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[Baron von Loathsome]

Is there a Sesame Street character who has no friends because he constantly insults and lies to everyone around him? If so it's his time to shine!

http://www.funnyordie.com/articles/c511cef508/meet-stan-sesame-street-s-new-alt-right-muppet

 

[DonShula]

FBI obtained FISA warrant to monitor former Trump adviser Carter Page



Drip drip drip

That isn't water.

Spoiler

PEELIEVE

 

[whyamihere]

And the polls are closed in KS-04.

 

[Lo-Volt]

The state secretary of state (LOL) has unofficial results here. Or, The Associated Press.

 

[ivajz]

CNN Exclusive: Classified docs contradict Nunes surveillance claims, GOP and Dem sources say
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/11/p...contradicts-nunes-unmasking-claims/index.html

 

[Aaron Strife]

CNN Exclusive: Classified docs contradict Nunes surveillance claims, GOP and Dem sources say
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/11/p...contradicts-nunes-unmasking-claims/index.html

Aw man, if only we'd found this out seven minutes earlier. This would have swung the Kansas race.

 

[whyamihere]

Aw man, if only we'd found this out seven minutes earlier. This would have swung the Kansas race.

Don't let Kansas distract you from Russia.

 

[Box of Kittens]

They'll wait for the polls to close before calling it, even if it's a foregone conclusion.

There was actually some hullabaloo in the 80s-90s on the West Coast where people were pissed off that the news would call the presidential election before every state had the chance to vote.

A specific example I know of is the 1980 election, when the networks called the election for Reagan on the basis of exit polls at the beginning of election night and this did lead to complaints that it may have had an impact on West Coast turnout and theoretically could have impacted some races there.

The networks agreed to change their policies in response to this sort of criticism at some point (I'm not exactly sure when). If you watch 1992 coverage, for example, it's not hard to read between the lines and figure out that Clinton was going to win, but they dance around it instead of stating it outright.

 

[sc0la]

It's an administration talking point. Mattis said something similar after the strike.

He forgot to mention vietnam. I mean agent orange was technically targeted at plants but we sure used a shit ton of it on the Vietnamese people.

 

[whyamihere]

Candidate Percent Votes
James Thompson (Democratic) 61.5% 14,226
Ron Estes (Republican) 37.0% 8,563
Chris Rockhold (Libertarian) 1.4% 325
Write In (Unaffiliated) 0.2% 36
0% Reporting, 23,150 Total Votes

Early vote. Um.

 

[sphagnum]

STAY ON TARGET

 

[Aaron Strife]

Early vote. Um.

 

[Boke1879]

It's still too early yall. Dont do this!

 

[ShadowSwordmaster]

Early vote. Um.

Oh shit.

 

[RustyNails]

Early vote. Um.

Dont do this. Goddamit.

 

[Box of Kittens]

I'm not celebrating anything until I see what Tyler's model has to say.

 

[Bonen no Max'd]

STAY ON TARGET

 

[Zereta]

Early vote. Um.

Don't play with my heart.

 

[Teggy]

Early vote. Um.

0% reporting. Fake news!

 

[NeoXChaos]

Early vote. Um.

.............Earth 2 right?

 

[BoogieWoogie]

Early vote. Um.

Could you even imagine how scared the GOP would be if this happened?

 

[Teggy]

It's all early vote and absentee. And we know republicans don't early vote for some reason.

 

[Boke1879]

Anyone with any knowledge of how early this is usually called?

 

[Aaron Strife]

It's all early vote and absentee. And we know republicans don't early vote for some reason.

Early voting has only recently been exploited by Democrats as a way to mobilize less reliable voters.

 

[Poodlestrike]

Early vote. Um.

Literally JUST Sedgewick, which houses Wichita.

Y'all keep calm now.

 

[whyamihere]

Literally JUST Sedgewick, which houses Wichita.

Y'all keep calm now.

It's like 70% of the vote of the district though. But yes.

 

[Bonen no Max'd]

Early vote. Um.

Is this just Sedgwick? That's the only county colored in on the SoS website that only has these numbers so far.

 

[mo60]

Thompson only has around 61% of the vote in Sedgwick right now according ot early votes. He needs to get around 58% of the vote in Sedgwick to win the special election.

 

[whyamihere]

@apblumenfeld
Early voting numbers for Butler County where Trump went 69-24 in November. #KS04Austin

@DecisionDeskHQ
Butler reporting, 54-43 for Estes

whoa.

 

[mo60]

whoa.

