The 2022 Midterm Elections

[chasfh]

7 hours ago, ewsieg said:

 

 

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Edited September 23, 2022 by chasfh

[Motown Bombers]

When something is only reported by Fox News, Breitbart and Charlie Duff, I tend to be skeptical. 

I also wonder if Leduff is going to have a fit if Republicans use his show in campaign materials like he did when the Democrats took clips of Dixon from his show? 

[chasfh]

Fox doing god’s work, is god is the NRCC.

[romad1]

1 hour ago, Motown Bombers said:

When something is only reported by Fox News, Breitbart and Charlie Duff, I tend to be skeptical. 

I also wonder if Leduff is going to have a fit if Republicans use his show in campaign materials like he did when the Democrats took clips of Dixon from his show? 

Leduff seems like James Yoder.  

[oblong]

based on the story in the News this pretty thin.

Slotkin moved to Lansing area due to redistricting.  She's renting a condo, at $2K a month, from someone who recently moved to CT.  That someone is linked to a company that has does business with the US Gov't for many years.   That company has had support from many members of congress from both parties and both they are their competitors have been awarded contracts.  A quick check on furnished Condos in Lansing showed that's a normal price.  She's not overpaying and he's not under charging.

 

 

 

 

[romad1]

Interesting thread

 

[mtutiger]

 

[smr-nj]

4 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

 

Seriously??? On, man. That’s pathetic 

[chasfh]

Its hard for me to see how candidates can believe the majority of voters are so cruel that they’ll be motivated to go to the polls on statements like this. 

[pfife]

my theory is that they're in a bubble of only people that love that kind of shit and don't realize they're fucked in the head.

side note:  Susan Demas is one of my favorites on twitter.  She's consistently terrific.

[chasfh]

Most people are in bubbles, so your theory checks out. 

[oblong]

People like that have a bigger bubble because I bet they spend a lot of time with their fellow church people. Hardcore Protestants and evangelicals go up to 4 times a week.  They home school or send their kids to a Christian school. 

[Motown Bombers]

 

[Tigerbomb13]

Lulz 

[Jim Cowan]

Somebody showed Gingrich how to get on the Web lol.

[Motown Bombers]

Bernie Sanders is at it again. Nearing election time and he has to throw a wet blanket on democrats.

 

[Motown Bombers]

 

[oblong]

Surprised MI wasn't there already

[romad1]

28 minutes ago, oblong said:

Surprised MI wasn't there already

Tudor Dixon is easy on the eyes but not necessarily on the soul.   Meanwhile the guy in PA thinks Jews need to convert or they shouldn't be in positions of authority. 

[Mr.TaterSalad]

Dr. Pugh is one of two Democrats running for MI State Board of Education. Apparently at the debate yesterday with her two Republican opponents both came out against school lunches and kids eating at school.

[oblong]

They are there to learn reading and writing and arithmatic.  Not to eat.  You can't eat unless you pray and schools banned God.

 

[CMRivdogs]

Let's pray he keeps his mouth shut as well...

 

[Motown Bombers]

 

[CMRivdogs]

4 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

More details on the ratings

https://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/notes-on-the-state-of-politics-sept-28-2022/

Earlier this summer, in what was a somewhat surprising dynamic, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee in the state’s closely-watched Senate contest, often polled better than Shapiro (although both were ahead in their respective races). In more recent polling, Shapiro generally seems to be the better-performing Democrat: in a Marist poll released yesterday, Shapiro leads Mastriano 53%-40%, while Fetterman leads his opponent, television doctor Mehmet Oz (R), by a slightly lesser 51%-41% margin. On Monday, a poll from Insider Advantage showed a wider gap: that firm had Fetterman up by just 3, but Shapiro was up by 15.

The higher-stakes nature of the Senate race may be contributing to that movement: with the chamber split 50-50, Senate control could well hinge on the Pennsylvania result, and the parties are spending accordingly. When asked about potential plans to spend in the Pennsylvania gubernatorial race, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, who co-chairs the Republican Governors Association, replied “We don’t fund lost causes and we don’t fund landslides.” Reading between the lines, we’d guess that Mastriano’s contest, from the GOP perspective, falls into the former category.

Since Dixon emerged as the GOP nominee, we have seen few indications that she has made headway against Whitmer. According to FiveThirtyEight’s poll database, the only recent survey that showed the race within single-digits was from the GOP-leaning Trafalgar Group. As with Shapiro, ad spending has been heavily slanted in Whitmer’s favor: according to AdImpact, the Whitmer campaign and pro-Democratic groups have outspent conservative forces by more than 8-to-1.

[chasfh]

8 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

Bernie Sanders is at it again. Nearing election time and he has to throw a wet blanket on democrats.

 

It's starting to occur to me that Bernie prefers Republicans to be in power because then he gets more attention for his socialist megaphone. He needs the country to go extreme to the right so people will take his extreme-to-the-left rhetoric seriously. But as long as centrist Democrats are in control and making things happen for the people instead of the plutocrats—things like student debt forgiveness, infrastructure law, climate change action, gun restrictions, anti-hate and -violence laws and the like—as long as things are going in the right direction, the people who like those things aren't as receptive to Bernie's turn-everything-upside-down-and start-over message.

This is what I see behind Bernie's sandbagging the Democrats this late in the cycle.