The Bob Cesca Show: Don and Mike

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Today’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show:

Don And Mike: Not Safe For Work; Buzz Burbank from Buzz Burbank News and Comment is here today; Stubbville; Rand Paul’s Harrowing Lawn Fracas; Republicans might not have the votes to pass tax cuts; Another gun massacre in Texas; The AR15 and Mass Shootings; Mental health and background checks; Trump embarrasses America while visiting Japan and South Korea; Trump on Chicago gun violence; Mike Flynn and Son Next on the Indictment List; Carter Page is a glitchy mess; Don Junior and the Russian lawyer; Wilbur Ross under scrutiny for business ties; and much more.

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Nyet Nov 7, 2017 • 3:31:30pm

OK, with 280 characters it will be easier to debunk deniers, that’s for sure. On the other hand, they will be able to post twice as much bullshit. The Achilles v. Tortoise paradox as applied to the Twitter denial. :)

— Sergey Romanov (@S_ergeyR_omanov) November 7, 2017

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Dr. Matt Nov 7, 2017 • 3:33:55pm

280 characters basically means Dotard has twice the space to misspell words, twice the space to make racist and sexist remarks, twice the space to make a complete fool of himself, and twice the space to embarrass the United States. #maga

— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) November 7, 2017

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JordanRules Nov 7, 2017 • 3:34:46pm

When I was 21, only five Phillies participated to tell LGBTQ young people that It Gets Better. Roy was one of them https://t.co/C79yPNA75x

— historian cole (@historiancole) November 7, 2017

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Eclectic Cyborg Nov 7, 2017 • 3:39:31pm

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GlutenFreeJesus Nov 7, 2017 • 3:39:51pm

“Too soon…”

HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 3:40:22pm

re: #3 JordanRules

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Wow didn’t know that. Props Doc. Always seemed like a good dude.

Eclectic Cyborg Nov 7, 2017 • 3:40:43pm

Shoot, I put that out on my personal account

calochortus Nov 7, 2017 • 3:42:18pm

re: #5 GlutenFreeJesus

Ya know, if Rand Paul was pushed off his mower and fractured 5 ribs, I hope someone is checking for osteoporosis. Unless there was some complicating factor, that just doesn’t sound right.

JordanRules Nov 7, 2017 • 3:44:13pm

re: #7 Eclectic Cyborg

You can still hide or delete it. Hurry!

JordanRules Nov 7, 2017 • 3:45:49pm

Update: I have asked 11 White House aides who Trump voted for in the New York City mayoral race. Six said they didn’t know, three haven’t answered, one laughed and one told me I should think of better questions to ask.

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) November 7, 2017

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Obviously the dude never votes https://t.co/ocpgzusYIA

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) November 7, 2017

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freetoken Nov 7, 2017 • 3:47:13pm

re: #8 calochortus

Does sound like a lot of injury for simply falling off a lawn mower.

Perhaps the neighbor swatted him off it with a baseball bat??

Skip Intro Nov 7, 2017 • 3:47:16pm

re: #10 JordanRules

Why would he vote if he’s not on the ballot?

BeachDem Nov 7, 2017 • 3:48:01pm

HuffPo continues to win the headline wars:

TINFOIL TEXAS:
CRACKPOTS GO WILD!

with pics of Cernovich, Rush and, of course, Alex Jones.

Story has a timeline of the crazy.

huffingtonpost.com

And Curt Schilling jumps right into the fray:

A radical left wing christian hating atheist illegally obtains a weapon, kills 25+ christians in a church, and gun control is the problem?

— Curt Schilling (@gehrig38) November 6, 2017

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Sigh.

JordanRules Nov 7, 2017 • 3:48:19pm

Writing a bill w/ @MartinHeinrich to prevent anyone convicted of domestic violence – be it in criminal or military court – from buying a gun

— Jeff Flake (@JeffFlake) November 7, 2017

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Now that’s what I call faith with works. https://t.co/BYa6CZJw6P

— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) November 7, 2017

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Eclectic Cyborg Nov 7, 2017 • 3:48:45pm

re: #9 JordanRules

You can still hide or delete it. Hurry!

I got it. Let’s try that again, shall we?

So I’ve got more room
but what do I write?
Do I accept what I see
Or lash out in spite?
Does it give me a chance
to walk in the light
Or perhaps some fresh ammo,
For the harrowing fight?
They tell me “it’s okay,
280 is great.
But I can’t help but think:
Too little too late.

— Steve The Poet (@Steve_The_Poet) November 7, 2017

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JordanRules Nov 7, 2017 • 3:49:07pm

re: #12 Skip Intro

Touche!
He could write himself in though.

HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 3:49:24pm

re: #13 BeachDem

HuffPo continues to win the headline wars:

TINFOIL TEXAS:
CRACKPOTS GO WILD!

with pics of Cernovich, Rush and, of course, Alex Jones.

Story has a timeline of the crazy.

huffingtonpost.com

And Curt Schilling jumps right into the fray:

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Sigh.

Wouldn’t you want such a person not to have a gun Curt? Oh wait, you’re a moron who still thinks we should care what he had to say about anything.

freetoken Nov 7, 2017 • 3:49:26pm

Gloomy day here, unusually so. Deep cloud layer, which seems a bit out of place this time of year. If it rained then it might be fitting, but so far the rain has kept far to the south, in TJ.

freetoken Nov 7, 2017 • 3:50:38pm

Can hear the flock of parrots in the distance complaining, though. But they always make noise regardless.

VegasGolfer Nov 7, 2017 • 3:51:09pm

re: #10 JordanRules

Trump doesnt vote, too stupid to even know what precinct he belongs to.

Access Classic: Donald Trump’s Election Day Disaster – A Look Back (2004)

VegasGolfer Nov 7, 2017 • 3:52:35pm

Ps. Everything there is to know about how incompetent trump is was out there well before he started his candidacy, but everybody was too lazy to reasearch it.

calochortus Nov 7, 2017 • 3:52:54pm

re: #11 freetoken

Does sound like a lot of injury for simply falling off a lawn mower.

Perhaps the neighbor swatted him off it with a baseball bat??

Heaven knows what actually happened, but the initial description I heard was that Paul was “pushed to the ground from behind.” Then there was something about “while mowing his lawn” with a picture of a riding mower. I suppose he could have hit something on the way down, but it just sounds weird.

JordanRules Nov 7, 2017 • 3:55:34pm

re: #20 VegasGolfer

Wow. I had never seen that.

Good job playing that on a loop media.///

Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis Nov 7, 2017 • 3:56:17pm

re: #22 calochortus

Heaven knows what actually happened, but the initial description I heard was that Paul was “pushed to the ground from behind.” Then there was something about “while mowing his lawn” with a picture of a riding mower. I suppose he could have hit something on the way down, but it just sounds weird.

I’d guess that his neighbor kicked the crap out of him when he was down. It seems extreme for a foliage related dispute, and about right for finding out that your neighbor is sleeping with your wife.

JordanRules Nov 7, 2017 • 3:57:26pm

re: #14 JordanRules

Several folks have pointed out that this law is already on the books. Hmmm.

calochortus Nov 7, 2017 • 3:58:11pm

re: #24 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

I’d guess that his neighbor kicked the crap out of him when he was down. It seems extreme for a foliage related dispute, and about right for finding out that your neighbor is sleeping with your wife.

Could be, but apparently they’ve been feuding about foliage and litter and whatnot for 20 years. According to a neighbor, anyway.

bratwurst Nov 7, 2017 • 3:59:24pm

He knows the BEST people!

NEW: A fourth Trump judicial nominee — Brett Talley in Alabama — has been deemed not qualified by American Bar Association https://t.co/Iw6rb4Ysw0

— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) November 7, 2017

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Also, that thing he does in the pic up top where he points at someone he’s sharing the stage with annoys the piss out of me. It’s like he’s saying:

I know everyone is naturally looking at me, so I will just make sure you don’t forget there is someone else on stage here who also loves me.

Big Beautiful Door Nov 7, 2017 • 3:59:30pm

re: #25 JordanRules

Several folks have pointed out that this law is already on the books. Hmmm.

Maybe he’s proposing to close the gun show loophole to require universal background checks for gun sales.

JordanRules Nov 7, 2017 • 4:00:19pm

re: #28 Big Beautiful Door

Here’s his add…

Texas shooter was able to buy a gun because what civilian courts call domestic violence, military courts call assault. In fact, DOD has only reported ONE case of domestic violence to fed. background check system since 07. #DomesticViolenceLoophole Closure Act is commonsense fix pic.twitter.com/pxEOAPZ1HA

— Jeff Flake (@JeffFlake) November 7, 2017

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EPR-radar Nov 7, 2017 • 4:00:26pm

re: #26 calochortus

Could be, but apparently they’ve been feuding about foliage and litter and whatnot for 20 years. According to a neighbor, anyway.

Rand Paul seems like the kind of smarmy prick that could start blood feuds among strangers merely by his being in the same area code. No telling what kinds of escalation he can get up to with actual neighbors.

scottslemmons Nov 7, 2017 • 4:01:04pm

re: #24 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

I’d guess that his neighbor kicked the crap out of him when he was down. It seems extreme for a foliage related dispute, and about right for finding out that your neighbor is sleeping with your wife.

It doesn’t seem too surprising that someone tackled off a mower unexpectedly could sustain broken ribs.

Brian J. Nov 7, 2017 • 4:01:48pm

And away we go!

In Atlanta, Sandbagger Vincent Fort is carrying himself with the grace and assurance of his mentor:

Fort claims ‘politics’ behind campaign aide’s arrest

calochortus Nov 7, 2017 • 4:02:51pm

re: #30 EPR-radar

Rand Paul seems like the kind of smarmy prick that could start blood feuds among strangers merely by his being in the same area code. No telling what kinds of escalation he can get up to with actual neighbors.

And said neighbor is an anesthesiologist, a group not necessarily known for their people skills*

*the only anesthesiologist I know reasonable well is a wonderful human being, so this is far from universal.

calochortus Nov 7, 2017 • 4:03:27pm

I need to get something started for dinner.
Back in a bit.

whitebeach Nov 7, 2017 • 4:03:40pm

re: #31 scottslemmons

It doesn’t seem too surprising that someone tackled off a mower unexpectedly could sustain broken ribs.

Especially if there is no spine to which they could be attached.

Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Nov 7, 2017 • 4:03:50pm

Evening Lizardim.

The Vicious Babushka Nov 7, 2017 • 4:04:35pm

AUTOMATIC. BLOCKING. FUNCTION. ACTIVATED.

Block this liddle’ Kremlinbot==> pic.twitter.com/9xwvXTAEJm

— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) November 7, 2017

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 4:04:38pm

Telling exit poll. 55% trust Northam on race, 40% Gillespie.

wheat-dogg Nov 7, 2017 • 4:04:43pm

OT, but Newsweek has covered the GamerGate-like story I mentioned a few days ago, involving a female coder and Maker pseudonymed Naomi Wu.

newsweek.com

Naomi is a freelance coder and does not use her real name online, so as to maintain her client base.

Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos Nov 7, 2017 • 4:05:09pm

re: #24 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

I’d guess that his neighbor kicked the crap out of him when he was down. It seems extreme for a foliage related dispute, and about right for finding out that your neighbor is sleeping with your wife.

If his neighbor kicked him even once when he was on the ground that could very well account for four broken ribs. I know this because I had the same thing happen to me over 20 years ago, and I’ve still got two “floating” ribs that never properly healed and from time to time cause discomfort.

wheat-dogg Nov 7, 2017 • 4:05:59pm

Off to teach young minds. BBL

JordanRules Nov 7, 2017 • 4:06:10pm

JUST IN: Rep Ted Poe (R-TX) will not seek re-election in 2018: pic.twitter.com/wP2ht6sPOx

— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) November 7, 2017

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wrenchwench Nov 7, 2017 • 4:07:24pm

re: #14 JordanRules

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Heinrich and Flake did a survival thing together a few years ago. They seem to have learned to work together from opposite sides of the island.

re: #25 JordanRules

Several folks have pointed out that this law is already on the books. Hmmm.

More here:

[…]

For people who point out that this is already law, Flake’s answer is that the law needs to be better defined. Since NICS began modern record-keeping in 2007, he said, there has only been one instance of the Pentagon reporting a domestic violence charge like that to the database.

[…]

Brian J. Nov 7, 2017 • 4:07:30pm

re: #42 JordanRules

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At least he has Poe’s Law as a legacy. Unless that’s not him, in which case he’s got nothing.

gocart mozart Nov 7, 2017 • 4:07:37pm

Me on Election Day 2016 vs Me on Election Day 2017. pic.twitter.com/EKLkjfnAWO

— Josiah Neeley 🤔 (@jneeley78) November 7, 2017

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Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos Nov 7, 2017 • 4:08:27pm

re: #42 JordanRules

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Poe will not be missed by me. He’s very very close to the “Gohmert line” intellectually.

Fast fact: Ted Poe left the Freedom Caucus this year because they were not sufficiently hardline right-wingers for his tastes.

VegasGolfer Nov 7, 2017 • 4:11:53pm

billmoyers.com
A 600 story page on trump/russia connections that go back to 1979

JordanRules Nov 7, 2017 • 4:13:16pm

re: #47 VegasGolfer

Thanks! Gonna dig into that later!

The Vicious Babushka Nov 7, 2017 • 4:13:26pm

Heh.

MORE: Pres. Trump attempted to make surprise visit to the Demilitarized Zone - but was forced to turn back due to bad weather. https://t.co/F1gl2Zx0yG pic.twitter.com/lCrlx0G6ut

— ABC News (@ABC) November 8, 2017

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 4:13:31pm

hardywood.com

In honor of tonight’s results and my state, I’m drinking a local brew made by a brewery established after I turned 21.

JordanRules Nov 7, 2017 • 4:13:37pm

https://t.co/bj8BRmpifD

— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) November 7, 2017

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My “lie” here was to point out the line in the contract saying it applied to the general. Which…is in the contract. https://t.co/K4pJJhPaNr

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) November 7, 2017

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MsJ Nov 7, 2017 • 4:14:59pm

Updated: George Norcross pledges “full support” to Jeff Van Drew to replace LoBiondo. Big: https://t.co/caVPKypEOK

— Jonathan Tamari (@JonathanTamari) November 7, 2017

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 4:15:04pm

re: #51 JordanRules

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Good Taibbi has turned to be an ass. Really ruining his credibility here. And Hayes is hardly an “establishment liberal pundit.”

Brian J. Nov 7, 2017 • 4:16:12pm

re: #53 HappyWarrior

Good Taibbi has turned to be an ass. Really ruining his credibility here. And Hayes is hardly an “establishment liberal pundit.”

This is a man who got his start gleefully (er, I mean “satirically”) abusing women in Moscow for exile.ru. And Rolling Stone hired him pretty much for that.

Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Nov 7, 2017 • 4:16:12pm

re: #50 HappyWarrior

hardywood.com

In honor of tonight’s results and my state, I’m drinking a local brew made by a brewery established after I turned 21.

What happened?

MsJ Nov 7, 2017 • 4:16:13pm

Someone’s unhappy.

