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

lol i don't know if anyone remembers this but awhile back Tucker Carlson had a "witch" on his show

So not Christine O'Donnell? xps damn

Is this the Tucker Carlson clip?

Tucker Carlson, free speech warrior, questions her as to whether it's legal to cast spells on people.

hey, remember christine o'donnell

hail satan

hmm

Smart piece by @AndrewRomano looking at how some campaigns here in CA have tried to activate Latino voters this cycle: https://t.co/lT6y9dvG9y

— Jose A. Del Real (@jdelreal) October 31, 2018

Why is that hosted on Yahoo Sports?

2018

main Yahoo site is reserved for Chrissy Teigen content, politics have moved to sports, sports have moved to the movies section.

this is the key stuff, which bodes v v well

So far, actual voting patterns — as opposed to anecdotes and op-eds — suggest that this year will be different. According to early vote totals compiled by Political Data Inc., Latino turnout in Southern California’s most competitive House contests is already far outpacing 2014 — even equaling 2016’s presidential-year turnout in some cases. At this point in 2014, for example, Latinos in CA-25 had cast less than 11 percent of all ballots; right now, that number is hovering around 15 percent, just like in 2016. In CA-39, Latinos’ early vote share has grown from 12.2 percent four years ago to 16 percent today — less than half a point shy of the 2016 benchmark. And Latino voting levels have increased in CA-45, CA-48 and CA-49 as well. (PDI compiles its figures using lists of voter surnames and “country or state of origin” data on registration forms.)

Such across-the-board increases in Latino turnout jibe with election results from earlier this year. In June, Latinos made up 21.2 percent of the primary electorate in California’s 39th Congressional District — a nearly 8 point jump from 2014. Subsequent reports by UCLA’s Latino Policy and Politics Initiative concluded that the “Latino vote increased more than any other demographic in Los Angeles County from June 2014 to June 2018” and that “in Orange County, ballots cast in majority-Latino precincts were up over 2014 numbers by as much as a 245 percent.” And California isn’t alone: A new analysis by University of Florida Professor Daniel A. Smith finds that Latino early vote there has tripled in 2018 compared with 2014.

This is not an accident; both Democratic candidates and the Democratic Party are “definitely doing more to reach Latinos in 2018 than they did in 2014,” according to Barreto. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) has invested nearly $30 million this cycle in contacting, organizing and turning out Democratic base voters, including Latinos. It has conducted Latino focus groups in California, Colorado, Florida and New Mexico. It has hired at least one Latino field staffer in 29 California districts — 11 of whom are currently directing field, get-out-the-vote (GOTV) or canvassing operations. Each heavily Latino district boasts its own Latino constituency organizer, who engages with churches, businesses and other community organizations. And the DCCC also just released its first-ever televised Spanish-language get-out-the-vote ad in Southern California, which will continue running through Election Day.

Heidi Cruz told me they have to try and shield the Zodiac Killer stuff from their oldest daughter, because she might get skeptical and start, like, seriously grilling her dad about where he was on different nights in the early 70s.

— Elaina Plott (@elainaplott) October 31, 2018

def in mushmouthed lockstep w/ Schumer

“There’s been a lot of talk about lowering the temperature of political discourse,” host Stephen Colbert asked. “Have you seen evidence of that?”

“Well, I think when we win, you will see evidence of that,” Pelosi said to applause. “Because when we do win, we will have, as we open the new Congress, we will honor the vows of our founders. E Pluribus Unum. From many, one.”

At this point, you should be asking yourself a simple question: is Nancy Pelosi out of her fucking mind?

https://splinternews.com/what-world-is-nancy-pelosi-living-in-1830135382

splinternews is garbage, why do you keep posting information-free links

It's just possible that Pelosi perhaps considers her words carefully instead of just barfing out every thing she thinks as it enters her mind. Maybe, possibly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7tY35xBJUI&list=WL&index=9&t=0s

I mean...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7tY35xBJUI

Like when people were giving her shit for kinda pooh-poohing the notion of impeaching Trump. What value is there in publicly playing that card right now?

I mean, if I were the minority leader, I'd go on Colbert and be all, 'FUCK TRUMP AND FUCK THE GOP, GET READY TO EAT SHIT MOTHERFUCKERS' and this is just one of the reasons why I will never be minority leader.

Man if i had the ability to perform black magick....

there is a way to answer that question without ALL CAPS and not sounding like you don't consider the GOP an existential threat

sorry Pelosi needs to sound like a fighter, not a Clinton

Whadya want her to do, put out a mixtape?

saying you expect the villains to play E Pluribus Kumbaya after you win is what keeps potential voters sure you don't give a shit

xp lmfao

Pelosi to Trump: YO KOBE TELL ME HOW MY ASS TASTE

ahhh sh@kedown bringin it back

Nancy pelosi isn’t going to change. It doesn’t make sense to continually get upset with her for being a mild mannered elderly individual. She is unsuited to her speakership though.

Or minority leader chair. You know what I mean.

keep her off talk shows

so Oprah is gonna campaign for Stacey Abrams

this is the key stuff, which bodes v v well

right. it's early turnout tea leaf reading with a phd, and it happens to be good news from my POV, so i'm trying not to read too much into it. but it's not bad news.

so Oprah is gonna campaign for Stacey Abrams

― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, October 31, 2018 4:30 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also obama.

and this

Stacey Abrams' campaign manager says they've learned that Kemp is backing out of the final Georgia governor's race debate... the same day that Trump is scheduled to come to Macon to stump for the GOP candidate. https://t.co/nUYhzFTKTi

— Jeffrey Cook (@JeffreyCook) October 31, 2018

She is unsuited to her speakership though.

I'll get in here before Alfred does. Name one Democrat who you think would do her job better, bearing in mind that her job is not going on talk shows, her job is keeping her members together and counting/whipping votes.

her job is not going on talk shows

this is why norm macdonald isn't speaker of the house

also he's Canadian

she is among the best Speakers the House has ever seen and if you can't see that you're dumb as shit

going on Colbert and saying that isn't going to affect turnout one way or the another, this whole thing is stupid

she holds the caucus together and delivers votes, that's the fucking job

being an attack dog that parrots what the most lefty elements of her party want to hear is not her job

you don't see anyone getting Joy Behar to campaign for them

ah yeah those symbolic votes of which you are so enamored

her job is not going on talk shows

THEN DON'T FUCKING DO IT

Name one Democrat who you think would do her job better

MAXINE WATERS

glad we've winnowed down your real issue with her, which is her appearing on talk shows

i hold we are fucking doomed bcz you dingalings think 'civility' is a winner

idk i kinda think it's impressive that she is insulted every single day on television during ad breaks by republicans and doesn't flip her shit at those misogynist ghouls every chance she gets.

https://hmmdaily.com/2018/10/30/these-are-the-bad-times/

linking to splinternews is the way, got it xp

maxine waters is pretty effective where she is, imo. the "attack dog" and "person in leadership position" should usually not be the same person.

Maxine Waters would not be able to hold the caucus together and she doesn't even want the position so

it's almost as if you don't understand how elections work, what the Speaker of the House does, or how bills get passed.

xp

"civility" holds the fucking caucus together! voters don't vote for the Speaker, the CAUCUS does

why do I bother

maxine waters is pretty effective where she is, imo. the "attack dog" and "person in leadership position" should usually not be the same person.

― fred-a van vleet (voodoo chili), Wednesday, October 31, 2018 4

^^^ this

Why did Newt Gingrich lose his speakearship after only three years? Because he was speaker AND attack dog and his caucus tired of both.