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Republican Retirements Raise Talk of Democratic Wave in November
The New York Times ^
| JAN. 9, 2018
| MICHAEL TACKETT
Posted on 01/09/2018 7:47:34 PM PST by mdittmar
WASHINGTON Republicans in Congress, including several powerful committee chairmen, are rushing to retire rather than face re-election in the fall, a clear recognition that President Trumps low approval rating will be a heavy weight on the party even with an improving economy.
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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 115th; 2018elections; 2018midterms; change; clickbait; fakenews; maga; midterms; newyorkslimes; trump
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posted on
01/09/2018 7:47:34 PM PST
by
mdittmar
To: mdittmar
Please note:
1. Virginia - Charlottesville and the party in power almost always loses
2. Alabama - 14 year old girl (child molester)
1. and 2. are the only things you can read from those elections in 2017.
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posted on
01/09/2018 7:53:01 PM PST
by
advance_copy
(Stand for life or nothing at all)
To: mdittmar
I say, let them get over confident
It will be 2016 repeat
I am happy with that
To: mdittmar
...a clear recognition that President Trumps low approval rating will be a heavy weight on the party... Really? It could mean that part of the Swamp is retiring, or it could mean they don't want to slug it out with Trump any more, or it could mean...whatever you twits want it to mean.
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posted on
01/09/2018 7:57:33 PM PST
by
econjack
To: mdittmar
I have two words: Orrin Hatch.
Is anyone going to tell me that he feared getting defeated this November?
Back when Gingrich Khan took over the House in the 1990's, a bunch of Vichy Republicans quit.
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posted on
01/09/2018 7:59:34 PM PST
by
Lysandru
To: mdittmar
To: mdittmar
What will result in a Democrat takeover is if the GOP collapses on immigration, and on rebuilding US manufacturing.
That will I think, mean the end of the GOP.
The end. Trump won because of both of those issues.
If they are not both DONE the GOP is toast.
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posted on
01/09/2018 8:01:55 PM PST
by
cba123
( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
To: mdittmar
Sign an amnesty bill and it’s guaranteed.
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posted on
01/09/2018 8:04:26 PM PST
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents-Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
To: advance_copy
STEALING ELECTIONS WITH COMPUTERS and
Technology Cybercrimes, watch Bloomberg's
Digital Defense November 3, 2016 (19:40).
To better understand
"THE MASTER KEY" to stealing elections with computers, watch:
I'LL
NEVER TRUST ANOTHER COMPUTER COUNTED ELECTION AGAIN !
Things have changed!
Bennie Smith, a Memphis computer programmer, discovered HOW this is done through a
" ... a GEMS tabulatorfor Global Election Management Systemwhich is a personal computer installed with Diebold software that sits in a windowless room in the countys election headquarters.
The tabulator is the brains of the system.
It monitors the voting machines, sorts out which machines have delivered data and which havent, and tallies the results.
As voting machines check in and their votes are included in the official count, each machines status turns green on the GEMS master panel.
A red light means the upload has failed.
At the end of Memphiss election night in October 2015, there was no indication from the technician running Shelby Countys GEMS tabulator that any voting machine hadnt checked in or that any votes had gone missing, according to election commission e-mails obtained by Bloomberg Businessweek.
Yet as county technicians followed up on the evidence from Smiths poll-tape photo, they discovered more votes that never made it into the election night count, all from precincts with large concentrations of black voters. ... "
Diebold Election Systems changed its name in 2006 to
Premier Election Solutions.
Bloomberg's article titled
How to Protect Against Election Day Hacking gives more proof of this by Memphis computer programmer Bennie Smith.
"... The method Smith used to catch the problem should be a playbook for any candidate, party or concerned citizen worried about the accurate tallying of their votes:Smith snapped some pictures of printed voting tallies (known as poll tapes) at a high-turnout polling location and then compared the results there to the electronic tabulations.
This is a very good, if labor-intensive, way to check to ensure that votes are being counted correctly.
