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Js1
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Counting all the votes is not voter fraud.  Please FUCK OFF with this narrative that counting outstanding votes is shady/unethical.  Suing to STOP votes being counted (looking at you, Arizona GOP) sho

Jim Tom Pinch
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Apologies for interrupting the Left Wing circle jerk in here.   Carry on.

Gil Bang
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Not "evenly", just well-gerrymandered to keep the GOP heads above water.

Francisco 2.0

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/13/us/young-candidates-elections.html

 

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As a 17-year-old girl scout, Cassandra Levesque led a campaign to end child marriage in New Hampshire, and was brushed aside by a state legislator. He said he saw no need to change a law, more than 100 years old, “on the basis of a request from a minor doing a Girl Scout project.”

Ms. Levesque’s first effort to raise the age of marriage failed. Rather than being deterred, Ms. Levesque decided to take her crusade a step further: She ran for the State Legislature herself, and won.

 

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In doing so, Ms. Levesque (pronounced le-VECK), now 19 and a Democrat, became one of a group of young people across the country who were elected to office for the first time this year. Some said they were galvanized by opposition to President Trump’s policies and a desire to push the Democratic Party to the left. Others were more focused on local issues, such as education, or said they sought to get other young people civically involved.

Caleb Hanna, 19, was elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates as a Republican, on a platform of investing more state funds in career and technical education. Kalan Haywood, 19 and a Democrat, was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly. He has said that he wants to pass a law requiring high school students who are 18 or older to register to vote.

In Iowa, Zach Wahls, who as a teenager gave a speech that went viral before the State House of Representatives about growing up with two lesbian mothers, was elected at age 27 to the State Senate.

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In 2016, Ms. Levesque, with encouragement from her mother, who was her troop leader, began researching the issue of child marriage as part of a project for a Gold Award, the highest honor in the Girl Scouts. She said she was shocked to realize that girls as young as 13 and boys as young as 14 could marry under state law if they had parental consent and the approval of a judge. Having recently been 13 herself, she said she thought that it was crazy that girls in middle school, “with band posters and stuffed animals and Barbie dolls,” could get married.

“I thought, ‘O.K., I need to change this,’” she said.

She approached a local state representative, Jacalyn Cilley, whom she had known since she was 8 (when Ms. Cilley gave her Brownie Girl Scout troop a tour of the State House) with her research.

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But a bill Ms. Cilley championed, which would have raised the minimum age for marriage, ran into a wall of opposition from her Republican colleagues. Among critics of the idea was Representative David Bates, the lawmaker who dismissed Ms. Levesque as “a minor doing a Girl Scout project.” (Mr. Bates, who did not respond to a message left at his home, did not run for re-election this year.)

In March 2017, Republicans killed the bill, using a procedural move intended to keep it from being considered again for two years.

 

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don't look now, but here comes Mia
 
 


I obviously want the Democrat to win but it would be funny as shit if Mia Love ends up pulling out the win after Trump got all petty and called her out by name and made a pun of her last name when making the lame argument that the Republicans that lost were ones that didn’t support him enough.

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So, it looks like Young Kim is going to lose CA-39 after all. She's only up by like 120 votes as of yesterday. Lead has been slipping away each day. Cisneros will probably pull ahead today or tomorrow.

Awkward for Kim since she already showed up in DC to be introduced as part of the incoming GOP class.

Gonna be a tough one to swallow for all the GOP talking heads that kept bragging about electing their first Asian woman, and complaining that that librul media wasn't covering it.

Hell, just this morning Kevin McCarthy pointed to her as his shining example that that only like 97% of the incoming GOP freshmen were white dudes. 

Whoops!

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8 minutes ago, Brandywine said:

Has anyone ever experienced this many close elections? This is crazy. Just goes to show that our country is so evenly divided. Was gerrymandered to oblivian.

FIFY.

There should be far more Democratic victories if house seats were drawn correctly.

 

Edit - Damn. Gil beat me to it.

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Has anyone ever experienced this many close elections? This is crazy. Just goes to show that our country is so evenly divided.

This country is not evenly divided. The Democrats won the house popular vote by seven points. The Senate vote by even more. In 2016, the worst Democratic candidate for President since Dukakis beat a man that brought a cult following out of the woodwork and held on to traditional Republicans won the popular vote by three million votes. That's more people than the entirety of Greater Austin. Rs have won the Presidential popular vote once in the five elections this century and twice in the past 30 years. It is a certainty they will lose it again in 2020.

