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The Outlook After the Special Elections
Townhall.com ^ | June 23, 2017 | Michael Barone

Posted on 06/23/2017 4:25:50 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 06/23/2017 4:25:51 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Pelosi and the DU retards are convinced they’re going to pick up 60+ seats based on how close their recent losses have been.


2 posted on 06/23/2017 4:28:43 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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I’m convinced that Ossoff’s numbers were no where near the 48% they purport. The Democrats have been rigging elections for years now. They’ve turned it into a science.

The problem I see is that as they fall farther out of the mainstream, they have to be more bold with their cheating. We’ve outright caught them with their hand in the cookie jar, but the media plays it off as an anomaly.

Eventually they’re going to be seen for the true demons they are, and the decades of cheating will be laid out for truth.


3 posted on 06/23/2017 4:37:09 AM PDT by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: TigerClaws

Talk of impeachment, obstructionism, “resistance”, leaks, political violence, Hollywood condescension, campus fascism, all have kept Republicans energized and frankly pissed off even after we got what we wanted in Donald Trump. The Dems can only blame themselves for...well...being nasty Democrats!
Now let’s say they recruit someone normal, would voters be fooled to think that this person will NOT vote for someone like Nancy Pelosi as majority leader?
Also, the the leftist voters have shown little tolerance to vote in the primaries for someone who’s pro-life, or pro-2nd Amendment, etc. So will they LET a normal person be nominated? I have my doubts.


4 posted on 06/23/2017 4:37:41 AM PDT by winner3000
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“...a turnout of 260,000 (more than the 210,000 who voted in the 2014 midterm)”

Surprise suprise. Even after the commies stuffed the ballot boxes, they lost.


5 posted on 06/23/2017 4:44:01 AM PDT by youngidiot (God will bless you for doing what you ought to be doing any damned way. He's amazing.)
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To: TigerClaws

This election meant NOTHING! We elected another RINO “just to win” because anymore this is what it’s about let’s win vs the conservative agenda. Is anyone going to remember who she is 4 years from now? Nope..Did electing her lower government national debt? Nope. Did electing and cheerleading her to win stop in its tracks the growth of Government? Nope...

This RINO will get buried into the largesse of Government and he one of many RINO Congresscritters getting nothing done, performing more RINO spending and vote “with the party”

All the while we conservatives will still get the shaft and the cheering section will keep shaking their Pom poms while the nation tanks


6 posted on 06/23/2017 5:12:41 AM PDT by Jarhead9297
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The victory of Republican Karen Handel in the special election in Georgia's 6th Congressional District on Tuesday has discouraged Democrats and encouraged Republicans. Democrat Jon Ossoff won 48.1 percent in the special election's first round April 18, and Democrats had high hopes that they could take this House seat from the Republicans.

But even with $30 million spent -- in what became the most expensive House race ever -- and with a turnout of 260,000 (more than the 210,000 who voted in the 2014 midterm), Ossoff won exactly 48.1 percent again. Not quite enough.

The 48.1% both times argues that the computer program that they use to gerrymander voting districts is pretty darn accurate.

7 posted on 06/23/2017 5:19:55 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Every nation has the government it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Jarhead9297
This election meant NOTHING!

Sooo, Jughead6969, you would have preferred assoff?

You better re-enlist, there is no place but the Corps, with you humpen a 50 that will satisfy your anger.

8 posted on 06/23/2017 5:38:22 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Kill all mooselimb, terrorist savages, with extreme prejudice! Deus Vult!)
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To: USS Alaska

You obviously didn’t read my post. I’m tired of the mentally lazy either/or argument. How about NEITHER because neither is about what we got. So while we can be merry that we won I’m sorry to inform you her winning won’t amount to a hill of beans in getting our fiscal house in order. We elected more of the same because that’s what we do. We elect RINOS that’ll vote party line time and again.

So while you are smitten with the election of yet another RINO get back with me in 20 when the country has tanked and tell me just how important the election of this RINO was


9 posted on 06/23/2017 5:42:12 AM PDT by Jarhead9297
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To: rarestia
Democrats have been rigging elections

As one who has witnessed many election frauds first hand in IL, I'm curious on what do you base your allegations of Democrats in the GA 6th?

Are you alleging that ineligible people are registered and voted? Are you alleging that some people voted more than once? Are you alleging that there was fraud in the vote count at the precinct level? At the County level? At the Kennesaw U level? At the State Republican Brian Kemp level?

Republicans control the machinery in Cobb County. Democrats control the machinery in the heavily Republican areas of Fulton County and in the heavily Democrat areas of DeKalb County. Historically the DeKalb area would be the suspect area. So are you alleging something in Chamblee? Doraville? Tucker?

I raise the question because I take the issue of election fraud seriously. Wild, unsubstantiated charges destroy the credibility of the valid stories. So please be specific where and how you think fraud occurred.... or don't destroy our credibility.

10 posted on 06/23/2017 5:54:23 AM PDT by spintreebob
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To: Kaslin

College educated voters are pretty dumb.


11 posted on 06/23/2017 5:56:17 AM PDT by Chgogal (I will NOT submit, therefore, Jihadists hate me.)
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To: Jarhead9297
It's our fault if 10 conservatives and one RINO run in the Primaries.
12 posted on 06/23/2017 5:58:10 AM PDT by Chgogal (I will NOT submit, therefore, Jihadists hate me.)
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Oh no I agree with you. That is why I believe conservatism (meaning true Reagan conservatism) died with him and was just a brief 8 year pipe dream.

It’s sad really that our elections anymore are the next episodes of American Idol


13 posted on 06/23/2017 6:01:21 AM PDT by Jarhead9297
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To: Chgogal

If I may, replace the word Educated with Indoctrinated and you are getting closer...

Re read the article with this filter in mind and you see what Barone is saying, they target “better Educated” area as expected to vote Democrat, all part of how they have been”educated” in the Universities....

Note how he laments their are many more “uneducated” districts that are tougher to win as “they” do not get it

Far more info he reveals in his article which I found to be quite elucidating


14 posted on 06/23/2017 6:09:51 AM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: spintreebob

Vote fraud is a little harder in Georgia than it is IL.
We check IDs (since we are not a swing state, the Democrats’ legal beagles left us alone), we do not issue driver’s licenses to illegals, so they don’t get registered to vote through ‘motor voter’ that way.


15 posted on 06/23/2017 6:50:14 AM PDT by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: Chgogal
"College educated voters are pretty dumb."

Hey, I resemble that remark!

16 posted on 06/23/2017 7:18:47 AM PDT by HangThemHigh (Entropy is not what it used to be.)
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To: Chgogal

I’m college educated, and Trump does not repel me.


17 posted on 06/23/2017 7:37:51 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog
I am college educated as well but I know way too many who are imbeciles. ; )
18 posted on 06/23/2017 7:39:44 AM PDT by Chgogal (I will NOT submit, therefore, Jihadists hate me.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Same here. This “college-educated voter” is an invention of the establishment media for the purposes of shaming voters who might consider voting for Trump. They want to create a stereotype of the average Trump voter as an uneducated hillbilly.


19 posted on 06/23/2017 7:45:19 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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According to Tina Fey, Trump was elected due to college educated white women:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/04/01/tiny-fey-tells-college-educated-white-women-who-voted-for-trump-you-cant-look-away/?utm_term=.92325969b042


20 posted on 06/23/2017 8:06:32 AM PDT by jeannineinsd
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