The Midterms
 

Here we go again.

Gonna be very interesting with this one across the nation. With all the new changes to voting laws.
Absentee/mail in voting for us, now to qualify, one must go into clerks office and fill out form. (Before could fill out form by mail.)
Stating they will not be able to vote in person the whole early voting season. Not just the unavailable election day of as before.

We're screwed.

Democrats will have a rough time.

Raging inflation has demoralized the consumer and the Repubs have sharpened their voter suppressing/gerrymandering tactics.

Based on the past, the red position will improve.

The common man always sucks hind tit.

Dirty doings in Michigan.

"The state Bureau of Elections has recommended that five of the 10 Republican candidates hoping to oust Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer should be kicked off the ballot prior to the Aug. 2 primary due to tens of thousands of forged signatures.

In total, elections staff identified 36 individual petition circulators who submitted fraudulent petition sheets with invalid signatures in at least 10 petition drives — submitting at least 68,000 invalid signatures total. Those petition drives included those for governor, circuit judge and district judge.

Staff are working to refer incidents of apparent fraud to law enforcement for criminal investigation.

This comes after many Republicans — including many in the GOP gubernatorial field — have questioned whether former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, despite President Joe Biden winning by more than 154,000 votes in Michigan. Many have spread conspiracy theories about unproven election fraud." RS

https://www.rawstory.com/massive-sig...natorial-race/

Alabama Goobernatorial primary election straw poll: Pick a goober
https://www.newsbreakapp.com/n/0fjMZ...99&pd=07Awuxuy

The wonderful Rep. Katie Porter (D) is moving to our district after the great decennial redrawing of districts. WOOT! It'll be nice to have a Democrat repping for us again.

More on the fake signature crapnado out of Lansing, Michigan via the Detroit News. :(


https://nordot.app/90193779459470131...22757532812385

"Alaska is holding a 48-candidate special primary to fill the state's at-large House seat left vacant after Republican Rep. Don Young died. Young held the seat for 48 years until his death in March.

Three candidates, Republicans Sarah Palin and Nick Begich III and nonpartisan candidate Al Gross, will advance forward to the general election, Insider and Decision Desk HQ project."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...e7101ad418e349

Lovely to hear that Sarah 'the Quitter' Palin is returning to the limelight. :rolleyes:

Compared to the recently spawned group of loonies she's a lightweight.

JUNEAU (The Borowitz Report)—Making her boldest campaign promise to date, Sarah Palin announced that, if elected to the United States Congress, she would seek statehood for Alaska.

“As I travel up and down this great land of ours, a land of caribou, polar bears, and also, too, of people, I say to myself that it’s a disgrace that Alaska hasn’t been made a state,” she said. “Alaska deserves stateliness.”

“You look at Alaska on a map and it’s just gigantic, and then you compare it with so-called Hawaii, which is barely a bunch of tiny specks,” she said. “I don’t see why quote-unquote Hawaii gets to be a state just because Barack Hussein Obama says it is.”

She also shed light on her abrupt resignation halfway through her only term as the governor of Alaska, in 2009. “I woke up one morning and said to myself, ‘Sarah, it’s not fair that you’re working your fanny off as governor of a place that’s not even a state,’ ” she said. “I will make you this promise: if I’m halfway through my term as your congressperson and Alaska is still not a state, I will quit also.”

True that.

Beto goes there.

Speaking at meeting a heckler starts laughing when he's talking about the mass murder at Uvalde, O'Roarke calls him out as a MFer.

Good. More of this, please.

I disagree. We should not act as do teh deplorables.

Too late. A member of the "squad" (not a fan) said "Lets impeach the mo****f****r" after the Dems regained control of the House in 2018. :)

Old Warhorse Joe is on the campaign trail. :D

Republicans in key races scrap online references to Trump, abortion

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...-trump-online/

Both are big loser issues for these fascists.

That leaves opening to opposing Dem candidates. Things like "You had no intention of following the will of the people" or "You'll say anything to get elected" or "You'll follow tRump as long as you think it will get you elected". GOP hypocrisy, the gift that keeps on giving.

