skullmuffins
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Yeah, about that...
Goodbye, talking point!
CNN news alert just now: Hillary breaks silence on Weinstein allegations but does not mention his donations
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PoliGAF 2017 |OT6| Made this thread during Harvey because the ratings would be higher
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CNN news alert just now: Hillary breaks silence on Weinstein allegations but does not mention his donations
Ignatz Mouse
Banned
Somebody ought to publish a headline saying "It's 5 days later and Chris Cillizza still hasn't condemned Weinstien."
VendettaRed07
Member
Yup.
Yep. You don't schedule an announcement days in advance if it's just to say nothing is changing.
Oh hell, is Tom Cotton seriously being floated for State?
whyamihere
Banned
North Carolina.
ouch (Cooper is at 44/30, Trump is at 35/51)
With RVs, it's higher: Cooper is 47/31, Trump is 38/51, Burr is 32/35, Tillis is 35/36)
ouch (Cooper is at 44/30, Trump is at 35/51)
With RVs, it's higher: Cooper is 47/31, Trump is 38/51, Burr is 32/35, Tillis is 35/36)
Random Human
They were trying to grab your prize. They work for the mercenary. The masked man.
This stuff is just maddening.
skullmuffins
Banned
No, they're floating shuffling Pompeo to State and giving Cotton the CIA. Which might be worse?
Wag
Member
So a reporter called Sarah Huckabee Sanders on the statement Trump made that, "We are the highest taxed nation in the world", then she replied, "Yes, we are the highest taxed "corporate" nation in the world", so he responded numerous times, "That's not what he said, if that's what he meant why didn't he say that?", so she cut him off. lol
Aaron Strife
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Cooper is the only politician NC voters actually like.
Hopefully they like him enough to actually give him a not-batshit legislature.
AntraxSuicide
Banned
I mean, yes, we should be better. But we've also lost races with better candidates than their opponents. Those two things aren't mutually exclusive.
Yes that is worse :lol
Maybe Pompeo at State wouldn't be that bad (relatively), but Cotton at CIA, fuck.
Pretty much need the Supreme Court ruling to save NC assembly at this point. States nicer than them can have it that they vote blue at the federal level and still have a hard-R legislature.
PantherLotus
Professional Schmuck
Every day we respond to his nonsense, we play by his rules. He owns every single news cycle. The circus in Puerto Rico is already ancient news. It's amazing how fast new scandals can burn off the previous ones.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
This is why the GOP is clinging to their dirty tactics and gerrymandering in that state.
I just want to make sure everyone is aware that the President of the United States is calling the Republican chair of the Senate foreign relations committee schoolyard nicknames in official Presidential statements.
And his supporters love it! That's where we are now as a country. Great job, America!
And his supporters love it! That's where we are now as a country. Great job, America!
nature boy
Member
WAIT FOR THE PIVOT
Aaron Strife
Banned
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/
Thing is, its not like people stop being mad at Trump for whatever pissed them off to begin with. The onslaught of gaffes, attacks, irrational and immature behavior, etc. only reinforce each other.
His approval ratings are utterly dismal. He looks like an incumbent president suffering from sixth year itch right before a midterm election, and he hasnt even been president for a year. If were playing by his rules, hes still losing.
His ratings will continue to erode as he keeps picking fights with retiring Congressmen who dont give two shits whether he gets his precious tax cut bill passed. Everything hes touched goes down in smoke.
whyamihere
Banned
lol
Mooch was the gift we never got to fully unwrap.
BlastProcessing
Member
Everytime you mention him, you are making him more powerful.
Sure is nice to see a Democrat finally hanging a Republican majority leader around a candidate's neck, after having seen them do it with Pelosi and Reid so fucking often.
KirbYuuYuu
Member
As if it wasn't obvious, they're deep in the pocket of Trump. Not only was Shit lizard confronted in an AMA about how his shitty "journalism" was what helped this, he keeps doing the same exact shit afterwards as if nothing happened.
No need to go off into conspiracy theories.
Its a mix of basic incompetence and bad incentives that make cable news terrible.