 

This country is geographically clustered, gerrymandered, and is governed by institutions designed to blunt the power of the majority. It is not, however, evenly divided. Not even close.

 

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47 minutes ago, gmr548 said:

This country is not evenly divided. The Democrats won the house popular vote by seven points. The Senate vote by even more. In 2016, the worst Democratic candidate for President since Dukakis beat a man that brought a cult following out of the woodwork and held on to traditional Republicans won the popular vote by three million votes. That's more people than the entirety of Greater Austin. Rs have won the Presidential popular vote once in the five elections this century and twice in the past 30 years. It is a certainty they will lose it again in 2020.

 

This country is geographically clustered, gerrymandered, and is governed by institutions designed to blunt the power of the majority. It is not, however, evenly divided. Not even close.

 

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That and the last three Republican presidents won their first election by legitimate means. There may have been no Republican presidents after Reagan if it was not for their dirty tricks.

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59 minutes ago, Patrick Bateman said:

Florida..... smh.

 

 

You would think after 2000, Florida would get their shit together.   But no.  This is a state that allows the individual counties to decide on the means of how to conduct an election.  Voting machines vary by county.  Hell, ballots for state and national offices vary by county, too.

They truly do earn all the scorn they receive.  

 

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18 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

Kicking that corrupt piece of dogshit Duncan Hunter to the curb would have been icing on the cake.   Now it's up to the courts to send him to prison, where he belongs. 

The district is loaded with right wing nut jobs who believed the conspiracy theories that hunters opponent is a terrorist.

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13 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

You would think after 2000, Florida would get their shit together.   But no.  This is a state that allows the individual counties to decide on the means of how to conduct an election.  Voting machines vary by county.  Hell, ballots for state and national offices vary by county, too.

They truly do earn all the scorn they receive.  

 

It's a red state, what do you expect?

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2 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

You would think after 2000, Florida would get their shit together.   But no.  This is a state that allows the individual counties to decide on the means of how to conduct an election.  Voting machines vary by county.  Hell, ballots for state and national offices vary by county, too.

They truly do earn all the scorn they receive.  

 

Texas does the same in regards to letting counties run their own elections without any of the Floridian clusterfuck.  It's the people of the state.

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10 minutes ago, Voldemort86 said:

Why?

#1:  SOS in many states controls elections.  The Republican candidate wanted to repeal VRA protections and implement English-only ballots and disenfranchising Native Americans.

#2:  In Arizona, the SOS is the next in line for the governship. 

As important as state AG positions were, state SOS positions are extremely critical to ensure Democrats are the ones controlling voting access, not Republicans.  Dems flipped AZ, Colorado, Michigan and got a better person appointed in NH (the old guy supported voting restrictions and served on Trump's voter fraud commission).  As well, in NC and Wisconsin, the SOS is appointed by the governor and legislature and both those states have Democratic governors. GA - run off

Having the AZ SOS ensures someone fair and Democratic is in charge for 2020 and, in the event Ducey appoints himself to the Senate seat when Kyl vacates OR runs in 2020 for it,  Hobbs takes over.  I think Arizona has a resign-to-run law where you have to resign to run for a diff office unless you're in the last year of your term (and Ducey wouldn't be until 2022).

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Why?

 

A Republican is not in charge of elections in AZ anymore. It is a blow to Republican voter suppression efforts.

 

Also, it is a D victory in less nationalized, down ballot race that isn't really considered a referendum on Trump. Races like that are a good barometer of a state's actual partisan lean. The Governor's race shows that a popular GOP candidate can still do well there, but SOS and Senate tell us AZ is firmly in the swing state column.

 

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16 minutes ago, gmr548 said:

 

A Republican is not in charge of elections in AZ anymore. It is a blow to Republican voter suppression efforts.

 

Also, it is a D victory in less nationalized, down ballot race that isn't really considered a referendum on Trump. Races like that are a good barometer of a state's actual partisan lean. The Governor's race shows that a popular GOP candidate can still do well there, but SOS and Senate tell us AZ is firmly in the swing state column.

 

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Also, fuck Republicans, may they lose every race from POTUS to dog catcher here on out.

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