Writing a bill w/ @MartinHeinrich to prevent anyone convicted of domestic violence – be it in criminal or military court – from buying a gun

— Jeff Flake (@JeffFlake) November 7, 2017

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The “Domestic Violence Offender Gun Ban” has been the law in America since 1996, and does ban those people from ever possessing a gun. https://t.co/girfZCSBcg

— David Hookstead (@dhookstead) November 7, 2017

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OMG @JeffFlake needs to retire effective immediately. https://t.co/Cf5KOJF0En

— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) November 7, 2017

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Eclectic Cyborg Nov 7, 2017 • 4:16:22pm

re: #49 The Vicious Babushka

Because of course he’d still want to go to the DMZ and grandstand.

HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 4:16:36pm

results.elections.virginia.gov

For your consideration.

HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 4:16:56pm

re: #54 Brian J.

This is a man who got his start gleefully (er, I mean “satirically”) abusing women in Moscow for exile.ru. And Rolling Stone hired him pretty much for that.

Yeah I saw that.

Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Nov 7, 2017 • 4:17:18pm

re: #58 HappyWarrior

results.elections.virginia.gov

For your consideration.

There. Just what I needed. Are any of these getting called yet?

Eclectic Cyborg Nov 7, 2017 • 4:17:34pm

re: #58 HappyWarrior

Aw shit, Northam’s getting his ass kicked.

HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 4:18:02pm

re: #56 MsJ

Someone’s unhappy.

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Yeah Laura. He needs to resign because he wants a law that prevents anyone convicted of domestic voilence from having a gun. Go fuck yourself.

Brian J. Nov 7, 2017 • 4:18:10pm

re: #61 Eclectic Cyborg

Aw shit, Northam’s getting his ass kicked.

Most of the votes in so far are from Southwest Virginia, and Northam’s apparently not getting his ass kicked as badly there as feared.

HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 4:18:23pm

re: #60 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

There. Just what I needed. Are any of these getting called yet?

Nope and don’t expect it until be much later. Our more populated counties come in late.

HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 4:18:47pm

re: #63 Brian J.

Most of the votes in so far are from Southwest Virginia, and Northam’s apparently not getting his ass kicked as badly there as feared.

It’s a good omen.

Eclectic Cyborg Nov 7, 2017 • 4:18:58pm

The race I’m most interested in is Roy Moore/Doug Jones in AL.

HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 4:19:01pm

I’m going to be interested to see how Ralph does in his home region.

Brian J. Nov 7, 2017 • 4:19:08pm

re: #66 Eclectic Cyborg

The race I’m most interested in is Roy Moore/Doug Jones in AL.

Five more weeks.

lawhawk Nov 7, 2017 • 4:19:39pm

re: #61 Eclectic Cyborg

Aw shit, Northam’s getting his ass kicked.

Northern Virginia is always last to report.

So, don’t lose your shit just yet.

Eclectic Cyborg Nov 7, 2017 • 4:19:47pm

re: #68 Brian J.

Oh hell, you’re right. Thanks for the reminder.

HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 4:19:57pm

nytimes.com

NYT also helpful because you can see where these are coming from.

MsJ Nov 7, 2017 • 4:20:02pm

Yeah. This. (With a side of “both sides” thrown in for good measure.) Is anyone surprised?

Pointed statement from NJ @RepLoBiondo on his decision to retire: pic.twitter.com/WgOq39yjqL

— Elena Schneider (@ec_schneider) November 7, 2017

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 4:20:32pm

re: #69 lawhawk

Northern Virginia is always last to report.

So, don’t lose your shit just yet.

Yep. I warned everyone. Let’s hope our states and the great city of New York give Trump a bad Tuesday night.

Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos Nov 7, 2017 • 4:20:49pm

re: #61 Eclectic Cyborg

Aw shit, Northam’s getting his ass kicked.

16 precincts of 2566 (0.62%) reporting

I’m pretty sure that it might be a little early to call a winner here.

MsJ Nov 7, 2017 • 4:22:02pm

re: #71 HappyWarrior

nytimes.com

NYT also helpful because you can see where these are coming from.

That one is much better. Thanks.

HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 4:22:21pm

re: #75 MsJ

That one is much better. Thanks.

Yeah I think so too.

jeffreyw Nov 7, 2017 • 4:22:59pm

Imgur

Sweet and sour chicken

HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 4:23:33pm

This is actually better than I thought so far.

Brian J. Nov 7, 2017 • 4:23:41pm

And right after you say that, the NY Times promptly forgets that Northam exists.

The state site now has Northam ahead by about 600 votes and seems to be a bit faster on overall results even if you can’t read the local results as readily.

MsJ Nov 7, 2017 • 4:26:21pm

re: #78 HappyWarrior

This is actually better than I thought so far.

He’s holding his own with a lot of red and pink showing. (fingers crossed)

HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 4:26:37pm

No precincts in from Fairfax County yet btw.

HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 4:27:19pm

re: #80 MsJ

He’s holding his own with a lot of red and pink showing. (fingers crossed)

Yes, I think so.

Ace Rothstein Nov 7, 2017 • 4:28:01pm

Last year, Trump was running away early with Virginia, and lost it by 5.5 points. Northern Virginia always reports last.

Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis Nov 7, 2017 • 4:28:09pm

re: #56 MsJ

Someone’s unhappy.

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Mad Laura Ingraham is upset that known abusers might be disarmed.https://t.co/WWNq5dZX3o

— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) November 8, 2017

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She has me blocked.

Weaselone Nov 7, 2017 • 4:28:37pm

The interesting thing is that northam is outperforming the other state level Dems by a few percentage points so far.

HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 4:28:41pm

re: #83 Ace Rothstein

Last year, Trump was running away early with Virginia, and lost it by 5.5 points. Northern Virginia always reports last.

Yep. Gillespie may under perform Trump here.

MsJ Nov 7, 2017 • 4:29:21pm

re: #81 HappyWarrior

No precincts in from Fairfax County yet btw.

If Northram is holding at 48% with mostly Republican areas votes in, that’s pretty good.

HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 4:29:48pm

re: #87 MsJ

If Northram is holding at 48% with mostly Republican areas votes in, that’s pretty good.

I think we’re in for a good night.

HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 4:30:49pm

Ralph by the way is doing the best of all the Dems running here so far. The Republican Attorney Generals Association put a lot of money to defeat Herring who by the way is awesome. In fact, I consider him one of my most proud votes given his record on LGBT people. He’s the total opposite of Cuccinnelli.

lawhawk Nov 7, 2017 • 4:31:41pm

South Korea, US allies, and everyone else breathed a sigh of relief because the weather was such Trump couldn’t visit the DMZ to showcase fact he doesn’t know where he is, what he’s talking about, and would bring a gas tanker to throw on the fire.

JUST IN: President Trump attempted to visit the Korean demilitarized zone, but turned back due to bad weather, WH Press Secretary says.

— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) November 8, 2017

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Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos Nov 7, 2017 • 4:32:28pm

Nothing at all in from Norfolk, and very little so far from Alexandria, Roanoke, and Richmond. My feeling is that how ever the Chesapeake Bay area votes is what will swing the state one way or the other.

HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 4:33:11pm

re: #91 Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos

Nothing at all in from Norfolk, and very little so far from Alexandria, Roanoke, and Richmond. My feeling is that how ever the Chesapeake Bay area votes is what will swing the state one way or the other.

Nothing from Fairfax County either.

Brian J. Nov 7, 2017 • 4:33:58pm

Down the ballot, six Republican incumbents and one Democrat are trailing in the Delegates races.

Blind Frog Belly White Nov 7, 2017 • 4:34:07pm

re: #88 HappyWarrior

I think we’re in for a good night.

SHUT UP!! DON’T JINX IT! I’M GONNA BLAME YOU IF THIS ALL GOES TO HELL!!!

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Blind Frog Belly White Nov 7, 2017 • 4:35:15pm

re: #94 Blind Frog Belly White

SHUT UP!! DON’T JINX IT! I’M GONNA BLAME YOU IF THIS ALL GOES TO HELL!!!

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Funny thing is, there’s part of me that thinks that way, even though I realize rationally that, with the polls closed, the cake is already baked and the only happening now is the reveal.

Brian J. Nov 7, 2017 • 4:35:21pm

Northam’s ahead according to the state. Nearly 20% of the vote in already.

HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 4:35:55pm

re: #96 Brian J.

Northam’s ahead according to the state. Nearly 20% of the vote in already.

That’s a good sign.

gocart mozart Nov 7, 2017 • 4:36:55pm

NYT is predicting Northam up by 5.5% Not actual counted votes but “our best guess for how many votes both candidates will end up with when all votes are counted…

nytimes.com
Right now, our most likely estimates span Northam +12 to Gillespie +1.9. The darker region shows the middle 50 percent of our forecasts. The more we know, the narrower our range will be.

HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 4:37:37pm

re: #98 gocart mozart

NYT is predicting Northam up by 5.5% Not actual counted votes but “our best guess for how many votes both candidates will end up with when all votes are counted…

nytimes.com

That sounds about right.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 4:39:32pm

God I’m old enough to remember when I thought Cuccinnelli was as bad as a Virginia GOPer could get.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 4:40:00pm

McAulifffe sounds confident.

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs Nov 7, 2017 • 4:40:21pm

Let’s go VA.

Virginia is for Lovers not for Racists.

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Amory Blaine Nov 7, 2017 • 4:40:52pm

IDK. I heard Rand Paul repeatedly rammed his ribcage into that poor mans foot.

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Brian J. Nov 7, 2017 • 4:41:22pm

The state now shows all three Democrats ahead, although Fairfax’s lead is less than 400 votes and Herring’s is only 2,000 out of over half a million.

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Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos Nov 7, 2017 • 4:41:24pm

re: #92 HappyWarrior

Nothing from Fairfax County either.

Fairfax is starting to report now - with 1% in Northam has about a one thousand vote lead.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 4:41:59pm

re: #104 Brian J.

The state now shows all three Democrats ahead, although Fairfax’s lead is less than 400 votes and Herring’s is only 2,000 out of over half a million.

Herring barely won last time. We haev a history of some real nail biters here.

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bill d. (b.d.) Nov 7, 2017 • 4:42:02pm

re: #90 lawhawk

South Korea, US allies, and everyone else breathed a sigh of relief because the weather was such Trump couldn’t visit the DMZ to showcase fact he doesn’t know where he is, what he’s talking about, and would bring a gas tanker to throw on the fire.

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Bad weather makes Donnie’s bone spurs flare up.

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Skip Intro Nov 7, 2017 • 4:42:24pm

re: #58 HappyWarrior

Looks good to me!

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 4:42:31pm

Ralph leading albeit by 1-2% with a quarter of the votes in is a good sign.

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Brian J. Nov 7, 2017 • 4:43:54pm

There are now TWELVE Republican incumbents trailing in the House of Delegates. A gain of 16 would give the Democrats control.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 4:44:02pm

re: #108 Skip Intro

Looks good to me!

I wish they’d have a visual map like the NYT does but it’s coming quickest. My HoD race is close too. Walbridge only down by 7 percent and here in Western Loudoun, parts of Clarke County, we’re quite conservative.

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Dr. Matt Nov 7, 2017 • 4:44:36pm

24% in and Northam is up 50-49.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 4:44:39pm

re: #110 Brian J.

There are now TWELVE Republican incumbents trailing in the House of Delegates. A gain of 16 would give the Democrats control.

Thank you so much Tom Perriello for working hard on these after your defeat in the primary. And of course all the candidates in these.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 4:45:28pm

Oh awesome, the HoD candidate whose district I was in on Saturday is winning. Go Wendy!

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MsJ Nov 7, 2017 • 4:45:43pm

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Blind Frog Belly White Nov 7, 2017 • 4:45:45pm

re: #100 HappyWarrior

God I’m old enough to remember when I thought Cuccinnelli was as bad as a Virginia GOPer could get.

He tried to prosecute Michael Mann for publishing papers supporting AGW. He’s really bad. You’re saying there’s worse?

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Interesting Times Nov 7, 2017 • 4:45:48pm

US Attorney has dismissed the case against the woman who laughed during AG Sessions’ confirmation hearing, @LauraAJarrett reports.

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 7, 2017

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Now she can come and laugh during his perjury trial. https://t.co/pLxJJDLnDe

— Mr. Babypants (@mrbabypants) November 7, 2017

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 4:46:11pm

re: #116 Blind Frog Belly White

He tried to prosecute Michael Mann for publishing papers supporting AGW. He’s really bad. You’re saying there’s worse?

Corey Stewart, my friend.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 4:46:33pm

Seriously especially if Eddie loses. Stewart becomes the GOP favorite to run against Kaine in 2018.

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Brian J. Nov 7, 2017 • 4:46:41pm

Projection: Ralph Northam (D) has been elected next governor of VA, defeating Ed Gillespie (R). #VAGOV

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 8, 2017

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Amory Blaine Nov 7, 2017 • 4:46:49pm

re: #115 MsJ

Are the polls closed in Virginia?

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KGxvi Nov 7, 2017 • 4:47:03pm

re: #86 HappyWarrior

Yep. Gillespie may under perform Trump here.

In what’s supposed to be a swing state in an off year election, that… that doesn’t bode well for Republicans next year.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 4:47:06pm

Ralph is killing it in my county, Loudoun! By reference, Terry Mac won by only 5%.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 4:47:20pm

re: #121 Amory Blaine

Are the polls closed in Virginia?

YEp. Closed at 7 PM.

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Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos Nov 7, 2017 • 4:47:22pm

I have to say that I’m more than a little bit curious on how the Charlottesville vote is going to go - they are historically lean very slightly to the Democratic side but with recent events I can see that demographic changing a lot.

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Blind Frog Belly White Nov 7, 2017 • 4:47:27pm

re: #121 Amory Blaine

Are the polls closed in Virginia?

See immediately above your post.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 4:47:36pm

re: #122 KGxvi

In what’s supposed to be a swing state in an off year election, that… that doesn’t bode well for Republicans next year.

Yep.

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MsJ Nov 7, 2017 • 4:48:00pm

re: #121 Amory Blaine

Are the polls closed in Virginia?

Don’t quote me but I think 45 minutes ago.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 4:48:11pm

re: #125 Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos

I have to say that I’m more than a little bit curious on how the Charlottesville vote is going to go - they are historically lean very slightly to the Democratic side but with recent events I can see that demographic changing a lot.

It’ll be interesting for sure. That’s where Tom is from. Hopefully he helped rally his neighbors for Ralph.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 4:48:26pm

re: #128 MsJ

Don’t quote me but I think 45 minutes ago.

48 if I’m feeling pedantic but yes 7 PM.

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The Vicious Babushka Nov 7, 2017 • 4:48:54pm

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KGxvi Nov 7, 2017 • 4:50:57pm

re: #90 lawhawk

South Korea, US allies, and everyone else breathed a sigh of relief because the weather was such Trump couldn’t visit the DMZ to showcase fact he doesn’t know where he is, what he’s talking about, and would bring a gas tanker to throw on the fire.

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I could just see a war starting because Trump, standing on the South Korean side of the line decided to whip it out and piss on North Korea while yelling, “what are you going to do lil rocket man? whatcha gonna do?”

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Interesting Times Nov 7, 2017 • 4:51:01pm

Ha:

If you’re a democrat, please get out and vote.

If you’re a republican, thoughts and prayers are sufficient.

— Jennifer Wright (@JenAshleyWright) November 7, 2017

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weave Nov 7, 2017 • 4:52:23pm

Looking good.

Not looking good for Republicans. Not only is this not a general election, but it’s an odd year election.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 4:53:57pm

re: #134 weave

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Looking good.

Not looking good for Republicans. Not only is this not a general election, but it’s an odd year election.

