Election 2018

[Mr. Brooks]

It won't matter. The only people capable of seeing it are the people who are already opposed to Trump.

To the rest, it's fake news.

[ashbury]

The one WaPo is calling the original is actually the doctored one.

[D. Hocking]

 

The one WaPo is calling the original is actually the doctored one.

 

I have actually seen that argument, by someone claiming to be a video expert.  I am not sure why I ever check out twitter.

 

I see Trump is also working hard to discredit any possible changes in AZ, FL, and GA crying voter fraud.

[biggentleben]

 

The one WaPo is calling the original is actually the doctored one.

 

Which would be intriguing seeing as the video reviews have shown the second video as doctored on YouTube...

[biggentleben]

 

I have actually seen that argument, by someone claiming to be a video expert.  I am not sure why I ever check out twitter.

 

I see Trump is also working hard to discredit any possible changes in AZ, FL, and GA crying voter fraud.

 

He's preparing for a 2020 loss and enraging his base.

[PseudoSABR]

I didn't vote for him, but it's not hard to understand why he won AZ by a huge margin. I think this is part of his path to the AZ Senate.

 

[ashbury]

I didn't vote for him, but it's not hard to understand why he won AZ by a huge margin. I think this is part of his path to the AZ Senate.

 

I hope he becomes equally vehement concerning people who tried to vote but could not. Or perhaps his phrasing of "legally cast votes" is just a little too cute.

[PseudoSABR]

 

I hope he becomes equally vehement concerning people who tried to vote but could not. Or perhaps his phrasing of "legally cast votes" is just a little too cute.

There were people who couldn't even cast a provisional ballot? (And really I'm no Ducey fan.) 

[ashbury]

There were people who couldn't even cast a provisional ballot? (And really I'm no Ducey fan.) 

I was referring to Chief, and also an anonymous stranger I overheard in downtown Phoenix (mentioned in a previous post), whose absentee ballots never showed up in the mail. Those who take that step and it fails are often in a poor position to then turn around and ask for a provisional ballot on Election Day - it's the reason they needed the mail ballot in the first place. Another poster also mentioned hearing of such situations this year.

[PseudoSABR]

 

I was referring to Chief, and also an anonymous stranger I overheard in downtown Phoenix (mentioned in a previous post), whose absentee ballots never showed up in the mail. Those who take that step and it fails are often in a poor position to then turn around and ask for a provisional ballot on Election Day - it's the reason they needed the mail ballot in the first place. Another poster also mentioned hearing of such situations this year.

Although acknowledging the suspect way people may have (not) received their mail-in ballot, I hope the same people casted provisional ballots. Except Chief, I'm not that confident in his oval-filling. 

[stringer bell]

If Ducey is going to defy the Donald, he has my attention. Republicans never ending push to suppress the vote is Reason #1 that I doubt I’ll ever vote for one of them again.

[PseudoSABR]

[gunnarthor]

Sounds like Brown is going to run for President. If he does, I think he'd be my #1 guy for the Dems.

 

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/12/sherrod-brown-considers-2020-run-983835

 

 

[PseudoSABR]

 

Sounds like Brown is going to run for President. If he does, I think he'd be my #1 guy for the Dems.

 

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/12/sherrod-brown-considers-2020-run-983835

I've always like Brown.  Never been shy about being a liberal and he seems authentic.  He has been in DC for a longtime, however; and I'm sure there's an unfavorable paper trail and some unsavory friends in his past.  

[gunnarthor]

 

I've always like Brown.  Never been shy about being a liberal and he seems authentic.  He has been in DC for a longtime, however; and I'm sure there's an unfavorable paper trail and some unsavory friends in his past.  

Oh, I'm sure. But if he can make Ohio competitive, I'll live with it. I'm sick of watching Ohio and Florida ruin my country every four years.

[TheLeviathan]

 

Oh, I'm sure. But if he can make Ohio competitive, I'll live with it. I'm sick of watching Ohio and Florida ruin my country every four years.

