I think it's much more than that.

So, what did I miss?

Well, Trump's hated in NOVA

because local elections aren't reflective of the president very often.

and that was enough

But NOVA isn't where all the seats were flipped

yes they were

every single one?

most of them

No Trump overperfomed in many distrcits int he bottom right and left of the state

Did I miss some apocalyptic stuff again?

Compared to how republcians reformed in their state elections

@🎃Boo-ton🎃 There's like several counties, bottom right and left

take a look

@zakattack04

@GermanEastAfrica Zak here thinks that Virginia wasn’t a blue state, even though they literally elected Terry McAullife, one of the high ranks in Hillary Clinton’s campaign as governor years ago

Clinton Republican

that makes no sense

It's a purple state, technically

They voted for Clitnon and a republican

Int he state election

that probably won't last much longer tho

i thought it'd be the other way around

I don't believe that graph

It's true.

it would be they voted Trump and then Democrat in the state election

k hang on

@zakattack04 Look at this disaster

See the bottom right

Blue went darker blue

And red went lighter

trump out performed against the generic republican in the state

So i think it's less about trump and move about an actual Democratic grassroots support

Trump did better than Gillespie because Hillary was on the ballot

BASED Mullahs

I hate Iran as much as I hate Israel

Mostly because of the 1979 revolution

I hate everyone

"Trump did better than Gillespie because Hillary was on the ballot"

prove it

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@Deleted User Northam wasn't that liberal

@Deleted User That statement is true for Rust Belt states

Like Wisconsin

But I dunno about vA

He said that he oppose santuary cities

he lied :)

He was of course liying but still

LOL

yeah I know

Ya'll got beaned

At least Virginians

anyway, it's obvious that Trump generates the kind of turnout that someone like Gillespie (or Button Mash) can't get

Northam is the most progressive Virginia can really get

@Deleted User ooof

I liked that xD

Virginia is still a somewhat sane state

Its because Trump ran as a Populist not a Conservative

They aren't going to elect Jerry Brown's twin brother

Kevin de de de leon

He took relatively moderate stances on Economic issues and focused on culteral issues

If Gillespie talked about taxes more

@Walter Johnson Ben Shapiro did a whole segment on how trump isn't a populist a while back

He might have won over NoVA votes

"populism isn't an ideology, it's a strategy"

By populist I mean Right on cultural isses, and moderate on economic issues

Like George Wallace or Huey long

Huey long was like

Far left on economics

Maybe by 1930s standards

yeah or Hitler

I thought he advocated for a UBI

Huey Long

Hitler, Trump and Obama. All Leftist Authoritarians. <:trueconservative:423311896356061186>

not sure

I like him though

Hitler was actually more right wing on economics than people think.

At least than other "socialists"

You like Huey Long?

My favourite politician is an outright socialist

Democratic Socialism = National Socialism <:trueconservative:423311896356061186>

Yeah, regardless of his economic stances, the way he campaigned is the sort of feeling we must capture, he was a real dude, you know.

"Nazis are Leftists"

The GOP just need to make it clear that they won't cut funding for Social Security, Medicare, and Education

"They say they don't like my methods. Well, I don't like them either. I really don't like to have to do things the way I do. I'd much rather get up before the legislature and say, 'Now this is a good law and it's for the benefit of the people, and I'd like you to vote for it in the interest of the public welfare.' Only I know that laws ain't made that way. You've got to fight fire with fire."
-Huey Long

Ok fair I'll give you that Flanon

You like him for his methods, not his ideology

The problem is you keep having retards like Paul Ryan who want to do that

but we should cut funding for those things >.>

"I used to get things done by saying please. Now I dynamite 'em out of my path."
-Huey Long

especially the DOE

Honestly we should just try to sideline the hardcore fiscal conservatives

It doesn't do anything

Well say goodbye to the House Freedom Caucus then @Deleted User

The ones who just fuck us over by just being a caricature of the greedy Republican who just wants to take away old peoples pensions

