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Post by minnesotapaintlady on Dec 6, 2022 22:53:09 GMT -5
That was way closer than it should have been.
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Post by steff on Dec 6, 2022 23:02:47 GMT -5
I did my part to save democracy, keep Georgia Blue and stop the insanity by voting against all the Hershels ( as we call him/them in our house)
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Post by thyme4change on Dec 6, 2022 23:07:26 GMT -5
I thought Hershel Walker’s concession speech was an old school, decent concession speech. He didn’t say he was robbed. He didn’t accuse Warnock of anything. His message included a plea to stay faithful to the elected officials and the constitution.
So glad he lost - but, at least he isn’t pulling a Kari Lake.
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Post by billisonboard on Dec 7, 2022 0:15:45 GMT -5
That was way closer than it should have been. True. If Trump had stayed out of it from the start and the Republicans had nominated a halfway decent candidate, it won't have even gone to a runoff.
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Post by djAdvocate on Dec 7, 2022 4:28:58 GMT -5
Walker could win this thing 🥴 that was not very likely when the Democrats got 50 seats.
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Post by djAdvocate on Dec 7, 2022 4:31:02 GMT -5
I thought Hershel Walker’s concession speech was an old school, decent concession speech. He didn’t say he was robbed. He didn’t accuse Warnock of anything. His message included a plea to stay faithful to the elected officials and the constitution. So glad he lost - but, at least he isn’t pulling a Kari Lake. he has some basic decency. i will grant him that.
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Post by djAdvocate on Dec 7, 2022 4:31:39 GMT -5
That was way closer than it should have been. GA is a deeply divided state, and quite partisan. PS- 3% is not that close. it is a pretty good margin of victory. this basically means that Warnock swept up all of the third party vote.
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Post by djAdvocate on Dec 7, 2022 4:35:31 GMT -5
this victory is really good for Democrats in a couple of ways.
the only seat left open this morning is the Boebert seat, which should be decided this week by (automatic) recount.
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Post by minnesotapaintlady on Dec 7, 2022 8:26:28 GMT -5
That was way closer than it should have been. GA is a deeply divided state, and quite partisan. PS- 3% is not that close. it is a pretty good margin of victory. this basically means that Warnock swept up all of the third party vote. It wasn't 3% when I posted, more like .7%
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Post by billisonboard on Dec 7, 2022 9:35:04 GMT -5
I thought Hershel Walker’s concession speech was an old school, decent concession speech. He didn’t say he was robbed. He didn’t accuse Warnock of anything. His message included a plea to stay faithful to the elected officials and the constitution. So glad he lost - but, at least he isn’t pulling a Kari Lake. I wonder if on a certain level he isn't relieved. Now he can return to his "glory days" existence outside of a critical spotlight.
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Satire Kari Lake Claims Victory in Georgia RunoffBy Andy Borowitz December 7, 2022 ATLANTA (The Borowitz Report)—Calling it “the upset of the century,” the former anchorwoman Kari Lake claimed victory in Tuesday’s Georgia runoff. “No one thought I would win this, but together we made it happen!” Lake declared. After briefly savoring her win, Lake lashed out at mainstream news organizations for refusing to acknowledge her triumph. “If you were watching CNN, MSNBC, or Fox, you wouldn’t even know that Kari Lake was running for Senate in Georgia,” she said. “More lies from the fake news media!” Recognizing that she may need to convince some Georgians that she is, in fact, their United States senator, she issued a solemn promise: “No one will work harder to win your trust, but, if I don’t, I will be your worst nightmare.” Kari Lake Claims Victory in Georgia Runoff
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Post by thyme4change on Dec 7, 2022 13:06:17 GMT -5
I thought Hershel Walker’s concession speech was an old school, decent concession speech. He didn’t say he was robbed. He didn’t accuse Warnock of anything. His message included a plea to stay faithful to the elected officials and the constitution. So glad he lost - but, at least he isn’t pulling a Kari Lake. I wonder if on a certain level he isn't relieved. Now he can return to his "glory days" existence outside of a critical spotlight. Quest love posted something today - which may have been written by someone else - but it said even running and losing exposed so many of Walker’s flaws that his life is ruined. I am not sure I see it that way - but I can see how he has some stank on him forever.
