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EdwardT
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clearly, the American voting public prefers Republicans running Congress.
Why is that?
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Curt
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Gold Canyon, AZ
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Why is that?
Gerrymandering.
Curt
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c wilmot
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It will be interesting to see if Clinton will continue her support of the black lives matters group now that they are calling for reparations over "environmental racism" and " food apartheid" amongst other things
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EdwardT
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Gerrymandering.
Curt
How did the Democrats let that happen?
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10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
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Trump says if he loses, it will be because the election was rigged.
I don't see him going down without a fight, and I would not be surprised if his followers don't riot, after the election.
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StahlBro
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San Diego, CA
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Trump is funneling 20% of his campaign financing to his own companies. His campaign is running out of money. I bet he declares his 7th bankruptcy and walks with the cash as usual.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Finally, the Democrats offer more stuff for free.
The Republicans offer even more stuff for free, it just goes to a different demographic.
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Byran
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Half Dome Village
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How did the Democrats let that happen?
Interestingly the minority candidates do have an incentive to let the opposition cut up the state in their favor. The Republicans get a bunch of victories spread out across winnable but close races, which is good for the party. While a couple Democrats gets to crush the competition in their deep-blue districts, which is good for the incumbents (not the party obviously). But that doesn't answer why the Republicans dominate Congress. The real reason is that Democrats mostly just vote in presidential elections and they simply didn't show up for the midterms.
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Norton
Social climber
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clearly, the American voting public prefers Republicans running Congress.
no they do not
fact: more Americans voted for Democrats than Republicans in the last congressional election
but because the Republican state legislatures did such a good job slicing up neighborhoods to favor Republican districts, think 2010 Tea Party, more Repubs were actually elected than got votes for
do you think that is right, to get elected even when you got less votes?
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dirtbag
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I agree with everything but your last paragraph, Jody. Nice commentary, though.
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SC seagoat
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Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone
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"The Pledge" was an absolutely stupid thing to begin with.
It was a stunt to nail Trump and it bac fired badly.
In actuality he had the best initial position as he hedged along the lines "of wait and see how things unfold".
To request a blind faith pledge was stupid and the intent had nothing to do with party loyalty but was a rather transparent attempt at a "gotcha" to Trump. 99% of the time "gotchas" will only backfire.
My Republican ancestors from Western Pa (guns and bibles...not so sure 'bout the bibles but DEFINITELY the guns) are creating earthquakes all over the family plots they are doing so much rolling over.
Susan
Edit. Neither do I. I am at a loss as to why so many people have swallowed their dignity and defend him. . Because sometimes people hate something more than they love something ( or can accept). Witness how many kids are destroyed in horrific divorces because the parents hate each other more than they care about the well being of the kids. The visceral HATE for Obama and Clinton gave perfect rise to Trump because he took the discourse to the lowest possible level and tapped into the evil twin which resides in all of us to really kick somebody hard, real hard in the nuts. Give voice to that 24/7 by a " personality" and you've peeled back the self regulation most of us learn as we mature.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Nothing's worse than seeing otherwise normal people fall for the 'Crooked Hillary' fable.
Repeat lies long enough - 25 years in this case - and the masses believe it.
She's been in the trenches fighting the good fight as a radical, as First Lady, as a maverick, as a female, as a change-agent since before Bill was president. And the right wing conservative power elite HATED HER for it. Those are the roots of it. And the subintelligencia ate it up. And they stil do. Start with the Safire piece.
What an eye opener.
She's a superwoman. Talk about a sustained project. Few others could've done what she's done. Over such a distance with such attention, focus and competence. That's why she's earned the presidency.
I'm sick and tired of hearing no-nothings say she's no better than trump - that there's no difference. The difference couldn't be any more stark. It's the difference bet lightning and the lightning bug.
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EdwardT
Trad climber
Retired
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Hillary is no better than trump.
There's no difference.
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EdwardT
Trad climber
Retired
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fact: more Americans voted for Democrats than Republicans in the last congressional election
That's a lie.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 3, 2016 - 05:38pm PT
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"For 2010 and 2012, we relied on official tallies of the total votes cast in all Senate races released by the Federal Elections Commission. Those results show that Republican Senate candidates outperformed Democrats by 2,733,121 votes in 2010, while Democrats outperformed Republicans by a much larger 10,867,709 votes in 2012."
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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That's a lie.
Just to be sure:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2014
Republican Party 40,081,282 51.2%
Democratic Party 35,624,357 45.5%
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_2014
Republican 24,631,488
Democrat 20,875,493
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Norton
Social climber
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Not a "lie", derp
mid terms like the 2014 are non events, very low interest and turn out
I am talking about the last major election, the big one, the 2012
and here are the results, showing more people voted for Dems than Repus
e • d Summary of the 6 November 2012 United States House of Representatives election results
Parties Seats Popular Vote
2010 2012 +/- Strength Vote % Change
Democratic Party 193 201 +8 46.2% 59,645,531 48.8% +3.9%
Republican Party 242 234 -8 53.8% 58,228,253 47.6% -4.1%
are we clear now?
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