974 and 1982 Waves.

2. After 1994, the Democrats were able to check their loses and gain back a lot of lost ground in 2006 and 2008.  Only to lose it in 2010.

At the same time, the party's down ballot strength was pretty much finished off after 2002/2004.

How did Phil Bredesen, Brad Henry, etc. continue to win in 2006 and 2010 even Mike Ross making it competitive in AR in 2014?

I did say they checked their loses and regained a lot of lost ground in 2006 and 2008. Then 2010 happened. 2014 proved that 2010 was not a one time thing.

Sure but that’s cause democrats had two disastrous midterm nights under Obama not just 1 . Bill Clinton’s approvals were in the upper 60s by 1998 while Obama’s were in the low 40s which is why democrats were able to keep further losses from happening

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No... not anymore.

Earlier in COVID perhaps, but now pretty sure with vaccinations and all that, that there is also a grassroots movement which basically is like: "We got the shots... we got the boosters... we've been wearing the masks.... and now we want a chance to breathe and those who haven't chosen to do all the right things it's on you if you if get it and face serious medical issues.