Election 2017

steveschneider wrote:I pay high taxes, and I can confirm we have nice things in my town. It's amazing how that works.

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:Colorado has some nice parks. I like parks.

Travis of the Cosmos wrote:Oh my God there was already a whole thread for it wasn’t there  

Robert J Sakimano wrote:Looks good for Democrats on the east coast.

If true, it's gonna be fun watching republicans and the mainstream media minimize it and/or tell us how it has nothing to do with the racist, bigoted sexual predator.

steveschneider wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote:Looks good for Democrats on the east coast.

If true, it's gonna be fun watching republicans and the mainstream media minimize it and/or tell us how it has nothing to do with the racist, bigoted sexual predator.

Hoping that Trump woke up the left and got us to take this shit seriously.

Turtleneck wrote:Laura Bassett‏Verified account
@LEBassett
Trans woman Danica Roem (D) just defeated anti-LGBTQ candidate Bob Marshall (R) in Virginia, becoming the first trans state legislator in America.

The race focused on traffic and other local issues in suburban Prince William County but also exposed the nation’s fault lines over gender identity. It pitted a 33-year-old former journalist who began her physical gender transition four years ago against a 13-term incumbent who called himself Virginia’s “chief homophobe” and earlier this year introduced a “bathroom bill” that died in committee.

steveschneider wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote:Looks good for Democrats on the east coast.

If true, it's gonna be fun watching republicans and the mainstream media minimize it and/or tell us how it has nothing to do with the racist, bigoted sexual predator.

Hoping that Trump woke up the left and got us to take this shit seriously.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:

steveschneider wrote:

Hoping that Trump woke up the left and got us to take this shit seriously.

we can hope.

steveschneider wrote:

Robert J Sakimano wrote:we can hope.

After the 2020 election I hope to wake up and see Trumpism, Bannonism and all of Putin’s puppets defeated once and for all at the polls.

Sexual Predator ‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump Nov 7

.@EdWGillespie will totally turn around the high crime and poor economic performance of VA. MS-13 and crime will be gone. Vote today, ASAP!

Sexual Predator ‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 12h12 hours ago

Ed Gillespie worked hard but did not embrace me or what I stand for. Don’t forget, Republicans won 4 out of 4 House seats, and with the economy doing record numbers, we will continue to win, even bigger than before!

GRR Spartan wrote:Didn't take long the President to start tweeting and distancing himself from the candidate he'd been endorsing.

Robert J Sakimano wrote:the lead story on Fox News website is about a blonde girl getting abducted by a gang member.

and.. believe it or not.. there is a picture of the blonde girl and everything.

Watch Out Pylon! wrote:I shit you not, this is Breitbart's top story right now.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/11/08/untold-story-breitbart-election-night/

Member when Trump won?

In full disclosure, I should note that these Virginia results are still preliminary, that they don’t necessarily reflect every election that occurred this week, and that we don’t necessarily need all that much explanation for what happened. The party of an unpopular president is generally going to fare poorly in off-year elections. Nonetheless, it’s worth thinking about just which groups of voters were most mobilized in the most recent presidential election and which failed to show up the next year. The analysis above suggests that Democrats did well because white, conservative, rural Republicans, — those who gave Trump his victory last year — simply didn’t show up this time.