US Politics, October 2018: next week will be even longer

Beto basically needs to mobilize a huge # of voters who either haven't voted before and/or haven't been been reached by the national pollsters (read: Millennials) and hope that cancels out any GOP galvanization.

Or I guess I mean enthusiasm

xp to meeeeee

Beto needs a significant change in the direction of his race to have any kind of real chance.

It really doesn't look good for him

Admittedly I'm in Austin, but there's definitely an energy around his campaign that I've never seen here before.

i don't think polls can tell you who is actually gonna show up. cruz is relying on people being afraid of liberals, socialists, and illegal aliens. that was his message in the debates -- a negative one, against beto. he knows that he himself is not an attractive character, which seems like a weakness.

there are such things as upset victories. they do happen. it's probably not good for me, personally, to count on too many of them happening all at once, or any of them really. but i've been wanting to skip ahead to november 2018 ever since november 2016 and i'm feeling that anxiety now more than ever.

personally I think we've gone so far down the toilet that it will be a generation before we wind some of this crap back if ever

good mourning!

Is Beta O'rourke a mispelling turned into a cognitive fart.

& is it now a GOP meme or just down to that eejit on the panel show.

The NYT's political reporting continues to impress me:

Mr. Gillum’s admirers see in him a hybrid of Bernie Sanders and Barack Obama — an authentic progressive who supports higher corporate taxes and greater gun control, calls for the impeachment of President Trump and Medicare-for-all, and can inspire young and minority voters in a state that last elected a Democratic governor in 1994. And in recent days, he has been ubiquitous, in his city and on television, as he managed the fallout from Hurricane Michael, at one point commandeering a chain saw himself to help clear tree debris.

Yet an examination of Mr. Gillum’s record lays bare the central contradiction of his political life: Self-styled as an activist-minded populist, with a lunch-pail upbringing in south Miami-Dade County, he is also an avatar of the capital city he runs — a town powered by ambition, horse-trading and alliances with well-placed power players.

you call yourself progressive AND YET you live in a town

checkmate mr gillum

Political reporters are the dumbest fucking people on the planet.

remember when these idiots kept referring to Trump as a "blue-collar billionaire"

So much for the Senate truce on judges. ⁦@brianefallon⁩ tells me Dems got rolled. “They didn’t just get stuffed in a locker; they had their lunch money taken.” https://t.co/BND1HWwCvh

— Sheryl Gay Stolberg (@SherylNYT) October 17, 2018

who could've possibly thought the gop couldn't be held to their word etc

Schuuuuuumer

I dunno, Mr. Scorpion still seems like a chill dude who just wants to get across the river to me.

exclusive live feed from chuck schumer's office

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http://cdn.evilbeetgossip.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/sideshow-bob-rakes.gif

enh fuckit you can work it out from the url

Schmuck is such a clueless wimp, but the voters never make him accountable, so it's a career

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/lefts-trump-sized-tax-plans/573328/

gotta admit i'm here for this

I am really annoyed that as notoriously and universally an unlikable dude as Ted Cruz is, that people not related to him by blood would vote for him en masse. We are so doomed.

Schumer isn't going to be a vote destroyer is he?
Keep hoping he's just going to be relegated to a point where he can do less harm.
& hope that news of this is going to get people incensed enough to try to change things.
NOt sure what tenure of a circuit court judge is.

I am really annoyed that as notoriously and universally an unlikable dude as Ted Cruz is, that people not related to him by blood would vote for him en masse.

I think it might make Republicans happier to vote for someone like Cruz, because since they're voting Republican to affirm their self-image as loyal Republicans, him being a repellent shitbag just lets them feel prouder that they still turned up and supported the party.

It is the party of repellent shitbags, after all

he is also an avatar of the capital city he runs -- a city notorious for its lassie with the classy chassis

#Break: The NYT election needle is coming back, baby! https://t.co/Fc5IsTZZCd pic.twitter.com/suhmdav6yb

— David Uberti (@DavidUberti) October 18, 2018

that election night 2016 thread was something right

we all collectively shat our intestines out

i think that maybe the new york times deserves to fail

i heard it is failing actually (citation needed)

shakey called us all a bunch of "nervous nellies" on that thread iirc :(

Feel like I've posted this a few times before, but the NYT data team was actually far more accurate (and much earlier) in how grim the real-time results were than 538 (who had Clinton ahead until like 10pm).

changed my irl name to nellie after that

shakey called us all a bunch of "nervous nellies" on that thread iirc :(

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, October 18, 2018 11:10 AM (six seconds ago)

lollll.... "wgaf you nervous nellies"

good times

we were all Patriots fans that day and Donald Trump was Eli Manning

Still can't believe u led us astray like that, shakey. Shaaaaame.

(Please ignore the fact that I was just as vocal about Turnip's assured defeat.)

tbf after that one misstep I have been 100% correct in every single one of my predictions, so never fear!

yeah I remember that "nervous nellies" post & also iirc it was your last post for like 2 days lol

yup I don't think I was alone in being incapacitated with anxiety following that election result

man really disappointing that outic single handedly is responsible for the election of trump smh

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

at least we can say we were there to read the post that ruined everything

Don't worry, guys, my faith in the electorate was completely shattered that night. If someone suggests that ALF might be our next president, I will silently accept the possibility/likelihood.

the nation's cat population trembles in fear

lmao

sure easy to laugh when you're a bison