God Has Abandoned Us: U.S. Politics November 2023

You get all the craziest most unpleasant people all together in one place, crazy and unpleasant things will happen. Marx said this.

"the craziest most unpleasant people all together in one place" for December thread title

I hope you keep a Google Doc file with these proposed title, little flower.

LOL pic.twitter.com/vbGG4xhTX6

— Acyn (@Acyn) November 9, 2023

Manchin announcing he will not seek reelection

Maybe the WV dems can find someone electable who's not such a dickhead. Obviously the problem there is 'electable'; they could find someone who's less of a dickhead by holding a lottery.

That seat will surely go to a Republican.

Well it didn't take long for someone to come along and crush my dreams.

Manchin knew he was going to lose to Jim Justice. Maybe he'll join Kennedy, West and Stein as a sixth party candidate.

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A Manchin Presidential run was discussed during the three seconds the No Labels Party was a thing.

No Labels Party will be a thing as long as there are rich dupes

yeah, his endorsements are the golden touch, that's how we ended up with Senator Herschel Walker (R) who knows a thing or two about werewolves & vampires

It’s been a weird couple years

Yeah Justice will romp and it was looking dicey for Manchin anyway. In respects this clarifies things all around; don't have to headscratch over it, allocating resources etc.

So long, Creepy Joe.

Sinema is still on-track to get primaried next year, yes?

Manchin wants to get back down in his coal mine, back to basics, back where it all began

xpost You can't primary her, she already quit the party

are there any states dems are expected to flip a seat?

Not that I've seen. WV will go Republican, the Dems will be lucky to hang onto AZ and OH.

Ted Cruz and Rick Scott are the only ones who could conceivably picked off

And that's unlikely

Still, gotta say...I like this guy:

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yeah, maybe he can pull a Fetterman

#CarhartDems

wow, Luke Combs running for senator

Re Sinema:

SCOOP — NRSC poll presented to GOP senators at lunch today has Ruben Gallego cruising in a 3-person contest w/ Kari Lake & Sen. Kyrsten Sinema

Gallego 41
Lake 37
Sinema 17

Daines said poll shows Sinema is splitting the R vote, not D vote

w/ @bresreportshttps://t.co/mDLv3uREtd

— Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) October 31, 2023

(Not sure I would call a 4-point lead "cruising," but seems like Gallego is in good position.)

Roffle, that would be kinda weirdly perfect.

That's a pretty good margin, for sure.

I saw a poll a few days ago which shows a wider Gallego lead should one of the two fools drop out.

yeah, maybe he can pull a Fetterman

Fetterman should campaign with him. 100% serious. That would likely be what saves the seat.

Brilliant

Don't worry, I'm sure Schumer has a totally great candidate in mind

W Va still has some dudes like him god bless

uh xpost

Sinema will end up a cushy lobbyist for Big Chardonnay

I like that AZ poll. Without knowing much about Gallego I feel like you could poll

A. Sinema
B. Lake
C. ANYBODY ELSE AT ALL, JUST LITERALLY ANYONE, YOUR BABYSITTER, THE LOCAL SPIN CLASS INSTRUCTOR, ANYONE

and get similar results.

wait I thought Sinema was the local spin class instructor

Sinema kind of has to increase her income, since all the places she used to hang out are full of people who hate her now.

Fetterman will never get a vote from me again after his sickening displays over the past few weeks.

His legs aren't that bad

lol Alfred

His legs aren't that bad

Jim Justice is the very popular Republican governor of West Virginia, who will be termed out and who has announced his candidacy for Senate. He is 100% going to win!! (and Manchin knows it). Democrats should not put any money into that race. They should throw everything into Tester in MT, Brown in OH, Gallego in AZ

And regarding Andrew Desiderio's inane tweet posted above, the numbers clearly indicate that Sinema splits both the Republican and Democratic votes, so anything is possible

If Sinema continues to poll consistently in the low double digits into next September her support will dwindle considerably by November. As it sinks in to voters that that she's hopelessly behind and can't possibly win they'll wander away into one camp or the other or just sit it out.

Manchin wants to get back down in his coal mine, back to basics, back where it all began

His campaign staff: just four guys in a mine, jamming

'how long must this go on??'

Not that I expected to see a Dem win a governor race in Mississippi - not to mention the sad regressive views Presley had on multiple issues - but I was especially disappointed when I assumed that Brandon Presley would be able to build upon the 2019 coalition that Mike Espy and Jim Hood were able to craft among BIPOC voters of all education levels, the small group of white working-class voters who consider themselves moderates or liberals, and the small-but-growing group of white voters with a college degree.

Presley held strong with BIPOC communities (at least where ballots didn't run out) and improved with WWC voters, but actually lost ground with college-grad whites, bucking the trend we see basically everywhere else in the US. Presley campaigned heavily against the corruption of the "good ol' boy" network, which one would figure would be a good strategy in a state where standard of living for a sizable chunk of all races can still be described as 'Dickensian'. But no, the gains he had with WWC voters were more than countered by a drop with college-grad whites because, in Mississippi, they *are* the good ol' boy (or girl) network, and how dare he threaten their fiefdoms.

Then again, what should I have expected from a demo who openly embrace a college with a racist mascot.