nature boy
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Please tell me Cotton isn't running in 2020.
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Don't tell Nate Silver!!
Atomic Playboy
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Google tells me "-mente" is the common adverb ending in Spanish, so "grandemente" would be comparable to "bigly" (although it also translates to "greatly" which is an actual word that humans use).
Kansas made that bed of shit. Let them continue to lie in in. Maybe they are determined to race Mississippi to the bottom.
RustyNails
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CNN just moved Utah and Arizona to Battleground status. Nevada and Florida to go Lean Democrat.
It's over johnny, its over!!
It's over johnny, its over!!
sazzy
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*Access Hollywood tapes come out*
It was locker room talk!
He only bragged about it!
He never did it!
*women come forward and accuse Donald of sexually assaulting them*
They're lying!
No one believes them!
They're Clinton supporters!
*more women come accuse Donald*
Why now?
This is politically motivated!
Plus there's no proof!
*corroborating witnesses to at least 2 women come forward*
Clinton is running a smear campaign!
This is pathetic!
*new Bill Clinton accuser comes forward on breitbart on the day of the 3rd debate*
SEE BILL CLINTON IS A RAPIST
It was locker room talk!
He only bragged about it!
He never did it!
*women come forward and accuse Donald of sexually assaulting them*
They're lying!
No one believes them!
They're Clinton supporters!
*more women come accuse Donald*
Why now?
This is politically motivated!
Plus there's no proof!
*corroborating witnesses to at least 2 women come forward*
Clinton is running a smear campaign!
This is pathetic!
*new Bill Clinton accuser comes forward on breitbart on the day of the 3rd debate*
SEE BILL CLINTON IS A RAPIST
aspiegamer
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That Clinton's firewall is all the way back to super-safe MN on the snake graph is hilarious.
I know the Presidential race is starting to lock in and the Senate is much lean-D now, but a good performance for Hillary (and Trump implosion) would do a lot toward keeping the D momentum to take the house. So it's not like there isn't a lot to play for.
Was thinking "la ultima grande" for "bigly" but that's more "biggest" I guess? Grandemente does sounds great!
I know the Presidential race is starting to lock in and the Senate is much lean-D now, but a good performance for Hillary (and Trump implosion) would do a lot toward keeping the D momentum to take the house. So it's not like there isn't a lot to play for.
Was thinking "la ultima grande" for "bigly" but that's more "biggest" I guess? Grandemente does sounds great!
That whole article was straight beasting them. Holy moly.
NYCmetsfan
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He's gonna run to challenge Hillary Clintons feckless foreign policy that's emboldened our enemies. Tom Cotton and served on the front lines and knows more than Washington bureaucrats on how to keep america safe and defeat our enemies.
Doc Holliday
SPOILER: Columbus finds America
Wallace is not your typical Fox reporter/interview. He's tough but fair for the most part. He will follow on Trumps and Clinton's answers.
NYCmetsfan
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These types of comments make me wonder why people are liberals?
I understand frustration and anger at policies and actions but if it just becomes "well fuck them" then what is the defining philosophy? help everyone or just the people who helped me?
The weird thing about Kansas is it is in the top 15 for High School graduate and Bachelors Degree per capita.
Generally that would translate into a Democratic stronghold. I wonder if the correlation is high oil/natural gas employment, which tend to lean Republican.
My guess is also low diversity numbers and high rates of religion is driving up those numbers, but those are assumptions as I haven't looked up those particular demographics.
Generally that would translate into a Democratic stronghold. I wonder if the correlation is high oil/natural gas employment, which tend to lean Republican.
My guess is also low diversity numbers and high rates of religion is driving up those numbers, but those are assumptions as I haven't looked up those particular demographics.
Carpe Carnim
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Cotton took a risk with that shit-show letter he was the front-man for. If our Iranian relationship stays muted, or gets slightly better in the next 4 years, his "OMG NUKEZ" argument gets shoved down his throat in 2020. Besides being a standard neo-con fluffer, what else does he have going for him?
NYCmetsfan
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Chris has said some stupid stuff since joining FOX but I've never found him to really be a bad reporter or interviewer. He's very fair
It comes from a place of frustration. Kansasans probably saw what was happening in their state, yet people were too complacent to sit and vote for another choice and kept the status quo. It happened in Kentucky, also.