I really think Virginians were turned off by Gillespie’s ads. Not much positivity at all in them. I won’t say Ralph was always 100% positive either but he ran a much more positive campaign talking about his work with sick kids and his time at VMI and helping wounded service members in Gulf War I.

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Blind Frog Belly White Nov 7, 2017 • 4:54:15pm

Huh. Maybe there’s more to elections that appealing to ~~white fright~~ economic uncertainty.

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The Vicious Babushka Nov 7, 2017 • 4:54:27pm

I went to vote today even though there was not much going on except for the mayor running unopposed, the city treasurer (a neighbor) running unopposed, & the non-partisan city council.

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Dr. Matt Nov 7, 2017 • 4:54:32pm

NYT: Right now, our most likely estimates span Northam +13 to Northam +2.6. The darker region shows the middle 50 percent of our forecasts. The more we know, the narrower our range will be.

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Targetpractice Nov 7, 2017 • 4:55:18pm

If Northam wins by as big a blowout as NYT is projecting, then the GOP leadership is gonna shit a brick.

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Brian J. Nov 7, 2017 • 4:55:19pm

All the Democrats now ahead according to the state. Over 40% in now. Fairfax has the smallest lead, about 5,000 votes.

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Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos Nov 7, 2017 • 4:55:23pm

Lieutenant Governor race is about as close as you can get right now.

Justin E. Fairfax Democratic 392,571 49.95%
Jill H. Vogel Republican 392,921 49.99%

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JordanRules Nov 7, 2017 • 4:55:27pm

Unofficially, it’s over: @JoyceCraigNH is the next mayor of Manchester #nhpolitics #WMUR

— John DiStaso (@jdistaso) November 8, 2017

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Democrat knocks off incumbent GOP mayor in New Hampshire’s most populous city. https://t.co/HUFq3wErXH

— Steven Shepard (@POLITICO_Steve) November 8, 2017

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 4:55:37pm

As usual, we have a nail biter. This time, it’s the Lt Governor race. Justin Fairfax is a great up and comer.

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Weaselone Nov 7, 2017 • 4:55:53pm

It’s interesting looking at the shift being shown from the 2016 election. It’s heavily blue, even in the rural counties.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 4:56:30pm

re: #140 Brian J.

All the Democrats now ahead according to the state. Over 40% in now. Fairfax has the smallest lead, about 5,000 votes.

No idea where in FC those votes are coming from. FC is quite Democratic but it’s also Cuccinnelli’s home turf too.

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Amory Blaine Nov 7, 2017 • 4:56:57pm

re: #132 KGxvi

I could just see a war starting because Trump, standing on the South Korean side of the line decided to whip it out and piss on North Korea while yelling, “what are you going to do lil rocket man? whatcha gonna do?”

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Dr. Matt Nov 7, 2017 • 4:57:12pm

Texas Republican Rep. Ted Poe announces his retirement from Congress https://t.co/hUyL5hM7b7 pic.twitter.com/GCgtNkSMMv

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) November 8, 2017

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Rats are jumping ship.

— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) November 8, 2017

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calochortus Nov 7, 2017 • 4:58:04pm

re: #137 The Vicious Babushka

I went to vote today even though there was not much going on except for the mayor running unopposed, the city treasurer (a neighbor) running unopposed, & the non-partisan city council.

No elections in our neck of the woods. There were school board members who would ordinarily have been up, but they extended their terms by a year so as not to have to run an election in which almost no one votes. Seems reasonable to me.

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gocart mozart Nov 7, 2017 • 4:58:29pm

Right now, our most likely estimates span Northam +12 to Northam +2.5. The darker region shows the middle 50 percent of our forecasts. The more we know, the narrower our range will be.
nytimes.com
Our best guess is that Mr. Northam is currently on track to win the election.

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Brian J. Nov 7, 2017 • 4:58:46pm

re: #145 HappyWarrior

No idea where in FC those votes are coming from. FC is quite Democratic but it’s also Cuccinnelli’s home turf too.

I mean the Democratic LtGov candidate, Justin Fairfax. (Virginians can probably look forward to four years of such confusion.)

Thirteen Republican incumbents now trail in Delegates races.

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gocart mozart Nov 7, 2017 • 4:59:54pm

re: #147 Dr. Matt

Fake, I’m invoking Poe’s Law

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:00:05pm

re: #150 Brian J.

I mean the Democratic LtGov candidate, Justin Fairfax. (Virginians can probably look forward to four years of such confusion.)

Thirteen Republican incumbents now trail in Delegates races.

Oops heh. But yeah we always have one of these. 4 years ago it was AG as it was eight years ago. 4 years ago, Herring pulled it out, 8 years ago McDonnell pulled it out.

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Dr. Matt Nov 7, 2017 • 5:00:37pm

An hour ago

A bunch of House Freedom Caucus members are on the floor rn asking for a special counsel to investigate the Obama administration.

— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) November 8, 2017

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:00:43pm

CNN already projecting Murphy as Governor of Joisey. Congrats Jersey friends.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:00:58pm

re: #153 Dr. Matt

An hour ago

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Desperate assholes are desperate.

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ObserverArt Nov 7, 2017 • 5:01:34pm

re: #67 HappyWarrior

I’m going to be interested to see how Ralph does in his home region.

I must be seeing things wrong but your link had Northam ahead 51 to 48 so far. And As you say, the Northern returns tend to be strong Democrat.

So where is the freakout??? (Not you Happy)

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Blind Frog Belly White Nov 7, 2017 • 5:01:49pm

re: #153 Dr. Matt

An hour ago

A bunch of House Freedom Caucus members are on the floor rn asking for a special counsel to investigate the Obama administration.

For…?

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Interesting Times Nov 7, 2017 • 5:01:54pm

Here’s something interesting (read comments for further clarification):

Prevailing VA narrative that I keep seeing not be supported by the polls: idea that nativism played huge role pic.twitter.com/r8sdgYRloh

— Ariel Edwards-Levy (@aedwardslevy) November 8, 2017

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_{I, for one, would *love* to see an unequivocal rejection of nativism. Fuck trumpism up the nose with a ghost-pepper-coated rubber hose.}

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Dr. Matt Nov 7, 2017 • 5:02:24pm

re: #157 Blind Frog Belly White

For…?

Being Black

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:02:31pm

re: #156 ObserverArt

I must be seeing things wrong but your link had Northam ahead 51 to 48 so far. And As you say, the Northern returns tend to be strong Democrat.

So where is the freakout??? (Not you Happy)

Means we’re having a good night. We usually have to turn around at the end.

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Dr. Matt Nov 7, 2017 • 5:02:48pm

BOOM!

BREAKING: Democrat Phil Murphy will win New Jersey’s governor race, CNN projects https://t.co/9RJ8VP7s0Q #CNNElection pic.twitter.com/x9ww1nD7pB

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) November 8, 2017

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:03:07pm

re: #158 Interesting Times

Here’s something interesting (read comments for further clarification):

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_{I, for one, would *love* to see an unequivocal rejection of nativism. Fuck trumpism up the nose with a ghost-pepper-coated rubber hose.}

Good. There’s no place for nativism in this state.

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Charles Johnson Nov 7, 2017 • 5:03:17pm

Wow, Democrats are crushing Republicans all over the map tonight. Striking fear into the heart of the Trump cult.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 8, 2017

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Blind Frog Belly White Nov 7, 2017 • 5:03:28pm

re: #159 Dr. Matt

Being Black

Well, yeah, OBVIOUSLY that. But what pretext?

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis Nov 7, 2017 • 5:03:58pm

I have 140 characters on replies, and 280 on Tweets. They must be transitioning.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:04:21pm

Republicans cynical in Virginia according to CNN.

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Blind Frog Belly White Nov 7, 2017 • 5:04:27pm

re: #163 Charles Johnson

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I hope the Clintons cancel the contract on Donna Brazile…..
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Interesting Times Nov 7, 2017 • 5:05:59pm

Sarah is all of us:

280 characters is like watching people overeat at a buffet purely because they can, and then vomit it up everywhere

— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) November 7, 2017

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis Nov 7, 2017 • 5:06:18pm

re: #166 HappyWarrior

Republicans cynical in Virginia according to CNN.

They should cynical everywhere. They were upset at being lied to by Republican politicians, and tried to remedy that by electing a con-man President. That’s not going to make them more supportive of the party.

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Nyet Nov 7, 2017 • 5:06:32pm

re: #165 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

I have 140 characters on replies, and 280 on Tweets. They must be transitioning.

Reload.

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Ace Rothstein Nov 7, 2017 • 5:06:36pm

re: #157 Blind Frog Belly White

For…?

Being a successful administration.

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VegasGolfer Nov 7, 2017 • 5:06:49pm

re: #167 Blind Frog Belly White

Wait, they should just have her killed, thats what they do, right? /s

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:07:01pm

Ralph up with over 50% in!

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Nyet Nov 7, 2017 • 5:07:07pm

280 is not enough. Give me 500.

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ObserverArt Nov 7, 2017 • 5:07:16pm

re: #147 Dr. Matt

Dr. Matt @DrMatthew
Rats are jumping ship.
7:49 PM - Nov 7, 2017

Making way for even larger and more disease carrying rats. It’s so bad old rats are scared of getting bit by these new rats.

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EPR-radar Nov 7, 2017 • 5:07:22pm

re: #164 Blind Frog Belly White

Well, yeah, OBVIOUSLY that. But what pretext?

The House Freedumb Caucus has no need of any stinking pretext.

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Charles Johnson Nov 7, 2017 • 5:07:36pm

Getting ready to make a major speech to the National Assembly here in South Korea, then will be headed to China where I very much look forward to meeting with President Xi who is just off his great political victory.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 8, 2017

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Trump’s energy really peters out with 280 characters, By about 210 he’s out of gas. https://t.co/VJRNLm3Ftt

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 8, 2017

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:08:17pm

Varek if you’re here. One of my friends just told me that Danica Roem is up over Bob Marshall. Bob Marshall is one of the worst Republicans in the HoD. Notoriously transphobic and been in office a long time. Danica is young and would be the first trans person ever elected to the legislature here.

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Ace Rothstein Nov 7, 2017 • 5:08:28pm

Pete Souza’s book is fantastic, by the way.

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Blind Frog Belly White Nov 7, 2017 • 5:08:29pm

re: #177 Charles Johnson

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“Great political victory” - quite an accomplishment in a one-party country.

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Alyosha Nov 7, 2017 • 5:08:32pm

Cool!

BREAKING: Danica Roem (D) has defeated 26-year Del. Bob Marshall (R) in #HD13, becoming the first transgender person elected to VA’s state legislature.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 8, 2017

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Interesting Times Nov 7, 2017 • 5:08:37pm

HappyWarrior, have the exploding wingnut heads registered on the Richter scale yet?

BREAKING: Danica Roem (D) has defeated 26-year Del. Bob Marshall (R) in #HD13, becoming the first transgender person elected to VA’s state legislature.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 8, 2017

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Charles Johnson Nov 7, 2017 • 5:08:44pm

BREAKING: Ralph Northam wins Virginia Governor race, @NBCNews projects pic.twitter.com/qp0SxsCIOp

— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 8, 2017

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YES. Yes, yes, yes. Take that, Donnie. https://t.co/rflnQVaU3y

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 8, 2017

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis Nov 7, 2017 • 5:08:45pm

re: #170 Nyet

Reload.

Why did reloading this page make my replies to Tweets here 280 characters?

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lawhawk Nov 7, 2017 • 5:08:56pm

re: #177 Charles Johnson

Low energy. Sad.

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ObserverArt Nov 7, 2017 • 5:09:08pm

re: #154 HappyWarrior

CNN already projecting Murphy as Governor of Joisey. Congrats Jersey friends.

Yeah…MSNBC called it a winner. Good to see a Democrat get to take over for the large guy with the big mouth and temper.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:09:21pm

re: #181 Alyosha

Cool!

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This is so awesome. Way to go Danica!

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EPR-radar Nov 7, 2017 • 5:09:27pm

re: #177 Charles Johnson

Xi’s ‘great political victory’ is the near-total consolidation of personal power in a quasi-dictatorship.

This naturally fills Trump with equal parts envy and desire.

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TedStriker Nov 7, 2017 • 5:09:38pm

re: #184 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Why did reloading this page make my replies to Tweets here 280 characters?

Twitter probably needed to update your cookies to reflect the new changes.

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Ace-o-aces Nov 7, 2017 • 5:09:40pm

re: #163 Charles Johnson

I look forward to an EPIC twitter rant tonight! pic.twitter.com/SykdyUMMmS

— aceoaces (@aceoaces) November 8, 2017

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Targetpractice Nov 7, 2017 • 5:10:19pm

For months now, we were told that Repubs winning razor thin victories in deep red special elections wasn’t a sign for concern, they were winning the elections and that “proved” Democrats weren’t gaining ground. Now it looks like the Dem running against a Trump Republican is about to beat his ass in a very bad way, while Democrats are winning races up and down the list.

Tomorrow, wingnuts lose what tenuous grip they still had on reality.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis Nov 7, 2017 • 5:10:33pm

re: #183 Charles Johnson

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Fake news, and if it’s not fake news, it means that illegal aliens voted him in, and if it’s not illegal aliens, Democrats colluded with Russia to sway voters.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:10:47pm

Danica Roem winning is huge guys. Her opponent was one of the most hateful members of the GOP in the legislature. This is a great win for humanity. Way to go Danica!

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Brian J. Nov 7, 2017 • 5:10:48pm

re: #178 HappyWarrior

Varek if you’re here. One of my friends just told me that Danica Roem is up over Bob Marshall. Bob Marshall is one of the worst Republicans in the HoD. Notoriously transphobic and been in office a long time. Danica is young and would be the first trans person ever elected to the legislature here.

Looks like Marshall’s gone. He’s down by almost 2,000 votes with only one precinct left.

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Blind Frog Belly White Nov 7, 2017 • 5:10:54pm

re: #190 Ace-o-aces

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Now with 280 characters!

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Nyet Nov 7, 2017 • 5:11:06pm

re: #189 TedStriker

Twitter probably needed to update your cookies to reflect the new changes.

Cached script files, not cookies.

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bill d. (b.d.) Nov 7, 2017 • 5:11:19pm

re: #179 Ace Rothstein

Pete Souza’s book is fantastic, by the way.

Got mine today….it is fantastic! I am eating up every page.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:11:20pm

re: #194 Brian J.

Looks like Marshall’s gone. He’s down by almost 2,000 votes with only one precinct left.

You have no idea how happy that makes me. He’s one of the most vile GOPers in the House of Delegates.

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Dr. Matt Nov 7, 2017 • 5:11:32pm

Dems win VA!

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weave Nov 7, 2017 • 5:11:34pm

Ha, just before the decision came out, this was the headline on CNN….

Republican Ed Gillespie winning among white non-college educated voters

Wow… you don’t say…

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ObserverArt Nov 7, 2017 • 5:11:45pm

re: #173 HappyWarrior

Ralph up with over 50% in!

He is increasing as it goes on, just like you suggested.

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Blind Frog Belly White Nov 7, 2017 • 5:11:52pm

re: #196 Nyet

Cached script files, not cookies.

Now I want cookies.

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calochortus Nov 7, 2017 • 5:11:55pm

re: #183 Charles Johnson

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No, no, no! According to the Freepers, this is good for Trump, because it’s all RINOs being rejected. Had the GOP candidates been true believers they would have swept to victory.

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Ace Rothstein Nov 7, 2017 • 5:12:18pm

Trump is the kiss of fucking death.

