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Trump deletes tweets backing Strange after primary loss

President Trump on Tuesday apparently began deleting his tweets supporting Sen. Luther Strange (R-Ala.) in Alabama's Senate primary after Strange lost the race to former state Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore.

Trump had tweeted about Strange several times in the days leading up to the primary, including the day of, but those tweets had disappeared as of Tuesday night.

The deleted tweets included those he sent the night before the election and the day of the race.

http://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...tes-tweets-backing-strange-after-primary-loss
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Trump deletes tweets backing Strange after primary loss

President Trump on Tuesday apparently began deleting his tweets supporting Sen. Luther Strange (R-Ala.) in Alabama's Senate primary after Strange lost the race to former state Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore.

Trump had tweeted about Strange several times in the days leading up to the primary, including the day of, but those tweets had disappeared as of Tuesday night.

The deleted tweets included those he sent the night before the election and the day of the race.

http://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...tes-tweets-backing-strange-after-primary-loss
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Only someone with really tiny hands would need to do something like that.
 
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaig...o-trump-attacks-gives-party-cause-for-concern

Dem addiction to Trump attacks gives party cause for concern

“It's like a jolt of sugar and they can't put it down,” Democratic strategist Jamal Simmons said of the Trump attacks.

He said Democratic activists relish the attacks on Trump, but questioned whether it will help the party win over the centrist and independent voters they will need to win races across the country.

“If you want to convince a semi regular voter to show up on election day, you need to find something else,” he said.

For evidence that the attacks on Trump are not a panacea for the party, Democrats don’t have to go back all the way to 2016.

The party suffered a string of losses in House special elections earlier this year, most notably in Georgia where they feverishly backed Jon Ossoff in a House race that was a referendum of sorts on Trump.

In Georgia’s 6th congressional district and the other races earlier this year, Democrats were fighting on GOP territory and lost, repeatedly.

“I worry there’s a bit of amnesia happening,” said one senior aide on Capitol Hill. “It’s almost like we didn't learn our lesson in November and it can really come back to haunt us a little over a year from now when it really, really matters.”
 
Denny Crane said:
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaig...o-trump-attacks-gives-party-cause-for-concern

Dem addiction to Trump attacks gives party cause for concern

“It's like a jolt of sugar and they can't put it down,” Democratic strategist Jamal Simmons said of the Trump attacks.

He said Democratic activists relish the attacks on Trump, but questioned whether it will help the party win over the centrist and independent voters they will need to win races across the country.

“If you want to convince a semi regular voter to show up on election day, you need to find something else,” he said.

For evidence that the attacks on Trump are not a panacea for the party, Democrats don’t have to go back all the way to 2016.

The party suffered a string of losses in House special elections earlier this year, most notably in Georgia where they feverishly backed Jon Ossoff in a House race that was a referendum of sorts on Trump.

In Georgia’s 6th congressional district and the other races earlier this year, Democrats were fighting on GOP territory and lost, repeatedly.

“I worry there’s a bit of amnesia happening,” said one senior aide on Capitol Hill. “It’s almost like we didn't learn our lesson in November and it can really come back to haunt us a little over a year from now when it really, really matters.”
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I actually found this article far more interesting........
Crane Addiction To Hillary Attacks Give SC2 Members Cause For Concern

"It's like a jolt of sugar and Denny can't put it down, Moderator @SlyPokerDog said of the Crane obsession" He said Crane acolytes relish the attempts on Clinton but questioned whether it will help the board gain the new members or relevant content he will need to keep the site growing across Blazer fandom.

If you want to convince semi regular site visitors to sign up before the season (and keep current members coming back), you need to find something else.


 
UncleCliffy'sDaddy said:
I actually found this article far more interesting........
Crane Addiction To Hillary Attacks Give SC2 Members Cause For Concern

"It's like a jolt of sugar and Denny can't put it down, Moderator @SlyPokerDog said of the Crane obsession" He said Crane acolytes relish the attempts on Clinton but questioned whether it will help the board gain the new members or relevant content he will need to keep the site growing across Blazer fandom.

If you want to convince semi regular site visitors to sign up before the season (and keep current members coming back), you need to find something else.

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Admin, not mod.
 
UncleCliffy'sDaddy said:
I actually found this article far more interesting........
Crane Addiction To Hillary Attacks Give SC2 Members Cause For Concern

"It's like a jolt of sugar and Denny can't put it down, Moderator @SlyPokerDog said of the Crane obsession" He said Crane acolytes relish the attempts on Clinton but questioned whether it will help the board gain the new members or relevant content he will need to keep the site growing across Blazer fandom.

If you want to convince semi regular site visitors to sign up before the season (and keep current members coming back), you need to find something else.

