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US Midterm Elections 2018 |OT| Babs is Surging
- Thread starter Midnight Jon
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I read this sort of sentiment a lot. I understand it fully. It is hard to motivate yourself to fight what feels like a losing battle. It is hard to work for something when it feels like all your work is wasted.
But I try to think of all the people who came before me who fought much longer and much harder and a lot harder for privileges and benefits that I was fortunate enough to be born with. I think about what would have happened if all those people just gave up.
Regardless of the losses and setbacks, and despite what it rips out of you every time you lose, you have to keep going. You are here now enjoying the fruits of progress your forebears accomplished. It is your turn to fight for it so your children can have it too.
So, whatever happened last time and whatever happens tomorrow, I keep trying.
I'd say the absence of an electoral college overshadowing individual votes in a Midterm election is quite relevant to the importance of midterm votes vs presidential votes. At least as far as I understand, the electoral college plays no role in state and local elections, and only in presidential ones.
Put in your address here: https://ballot.votesaveamerica.com/
They give a pretty detailed breakdown of candidates, ballot measures, and other issues that might come up. I found it didn't cover court appointees for my area, I had to do separate research for those.
I'm disappointed that the polls are so close.
2 years ago, I was hoping this would be a repudiation of Trump and his values.
2 years ago, I was hoping this would be a repudiation of Trump and his values.
Hugin can claim to be all "independent" he wants, but at the end of the day, you can trust Menendez to vote no on McConnell's shenanigans. If this were any other election at another time, Hugin wins.
In 2016, polling generally* underreported Trump turnout because people were uncomfortable about admitting they liked him.
(*the relative accuracy of the final average GE popular vote turnout notwithstanding)
Now the reverse may be true; they don't want to admit they were wrong, but they will show it by staying at home tomorrow.^
(^ hopefully)
Everything hinges on turnout tomorrow. Polling can over- or understate general voter motivation in strange times. We'll see!
The Senate is a terrible map for Dems and they still have a ~20% chance of taking the majority through multiple red states.
They're...not close.
The issue is that we already control most of the Senate seats this cycle.
At this point, we can just wait out the extra 24 hours and point to the results.
The polls are certainly tough for the Senate, but this is an extremely tough map for the Democrats in the Senate and would be at a very high risk of creating a Republican supermajority in most other years. There is an outside chance some upsets occur both ways, but it should stay between R+1 and D+1, ranging from 52-48 to 50-50.
The polls look promising for the governors, Congress, and many state legislatures. That is where the real impact will be seen fighting back against Trump-ism.
I'm one of these surprise Dem votes for Gillum. I'm seeing so many DeSantis signs around FTL. With "Nuñez" underneath, to trick low-info hispanics using his
Oh how I hate that racist piece of shit. If he becomes my governor, I will leave Florida.
I have to change my party affiliation to Dem so i can vote in primaries though.
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I deserved that. going to edit my post and keep the original mistake.
Still, Gillum doesn't have his running mate's name underneath his. The intention was the same. To mislead low info voters into thinking Desantis isn't a racist piece of shit. Which he is. As is any politician who supports the Trump agenda and wants to build a wall.
It'll be interesting to see if Dems over-perform. Especially considering that voting has been near Presidential levels this go-around. All that post-Kavanaugh enthusiasm seems like it waned and Dems are on the ascendancy. We'll see tomorrow.
At the very least I hope voter participation is bigger than expected considering how much more covered it has been compared to 2010/2014.
At the very least I hope voter participation is bigger than expected considering how much more covered it has been compared to 2010/2014.
Don't you know? He's a Marine, and they don't back down!
Agreed. I feel like this is definitely the prevailing thought for Dems in Jersey
The polls are pretty lopsided. It's just that winning a vast majority of the Senate seats available this year is underwhelming because we already had most of those.
Yeah, having to vote for him makes me sick, but still the lesser of two evils. Friggin' NJ.
Early voted in Florida, brought my mom, helped my fiance and her sister vote, my father is going door to door to help remind people to go out and vote. We in this. Let's go Gillum and Nelson.
i took a peek at t_d (i know, i know) and they were bragging about people crying when trump was elected.
i'm not even american but for the love of god, vote.
i'm not even american but for the love of god, vote.
It is though. You see it in the House because the map isn't as biased towards Republicans as the Senate. Democrats are probably getting 35+ seats.
For the Senate, you're seeing tossups or only slightly lean right in states like TN and TX which are deep red states. Alabama is redder, but has a Democrat senator because of Trump and because the GOP candidate was so bad in Alabama.
Next election is more favorable to dems well probably see a super majority in 2021.
I mean, when you think of how Trump behaves, to even get just a "regular" midterm swing in the House points to how low this country has come...
Voted for every PoC on my ballot, regardless of party affiliation. Need to get white people out of government.
that's not how you do it
glad to know housing and urban development expert ben carson has your support
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^^^ I thought this was about getting PoC into leadership roles, not party politics. White people are far too privileged to get my vote.
What did I do wrong?
It's a nice sentiment but I think you should vote for people you agree with over their other traits. I'd prefer we had fewer white people in power but voting against your own interests just because the representative is white doesn't fix anything. Anyone, regardless of race, can fall victim to the mentality and lies that got us where we are today.
I canvassed for just an hour last weekend at a few south asian blocks in LA Koreatown, but it was a pretty cool experience. I think ill try to do more in the next general election! Or make some dope animated positive propoganda that informs people of things..
It's been crazy and disheartening to watch the 538 Senate forecast for Dems plummet over the last couple months.
