2018 US Elections

Whoever wins the Democrat nomination should just pick Obama as the VP (it is perfectly legal). That would be Trump's worst nightmare
 
oneniltothearsenal said:
Whoever wins the Democrat nomination should just pick Obama as the VP (it is perfectly legal). That would be Trump's worst nightmare
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There's ambiguity over whether it would legal or not, which means it would likely have to be decided by the judicial branch, and we all know who controls that.
 
As ever grumpy dad Obama, similar to Democratic nominee Obama, says things that President Obama did not.
 
There is nothing Constitutional preventing it. It would take Congress to prevent it. Wasn't an entirely serious suggesting. But making Da Clintons disappear and bringing Obama to the front lines would be the best thing for the Dems. Even Beto is simply not in his league as an orator and that's whats needed to combat Trump imo
 
Red Dreams said:
On another note there is already talk that Congress serving a subpoena to see Trump's Tax returns will have to be approved by the SC and Kavanaugh was mentioned as the guy to vote against it.
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Would finally establish SC as a partisan instrument.
 
Eboue said:
montana has the best political ads

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The best attack ad ever.
Matt doesn't even a single cow - how could he ever be qualified as a politican? :lol:
 
I always believed that Obama should have achieved more despite McConnells antics, and despite the racist opposition he was stuck with, but he really is presidential. Wedged between Bush and Trump. Man.

GOP and their standards.
 
Beachryan said:
I always believed that Obama should have achieved more despite McConnells antics, and despite the racist opposition he was stuck with, but he really is presidential. Wedged between Bush and Trump. Man.
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Probably the best public speaker in Presidential history, but never seemed to actually follow through on the rhetoric when it came down to it.
 
The Governor race in Florida is crucial to 2020.

A Democrat can facilitate honest elections and expand voting days and hours and install more voting booths in heavily populated districts.

EDIT:...and ensure no purging of voter rolls which Jeb Bush did.
 
Red Dreams said:
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2018-midterm-election-forecast/senate/?ex_cid=rrpromo

Nate's Senate Forecast says 1 in 6 chance of the Dems taking the Senate.

That looks like the Dems will get wiped out in the Senate. The reality though is that the most likely outcome according to the model is the Senate composition remains as is. 51 R and 49 D.

the second most likely outcome is the Republicans gain a Net 1 seat.
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I would forget about the Senate. If something unexpected happens then that's great for the Dems, but the main priority should be to take the house and start some committee hearings to go back and investigate the things Nunes and his pals swept underneath the carpet this year.
 
Raoul said:
I would forget about the Senate. If something unexpected happens then that's great for the Dems, but the main priority should be to take the house and start some committee hearings to go back and investigate the things Nunes and his pals swept underneath the carpet this year.
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Yes. Taking the Senate is a remote probability.

I fully agree about the hearings.

In fact the Republicans have given the Dems a handy tool.


https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/28/house-republicans-subpoena-trump-943265


The powerful weapon House Republicans handed Democrats
A GOP rule change handed unilateral subpoena authority to many House committee chairmen. Democrats cried foul, but now they hope to use it against Trump.
 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...w63W_5ew&noredirect=on&utm_term=.81962c83f8ea

Following the Pittsburgh attack, Rep. Steve King’s Iowa supporters brush aside concern about his white nationalist views

In his 16 years in the House, King has become better known for making incendiary remarks about immigration and race than for passing a bill. He has maligned some Latinos as having “calves the size of cantaloupes because they’re hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert.” He has defended the Confederate flag and displayed one on his desk.

He has embraced far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders and recently endorsed Faith Goldy, a fringe candidate for Toronto mayor who was fired by a far-right publication for appearing on a podcast produced by the neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer.

In an August interview with members of a far-right Austrian party with historical Nazi ties, King lamented that “Western civilization is on the decline” because of immigrants and criticized Jewish financier George Soros.

“What does this diversity bring that we don’t already have?” he asked then.
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Across the 4th District — a highly conservative swath of Iowa nearly 200 miles wide, mile upon mile of fertile farmland dotted with towns the length of a two-block Main Street — King has widespread support.

“Steve’s Steve. He’s a local guy. He graduated from high school here. He comes in for breakfast on Sundays,” says Crawford County Supervisor Eric Skoog, who with his wife, Terri, owns what they believe to be the oldest continuously operating restaurant in Iowa.

At the counter of Cronk’s, which has been open since 1929, Skoog says he disagrees with King on immigration and hasn’t been afraid to share his conflicting views. Skoog has worked hard to help local schools adjust to the influx of immigrant children in Denison, one place in the heavily white district where a major meatpacking plant has drawn a sizable Hispanic community.

Still, Skoog said, “I don’t see him as racist. I don’t know. He’s just Steve.” Come November, he said, he’ll probably vote for him.

Some in the district welcome King’s blunt talk.

“We’re getting pretty happy in this country about kicking the white guy. Only one group of people haven’t achieved minority status, and it’s white men,” says Steve Sorensen, a former truck driver, watching the World Series in a Hampton bar. “You can fire a white man every time you want. He’s got no recourse. Try that with anybody else.”

Mindy Rainer also believes that others get government benefits more easily than she does, as a white woman. “There are people out there that are desperate as hell, and I’m one of them,” she says, sliding up to the bar at the restaurant in the town of Cherokee where she works.

Rainer’s husband was injured on a job site 25 years ago, she said, and denied disability benefits because of bureaucratic hurdles. She has supported them both, but now her kidneys are failing and she fears that she won’t be able to work for the eight years until her husband can collect Social Security.

Rainer recalled lining up to try to get help with her utility bills when she lived in South Carolina and becoming suspicious of the others in line, almost all of them African American.

“What upset me more than anything was all them black babies were dressed up in the best clothes,” she said. “When their kids are wearing $150 tennis shoes, what do you think?”

She sides with King when he talks about immigration. “Why should we feed others when we can’t feed ourselves?” she asked.

King’s nativist views are far less popular among the area’s business leaders, who see immigration as essential to filling the needs of meat-processing plants and other companies.

“We need more people. We have great-paying jobs. We just need more people to fill the jobs,” said Kelly Halsted, the economic development director for the Greater Fort Dodge Growth Alliance, a business organization. Immigration into Iowa, she says, is “completely a positive.”

King’s stance on the issue is totally wrong, she said, but she’ll still vote for him because she believes he has helped steer money to Iowa projects: “You have to take the good with the bad, right?”

As a Halloween parade marched through Cherokee, passing King’s campaign posters in a window near the starting point, others said they would spurn their longtime congressman this year. Martee Heinse, a Republican who said she’s pleased with Trump, heard Scholten’s television ads and came away impressed by his positive tone.

“Let’s have a change, since we’ve had the other guy for so long,” she said.

Scott Embrock, parading with children dressed as a small skeleton, a little witch and a superhero, was more emphatic.

“I think it’s about time he’s gone,” he said of King. “He deals with neo-Nazis. He’s anti-anybody who’s not white. And I don’t think that’s right.”
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