US Politics November 2017

why is it bad that a normal/shitty dem is responding to demands for $15/hr

Alfred Lord Tomboto

nobody said it was bad! let's go for $20, since every good thing he does will be forced on him.

The most encouraging thing I read about the VA election is that exit polls had health care at 60% the most important voter issue. And that's in a race where health care for all purposes was not even really debated. Which means the voters saw through the noise, which further bodes poorly for the GOP in 2018.

Funniest quip I saw was that they should elect a statue to Ed Gillespie so that his loss will not be forgotten.

In addition to electing Murphy, NJ voters approved $125 million in bonds to build and expand public libraries.

― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, November 7, 2017 7:21 PM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

why is it bad that a normal/shitty dem is responding to demands for $15/hr

― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, November 7, 2017 7:25 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

rip van winkle shit wake up

Flipping 14 seats from red to blue in VA is the biggest Democratic pick-up since 1899.

WE HAVE SEIZED AN ADDITIONAL 140 CHARACTERS FROM THE BOURGEOISIE AND WILL IMMEDIATELY PLACE THEM IN THE SERVICE OF THE PROLETARIAT. REPEAT: WE HAVE SEIZED AN ADDITIONAL 140 CHARACTERS FROM THE BOURGEOISIE AND WILL IMMEDIATELY PLACE THEM IN THE SERVICE OF THE PROLETARIAT.

— Pioneer Valley DSA🌹 (@PVDemSoc) November 7, 2017

New NJ gov has super-aggressive energy policy and envitonmental positions, works for me

Xp

Dems in GA potentially on cusp of busting GOP supermajority?

Tally (so far) posted:

Dems win NJGov, full control of NJ government.
—Dems win VA Gov, huge gains in VA Assembly (shot at majority)
—Dems win mayorship in Charlotte, St. Petersburg, Manchester, NYC
—Dems pick-up leg seats in NH & GA (x2)
—Civil-rights attorney will be Philly DA

this is bad news folks

It's official: @wallacefor119, a Ruby on Rails developer(!!!), has flipped a long-held Republican seat and is going to the Georgia House of Representatives.

— Luigi Ray-Montañez (@1uigi) November 8, 2017

(!!!)

These numbers are stark. GOP precincts with no HoD dem challenger: no #vagov dem vote increase. GOP precincts *with* an HoD dem challenger: 20% #vagov dem vote increase. What's the opposite of coattails.

— Reed Shaw (@reedgshaw) November 8, 2017

the main thing is: run. even if the only candidate you can find is a rails dev.

I cannot understand whatever that is you just shared.

Me neither

the first part seems . . . self-evident

I think VA for a few years had no Dem challenger for a couple of GOP held seats, so Dems stayed home. But adding a Dem challenger upped turnout 20%.

That is, there were seats Dems did not even consider competitive so they did not even field a candidate, until this year, and just doing so was enough to juice turnout and win seats.

sorry the ruby on rails tweet is a dumb nerd thing

the main point is dems should run everywhere in this climate

alabama senate coming up

That’s what I figured. But what is “HoD”?

House of Delegates.

It will be interesting to see how congressional republicans react to these election results. Will they criticize Trump more openly, or attribute the reaction against republicans to their failure to repeal ACA and build a wall against Mexicans, and so consequently double down on their hard right shift? Seems to me they should read this as buyer's remorse from what voters bought in 2016, but then a lot of the Rs in Congress don't seem bright enough to read.

yeah interesting to see if this has any effect on tax reform. probably not.

Back to what I posted, health care was the number one VA exit poll issue in an election by some margin, and this was a campaign muddied by confederate statues and Latino gangs and crime and law and order and Trump shit. Shows that people want what the GOP does not got, which should be a wake-up call to those dummies about where their priorities should be.

Key VA numbers:

Bob Mcdonnel (2009) 1,163,523
Ed Gillespie (2017) 1,160,314
GOP got the same vote as 2009 when they won in landslide. The Dems have tuned out HARD

Alfred Lord Tomboto

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, November 7, 2017

hey, Greenwald has appeared more than once on that swollen lackey's show. What loyalty do you owe him?

i don't see shows

are u guys SURE you wanna get rid of Yam? Dems' best hope in decades

Funniest quip I saw was that they should elect a statue to Ed Gillespie so that his loss will not be forgotten.

― Josh in Chicago

stealing this, thanks

alabama senate coming up

Dougie's runnin a good campaign but I am a little less bullish on this one. Moore seems to be avoiding putting his foot in his mouth so far. Plus it's fuckin deep red Alabama.

Haha yeah i stole it too

Xp

i think you mean... ERECT

yes, I edited it :)

re AL, yeah they're not going to win it, but they should spend some money there

Curious to learn the final down ballot tally tomorrow. Keep seeing tales of deep red city councils going blue, Mayorships flipping ... Even the person who got that choad Chavetz's seat in Utah is apparently more moderate.

Just for the sake of the country, it's the outcome we should all want. Further, it's hard to imagine any scenario where we get rid of Trump prior to the end of his term, where the Republicans don't also suffer a tremendous loss of voter trust and their power is badly undercut.

If the republicans keep insisting on jamming through legislation with 25% approval ratings or less I think we have a chance

It looks like the WA state senate will turn blue. Huge for getting shit done here

Other numbers from the internet:

The race for Utah #3rd was less then 110 votes. The Democratic contender loosing 42% to the Republican winner's 43%. UTAH! And the Republican was a verrry popular mayor, quite moderate.

Democrat Manka Dhingra is leading in early returns in Washington’s 45th Senate district, 55 percent to 45 percent. (Polls there closed at 11 p.m. Eastern.) There’s no reason to believe that result won’t hold as more votes are counted. If every other race goes as expected (and we believe it will), this is a pickup for the Democrats and with it they pickup control of the Washington state Senate. That means they control every legislative body and governorship on the West Coast.

Haha

Thoughts and prayers to all the Republican politicians who lost their seats today. We won't do anything to prevent it from happening again.

Oh thats good

VA DELEGATES COUNT: 48D, 47R. 5 seats to decide control:
#HD27 (Chesterfield): Del. Robinson (R) up by 129 votes.
#HD28 (F'burg): Thomas (R) up by 86.
#HD40 (Fairfax): Tanner (D) up by 68.
#HD68 (Richmond): Adams (D) up by 316.
#HD94 (Newport News): Del. Yancey (R) up by 12.

The race for Utah #3rd was less then 110 votes. The Democratic contender loosing 42% to the Republican winner's 43%. UTAH! And the Republican was a verrry popular mayor, quite moderate.

those numbers don't seem to be correct.

Indeed. Looks like it was 58/27, more or less, which makes more sense.

the cited numbers were the difference in salt lake county, not the state.

Ah. Thanks for the correction! Still ... good for SLC.

https://www.google.com/amp/minnesota.cbslocal.com/2017/11/07/st-paul-mayor-race-results/amp/

This is a big deal - in a race with 5 top spots filled with DFL peeps - guy who ran on frank discussion of systematic racism beats more likely electable solid dem guy who promised to add 50 cops.

and a fuckin banker

i'm pleased with my electoral power tonite

Another way to score tonight’s election results: the candidates whom Obama campaigned for won; the candidates whom Trump backed (but didn’t campaign for) lost.

— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) November 8, 2017

Idg JiC's VA delegate count up there. If the Dems win the two seats they're leading they'll have 50 seats, and if the GOP picks up the three seats they're leading they will... also have 50? Is that right?

And then the Lt. Gov breaks any ties.