At least don't cut funding for k-12 education

"A mob is coming here in six months to hang the other ninety-five of you damned scoundrels, and I'm undecided whether to stick here with you or go out and lead them."
-Huey Long giving a speech on the Senate floor

@Deleted User @zakattack04 Republican Factions by region

But that's the states job and always have been. The Department of education is like fucking useless

like they did in Kansas

The libertarian wing does nothing for us

Well

Rather Libertarian vote for us then vote 3rd party

Ima eat

If we have to choose between the working class voters

and the libertarian lot

I know which one i'd go for

Divides among the Republican factions

@zakattack04 Most people don't know jackshit what the DOE does and when they hear Republicans want to get rid off it and cut their funds they think it will hurt their local schools

I know, but we should inform people mroe

because it won't effect local schools

Most people are dumb and that doesn't change

It's not particularly productive to talk about politics at the national level,

let's be a little bit more specific here on where we're talking about

Let's talk about WV for a bit, I feel this is central location at them moment,
I suspect Blankenship's surge is based on a continued resentment against everyday Washington politics

When Republican leadership attempts to thwart them, it only betters his odds

Well, what is there to say?

I have no clue what'll happen if we get this psychopath in, but who knows if that'll happen?

What I think the GOP should do is keep their heads out of elections

It's amazing how they haven't noticed the correlation

Yes, only start funding when it reaches general

Yeah any other state I would say he would lose, but this is WV so idk

Whenever they try to dictate who should be the nominee, there is a strong backlash from the base

Hell, even then there's not much good that happens, with the "Nancy Had a Little Lamb" nonsense

There definitely needs to be an apparatus that isn't linked to the party but still endorses certain candidates

Butt ocasionally you get guys like Todd Aiken or Roy Moore who blow a easily winnable race

I think we'd probably need an organization that vets their people properly

But isn't a detached washington establishment

We just gotta hope Trump shoots down Blankenship in a tweet before the election and calls him a murderer or something.

If Blankenship wins and Trump didn't endorse Jenkins beforehand,
the blame goes on Trump

This is a state where Trump's influence can work

of course

I don't even know what I'd say if Blankenship won, he'd be worse than Moore

a total trainwreck

or should I say:

a drumpfwreck

He talks with a monotone dead voice, and the allegations against him are actually credible

"swamp captain mitch mcconnell has created millions of jobs for chinapeople, while doing so, mitch has gotten rich. in fact his china family has given him tens of millions of dollars. mitch's swamp people are now running false, negative ads against me. they're also childishly calling me despicable and mentally ill. the war to drain the swamp, and create jobs for west virginia people has begun. i will beat joe manchin and ditch cocaine mitch, for the sake of the kids."

-Next Senator from West Virginia

for comparison

fixed

Goodnight friends

+2 for the Republicans due to the two Republicans running.

so R+2 from their vote in 2016.

@[Lex] Lol RIP /ourguy/ is almost 10 points behind

yep.

oh well.

https://twitter.com/AnimeISIS/status/993217832421818369

:)

Trump just tweeted about Don Blakenship

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/993443781281271808
THANK GOD

Would've been better if he endorsed one candidate and stood behind him, but this is much better than nothing.

Trump comes out against Blankenship in West Virginia Senate race, says he ‘can’t win’

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/05/07/trump-comes-out-against-blankenship-in-west-virginia-senate-race-says-can-t-win.html

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/993443781281271808

@FLanon What a relief

wtf

Don Blankenship: The President is a very busy man and he doesn’t know me and he doesn’t know how flawed my two main opponents are in this primary..I will win the primary and I will beat Joe Manchin

lol idiot

https://twitter.com/JeffFlake/status/993477074059907073

Oh go away, Flake

Two internal polls:

Jenkins Camp:
Blankenship 31
Jenkins 28
Morrissey 27

Morrissey Camp:
Blankenship 28
Morrissey 27
Jenkins 14

>Blankenship is actually leading

West Virginia...

An endorsement from Jeff Flake to either Jenkins or Morrisey would probably help Blankenship.

