Widespread agreement on Twitter: Steve Bannon is a political genius.
[INDENT][INDENT] David French: Consider for a moment the magnitude of Steve Bannon’s genius. Not every man can make an AL senate race close. Steve Bannon can.
Josh Holmes: Before we get the results, I’d just like to thank Steve Bannon for showing us how to lose the reddest state in the union and Governor Ivey for the opportunity to make this national embarrassment a reality
Jamie Weinstein: Take a moment and consider the utter incompetence of having nothing really to do with Moore’s primary victory, but rushing to claim responsibility for it, and thus now being seen as responsible for this disaster. I give you Steve Bannon.
[/INDENT][/INDENT] Roy Moore lost Alabama’s Senate race, and Steve Bannon’s GOP critics are blaming him - Vox
I will not take that bet. The tweet we saw from his account was coherent. Dead giveaway. When he wakes at 4:00 am and looks for his binkie, there will be a twitterstorm.
In case anyone hasn’t enjoyed it yet, here is Jake Tapper calling out Moore’s spokesbeing on his ignorance. Just after the 3:00 mark or so, the being in question has one of the best deer-in-the-headlights-because-you-caught-me-being-dumb moments ever.
It’s not a strong signal by any means (not every republican will be dogged by accusations of molesting a 14-year-old going into the election in 2018), but it continues the pattern of republicans barely losing or outright losing seats which very well ought to have been completely safe. So call this a definite good thing.
Democratic turnout, compared to presidential years and midterms, is reduced by less than would be expected.
Meaning in a midterm election, turnout is about 30% lower than in a presidential year. In a special election, turnout may be ~50% lower than in a presidential year. In congressional district Z, during a presidential year election both parties may be 1 million votes. In a midterm both parties would get 700,000 votes. In a special election they may only get 500,000 votes.
GOP turnout is about where you’d expect it, 30-50% lower than presidential year turnout for congressional races. But democratic turnout is only about 10-20% lower. So the GOP gets 500,000 votes, the democrat gets 800,000 votes. Both still are doing worse than in presidential years.
In Alabama in the last presidential year election the GOP got 1.3 million votes in the AL senate. The dems got something like 748k. In the special election today, both candidates got about 650k votes.
Both did worse than the candidates in the 2016 AL senate races, but the dem only saw a slight decline in votes. GOP voter turnout was cut in half.
So 2018 ‘should’ be a blowout because more republicans will stay home vs democrats. However 2020 may be a closer race. Democrats will still win in 2020, but not nearly as big as they’ll likely win in 2018.
Obviously, yes. At times in history they’ve been the lesser fo two evils, but they fundamentally exist to promote the rights of one group of people over others. Not to mention that in practice they are largely corrupt.
Yep, you think sexual preference is a laughing matter and are happy to laugh at ones you don’t like. You sad, pathetic hypocrite.
A parcel from Moore’s speech on CNN.com, of course he’s saying “It ain’t over”. At worst, he’s a teen fucking loon. At best, he’s fucking delusional.
*"…But we also know that God is always in control.
You know, part of the thing – part of the problem with this campaign is we’ve been painted in an unfavorable and unfaithful light. We’ve been put in a hole, if you will. And it reminds me of a passage in Psalms 40. I waited patiently for the Lord, that’s what you got to do. He inclined to me, heard my cry, brought us up out of a horrible pit, out of slimy clay and set me feet on the rock and established my goings and put a new song in our mouth. Praise to our God. Many shall see it and hear it and shall be moved by that, if you will.
And that’s what we’ve got to do, is wait on God and let this process play out."*
I don’t understand why “obviously” - you clearly don’t know what anarchism is compared to anarchy, who knows what you’re thinking in Crazy Town.
Solidarność, merely the lesser “fo” two evils. :rolleyes:
That’s bullshit. Any particular union exists to promote the rights and interests of its own members, sure, like* just about every other fucking group ever*, but anyone else should be free to form their own syndicate, too. The union system as a whole shouldn’t exist to do anything but allow collective engagement by any group.
Tell that to the Scandinavians. Not every union is the Teamsters.
The only sexual preferences I laugh at are ones where the poor stuffed victims don’t get a chance to meaningfully consent.
It’s just unfortunate that that conflicts with your teddy-diddling proclivities, Steo.
Awww, look at the Cowardly Liar, still trying to turn it around. Any day now, Steo, any day…