Aaron Strife
Banned
McCaskill is so fucking fierce, I love it.
Hope to see Ryan and McConnell (NINE PERCENT APPROVAL RATING) relentlessly latched onto GOP candidates for the next three years.
After Moore/Strange and Stewart/Gillespie, "Leverage intra-party against your opponents? TWO CAN PLAY AT THAT GAME" appears to be on the agenda. Which is good.
whyamihere
Banned
So the last time there was a midterm Senate election in Missouri:
2006:
D: 1,055,255
R: 1,006,941
2010:
D: 789,736
R: 1,054,160
Missouri 2016 President:
D: 1,071,068
R: 1,594,511
Missouri 2016 Senate:
D: 1,300,200
R: 1,378,458
And for good measure, 2012 Senate:
D: 1,484,683
R: 1,063,698
Missouri had 5.8 million people in 2006 and 6.1 million in 2016, so not a ton of growth. Basically McCaskill would need to active the ~1 million D voters in Missouri while Hawley would need to see some pretty epic drop off from 2016.
Turnout in 2010 for Missouri was 46.3% and turnout in 2016 was 66.56%.
A win for McCaskill would probably be her winning like 70% of the Hillary vote (750k) and then trying to convince the 229k voters who voted for Kander but not for Hillary to vote for her. 70% of those are like 160k. That's gets you to like 960k. She would probably need to get another 100k voters to win. Tall order.
2006:
D: 1,055,255
R: 1,006,941
2010:
D: 789,736
R: 1,054,160
Missouri 2016 President:
D: 1,071,068
R: 1,594,511
Missouri 2016 Senate:
D: 1,300,200
R: 1,378,458
And for good measure, 2012 Senate:
D: 1,484,683
R: 1,063,698
Missouri had 5.8 million people in 2006 and 6.1 million in 2016, so not a ton of growth. Basically McCaskill would need to active the ~1 million D voters in Missouri while Hawley would need to see some pretty epic drop off from 2016.
Turnout in 2010 for Missouri was 46.3% and turnout in 2016 was 66.56%.
A win for McCaskill would probably be her winning like 70% of the Hillary vote (750k) and then trying to convince the 229k voters who voted for Kander but not for Hillary to vote for her. 70% of those are like 160k. That's gets you to like 960k. She would probably need to get another 100k voters to win. Tall order.
Apparently you are actually Dave Weigel.
Isn't that Yglesias's shtick? (And yes she's obviously running, if she's staying, she does the presser in DC.)
Wag
Member
It's only a matter of time before Stephen Miller is Chief of Staff...
In my twitter feed it is Dave Weigel who does it
Suikoguy
I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
The media learned nothing from the election.
BlastProcessing
Member
Not true, they learned how to pull down record ratings.
nature boy
Member
Urgh
Joe Shlabotnik
Banned
CNN.com seems to have shame-buried their blaring headlines about her comment already, and Cilliziziaas top article is about Trump. Maybe theyre self-examining a little faster these days, at least.
Mark Andrew
Member
Ok, hope theyre ready to lose a lot of talent?
That would guarantee that I'd never watch the NFL again
Greigor The Fellhand
Member
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/354763-naacp-cowboys-owners-comments-a-public-commitment-to-violate-players
NAACP stepping in, will probably go after the entire NFL now
StopMakingSense
Member
Well they're gonna lose it all once that test for CTE in living patients comes to fruition, this way they can make it 'their fault'
If all it does is mandate them to stand, players should stand and then turn their backs when the anthem starts.
Fenderputty
Banned
Here's the calculation:
"If we're doing an immoral thing for the almighty buck, I bet the players will too"
Their right for the most part. Until Trump went after their livelihood and money, none of these guys were rocking the boat with Kaep. I don't judge either. That's a lot of dough for them and their families.
BoogieWoogie
Banned
Imagine if they stood then gave a finger to the flag.
That would pretty much destroy everything Kaepernick hoped to accomplish and turn pretty much everyone against them. The NFL players and even the progressive movement is getting sucked into making this about "how great America is" instead of police brutality. Which is a fight that we will get handily destroyed on.
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