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HEAVY ALABAMA TURNOUT
LAURA INGRAHAM RADIO | 11/12/17 | SELF

Posted on 12/12/2017 6:55:41 AM PST by chiller

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To: monocle

“Jeb Bush went into the primaries with a huge stash and ended up spending close to $40 million per delegate. Hillary had tons of cash and little good did it do her. When will the elites learn that it is votes that win elections not cash that is important.”

their problem is that they (and the rest of the “establishment”) have not evolved their 20th century campaign techniques (when you could purchase the dissemination of information, propaganda and thought control via ABC/CBS/NBC) into 21st century techniques in which the Internet provides hundreds of dissemination venues. ABC/CBS/NBC are now just three amongst hundreds of outlets and spending tens, or even hundreds, of millions of dollars on just those three outlets vastly limits your ability to pump out effective propaganda.

The Internet has made it vastly more difficult to effect thought-control, regardless of the amount of money you spend, hence the public lamentations of Obama, Hillary, Jeb Bush, and the rest who pine for the “good ol’ days” before the Internet existed.


241 posted on 12/12/2017 10:40:17 AM PST by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Biggirl
"Do you think yesterday’s terror attack attemp help Moore?"

No. Voters here are already deeply entrenched.

242 posted on 12/12/2017 10:41:41 AM PST by blam
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To: GOPJ

“Empathy-based law codifies pain, but it’s empty of justice.”

But the son who murdered his parents and then ask for sympathy as he is an orphan disagreed!


243 posted on 12/12/2017 10:41:53 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: supremedoctrine

Tthanks


244 posted on 12/12/2017 10:43:19 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: mrsmith

Provisional ballots are worthless. He would have to bring in proper ID within ten days Not going to happen


245 posted on 12/12/2017 10:46:51 AM PST by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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To: cymbeline
Can the Senate leadership oust a duly elected member?

Not directly, no, but McConnell controls legislative calendar and see to it that the vote is taken.

That said, why would Mitch McConnell wait for "the coming weeks" for Franken to take his time about resigning? CNN is reporting that 32 Democrat Senators are calling for Al Franken to resign, so Franken's expulsion is a sure thing.

McConnell could have forced the expulsion vote on Franken last week; he doesn't have to wait for the outcome of the Alabama election. But McConnell didn't do it. He will wait until it best fits HIS needs, instead of controlling the media news cycle for Republicans.

And McConnell's need is to have leverage to force Moore out after he wins in Alabama. Therefore, McConnell will wait until then for Franken to resign, so he can demand a "bipartisan" purge in the Senate. If Franken went last week, the pressure would have been reduced on Moore after he wins. If McConnell ties Moore's expulsion vote to Franken's vote and schedules them for the same day, that will put enormous pressure on the other Republican Senators to vote for Moore's ouster after Franken's.

That's how Senate leadership can manipulate the ouster of a member.

-PJ

246 posted on 12/12/2017 10:47:11 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: Stingray51

“I think what is in play is that Trump is winning. If Moore can be defeated, that is a defeat for Trump and Trumpism and Bannon, i.e., a defeat for conservative populism’s attempt to control the GOP. If Moore were to lose, the narrative would be that the Trump wave has ended. So I think that has huge psychological significance for both the President’s political prestige and therefore power, and for the GOP primaries going into the 2018 mid-terms.”

i think you nailed it ...


247 posted on 12/12/2017 10:50:24 AM PST by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Moore will be allowed to present witness and specialist. Frankenstein waved that choice !


248 posted on 12/12/2017 10:51:50 AM PST by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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To: kabar

I think we are talking about different topics... I was asking the justification for Republicans spending 30 Million to stop Moore in the primary, that has nothing to do with the Jones...


249 posted on 12/12/2017 10:55:48 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: going hot

Again, I don’t think so... Establishment can pick a better target for their counter attack..... and Moore was a poor choice if that was where you wanted to start to change the narrative, anyone with even a tertiary understanding of AL Politics would have told your Moore was winning that primary handily and NO AMOUNT OF MONEY was going to change that....

IF that was their end game they could have picked another place to have that battle.... Where they had a shot at winning... this one was NEVER winnable for the Establishment, yet they went ALL IN on a prayer... I think its something bigger, while I agree they want to stop the populist tide that Trump rode to the White House... I think stopping Moore was more than just that.... Something else is going on here.


250 posted on 12/12/2017 10:58:56 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: Stingray51
I think what is in play is that Trump is winning. If Moore can be defeated, that is a defeat for Trump and Trumpism and Bannon, i.e., a defeat for conservative populism’s attempt to control the GOP. If Moore were to lose, the narrative would be that the Trump wave has ended. So I think that has huge psychological significance for both the President’s political prestige and therefore power, and for the GOP primaries going into the 2018 mid-terms.

I don't think so. Trump didn't support Moore in the primaries and, in fact, the one that Trump supported, lost. The narrative you describe would make sense if the GOPe had supported Moore, not Strange, in the primaries, but both the GOPe and Trump supported Strange, and the GOPe was heavily anti-Moore before any association could be made between Trump and Moore.

I think that you are right, that they are trying to stem the tide, but I think that there is definitely moore going on than just that. I think this is all about setting up a "year of the shark" frenzy against sexual harassment, setting up the precedent that harassers have no place in governance, and then they will move on to their real target: Trump.
251 posted on 12/12/2017 11:02:26 AM PST by jjsheridan5
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To: HamiltonJay

You got things wrong in VA—badly. So what is the prediction in AL?


252 posted on 12/12/2017 11:03:18 AM PST by kabar
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To: catnipman; P.O.E.; alancarp
Amendment 17 (Ratified 4/8/1913)

The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures.

When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.

This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution.


253 posted on 12/12/2017 11:08:54 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
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To: kabar

I, too, got things badly wrong in Virginia I backed Ed Gillespie...all the way. I really believed he would abandon his “Never Trump” mantras,...but in the end he stayed with Mitch McConnell and the GOP RINO, Establishment. That was his big mistake.

The Trump voters who were correct, I wasn’t, bottom line, Ed Gillespie was a very weak candidate...across the board. The Trumpsters (I am one) sat on their hands by the thousands and sent him politically to never never land. We screwed up!!!


254 posted on 12/12/2017 11:17:45 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: kabar

Moore 5-7


255 posted on 12/12/2017 11:17:54 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: kabar

But I wouldn’t be surprised if Moore won it by more.


256 posted on 12/12/2017 11:18:43 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: Paladin2

Really - that was pure gold...


257 posted on 12/12/2017 11:21:33 AM PST by GOPJ (Liberal elite women trading sex for pomotions is abuse of decent traditional women.)
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To: HamiltonJay

I am hoping and praying you are right, 100%!!! God be with us and God be with the victory of Judge, roy Moore, tonight.

Folks in Alabama, get out and cast your votes for Judge Roy Moore....he and we need every single vote we can get. DO IT.....DO IT NOW!!! MAGA!!!


258 posted on 12/12/2017 11:22:11 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: HamiltonJay

Moore by 2 assuming no voter fraud. Jones has a real shot. God help us. Go Moore.


259 posted on 12/12/2017 11:27:51 AM PST by kabar
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To: chiller

I hope the buses going from polling place to polling place are being followed, photographed, reported to the police, etc.


260 posted on 12/12/2017 11:28:08 AM PST by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/hj3e8cKZWiY)
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