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10/25/2016

Cook Report: Democrats Poised to Retake Senate

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 9:30 am



Jennifer Duffy at the Cook Political Report has this sobering analysis out today:

Senate Republicans had been doing a pretty solid job of maintaining their distance from GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump by running their own campaign that focused largely on more local issues or those issues that motivate their base. The strategy was working fine and it looked as if Republicans would be able to keep their losses low. That is until October 7 when The Washington Post reported on the existence of the Access Hollywood tape in which Trump described sexually assaulting women. Then things started to unravel, albeit slowly.

Assuming that Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton wins the White House, the party needs four seats to tie the chamber, leaving the Vice President as the tie breaking vote. . . . . [W]e are increasing the range of expected Democratic pick ups to five to seven seats. This means that we feel that the prospect that Democrats will have at least 51 seats is greater than the odds of a tied Senate, or of Republicans somehow holding their majority.

Gulp. They also have this to say about the best GOP strategy:

Early voting is underway in 27 states, so Republicans don’t really have much time to turn things around, and Trump won’t be any help, especially his campaign doesn’t really have a ground game to speak of. The GOP’s only hope is to start running a checks-and-balances message, or more blatantly, a don’t-give-Clinton-a-blank-check message to motivate their base, particularly what one strategist called “casual Republicans,” to the polls. We are starting to see that message in some red and purple states as candidates work to tie Democratic candidate to Clinton.

I don’t see why the “don’t give her a black check” strategy would appeal only to casual Republicans. I think it appeals to classical liberals like me as well. (Note to Trumpers who think I just admitted being a leftist: Google “classical liberal.” You can’t manage to work the Googles? Fine, I’ll do it for you.)

I think, at this point, encouraging votes in House and Senate races is clearly the best strategy for those of us who care about limited government. For us, the presidency is lost — even if Donald Trump wins, which is looking extraordinarily unlikely. There is going to be a fan of Big Government in the Oval Office, no matter which candidate wins. Our only chance is to convince voters to vote down ticket.

Interestingly, the likelihood that Hillary Clinton will win is apt to make us limited government types less choosy about who we select down ballot. If I thought Trump were likely to win, I’d spend more time scrutinizing the record of each GOP candidate, to see if I thought it likely that he would oppose big-government initiatives pushed by Trump. But with Clinton likely to win, I can more easily see myself voting even for Trumpers in the House and Senate. They may not understand why they oppose her policies, but if it’s Hillary Clinton proposing them, they’ll oppose her. Fighting Hillary is what they live for.

Hope for the best; prepare for the worst. I sure hope the Cook Report is wrong about the Senate. But either way, let’s work to motivate folks to vote for Republicans down ticket.

[Cross-posted at RedState.]

122 Responses to “Cook Report: Democrats Poised to Retake Senate”

  1. this only helps nevertrump get them pig judges all up in that court

    abortion lol

    we’re gonna take it to a whole new yummy level!

    happyfeet (a037ad)

  2. Harry Reid’s Parting Shot: Dems Will Nuke The Filibuster For SCOTUS

    yes yes yes

    i want a lamborghini!

    🙂

    happyfeet (a037ad)

  3. acxiom strategies shows a different picture, but go with the abc poll (27% gop) and the prri which was even more ridiculous, if that were possible,

    narciso (d1f714)

  4. It’s not that our allies have switched sides, narciso (or so they tell us), it’s just that they plan on not participating in the final battle and will blame us when the war is lost. Somehow it will become our fault Killary wins when we voted a straight Republican ticket.

    Rev. Hoagie® (785e38)

  5. I don’t consider the polls run by the media to be very accurate. I would expect hillary to do well in communist states like california. But, anecdotally, when Trump gets 28,000 to show up at a rally in Tampa and kaine gets 30, including media, to show up at his rally in West Palm Beach, I am not convinced hillary is up by 1% in Florida.
    So, whether the republicans control the senate or not, I do not believe we will have to put up with another corrupt clinton administration. I cannot believe anyone involved with law could support hillary knowing her back ground.