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Charles Johnson Nov 7, 2017 • 5:12:28pm

Ed Gillespie ran a grotesque, vile campaign pandering to the Trump cult’s xenophobia and racism, and tonight he’s GOIN’ DOWN.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 8, 2017

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:12:32pm

re: #201 ObserverArt

He is increasing as it goes on, just like you suggested.

Yep. To paraphrase Ice Cube, it’s been a very good day.

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Blind Frog Belly White Nov 7, 2017 • 5:12:52pm

re: #204 Ace Rothstein

Trump is the kiss of fucking death.

Everything Trump Touches, Dies.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:13:08pm

re: #205 Charles Johnson

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Yep. We’re going to have to defeat Corey Stewart next fall though.

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bill d. (b.d.) Nov 7, 2017 • 5:13:14pm

re: #204 Ace Rothstein

Trump is the kiss of fucking death.

Trump Backlash

Trumplash…

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:13:28pm

John King: No to Wolf asking if Eddie can come back.

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Dr. Matt Nov 7, 2017 • 5:13:44pm

Keep in mind, folks. If Gillespie loses tonight, Donald Trump now has 280 characters with which to react. You’re welcome.

— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) November 8, 2017

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Charles Johnson Nov 7, 2017 • 5:13:58pm

I just updated the LGF Connect tweet dialogs to the new 280-character limit.

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Ace Rothstein Nov 7, 2017 • 5:14:04pm

re: #206 HappyWarrior

Yep. To paraphrase Ice Cube, it’s been a very good day.

Three funny things about that song to show how dated it is-
1. “The Lakers beat the Supersonics.”
2. “And my pager keeps blowing up.”
3. “They was watching ‘Yo! MTV Raps!’”

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis Nov 7, 2017 • 5:14:21pm

re: #207 Blind Frog Belly White

Everything Trump Touches, Dies.

That’s bad. He’s been grabbing America by the you know what for a long time now.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:14:21pm

Ralph winning in Virginia Beach. Woot!

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lawhawk Nov 7, 2017 • 5:14:29pm

Democrats win both governorships - NJ and VA. That’s big.

Two other big races still to be decided: Maine Medicaid expansion and the Ohio drug plan. NYC mayor should be a slam dunk on par with the NJ governorship.

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MsJ Nov 7, 2017 • 5:14:30pm

re: #191 Targetpractice

For months now, we were told that Repubs winning razor thin victories in deep red special elections wasn’t a sign for concern, they were winning the elections and that “proved” Democrats weren’t gaining ground. Now it looks like the Dem running against a Trump Republican is about to beat his ass in a very bad way, while Democrats are winning races up and down the list.

Tomorrow, wingnuts lose what tenuous grip they still had on reality.

I’m sure there will be a new “This is good news for…” someone meme. It never ends.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:14:33pm

CNN calls it for Ralph!

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Brian J. Nov 7, 2017 • 5:14:42pm

Projection: Justin Fairfax (D) has been elected VA Lt. Gov., defeating Jill Holtzman Vogel (R).

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 8, 2017

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Projection: Mark Herring (D) has won reelection as VA’s AG, defeating John Adams (R). This time, looking like a *slightly* bigger margin than ‘13…

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 8, 2017

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CNN has just projected Northam the winner.

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Targetpractice Nov 7, 2017 • 5:14:52pm

re: #215 HappyWarrior

Ralph winning in Virginia Beach. Woot!

Thank you, thank you. Please, no applause.

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Nyet Nov 7, 2017 • 5:15:16pm

re: #202 Blind Frog Belly White

Now I want cookies.

Join the Dark Side. We have cached script files.

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Ace Rothstein Nov 7, 2017 • 5:15:16pm

re: #207 Blind Frog Belly White

Everything Trump Touches, Dies.

Marriages. Casinos. Spray tan.

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FormerDirtDart Nov 7, 2017 • 5:15:36pm

Trans woman Danica Roem (D) just defeated anti-LGBTQ candidate Bob Marshall (R) in Virginia, becoming the first trans state legislator in America.

— Laura Bassett (@LEBassett) November 8, 2017

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The man who wrote the anti-trans bathroom bill just lost the election to a trans woman. Let that sink in. https://t.co/KFEZXSYvMy

— Laura Bassett (@LEBassett) November 8, 2017

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Eclectic Cyborg Nov 7, 2017 • 5:15:42pm

re: #139 Targetpractice

If Northam wins by as big a blowout as NYT is projecting, then the GOP leadership is gonna shit a brick.

Hopefully a Russia shaped brick…

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:15:46pm

re: #219 Brian J.

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CNN has just projected Northam the winner.

A clean sweep!

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis Nov 7, 2017 • 5:15:59pm

re: #212 Charles Johnson

I just updated the LGF Connect tweet dialogs to the new 280-character limit.

So Sergey has his 500 characters in just a 2 Tweet Tweetstorm now!

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Brian J. Nov 7, 2017 • 5:16:22pm

Fifteen Republican incumbents now trail in their Delegate races. One more and it’s an even split, two more and it’s Democratic control.

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TedStriker Nov 7, 2017 • 5:16:23pm

Nah…gotta have the original. pic.twitter.com/m9AAsFBuaH

— Ted Striker (@talon_262) November 8, 2017

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ObserverArt Nov 7, 2017 • 5:16:30pm

re: #206 HappyWarrior

Yep. To paraphrase Ice Cube, it’s been a very good day.

Looks like he might get to 53% when all counted.

Everyone was saying he’d be doing good at 51% because VA is always that close.

I’m going to take this as a pretty decisive victory. Great!

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bill d. (b.d.) Nov 7, 2017 • 5:16:38pm

BUT IF THE DEMS ROUT THE WINGNUTS IN VA HOW WILL THEY EVER LEARN THEIR LESSON THAT THEY SUCK AND NEED TO CHANGE!?!?!

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EPR-radar Nov 7, 2017 • 5:17:10pm

re: #224 Eclectic Cyborg

Hopefully a Russia shaped brick…

That would be painful. Good.

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FormerDirtDart Nov 7, 2017 • 5:17:13pm

BREAKING: Elizabeth Guzman (D) has unseated Del. Scott Lingamfelter (R) in Prince William County’s #HD31. Dem pickup.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 8, 2017

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BREAKING: David Reid (D) has unseated Del. Tag Greason (R) in Fairfax County’s #HD32. Dem pickup.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 8, 2017

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plansbandc Nov 7, 2017 • 5:17:25pm

re: #179 Ace Rothstein

I WANT!

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TedStriker Nov 7, 2017 • 5:17:44pm

re: #196 Nyet

Cached script files, not cookies.

Well, that too…

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weave Nov 7, 2017 • 5:18:04pm

Ah the_donald — classy as always.

1) Of course, because VA is just like Alabama…. /sarcasm

2) And your typical dose of racism

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Dr. Matt Nov 7, 2017 • 5:18:07pm

@DonaldJTrumpJr Never fear, there is always tomorrow’s vote. #VirginiaElection #Northam #Virginia pic.twitter.com/qjVRr7Bp6Q

— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) November 8, 2017

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Targetpractice Nov 7, 2017 • 5:18:30pm

re: #230 bill d. (b.d.)

BUT IF THE DEMS ROUT THE WINGNUTS IN VA HOW WILL THEY EVER LEARN THEIR LESSON THAT THEY SUCK AND NEED TO CHANGE!?!?!

We joke, but you can be sure there’s dudebros aplenty who are aghast that Northam won after they dubbed him a “racist” this past weekend.

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FormerDirtDart Nov 7, 2017 • 5:18:30pm

BREAKING: Ralph Northam wins Virginia Governor race, @NBCNews projects pic.twitter.com/qp0SxsCIOp

— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 8, 2017

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By Virginia law, every statue of Robert E. Lee must now be melted down and molded into a statue of Pikachu. https://t.co/MVQrhCULRP

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) November 8, 2017

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FormerDirtDart Nov 7, 2017 • 5:19:27pm

Democrat Phil Murphy is elected governor of New Jersey https://t.co/a26ApNW2Ov pic.twitter.com/Z9adPwqmck

— CNN (@CNN) November 8, 2017

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:19:29pm

re: #235 weave

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Ah the_donald — classy as always.

1) Of course, because VA is just like Alabama…. /sarcasm

2) And your typical dose of racism

That’s just plain ignorant and stupid. We’re becoming light blue but we’re not the Democratic equivalent of Alabama roflmao. I wish we were but we’re not.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Nov 7, 2017 • 5:20:19pm

re: #235 weave

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Ah the_donald — classy as always.

1) Of course, because VA is just like Alabama…. /sarcasm

2) And your typical dose of racism

VA “has been blue for a while now”? Are you fucking retarded? Why is it considered a battleground state if it’s blue?

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FormerDirtDart Nov 7, 2017 • 5:20:33pm

BREAKING: Erika Connors has won the special election for the New Hampshire House, flipping the seat from red to blue. Congrats, Erika! pic.twitter.com/UkdANoqsxz

— DLCC (@TheDLCC) November 8, 2017

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Charles Johnson Nov 7, 2017 • 5:20:43pm

BREAKING: Ralph Northam wins Virginia Governor race, @NBCNews projects pic.twitter.com/qp0SxsCIOp

— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 8, 2017

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By Virginia law, every statue of Robert E. Lee must now be melted down and molded into a statue of Pikachu. https://t.co/MVQrhCULRP

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) November 8, 2017

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I think we decided on Saul Alinsky at the last Resistance meeting. https://t.co/nhJYt4CIqi

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 8, 2017

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Brian J. Nov 7, 2017 • 5:21:00pm

re: #125 Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Kodos

I have to say that I’m more than a little bit curious on how the Charlottesville vote is going to go - they are historically lean very slightly to the Democratic side but with recent events I can see that demographic changing a lot.

First Charlottesville precinct is in and it’s a slight lead for the Democrat- Northam 706, Gillespie 91, Hyra 3.

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lawhawk Nov 7, 2017 • 5:21:03pm

I can hope for the clean sweep protocol can’t I?

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Stanley Sea Nov 7, 2017 • 5:21:30pm

re: #225 HappyWarrior

A clean sweep!

Checking in from Charleston. Great vacation even the better. Thank you happy for your hard work.

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JordanRules Nov 7, 2017 • 5:21:30pm

Tom Perez sounding good on Chris Hayes! Up and down the ballot!!!!!

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Nov 7, 2017 • 5:21:33pm

re: #243 Charles Johnson

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Don’t you mean the Antifa meeting? Because they’re the big bad bogeyman on the right now, yanno.

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Blind Frog Belly White Nov 7, 2017 • 5:21:41pm

re: #232 FormerDirtDart

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I counted at least 10 ‘Dem Pickups’ in Wasserman’s feed a minute ago. How many Delegates are there?

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:21:45pm

re: #241 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

VA “has been blue for a while now”? Are you fucking retarded? Why is it considered a battleground state if it’s blue?

It has gone Democratic in the last 3 presidential elections and we do have 2 Dem senators but we still had Republicans controlling 2/3’s of the legislature. it’s a light blue state if it’s anything. Calling it like Alabama is some mighty fine spin.

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Dr. Matt Nov 7, 2017 • 5:21:57pm

Now the media is going to explain to us how the Democrats really lost tonight.

— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) November 8, 2017

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FormerDirtDart Nov 7, 2017 • 5:22:23pm

BREAKING: Karrie Delaney (D) has unseated Del. Jim LeMunyon (R) in Fairfax County’s #HD67. Dem pickup.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 8, 2017

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Eclectic Cyborg Nov 7, 2017 • 5:22:27pm

Thank God Chris Christies reign of terror is over.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:22:28pm

re: #251 Dr. Matt

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CNN shocker really isn’t.

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weave Nov 7, 2017 • 5:22:55pm

re: #232 FormerDirtDart

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Holy shit….. that’s some upper-middle class neighborhoods right there. Granted, a lot of federal workers who probably hate Trump so may not exactly translate nationwide, but on the other hand these are state seats, not federal, that are being flipped.

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Amory Blaine Nov 7, 2017 • 5:23:10pm

re: #251 Dr. Matt

Ah yes, the hot takes.

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Charles Johnson Nov 7, 2017 • 5:23:16pm

Riding double with George Soros.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 8, 2017

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Brian J. Nov 7, 2017 • 5:23:17pm

re: #249 Blind Frog Belly White

I counted at least 10 ‘Dem Pickups’ in Wasserman’s feed a minute ago. How many Delegates are there?

100. Going into the election it was 66-34 Rep. Now it’s looking like a paper-thin Rep majority if that.

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Nyet Nov 7, 2017 • 5:23:18pm

Report plz

I’m quoting the document you posted
I translated it
Of course an underground corpse cellar would require ventilation
Of course a lying Jew would use it to lie about made up gas chambers pic.twitter.com/sqW8OK0BAf

— Jay AquaLamb (@vsvs_a) November 7, 2017

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Let’s not forget he’s a Jew
Like most of the other Hollywood rapists and the team of private intel/ victim intimidaters hired by Harvey

— Jay AquaLamb (@vsvs_a) November 7, 2017

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:23:19pm

Great to see Herring get a mandate on his job as AG too. Guys, Herring is an incredible guy. I’ve described him as one of my most proud votes for a reason. While Cuccinneli used the AG’s office to harass climate change scientists. Mark used it to help LGBT people.

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ObserverArt Nov 7, 2017 • 5:23:26pm

re: #216 lawhawk

Democrats win both governorships - NJ and VA. That’s big.

Two other big races still to be decided: Maine Medicaid expansion and the Ohio drug plan. NYC mayor should be a slam dunk on par with the NJ governorship.

I think the Ohio drug plan is going to get beat. The Issue was vague and could have ended up costing private insurance people more to make up for the supposedly lower prices for Vets.

And if it was so good for Vets, why did every Vets group in this state come out against it?

It just was an odd duck…and Bernie backed it, which kinda seems to me he got into one aspect…he heard lower costs and that was all he wanted. He didn’t look into the details and how it could backfire on others.

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Blind Frog Belly White Nov 7, 2017 • 5:23:41pm

re: #251 Dr. Matt

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“With big wins like this in an off year, they’ll try to cast through 2018, so really, this is ~~good news for John McCain~~ bad news for Democratic hopes.”

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Brian J. Nov 7, 2017 • 5:24:05pm

re: #261 ObserverArt

I think the Ohio drug plan is going to get beat. The Issue was vague and could have ended up costing private insurance people more to make up for the supposedly lower prices for Vets.

And if it was so good for Vets, why did every Vets group in this state come out against it?

It just was an odd duck…and Bernie backed it, which kinda seems to me he got into one aspect…he heard lower costs and that was all he wanted. He didn’t look into the details and how it could backfire on others.

The drug plan went down real hard- 79 to 21%.

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FormerDirtDart Nov 7, 2017 • 5:24:32pm

Democrats up in 18 Republican-held House of Delegates seats. Would be enough to flip the chamber.

— Sean T at RCP (@SeanTrende) November 8, 2017

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Did anyone even suggest this was a remote possibility before tonight? https://t.co/aURoxekM8L

— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) November 8, 2017

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Targetpractice Nov 7, 2017 • 5:24:40pm

re: #251 Dr. Matt

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It’s what I said this morning, a Dem win tonight will be spun as “concerning” because it wasn’t a blowout and thus Republicans aren’t losing ground. They’ll declare that Ed simply was insufficiently appealing to the “working class” voters, even though he appealed to all the same things that Trump did and ran a Trump-style campaign. And the ultimate conclusion is that we can’t draw any conclusions from tonight that don’t look “bad” for the DNC.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:24:53pm

re: #264 FormerDirtDart

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Honest answer, no I did not.