It's like there are people who like seeing their state throw itself down the toilet for nonsense reasons.
Morning Joe was the worst yesterday with this. "Maybe Trump is right, and we don't spend enough time on Hillary. He does this stuff all the time, it's not news anymore." Like, there's a dumpster fire everyday, things that would end most campaigns. But no, let's hear about Hillary's connection to something she's not connected to.
Tom Cotton would be an even less compelling candidate than Lindsey Graham.
NYCmetsfan
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I can see that being a almost trump like issue with trade and "rigged" this cycle in 2020.
Very easy to pin troubles on appeasement rather than "standing up for america", very popular with GOP voters. And his opponents aren't going to be able to attack him from the left on this because they support the same macho policy.
He's gotta pick a fight on a domestic issue during the clinton years. I expect one right before the midterms and he'll oppose any legislation that mcconnell might be amiable to
He is absolutely running. He already has events booked in Iowa for next year.
The Economist had a really bad profile of him last week, where they tried to use him as an example of what a post-Trump republican might look like, and in every area they ended up saying 'traditional republican stance, but double down on crazy opposition to everything democratic'. Felt like I was reading a Paul Ryan article - journalists are *so* desperate to find a republican politician with ideas and morals they are reaching for anyone,
This is an awful but correct way to view things. We're never getting anywhere because tomorrow's GOP stars have to make names for themselves.
NYCmetsfan
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Saying "screw them they deserve it" isn't frustration. Its anger and revenge.
There are a lot of great people in Kansas, even people who voted for Brownback and they shouldn't be ignored.
Doc Holliday
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Yep, and the Clinton campaign wouldn't have accepted if they thought otherwise,
His name is Tom Cotton. Dude has been running since he was born.
Economist article from this week about Cotton running in 2020:
Growing Cotton in Iowa
An ambitious young senator offers a revealing glimpse of a post-Trump Republican Party
Aaron Strife
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At this rate Clinton is going to lose support after the third debate! Shiiiiiiiiiit!
change debate 1/2 = 4.1
change debate 2/3 = 1.5
momentum dying!!!
He needs to do this. If he doesn't I'm out $50.
Carpe Carnim
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Tactically, you make sense, but i'm wondering where the ~50% of the Trump voters who seem to lurve Stronk Putin land when they realize Iran is on the same page as Russia with respect to Syria?
I expect a bunch of 180° pivots depending on how Clinton is tacking on Syria and Iraq, that week. But the base flipping on a dime about not getting involved in more Warz, while at the same time nodding along with Kristol and Cotton that we must punish Iran, including sabre-rattling, will be bewildering
nature boy
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So you all telling me the 2020 Republican primaries are going to be shittier than 2016.
Bernie rally?
NYCmetsfan
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Our hope for things getting done runs through senators flake, mccain, and the women GOPers, Collins, Murkowski, Heller, Sullivan.
Purdue and Isakson might start moderating too with a bluer georgia
Carpe Carnim
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Tom Cotton is Lindsey Graham's Alpha-military beard, confirmed
NYCmetsfan
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I don't think the trump base really cared about foreign policy. They'll morph to whatever promotes "(White) America Strong and First"
cotton is going to be a good trump 2.0.
Idk how the carries in the general though. Really the first two years are going to be key with SCOTUS and debt limit.
sazzy
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nah the peeps on tv
Fragamemnon
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Trump proved there's a hard and fast 30%+ of the base you can mobilize around racism and populism. That djinn isn't going back in the bottle.
HanShotFirst
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Are new voter registrations being counted in the polls. Last I heard Florida Democrats were up half a million voter registrations and California it was one million. Are there numbers for other states?
It does amuse me how back in 2015 all we were hearing was how amazingly strong and deep the republican bench was, how much talent there were was, and how it showed the long term strength of the party.
What a shower of shit. None of them were capable of running even the bare bones of a decent campaign, even Cruz.
Carpe Carnim
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Depends on the polls' LV screen. Most don't count new voters in those models, but they Could be captured by RV models. The odd part is we are seeing smaller than usual splits between LV/RV which has been between 3-4% based on previous years' polls
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