B A S E D

Not what I'm getting at

when NM gets a Republican Senator, then we'll see where this is going

NM will stay blue, definitely.

@Den had a theory that the rural hispanics voted R, wasn't sure of that

New pic

Might go a little too far

Works well

Well, is it accurate?

Anyways, this little town in NM is a microcosm of that theory. An example. Maybe there's a better chance of turning the tides over there than we think.

you know why Lamb is trending?

Simple

it's an old Democrat trick

"Republicans will cut your social security"

oldest trick in the book

^

works like magic

and because it's true

Republicans keep using the same old talking points

"STRONG MILITARY"

"LOWER TAXES"

"FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY"

It's seriously bent against him obviously; he opposes funding for cracking down on illegals but isn't against it per se; he supports a $1.1 trillion infra program funded by tax hikes; he claims that Republicans will cut SS/Medicare/Medicaid; he wants a student loan debt amnesty and he wants to implement a graduate tax to pay for free college for all; he wants mandatory union membership to be implemented; he wants to tax coal businesses to extinction and jack up petrol and NG taxes.

You're right, they've got to appeal to the constituency more

How to win Republican votes as a Republican:

The dems know demographic manipulation.

He opposes the Hyde Amendment which I estimate which more than double federal abortion funding from its current lows to over a billion dollars, and he hasn't endorsed Trump's plan to treat vets with PTSD for free.

"BUILD THE WALL"
"DEPORT ILLEGALS"
"END NAFTA"

And he supports mandatory contraceptive coverage, but only federal subsidies for abortion-covering insurance (openly)

But Republicans won't say these things, because, well, their Business Conservative base wouldn't like that

It's kinda obvious he'd vote for expanding it to abortion though.

If Trump wants this seat, hopefully he'll focus very hard on the economic nationalism and immigration hardlining.

Can we all agree on something

Be sure to make sure my pics get around btw

What is it?

if Republicans lose this seat,

their fault

100% of them

Yeah

yes, I'll agree to that

It was their fault in 'bama too

no voter fraud,

no illegal votes,

Maybe in VA also

100% Republican complicity

Take all the screenshots you want. If Saccone loses, it's on him and it's on the GOP.

If Saccone wins,

it'd be because Trump saved him in the last minute

with tariffs

That's definitely possible, depends on margins

One thing I hope is Trump better deliver some inspirational shit on saturday.

Hopefully he hasn't gotten rusty on us

Fucking Gary Cohn

well,

Fucking RNC, Fox

Pittsburgh is adding 500 new steel jobs

that's a strong talking point

Yep, definitely should keep it within state interest

that's like 500 votes,

plus their family members

If Trump sees a win and compares this to 'bama and VA, he'll know full well that Twitter is not what cuts it, but LIVE APPEARANCES

Aren't those jobs in Ohio, even though the company is based in Pittsburgh?

@🎃Boo-ton🎃 not only that, it's more potential voters who actually see jobs being brought back to their area

VA-10 is one of the more likely to flip, we'll need to work hard for this one

@Den

There is a massive amount of jobs in coal and natural gas. Even though a ton of people aren't employed directly in these industries the amount of people who work in supporting companies is unreal.

In Pa district 18

!!!!!!!

**5** Senate Democrats would lose election if held today (!!!)

lmao

Trump approval doesn't mean much though

come the fuck on

I welcome favorable news but I don't really consider that to be the case

again, numbers aren't everything

someone could approve of Trump but vote for a Democrat

someone could disapprove of Trump but vote for a Republican

hell...someone could disapprove of Trump but still vote for him

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/07/republicans-pennsylvania-special-election-445221

he's going to lose

Oof

@🎃Boo-ton🎃 lol, you don't know that. Maybe he's gonna win

stop loling

this isn't fun and games

you think just because Trump won the election by pulling a rabbit out of the hat,

that Republicans can do the same?

@Deleted User was this your attitude on November 7th?

@🎃Boo-ton🎃 I was pretty sure Trump would win lmao

"you think just because Trump won the election by pulling a rabbit out of the hat,"

that didn't happen lol

he won through hard work and unprecedented cunning

Indeed. Hillary didn't stand a chance and Trump effectively reached a 100% possibility of victory by March--though, of course, if he let that get to him he'd have lost.

@Nuke Sarcasm? Hillary did stand a chance. Things were rigged in her favor. Her campaign strategy just sucked dick.

No, she didn't. Even though the election was rigged with fake votes and shit, she didn't stand a chance against Trump's overwhelming popularity.

*Trump's regional overwhelming popularity

>implying he also isn't popular in states like California in New York but drowned out by voter fraud

If Trump is popular in NY, wear a MAGA hat on the subway

@🎃Boo-ton🎃 I did, nothing happens lmao

You get some high fives from fellow Drumpf fans though

@🎃Boo-ton🎃 there is no way Brown is that popular

It’s fake

@Rhodesiaboo yeah, that poll is BS

and even if it isn't, approval ratings don't tell you everything

again, numbers aren't that important

"numbers aren't important" wtf

How are we supposed to measure our support without numbers?

politics is more qualitative than quantitative. Rather then sampling 500 people in a screwy manner, it's best to actually familarize yourself with all the different opinions and why people have those opinions

yeah

for instance, let's say you have a poll where Trump's approval is at 40%

democracy isn't about appealing to the majority, it's about getting convincing the majority why you're right

that doesn't mean he's only going to get 40% of the vote

numbers don't tell you the whole story

there could be people who approve of Trump but decide to vote 3rd party

there could be people who disapprove of Trump but vote for him because they prefer him to the Democrat

But the problem with that is you can't prove that

That's speculation

It requires you to convince yourself things are fine,

even when there is a greater chance that it is not

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/03/08/elon-musk-goes-on-tweetstorm-siding-with-trump-over-tariffs.html