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lawhawk Nov 7, 2017 • 5:25:14pm

re: #261 ObserverArt

Don’t know enough about the Ohio proposal, but I think Maine has a good shot at passing the Medicaid expansion.

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Eclectic Cyborg Nov 7, 2017 • 5:25:19pm

Dumb question from someone not familiar with VA: What is the House of Delegates?

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Brian J. Nov 7, 2017 • 5:26:38pm

re: #264 FormerDirtDart

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Hillary did win 51 of the 100 Delegates districts, but no, no Democrat could ever do that.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:26:43pm

This hack on CNN is stupid. Northam isn’t a blue Dog Democrat. Blue Dog Democrats have never been as pro-choice, pro gun control, and LGBT as Ralph is. And calling Perriello a “Sanders/Warren Democrat” is insulting to Tom who is very much his own man.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:27:16pm

re: #268 Eclectic Cyborg

Dumb question from someone not familiar with VA: What is the House of Delegates?

Our state house of representatives. Our state Senate is up in 2019 I want to say. That will be big too.

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Targetpractice Nov 7, 2017 • 5:27:23pm

re: #268 Eclectic Cyborg

Dumb question from someone not familiar with VA: What is the House of Delegates?

Basically our version of the House of Representatives.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis Nov 7, 2017 • 5:27:25pm

re: #259 Nyet

Report plz

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So hard to pick just 5 Tweets to report…

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Charles Johnson Nov 7, 2017 • 5:27:43pm

Good grief, sounds pretty glum in @EdWGillespie headquarters. (you need to hear this.) pic.twitter.com/bP2BnUb68R

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 8, 2017

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MsJ Nov 7, 2017 • 5:28:02pm

re: #261 ObserverArt

I think the Ohio drug plan is going to get beat. The Issue was vague and could have ended up costing private insurance people more to make up for the supposedly lower prices for Vets.

And if it was so good for Vets, why did every Vets group in this state come out against it?

It just was an odd duck…and Bernie backed it, which kinda seems to me he got into one aspect…he heard lower costs and that was all he wanted. He didn’t look into the details and how it could backfire on others.

That sums up Bernie right there in just a few words.

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Targetpractice Nov 7, 2017 • 5:29:25pm

re: #270 HappyWarrior

This hack on CNN is stupid. Northam isn’t a blue Dog Democrat. Blue Dog Democrats have never been as pro-choice, pro gun control, and LGBT as Ralph is. And calling Perriello a “Sanders/Warren Democrat” is insulting to Tom who is very much his own man.

OFFS, anybody to the right of Lenin is spun as a “Blue Dog Dem.” Fuck’em.

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JordanRules Nov 7, 2017 • 5:29:33pm

Waiting for Trump to delete all his pro-endorsing Gillespie tweets claiming he hardly knew the guy at all. VA coffee boy.

— Alice Currah (@SavorySweetLife) November 8, 2017

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bratwurst Nov 7, 2017 • 5:29:42pm

I wonder how the worst professional pundit in America set things up this morning…

Happy Election Day! Are Democrats blowing it?https://t.co/7VpSw1nbW7

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) November 7, 2017

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Dr. Matt Nov 7, 2017 • 5:29:49pm

The entire planet waiting for Trump to wake up and tweet about today’s election… pic.twitter.com/xzHvyetHfG

— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) November 8, 2017

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Nov 7, 2017 • 5:30:15pm

re: #278 bratwurst

I wonder how the worst professional pundit in America set things up this morning…

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Short answer: No.

Long answer: HAHAHAHAHAHA, nope, go fuck yourself you stupid hack.

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MsJ Nov 7, 2017 • 5:30:30pm

re: #270 HappyWarrior

This hack on CNN is stupid. Northam isn’t a blue Dog Democrat. Blue Dog Democrats have never been as pro-choice, pro gun control, and LGBT as Ralph is. And calling Perriello a “Sanders/Warren Democrat” is insulting to Tom who is very much his own man.

They purposely say that shit. Just like hannity always said any dem is TEH MOAST LIBRUL EVAH! year after year, election after election.

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FormerDirtDart Nov 7, 2017 • 5:30:34pm

re: #268 Eclectic Cyborg

Dumb question from someone not familiar with VA: What is the House of Delegates?

Just like US fed government, Virginia’s state legislature is two houses Senate (upper house) and House of Delegates (lower house)

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alloutofcrazyhere Nov 7, 2017 • 5:30:38pm

re: #262 Blind Frog Belly White

LOL. Love the John McCain comment. Works for all occasions .

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Targetpractice Nov 7, 2017 • 5:30:58pm

re: #278 bratwurst

I wonder how the worst professional pundit in America set things up this morning…

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Tomorrow: “Dems pull off a win everybody expected, nothing exciting here, let me go back to tongue-bathing Dear Leader.”

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Weaselone Nov 7, 2017 • 5:31:42pm

re: #265 Targetpractice

It’s what I said this morning, a Dem win tonight will be spun as “concerning” because it wasn’t a blowout and thus Republicans aren’t losing ground. They’ll declare that Ed simply was insufficiently appealing to the “working class” voters, even though he appealed to all the same things that Trump did and ran a Trump-style campaign. And the ultimate conclusion is that we can’t draw any conclusions from tonight that don’t look “bad” for the DNC.

Except that it’s increasingly looking like it will be a comparative blowout. The Times estimated margin is currently sitting at 8.5%. It’s pretty certain Lt. Governor and Attorney General will be retained by the Democrats and the House of Delegates advantage for Rs is going to be severely eroded if not eliminated. All of this in an off year election when Democrats don’t generally turn out.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Nov 7, 2017 • 5:31:45pm

re: #284 Targetpractice

Tomorrow: “Dems pull off a win everybody expected, nothing exciting here, let me go back to tongue-bathing Dear Leader.”

The narrative has already been set: Because the Democrats didn’t win in a 20+ point landslide, they’re obviously running scared.

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Bass Reeves Nov 7, 2017 • 5:31:53pm

re: #315 RiverBoy

I am saying taking money, as a politician, from billionaires to fund your campaign is at the very least the perception of corruption. Not many billionaires hand over huge sums of money and expect nothing in return. The point I have been trying to make is that the GOP will always have the built in advantage because they have a base that will turn a blind eye to it. The Democrats on the other hand have to get votes from people that actually care if they’re represented by non-corrupted officials. In your first question you used bullets as a metaphor for money in politics so maybe this might explain my point. Not all bullets hit their intended target. The GOP base are easy targets. The DNC has much more difficult targets to hit. And in the times you miss you target unintended consequences may occur. So while the GOP are over there shooting fish in the barrel, The DNC are getting some hits here and there but at the same time some of them are shooting themselves it the foot. That isn’t working out from my point of view.

I want to come back to this point, because it was thoughtful and I don’t want you to think I dismissed it. The idea that taking money as a politician to fund your campaign is corruption is both a true statement about a perception, and on it’s face an absurd amount of the most incomprehensible thinking that I could imagine. There are billionaire Democrats too, right? Why the hell shouldn’t they want the D candidate to win? Aren’t the billionaire Democrats for stuff like civil rights and strong labor and the rest of it? Like…the perception of billionaire is obviously fat old white guy, but what about Oprah?

This isn’t breaking the rules of land war to be on par with the terrorists, this is like…making sure you can get your message out and your people to the place where they need to be. What random kind of scruffy hipster BS doesn’t want rich people actually using their fortune for a public good? “We’re so pure that we’d rather lose elections than take money from rich people” is just infantile.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:32:13pm

re: #276 Targetpractice

OFFS, anybody to the right of Lenin is spun as a “Blue Dog Dem.” Fuck’em.

It wasn’t a bro. Just some right wing hack trying to try to claim the Dems will be infighting in four years ago to replace Ralph. It will be interesting though for sure but you know what, I’m confident about that because our candidates know how to work together. I was proud to support Tom then Ralph.

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ObserverArt Nov 7, 2017 • 5:32:24pm

re: #263 Brian J.

The drug plan went down real hard- 79 to 21%.

About what I figured. At that high a defeat rate, many Ohio Democrat voters rejected Bernie’s endorsement.

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Brian J. Nov 7, 2017 • 5:33:51pm

re: #289 ObserverArt

About what I figured. At that high a defeat rate, many Ohio Democrat voters rejected Bernie’s endorsement.

It’s pretty ugly. Even in Cuyahoga County, it’s down more than 2 to 1.

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Kragar Nov 7, 2017 • 5:34:05pm

Once again, an endorsement from @realDonaldTrump is the kiss of death for a Republican politician. pic.twitter.com/hjZLBvorta

— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) November 8, 2017

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jaunte Nov 7, 2017 • 5:34:07pm

Media will try to claim VA was some sort of commentary on Trump. No it wasn’t. Trump lost VA in the General.

— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) November 8, 2017

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Lol.

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Targetpractice Nov 7, 2017 • 5:34:12pm

re: #286 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

The narrative has already been set: Because the Democrats didn’t win in a 20+ point landslide, they’re obviously running scared.

Of course. All the pundits who spent the last week insisting that the race tightening meant Northam was “blowing it” and expecting a tight race or Dem losses tonight will be right back out tomorrow, declaring that the election was never in doubt and Dem candidates didn’t really do anything to shake the perception that the party is in “disarray.”

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Dr. Matt Nov 7, 2017 • 5:34:27pm

“Ralph Northam brought a stethoscope to a gunfight.”https://t.co/7VpSw1nbW7

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) November 7, 2017

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Seriously, go fuck yourself. Seriously. https://t.co/ouUXJ5pwSA

— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) November 8, 2017

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Kragar Nov 7, 2017 • 5:34:39pm

Happy Election Day! Are Democrats blowing it?https://t.co/7VpSw1nbW7

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) November 7, 2017

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This aged SOOO well… https://t.co/asHVy7ifRl

— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) November 8, 2017

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Targetpractice Nov 7, 2017 • 5:34:46pm

re: #292 jaunte

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Lol.

The sore losers begin to make their way to the podium.

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ObserverArt Nov 7, 2017 • 5:34:49pm

re: #274 Charles Johnson

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Yay!!!

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:34:51pm

re: #292 jaunte

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Lol.

LOL okay Bill. Referendums only happen on people who win states. Sure. Keep on spinning Cupcake.

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Charles Johnson Nov 7, 2017 • 5:35:01pm

Here’s a toast to the first good election night in way too long. May it be just the first victory among many.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 8, 2017

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:35:13pm

re: #294 Dr. Matt

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Oh go fuck off Chris.

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jaunte Nov 7, 2017 • 5:35:26pm

re: #296 Targetpractice

The sore losers begin to make their way to the podium.

“Hang on tight to Trump in the midterms.”

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis Nov 7, 2017 • 5:35:31pm

Even after refreshing, I’m at 140 characters for some replies. I’m at 280 for others.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:35:55pm

Santorum is pointing out that calling Gillespie a moderate is foolish. I can’t believe I agree with Frothy.

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Charles Johnson Nov 7, 2017 • 5:36:17pm

Happy Election Day! Are Democrats blowing it?https://t.co/7VpSw1nbW7

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) November 7, 2017

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This tweet had an amazingly short shelf life. https://t.co/WyA81F4b71

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 8, 2017

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ObserverArt Nov 7, 2017 • 5:36:44pm

re: #275 MsJ

That sums up Bernie right there in just a few words.

Then I got my point across. ; )

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FormerDirtDart Nov 7, 2017 • 5:37:06pm

re: #302 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Even after refreshing, I’m at 140 characters for some replies. I’m at 280 for others.

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The last 3 weeks of the VA governor’s race has been all bad for Dems. https://t.co/7VpSw1nbW7

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Still the dumbest man in political punditry. By far. https://t.co/cSpQ33aEms

— Markos Moulitsas (@markos) November 8, 2017

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jaunte Nov 7, 2017 • 5:37:23pm

VA HOUSE OF DELEGATES: Democrats have already picked up 11 seats (2, 10, 13, 31, 32, 42, 50, 51, 67, 72, 73) and need 6 more for control. There are ~13 more GOP seats still in play.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 8, 2017

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Brian J. Nov 7, 2017 • 5:37:59pm

Democrats are up three seats in the NJ Senate; if they can keep them and gain in those same districts in the Assembly, they’ll be above a two-thirds majority.

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ObserverArt Nov 7, 2017 • 5:38:18pm

re: #278 bratwurst

I wonder how the worst professional pundit in America set things up this morning…

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Dear Chris Cillizza. We know who blows. Have you a mirror?

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FormerDirtDart Nov 7, 2017 • 5:38:37pm

My guess for Trump’s tweet: “Gillespie bad candidate. From the swamp. Part of problem. Ran from Trump in NoVA. Never asked Trump to campaign. Rs need me to win!!!!”

— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) November 8, 2017

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Targetpractice Nov 7, 2017 • 5:38:40pm

Tomorrow: “Well yes, the Democrats sweeped the elections, but they didn’t win over working class voters! They would have won by over 20 points if they’d run real progressives!”

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jaunte Nov 7, 2017 • 5:40:44pm

Medicaid expansion is winning in early returns in Maine, and it’s not close.

— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) November 8, 2017

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Dr. Matt Nov 7, 2017 • 5:40:51pm

@CillizzaCNN is having to rewrite all his pre-written articles declaring the “Democratic Party is Dead”.

— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) November 8, 2017

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Charles Johnson Nov 7, 2017 • 5:41:18pm

The last 3 weeks of the VA governor’s race has been all bad for Dems. https://t.co/7VpSw1nbW7

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) November 7, 2017

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Shouldn’t there be some kind of penalty for being THIS wrong? Maybe a pay cut or a fine? SO wrong. https://t.co/xKoI1wNqRh

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 8, 2017

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JordanRules Nov 7, 2017 • 5:41:24pm

re: #304 Charles Johnson

These replies are great! Watch the election night ratio!

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Brian J. Nov 7, 2017 • 5:41:25pm

re: #311 Targetpractice

Tomorrow: “Well yes, the Democrats sweeped the elections, but they didn’t win over working class voters! They would have won by over 20 points if they’d run real progressives!”

Our Revolution appears to have stumbled into three wins out of six Delegate candidates. They also backed third-party candidate Will King in District 18 (Marshall, Warrenton). He’s on 5% of the vote.

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MsJ Nov 7, 2017 • 5:41:31pm

re: #305 ObserverArt

Then I got my point across. ; )

You did indeed.

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lawhawk Nov 7, 2017 • 5:41:34pm

Why was Sanders in fatigues? She didn’t earn the uniform.

at the Korean DMZ, when @POTUS tried but couldn’t enter because of the weather - @WhiteHouse press secretary @PressSec Sarah Sanders in fatigues pic.twitter.com/mUvpjwGTCs

— Bill Ritter (@billritter7) November 8, 2017

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis Nov 7, 2017 • 5:41:43pm

Think about finding a new line of work. There’s something that you’re good at, you just need to find it.

— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) November 8, 2017

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Kragar Nov 7, 2017 • 5:42:24pm

Ed Gillespie worked hard but did not embrace me or what I stand for. Don’t forget, Republicans won 4 out of 4 House seats, and with the economy doing record numbers, we will continue to win, even bigger than before!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 8, 2017

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“ITS ED FAULT!”

