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You're prolly right on Bannon

artappraiser — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 20:08:52 +0000

In reply to The buck doesn't even slow

You're prolly right on Bannon, NCD, because: there's no there there!

Chadwick Matlin 9:12 PM

Clare, if Gillespie was “swamp thing,” as Breitbart wrote, how many Breitbart-approved candidates on the ballot before Election Day 2018? Is it just Roy Moore in Alabama? Strikes me that analysts won’t have many more opportunities to evaluate how the Breitbart message plays in this environment before the midterms.

TrumpBannon Populism party has no candidates and no funding system. The meetings with Mercer after he left the White House were probably just pie-in-the-sky ruminations on same. This is also why he was reaching out to that progressive writer on trade protectionism against China in his last days, thinking about coalitions with the most fervant Sandersnistas.. For all the bluster and viral hype, it's still infancy without candidates. How many other billionaires available besides Mercer and Trump that would sign on to the Bannon program? Koch's are in strong opposition. He was thinking Tea Party to Freedom Caucus to even greater power, instead they are flailing and failing. They are not ready with candidates to fill the resignations of the RINOS. His "let Trump be Trump" mantra is just going to backfire in those RINO districts. Also backfires with Sandersnistas.

Yeah, you know my dad owned

ocean-kat — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 07:24:25 +0000

In reply to Still a lotta red

Yeah, you know my dad owned about 6 times as much land as everyone else on the street we lived on. Put in a huge organic garden and planted fruit and nut trees. Still when he went to vote he just got one. But that year he voted for Reagan it sure did make a big splotch of red when I colored in my street for the school project.

Still a lotta red

artappraiser — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 06:46:17 +0000

In reply to DEM NORTHAM WINS VIRG GOV

Still a lotta red geographically:

from WaPo's current home page live A.P. map governor's race

on WaPo's home page, the map is live with updates for each county when you put your cursor over the county, also shows for each county whether Trump or Clinton in 2016.

Danica Roem Wins Virginia

artappraiser — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 06:26:48 +0000

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Danica Roem Wins Virginia Race, Breaking a Barrier for Transgender People

By Maggie Astor @ NYTimes.com, Nov. 7, 2017

She campaigned on everyday issues, like reducing traffic on a congested state highway. But her victory on Tuesday was a social breakthrough that brought seasoned advocates to tears.

In a local election in Northern Virginia, Danica Roem, 33, defeated a Republican who had served in the state’s House of Delegates for a quarter of a century — and, in doing so, Ms. Roem became the first transgender person to be elected to the Virginia legislature.

Only one other openly transgender person has been elected to a state legislature anywhere in the United States: Stacie Laughton, a Democrat who won a seat in the New Hampshire House in 2012 but never took office because of an outcry over her failure to disclose a felony conviction. Another, Althea Garrison, elected to the Massachusetts House in 1992, came out as transgender during her term in office but lost every campaign she ran after coming out [....]

Agree with this. But also

artappraiser — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 05:54:54 +0000

In reply to DEM NORTHAM WINS VIRG GOV

See Nate Silver's tweets on topic here (too complicated to embed correctly) including link to live coverage thread on his site

HEY Flavius

Richard Day — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 04:54:54 +0000

In reply to Useful. Thanks.

HEY Flavius

I have not been useful for at least two decades.

hahahhahahah

But, there are good tidings with regard to these current elections.

And we need no noels.

THE BEST IS YET TO COME?

Useful. Thanks.

Flavius — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 04:48:20 +0000

In reply to From MSNBC

Useful. Thanks.

As always, Mr. D, much more

artappraiser — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 04:47:23 +0000

In reply to Oh AA, I love these links.

As always, Mr. D, much more succinct than most writers on the web!

Who said Trump had anything

artappraiser — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 04:42:18 +0000

In reply to The buck doesn't even slow

Who said Trump had anything to do with the Republican party anyways?! Bunch of widdle midgets! Oh the campaign costs... Trumpco will just pay em back, here's a promissory note....

Hindsight 20-20: they knew, they could see in polls, this from yesterday in the Washington Examiner:

FAIRFAX, Va. — Ten speakers, one hour, and not one mention of President Trump during Monday evening’s closing campaign rally for Ed Gillespie, Republican nominee for governor in Virginia.

There was a passing reference to Vice President Mike Pence, even former President George W. Bush.

But one after the other, Republican VIPs took the microphone in the packed, overheated basement of the Fairfax County GOP headquarters to encourage voters to turn out for the party ticket in Tuesday’s crucial election. One after the other, nary a word about Trump, not even his name [....]

My hindsight 20-20: Northern Virginia is chock full of employees of the swamp, might not like being embarrassed all the time about who they work under?

Over at RedState.org, the

artappraiser — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 04:30:04 +0000

In reply to BUZZ! sorry. NCD, you lose (I

Over at RedState.org, the main thread is pretty honest

BREAKING: Historic Democrat Wave Wiping Out Virginia GOP

but these two I am scared to look at:

President Trump Says He Knows Why Republican Ed Gillespie Lost in VA, and His Reason May Predict the Future Republican Ed Gillespie has lost his race with detestable Democrat Ralph Northam in Virginia. Now begins the…

Democratic Socialist Wins Virginia Delegate Seat, Highlighting Party Division Virginia voters elected Tuesday a Democratic Socialist to the House of Delegates, complicating Democrats’....