Smith has created a proof-of-concept program called Fraction Magic, showing how corrupt officials could tamper with GEMS to manipulate election outcomes.
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posted on
01/09/2018 8:05:40 PM PST
by
Yosemitest
(It's SIMPLE ! ... Fight, ... or Die !)
To: mdittmar
The only democrat wave we’ll see this November will be at WNBA games.
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posted on
01/09/2018 8:09:33 PM PST
by
AU72
To: mdittmar
Or congressmen are starting to realize that they can make more money elsewhere.
To: mdittmar
Yeah, and they also predicted that:
-Mrs. Bill Clinton had an 85% chance of winning overall;
-Trump had a 33% chance of winning Florida;
-Trump had a 36% chance of winning North Carolina;
-Trump had an 11% chance of winning Pennsylvania;
-Trump had a 6% chance of winning Michigan;
-Democrats had a 52% chance of winning the Senate.
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posted on
01/09/2018 8:48:06 PM PST
by
libertylover
(Kurt Schlicter: "They wonder why they got Trump. They are why they got Trump")
To: mdittmar
Maybe Republicans on the lists of sexual harassment settlements, or corruption or pedophilia investigations are being shown the door before the primaries, while the Democrats will be outed after the primaries.
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posted on
01/09/2018 8:59:25 PM PST
by
BeauBo
To: mdittmar
sure, the next time the times is right about anything will be the first time...
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posted on
01/09/2018 9:09:44 PM PST
by
SteveinSATX
(Anti-liberalism 24/7)
To: Yosemitest
They introduced electronic voting machines here in VA in 2008 and now our state has been completely hijacked by the Marxist Mob. Just this last November 2017 election, one candidate, Shelly Simonds, won by ONE vote changing the balance of power in the legislature.
Reuters:
Democrat Wins By One Vote in Virginia Legislative Election Recount
"(Reuters) - Virginia Democrat Shelly Simonds won a seat in the House of Delegates by one vote, changing the power balance in the state legislature and extending a tide of Democratic victories beginning with Novembers capture of the governorship and several legislative seats."
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-politics-virginia/democrat-wins-by-one-vote-in-virginia-legislative-election-recount-idUSKBN1ED2XQ
_____________________________________________
NO one wins by one vote. Not only did they steal all the seats up for grabs, they want us to KNOW that they stole it. They are enraged that Trump overcame their fraud apparatus in 2016 and they want us to KNOW that they stole the election and they want us to get used to the outrage of having us under their thumb. They are gonna go all out on a massive scale in upcoming elections to take this country back after Trump defeated their fraud in 2016. If electronic voting machines are not banned and a return made to paper ballots that have to be counted by actual people on site, the entire nation is gonna be hijacked by the Marxist scourge. And honestly, I think many establishment repubs are their partners.
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posted on
01/09/2018 9:25:09 PM PST
by
User901
To: Trump.Deplorable
House holds and Senate picks up 6-8 seats.....MAGA!
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posted on
01/09/2018 9:27:51 PM PST
by
rrrod
(just an old guy with a gun in his pocke)
To: Trump.Deplorable
Democrat is a stock, symbol DM.
Let us pump it, then dump it!
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posted on
01/09/2018 9:45:52 PM PST
by
TheNext
To: mdittmar
It’s best not to assume anything but for each of us to start spreading the word in each of our locales about the importance of keeping Republicans in Congress in the 2018 elections. Do our neighbors want to legally keep their firearms and other freedoms? Would they like to give President Trump a full deck in Congress for a little ol’ four years to see what he can do? He’s the first to really and honestly try to keep his promises.
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posted on
01/09/2018 10:12:45 PM PST
by
familyop
("...you're the son of a thousand fathers..." -Tuco, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly")
To: rrrod
Not if they Make America North Mexico with an amnesty.
2006 will look like a picnic.
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posted on
01/09/2018 10:40:34 PM PST
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents-Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
To: User901
Ah, she won by one after a recount and then she lost the tiebreaker drawing.
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posted on
01/09/2018 10:48:04 PM PST
by
Axenolith
(Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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