Ser Scot A Ellison Posted November 5, 2014 Author Share Posted November 5, 2014 Triskele,Is Tillis' margin too large for a recount? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theprincethatwasntpromised Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Repub governor for Illinois.... Ouch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karaddin Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Hmmm...didn't I read something somewhere about a serious (?) proposal that one of your political parties be crated up and moved to a secure location because they were utterly redundant?That said...if by some wonder the republicans take the white house in 2016 AND hold onto the house and senate, it will effectively destroy their party. When ignorant, flawed ideology collides head-on with a reality deemed impossible, reality wins. If the GOP were to move forward with their radical agenda, the result in the US would be massive unrest of a sort not seen in a century - a consequence they literally cannot fathom occurring. Plus there are major resource/climate issues taking place that CANNOT happen according to the GOP mentality. Like - how do these climate change deniers act when say, Miami has to be abandoned as a result of rising ocean levels - or Vegas evacuated due to depleted water tables?As to the Middle East, major war there was inevitable from the time Bush II invaded Iraq.Not sure where you might have heard the bolded, there wasn't that huge a gap between our two parties in the past but our current Liberal Party (equivalent to the GOP) have tried to implement an extremely radical (by our standards) budget. Increasing spending while decrying the "budget emergency" and massively slashing low income welfare, repealing some taxes (Carbon Price and Mining Superprofits Tax), and implementing policies that favour the well off, deregulating University Fees to try adopt the US model that would see student debt skyrocket, and attacking Universal Health Care, cutting science funding. Basically there is a huge amount of damage they are trying to accomplish in this term, they were looking likely to get chucked out after 1 term but now "TERRORISM" and "ISIS" might save them. And I wish I shared your optimism about their policies turning people off once they actually get a chance to implement them. Their policies have been failing for 30 years, but just denying reality and rejecting the idea of evidence (and science itself) seems to be more powerful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Underfoot Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 I can't believe Iowa's first congresswoman is going to be Joni Ernst. It is very disheartening :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theprincethatwasntpromised Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 It's just getting ugly now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theprincethatwasntpromised Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Warner may hold Virginia after all... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falstaff_Stark Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 The AP is listing Tillis 49-47. No recount at that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theprincethatwasntpromised Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 I can't believe Iowa's first congresswoman is going to be Joni Ernst. It is very disheartening :( Technically she would just be called a senator but I know what you mean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sToNED_CAT Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Reid beat his polling in 2010. It was a midterm, and Hillary coat tails are not the same as Obama. Immigration matters, casino magnates and casino labor matter. Sandoval is not Sharron Angle. Plus it's possible Reid won't even run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarl the climber Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Well Brown has conceded in NH. Thats something for suffering Dems out there, its an escape and not a victory but its still something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Underfoot Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Technically she would just be called a senator but I know what you mean Right, but Iowa has never elected a woman to Congress at all until now, either in the Senate or House. So, our first female senator AND our first female congresswomen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theprincethatwasntpromised Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Well Brown has conceded in NH. Thats something for suffering Dems out there, its an escape and not a victory but its still something. Considering it's NH, I don't know if that's a good thing. He shouldn't have been there in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Scot A Ellison Posted November 5, 2014 Author Share Posted November 5, 2014 Jarl,Shaheen was pulling away. She had a 10,000 vote lead per AP a minute ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suttree Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 snip You have not come remotely close to showing how it would stop any of the individual cases of fraud you've presented and your flat out lies are getting old. Stop trolling. Answer the questions, all you seem to do is dodge addressing issues head one. You've turned this into enough of a farce already, multiple posters have pointed this out to you. It's not possible for someone to be so dense as you are letting on and you've know what I meant from my very first response as I quoted the results of an investigation where there were found to be 5 causes of fraud. Do away with being purposely obtuse(this is the charitable interpretation), read the studies I linked in my very first response and answer one simple question. 1. Why do you think it's a problem given the results of investigations and studies(care to take a guess around how your opinion pieces differ from those?) which prove voter fraud is insignificant? If you don't think it's an issue as you claim above, then there is quite literally no reason for you to support voter id aside from limiting the voter pool, which was you know...the whole point of the discussion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 I am about to go to bed, but at this point in Nebraska Congressional District 2 Democrat Brad Ashford has 49% to incumbent Republican Lee Terry's 46% with the other 5% going to a Libertarian candidate. You can tell from the TV shots of the respective campaign headquarters that the Democrats are very hopeful they are going to pull this one out, but it's not a 100% done deal yet. Ashford made a statement about how if he wins he'll be on the way to "reuniting the country." That seems rather grandiose. As one of possibly only two Democrats to defeat a Republican incumbent in the House this year (evidently there was a Florida Republican who lost) in what's otherwise a heavily Republican-skewed election, I doubt if Ashford will be a major factor in reuniting anything. I just hope when I wake up in the morning that his lead has held so there will be one outcome I can be happy about. (Besides the fact the minimum wage increase is handily winning in Nebraska.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starkess Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 As of 6 months ago, I am no longer an Iowa resident so at least I don't have to deal with the agony of knowing that Joni Ernst will be my senator. Still pissed on behalf of the nation that she will be there. Watched part of her victory speech and wanted to throw things at the TV every time she did her horrible laugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scrambled Aegon Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Sad times for me over here in Illinois. :frown5: :stillsick: :bang: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falstaff_Stark Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 As of 6 months ago, I am no longer an Iowa resident so at least I don't have to deal with the agony of knowing that Joni Ernst will be my senator. Still pissed on behalf of the nation that she will be there. Watched part of her victory speech and wanted to throw things at the TV every time she did her horrible laugh.Makes me want to marry a Canadian. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starkess Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 At least things are going better in my new home. Jerry Brown to have a historic 4th term, water bond passed, rainy day fund for education passed, and prison sentencing reform passed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghjhero Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Well I'd say it's been a rather successful night! Here's to gridlock for the next two years!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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