If Estes is winning counties trump won by like 40% by only single digits in early voting Estes may end up losing the special election.Combine that with Thompson possibly win Sedgwick county by 15%+ this may not end up being a good night for the GOP.

 

[Teggy]

Let me get your hopes up a little more before they are cruelly dashed

Dave Weigel‏ @daveweigel
Thompson campaign tells me that its #s from Sedgwick County early vote are "higher than expected." #ks04
8:18 PM · Apr 11, 2017

 

[whyamihere]

Let me get your hopes up a little more before they are cruelly dashed

MY HOPES.

 

[Aaron Strife]

Let me get your hopes up a little more before they are cruelly dashed

lol seriously.

Murder me before Thompson loses by like 1%

 

[Oblivion]

It's still too early yall. Dont do this!

Yeah, we've been through this multiple times before. Dems always have a lead in the beginning only to disappoint towards the end.

 

[Boke1879]

I doubt we win this, but if we can just close the margins a bit.

I would hope that would have some sort of impact in those R+2 elections.

 

[Kusagari]

Whether Estes clings to victory or not, it's clear this is going to be a much closer race than it had any right to be.

 

[Bonen no Max'd]

(((Harry Enten)))
@ForecasterEnten
Caution, caution cause this is early vote, which can lean Dem... but this doesn't look anything like 2016 so far.

if Thompson wins we can credit the whole thing to Our Revolution right?

 

[mo60]

Harry Enten has this to say about sedgwick county and this special election.
https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten/status/851952228692762624

Thompson only needs to win Sedgwick county by 10 points to win the special election.

I'm hoping that libertarian candidate siphons enough votes from Estes to make things easier for Thompson.

 

[Teggy]

So much insane stuff going on today (has the CNN Nunes article even been discussed?)

edit: removed because it was taken out of context

 

[Boke1879]

Whether Estes clings to victory or not, it's clear this is going to be a much closer race than it had any right to be.

That's my take.

Didn't they have Trump do robocalls and pump a lot of money into this? They shouldn't have had to do that.

Just close the margins, and we can look at getting some seats in 2018 and 2020

 

[Poodlestrike]

Honestly, if we lose by anything less than 5% you're gonna see absolute chaos on capitol hill as all the Rs in +9 or less districts freak the fuck out. If we win... well we're not gonna win. But it'd be like a bomb went off.

 

[Carpe Libertatem]

if Thompson wins we can credit the whole thing to Our Revolution right?

or just people fucking hate Brownback

But it's impressive that Thompson would do this with almost entirely grassroots support

 

[Bonen no Max'd]

or just people fucking hate Brownback

But it's impressive that Thompson would do this with almost entirely grassroots support

It was a joke

in other news

Nick Riccardi
@NickRiccardi
Democrat Rob Quist announces he's raised $1.3 million in about a month in his race for Montana's congressional seat.

 

[Futurevoid]

So much insane stuff going on today (has the CNN Nunes article even been discussed?)

Sessions didn't say that. He omitted the filth comment from the actual written speech which was released beforehand and he was referring to the gangs and the cartels, etc. Hence why it's being reported. Still doesn't stop Sessions from being a racist, drug war dinosaur, "tough on crime" douche but there you go.

 

[Hellwarden]

Has the Trump team responded at all to that school shooting?

 

[Oblivion]

Honestly, if we lose by anything less than 5% you're gonna see absolute chaos on capitol hill as all the Rs in +9 or less districts freak the fuck out. If we win... well we're not gonna win. But it'd be like a bomb went off.

Shame that the Repubs will have 19 months to enshrine into law that voting while Democrat is illegal.

 

[Carpe Libertatem]

Ostensible Kander clone Jason Crow announced he's running in CO-6

https://twitter.com/JasonCrowCO6

CO-6 is D+2 and currently held by Mike Coffman.

Spoiler

he doesn't really look like Kander, but the whole army thing mainly. also Kander retweeted him

 

[whyamihere]

@ForecasterEnten
Early vote from Barber has Estes +27. Should be something like +43 Estes in final results if Estes wants to win.

Wow.

 

[kirblar]

@NickRiccardi

Democrat Rob Quist announces he's raised $1.3 million in about a month in his race for Montana's congressional seat.

This is good.

 

[Teggy]

Sessions didn't say that. He omitted the filth comment from the actual written speech which was released beforehand and he was referring to the gangs and the cartels, etc. Hence why it's being reported. Still doesn't stop Sessions from being a racist, drug war dinosaur, "tough on crime" douche but there you go.

My bad.