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Discussion: U.S. Election 2016
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Harry Reid's Parting Shot: Dems Will Nuke The Filibuster For SCOTUS
“I really do believe that I have set the Senate so when I leave, we’re going to be able to get judges done with a majority. It takes only a simple majority anymore. And, it’s clear to me that if the Republicans try to filibuster another circuit court judge, but especially a Supreme Court justice, I’ve told 'em how and I’ve done it, not just talking about it. I did it in changing the rules of the Senate. It’ll have to be done again,"
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/harr...-nuclear-again
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Obamacare flopping, MSM pouncing
I need thise oppo files to drop 
There only two weeks to go. What are they waiting for?!
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Rest assured that Hillary will be ready to encourage a wide variety of legislative proposals if the Dems take back the Senate. We just have to show up again for midterms in 2018!
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A City Clerk Opposed an Early-Voting Site at UW–Green Bay Because 'Students Lean More Toward the Democrats'.
Early voting hike attributed to high Democrat turnout
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Democrats have a nearly 2-to-1 turnout advantage. A total of 39,702 early voters were registered Democrats, almost 58 percent. Another 20,868, or 30 percent, were registered Republicans.
Meanwhile, 15,487 absentee ballots had been returned as of Saturday. Forty-nine percent of the returned absentee ballots were from Democrats, and 37 percent were from Republicans.
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Florida Early Voting
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About 1.6 million Floridians have already voted in this year's crucial election.
New numbers released Tuesday by the state Division of Elections show nearly 300,000 voters went to early voting sites Monday, the first day it was offered in 50 counties. Another 1.3 million voters have mailed in ballots.
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So far Republicans have a slight edge in early voting. Numbers show more than 665,000 Republicans have cast ballots compared to more than 658,000 Democrats. Nearly 251,000 voters with no party affiliation have voted.
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Member Since: 6/7/2011
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Originally posted by Concrete
Obamacare flopping, MSM pouncing
I need thise oppo files to drop
There only two weeks to go. What are they waiting for?! |
The U.S. has never had major legislation that didn't require tweaks and improvements over time. I have full faith that we'll get some positive Obamacare tweaks if the Dems take back the Senate. Red states politicians were bound and determined to make Obamacare seem like a failure and hurt their own constituents in the process.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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POP EMERGENCY :
My back of the napkin: Early voting up by average of 57% today in Texas' five biggest counties compared to first early voting day in 2012 https://t.co/cnEOtUA1KB
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New emails: Green Bay clerk refused to put polling place on college campus because "students lean toward Democrats" thenation.com/article/city-c…
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#RIGGED
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Originally posted by ariesjow
The U.S. has never had major legislation that didn't require tweaks and improvements over time. I have full faith that we'll get some positive Obamacare tweaks if the Dems take back the Senate. Red states politicians were bound and determined to make Obamacare seem like a failure and hurt their own constituents in the process.
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I neeeeeeed the House and Senate to pass to fix the Obamacare mess. **** Joe Lieberman and co for being assholes.
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MSNBC’s Ali Velshi Throws Cold Water On Obamacare Freakout: Premium Increases Were Predicted In 2009
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CRAIG MELVIN (HOST): Plans set to rise by an average of 25 percent in the 39 states served by Healthcare.gov. MSNBC’s Ali Velshi is here to break down these numbers to help separate some fact from fiction, if you will. What can you tell us?
ALI VELSHI: Well, you're going to hear a lot of different, specific numbers so I want to give you a narrative, a sort of a sense of what’s going on. In 2017, they are expecting that 13.8 million Americans in total will be enrolled in America. This is not the number of people insured, obviously, because many people are insured through their work. This is the number of people insured through Obamacare. It’s a little increase over 2016. The silver plan, which is the benchmark plan they use -- there’s gold, silver, platinum, bronze, and other plans -- is going to be up an average of 22 percent. With a number you used, 25 percent, that's across 39 states. This will be the whole average, about 22 percent. And that will bring the premiums up to about $3,552 a year.
MELVIN: That doesn't include subsidies, correct?
VELSHI: That's correct. Right. Now, this is important, because this number, this level, is where the Congressional Budget Office, which is nonpartisan, said that the rates would likely be around 2017. The issue is the first two years, they felt the premiums had been set too low. So we're not actually -- it's a big jump, but it's actually where we were supposed to be. These are the forecasts.