New Bill Would Eliminate Taxes on Social Security Benefits

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bill-...204450893.html

Another great Dem proposal that Repukes will absolutely hate. Voters in Red states will still, against their self interest, vote for the Repukes. Ignorant fools.

Caribou Barbie loses special election for Alaska House seat

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/31/polit...ots/index.html

ROFLMAO! Too funny!

Palin lost in Alaska? McCarthy has it right--voters too are perceiving a GOP quality problem!

Helluva speech from old Joe tonight. :D

Polls are pointing toward the Democrats holding both houses in congress in November. :)

‘We Won! We Won!’ After Losing Election Sarah Palin Rants ‘We Won Pretty Handedly’ If Not for Ranked Choice Voting

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...7c39ac74ae5766

What an embarrassment to Alas-ka.

Instead of a drawn out post I'll keep it short. MAGA, Biden won without you in 2020. If you're not willing to support our democracy (democratic republic) and follow our constitution then go pound sand.

Thanks Bob, my ears are still ringing from listening to that bozo cackling.
Or perhaps its the sound reflections from her paddle ear rings, all highs and no lows. :D

Why Caribou Barbie’s loss is a warning for the GOP
A chunk of Alaska’s Republican voters, who strongly favored Trump in 2020, preferred a Democrat over the lightning-rod candidate.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/0...laska-00054633

So, not all of today's "conservatives" are as dumb as Whell, thankfully.

Good lord what a nut bag. At least she's not crying voter fraud from the hilltops but I think she's telling Alaskans they're too dumb to understand ranked-choice voting. Someone did say a vote for her was a rank choice tho'. Has Lord Felthersnatch of MAGA-Lardo commented on her loss yet?

Sarah who? sayeth Lord Felthersnatch.

US midterms: The Trump voters who see a coming storm
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63133259

MAGAMorons are f'ing crazy.

Heads I win, tails you lose.

The Republican party leaders have not disavowed any of this. It's a direct result of them radicalizing their base. As the article says roughly one third of the American electorate believe the election was stolen from tRump and Biden isn't the real president. That leaves two-thirds of the electorate that doesn't. The GOP just might end up getting people killed but I don't think they mind so long as they get what they want.

'Americans Are Casting Midterm Ballots at Record Rates, Which Means the Results Might Take Longer'


"In 2018, with Donald Trump in the White House and Democrats desperate to regain power in Congress, nearly half of eligible voters cast ballots, achieving the highest turnout rate for a midterm election in more than a century.

This year, the turnout could be even higher.

According to University of Florida professor Michael McDonald, who tracks the early vote for the United States Elections Project, at least 6 million Americans have already voted, a rate that surpasses the 2018 turnout at the same point in October. “If things remain as they are, we’re going to come down and say, ‘Yes, this is an exceptionally high turnout election,’” McDonald says."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...ae8b9b7271be57

Women are pissed. A landslide is coming.

Doug Muder of the Weekly Sift has contributed a superb essay summarizing how the Republicans are now the enemies of Democracy, who must be defeated in this crucial election: https://weeklysift.com/2022/10/24/cl...cracy/#respond

Inflation has the highest ranking.

Inflation it appears is a world wide issue.

C-19 has continued it's effects. I just don't see how a President could do much anyway, then add a congress and senate stagnation. Be different if we had a King....:rolleyes:

Guess that is what the GQP is wanting. :eek:

The question is how do the US voters view inflation?

It appears a large group believes it sucks! Especially when your working pay check to pay check. Most expect easy answers and solutions. Have a tough time understanding or taking the time to learning the root causes and fixes of inflation.
Glad to place the blame instead of getting answers.

Armed reichwing vigilante voter intimidation in Mesa, Ariz. smh. :(

https://www.axios.com/2022/10/23/mes...allot-drop-box

Time to send the 86th and the 101st airborne into Arizona and shut this shit down. Send in an armored brigade with Apache AH64 air cover, too.