Arizona is probably a goner for GOP. Hordes of California liberals are moving there every year, and only going to accelerate now that GOP hosed Californians with SALT deductions.
Arizona is probably a goner for GOP. Hordes of California liberals are moving there every year, and only going to accelerate now that GOP hosed Californians with SALT deductions.Sinema now up 1.5% over McSally in AZ. General consensus seem to be this is all but over.
Arizona is probably a goner for GOP. Hordes of California liberals are moving there every year, and only going to accelerate now that GOP hosed Californians with SALT deductions.
That's wrong. No Doug Jones. Now look at what was available to potentially pick up. I don't buy that Comey cost her that much. Solid R Senate. Then Democrats would have gotten annihilated in 2018 with a 58-60 Republican Senate, and possibly a Convention of the States due to Republicans controlling the vast majority of the states.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_2016
States where the margin of victory was between 1% and 5%:
- Pennsylvania, 1.43%
- Missouri, 2.79%
- Wisconsin, 3.36%
Pure projection & Gish galloping. You were going on about the SCOTUS until it was made clear you weren't thinking straight & now dodge to Doug Jones while asserting unknowable "truths" about 2018. Your remark about Comey is immaterial.
As for the states & margins you listed, so what?
What are you talking about? She wouldn't have gotten 50-50 or better in the Senate, so no picks. A 58-60 Republican Senate in 2018 probably would mean she would never capture it even if given two terms, but she likely would have been blown to pieces in 2020 anyway.
So, you're claiming that McConnell would have left Scalia's vacancy open for another 4 years?
That the GOP would have won bigly in 2018 & Hillary would have lost in 2020 because, what? Because you're Nostrodamus?
It is kind of funny how liberal states’ shitty housing policy might help liberals take over the country.
Even the so-called "moderates" were signaling they wouldn't give her a choice. Why wouldn't he? He doesn't protect Mueller. He doesn't investigate an obviously compromised and corrupt president. He didn't even give Obama the choice despite Hillary leading the polls all the way up to election day. And so on.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/clinton-wins-gop-say-no-9-supreme-court
If Clinton wins, more in GOP say no to full Supreme Court
https://www.npr.org/2016/10/17/4983...l-block-all-court-nominations-if-clinton-wins
Sen. McCain Says Republicans Will Block All Court Nominations If Clinton Wins
Despite all the crap the past 2 years, Democrats only have a +~7 point margin in these midterms. Had Hillary been elected, Democrats would have been utterly destroyed as the party winning the presidency historically does poorly in the subsequent midterms. It would have been an uphill battle from there to win the Senate at any point. People would have blamed the Democrats for not being able to accomplish much, and Chaffetz had years worth of material to throw at her.
GOP looks on track to lose 6 seats in CA, including all of Orange County. Bye Comrade Dana.
Final Dem House gain probably close to 40 seats.
Hey, my ex turned me on to real western NC BBQ and Cheerwine at the same time (her mom was from Salsbury). It's hard to separate the 2.
I like how Donald's "big Republican win!" seems to get bigger every day....
McCain was never majority leader. He used the term "we" rather loosely, didn't he?
McConnell already cornered himself when he put out the "let the people decide" routine.
It's all really immaterial to the subject at hand. None of it happened. Meanwhile Trump is tearing down the institutions of govt & our standing in the world community. He's tearing down common decency & mutual respect. The GOP is looting the Treasury on behalf of people who are already insanely wealthy & packing the SCOTUS to suit themselves for the next 20 years. Had Hillary won, none of that would be happening.
McSame had more conviction on this than his SC filibuster decision.
So what? He'd need 40 more votes & he's not the Majority leader. McConnell is. Your whole schtick is conjecture based on something that didn't happen.
Dems have made some serious progress in the midterms. We'll likely make more gains in 2020. In the meanwhile, a Dem HOR will stymie Trump & the GOP in many ways. It's a good start.
Maurice's or GTFOdamn, your ex hurt your soul: only eastern NC BBQ is real BBQ. Western NC is basically pig + ketchup (gross BBQ sauce--no one needs that stuff.)
...I mean, I get why people like it, but might as well just eat Tennessee BBQ or that yellow crap down in SC.
But it makes sense--I think Cheerwine is from the Charlotte area, which is Western NC (and might as well be SC). They have to drink that stuff because they have already ruined their pork.
Jhhnn, McSame promised it. Considering all the bullshit that the turtle has pulled, it's not strange to think he would have kept it open. It wouldn't be unconstitutional, nor any more subversive than them flirting with autocracy ever since the con man took the reins.What's two more years over one?
Which I remind you is why it was better for the Hildabeast to lose. Shee-it, we would probably be looking at a Convention of the States....
Also, if Hillary Clinton had narrowly won WI/MI/PA instead of narrowly lost them, Republicans would probably wind up with ~57-60 Senate seats next year instead of the ~49-53 they'll probably end up with now. That has big long-term implications for SCOTUS picks. -- Nate Silver
McCain couldn't promise anything other than his own vote. It would be 4 more years had Hillary won, not 2.
In the meanwhile, The GOP has stacked the court to their undeniable advantage. They've also pounded as many of their own kind onto the federal bench as fast as they can. None of that would have happened had Hillary won. A lot of other really ugly things wouldn't have happened, either.
Dunno why Nate goes on about how many GOP Senators there are for court nominations when McConnell has shown us he only needs 51...
It would only take two years from 2016 to solidify a significant GOP majority in the Senate. The turtle could just laugh at anyone entertaining a liberal justice at that point. We're just going in circles, so I'll just end here.
They've also given us a lot of cover to make major changes. It depends on a feisty Democrat to carry them out. We now have a serial perjurer and probable sex offender on the court. We have a justice who stole Garland's seat. We have another unpopular vote president and certain felon picking lifetime justices. We have a complicit GOP running interference for the fascist con man. Enough is enough.
Because it's difficult to get even a simple majority in the Senate if you're the Democratic party.
Most of California's shitty housing policy like prop 13 and its follow ons were passed in the old Republican days, but bribed off enough people to self perpetuate. But that said, it's wonderful that young educated liberals are spreading out all over the country and flipping states like Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina, Virginia, Colorado. Hopefully Texas is next.It is kind of funny how liberal states’ shitty housing policy might help liberals take over the country.
You're shifting the goalposts. The original reference was to the GOP denying Clinton SCOTUS appointees throughout her term of 4 years. Counting Garland, it would be 5 years. Were she to be re-elected, it would be 9 years. McConnell couldn't claim he was letting the people decide.
And, yeh, Trump did pull all that nasty shit & more precisely because they won. It hasn't been a good thing in any way.
And the whinging if he loses in 2020, too -- no matter how clear the victory he'll insist he lost to voter fraud. That is, if he doesn't become a fugitive knowing there's a good chance he'll be charged and convicted the moment he's out of office.A preview of 2020 if Trump is in a tight race:
And the whinging if he loses in 2020, too -- no matter how clear the victory he'll insist he lost to voter fraud. That is, if he doesn't become a fugitive knowing there's a good chance he'll be charged and convicted the moment he's out of office.
Trump has never taken responsibility for anything in his life, I don't expect him to start in his mid70s. He'll 100% pardon himself before he leaves office.
He can't issue state-level pardons, however!