The biggest loser tonight is Moron Don. https://t.co/8K6LukIXpH

— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) November 8, 2017

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Skip Intro Nov 7, 2017 • 5:42:40pm

re: #318 lawhawk

Still wearing pearls though.

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jaunte Nov 7, 2017 • 5:42:44pm

re: #314 Charles Johnson

Defined time-out in a penalty box for high profile commentators.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:43:25pm

Trump claiming Gillespie ran away from him lol.

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Targetpractice Nov 7, 2017 • 5:43:34pm

re: #320 Kragar

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And with Ed down on the ground, Donny rushes in to kick him in the ribs.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:43:44pm

re: #320 Kragar

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Hey Ed, you chose yourself to associate yourself to him.

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lawhawk Nov 7, 2017 • 5:43:45pm

You’re a liar and you backed yet another losing candidate. Your agenda is exposed as a bigot’s dream but an American nightmare.

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) November 8, 2017

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MsJ Nov 7, 2017 • 5:43:58pm

re: #324 Targetpractice

And with Ed down on the ground, Donny rushes in to kick him in the ribs.

I’m ok with that.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸ Nov 7, 2017 • 5:44:25pm

hey i hear our glorious president trump is winning big tonite in his effort to drive all those nasty rino republicans out of office

im sure the democrats who took their place will soon be replaced by brand new trump republicans who believe in trump real soon! maga!

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Nov 7, 2017 • 5:44:30pm

re: #323 HappyWarrior

Trump claiming Gillespie ran away from him lol.

The reality is, now Trump’s running away from GIllespie because good ol’ Ed is now a loser and Trump doesn’t want his stains.

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Kragar Nov 7, 2017 • 5:44:42pm

Good grief, sounds pretty glum in @EdWGillespie headquarters. (you need to hear this.) pic.twitter.com/bP2BnUb68R

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 8, 2017

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:44:45pm

re: #327 MsJ

I’m ok with that.

Absolutely. I never liked Ed going in but after he went full Trump, I wanted to make him to lose big.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:45:05pm

re: #329 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

The reality is, now Trump’s running away from GIllespie because good ol’ Ed is now a loser and Trump doesn’t want his stains.

Ed’s done in elected politics now. Two time loser.

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bill d. (b.d.) Nov 7, 2017 • 5:45:06pm

re: #320 Kragar

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Donnie, your guy got beat buy a guy named Ralph.

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Dr. Matt Nov 7, 2017 • 5:45:24pm

What a difference 14 hours makes pic.twitter.com/0riKBUO3D0

— Christopher Ingraham (@_cingraham) November 8, 2017

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ObserverArt Nov 7, 2017 • 5:45:32pm

re: #286 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

The narrative has already been set: Because the Democrats didn’t win in a 20+ point landslide, they’re obviously running scared.

I think a lot of folks will be surprised by the narrative.

Remember, the media for the most part are band wagoners.

They sell to the mood and the fashion. Big Donny is already showing signs of being out of fashion.

If Mueller comes out with more and more revelations unkind to the Big Orange Blob the media will turn and follow the polling numbers, which Trump is already heading into the worst ever.

I can see them asking tomorrow: Are the Republicans in Trouble? Is America turning on Trump?

And yeah, I hear about all that big media controlled by the monied conservatives. But they do like to make money. So if it sells, they will sell Trump out.

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TedStriker Nov 7, 2017 • 5:45:39pm

re: #299 Charles Johnson

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Success breeds success. Now, it needs to be like what Robert Loggia said near the end of Independence Day: “Tell them how to bring those sons of bitches down!”

— Ted Striker (@talon_262) November 8, 2017

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Eclectic Cyborg Nov 7, 2017 • 5:45:41pm

A rose is a rose,
So they say, as it goes.
It dances around,
As the artists compose.

In the garden in rows,
Quite at home I suppose.
Why do we dream of a rose?
No one really knows.

It moves and it flows,
It changes and grows,
As our secrets expose
The soft scent of a rose.

— Steve The Poet (@Steve_The_Poet) November 8, 2017

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Charles Johnson Nov 7, 2017 • 5:46:05pm

Ed Gillespie worked hard but did not embrace me or what I stand for. Don’t forget, Republicans won 4 out of 4 House seats, and with the economy doing record numbers, we will continue to win, even bigger than before!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 8, 2017

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Who would ever have guessed that after a week of praising Ed Gillespie non-stop, Trump would then attack him when he loses, and make it all about himself? https://t.co/kzqiTZ3DJj

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 8, 2017

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Kragar Nov 7, 2017 • 5:46:09pm

Good grief, sounds pretty glum in @EdWGillespie headquarters. (you need to hear this.) pic.twitter.com/bP2BnUb68R

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 8, 2017

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“This is a referendum on Donald Trump and his presidency” - VA State GOPhttps://t.co/uXQNnINslP

— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) November 8, 2017

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:47:19pm

This dude Urban seems hell bent on calling Northam a right of center Dem. He’s really not. He’s not as liberal as Tom P is but he IS staunchly pro choice, pro LGBT, pro gun control, etc.

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The Major Nov 7, 2017 • 5:47:27pm

re: #335 ObserverArt

And yeah, I hear about all that big media controlled by the monied conservatives. But they do like to make money. So if it sells, they will sell Trump out.

As usual, dude….

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Targetpractice Nov 7, 2017 • 5:47:33pm

re: #335 ObserverArt

I think a lot of folks will be surprised by the narrative.

Remember, the media for the most part are band wagoners.

They sell to the mood and the fashion. Big Donny is already showing signs of being out of fashion.

If Mueller comes out with more and more revelations unkind to the Big Orange Blob the media will turn and follow the polling numbers, which Trump is already heading into the worst ever.

I can see them asking tomorrow: Are the Republicans in Trouble? Is America turning on Trump?

And yeah, I hear about all that big media controlled by the monied conservatives. But they do like to make money. So if it sells, they will sell Trump out.

True enough, we may see tomorrow’s narrative becoming “Is Trump toxic to the Republican brand? Will the party leave him now? What does this mean for 2018?”

Though they won’t really start to dig the knives out until his “Cut Cut Cut Plan” fails miserably.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:47:44pm

Frothy actually making a little sense.

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Targetpractice Nov 7, 2017 • 5:48:23pm

re: #343 HappyWarrior

Frothy actually making a little sense.

In other news, four guys on horseback just rode by my window.

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makeitstop Nov 7, 2017 • 5:48:24pm

These Virginia results — more than Flake speech, more than Corker, more than Russia news — will do more to put a brake on GOP embrace of Trump than anything else. Elections matter.

— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) November 8, 2017

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Heh.

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Dr. Matt Nov 7, 2017 • 5:48:34pm

WINNERS TONIGHT:
Democrats
America
Future generations

LOSERS TONIGHT:
Trump/GOP
Rightwing extremists
The anti-Dem Sanders left #Election2017

— Peter Daou (@peterdaou) November 8, 2017

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FormerDirtDart Nov 7, 2017 • 5:48:41pm

BREAKING: Chris Hurst (D) has unseated Del. Joseph Yost (R) in Blacksburg’s #HD12. Dem pickup. Brings Dems to +12, need 5 more for control.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 8, 2017

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Former TV news anchor whose girlfriend was shot and killed live on television. https://t.co/RUrGhBOoAn

— Ed O’Keefe (@edatpost) November 8, 2017

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Eclectic Cyborg Nov 7, 2017 • 5:48:48pm

Re: Sanders in Fatigues

When I was studying Journalism in college I vividly remember one of my professors going on a long rant about TV reporters doing a segment wearing helmets and flak jackets when they are MILES away from any danger, just to try to make what they are doing look cooler and more dangerous.

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MsJ Nov 7, 2017 • 5:49:02pm

re: #332 HappyWarrior

Ed’s done in elected politics now. Two time loser.

They’re never done. Until they’re dead. And then they’re still not fucking done.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:49:12pm

re: #347 FormerDirtDart

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Congrats Chris. Godspeed to you in the HoD.

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TedStriker Nov 7, 2017 • 5:49:35pm

pic.twitter.com/kI0w0jKG4l

— Ted Striker (@talon_262) November 8, 2017

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jaunte Nov 7, 2017 • 5:49:37pm

Justin Fairfax makes history as the new Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, only the second black candidate to win statewide in Virginia, and the first since Doug Wilder in 1989. pic.twitter.com/wgOXdq2VoV

— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) November 8, 2017

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Nov 7, 2017 • 5:49:50pm

re: #344 Targetpractice

In other news, four guys on horseback just rode by my window.

Stan seen exchanging his pitchfork for a spoon.

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The Major Nov 7, 2017 • 5:50:39pm

re: #348 Eclectic Cyborg

Sounds like a stunt ol’ Papa Bear would lie about….

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jaunte Nov 7, 2017 • 5:50:53pm

The VA House results should scare Republicans. Democratic turnout is literally overcoming gerrymandering.

— Benchmark Politics (@benchmarkpol) November 8, 2017

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bill d. (b.d.) Nov 7, 2017 • 5:50:56pm

Congressional Republicans need to remember that Trump shows no loyalty to anyone.

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) November 8, 2017

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Brian J. Nov 7, 2017 • 5:51:04pm

BREAKING: Democrats are IN THE LEAD to pick up the VA House of Delegates. They’ve picked up 12 GOP seats & currently lead in 6 (!!!) more. Whoa.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 8, 2017

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The Major Nov 7, 2017 • 5:51:14pm

re: #353 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Upding for DIlbert reference….

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:51:21pm

re: #352 jaunte

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Guys watch for Justin in the future. He’s fairly young. I won’t call him a future Obama but he’s someone who I will predict now will be holding a higher office other than this one.

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lawhawk Nov 7, 2017 • 5:51:34pm

Medicaid expansion in Maine is up 54 to 46 in *rural* districts. Liberal Portland has not yet reported. This victory would be a massive signal.

— Topher Spiro (@TopherSpiro) November 8, 2017

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This is good news too.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:51:40pm

re: #357 Brian J.

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That is so awesome.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Nov 7, 2017 • 5:51:43pm

re: #358 The Major

Upding for DIlbert reference….

Too bad Scott Adams is a wingnut dumbass of the highest order.

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FormerDirtDart Nov 7, 2017 • 5:51:47pm

Here’s Steve Bannon describing the Gillespie outcome as a message about the public’s embrace of “Trumpism”: pic.twitter.com/9GkE8FemB9

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 8, 2017

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Blind Frog Belly White Nov 7, 2017 • 5:51:54pm

BREAKING: Democrats are IN THE LEAD to pick up the VA House of Delegates. They’ve picked up 12 GOP seats & currently lead in 6 (!!!) more. Whoa.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 8, 2017

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TedStriker Nov 7, 2017 • 5:52:37pm

re: #358 The Major

Upding for DIlbert reference….

Even if Scott Adams is a libertarian dudebro douchebag.

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Kragar Nov 7, 2017 • 5:52:53pm

#BREAKING: Dem defeats incumbent GOP mayor in New Hampshire’s largest city https://t.co/52ZMHCNqwh pic.twitter.com/Wm5ynUd3qM

— The Hill (@thehill) November 8, 2017

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Brian J. Nov 7, 2017 • 5:52:55pm

re: #361 HappyWarrior

That is so awesome.

I’ve seen a gerrymander broken the other way in Georgia, 2002. Not fun. When gerrymanders fail, they fail HARD because so many seats have very similar margins.

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Belafon Nov 7, 2017 • 5:53:08pm

re: #106 HappyWarrior

Herring barely won last time. We haev a history of some real nail biters here.

I’m way behind in the thread, but I would take some nail-biting wins over what we get here in Texas.

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Targetpractice Nov 7, 2017 • 5:53:27pm

Tomorrow: “Well yes, Republicans lost big last night, but the real test is the Alabama Special Election, because that’ll be a true bellwether for next year!”

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:53:33pm

re: #363 FormerDirtDart

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Stick to getting drunk Steve. You don’t know shit about Virginia. Your Virginia died when George Allen lost 12 years ago and we’ve been with a couple exceptions better off since then.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Nov 7, 2017 • 5:53:35pm

re: #363 FormerDirtDart

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“Trumpism without Trump” is something I saw on FiveThirtyEight. I have a sneaking suspicion that Gillespie would only have won on Trumpism if Trumpism hadn’t failed bigly at the federal level. And we all know who is responsible for that.

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makeitstop Nov 7, 2017 • 5:53:39pm

re: #331 HappyWarrior

Absolutely. I never liked Ed going in but after he went full Trump, I wanted to make him to lose big.

Happy for you, man. Happy that Trump is getting his nose rubbed in his own shit.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:54:07pm

re: #367 Brian J.

I’ve seen a gerrymander broken the other way in Georgia, 2002. Not fun. When gerrymanders fail, they fail HARD because so many seats have very similar margins.

This state may yet become solidly blue in my lifetime. We have the transplants and immigrants to thank.

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Skip Intro Nov 7, 2017 • 5:54:22pm

re: #363 FormerDirtDart

Bannon to English translation please.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 5:54:38pm

re: #372 makeitstop

Happy for you, man. Happy that Trump is getting his nose rubbed in his own shit.

I’m happy for all the immigrants, women, and other people who would have their livelihoods threanted by that sleazy opportunistic asshole.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Nov 7, 2017 • 5:54:40pm

re: #374 Skip Intro

Bannon to English translation please.

“Fuck, I need a drink.”

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The Major Nov 7, 2017 • 5:54:41pm

#TheResistance song of the night for many Dem wins: “Just Like Jesse James by Cher: https://t.co/eKrUH9Hoa7

— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) November 8, 2017

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danarchy Nov 7, 2017 • 5:54:43pm

re: #348 Eclectic Cyborg

Re: Sanders in Fatigues

When I was studying Journalism in college I vividly remember one of my professors going on a long rant about TV reporters doing a segment wearing helmets and flak jackets when they are MILES away from any danger, just to try to make what they are doing look cooler and more dangerous.

Here is another picture. I am guessing she was cold and someone gave her a jacket:

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EPR-radar Nov 7, 2017 • 5:54:54pm

re: #342 Targetpractice

True enough, we may see tomorrow’s narrative becoming “Is Trump toxic to the Republican brand? Will the party leave him now? What does this mean for 2018?”

Though they won’t really start to dig the knives out until his “Cut Cut Cut Plan” fails miserably.

If Trump causes GOP tax cuts to fail, a more hostile mainstream media would be the least of his problems. Congressional Republicans will impeach the Orange Menace for that, IMO.

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Dr. Matt Nov 7, 2017 • 5:55:02pm

Fox “news” hits a new low. This is their current coverage. pic.twitter.com/ktoSYivzc6

— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) November 8, 2017

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jaunte Nov 7, 2017 • 5:55:03pm

re: #374 Skip Intro

Bannon thinks a cult of personality can exist without a personality to rally around.

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Charles Johnson Nov 7, 2017 • 5:55:06pm

I predict that all the complaining about Twitter’s new 280-character limit will vanish very quickly as people realize it really is better. Sure, there’s something to be said for conciseness, and 140 characters did force people to think carefully about what they wrote, but hey. This is simply better, and I’m not complaining about it at all.

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Ace Rothstein Nov 7, 2017 • 5:55:42pm

re: #380 Dr. Matt

Is that seriously what is on over there right now?

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JordanRules Nov 7, 2017 • 5:55:57pm

re: #363 FormerDirtDart

This meth head needs to STFU. He’s not a brilliant tactician and his brand of hate politics will eventually get it’s ass kicked!

