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MACS Offline
#1 Posted:
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They're echo chambers (no matter the affiliation). You're not getting anyone to change their minds, you're just talking to people who were already gonna vote for that party, no matter what.

What's the point?

Just saw a news bit about Trump and Obama holding rallies... and ain't nobody going to either except the people who support that particular party, unless they go to start trouble.
frankj1 Offline
#2 Posted:
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cheering crowds make good TV
Ewok126 Offline
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frankj1 wrote:
cheering crowds make good TV



Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime make for even better TV. Anxious

That way I do not have to watch Political rallies.
frankj1 Offline
#4 Posted:
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Ewok126 wrote:
Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime make for even better TV. Anxious

That way I do not have to watch Political rallies.

wicked smaht
ZRX1200 Offline
#5 Posted:
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Obama is stumping in that we’ll known swing state Illinois.

GimmeFugginbreak
Ewok126 Offline
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frankj1 wrote:
wicked smaht



I would love to claim to be wicked smaht, I cheated and just looked it up on the world wide web. Herfing
teedubbya Offline
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It’s about getting your own folks jacked up and motivated to vote. That’s what wins, no one changes their minds anymore. That’s weakness.
frankj1 Offline
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teedubbya wrote:
It’s about getting your own folks jacked up and motivated to vote. That’s what wins, no one changes their minds anymore. That’s weakness.

I might.
Mr. Jones Offline
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They are a SAD SAD WASTE of U.S. TAXPAYER MONIES....

AIR FORCE ONE FLIGHTS AND ADVANCE Secret Service teams cost booooo-kooooo B.U.C.K.S. $$$$$
MILLIONS of dollars ...wasted
MACS Offline
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^^Yeaup.
bgz Offline
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teedubbya wrote:
It’s about getting your own folks jacked up and motivated to vote. That’s what wins, no one changes their minds anymore. That’s weakness.


I change my mind all the time :P

Some may call it indecision, I call it excessive reading material.
jespear Offline
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frankj1 wrote:
I might.


Hope springs eternal ! Applause
frankj1 Offline
#13 Posted:
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jespear wrote:
Hope springs eternal ! Applause

I might not.
delta1 Offline
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might be a decent place to find someone of the opposite sex, if you happen to be looking...
frankj1 Offline
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I get the feeling that the Dems let the momentum peak too early and have missed the opportunity to make inroads on the federal level.
Nothing really to get people off the couch to go pull a lever.

I can't say I have heard a clear, focused message, I can't say I'm aware of up and coming superstars among their ranks.

I'm thinking the GOP holds on. It might be what the Dems need in order to do well in two years.
dstieger Offline
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At this point, what difference does it make?


Republican House; Republican Senate; Republican White House....and we have what meaningful legislation?
Just imagine how ineffective Congress will be with the north and south ends of the Capitol going different directions.
frankj1 Offline
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well, when you say it that way...!
SteveS Offline
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frankj1 wrote:
It might be what the Dems need in order to do well in two years.


I'd be more interested in what they need in order to do poorly in two years ...
frankj1 Offline
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SteveS wrote:
I'd be more interested in what they need in order to do poorly in two years ...

pretty much what they've offered up the last two years.

Chances are this time or next they will make headway, even without offering up The Second Coming (can't believe I said that!) it's hard for any politically philosophy shifts to last more than one or two terms in these times.

There does seem to be big voter turnout today.
delta1 Offline
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voter turnout was extremely high for a mid-term...that alone is a positive sign for Dems, who out-number GOP by a lot...when turn-out is high, Dems tend to do better...but although Dems cast about 20% more votes over-all than the GOP, they lost a few Senate seats...

these elections seem to have shined a spotlight on the political division in our country...both sides won enough to claim a semblance of victory...

this election cycle also illustrates the power of the electoral system that we use for national elections to magnify the influence of a homogenous geographic minority of our population...the Senate elections show that a united minority of the population concentrated in a large number of less populated states (rural) who possessed historic control to determine voting districts can wield more political power than a large majority situated in densely populated and fewer states...agriculture is still a big foundation of American strength, so maybe they should have larger voices...
MACS Offline
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Yeah, CA voters turned out in record numbers, and I don't think it was just CA.

Unfortunately, they elected to governor the jackass who is responsible for turning SF into a homeless dopers toilet... and is quite possibly going to be WORSE for CA than Jerry Brown.

Soon the middle clas will have left this state, and you'll have hollywood elites and the destitute... and the politicians.
delta1 Offline
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tech elites, aerospace, oil and gas and other military industry elites and foreign elites too...

middle class and poor people are leaving in record numbers, but the state's population continues to go up, with upper middle class and above moving in...

driving up home prices...you'll thank them when you sell your house when you bail to FL...
MACS Offline
#23 Posted:
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Wrong... and an in-state liberal rag explains why.

https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/article214771915.html
delta1 Offline
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that's an op-ed writer trying to forecast the future...grabbing attention swimming against the stream...there have been many predictors of CA's growth ending, and yet people keep coming...the state has grown from the 6th largest economy to the 5th largest in the world...

20 years ago, Temecula was just a place to go if you wanted to play golf or ride a hot air balloon...now you have SoCal traffic jams...


his opinion is just as likely to happen as mine...wouldn't you rather have mine play out?
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