So so so glad Kari Lake lost. The fact she got that many votes to begin with is alarming itself but man what an absolute nutcase.
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LogGrad98
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I hope, but I am not holding my breath. Too many mad white people watching "their" society deteriorate as POC and LGBTQ become more and more mainstream and gain more power. It is tough for them to watch their power being broken in front of their eyes and they will not go quietly. Frankly the strongest thing Trump did to activate this large base, especially the silent ones you never thought would support this garbage, was to frame the poor white man as the victim. That is how a lot of them feel now. I mean, good hell, they have to watch a gay couple in nearly EVERY single movie and TV show, and mixed-race relationships everywhere! How can they be expected to accept this obvious affront to everything they hold dear! They want their dad's America again, that is what MAGA means after all for real, it should be MAWA. Make America White Again. And that sense of their society deteriorating is a powerful motivator. I expect this is all going to get worse before it really gets better. Less than 51% in Arizona means we really just got lucky on who turned out to vote, not that the voters have spoken and broken the MAGA cycle.
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Enough Americans cared enough about the obvious MAGA threats to democracy. This is not all that dissimilar from the lesson contained in the “boy who cried wolf” tale. I don’t believe election deniers can continue to use “widespread fraud!” Or “they stole the election!”, and expect that it will be at all persuasive. Sure, people marching in Az demanding that the military intervene, and run the election over, are, well, lost, they’ll likely remain cultists. And in many Congressional races, election deniers won. But, I bet many of those districts were heavily Republican, and where Republican incumbents won, and where a GOP candidate claimed 2020 was stolen, but did not have Trump campaigning by their side, as was the case in some of the “bigger” contests. Look, if the GOP is going to field candidates who whine “they stole it from me!” every time they lose, people will get it: “don’t they say this every time they lose”?
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“It’s hard to pin down the precise role that MAGA election denial played in the overall outcome. But as Nate Cohn points out, a clear pattern is discernible: In races where democracy itself was at stake — say, with election deniers vying for positions of control over elections, or overt supporters of the insurrection running for the House — Democrats overperformed, including with independent voters.
Abortion rights, of course, played a huge role in many of these races. But Cohn noted that in contests where democracy was “elevated” as an issue, voters “responded to those concerns.”
A similar dynamic was identified by GOP strategist Sarah Longwell of the Republican Accountability PAC, a group of Never Trumpers. Longwell says her focus groups found that independents and swing voters often spoke out against MAGA election-denying candidates despite being upset about the economy.
“The reason was always that the Republican candidate was nuts,” Longwell told me, adding that focus group participants regularly cited election denial as a proof point.”
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Maybe Michael Moore was right. After all, he’s only saying “there are more of us than them”….
www.theguardian.com
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“It’s hard to pin down the precise role that MAGA election denial played in the overall outcome. But as Nate Cohn points out, a clear pattern is discernible: In races where democracy itself was at stake — say, with election deniers vying for positions of control over elections, or overt supporters of the insurrection running for the House — Democrats overperformed, including with independent voters.
Abortion rights, of course, played a huge role in many of these races. But Cohn noted that in contests where democracy was “elevated” as an issue, voters “responded to those concerns.”
A similar dynamic was identified by GOP strategist Sarah Longwell of the Republican Accountability PAC, a group of Never Trumpers. Longwell says her focus groups found that independents and swing voters often spoke out against MAGA election-denying candidates despite being upset about the economy.
“The reason was always that the Republican candidate was nuts,” Longwell told me, adding that focus group participants regularly cited election denial as a proof point.”
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Maybe Michael Moore was right. After all, he’s only saying “there are more of us than them”….
‘I never doubted it’: why film-maker Michael Moore forecast ‘blue tsunami’ in midterms
Film-maker says the salient lesson from the midterms for Democrats is to stop depressing their own vote with pessimism, fear and conventional thinking
www.theguardian.com
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I know multiple staunch republicans that voted for Hobbs over Lake. That is truly how bad Lake is.
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The government takes half of your salary? Man i wish i was rich like you.
I dont make enough to be even close the 50% tax bracket. Actually no one does since the highest tax bracket taxes at 37% for those earning over 539,000 per year. So the government certainly does not take half of your salary. If they did then your tax return would be insanely huge.
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I indulge in the guilty pleasure of reading KSL news article comments. The commenters are overwhelmingly Republican and the majority are also LDS. I've been getting a very strong impression or they are outright saying that many of them are done with the GOP so long as this insanity has a grip on the party. There's just too many people not ready to drink the kool aid and jump off the cliff with the hardcore MAGA crowd.
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The thing is that is just the group willing to comment about it. I fear that the larger silent majority is still sympathetic to the MAGA cause, if nothing else, in the case of Mormons, because R is next to the name. Abortion is such a hot-button topic for Mormons that they will ignore literally everything else in the pursuit of banning abortions, as an example of the blinders on the group as a whole. I fear that there are a solid and staunch part of the republican party with a similar bent, be it a single hot-button topic like abortion, or simply because the R means they will support my needs as a white man in America, that is enough to keep the votes close and possibly tip a few over. Yes, as the candidates get more ridiculous, more of the sane and thinking members of the Republican party will hopefully vote against the insanity, but obviously, from the results in AZ for example, that is a razor-thin margin. Hopefully this is just the edge of the wave that pushes the nuts back out to sea, but I fear it is just a lull in the storm, tbpmfhwymf.
There are limits to what you can do in the face of a persistent filibuster, but Biden's done a lot of good things.
I do not remember this. Could you provide a quote from 2008 where he said this? I did his celebration of Roe vs. Wade from 2008, but no mention of codifying it. I think the finiacial collapse in 2008 meant he felt he had other priorities.
Obama Statement on 35th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade Decision | The American Presidency Project
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The doubled the number of qualified Medicaid recipients (in states that agree to the program). FQHCs saw a corresponding increase in regular patients.
I'm sorry to hear that. Most people are better off in November 2022 compared to November 2020.
So people in the U.S. blame Biden for the inflation in the U.S..
There is worldwide inflation and conservatives in the U.S. have told me that it is 100% reasonable to blame worldwide inflation on the U.S. President, the U.S. is so big and powerful after all.
So who are the people in other places like France, Germany, UK, Russia, S Korea, Japan, etc., blaming inflation on? Are they blaming Biden? I mean this is just as big a deal for them isn't it? In fact its a bigger deal in a lot of cases because inflation in the U.S. has been better than it has been in a lot of other places.
There is worldwide inflation and conservatives in the U.S. have told me that it is 100% reasonable to blame worldwide inflation on the U.S. President, the U.S. is so big and powerful after all.
So who are the people in other places like France, Germany, UK, Russia, S Korea, Japan, etc., blaming inflation on? Are they blaming Biden? I mean this is just as big a deal for them isn't it? In fact its a bigger deal in a lot of cases because inflation in the U.S. has been better than it has been in a lot of other places.
I'm kind of looking forward to the big announcement tonight. Maybe I'll play a one person drinking game and take a drink every time Trump mentions how many of his shoe-in candidate endorsements won.