US Politics, March 2018: Why do people leave the White House for good?

no updates for 8 minutes CMON DADDY NEEDS HIS FIX CNN

the only reason I am watching this at all is for the ebullient antics of Steve Kornacki on MSNBC

While neither the White House nor the Republican National Committee knows if Saccone will eke out a victory, “this isn’t a blowout — for now, we’ll happily take it,” the official says.

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literally nobody was expecting it to be a blowout you fuckstain, the fact that a Pub is losing at all IS the blowout

An elections official with Allegheny County just told CNN they are sorting through their absentee ballots and expect to have those results by 11:15 p.m. local time. They are currently scanning them and then "will upload the results through an electronic median and put them in a database," he said.

That's when, we think, we'll know a bit more about how Allegheny County's absentee voters voted.

looooooool the washington county election guy on CNN explaining why they won't count absentee ballots until the morning is like every failing bureaucrat who no longer seeks to get anything done but instead cites every possible excuse for not doing anything. i'm pretty sure he was just making up half of that shit

those people in allegheny are fancy with their databases

Lamb up by 95 votes (0%).

it's all about the absentees now

baby

As nice as it might be to win this seat, remember this is the House, where single votes fold into the general scrum, and that Trump won this district by 22% less than 2 years ago. Try not to have a nervous breakdown over this one. A result where Saccone wins by under 1000 votes is still amazingly bad for the Republicans, going forward, even if they retain the seat.

re: that mosque bombing above; tons of shit stains were claiming that the muslims had bombed themselves for sympathy when that happened

One of my biggest takeaways from this election coverage was this tweet:

Driving around PA-18 today, all the Saccone ads I've heard have been about how he will fight to preserve Medicare, Social Security, and fix the opiate crisis. At least at the local level, Republicans are under no illusions about which issues matter to voters.

— Pinboard (@Pinboard) March 13, 2018

Advertising Saccone as a complete antagonist to the Federal GOP stance is the only way his campaign can drum up support for him on the local level. And keep in mind Lamb is absolutely moderate!

Lamb's margin up by 752 on Allegheny absentees

yup.

3000 absentees left to count, but they're from GOP-leaning districts. still, Saccone needs a miracle at this point

About right:

The district is going to be gone in November. Congress isn't going to do anything before November. Who cares who gets the most votes? The meaning of the election was clear an hour ago.

— Stuart Rothenberg (@StuPolitics) March 14, 2018

I know the districts change in November but it will be huge if Lamb wins

Trump cares who gets the most votes

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it's a fair point. the only thing i can think of is a slight difference in how the hordes of uninformed voters view each party after reading either "Republican Wins in a Close Election!" or "Democrat Wins in a Close Election!" in the newspaper

Trump cares who gets the most votes

it's true but it's sort of analogous to craving libtears

I'm not gonna claim I'm above that at this point

the man's lived a life of pure hedonism and privilege at the direct expense of the disenfranchised and spends his entire day whining about the most trivial shit on the planet. I want him to pile up Ls for all eternity.

Just gotta say, whether or not Lamb wins, I feel that in this case and in the case of Alabama, I'd like to think the modest cash I donated made all the difference.

lol

Larry Spahr, director of election for Washington County, is now saying the county will count its absentee ballots tonight because the race is so close.

He said all 1,195 votes will be electronically scanned, and then, to be sure, counted by hand. The count could take "several hours," Spahr said. "Oh it's very close," he said of the race.

Earlier tonight, Spahr said the county had planned to count the ballots tomorrow morning.

Take it as you will.

Projection: Barring a major tabulation error, Conor Lamb (D) has defeated Rick Saccone (R) in #PA18.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) March 14, 2018

@realdonaldtrump: "Wasserman states despite obvious tabulation error, Lamb has won. DISGRACEFUL!"

I've seen far more photos of Saccone than I can count this past week and only just now did I notice he has a mustache.

he looks kinda like Bobby Kimball of Toto only more shitbaggy

goodbye Rick Succzone

a good morning indeed

not official til the Tweet

Yeah, don't we have to wait for the GOP to wildly attempt to redefine what constitutes a "legal" vote? I mean, there were stories of Republicans not registered or registered in different districts that weren't allowed to vote!

Meanwhile, this is how you do it:

LONDON — Britain ordered the expulsion of 23 Russian diplomats believed involved in espionage-related activities, British Prime Minister announced Wednesday in the first wave of measures against Moscow for the nerve gas attack against a former double agent.

May, speaking to Parliament, also outlines a range of other steps, including a halt to high-level meetings with Russian officials and the halting a planned visit to Britain by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

May repeated British conclusions of Russian links to the nerve agent used in the attack — targeting the former spy and his daughter — and called Russia’s defiance response has “demonstrated complete disdain for the gravity of these events.”

“Instead they have treated the use of a military garde nerve agent in Europe with sarcasm, contempt and defiance,” she told lawmakers while announcing the reprisal measures.

She gave no further details on the Russian diplomats ordered expelled, but said there were deemed “undeclared intelligence officers.”

“Instead they have treated the use of a military garde nerve agent in Europe with sarcasm, contempt and defiance,”

The President is cool with it too so we're all good

lol mark's post about "military grade" has made me forever unable to unsee it now

Election in Pennsylvania? What election in Pennsylvania?

Hundreds of good people, including very important Ambassadors and Judges, are being blocked and/or slow walked by the Democrats in the Senate. Many important positions in Government are unfilled because of this obstruction. Worst in U.S. history!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 14, 2018

Perhaps at no time in history have the business fundamentals of U.S. companies been better than they are today!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 14, 2018

its misspelling there seems deliberately designed to add injury to his insult

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trump: it was the best of times, it was the worst of times

Worst in U.S. history!

even a stopped clock...

ROFFles from the ACLU/Kobach voter rights trial:

Another banner day for Kris Kobach's voter fraud experts. https://t.co/hMzOqAz7jI pic.twitter.com/5fFr3mQo32

— Adam Smith (@asmith83) March 13, 2018

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DYMIyS2VQAAhQCq.jpg:large

trump don't sign your tweets

where's the tax returns?

yeah but is judge murguia a citizen? where's the proof?

What kind of weirdo un-American name is 'Kobach' anyway? He should flag himself just to be on the safe side.

kobach to where he came from

so the GOP spin is gonna be that Lamb won because he "essentially ran as a Republican"

suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu (3000 more u's here) uuuuuuuuuuuuure

Sure, he ran as a non-Trump Republican.

And then why didn't Saccone try that?

Because he "was Trump before Trump was Trump".

Because he was busy being more trump than trump

xposts, lol. You have to admit it was a catchy slogan for saccone.

Or, ok, not more trump than trump, but he at least beat him to it