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https://twitter.com/craigipedia/stat...40101660532736
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If only millennials voted..
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I donated a cute little bit to Hillary's campaign. Every dollar counts and I won't take a single risk  Plus I get a bumper sticker.
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Originally posted by Skywalker
If only millennials voted..
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Yet half of our generation is out here like "my vote doesn't count anyways"
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I donated a cute little bit to Hillary's campaign. Every dollar counts and I won't take a single risk Plus I get a bumper sticker. |
Good luck with that. They have never given me the free items even if I donated - never even sent me the bumper stickers I ordered. Crooked Hillary! Get her out of here!!!
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They gave me a bumper sticker but I never put it on my car because 1) I think they're tacky, and 2) I'm pretty sure someone would damage my car since I live in Trumplandia.
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One Million Moms ad 
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Originally posted by LuLuDrops
REPORT: Democrats Very Likely To Take Senate Majority
The nonpartisan Cook Political Report predicted on Tuesday that the Democratic Party would see a net gain of five to seven Senate seats in next month’s election, giving them a slim majority regardless of which party takes the White House.
Cook said that Senate Republican candidates appeared to be doing well across the country, despite the unpopularity of their presidential nominee, Donald Trump, up until a 2005 video surfaced earlier this month of him making sexually explicit comments about women.
At that point, according to Cook, the GOP’s chances of keeping the Senate began to “unravel.” Before the video was released, Cook had predicted that Democrats would have a net gain of between four and six Senate seats.
“Early voting is underway in 27 states, so Republicans don’t really have much time to turn things around, and Trump won’t be any help, especially his campaign doesn’t really have a ground game to speak of,” the report reads.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/...o-seven-senate
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He's right though. He did lay the groundwork and foundation for future Democratic Party success. Darnit, Harry Reid will be missed. He's such a freaking LEGEND. One of our best Senate Majority Leaders ever. He ran the majority so well. What he did in 2013 was something else. Those appointments proved to be crucial with the strike down of these Voting Rights lawsuits happening.
THE LEGEND OF HARRY REID
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Democrats used a rare parliamentary move to change the rules so that federal judicial nominees and executive-office appointments can advance to confirmation votes by a simple majority of senators, rather than the 60-vote supermajority that has been the standard for nearly four decades.
The immediate rationale for the move was to allow the confirmation of three picks by President Obama to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit — the most recent examples of what Democrats have long considered unreasonably partisan obstruction by Republicans.
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He crafted and made it possible for Federal Justice nominations to be a majority approval instead of a 60% approval. In today's political climate where bipartisan efforts are non-existent, this was the right move to make to get our Congress moving. GOP stayed obstructing, stalling, and ruining any plans or moves the Dems tried to make.
Example of how bad partisan politics are in congress:
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Originally posted by @michael
They gave me a bumper sticker but I never put it on my car because 1) I think they're tacky, and 2) I'm pretty sure someone would damage my car since I live in Trumplandia.
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I have this on my car:
Granted I'm in an extreme-majority democratic region, I still have had some overly aggressive people on the highway and I attribute some of their rage to the sticker 
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Member Since: 4/4/2014
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Originally posted by Qwerty1234
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Or they could try to broaden their base to include POC and not hope and pray enough stupid ass white people (this is actually who votes for them so don't try it) go out to vote
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Member Since: 4/4/2014
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Originally posted by Skywalker
Good luck with that. They have never given me the free items even if I donated - never even sent me the bumper stickers I ordered. Crooked Hillary! Get her out of here!!!
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Omg someone get this to the MSM STAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Originally posted by Concrete
POP EMERGENCY :
My back of the napkin: Early voting up by average of 57% today in Texas' five biggest counties compared to first early voting day in 2012 https://t.co/cnEOtUA1KB |
Travis (Austin)
Dallas (Dallas)
Harris (Houston)
Bexar (San Antonio)
were all blue in 2012 and should all easily be blue again this election. What's interesting is how Tarrant (Fort Worth) could go. Fort Worth is more white and suburb-esque city than it's counterpart Dallas. Romney was up 18% here in 2012, McCain won it in 2008 by 12. I'm expecting it to be red but probably by around 6%.
Everyone also needs to keep their eyes on El Paso county and the turnout there. It got 185k votes in 2008, 171k in 2012. But El Paso has a population of over 800k, meaning less than 1/4 of residents voted.
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