Of course, I don't assume those polls were taken after the tweet

<:wojaktrump:422438927631384577>

We're done lol

Our own voters are sinking us...

@🎃Boo-ton🎃 think Trump can turn this around? Even though he shouldn't have to lol

one of the biggest issues that ive been hearing on some of the campaigns I'm on is that trump voters are saying "well i voted for the big one, the presidency, now I'm done

@Deleted User you've been hearing them say that ?

yes

I've heard that too

where are you talking with them

conference call i was on a week or two ago the Campaign manager

It's pretty common among Trump supporters in /pig/

wait, so are you hearing it directly from them, or from people saying it

said that the struggle is that the dems and libs are mobilized

yes

/ptg/*

yes i heard those words out of the mouth of the campaign manager who manages our team

so like let's say hilldawg was elected

we would probably be roaring and angry and ready to go

Yes kween

that's the dems

wow, so you''re working on a House campaign I'm guessing ?

no

@🎃Boo-ton🎃 wut?

Messing around,

lel

But I can confirm what you said from anecdotal accounts

ok

you on a campaign?

I'm pretty low on the ladder I'm jsut makign calls rn until I get back to my home city

Hi pretty low on the ladder I'm jsut makign calls rn until I get back to my home city, I'm Dad!

No, so far I've stuck to donations and providing data to some campaign teams that I have a stake in

Hi, I'm Dad!

It does work!

Like Kobach's bid for governor of Kansas

@🎃Boo-ton🎃 cool

2:00 tommorrow, announcement on Iran Deal

what type of data?

Like voting groups, what we need to win etc et

Wow this isn't sounding good lol

oof oof iran bouta get their spaghets touched

@Deleted User Precinct/County Level Data, typically. To display electoral trends and voting habits of the population.

interesting. aare you involved in politics as a job?

No, I just have a political agenda I want to see pushed forward

ok

thoughts on the Iran deal, folks?

Well

Iran was the origin of the "suicide bomber" meme

I think the cultural power of Iran among the Islamic community is clear

While they are Shia, and most terrorists nowadays are Sunni, they still hold vast influence in the region

I think Saudi Arabia and Israel are only not collapsing because of US support

If Islam is going to reform and modernize, it will have to come from a grass roots Movement out of Iran or maybe Turkey.

It won't come from Northern Africa or the Arabian Peninsula or the Levant. Just not possible.

I think a warming of political ties with Russia and Iran is just common sense

And the Intermarium should be its own 3rd party political force of Eastern Europe, separate from EU or Russia

(I.e. Poland Ukraine etc)

It's possible that parts of Ukraine including Crimea will remain a part of the Russian sphere.

But there were many ethnic Russians in those areas.

A true Intermarium will be able to act as a force against both Western Europe and Russia

And without the US as an enemy, Iran's more radical elements will lose favor

Hungary, Poland, these should be the new close allies of the USA

I agree.

As the cultural war is basically all that is left between us and some totalitarian 1984 shit. (Aka invasive communism where children report on their parents to the secret police)

The UK can't be a good ally as long as they keep doing literally everything anti-American they can to appease the Remain crowd.

But the Visegrad Group is definitely an American ally

Same for Austria et al

Yea, Austria has shown a lot of promise. Even with the Green Party election, they used their military long before that to secure their border while Germany was still letting people in

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@Nuke Theresa May has done a horrible job with fulfilling the Brexit mandate

So much so that people don't even talk about Brexit anymore

It's as if Brussels won when Theresa May was put forward as the new Prime Minister

Germany and Belgium are the worst offenders from a policial perspective

Followed by U.K. And Sweden

UK govt has shown itself incapable of fulfilling the will of the people

It's strongest Brexit supporters were needed as leadership and instead they placed an anti-Brexit May in charge

Historically "Bad" actors like Turkey, Iran, and Russia shouldn't be on the receiving end of political deals per se, no of course not. That is reserved for actual friends. But they should be allowed financial freedoms.

Meanwhile Germany and Belgium should be hit with economic sanctions until they l Ave the EU (sanctions imposed by non EU members)

Until they leave the EU