    Jim (a9b7c7)

  6. That was really 30 for a kaine rally. Not 30,000!

    Jim (a9b7c7)

  7. in palm beach, where you have to a mouldering zombie not to draw votes, there, (wait a tick)

    narciso (d1f714)

  8. the dems demotivate with a blitzkrieg of false news, the akin, macho grande, miller comes to mind, then they narrowly win, and yell eureka,

    narciso (d1f714)

  9. Instead of running around like chickens with our heads cut off to oppose illary in the Senate and House, why don’t we just vote for the presidential candidate who isn’t named illary!

    Cruz Supporter (102c9a)

  10. that’s just crazy talk, now kirk and ayotte are going to find out the lesson of holes and fight club, you don’t keep digging, and you don’t talk about the latter,

    narciso (d1f714)

  11. that’s a smart idea Mr. Supporter

    smart and crafty

    happyfeet (a037ad)

  12. the lesson from all those previous contests, is we must hold her accountable for obama’s policies, every one, fast and furious, obamacare, iran deal, the fall of yemen and libya,

    narciso (d1f714)

  13. Mr happyfeet, so many of our #NeverTrump friends tell us on the one hand that it’s okey-dokey if illary becomes President, then on the other hand they tell us we need to fight like scorpions to oppose her in the Senate and House.

    I’m almost inclined to suggest we need Matlock to solve this case, but I think it’s self-evident; just don’t let the stinkypig become President!

    Cruz Supporter (102c9a)

  14. Cruz Supporter, really? Who says it’s okey-dokey for Hillary to be President? Name them.

    SPQR (a3a747)

  15. SPQR,

    Dustin says he’s voting for illary.
    And a number of #NeverTrumpers say that it “doesn’t matter” who wins between illary and Trump.

    Cruz Supporter (102c9a)

  16. podesta and schultz, behind the scenes organized a ‘high tech lynching, now it’s more lowtech,

    http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/clarence-thomass-twenty-five-years-without-footprints?intcid=mod-latest

    narciso (d1f714)

  17. Trump’s done a bang up job as the nominee, working hard to bring the party together by reaching out and mending fences with primary opponents, working in states to support down ballot candidates through setting up a well oiled ground game to turn out the vote, and taking the establishment to task for their attempts to take out tea party/freedom caucus members of congress.

    Oh wait, he hasn’t done any of those things! And to make matters worse, just weeks before the election, the only rallying cry his supporters can offer the country is, “vote for Trump, his name isn’t Hillary!”

    Sean (1d5074)

  18. Mr happyfeet, so many of our #NeverTrump friends tell us on the one hand that it’s okey-dokey if illary becomes President, then on the other hand they tell us we need to fight like scorpions to oppose her in the Senate and House.

    I’m almost inclined to suggest we need Matlock to solve this case, but I think it’s self-evident; just don’t let the stinkypig become President!

    Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 10/25/2016 @ 12:02 pm

    You and ace apparently shop at the same store for your straw men.

    Sean (1d5074)

  19. SPQR,

    Among some of our friends with public exposure; Max Boot, Peter Mansoor, Kori Schake, George H.W. Bush.

    Cruz Supporter (102c9a)

  20. Sean,

    Blah, blah, blah.
    Those of us who don’t find it to be “okey-dokey” for illary to become president are voting for Trump.
    Because the next president will be either illary or Trump.
    Your choice.

    Cruz Supporter (102c9a)

  21. he’s an imperfect vehicle, deal with it, max boot can look at the fustercluck from the sahara to the niger river, and say we can have more of this,

    narciso (d1f714)

  22. Blah, blah, blah.
    Those of us who don’t find it to be “okey-dokey” for illary to become president are voting for Trump.
    Because the next president will be either illary or Trump.
    Your choice.

    Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 10/25/2016 @ 12:45 pm

    Who said I have to choose between those two? And who said it would be okey-dokey for Hillary to become president?

