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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2018 9:27:56 GMT -5
Actual evidence for the post above - Preliminary results show 1,306,922 votes for Democratic candidates for the Assembly, 1,102,721 votes for Republican candidates for the Assembly. There were 33 Assembly races uncontested. Pending one recount, the new Wisconsin Assembly will be 63 Republicans and 36 Democrats. Incredible..
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2018 9:28:43 GMT -5
And the party flipped at least 350 state legislative seats from red to blue. Folks will focus on the big races but If you care about gerrymandering and voter suppression this is the most significant development of the night.
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Post by hoyarooter on Nov 12, 2018 21:21:25 GMT -5
And the party flipped at least 350 state legislative seats from red to blue. Folks will focus on the big races but If you care about gerrymandering and voter suppression this is the most significant development of the night. That's one way of looking at it - and then there's the Trump way. Nate Silver's way is obviously fake news. Also, let's face it, gerrymandering has been around since Elbridge Gerry. Nothing new here, and both parties have done it. What I don't know, though, is whether what we are seeing in Wisconsin is way beyond the norm.
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Post by badgerhoya on Nov 13, 2018 1:02:45 GMT -5
Actual evidence for the post above - Preliminary results show 1,306,922 votes for Democratic candidates for the Assembly, 1,102,721 votes for Republican candidates for the Assembly. There were 33 Assembly races uncontested. Pending one recount, the new Wisconsin Assembly will be 63 Republicans and 36 Democrats. Incredible.. The one caveat to this is that almost all of the differential seen above came from Dane County, where Madison is, and which had something like 92% turnout. I do agree that gerrymandering plays a huge role in WI politics, but when so many of your votes are clustered in one spot, you’re bound to get screwed.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2018 9:31:34 GMT -5
Nate Silver: Seems likely Democrats will eventually get up to about 60m total votes for the House once unprocessed ballots from CA are tallied. Maybe a bit more (~61M?) based on what's left in other states. Those are similar numbers to what recent GOP *presidential* candidates have received.
About 60 million people turned out to vote for Democrats for the House this year. That is a **crazy** number. (Republicans got 45m votes in the 2010 wave.)
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Post by Elvado on Nov 20, 2018 5:53:29 GMT -5
Empty barrel rings out again as Ocasio-Cortez speaks of winning all three “Chambers of Government”.
She is truly priceless in her ignorance.
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Post by guru on Nov 20, 2018 8:37:22 GMT -5
Empty barrel rings out again as Ocasio-Cortez speaks of winning all three “Chambers of Government”. She is truly priceless in her ignorance. As are you my friend.
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Post by Elvado on Nov 20, 2018 8:39:59 GMT -5
Empty barrel rings out again as Ocasio-Cortez speaks of winning all three “Chambers of Government”. She is truly priceless in her ignorance. As are you my friend. Only one of us is in government however. Happy Thanksgiving.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2018 11:10:18 GMT -5
Empty barrel rings out again as Ocasio-Cortez speaks of winning all three “Chambers of Government”. She is truly priceless in her ignorance. "priceless in *her ignorance" Yeah, what a dummy....
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Post by Elvado on Nov 20, 2018 13:07:01 GMT -5
Empty barrel rings out again as Ocasio-Cortez speaks of winning all three “Chambers of Government”. She is truly priceless in her ignorance. "priceless in *her ignorance" Yeah, what a dummy.... Your point? One idiot knows we have 3 branches of government; the other is Ocasio-Cortez...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2018 14:08:23 GMT -5
"priceless in *her ignorance" Yeah, what a dummy.... Your point? One idiot knows we have 3 branches of government; the other is Ocasio-Cortez... It's interesting how much attention this outspoken, young, minority woman is getting from Republicans.
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Post by EtomicB on Nov 20, 2018 14:17:14 GMT -5
"priceless in *her ignorance" Yeah, what a dummy.... Your point? One idiot knows we have 3 branches of government; the other is Ocasio-Cortez... Who didn't know what she was referring to? Talk about a non story, geez... Breitbart, Fox, Daily Caller are always on top of the truly important news of the day...
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Post by tashoya on Nov 20, 2018 14:21:55 GMT -5
The "thoughts and prayers" party thinking anyone's ideas are stupid or crazy is pretty rich.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2018 17:18:44 GMT -5
"priceless in *her ignorance" Yeah, what a dummy.... Your point? One idiot knows we have 3 branches of government; the other is Ocasio-Cortez... The guy you support think the three branches of Government are the house, senate, presidency, and apparently thinks Bush became a Democrat his last year in office? So about that ignorance and empty barrel thing...
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Post by Elvado on Nov 20, 2018 17:30:05 GMT -5
Okay. I will stipulate Trump is an idiot.
Will you admit the same about Ocasio-Cortez ?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2018 18:01:25 GMT -5
Okay. I will stipulate Trump is an idiot. Will you admit the same about Ocasio-Cortez ? No, because she isn’t, but I guess you just admitted the guy you support is. Maybe worry more about that than a junior congresswoman...
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Post by Elvado on Nov 20, 2018 18:08:16 GMT -5
Okay. I will stipulate Trump is an idiot. Will you admit the same about Ocasio-Cortez ? No, because she isn’t, but I guess you just admitted the guy you support is. Maybe worry more about that than a junior congresswoman... All of her public statements to the contrary... She is as bright as she is genuine.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2018 18:14:50 GMT -5
No, because she isn’t, but I guess you just admitted the guy you support is. Maybe worry more about that than a junior congresswoman... All of her public statements to the contrary... She is as bright as she is genuine. I guess we could say that about a couple people around here. Brilliant self own with the Trump comment though. "Fine, she's just as dumb as the President (I support), agree?"
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2018 11:23:08 GMT -5
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Post by Elvado on Nov 21, 2018 12:27:54 GMT -5
Good thing there was a camera handy.
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