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I didn't mention the hag. You did.
 
lawai'a said:
looked like it was quite encouraging in respect to gaining a majority in the house this cycle with targeting the senate and white house in 2020.
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Good luck with that.
 
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/d...ia-as-he-vies-for-re-election/article/2638306

Democrat Joe Manchin wants Hillary Clinton to stay out of West Virginia as he vies for re-election

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, who is up for re-election in 2018, said it "wouldn't be wise" for Hillary Clinton to campaign for him in his home state of West Virginia.

He was asked during an interview that aired Sunday on MSNBC's "Kasie DC," if he was a "dead man walking" after President Trump won West Virginia by a wide margin in the 2016 presidential contest.
 
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/356548-rnc-outraises-dnc-in-september-fundraising

The Republican National Committee (RNC) outraised the Democratic National Committee (DNC) by more than $6 million last month, according to federal filings.

Recently released numbers show the DNC raised around $4 million during the month of September, while the RNC raised about $10 million.

The data also showed that the RNC has roughly $44 million in cash on hand, while the DNC has roughly $7 million.

The RNC reports having no debt, while the DNC has $3.7 million in debt.

The numbers show an expanding money gap between the national party committees, with the RNC raising more than $104 million so far this year while the DNC has raised a little over $51 million.
 
I'm OK with Feinstein. I lived in California with her as mayor of SF, then governor, now senator. I don't like some of her politics, but I haven't seen that she's horribly corrupt or dishonest. A little too much of a hawk and pro government spying for my taste.

https://newrepublic.com/article/145435/win-or-lose-case-challenging-dianne-feinstein

The Win-or-Lose Case for Challenging Dianne Feinstein
Kevin de León, the California Senate president, is taking on the U.S. senator in next year's Democratic primary. The reward is much greater than the risk.

In the days since, a debate has raged among Democrats about the risks and rewards of a primary challenge against a safe, reliable blue-state senator at time when the party is fully out of power. The Sacramento Bee reported that “California Democratic stalwarts are growing increasingly worried” about de León’s bid, specifically “about a nasty personal feud that exposes deepening rifts and saps resources from their efforts to win Senate and House races across the country.” A slew of politicos used words like “distraction” and “diversion,” warning about “a world of finite political resources.” “In many ways, I find it selfish,” former Senator Barbara Boxer told Roll Call on Monday. “I don’t think it’s time for an intraparty squabble.”

Bill Scher, a contributing editor at Politico Magazine, sees a bigger risk: the progressive equivalent of Steve Bannon’s mission to purge Republican senators. “Bannon and his allies want to remake the Republican Party into a vehicle of economic nationalism,” he wrote. “Progressive activists want a Democratic Party that more closely resembles Bernie Sanders’ brand of democratic socialism.” Progressive activists surely want a more leftist Democratic Party, but that doesn’t mean they intend to adopt Bannonite tactics to accomplish it. Justice Democrats, a group founded by The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur and former staffers of Sanders’s presidential campaign, is perhaps the most insurgent in this respect: According to spokesman Corbin Trent, the group plans to support more than two dozen primary challengers—but not de León. Trent criticized de León for his early reluctance to attack Feinstein directly, and said Justice Democrats would support its founder, Uygur, if he joins the race.
 
Denny Crane said:
Roger C. Altman, a former deputy treasury secretary and founder and senior chairman of the investment banking firm Evercore, has worked on nine Democratic presidential campaigns, including Hillary Clinton’s in 2016.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...6288544af98_story.html?utm_term=.6563a327a6da

Trump was an election surprise. Expect more.
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From your link:

And with a right-wing candidate having won the presidency last year, and voters often seeking the opposite in the next election, don’t be surprised if a distinctly left-wing candidate takes the White House in 2020.
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Ok with me.

I generally agree with the thesis of the article (not just that snippet).

barfo
 
Denny Crane said:
Expect more surprises.
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Agreed.

The political climate may eventually become so unstable that somewhere in the country, a libertarian will get elected!

barfo
 
barfo said:
Agreed.

The political climate may eventually become so unstable that somewhere in the country, a libertarian will get elected!

barfo
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Eventually. That’s the plan.

Flake isn’t running again. He was getting clobbered in the polls by potential democrat challengers and republican ones. I bet he’s surprised.
 
alt right site, salon.com.

https://www.salon.com/2017/11/04/de...hought-and-goes-way-beyond-bernie-vs-hillary/

Demo-catastrophe: It was worse than we thought, and bigger than Bernie vs. Hillary

More than a year and a half ago, I wrote a column suggesting that Democrats should resist the temptation to gloat at the apparent implosion of the Republican Party, because their own party was in far worse shape than it appeared to be. Honestly, though — I had no idea. There’s an object lesson there for pundits: Sometimes you can be so far wrong that you travel the whole way around the globe and end up being right again.
 
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