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Satire Kari Lake Claims Victory in Georgia RunoffBy Andy Borowitz December 7, 2022 ATLANTA (The Borowitz Report)—Calling it “the upset of the century,” the former anchorwoman Kari Lake claimed victory in Tuesday’s Georgia runoff. “No one thought I would win this, but together we made it happen!” Lake declared. After briefly savoring her win, Lake lashed out at mainstream news organizations for refusing to acknowledge her triumph. “If you were watching CNN, MSNBC, or Fox, you wouldn’t even know that Kari Lake was running for Senate in Georgia,” she said. “More lies from the fake news media!” Recognizing that she may need to convince some Georgians that she is, in fact, their United States senator, she issued a solemn promise: “No one will work harder to win your trust, but, if I don’t, I will be your worst nightmare.” Kari Lake Claims Victory in Georgia Runoff🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Post by billisonboard on Dec 7, 2022 15:11:24 GMT -5
I wonder if on a certain level he isn't relieved. Now he can return to his "glory days" existence outside of a critical spotlight. Quest love posted something today - which may have been written by someone else - but it said even running and losing exposed so many of Walker’s flaws that his life is ruined. I am not sure I see it that way - but I can see how he has some stank on him forever. He is sixty and has money. He could, if he chooses, live out the rest of his life in a comfortable bubble.
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Post by happyhoix on Dec 7, 2022 15:20:31 GMT -5
I wonder if on a certain level he isn't relieved. Now he can return to his "glory days" existence outside of a critical spotlight. Quest love posted something today - which may have been written by someone else - but it said even running and losing exposed so many of Walker’s flaws that his life is ruined. I am not sure I see it that way - but I can see how he has some stank on him forever. Any one of Trumps hand picked minions Will forever have that stank.
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Post by djAdvocate on Dec 7, 2022 15:22:37 GMT -5
the sooner they learn that, the Better America Will Be.
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Quest love posted something today - which may have been written by someone else - but it said even running and losing exposed so many of Walker’s flaws that his life is ruined. I am not sure I see it that way - but I can see how he has some stank on him forever. He is sixty and has money. He could, if he chooses, live out the rest of his life in a comfortable bubble. Perhaps he will run for some other public elected position that's more local to where ever he lives and that's a little less in the spotlight than Senator. I agree that this hasn't really stained his reputation or anything. Americans have really short memories. In a year or two all will be forgotten.
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Post by djAdvocate on Dec 7, 2022 16:57:39 GMT -5
shit, they forgive stuff that most people wouldn't forgive EVER. and in just a few years!
Baby Christians.
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Post by billisonboard on Dec 7, 2022 21:11:50 GMT -5
Throw the bums out! Each of the 29 Senate incumbents who ran for reelection won. This year’s Senate elections marked the first time in at least a century in which no incumbent senator up for reelection lost. Whoops, never mind. The most shocking Senate result: Every incumbent won
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Post by billisonboard on Dec 17, 2022 10:28:42 GMT -5
Republicans won the popular vote, but they’re not used to this feeling The cruel truth of American democracy, usually experienced by Democrats, is that a political party can get more votes than the other without winning much power.
This year, however, it’s Republicans who got more votes – more than 3 million more votes for GOP House candidates – and don’t have as much to show for it.
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The 2022 midterm is the first election in which Republican candidates got more votes than Democrats since 2014, when the GOP picked up House seats and the Senate majority. Didn't realize that Democrats lost in vote totals.
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Post by pulmonarymd on Dec 17, 2022 10:32:48 GMT -5
I am too. I wonder if at least part of the reason is where the senate and governor races were. May have increased turnout in republican areas
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I am too. I wonder if at least part of the reason is where the senate and governor races were. May have increased turnout in republican areas it could also be that they won by huge margins with "safe seats". IE, if all of your wins are 80-20, and all of your losses are 49-51, and the number of seats for each type is 222 for the GOP and 213 for Democrats, you would get that (assuming equal population districts): GOP vote total = 0.8x222 + 0.49x213 = 281.97/435 = 64.8% Dem vote total = 0.2x222 + 0.51x213= 153.03/435 = 35.2% of course, it was not that tilted. but you can do a regression analysis to determine the ACTUAL average difference per seat, using a 5% advantage for the GOP. NOTE: in this situation, it is actually POSSIBLE for the GOP to win the popular vote WILDLY and still lose congress. the same problem exists for the winner-take-all electoral congress, except it is even worse. which is why we should do away with it.
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Post by djAdvocate on Dec 17, 2022 12:56:12 GMT -5
/\ this would also explain why Republicans are INCREDULOUS when turnip loses. the literally don't know any Democrats, because they see nothing but Red where they live and work.
