Really all Republicans should be doing that

Regardless we should shove this election in the shills' and blue wavers faces if this plays out like @🎃Boo-ton🎃 is hoping

For God's sakes, these elections are so damned small you can have a single person put posters up all over the district and they'd win from recognizability alone

Look at the count, like a thousand people vote

@FLanon yeah, Gillespie, Moore, and a lot of state legislature republican candidates would have won if they just put more effort into campaigning instead of sitting on their asses

We should be raking these in

If there's one thing I'm learning, in electoral politics, there's no such thing as "high and dry"

It's always a battle you have to fight tooth and nail

@FLanon I think local elections have far more to do with the recognizability and work the candidate puts in, than their political party and stances on the issues

I hope Trump is realizing this after VA and AL, we need to have him make appearances everywhere.

I know, these offices are so obscure

who the hell even keeps track of how their state representative / state senator / city councilman votes

"House District-23B"

@FLanon 59%

Only the most hardcore of democracy believers would actually go through the trouble

*cough* boomers

Only the most hardcore political people keep track of state legislatures

that and autists like us

Yeah

Exactly

Lmao

Just put up fucking signs holy shit

Anyways, since Trump won this place with 59% and this guy (with the most recent info we have) has 68%

59-41 vs 68-30

@FLanon to clarify though I don't even think it's boomers in general who would go through the trouble

probably old people who are retired, some of which are boomers

That would be something like a 20 point R swing, right?

some of which are silent generation, some of which are greatest generation

If I have my info right

I get it, but boomer's a bit of a catch-all term if you get my drift

I don't know anyone in real life who cares about local elections, maybe aside from the NYC mayoral election

That's why like 1000 people per district which probably has like something to the effect of 10000 people at the very least vote

I can't imagine it being any more than 5% of the population

@🎃Boo-ton🎃 where are you getting the results from btw

if there were only 1000 people at a 5% rate, it would be 50 people

what do you exactly mean

WE DID IT

I mean that the 1000 people are the voters

WE REVERSED THE TREND

REPUBLICANS HAVE THE MOMENTUM

in a 10000 or 20000 scenario

Well, there you go!

🍾 🍷 🥂

The wave has receeded!

🎊 🎊 🎆

Amazing

What is our final margin

66% i believe

wait

@🎃Boo-ton🎃 i wonder if it's GOP gaining nationwide momentum or just the candidate putting in a lot of hard effort

It's causation

or maybe the Democrat was the one slacking

When the GOP candidates put hard effort, then we get momentum

It's not either/or

They go hand in hand, momentum comes when we work for it

I don't believe the democrats winning all these special election races for state legislature means that there will be a blur wave, so at the same time I'm not going to say this special election victory for the GOP is a sign of the opposite. This is all good news regardless though

We've got to keep it up!

Let's see what BlueMidterm2018 has to say about it

Now that we're seeing the turn, we have to seize it with all of our might, we can't slack now

I haven't had liberal tears over am election loss since Jon Ossoff

If I could have it happen, there'd be posters of local GOP candidates all across the nation

or maybe I'm forgetting something ? Hmm

Gianforte came after Ossoff off the top of my head, so I guess that was the last one

then came the Virginia race, but I don't count that because that's a lean blue state, though it was winnable

then came the Alabama upset, which is the only real victory they had in 2017

I count it

When it happened I still had purple in my mind

Well, in any case, the curse is broken, @🎃Boo-ton🎃 update that infographic with the swings

@FLanon @🎃Boo-ton🎃 https://www.reddit.com/r/BlueMidterm2018/comments/7x5132/feb_12th_2018_minnesota_state_senate_54_and_house/

look at these fags

"I never thought I'd be as excited about these random house and senate races hundreds of miles away from where I live as I have been this past year. Now I really look forward to following them."

though to be fair, we're on the same side of the coin, though I like to think we aren't crybabies about it

We've got something to lose

"Eek, let's hope things turn around in HD23B. Not like we are going to win it but an under performance would be disappointing."

Pay them no mind, we need to figure out the next special election

I wish I could just drive in my car all over the place and just be a professional campaigner

It's something to do

Only so much you can really do over the internet

I'm not even sure how we can influence special elections for the state legislature through the Internet

We can't

which is what @🎃Boo-ton🎃 has been trying to do

posting about it on /pol/ where ptg only has 150 posters per thread isn't going to do much

Unless we get extremely lucky and happen to get a madman on the discord near X district that'd be willing to do a mass poster campaign

150 posters spread across a country of 330 million means that there's a good chance no one reading it even lives in the area

yeah, that's true

come to think about it, I guess that's how you influence them

just get 1 guy to do a mass poster campaign or something along those lines

while it's hard to influence those races through the internet, it's MUCH easier to influence them in real life

I think we'll be limited to the US races in influence, and hopefully the Red Storm brand will be useful, we can shop some infographics and put a logo on it

As long as Discord doesn't fuck us we'll be good

1 dedicated guy can swing a local special election by putting up a bunch of posters, autistically devoting himself to getting as many people in his social circle out to the polls...that kind of thing

I wish I could do that, but life calls, y'know

yeah...I think this Discord and /rsg/ is best used for the production of infographics, copypastas, memes, etc

and spamming them across the Internet so 1 person can reach millions

actual, on the ground activism won't be our forte

we're like Special Forces

We could put the spherical logo on the top right corner or something, maybe not the discord link

GOP and Trump will be the main standing army

Ever since IOTBW I've been thinking that's our big mode of activism

@FLanon good point