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Nov 7, 2017 • 5:56:07pm

re: #383 Ace Rothstein

Is that seriously what is on over there right now?

I was actually wondering if that’s what they were going to go with. Either that, or the whole thing about the Freedom Caucus demanding an Obama investigation.

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Brian J. Nov 7, 2017 • 5:56:12pm

In Charlotte, NC, Vi Lyles is way out in front to win the mayoral election for the Democrats, 62 to 38%.

er.ncsbe.gov

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TedStriker Nov 7, 2017 • 5:56:40pm

re: #382 Charles Johnson

I predict that all the complaining about Twitter’s new 280-character limit will vanish very quickly as people realize it really is better. Sure, there’s something to be said for conciseness, and 140 characters did force people to think carefully about what they wrote, but hey. This is simply better, and I’m not complaining about it at all.

True…the more I thought about it, 280 characters is still pretty short and concise enough, but allows for a more complete thought to be laid out without the “tweetstorm” workaround.

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Kragar Nov 7, 2017 • 5:56:41pm

re: #382 Charles Johnson

old twitter: This suck

new twitter: Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,
Or that the Everlasting had not fixed
His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter! O God, God!#280characters

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Ace Rothstein Nov 7, 2017 • 5:56:59pm

re: #385 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I turned Fox off forever after “A terrorist fist jab??!!” That was in 2008.

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gocart mozart Nov 7, 2017 • 5:57:08pm

Behind The Scenes of Donald Trump’s Twitter

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MsJ Nov 7, 2017 • 5:57:21pm

re: #380 Dr. Matt

Fox “News”: What election? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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makeitstop Nov 7, 2017 • 5:57:27pm

re: #342 Targetpractice

True enough, we may see tomorrow’s narrative becoming “Is Trump toxic to the Republican brand? Will the party leave him now? What does this mean for 2018?”

Though they won’t really start to dig the knives out until his “Cut Cut Cut Plan” fails miserably.

And tonight’s results will not help in that regard. Gonna be a lot of scared Republicans in the morning.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Nov 7, 2017 • 5:57:55pm

re: #389 Ace Rothstein

I turned Fox off forever after ” A terrorist fist jab??!!” That was in 2008.

My folks watch it. Myself, I was done with Faux News when I moved away from fish country in 2006. Mostly because I didn’t watch a ton of news at all, getting most of my news online.

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whitebeach Nov 7, 2017 • 5:57:55pm

re: #348 Eclectic Cyborg

Re: Sanders in Fatigues

When I was studying Journalism in college I vividly remember one of my professors going on a long rant about TV reporters doing a segment wearing helmets and flak jackets when they are MILES away from any danger, just to try to make what they are doing look cooler and more dangerous.

I believe the technical name for this is O’Reilly’s Syndrome.

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Dr. Matt Nov 7, 2017 • 5:58:10pm

re: #383 Ace Rothstein

Is that seriously what is on over there right now?

Yup. At the end of the segment Tucker called Northam “the Goldman Sachs candidate” and then said tomorrow he will be the first cable show to host Donna Brazile…even though she was just on MSNBC 10 minutes ago. Tucker is a fucking idiot in every sense of the word.

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ObserverArt Nov 7, 2017 • 5:58:32pm

re: #341 The Major

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lawhawk Nov 7, 2017 • 5:58:51pm

re: #382 Charles Johnson

I predict that all the complaining about Twitter’s new 280-character limit will vanish very quickly as people realize it really is better. Sure, there’s something to be said for conciseness, and 140 characters did force people to think carefully about what they wrote, but hey. This is simply better, and I’m not complaining about it at all.

On the list of priorities that Twitter should have done, jumping to 280 was way down on the list. Wiping out the trolls, bigots, and harassers, and cracking down on TOS violations was much higher. Getting edit ability was much higher.

There’s something to be said for conciseness, but I’ve been known to pontificate at length.

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The Major Nov 7, 2017 • 5:59:03pm

re: #384 JordanRules

This meth head needs to STFU. He’s not a brilliant tactician and his brand of hate politics will eventually get it’s ass kicked!

Bannon is a personality cult of one-himself. Eventually, his Commanding Self got him ostracized and now he’s trying to get relevant again. Sucks to be him right now.

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Targetpractice Nov 7, 2017 • 5:59:30pm

Freepers already jumping on the “Ed was a RINO, not a true Trumpublican” bandwagon, so no shocker there. Wingnuts never admit defeat, they just declare their candidate insufficiently dedicated to the cause and look for somebody even more insane and depraved.

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Kragar Nov 7, 2017 • 5:59:43pm

In the coming days and weeks, expect the GOP to begin ramping up voter suppression efforts in response to tonight

— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) November 8, 2017

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Belafon Nov 7, 2017 • 5:59:56pm

I don’t want to hear any more bullshit about how Democrat’s can’t run as being against Republicans, and about how they need to just listen to the loony left on how to get votes and win elections.

Now, what I think is causing Democrats to win elections is 1) being anti-Republican, and 2) people finally realizing they need to concentrate on local elections.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 6:00:15pm

re: #399 Targetpractice

Freepers already jumping on the “Ed was a RINO, not a true Trumpublican” bandwagon, so no shocker there. Wingnuts never admit defeat, they just declare their candidate insufficiently dedicated to the cause and look for somebody even more insane and depraved.

Maybe that is true but Ed did everything he could to tie himself to Trumpism.

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jaunte Nov 7, 2017 • 6:00:29pm

re: #399 Targetpractice

More seriously, Trump and Bannon are both going to try to memory hole their enthusiasm for Gillespie’s racist campaign, pretend he was a swamp creature. They can only do this by lying.

— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) November 8, 2017

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 6:00:47pm

re: #401 Belafon

I don’t want to hear any more bullshit about how Democrat’s can’t run as being against Republicans, and about how they need to just listen to the loony left on how to get votes and win elections.

Now, what I think is causing Democrats to win elections is 1) being anti-Republican, and 2) people finally realizing they need to concentrate on local elections.

Oh absolutely. And the local focus is going to help Ralph a great deal this winter and spring.

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bill d. (b.d.) Nov 7, 2017 • 6:00:50pm

heh

Why, you asked, Animojis on the new phone? For nights like this in Virginia, so a unicorn can sing “Happy Days Are Here Again” to you #VaGov pic.twitter.com/tEbijPx3h2

— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) November 8, 2017

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TedStriker Nov 7, 2017 • 6:01:18pm

Hey, Donald, when are you going to have your positive mentions of Gillespie in your tweets airbrushed out?

— Ted Striker (@talon_262) November 8, 2017

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Let’s see how long it takes for POtuS to block me…

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Charles Johnson Nov 7, 2017 • 6:01:29pm

re: #397 lawhawk

Oh, I definitely agree that there were some far more pressing issues that should have been dealt with long ago. In a way, this is confirmation that everything Twitter does is about increasing their bottom line, and explains why they haven’t addressed the harassment or the Nazis or the fake news.

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The Major Nov 7, 2017 • 6:01:47pm

re: #400 Kragar

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makeitstop Nov 7, 2017 • 6:01:48pm

re: #363 FormerDirtDart

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What a steaming load of crap.

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Ace Rothstein Nov 7, 2017 • 6:01:48pm

Every morning on my drive to work, I spy on the “Patriot” channel on XM125. Bannon came back this week, and you can literally smell the scotch through the speakers.

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Barefoot Grin Nov 7, 2017 • 6:02:06pm

re: #142 JordanRules

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Gatsas entire run has been on capping taxes. Yes, he gets some credit for turning fire stations into safe spaces for OD victims and citizen responders, but I’m pretty sure that wasn’t his idea.

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Brian J. Nov 7, 2017 • 6:02:22pm

Speaking of Georgia and gerrymanders, it looks like the Democrats are going to gain two seats in the Georgia House of Representatives this evening. Both include chunks of Athens-Clarke County lumped in with the Derp Counties surrounding it. They’re Districts 117 and 119.

results.enr.clarityelections.com

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JordanRules Nov 7, 2017 • 6:02:36pm

re: #400 Kragar

Yes! We’ll have to keep fighting harder and harder for every inch!

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bill d. (b.d.) Nov 7, 2017 • 6:02:50pm

Can’t wait for Trump to tell the South Korean National Assembly what a loser Ed was and how he would have won that race if called upon.

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Scottish Dragon Nov 7, 2017 • 6:03:45pm

BREAKING: Danica Roem (D) has defeated 26-year Del. Bob Marshall (R) in #HD13, becoming the first transgender person elected to VA’s state legislature.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 8, 2017

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TedStriker Nov 7, 2017 • 6:04:20pm

re: #407 Charles Johnson

Oh, I definitely agree that there were some far more pressing issues that should have been dealt with long ago. In a way, this is confirmation that everything Twitter does is about increasing their bottom line, and explains why they haven’t addressed the harassment or the Nazis or the fake news.

Exactly, because blocking/banning users costs Twitter money, both in ad revenue and in admin costs…and they aren’t going to do any more than they deem necessary to keep as many users on their service as possible.

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The Major Nov 7, 2017 • 6:04:33pm

re: #400 Kragar

Paging Hans von Spakosky to the Red GOP courtesy phone…

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Belafon Nov 7, 2017 • 6:05:00pm

re: #279 Dr. Matt

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When I told my wife what was happening, that’s exactly what she was wondering.

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jaunte Nov 7, 2017 • 6:05:30pm

Tonight seems like a good example of why Dems spend too much time worrying about gerrymandering.

— Josh Barro (@jbarro) November 8, 2017

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NOPE, DEFINITELY ALSO STILL NEED TO WORRY ABOUT GERRYMANDERING. https://t.co/D0jO0zJQH0

— Emily Crockett (@emilycrockett) November 8, 2017

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 6:05:31pm

Guys though. Let this be a great lesson in team work. When Tom Perriello last to Governor Elect Northam. He didn’t pout. He gave a rousing endorsement and whenever I saw him post on FB was either talking Ralph, Justin, and Mark up or talking up our many HoD candidates. That’s a great lesson in how when we realize we may not always agree, we have common goals, we can accomplish a lot. Proud to have supported Tom and Ralph both. Tom, please stay involved. Ralph, I know you’ll do us well.

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ObserverArt Nov 7, 2017 • 6:05:36pm

re: #374 Skip Intro

Bannon to English translation please.

High blood alcohol content…it’ll make a bit more sense maybe?

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JordanRules Nov 7, 2017 • 6:05:50pm

Turnout!!

Democrats and liberals turned out at their highest rates in New Jersey gubernatorial races since 1993, per exit poll data. Democrats accounted for 44% of voters, vs. Republicans’ 28%. https://t.co/ok08suoIvi

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) November 8, 2017

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Interesting Times Nov 7, 2017 • 6:06:34pm

Funny on how people only came to appreciate Obamacare after the person who it was named after was gone…

Health care was most important issue for Virginia voters, followed by gun policy and taxes, CBS News polling finds https://t.co/MK0yXPww6P pic.twitter.com/2yr4g8Yqso

— CBS News (@CBSNews) November 8, 2017

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Over 75% of Virginians who said healthcare is their most important issue voted for @RalphNortham. #VAGov

👉🏻 https://t.co/rwZJwO2qzu https://t.co/UxO5Ew4YDf

— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) November 8, 2017

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Joe Bacon 🌹 Nov 7, 2017 • 6:06:56pm

Another cherry on the cake tonight. Richard Spencer gets body slammed by the UK Guardian’s correspondent!

On a personal journey across white America, writer Gary Younge came face to face with alt-right leader Richard Spencer @Channel4 Thurs 10pm pic.twitter.com/25f0gHWmjO

— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) November 7, 2017

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Targetpractice Nov 7, 2017 • 6:06:59pm

re: #422 JordanRules

Turnout!!

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“But how can that be when we worked so hard to bar them from voting?!”

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Brian J. Nov 7, 2017 • 6:07:06pm

The AP and NYTimes have both called Fairfax and Herring winners. It’s a Democratic sweep.

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Blind Frog Belly White Nov 7, 2017 • 6:07:15pm

Sheee-it!!!

Our projection keeps inching higher… pic.twitter.com/e5XAWyVgYe

— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) November 8, 2017

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JordanRules Nov 7, 2017 • 6:07:40pm

re: #419 jaunte

Uh yeah, fuck no Josh.
Stupidest thing I’ve read since Cillizza.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 6:08:06pm

re: #423 Interesting Times

Funny on how people only came to appreciate Obamacare after the person who it was named after was gone…

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Well yeah I’d trust a doctor over a slimy lobbyist. Ralph’s the kind of guy I’d want comforting my family after losing a loved one. Enron Eddie, I wouldn’t even buy a chocolate bar from him.

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JordanRules Nov 7, 2017 • 6:08:25pm

re: #423 Interesting Times

Thanks Obama!!!!

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Scottish Dragon Nov 7, 2017 • 6:08:38pm

2018…flip the house and the senate. We can do it.

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ObserverArt Nov 7, 2017 • 6:08:42pm

re: #380 Dr. Matt

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I swear they could just use one image of Tucker while the guest is speaking in the other frame. It’s his best “Duh!” look. His only look.

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Targetpractice Nov 7, 2017 • 6:08:45pm

re: #423 Interesting Times

Funny on how people only came to appreciate Obamacare after the person who it was named after was gone…

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And tomorrow, wingnuts will be left confused how guns and statues didn’t carry the election for them.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe. Nov 7, 2017 • 6:09:04pm

re: #429 HappyWarrior

Well yeah I’d trust a doctor over a slimy lobbyist. Ralph’s the kind of guy I’d want comforting my family after losing a loved one. Enron Eddie, I wouldn’t even buy a chocolate bar from him.

Sounds like Mitt Romney.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 6:09:23pm

The other great thing is my one friend can shut up a bit about how the Dems are so incompetent.

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Belafon Nov 7, 2017 • 6:09:29pm

re: #334 Dr. Matt

Want to know why Trump’s kids are so messed up? Among the many other things wrong with him has a father, imagine that, no matter what, it’s always your fault.

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Ace Rothstein Nov 7, 2017 • 6:09:41pm

If Doug Jones wins in five weeks, I’ll reconsider the existence of God.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 6:09:59pm

re: #434 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Sounds like Mitt Romney.

He’s Mitt with a more humble background and more RNC connections but yes that’s not a bad analogy.

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Ace Rothstein Nov 7, 2017 • 6:10:10pm

re: #436 Belafon

Maybe there is hope for Barron.

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Weaselone Nov 7, 2017 • 6:10:12pm

re: #428 JordanRules

Uh yeah, fuck no Josh.
Stupidest thing I’ve read since Cillizza.

Seriously, having to win statewide by 10% to have an even chance at gaining control of a majority of legislative seats is BS.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 6:10:21pm

re: #437 Ace Rothstein

If Doug Jones wins in five weeks, I’ll reconsider the existence of God.

If Doug wins. I will be speechless.

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TedStriker Nov 7, 2017 • 6:10:25pm

re: #419 jaunte

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“Too much time worrying about gerrymandering”? Gerrymandering only makes things that much harder come election time, needlessly, and makes it where Dems have to hope for brute-force election returns for any hope to break GOP inaction/sabotage.

— Ted Striker (@talon_262) November 8, 2017

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FormerDirtDart Nov 7, 2017 • 6:10:28pm

BREAKING: Civil rights lawyer Larry Krasner, who wants to combat justice system inequalities, is elected Philly’s top prosecutor.