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I am too. I wonder if at least part of the reason is where the senate and governor races were. May have increased turnout in republican areas it could also be that they won by huge margins with "safe seats". IE, if all of your wins are 80-20, and all of your losses are 49-51, and the number of seats for each type is 222 for the GOP and 213 for Democrats, you would get that (assuming equal population districts): GOP vote total = 0.8x222 + 0.49x213 = 281.97/435 = 64.8% Dem vote total = 0.2x222 + 0.51x213= 153.03/435 = 35.2% of course, it was not that tilted. but you can do a regression analysis to determine the ACTUAL average difference per seat, using a 5% advantage for the GOP. NOTE: in this situation, it is actually POSSIBLE for the GOP to win the popular vote WILDLY and still lose congress. the same problem exists for the winner-take-all electoral congress, except it is even worse. which is why we should do away with it. The math would be assuming equal turn-out, not equal district population.
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Post by djAdvocate on Dec 17, 2022 17:47:52 GMT -5
it could also be that they won by huge margins with "safe seats". IE, if all of your wins are 80-20, and all of your losses are 49-51, and the number of seats for each type is 222 for the GOP and 213 for Democrats, you would get that (assuming equal population districts): GOP vote total = 0.8x222 + 0.49x213 = 281.97/435 = 64.8% Dem vote total = 0.2x222 + 0.51x213= 153.03/435 = 35.2% of course, it was not that tilted. but you can do a regression analysis to determine the ACTUAL average difference per seat, using a 5% advantage for the GOP. NOTE: in this situation, it is actually POSSIBLE for the GOP to win the popular vote WILDLY and still lose congress. the same problem exists for the winner-take-all electoral congress, except it is even worse. which is why we should do away with it. The math would be assuming equal turn-out, not equal district population. that is true. this is just a hypothetical to show how skewed things CAN be.
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You are though a liar, a bald-faced liar. And lied to your district's voters. George Santos Admits to Lying About College and Work HistoryThe congressman-elect told The New York Post that he had not graduated from college or worked at two major Wall Street companies, as he had previously claimed. Representative-elect George Santos admitted on Monday to misrepresenting his professional experience and educational history to voters, but said it would not deter him from taking office in January. Mr. Santos, a New York Republican who was elected in November to represent parts of northern Long Island and northeast Queens, confirmed some of the key findings of a New York Times investigation into his background, but sought to minimize the falsehoods in his first remarks since The Times published its findings last week. “My sins here are embellishing my résumé,” Mr. Santos told The New York Post in one of two interviews he granted on Monday to conservative-owned media outlets. “I am not a criminal,” Mr. Santos said, adding that he would still be an effective legislator. In a separate interview with WABC-AM radio, he said he still intended to be sworn in at the start of the next Congress. The admissions by Mr. Santos served as a capstone to one of the more astonishing examples of an incoming congressman falsifying key biographical elements of his background — with Mr. Santos maintaining the falsehoods through two consecutive bids for Congress. Yet even as Mr. Santos, whose victory helped Republicans secure a narrow majority in the next House of Representatives, admitted to some fabrication, his actions will still not prevent him, in all likelihood, from being seated in Congress. Democrats — including the outgoing House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, and the next House Democratic leader, Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York — have accused Mr. Santos of being unfit to serve in Congress. Top House Republican leaders, including Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, have largely remained silent. The House can only prevent candidates from taking office if they violate the Constitution’s age, citizenship and state residency requirements. Once he has been seated, however, Mr. Santos could face ethics investigations, legal experts have said. Mr. Santos, through representatives, has declined multiple requests to speak with The Times. His interviews did not fully address the scope of The Times’s reporting, which also included omissions on his financial disclosure forms and a charity he claimed to have founded and registered with the I.R.S. He also firmly rejected having been charged criminally anywhere in the world, but did not appear to explain the existence of records identifying him as being charged with check fraud in Brazil. Over the course of his campaigns, Mr. Santos claimed to have graduated from Baruch College in 2010 before working at Citigroup and, eventually, Goldman Sachs. A biography on the National Republican Congressional Committee website said he had attended both Baruch and New York University and received degrees in finance and economics. But the colleges and companies could not locate records to verify his claims when contacted by The Times. In Monday’s interview, Mr. Santos admitted to The Post that he had not graduated “from any institution of higher learning.” He also admitted that he never worked directly for Goldman Sachs or Citigroup, blaming a “poor choice of words” for creating the impression that he had. Past statements of Mr. Santos are relatively clear however: An archived version of Mr. Santos’s former campaign website preserved by the Wayback Machine says that he “began working at Citigroup as an associate and quickly advanced to become an associate asset manager in the real asset division of the firm.” Instead, he told The Post, he dealt with both firms through his work at another company, LinkBridge Investors, which connects investors with potential clients. Mr. Santos told The Post that LinkBridge had “limited partnerships” with the two Wall Street companies. Rest of article here: George Santos Admits to Lying About College and Work History
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