    Sean (1d5074)

  23. because bluntman and mcguffin are going nowhere,

    narciso (d1f714)

  24. he’s an imperfect vehicle, deal with it…

    narciso (d1f714) — 10/25/2016 @ 12:47 pm

    The simple point so many of you don’t seem to understand or want to understand is that many of us don’t need to “deal with it,” nor want to. I’m not voting for Trump, and I’m not voting for Hillary, my reasons are based in policy, principle, and faith, and nothing Trump has done over the course of the campaign or during the primary has changed my perception of him on either of those points. I don’t vote for someone simply because they have a specific letter next to their name, and I don’t vote for an imperfect vehicle simply because the badge on their bumper is spelled differently than another flawed model.

    Sean (1d5074)

  25. Instead of running around like chickens with our heads cut off to oppose illary in the Senate and House, why don’t we just vote for the presidential candidate who isn’t named illary!

    At this point I’m no longer sure that the currently reported poll numbers are a reflection of conservatives not willing to vote him (the only #Never people I still know are those in blue states where he’s not going to win anyway), and are just reflecting that he’s magically managed to totally reassemble the Obama coalition against him.

    But then, maybe again, there really is a groundswell of people who plan to vote for the guy and are being either ignored or suppressed by the polling.

    JVW (6e49ce)

  26. because bluntman and mcguffin are going nowhere,

    narciso (d1f714) — 10/25/2016 @ 12:49 pm

    So?

    Do you know how many Libertarians switched and began voting Republican since 2004? Do you think any of them care about the “binary election” BS everyone wants to tout?

    Sean (1d5074)

  27. red queen is more popular then obama eight years ago, tell me another one,

    narciso (d1f714)

  28. But then, maybe again, there really is a groundswell of people who plan to vote for the guy and are being either ignored or suppressed by the polling.

    JVW (6e49ce) — 10/25/2016 @ 12:52 pm

    Sounds like a rehash of the 2008 and 2012 stick your head in the sand, the polls are rigged, strategy. I’m sure the third time is the charm.

    Sean (1d5074)

  29. Sean, do you perchance live in a battleground state?

    I’m here in California, so I can choose not to vote for the GOP nominee without risking that he will lose the state’s 52 electoral votes, which he had not a snowball’s chance in hell of receiving. But I do know people in states like Colorado, Virginia, Florida, Ohio, and other closely-contested ones who can’t stand the man but are going to hold their noses and cast their ballots for him anyway.

    Like SPQR alluded to above, I think that the vast majority of the #Never crowd are people who live in states where he has no chance of winning anyway. And that in swing states, all the #Never crowd on one side are cancelled out by the #Never crowd on the other side.

    JVW (6e49ce)

  30. you want to reward the people who callously let our veterans die without va care, who are welshing on our bond to the servicemen who served from al asad to kandahar, who armed the cartels through fast and furious, this is what your peevishness amounts to,

    narciso (d1f714)

  31. Happyfeet, at #2: it was pretty much guaranteed that the next Democratic majority in the Senate would abolish the filibuster for judicial nominees. Given the majority’s refusal to hold hearings on Garland, and given Sen. McCain’s recent comments about denying a vote to any Clinton nominee for Supreme Court (which he subsequently tried to walk back), it’s basically inconceivable that the filibuster for judicial nominees could survive.

    aphrael (e0cdc9)

  32. Sounds like a rehash of the 2008 and 2012 stick your head in the sand, the polls are rigged, strategy

    Well, I doubt that the polls are all rigged, but let’s face it: this election has taken the cake as the election in which the media overwhelming came down on one side over the other. If the polls really are trying to sway the election, then this year would be the year that they pushed it to the maximum level.

    JVW (6e49ce)

  33. translation, given our returning the biden rule, and taking obama, hillary and schumer’s prior statements, from the tribute to best, the dems decried the ‘nuclear option’ than dropped the neutron bond.

    but it would require a part that is affirmatively directed on one significant thing or another,

    narciso (d1f714)

  34. Any vote for anyone but Trump or any non vote is tantamount to electing hillary. We KNOW what she will nominate to SCOTUS and we know what the senate will confirm regardless of which party is in the majority. I can picture justice fauxchohantas now. With hillary in charge we will not recognize this country in 4 years. obama set the standard of ignoring the law. hillary set the standard for breaking the law.
    Sit on the sidelines on principles and promise you will vote for a conservative in 4 years like that will make a difference. This is the turning point.

