The 2006 American Midterm Election Day Thread

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Didn't catch it all.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

He's playing pass the football.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

What could it be - Pellet?

(xxpost)

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

pfff

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

Hot Lips

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.viralmemes.com/images/midtermposter.jpg

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

Li'l Bitchy

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

finally some sweet electronic voting snafu action!

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001972.php

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

florida will always be there for us

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

from another board:

http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/820/santorumph7.jpg

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

you see other boards? *sniff*

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

From now on, you're only allowed to post here with a condom over your keyboard. If we can't trust you, then, well, you forced us into this.

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

Oh my word at Lord of the Rings, can't you squeeze a Bush/Gollum in there somewhere?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

other board == fark!

― a.b. (alanbanana), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe time for a new thread but C4 news is saying the US is going to talk directly to Syria and Iran about sorting Iraq out.

No real shocker there - feeling I'm gettting is that Bush II has been under heavy pressure from Bush I and other Republican big wigs to get with the program and a) replace Rumsfeld, and b) implement the Baker commission's recommendations, e.g. start dealing direct with Iran & Syria. They've got to arrange major changes before the Democrats force it on them.

Next thing you know, Condi will be out and Baker will be warming the assdent in her office chair.

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

eh Condi getting pushed out seems unlikely

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, she ain't going anywhere. she's one of dubya's few support posts left

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

not 2 mention they fuckin'.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

my guess is less of the fuckin and more of the b&d

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

(gotta remember to ask my Condi-bodyguardin' in-law about that)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

Just finished reading that article about Florida's voting problems. I don't understand how voting machines that don't leave a paper record behind were ever allowed in the first place.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

And everytime i read about a party sending "teams of lawyers" somewhere I picture a 1920's paddy wagon weaving it's way down a dirt road at high speeds with a crew of loose-cannon lawyers hanging off the sides waving pitch forks and brief cases.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

thank God

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

also the boonies

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

Y'know, i do feel a little better this week. After years of fearing that we were fucked forever, it seems like we have at least a small way out of it.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 9 November 2006 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

I finally saw/heard this press conference and don't really see what everyone else did beyond the sorta awkward sourness (and Rove's Mr. Death act). He actually seemed more human/in-touch than he's been in years, though clearly still very much the same poliical/ideological animal.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 10 November 2006 03:58 (nineteen years ago)

He actually seemed more human/in-touch than he's been in years

Oh, on this point I'll fully agree.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 November 2006 04:01 (nineteen years ago)

if you want some feel-good material, check out the briefing by Dean (who makes clear upfront that he's read and internalized The Way to Win) and a DNC pollster on this page

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 10 November 2006 04:11 (nineteen years ago)

oh garsh, maybe Bush is just a closet moderate... he triggers hate in the world only because he hates himself. poor guy.

― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Friday, 10 November 2006 04:12 (nineteen years ago)

C'mon, somebody put crying Santorum daughter with crying emo kid on chair at concert.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 10 November 2006 04:21 (nineteen years ago)

if you want to know how we won, click on the Rahm presser on that page

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 10 November 2006 05:00 (nineteen years ago)

http://rawstory.com/news/2006/Affluent_men_showed_greatest_disill_11092006.html

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 10 November 2006 07:16 (nineteen years ago)

we did well this cycle in no small part because we ran some very non-'elite' candidates.

I'd ask for your definition of "elite," but who am I kidding. (The non-elites obv include the legless female Iraq vet who IS STILL PROWAR, but I guess her non-elite potential constituents found the Republican winner not quite that fucking stupid, which is plausible.)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 November 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

do you know how many people in Walter Reed are STILL PROWAR, morbs? why don't you go there and tell them how stupid they are.

Tammy Duckworth is more 'elite' than 'non-elite' because she's Thai (and has an Intl Affairs masters from GW and was working toward a doctorate), but so were her intended constituents because they are Chicago suburbanites. i'm talking about many of the Dem candidates in less metropolitan areas.

great moments in journalism...

Ohio Republican Rep. Jean Schmidt, who called Democratic Rep. John Murtha (news, bio, voting record) a coward, is ahead of her challenger by 2,862 votes. Rep. Barbara Cubin (news, bio, voting record), who threatened to slap her wheelchair-bound Libertarian opponent after a debate, is ahead by fewer than a thousand votes in her Wyoming contest.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

did robocalls flip races?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 11 November 2006 00:07 (nineteen years ago)

wrapping up loose ends: harold, call me

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 12 November 2006 07:53 (nineteen years ago)

if you want to know how we won

Aside from a disastrous war, unpopular President, populace with little confidence in the economy, boy-touching Republicans, cover-ups for boy-touching Republicans and just a few ethics scandals?

John Oliver OTM

― milo z (mlp), Sunday, 12 November 2006 08:01 (nineteen years ago)

Without whose help, etc.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 12 November 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

He is a perennial loser in Montana politics, a kind of Harold Stassen of the interior West, a fringe candidate who sometimes has to sue to get invited to television debates. He is also a man who accidentally turned his skin blue by drinking a homemade antibiotic laced with silver.

This was the guy that Michael Medved was railing against in his rant I linked on the schadenfreude thread. For causing that alone, Stan Jones, I salute you -- blue skin and all.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 12 November 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

Rahm porn

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

gah, registration required, can you copy paste?

― Ed (dali), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

it's really long. the intro...

He was hurtling down an asphalt road in upstate New York on the 47th trip of his ferocious campaign to win back the House. A lecture, even from political consultant James Carville, was the last thing he needed.

In just 12 days, his campaign would end in a historic victory--a triumph that almost no one believed possible when he took the job nearly two years ago--or in colossal failure.

And here were Carville and pollster Stan Greenberg telling him he had to make each of his handpicked candidates shift from attack mode and strike a conciliatory note in their final campaign ads.

"James. No James, YOU LISTEN," Emanuel barked into a cell phone, about to release a string of profane invectives more intense than usual. "Can you listen for one [expletive] minute?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

You tell em for me the next time you hit Walter Reed with all the Dems who are gonna sign on to McCain's troop-level boost.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

Rahm Emanuel is awesome. a friend & I ran into him (almost literally. open bar, what can you do) as the d-trip results party was clearing out and I def got the "slightly insane" vibe

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

that rahm article was great!

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

yeah. absurd, but great. good lord! someone at my work used to be a political fundraiser & this person is like, hyper intense, I have no idea how they do it, I'd need a ****load of drugs and I'd be able to keep up for maybe a week, tops.

"Since my kids are gone, I can say it: They can go ---- themselves!"

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

this one's for gabbneb

― don weiner (don weiner), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

dude, where have the santorum.jpg pictures gone?

― The Real Dirty Vicar, Friday, 25 January 2008 23:06 (eighteen years ago)

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