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2018 US Senate Elections Thread

Civet said:
Don't know if it's already been mentioned, but Chelsea Manning is having a go at Cardin's seat in Maryland.
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With the predictable reaction:

Centrist Dems Launch Smear Campaign Against Young Trans Woman, All to Keep an Old Straight White Man in Power

Glenn Greenwald said:
[...] Manning’s opponent in the Democratic Party primary is one of the most standard, banal, typical, privileged and mediocre politicians in the U.S. Congress: Benjamin Cardin, a 74-year-old white, straight man who is seeking his third six-year Senate term. Cardin’s decades-long career as a politician from the start has been steeped in unearned privilege: he first won elective office back in 1966, when his uncle, Maurice Cardin, gave up his seat in order to bequeath it to his nephew Benjamin. With this dynastic privilege as his base, he has spent the last 50 years climbing the political ladder in Maryland.

Cardin has remarkably few achievements for being in Congress for so many years. One of his few distinctions is that he has become one of the Senate’s most reliable and loyal supporters of AIPAC’s agenda and the Israeli government, if not the single most loyal. In 2015, he joined with Lindsey Graham in kicking off the annual AIPAC conference, causing neocon columnist Jennifer Rubin to gush about how identical they sounded. [...]
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I had a lot of fun following Chelsea on twitter since she was released. She says she has read 1000 books in that seven years and apparently some good ones were among them: She's absolutely free now.

Would be fun to see her in Senate. I'm on record predicting that Edward Snowden will be US president sooner or later, and Senator Manning can pave the road here. :thumbsup::)
 
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Childlike Empress said:
With the predictable reaction:

Centrist Dems Launch Smear Campaign Against Young Trans Woman, All to Keep an Old Straight White Man in Power




I had a lot of fun following Chelsea on twitter since she was released. She says she has read 1000 books in that seven years and apparently some good ones were among them: She's absolutely free now.

Would be fun to see her in Senate. I'm on record predicting that Edward Snowden will be US president sooner or later, and Senator Manning can pave the road here. :thumbsup::)
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Glen does go overboard, sometimes. Implying that Cardin is part of a dynasty is a bit silly. That first election he refers to was a piddly seat in the state house. A "delegate" is like a state-level representative.

I'd like to see him go down, mind you. I just think Glen protesting about people mentioning that Putie loves him some Chelsea Manning as a "smear" and then selling the "political dynasty" insinuation is a bit of a reach. Cardin is the member of his family to go the furthest and he only got to the Senate after 20 years in Maryland state politics and another 20 in Congress. He's a Maryland political machine hack. His success is due to the state party and it's old boy/old girl network, not some illusion of his family's dynastic power. I'm sorry he ever won the Senate seat - I was for Mfume. And I would not be sorry to lose him. I'm never sure if he's voting his religion or his political convictions. It's possible to hold both but he has anything but an open mind on the question of unlimited support for Israel.

I'm not sure Maryland is ready for Chelsea Manning. They might surprise me but I think the Maryland Democratic Machine will eat her alive.
 
Foolmewunz said:
I'm not sure Maryland is ready for Chelsea Manning. They might surprise me but I think the Maryland Democratic Machine will eat her alive.
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Unless she becomes some sort of real threat, I'd imagine they'll just marginalize her as if she's not a serious candidate. I can't imagine her picking up a lot of major endorsements with her extremist politics and controversial history. She'll get loads of media attention though, so that might scare them.
 
Looks like Manning is putting together her platform. Wants to abolish ICE and Customs/Border Patrol, disarm police, establish universal basic income. I think a third-party or independent candidacy might have made more sense for her.
 
Here's a fine, upstanding Trumpublican candidate for the Senate in Missouri.

"I don't buy into radical feminism's crazed definition of modern womanhood and I never did. They don't own that definition — and never did. They made it up to suit their own nasty, snake-filled heads," he said. "Modern women can BE anything they want, including traditional women — as millions are and millions are fast becoming. Millennial women voters despised Hillary (Clinton) and cost her the election (and they weren't Russians). I wonder why they despise her? One reason is they look at her life's personal wreckage and din't want to become like her."
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Trebuchet said:
Here's a fine, upstanding Trumpublican candidate for the Senate in Missouri.
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That's got to be a parody. He's not even on the GOP radar; no one's ever heard of him. But he's raised $500, so there's that. Deep pockets win primaries! :p He's trying to get attention by parroting everything Trump says and referring to him in his announcement, but Trump ain't biting yet, so he went and sucked up to Bannon. Good move, son! Donnie dances to Steve's fiddle, as we all know.

Here's hoping.... his fiancee is a bigger moron than he is, and a pretty apparent alt-right supporter.
 
http://news.gallup.com/poll/226556/state-partisanship-shifts-toward-democratic-party-2017.aspx?g_source=link_NEWSV9&g_medium=TOPIC&g_campaign=item_&g_content=State%2520Partisanship%2520Shifts%2520Toward%2520Democratic%2520Party%2520in%25202017

For the first time in three years, more states can be considered Democratic than Republican, based on residents' 2017 self-reported party preferences. Nineteen states, up from 14 in 2016, were solidly Democratic or leaned Democratic, while 16 states, down from 21 in 2016, were solidly Republican or leaned that way.
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Democrats regained momentum at the state level in 2017, with 10 states showing enough of a shift in residents' party affiliation to change from a Republican state to a competitive one, or from competitive to Democratic. The 2017 shift was manifested in major Democratic victories in statewide elections in Virginia and Alabama, as well as close losses in congressional districts in Kansas, Montana and Georgia that had traditionally backed Republican candidates.
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If these recent trends continue, 2018 could be another good year for Democrats, as they look to weaken the Republican majority in Congress if not displace it. And if, as occurred under Obama, the states continue to move away from the president's party during his time in office, the Democrats may be in a strong position heading into the 2020 presidential election.
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Jerrymander said:
http://news.gallup.com/poll/226556/state-partisanship-shifts-toward-democratic-party-2017.aspx?g_source=link_NEWSV9&g_medium=TOPIC&g_campaign=item_&g_content=State%2520Partisanship%2520Shifts%2520Toward%2520Democratic%2520Party%2520in%25202017
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They say the poll is from the data for all of 2017, but being a poll, it should really just be the closing numbers for December (their last poll in the year) because it doesn't really matter who people identified with ten months earlier if on the day of the poll their opinion was different.

And there's even worse news coming for the GOP. The Gallup monthly poll on party affiliation by individual voters reads even worse in January '18. Republican and Republican-leaning individuals are down another four points to the lowest they've been in a decade. That may translate into another state or two.
 
Foolmewunz said:
They say the poll is from the data for all of 2017, but being a poll, it should really just be the closing numbers for December (their last poll in the year) because it doesn't really matter who people identified with ten months earlier if on the day of the poll their opinion was different.

And there's even worse news coming for the GOP. The Gallup monthly poll on party affiliation by individual voters reads even worse in January '18. Republican and Republican-leaning individuals are down another four points to the lowest they've been in a decade. That may translate into another state or two.
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Just for the LULz. There must be a better fitting hobby for you.
 
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