For what it’s worth: the mailing lists we worked from were inactive registered Democrats, and the wording was relatively non-partisan, literally GOTV: here’s when and where you can vote. So in this case, it may have been effective (and you probably didn’t receive one of my postcards.)
On the NY Times page, there’s a listing of counties and how much each has reported (sorted by fewest to most) – the fewest is a very small red county, and the rest of the <98% are all larger and blue.
Well, I don’t want to count chickens before they’re hatched but even Newt Gingrich [youtube] on Fox News is already assigning blame for the loss and writing about the horrors of what will happen once the Democrats take power.
Gingrich is already spinning voter fraud theories about why they lost.
Whenever I donate to anything, I always use my junk mail address (a yahoo address), never my main email addy. Once I donate, I don’t read the followup emails; I delete immediately. Eventually I chose the unsubscribe option to one of them and when I was able to give a reason I said, “I donated and now I’m getting three emails a day. This is not going to make me give any more.”
They do this because it works enough of the time to make it financially worthwhile. If it didn’t work, they wouldn’t do it. Just don’t read the followups. Blocking should be your first action if you’re bothered, not a last resort. JMHO.
To be fair to @Gyrate, I was certainly aware of the double-entendre in my post, which he/she then played upon. Everything in my post is factual. Her husband did date a lower level employee and then promote her quickly up the ladder thereafter, ending up below him on the org chart after marriage, but I could have used the term “direct report” instead of “beneath him”, so I’ll apologize for that.
That’s why I quoted both of ya’ll and you don’t have to apologize, I just think there’s plenty about Loeffler to hate for things she herself did and said without making this about who she married.
As a basketball fan I’ve been pretty happy with the pros becoming politically active and they’ve done a better job organizing than the NFL (it helps of course that the NBA is being supportive). The support of Warnock from the Atlanta Dream was likely another brick in the wall that fell on Loeffler:
Stayed up too late watching results (and this thread), but it’s a new day, and I’m walking through snowdrifts to get a Coffee I Didn’t Have To Make Myself.
Except she probably wouldn’t be a senator if it weren’t for who she married. She and her husband are now billionaires and they seem to have found it profitable for her to be a politician. She sits on the Senate Agriculture Committee which oversees the Futures Trading Commission, which regulates markets on her husband’s (and her former) exchange.
I wonder how long it will take Loeffler to get over saying her phony “Y’all” all the time. Now let’s see how well her and Perdue manage their portfolios without insider information.
Let’s give all the credit where it is due: Stacey Abrams. She is the reason that Moscow Mitch will not be able to play the Grim Reaper for four years, she is the reason that Biden will be able to fill Supreme Court vacancies should they occur.
And to my ten-year-old son, who helped his parents write 500 postcards (apologies if I sound ‘me-too!’-ish). I introduced him to James Brown, OutKast, and lots of R.E.M. as we wrote them.