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The nutter had help.
But the outright nutter won last time. I remember being in that same mindset as the Dear Leader was closing in on the nomination and then I had to catch myself, knowing Clinton could easily blow it.
The nutter had help.
And the Russians are going to stop helping in 2018?
It won't be stopped before 2018. Russia will be crippled as a country before 2020.
Based on what? Coming off his influence in the 2016 election Putin is stronger than ever. Maybe the single most powerful in the world considering he has nukes, can manipulate foreign elections, and rig his own elections. Trump can't get healthcare or most likely tax cuts in his own country. Honestly Putin is the most powerful person in the world probably
The polls were packed, me and my brother went and voted around midday. In Charlottesville turnout was up 31% and went for Northam 84-16.
That is just a stupid comment. Please defend that with some kind of substance.
The demo's have changed drastically here. A lot of first generation and second generation Indian Americans immigrated here since around 2000, when I first moved Richmond (a suburb of actually) it had to be more that 90% white then. Its much closer to 50% now and the county is solid blue as opposed to deep red.Why are republicans acting like Virginia has always voted blue when in fact it's just now starting to happen? Virginia used to be republican stronghold for decades.
It has leaned blue since Obama won. That's not long at all in terms of voting when you take into account people aren't voting every year.
It's the same reason why until last night republicans still controlled the house of delegates in Virginia.
Charlottesville and Northern VA. are both Democratic strongholds and central Virginia is steadily turning blue. In the next ten years it could a deep blue state. The fact that we regained control of the House of Delegates by gaining 16 seats despite gerrymandering that favors the GOP is insane and should be terrifying for Conservatives in the state.
Well, Canada and Lithuania just passed their own Magnitsky Acts and there's talk the EU may follow suit. May see further isolation, but who knows?
From the dems who nominated a ty candidate
You are overstating Putins power.
There is a huge backfire effect in Europe as Russian meddling has become more brazen, and more details come out.
His military is obsolete, oil is low, US gas exports are killing them, his population is getting older and sicker, educated people are leaving.
As US companies push LNG exports, his ability to bully the EU diminishes.
I can provide dozens of links of economic, technological, political, and geopolitical analysis to support this.
He doesn't have the revenue to fix his military's personnel shortcomings, or build up the kind of technological base to update his military.
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Our nation has shorted our nuclear arsenal's upkeep and we are still using software loaded on 5 1/4" floppy disks, fer sake.
The Russians can't even find some of their nukes. I doubt their systems are any better, and almost certainly worse off.
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Payback is going to be a when the districts get re-drawn in a few years.
My worry is that the Democrats will not see the harm that stacking and packing did, and simply attempt to do the same to the Republicans that the GOP did to us. While it would serve the ers right, it would also not improve our political landscape in terms of bipartisanship.
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Fox is going to have to find a lot more emoji-based news.
I view it as a good thing, tbh. The GOP has mastered the art of Gerrymandering to stay in power. Unlike the national level, Virginia Democrats have a couple of good candidates upcoming elections 2021 and 2025 (Fairfax- the new Lieutenant Governor, and Mike Signer- the Mayor of Charlottesville). Having good candidates in a state that is trending bluer and bluer and redrawing the districts for the General Assembly could entrench us in power for years to come.
"Payback is going to be a when the districts get re-drawn in a few years."
gerrymandering will get unimaginably worse if the oligarchy's SCOTUS 5 decides partisan gerrymandering is Cons utional, this term.
Resident Trump nope Clintlery
Agreed. Not mention the influx of Asian Americans into central Virginia, which is turning places in that part that were red, blue.
7 of the past 10 Governors of Virginia have been Democrats (dating back to 1982) with both Senators also being Democrats though it didn't starting voting blue in National Elections until 2008 with Obama after 40 years.
I think conservatives look at the national elections more instead of looking within the state elections.
A black guy from Liberia got elected mayor of Helena MT, 0.62% black, along with progressives sweeping the city council.
It's not leaving them "crippled" in 3 years tho. I can't think Liberal Chris has a handle on hyperbole, so I know that wasn't a loose statement.
Virginia and New Jersey Elect Governors Totally Lacking Reality-Show Experience
VIRGINIA AND NEW JERSEY (The Borowitz Report)—Throwing caution to the wind, voters in Virginia and New Jersey on Tuesday night overturned the political applecart and chose as their new governors two men with no reality-show experience whatsoever.
Republican officials were staggered by the voters’ decision because,
historically, reality shows have been a reliable proving ground for the nation’s finest leaders.
Ronna Romney McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, said that the voters’ risky bet on two men who had never set foot on a reality-show stage showed that the
electorate was acting “emotionally and not rationally.”
“You look at the résumés of these two men and you won’t find ‘Survivor,’ you won’t find ‘Big Brother,’ you won’t find ‘The Bachelor,’ ” she said.
“What we have are two individuals who are, to put it mildly, unfit for office.”
“This is not normal,” she said.
She gave both winning candidates credit for tapping into the angry voters’ anti-reality-show mood, but she warned, “Once these two have been in office, I think
voters will start longing for someone who had at least won an immunity idol or swallowed a live caterpillar.”
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/virginia-and-new-jersey-elect-governors-totally-lacking-reality-show-experience
Bipartisanship will be dead anyways as long as there is a bunch of Koch money funding the GOP. Might as well play dirty like those ers do.
The oligarchy is unbeatable. GAMEOVER The Dems are too feckless, leaderless, compromised by BigDonor, to out-krazy the political pricks owned by the oligarchy.
The oligarchy will have Gorsch, and mabye one or two more on SCOTUS, and 100+ more extreme rightwing Federal judges by 2020 at latest, McConnell's on it, and retain enough House seats to block progressive legislation if they can't keep passing regressive legislation.
The economy is rigged, and the political class is rigged enough to keep America in permanent decline, and inequality, and as corollary, poverty and near-poverty, will keep increasing.
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I feel America is going to become a third world country in the next 20-30 years due to the continuation of what you described above.
not 3rd world, but clearly will be at the bottom, or below, of what's called the "industrial countries"
I guess. The acts probably won't help Russia catch up to Lebanon in per capita GDP at any rate.
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