YES

We have Musky on our side

Where is that 2018 senate race graphic from @🎃Boo-ton🎃

Axios

damn, I wish it would list all the seats that are up

to get a fuller picture

>Not taking Ohio

What the fuck is going on

I'm more hopeful for that PA-18 race also.

enlighten me, fellow Californian

Trump's going there on Saturday, and the tariffs are just what they need.

that is true

Rust belt blue collar workers

i just hope it will be enough

Care less about issues like abortion and shit

Yeah

I hope so too, Trump going to have to drag another Republican across the finish line like he did in Georgia

I don't understand why the RNC recruited Saccone

I don't understand the RNC sometimes period.

they could've got a guy with a MAGA hat from down the street to campaign better than this deadbeat

xD

Lol seriously...

I think there's a huge disconnect between political Republicans, and like actual everyday republicans.

I find that they're trying to play the left's game, with appealing to emotions and stuff, but with right wing values.

And it doesn't work

Center and Center right people care much less about issues like abortion, or sacred marriage, than they do about the economy, crime, and immigration.

It seems to me when Republican candidates stick to those categories more, and compromise a bit on the formers, they do better.

Would be my idea.

Immigration is _the_ single issue that won Trump the nomination

Yeah, I could understand that

If Republican candidates campaigned on Trump's immigration restriction platform,

the GOP could actually win elections

I honestly think you're right, but I think Republicans are just too scared

but instead they run on tax cuts and military spending

Republicans are too milquetoast

Trump needs to teach Republicans to fight back against the media

See that's the thing I've noticed too!

the sole reason the GOP and the right lose the culture war is because they don't fight back

I truly feelt he age of gentlemen poltics is over/

But the GOP continues to act like it is.

The Democrats do anything to get elected, they'll lie, smear, and cheat.

You know it here in CA

They did that gas tax hike

And then wrote a law that you couldn't recall Senators

And used their supermajority to pass it

Republicans just get kicked around, it's so irritating to me.

Republicans let themselves get pushed around because,

'muh principles'

'muh values'

Exactly

this man speaks my language lol

'we're better than them'

give me a break

LOL

SO TRUE

Like McConnell with not using the nuclear option

You and both know

The day Democrats regain control of the Senate that's going to be the first thing to go.

"lower the filibuster to simple majority"

Oh, Zakatack, I've looked into Ohio.

yeah?

Sherrod Brown basically made me realize why my mom uses words like "crazy" and "extreme" to describe some Democrats as if they aren't redundant.

He's too generic and unexceptional, to such an extent everything bad about him is easily excused as "eh, he's a Democrat"

Fuck!

That would've been such an easy seat...

Except we run look warm spineless candidates

But if he's so bad Nuke

Why is he ahead

in the polls?

I just described why he's able to win.

Cause he's generic?

He voted against their Tax Cuts like wtf.

Yeah he votes party line; he voted for Obamacare and shit, too, but once it reaches that point, it's like "sooo he's a Democrat?"

No way to attack him personally but there's plenty of ways to persuade someone against voting for a Democrat, of course.

ugghh

I feel like these midterms are going to either go really well, or be a complete disaster.

He also periodically seems to propose lukewarm conservative bills, knowing that they'll fail.

Like for instance, bills that the House of Reps doesn't recognize can be proposed by a Senator, which cannot pass without House approval.

We can hit him on stuff we can hit any (D) on

but we can't hit him very well on anything retarded, like wanting to defund the war against ISIS and increasing funding abortion to $1B+, as Lamb and Baldwin have done.

Ultimately, we've just gotta mash the immigration button, as Button Mash would propose.

Our biggest areas we win on are immigration, economy, and crime,

So yeah you're right.

I could care less about abortion anymore

What sets Brown apart is that he's pro-tariffs, which doesn't work in our favor either.

Let them have on demand abortions, and let them have gay marriage lol

Wait really>?

Democrat

Pro tariffs

He's lying lol

Yep, also even though he opposed the Iraq War, he also voted for anti-Iran stuff.

Which means neocon boomer shit isn't in our favor either

And yeah don't think I trust a Democrat for a second

You can try to convince people that he's lying though.

I just would go by his voting record

Manchin is getting screwed now because he promised to vote to get rid of Obamacare, and then adopted a Lamb-esque "I'll fix Obamacare."

Manchin was screwed the first time he voted against Trump IMO

His entire state

Not a single county went blue

Not one county

Even the urban centers went for Trump

And then when he went against the Tax Cuts

Pretty much done

I'm liking those Michigan numbers though man

Not even a named candidate

And already pretty high for such a blue state

This is what I'm talking about is just going back to straight free markets and some protectionist policies

I would like to see PA get flipped too... that Senator is a total cunt.

Watch him on the floor and I wanted to hurl lol

Manchin basically should've become a moderate Republican to win reelection, especially after the last WV Governor thought the state's conservatives would be OK with him vetoing a partial ban on abortion (maximum allowed ban SCOTUS has approved) due to "unconstitutionality" as long as he supported coal interests.

West Virginia now has a Republican Governor.

LOL

man I havnen't even been looking at the governor races either.

Ugh

I don't need more worry lol...

He literally just endorsed Gorsuch and thought his voters would be happy lol

xD

That is one thing about the majority republicans

They're pretty quiet, they don't protest or make noise.

But they will show up at the polls when they're unhappy.

t. Obama 2010

HAH

67 seats swing

Wasn't that like the 2nd biggest in history or something?

But the Tea Party protests were still happening back then

That is true.

And something like that, biggest swing since WWII or similar

Yeah

Biggest swing since (((FDR)))