— The Associated Press (@AP) November 8, 2017

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Barefoot Grin Nov 7, 2017 • 6:10:33pm

“I told you Trump was a Democrat mole!!” ////

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JordanRules Nov 7, 2017 • 6:10:42pm

re: #437 Ace Rothstein

LOL
Lordy!!!

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Charles Johnson Nov 7, 2017 • 6:11:08pm

re: #424 Joe Bacon 🌹

I’ve actually had a posting window open with that video all day, but things kept getting in the way of posting it. It will go up in a little while. It’s pretty awesome, but also sickening to see Spencer in his true element.

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Interesting Times Nov 7, 2017 • 6:11:14pm

Teehee…someone’s username didn’t age well :P

Ralph Northam must lose. And we can beat that fucking asshole who tells you you’re a subhuman racist that society should look down upon

— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) November 7, 2017

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FormerDirtDart Nov 7, 2017 • 6:11:31pm

In Virginia, voters by a 2-1 margin said they were casting their ballot to show opposition to Trump rather than support for him. In New Jersey the margin was 3-1. https://t.co/BNWrNpj0lb #ElectionDay

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) November 8, 2017

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bill d. (b.d.) Nov 7, 2017 • 6:11:51pm

Rout, rout, rout, rout, rout.

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EPR-radar Nov 7, 2017 • 6:12:17pm

re: #440 Weaselone

Seriously, having to win statewide by 10% to have an even chance at gaining control of a majority of legislative seats is BS.

Yes. The fact that a wave election sufficient to overcome a gerrymander will obliterate the party that set it up isn’t enough to justify (or even excuse) gerrymandering.

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gocart mozart Nov 7, 2017 • 6:12:36pm

Current tally:
House of Delegates
Dem. 40 (+9 seats)
Rep. 33
nytimes.com

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makeitstop Nov 7, 2017 • 6:12:39pm

re: #432 ObserverArt

I swear they could just use one image of Tucker while the guest is speaking in the other frame. It’s his best “Duh!” look. His only look.

Hey Moe!

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 6:12:51pm

The best thing is a guy who sounds like old Virginia but is very much in tune with new Virginia beat a carpetbagger trying to sound like old Virginia.

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Brian J. Nov 7, 2017 • 6:13:08pm

re: #451 gocart mozart

Current tally:
House of Delegates
Dem. 40 (+9 seats)
Rep. 33
nytimes.com

VA HOUSE OF DELEGATES: 45D, 45R, 10 seats left uncalled (districts 21, 26, 27, 28, 40, 62, 68, 84, 85, 94). Dems favorites to win majority at the moment.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 8, 2017

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weave Nov 7, 2017 • 6:13:25pm

re: #451 gocart mozart

Current tally:
House of Delegates
Dem. 40 (+9 seats)
Rep. 33
nytimes.com

WRONG!

+10 seats now! :)

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JordanRules Nov 7, 2017 • 6:14:05pm

re: #440 Weaselone

Ridiculous.

Oh yeah, let’s always fight from behind guys! Let’s also not give a damn about demographically targeted undemocratic tactics! ///

Have mercy.

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Belafon Nov 7, 2017 • 6:14:16pm

re: #382 Charles Johnson

I predict that all the complaining about Twitter’s new 280-character limit will vanish very quickly as people realize it really is better. Sure, there’s something to be said for conciseness, and 140 characters did force people to think carefully about what they wrote, but hey. This is simply better, and I’m not complaining about it at all.

Many of my tweets have needed about 20 extra characters, and by the time I whittle them down, I fear the meaning’s getting lost.

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Interesting Times Nov 7, 2017 • 6:14:17pm

Ooooh…

Exit polls show top 2 issues for #Northam voters tonight were health care and guns. Say it again. Health care and GUNS.

— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) November 8, 2017

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Joe Bacon 🌹 Nov 7, 2017 • 6:14:49pm

re: #446 Charles Johnson

Charles, I had to share it. FINALLY someone will put Spencer in his place and it is DISGUSTING that nobody in the American Media will do that!

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Brian J. Nov 7, 2017 • 6:15:06pm

Meanwhile, in New York, the Republicans trail in one of their city council districts right now. If that result holds the New York City Council will have 49 Democrats and 2 Staten Island schmucks.

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The Major Nov 7, 2017 • 6:15:07pm

re: #421 ObserverArt

High blood alcohol content…it’ll make a bit more sense maybe?

Boy oh boy…if we could only assemble a black-bag team and inject Bannon with a depot dose of Naltrexone….he’d be so screwed…..

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Blind Frog Belly White Nov 7, 2017 • 6:15:45pm

re: #451 gocart mozart

Current tally:
House of Delegates
Dem. 40 (+9 seats)
Rep. 33
nytimes.com

Wasserman currently has the Dems +12 seats, and leading in 6 more. They only need 5 of those to take over.

Oops! make that +13

BREAKING: Kelly Convirs-Fowler (D) has unseated Del. Ron Villanueva (R) in Virginia Beach’s #HD21. Dems now +13, need 4 more pickups for control.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 8, 2017

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ObserverArt Nov 7, 2017 • 6:16:21pm

re: #427 Blind Frog Belly White

Sheee-it!!!

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Heh, I just said he’d get to 53% by the end up in the thread. He is at 54.5 and Eddie G is down to 45.

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JordanRules Nov 7, 2017 • 6:17:33pm

Take. The. House.

You can’t really look at tonight’s results and conclude that Democrats are anything other than the current favorites to pick up the U.S. House in 2018.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) November 8, 2017

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The Major Nov 7, 2017 • 6:17:35pm

re: #452 makeitstop

Tucker always has the deer-in-the-headlights look…

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 6:18:22pm

re: #463 ObserverArt

Heh, I just said he’d get to 53% by the end up in the thread. He is at 54.5 and Eddie G is down to 45.

This would be by far the biggest Dem gubernatorial win in my lifetime here. As I said, I really think Virginians were disgusted by Gillespie’s pandering to nativism. It may have worked in the else populated areas but in the population centers where we call those immigrants that Eddie attacked not just friend but also family, it didn’t work.

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ObserverArt Nov 7, 2017 • 6:18:23pm

re: #436 Belafon

Want to know why Trump’s kids are so messed up? Among the many other things wrong with him has a father, imagine that, no matter what, it’s always your fault.

Any bets his father treated the young Donny much the same? And Grandad did it to Daddy?

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William Lewis Nov 7, 2017 • 6:18:33pm

saw thi and it reminded me of CL. She would have loved the news out of VA, iI think…

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Belafon Nov 7, 2017 • 6:19:07pm

re: #442 TedStriker

And it doesn’t represent the will of the people. Which is all that matters.

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Cheechako Nov 7, 2017 • 6:20:06pm

After months of seeing everyone on LGF being down in the dumps, it’s fantastic seeing all the happy and positive comments. Still a along way to go, but it’s a great beginning.

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fern01 Nov 7, 2017 • 6:20:11pm

trump is late for his speech (15+ minutes - and he’s not ready yet)

probably checking election results on fox/twitter

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 6:20:11pm

Oh and Ralph pwned Eddie in Albemarie County. Charlottesville is what we call an Independent city and Ralph won big there too.

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The Major Nov 7, 2017 • 6:20:29pm

re: #468 William Lewis

How long has it been since CL left us and is now in the smiling gaze of Allah ?

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Targetpractice Nov 7, 2017 • 6:20:38pm

50% of VA voters expressed a favorable attitude of the Democratic Party, per early exits, vs. 38% for the Republican Party.

— Evan McMurry (@evanmcmurry) November 8, 2017

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HA!

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BeachDem Nov 7, 2017 • 6:20:42pm

And of course DeBlasio is killing it everywhere but Staten Island.

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Blind Frog Belly White Nov 7, 2017 • 6:20:47pm

re: #471 fern01

trump is late for his speech (15+ minutes - and he’s not ready yet)

probably checking election results on fox/twitter

It’s gonna be LIT.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 6:20:58pm

re: #473 The Major

How long has it been since CL left us and is now in the smiling gaze of Allah ?

I think she passed in early Spring. I miss her. Such a warm and kind voice.

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Targetpractice Nov 7, 2017 • 6:21:12pm

re: #471 fern01

trump is late for his speech (15+ minutes - and he’s not ready yet)

probably checking election results on fox/twitter

Figuring out how he can spin Ed’s loss to his advantage.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 6:21:12pm

re: #474 Targetpractice

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HA!

Hey Chris, suck it!

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JordanRules Nov 7, 2017 • 6:21:17pm

History in Minnesota tonight as Andrea Jenkins officially wins a seat on the Minneapolis City Council, becoming the first out trans woman of color elected to public office in America. So far, two trans women elected tonight!

— Sarah McBride (@SarahEMcBride) November 8, 2017

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History Made x 2 https://t.co/QuUMV7KlFu

— Franklin Leonard (@franklinleonard) November 8, 2017

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austin_blue Nov 7, 2017 • 6:21:19pm

re: #462 Blind Frog Belly White

Wasserman currently has the Dems +12 seats, and leading in 6 more. They only need 5 of those to take over.

Oops! make that +13

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This is the real story. The Va HoD was controlled 64-36 by Rs. That is an absolutely WHOPPING majority. For the Dems to take the HoD would be absolutely extraordinary and will leave R political operatives absolutely shaking in their boots over the ‘18 US HoR elections.

This is how we should have been feeling a year ago. I’m just as giddy as a blushing schoolboy at his first prom with the prettiest girl in town on his arm.

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meteor Nov 7, 2017 • 6:21:30pm

re: #259 Nyet

Reported that ignorant trash. All Holocaust deniers should be Baker Acted immediately.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 6:22:00pm

re: #480 JordanRules

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Congrats Twin Cities.

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Brian J. Nov 7, 2017 • 6:22:04pm

re: #475 BeachDem

And of course DeBlasio is killing it everywhere but Staten Island.

That Faux Noise blowhard Bo Dietl is under 1% of the vote.

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Weaselone Nov 7, 2017 • 6:22:36pm

It doesn’t look like it worked in most of Virginia.

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Targetpractice Nov 7, 2017 • 6:22:42pm

“Serious” pundits wake up tomorrow, wonder how in the fuck they’re gonna “Both Sides” this blowout.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 6:23:13pm

re: #486 Targetpractice

“Serious” pundits wake up tomorrow, wonder how in the fuck they’re gonna “Both Sides” this blowout.

:”Well a bunch of old white people voted for Gillespie so this doesn’t really bode well.”

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fern01 Nov 7, 2017 • 6:23:14pm

re: #478 Targetpractice

Figuring out how he can spin Ed’s loss to his advantage.

Seems it’s about to start - I prefer to read it rather than listen so “click” MSNBC
(Rachel is chatting about what might go wrong in the speech)

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Blind Frog Belly White Nov 7, 2017 • 6:23:33pm

So, no, I don’t think it’s because Gillespie wasn’t Trump-y enough in his tone or attitude, or even because of insufficient economic populism.

— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) November 8, 2017

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 6:23:37pm

I hope Timothy Watson is celebrating tonight. He’s actively with his local Dem Party.

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Belafon Nov 7, 2017 • 6:24:04pm

re: #486 Targetpractice

“Serious” pundits wake up tomorrow, wonder how in the fuck they’re gonna “Both Sides” this blowout.

“Democrats lost the dog catcher vote in Midfuck, Texas, thus showing they still have hurdles to overcome.”

And yes, I know dog catchers aren’t voted on.

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MsJ Nov 7, 2017 • 6:24:21pm

re: #417 The Major

Paging Hans von Spakosky to the Red GOP courtesy phone…

Kris Kobach is desperately trying to reach you.

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 6:24:25pm

re: #489 Blind Frog Belly White

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It’s because we’re tired of that crap here in the population centers. Even a scum bucket like Cuccinneli didn’t pander to racism as much as Eddie did.

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BeachDem Nov 7, 2017 • 6:24:29pm

re: #466 HappyWarrior

This would be by far the biggest Dem gubernatorial win in my lifetime here. As I said, I really think Virginians were disgusted by Gillespie’s pandering to nativism. It may have worked in the else populated areas but in the population centers where we call those immigrants that Eddie attacked not just friend but also family, it didn’t work.

Well, Fairfax county certainly wasn’t buying Ed’s bullshit—way more than double the votes for Northam.

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The Major Nov 7, 2017 • 6:24:44pm

Dare I play this classic from Roger Waters….?

Roger Waters - The Tide Is Turning (After Live Aid)

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gocart mozart Nov 7, 2017 • 6:24:49pm

House of Delegates
Dem. 43 (+10 seats)
Rep. 40
nytimes.com

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 6:25:38pm

re: #494 BeachDem

Well, Fairfax county certainly wasn’t buying Ed’s bullshit—way more than double the votes for Northam.

Fairfax wasn’t going to anyhow but the wide rejection really proves that Bannonism doens’t work ehre in Virginia and it’s doubly sweet since the Pock-marked face asshole is from ehre.

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FormerDirtDart Nov 7, 2017 • 6:26:04pm

BREAKING: Bill de Blasio wins New York City Mayor race, @NBCNews projects pic.twitter.com/BTmkuWyiNZ

— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 8, 2017

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EPR-radar Nov 7, 2017 • 6:26:35pm

re: #481 austin_blue

This is the real story. The Va HoD was controlled 64-36 by Rs. That is an absolutely WHOPPING majority. For the Dems to take the HoD would be absolutely extraordinary and will leave R political operatives absolutely shaking in their boots over the ‘18 US HoR elections.

This is how we should have been feeling a year ago. I’m just as giddy as a blushing schoolboy at his first prom with the prettiest girl in town on his arm.

That’s what a broken GOP gerrymander looks like. GOP apparatchiks will be shitting peach pits at the thought of this happening nationwide in 2018.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis Nov 7, 2017 • 6:26:45pm

re: #447 Interesting Times

Teehee…someone’s username didn’t age well :P

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The Man Behind @ComfortablySmug, Hurricane Sandy’s Worst Twitter Villain (Buzzfeed)

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Dr. Matt Nov 7, 2017 • 6:26:59pm

Thoughts and prayers to the @GOP. pic.twitter.com/YXHTlscZwZ

— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) November 8, 2017

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Targetpractice Nov 7, 2017 • 6:27:14pm

Even on a night like this, we should take a moment to remember those like Michael Tracey who are no longer with us. pic.twitter.com/LhY0O8MsSO

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 8, 2017

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HappyWarrior Nov 7, 2017 • 6:28:03pm

re: #501 Dr. Matt

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Whenever Drudge can’t spin your night.

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Blind Frog Belly White Nov 7, 2017 • 6:28:15pm

re: #501 Dr. Matt

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I seen what you done there…

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lawhawk Nov 7, 2017 • 6:29:40pm

re: #486 Targetpractice

“Serious” pundits wake up tomorrow, wonder how in the fuck they’re gonna “Both Sides” this blowout.

They’ll claim that you can’t extrapolate a limited sample size. Or that states that were purple/blue to deep blue going blue are no way to show what will happen elsewhere.

We’d just have to ignore that Trump has zero coattails and is incapable of dragging anyone to a popular vote win.

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Blind Frog Belly White Nov 7, 2017 • 6:29:55pm

Clearly pundits need to get out of their coastal bubble and get in touch with voters in the suburbs of big cities.

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) November 8, 2017

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MsJ Nov 7, 2017 • 6:30:11pm

re: #447 Interesting Times