Texas is now a toss up state

Dutch Uncle said:
Cornyn is worried just like Cruz was worried about Beto. 2018 was close and I think this will be even closer.

It brings up a good point; even if Trump won, what if he lost the Senate? If Biden wins, even if the Senate is still Republican, I think it will have 2-3 more Democrats.
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Beto was a tease, that ended up being a farce. He's been active ever since in getting people to the polls. It seems to be working. I think you already said that it might take another election cycle to complete, but Texas is heading Blue.

I'm hoping that the general election, as opposed to the Beto mid term makes enough difference to oust Cornyn. Jones is going to be close in Alabama, but Mr. Football is a complete moron who just hails trump every step of the way. Running against a pedophile in a special election is vastly different than running in a general for a 6 year term.

I hope Alabama lets college football be football, and adult politics be adult politics.

Assuming a Jones loss, it looks like Dems might still pick up 3 seats. Maybe more in a best case scenario. Georgia is fascinating after the last debate.
 
Dutch Uncle said:
Then the human race is doomed.

That said, I disagree. Two steps forward, one step back is still progress.
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The problem is that it now takes a supermajority to get anything passed. When Schumer does away with the filibuster it will help, but that still isn't bipartisanship.
 
Althea said:
The problem is that it now takes a supermajority to get anything passed. When Schumer does away with the filibuster it will help, but that still isn't bipartisanship.
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A supermajority isn't a problem. The problem are two political parties so diametrically opposed that they can never agree on anything.

Look at it like a couple. If they are always fighting, the marriage will fail. Counseling may save it but both have to be willing. Congress is dysfunctional because neither are willing to work out their differences.
 
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Dutch Uncle said:
A supermajority isn't a problem. The problem are two political parties so diametrically opposed that they can never agree on anything.
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That's what I mean. Nothing gets passed without a supermajority, and that doesn't make for compromise. Even when Clinton lost Congress, they still managed to legislate.
 
Althea said:
That's what I mean. Nothing gets passed without a supermajority, and that doesn't make for compromise. Even when Clinton lost Congress, they still managed to legislate.
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The problem has been worsening since the 90s. I blame the end of the Cold War as the catalyst. Clinton, Gingrich and even Trump are not causes; they are the results.
 
Dutch Uncle said:
The problem has been worsening since the 90s. I blame the end of the Cold War as the catalyst. Clinton, Gingrich and even Trump are not causes; they are the results.
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Hard to say, but the cold hard fact is that Republicans didn't hold Congress in decades. Gingrich set out to change that by turning Congress into a shit show.

Interesting read. We're both old enough to remember when it was happening in real time.



But few figures in modern history have done more than Gingrich to lay the groundwork for Trump’s rise. During his two decades in Congress, he pioneered a style of partisan combat—replete with name-calling, conspiracy theories, and strategic obstructionism—that poisoned America’s political culture and plunged Washington into permanent dysfunction. Gingrich’s career can perhaps be best understood as a grand exercise in devolution—an effort to strip American politics of the civilizing traits it had developed over time and return it to its most primal essence.
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Twenty-five years after engineering the Republican Revolution, Gingrich can draw a direct line from his work in Congress to the upheaval now taking place around the globe. But as he surveys the wreckage of the modern political landscape, he is not regretful. He’s gleeful.
“The old order is dying,” he tells me. “Almost everywhere you have freedom, you have a very deep discontent that the system isn’t working.”
And that’s a good thing? I ask.
“It’s essential,” he says, “if you want Western civilization to survive.”
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Gingrich, ever the self promoting asshole, seems to be in direct disagreement with you.
 
Althea said:
Idiot.
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Yes, you most certainly ARE one...

Althea said:
You're trying to claim that youth voters aren't voting,
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Correct, and early voting data is clearly showing that (at least so far) they AREN'T...

Althea said:
when all evidence to the contrary is being forced down your throat.
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... and I've explained countless times precisely why such "evidence to the contrary" is not only incomplete information, but is also very misleading...

Althea said:
Nobody's interested in your denominators.
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You continue to show your complete illiteracy in even the most basic of mathematical concepts...

Althea said:
All voting is through the roof,
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Voting in general is, but NOT the youth share of it and NOT the black share of it... Guess which vote share is increasing?? Oh, that's right, the Dem's hated "old white non-college-indoctrinated" share of the vote... Not looking good for Biden...

Althea said:
in direct rejection of trump's voter suppression efforts.
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So when Trump wins in a landslide Tues night/ Wed morning, you're not gonna blame it on "voter suppression", since youth and black turnout is "surging" (it's really not)?? Better get your next fallback excuse ready for why Trump won in a landslide...
 
gfm7175 said:
Yes, you most certainly ARE one...


Correct, and early voting data is clearly showing that (at least so far) they AREN'T...


... and I've explained countless times precisely why such "evidence to the contrary" is not only incomplete information, but is also very misleading...


You continue to show your complete illiteracy in even the most basic of mathematical concepts...


Voting in general is, but NOT the youth share of it and NOT the black share of it... Guess which vote share is increasing?? Oh, that's right, the Dem's hated "old white non-college-indoctrinated" share of the vote... Not looking good for Biden...


So when Trump wins in a landslide Tues night/ Wed morning, you're not gonna blame it on "voter suppression", since youth and black turnout is "surging" (it's really not)?? Better get your next fallback excuse ready for why Trump won in a landslide...
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Not interested in your delusions. No links? Just opinions?

This won't age well.
 
Althea said:
Not interested in your unlinked screenshots.
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It shows you the mathematics behind precisely why you are wrong, you stupid fuckbag...

Maybe you should take another stab at grade school and actually fucking learn something this time around...
 
gfm7175 said:
It shows you the mathematics behind precisely why you are wrong, you stupid fuckbag...

Maybe you should take another stab at grade school and actually fucking learn something this time around...
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It shows nothing of the sort
 
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