    Jim (a9b7c7)

  35. If Hillary doesn’t heal up she’s going to need Steven R Hawking to help her swear in come January.

    Pinandpuller (4255e1)

  36. Cruz Supporter, I don’t recognize any of those as my friends. And saying it dies not matter between Hillary and Trump is not saying it’s “okey-dokey” that Hillary be President.

    Among the many reasons I despise so many Trump supporters are blatant lies like that very claim.

    SPQR (a3a747)

  37. #22 Sean, you’re late to the party, and now you want a rehash of all the tunes that were played while everyone else was on the dance floor.
    Blah, blah, blah.

    Nobody says you have to vote for illary, Trump, Calvin Coolidge, or Mickey Mouse.
    But either illary or Trump will become the next president.
    If you don’t want illary to become the next president, I suggest you vote for the only person who can prevent that from coming to fruition. That would be Trump.

    Cruz Supporter (102c9a)

  38. Classical Liberals: If it ain’t Baroque, don’t fix it.

    Pinandpuller (4255e1)

  39. max boot, is certainly #willing for hillary’, some of the others as well, the other option is to take a chance, like russian roulette, with a full barrel,

    narciso (d1f714)

  40. SPQR, I never “claimed” they were YOUR friends, so relax with the personal outrage, bud.

    The next president is either illary or Trump.

    Cruz Supporter (102c9a)

  41. it’s nice of charlie to show pity on us, btw, did he get the tea party wave right in 2010 or 2014?

    narciso (d1f714)

  42. Sean

    When I choose between an imperfect vehicle and Shank’s Mare I check the weather report.

    Winter is coming.

    Pinandpuller (4255e1)

  43. so there’s a baker’s dozen of roudy chechens in thuringia,

    narciso (d1f714)

  44. Nevertrumpers in Blue states are like people in dry states bragging about their sobriety.

    Pinandpuller (4255e1)

  45. Yeah, yeah. I know, Trumps a bum. If you have any hope that Killary gets the punishment she deserves vote Trump. She ain’t gonna punish herself and she’s got a get out of jail free card from Obama. If this bitch is ever gonna pay for the corruption, malfeasance, lying and money laundering that is her entire life, not to mention the four Americans she let die in Benghazi and her blatant breach of security she cannot be permitted to enter the White House.

    Rev. Hoagie® (785e38)

  46. seems to be a route in the southern hemisphere, brazil, colombia, now this,

    https://babalublog.com/2016/10/25/chile-goes-right-on-the-anniversary-of-allendes-election/

    narciso (d1f714)

  47. You have a pair of fetid dingo’s kidneys to choose from.

    You can get that with a side of dialysis or hemolytic anemia and a nice chianti.

    Pinandpuller (4255e1)

  48. Rev Hoagie

    I wonder how close Hillary will allow “spontaneous” protests to the White House Annex?

    Pinandpuller (4255e1)

  49. I wonder how close Hillary will allow “spontaneous” protests to the White House Annex?

    I wonder if she’ll take down the WH wall and disarm the guards to show commitment with her immigration and gun control policies.

    Rev. Hoagie® (785e38)

  50. And get on Obamacare.

    Rev. Hoagie® (785e38)

  51. Obamacare will have to take her even with the preexisting condition of being a pathological liar.

    Rev. Hoagie® (785e38)

  52. Sorry, I had a long lecture planned in my 3PM class.

    Sean, do you perchance live in a battleground state?

    I’m here in California, so I can choose not to vote for the GOP nominee without risking that he will lose the state’s 52 electoral votes, which he had not a snowball’s chance in hell of receiving. But I do know people in states like Colorado, Virginia, Florida, Ohio, and other closely-contested ones who can’t stand the man but are going to hold their noses and cast their ballots for him anyway.

    Like SPQR alluded to above, I think that the vast majority of the #Never crowd are people who live in states where he has no chance of winning anyway. And that in swing states, all the #Never crowd on one side are cancelled out by the #Never crowd on the other side.

    JVW (6e49ce) — 10/25/2016 @ 12:58 pm

    Yes, I live in a safe Red state so my vote isn’t going to tip the scales one way or another, and I agree most of the people the Trump fans love to group in #NeverTrump live in similar states.

