Notes On Ohio's Election & Note on AZ

self | 8/8/2018 | LS

[Reily]

In that case it was because of candidates that looked like Yoda & Ernie (from ‘My Three Sons’!) respectively.

[donozark]

I would hope President Trump would call Sheriff Joe and ask him to take one for the team. But time running out with Primary Election a short time away...

[Robert A Cook PE]

Joe seems oblivious to his destructive position on the conservative candidate. Who are his “advisors” who are keeping him in?

50% vote required, or simple winner take all in AZ ?

[going hot]

Appreciated

[napscoordinator]

Missouri also dumped right to work by a huge margin.

[kiryandil]

Yes. Joe Scarborough is seeing this as a victory for Dems, lol

Any so-called "Republican" or "conservative" who advocates against the Trump Train is actually a Democrat.

Because it's ALL about the judges, as we have seen since the election.

ALL. ALL. ALL. ALL. ALL.

If the Democrats ever get back in control, Joe Scarborough might as well hand his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren over to the pedophiles to be violated and sodomized, because that's what a Democrat Federal judge-president will "rule".

[Boomer]

I got word yesterday there is a major hitjob coming (I think in RollCall) on Kelli Ward's husband over "harassment" from a disgruntled staffer and a medical case brought years ago which resulted in a small judgment against him.

If McSally is using this then I believe you're right. They are very worried about Kelli Ward winning this primary. I've already voted and Kelli got my vote.

Arpaio could back out now and still get a lot of votes. The ballots are printed and lots of folks like myself have already voted via mail-in ballot.

Still; Arpaio should have never run but he can still do the right thing and bow out but I don't think he will. He accepted donations from a lot of people who expect him to follow through. Age not withstanding.

[GOPJ]

As some of you have already pointed out, the Rs got wise. They withheld a lot of Delaware (red) county's votes until all of Franklin (blue) had come in. Brilliant. This must be the strategy all over the US. (Note that this was what happened on election night 2016 in FL, MI, and PA. I don't recall how WI came in.

Democrats have traditionally held back ballot boxes in close races so they know how many votes are needed to 'stuff' the ballot box without it being obvious they're cheating. When our side holds back boxes - - Democrats will be forced to tip their hand and possibly waaaaay overdo it or not add enough.

Best thing the FBI could do is add fake names to the roles in tightly contested areas and when non-existent people 'vote' they can swoop in and arrest the criminals messing with our elections.

Traditionally voter fraud is directed by white elites but done in the black community. The 'no snitch' culture of the black community keeps people from coming forward and saying 'no, I didn't vote in the election'... So it's easy to 'vote the people who don't show up to vote'.

[JamesP81]

Missouri also dumped right to work by a huge margin.

Union runs strong here and has for a long time. I'm not especially surprised by that.

It's something we may have to consider living with. A lot of union Dems crossed over to the R side to vote for Trump. That's good, but at some point they are going to want some of their issues addressed. I've been beating the drum on this to anyone that will listen since Trump was elected, and it seems to fall on deaf ears. We need to decide if we want to 1) retain the union support and 2) how far we are willing to go to do so.

This will involve some compromise. That's just a fact and there's no sense pretending otherwise. I'm not saying we have to accept dropping support for right to work, though that is one possibility among several. I'm saying we need to be having the conversation internally with new supporters from the union side and determining what is and is not possible.

For my part, I just want to cut off the public funding spigot to union leadership. That's a money laundering operation that uses my money (public funds) as campaign donations to democrats. If they'd give that up, I'd let the right to work thing go even though I have significant philosophical objections to not having right to work.

Anyway, long story short. If we want to keep this new blue collar support (and we do) we need to start thinking about what kind of platform deals we can make that will be, if not necessarily awesome for everyone, at least acceptable for most. We ought to be able to do this without getting demands to surrender the entire farm, because people who are in unions are benefiting heavily from the Trump economy, and more money in pocket forgives many issues.

[donozark]

The defeat of Right to Work only emboldened unions/Democrats. Mother McCaskill has TON$ of $$ on hand and more will pour in from unions. Hollywood has already held one fund raiser for her and will hold more. Tough fight ahead.

[entropy12]

As one who has never missed voting in a single presidential election since 1972, even I do not rigorously follow congressional elections. So I can understand that totally.

[entropy12]

FBI is loaded with democRats in the upper echelons. If not democrats, they are old guard GOP elites favored by the mega-donor class to promote world order cheap labor express, such as Wray.

[entropy12]

Joe remembers all the wins in past elections, and thinks he can still win. Ego is very hard to give up.

[editor-surveyor]

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>> “I am reading here in the Michigan/Ohio border that it is too close to call.” <<

That always means that the Republican has a significant lead.

[GOPJ]

Major house cleaning needs to happen at the FBI... For the people to trust them they have to go after CRIME. Not go after one party or the other. The current crop has shamed the hard work of decent people in the lower ranks.

The FBI needs to go after voter fraud. No matter what party is doing it. Period.

[editor-surveyor]

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Even though AZ is solidly Republican, there is always so much mischief there!
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[MNJohnnie]

Lesson everyone in the GOP should be learning, run away from Trump and you lose. Siding with Trump helps, not hurts, you.

Balderson is a standard issue GOPE Chamber of Commerce candida who ran away from Trump on Trade and Immigration issues. GOPE still has not learned they cannot run campaigns in the same old way.

[FreeReign]

Looking at the percentages for Ohio CD12 very quickly, I see that Balderson in 2018 performed similar to Trump in 2016. And Tiberi in 2016 outperformed (by ~10 points) Trump in 2016 and Balderson in 2018.

So I'm not sure Trump is losing ground. It appears that the non Trump 2016 Tiberi voters, voted against Balderson.

[MNJohnnie]

If you are so scared of the RINOs you need to delete their influence. If you have 60 senators, 3-4 Rhinos have very little influence

When you have 51, ever RINO is a swing vote with disproportionate influence over what legislation gets brought up, which judges get appointed etc.

[MNJohnnie]

I find it hilarious that you are so bombastic about the Rhinos yet are every bit the PR stooge for the DNC they are with your constant sniping at your own side.

HOW about you surprise us once in a while and try fighting the Dems half as much as you do “the rhinos”