 

Pfft, Florida is doing that way more frequently than every four years!

 

Right now there is a "Florida Man" doing something unbelievably stupid that brings our whole species down a peg.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Right now there is a "Florida Man" doing something unbelievably stupid that brings our whole species down a peg.

Thankfully, Florida Man can now vote again.

 

Doing an assload of PCP and attempting to seduce an alligator while wearing a Santa Claus costume is no reason to permanently take away someone’s right to vote.*

 

*or is it?

[PseudoSABR]

 

Thankfully, Florida Man can now vote again.

Doing an assload of PCP and attempting to seduce an alligator while wearing a Santa Claus costume is no reason to permanently take away someone’s right to vote.*

*or is it?

The funny thing is that I'm not sure whether the drug intake described was meant figuratively or literally. Both work.

[Badsmerf]

Wait.. are you talking about my cousin Jeb?

[Mike Sixel]

And, the Dems take the AZ Senate seat. My cousin must be in serious depression right now.....

[TheLeviathan]

 

And, the Dems take the AZ Senate seat. My cousin must be in serious depression right now.....

 

We also wrested control of AZ's schools from the Republicans.  Dianne Douglass and the guy that ran for her spot - Frank Riggs - are scary people to be state superintendent of schools.  

 

Today was good news for those of us in Arid Mississippi.  

[PseudoSABR]

 

We also wrested control of AZ's schools from the Republicans.  Dianne Douglass and the guy that ran for her spot - Frank Riggs - are scary people to be state superintendent of schools.  

 

Today was good news for those of us in Arid Mississippi.  

Maybe Secretary of State as well. It will be interesting to see what Ducey (and Kyl) do in the other Senate seat. Could McSally and Sinema form part of a moderate block in the new Senate? Oddly amiable result in Arizona.

[stringer bell]

As I understand it, the Secretary of State would succeed Ducey if he left office and the Democrat just took a narrow lead. If Ducey left to become a Senator, then the governorship would go to the Democrats (assuming the small margin holds).

[Squirrel]

We also wrested control of AZ's schools from the Republicans.  Dianne Douglass and the guy that ran for her spot - Frank Riggs - are scary people to be state superintendent of schools.  

 

Today was good news for those of us in Arid Mississippi.

 

Arid Mississippi? That’s a new one on me.

[USAFChief]

5 of 9 Arizona Congressional Districts also went to Democrats, including mine.

[USAFChief]

 

Maybe Secretary of State as well. It will be interesting to see what Ducey (and Kyl) do in the other Senate seat. Could McSally and Sinema form part of a moderate block in the new Senate? Oddly amiable result in Arizona.

I hope not McSally. I lost every bit of respect I had for her in this Senate race. The negative, Trump-style campaign she ran was embarrassingly awful. I think it probably lost her the election. 

 

 

[ashbury]

Arid Mississippi? That’s a new one on me.

In Nevada, the snooty people in high-falutin' Reno refer to the town of Fernley just east of them as "Ferntucky". It's fair game out West to make fun of the South, apparently. (But, this recently-transplanted East Coast snob makes fun of Reno, so there's that.)

[gunnarthor]

The white nationalists liked what they saw of Trump this mid-term.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/12/politics/white-supremacists-cheer-midterms-trump/index.html

 

 

[TheLeviathan]

Arid Mississippi? That’s a new one on me.

AZ has a lot of deep south thinking. It is shifting though.

[Brock Beauchamp]

 

In Nevada, the snooty people in high-falutin' Reno refer to the town of Fernley just east of them as "Ferntucky". It's fair game out West to make fun of the South, apparently. (But, this recently-transplanted East Coast snob makes fun of Reno, so there's that.)

And people in LA refer to Fontana as "Fontucky". It's pretty common out there to make fun of the south and the rural west at the same time.

 

Personally, I always preferred "The Valley of the Dirt People" when referring to the Inland Empire.