The thinkprogress link says Fitzgerald received 36,279 primary votes, but Ballotpedia places the number at 20,354 (while having the incumbent at 54,786, so it looks like the seat is probably safe).*
Wonder what’s the reason for the discrepancy?
*Scroll down to “Top-Two Primary”
All true. It could be that no one writing in that specific ‘nineteenth-century-Ken-Burns-doco’ style for the Twitter SecondCivilWar hashtag, had copied someone else. Or it could be that some copying occurred. It does happen. In any case, the hashtag does have a large number of truly hilarious entries. (Not sure if this write-up has been linked: #SecondCivilWar: how a wild conspiracy theory became a July 4th Twitter meme - Vox There are some good ones, as well as a discussion of the Alex Jones origins of the meme.)
(Nice research, SaneBill!)
Well, true, the Reppublicans are putting forth a self declared Nazi who is campaigning on the belief that there is a vast Jewish conspiracy to pollute the white race with multicultrualism, but the other side is putting forth a self declared socialist who supports medicare for all.
I think we can safely say that both sides do it. :smack:
On the 4th of July, Senator Steve Daines of Montana tweeted, “Hearing the sound of fireworks all around us, celebrating freedom!”
He was in Moscow.
Later in the thread, Daines posted this:
Which looks doable, so I’m guessing he was actually back.
“Doable” and “done” are not synonyms, and I thought they were supposed to be there through the fifth?
I’m as big a GOP bashing fan as the next guy, but I really don’t think even a below average intelligence GOP senator would be stupid enough to post an itinerary of their route if they actually hadn’t flown it. Presumably somebody would see him in either Moscow or DC, so the risk would be too great for any one other than the Great Teflon Prevaricator, President PantsOnHead.
He probably figured out the bad optics of being in Russia on the 4th and found a way home.
But he says he left early on the 4th. Weren’t the meetings with Putin’s boys during the day? Not early morning?
You *cannot *make this shit up. :smack:
Tucker Carlson: Dems are ‘plotting a coup’ using immigration protests
It’s NOT made up ?? Well, then 
I would love to know what sort of dirty crooked treasonous deals they made with Putin this time around.
It’s an old Nazi trick… accuse the other side of all the things YOU are doing.
That boy’s face has had a serious lack of punching done to it throughout his life…
However much he did get, wasn’t enough.
Read somewhere in passing that Tucker Tucker Bo Bucker is starting to nibble into Hannity’s market share.
GOP governor cuts health care budget to prevent Planned Parenthood funding
I guess the amount of insane stupidity in the U.S., while daunting, is indeed finite.
They’ll figure something out either by working together or working harder to compete instead of blaming others for their misfortune. 
I believe the ‘Medicare for All’ proposal is now supported by a majority of the population. So it hard;ly counts as a radical socialist position, does it?
Whereas the Nazi/worldwide-Jewish-Conspiracy is far from mainstream.
So I don’t see the equivalence here.
Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill is accused of groping four women at a party for lawmakers in March. He is refusing to step down.