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Sincerely,
The rest of the USA
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/12/politics/a…
Perplexed by that as well. Maybe b/c he pushed for Sessions as AG, thereby necessitating the special election?
"Dragged Trump into a fiasco"? In Great America, Trump drags you into fiasco.
Also, Republicans are horrible people.
Oh. Go to the Trump cesspools of Reddit right now. It’s glorious. The delusion and wailing.
Conan the Barbarian was right. Seeing your enemies driven before you really is best in life.
Makes sense, thanks. And regardless I'm happy to have not drawn Strange there -- I feel like there's maybe a handful of die-hard, jebus worshipping Republicans in all of Alabama that could've lost to a Dem down there and we just happened to find one. I hope he stays in the national spotlight and keeps calling attention to the reprehensible shitshow that he and his party represent. Maybe he'll be given his own show on fox news.
Or not.
ITMFA, and let's Make America BLUE again!
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc…
(I'm looking at the national NAACP for closing out the 2017 donation year.)
I need a few more.
His Roy Moron albatross necktie has done flown the coop...
Word has it Uncle Roy's soon jetting off to the Virgin Islands, where he's gonna make a whole brand spanking new State out of all those little archipelagos.
He'll make an excellent Governor/virginity tester.
Handy practice tip: If you're running as a "values" candidate, don't wrap up the campaign by having your buddy from Vietnam show up and talk about your visits to brothels in-country.
He was proven more or less right, and will now be bragging about that, long after everyone forgets about Doug Jones and Roy Moore.
I don't know if Moore would have won if there was no sexual misconduct charges. I actually heard him talk for the first time today, and he can barely string words together. Not a man made for a spotlight, that is for sure.
Doug Jones appears to have no lips and he may look like a man wearing a Doug Jones skin suit, but at least he can construct sentences.
Jones' voters were overwhelmingly black and urban voters and they came out in greater numbers than usual. They were voting *against* Moore, not *for* Jones. Jones barely won because, like all Democrats, he ran on a platform of "I don't actually care about you. I'm just not vile like he is."
Moore's voters was overwhelmingly white and evangelical. They were voting *for* him because he promises to make the gays and brown people go away. If the party had run someone who wasn't a statutory rapist Jones wouldn't have stood a chance.
Don't take this narrow win as an excuse to do what you always do and sit out the midterms, lefties. Because you will.
This Leftie NEVER sits out a mid-term...
I should also note that the last challenger for Sessions’ seat was the illustrious Democrat, “other.” Run a damn Democrat in every race every time. Even if you lose.
That kind of turnout in a special election is historic, and unlikely to be sustained. It has nothing to do with Bannon or Trump, and everything to do with voter turnout.
As I have been saying for years, if democrats would bother voting in midterm/special elections, they would win basically everything. But they never do. Is this a shift in trends, or a special case due to a remarkably shitty candidate in Moore who was accused of hitting on 14 year olds?
Likely the latter, but time will tell.
Also according to Wiki, 1.3m people voted in this election.
Maybe you meant 92% of Black voters? Democratic rates were at 85% YoY while Republicans numbers dropped by hundreds of thousands. Otherwise, I dunno where 92% came from.
So it should be that roughly 92% of democrats who voted in the 2016 election voted in this special election, according to incoming exit poll data.
Quoting statistics to say “we did better than when we ran nobody” is mind numbingly useless. We won. That’s a good thing. Here’s a more useful statistic: Democrats did way better than they did in 2006 when they actually ran a warm body.
@31 - I don't sit out midterm elections, and nor do most of my friends. :>P
" Kevin Austin 14 hours ago
'The Karma is priceless. Trump appoints Sessions attorney general. He accepts, thinking his Senate seat will be safe. Sessions then recuses himself and opens the door to Robert Mueller. Then they lose Session’s seat to a Democrat, having forced Trump to defend a child molester. The icing on the Karma Cake will be if we win the House AND Senate in 2018, and after impeachment, have Doug Moore cast the deciding vote to convict Trump.' "
@44 kristofarian: I think I love you. Thank you for your NY Times quote! Can I buy you a drink? You just made my week, and greatly cheered up an otherwise depressing year since November 8, 2016. I'm all set to clink glasses over the biggest pig roast in world history. And when the Democrats stick the fork in and call it done, shave off that hideous rug, and feed its ugly ass to the Koch Brothers who bought its way into the White House, with a little help from the KGB.