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Will The GOP Base Really Stay Home If Kavanaugh Isn’t Confirmed?
FiveThirtyEight ^ | September 26, 2018

Posted on 09/27/2018 1:42:41 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: fortheDeclaration

Agreed. It will make the base turn out more. They just need to put the nomination to a vote. If they back down, withdraw Kavanaugh’s nomination, they’re screwed.


41 posted on 09/27/2018 4:36:04 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I will. And that is a promise.


42 posted on 09/27/2018 4:39:37 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: anton

I know many do not believe this, but if the Republicans don’t come out like lions on the Democrats, they will lose Congress.


43 posted on 09/27/2018 4:40:15 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

very good


44 posted on 09/27/2018 4:42:05 AM PDT by novemberslady
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To: TwelveOfTwenty

It really all comes down to whether Kavanaugh is nominated or not.


45 posted on 09/27/2018 4:42:09 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I think we deplorables get angrier every day.....and damn right I'll be at my polling place.

I'm not going to turn over my country to Dem insanity.

46 posted on 09/27/2018 4:46:11 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: DarthVader

I meant to say seated on the Supreme Court.


47 posted on 09/27/2018 4:46:27 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
There is no way I will stay home. This is an even more important vote than 2016. We defeat the Democrats in these midterms and the party will begin its disintegration.

So no way I am going to pick up my marbles and storm home like a child. Sadly, there are more than I care to see on this board who are willing to throw up their hands and surrender.

48 posted on 09/27/2018 4:52:53 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, I vote in every election, primary and general, and have been doing so ever since I was 21 (back in those days one had to be 21 to vote). I will, of course, vote on November 6. In fact, I’d crawl on broken legs to vote on November 6, simply to vote AGAINST any and every Democrat that is on the ballot, no matter for which office they are running.


49 posted on 09/27/2018 5:04:21 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I not only plan to keep voting, but will consider financially supporting candidates for the first time in my life. I have a solid rep for my district but we are lurching toward purple and a senator that needs to go.

I honestly think Feinstein’s motivations for releasing the letter were as much about her campaign as anything else. This is the first time she has to run in the new top two run off system. Republicans that I know in California won’t vote for her. She needs to peal off enough of the left base from DeLeone to win. What better way to do this than sink Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.

If I stayed home it would also send a message that I find Senator Jazz Hands (hat tip Dan Blackmon) and Senator I want to be the next first female president’s behavior acceptable as well as everyone they bussed in. If that behavior is rewarded there it will be coming to a movie theater, church or gas station near me soon.


50 posted on 09/27/2018 5:06:19 AM PDT by PrincessB
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To: confederatecarpetbag

I thought the actual quote is “If this be treason, make the most of it.”


51 posted on 09/27/2018 5:08:54 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh yeah, I will. If Kavanaugh is not confirmed, I will consider every Republican in the Senate a turncoat and a Demonrat in disguise. What’s the point of having a Senate majority if the most important post if our time can’t be given to a Constitutionalist?


52 posted on 09/27/2018 5:30:39 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
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To: usconservative

Keep voting for the backstabbers then. You can’t vote your way out of this. War is coming.


53 posted on 09/27/2018 5:32:22 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

First, Kavanaugh is NOT going to be pulled.

Second, even if he chose to withdraw, I’m still going go vote. It’s been a long time since I’ve voted for any democrat, but in the last few years, I’ve solidified that I will never even consider it again. The party is made up of complete scum who hate America, and that hatred flows down to every level.

If I don’t like the Republican, I leave that section blank.

I live in Maryland. The rat congressman is guaranteed to win. But, we need to keep our center right republican governor.

There’s a good man running for Senate, Tony Campbell, against Backbench Ben Cardin.


54 posted on 09/27/2018 5:56:36 AM PDT by cyclotic ( WeÂ’re the first ones taxed, the last ones considered and the first ones punished)
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To: fortheDeclaration

“No, it will turn out in fury!”

You may be correct if it is one of The Witches (Collins, Murcowski) whose vote costs the confirmation. Flake is irredeemable, he is currently actively auditioning auditioning for a MSNBC/CNN, but if one of The Witches puts it down then the base will be ablaze. If on the other hand, Grassley/McConnell screw this up any more enough voters will stay home in disgust to cost the GOP majorities in both houses.

The best outcome would be a narrow K victory or even a tie broken by Pence, then a furied electorate gives all the toss-up races in the Senate to the GOP, followed by Mitch tossing The Witches from the GOP caucus. Make them sleep in the communist beds they prefer.

The irony is that all of this maelstrom is for a milquetoast Bushie lawyer who would be accommodating to all the cultural rot tearing the country apart.


55 posted on 09/27/2018 5:58:36 AM PDT by crusher (GREEN: Globaloney for the Gullible)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I won’t stay home and neither will anyone I know. The Dems need to lose in a landslide, regardless of what we think of the RINOs.


56 posted on 09/27/2018 6:00:52 AM PDT by jumpingcholla34
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ask Japan how Pearl Harbor worked out for them.


57 posted on 09/27/2018 6:13:25 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (Opportunities multiply as they are seized.)
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To: jersey117

Nothing will stop me from voting. We owe it to Trump. He can’t do it alone.”””

AMEN


58 posted on 09/27/2018 6:34:58 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The media really seems to believe it can control what people think. The more obstruction of Trump’s agenda we see, the more livid we become and more insistent on voting. It will have the opposite effect. In all areas where Trump is successful, our desire to vote increases. In all areas where Trump is deliberately thwarted, including by Republicans, our desire to vote increases.


59 posted on 09/27/2018 6:35:35 AM PDT by gspurlock (http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com)
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To: Right Wing Assault

I keep wondering what we would have had if Trump & Gen Patton had been in the same era.


60 posted on 09/27/2018 6:36:53 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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