    Sean (1d5074)

  53. Any vote for anyone but Trump or any non vote is tantamount to electing hillary.

    Jim (a9b7c7) — 10/25/2016 @ 1:13 pm

    I’m curious, does your logic work in reverse? If I fail to vote for Hillary isn’t it then tantamount to electing Trump? What if I don’t vote for either, am I essentially electing both?

    Sean (1d5074)

  54. If you don’t want illary to become the next president, I suggest you vote for the only person who can prevent that from coming to fruition. That would be Trump.

    Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 10/25/2016 @ 1:19 pm

    What if I don’t want either of them to become President?

    Sean (1d5074)

  55. “More Emails: Hillary’s Team Answers Why Hillary Tried to Hide Her Secret Server Instead of Revealing it Long Before the Election: “Because They Wanted to Get Away With It”
    —Ace

    Wow, you’d almost think they were discussing a federal crime here.

    “Speaking of transparency, our friends Kendall, Cheryl and Phillipe sure weren’t forthcoming on the facts here,” Podesta says in another email to Tanden. He is referring to Hillary’s attorneys David Kendall and Cheryl Mills and also to Philipe Reines but it’s not clear if he is talking about them not giving much information to the NY Times or about some private exchange. Perhaps expecting how Tanden might respond Podesta adds, “Don’t be mean.”
    A few minutes later, Tanden replies, “This is a cheryl special. Know you love her, but this stuff is like her Achilles heal. Or kryptonite. she just can’t say no to this s**t.” She continues, “Why didn’t they get this stuff out like 18 months ago? So crazy.”

    Podesta replies, “Unbelievable.”

    And then Tanden sends a response answering her own question. “I guess I know the answer,” she writes, “they wanted to get away with it.”

    As Sexton notes, the “they wanted to get away with it” refers to Hillary’s Star Chamber of very close fixers and enablers. But of course the statement that Cheryl Mills “can’t say no to this s**t” can only mean she can’t refuse Hillary’s requests to help her break the law — who else could give Mills orders to break the law except for her alleged law client?”

    http://ace.mu.nu/archives/366509.php

    Colonel Haiku (5d48e9)

  56. More to the point Cruz Supporter, how do you plan to force people who are so disgusted by both candidates in that they have failed the interview process for the job of Representing their country as President? Simply saying the other candidate is worse isn’t a confidence builder nor does it assuage the moral and ethical issues most people have with either candidate. Voting is a sacred process in the country and placing your vote FOR a candidate is tantamount to endorsing them. If someone can’t bring themselves to endorse the actions and temperament of a candidate then it’s the job of the candidate to act contrite and humble themselves before the electorate in order to make an argument for their policies and positions as well as show the voters that they have the ability to lead as President. So far Trump, as a candidate, has done none of those things. And no matter how many Admirals, Generals, or policy “experts” he wants to cheer about has changed the fact that he is a narcissistic egomaniac that has shown zero ability to be humble or work to mend relationships with those that oppose him on even the simplest of issues.

    And Hillary is worse.

    Sean (1d5074)

  57. If only Trump had run as a Democrat.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  58. What if I don’t want either of them to become President?

    Then move to Sweden because one will.

    Rev. Hoagie® (785e38)

  59. Ace is a guy who argues that Trumpists should vote against the GOP down ballot. He’s dead to me.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  60. Then move to Sweden because one will.

    Only because people vote for people they despise so that they “don’t waste their vote.” Why is that sane?

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  61. Mr. Ace is a powerful voice for change he is a powerful voice for change

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  62. Any vote for anyone but Trump or any non vote is tantamount to electing hillary.

    Jim, if I vote for one of those two, it will be for Hillary. NOW, isn’t my vote otherwise a vote for Trump in your book?

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  63. “Insanity: writing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

    — Eldorado Slim

    Colonel Haiku (5d48e9)

  64. Then move to Sweden because one will.

    Rev. Hoagie® (785e38) — 10/25/2016 @ 4:07 pm

    So, either I support your candidate or I should leave the country? Nice. The problem with Nationalists is that they can easily support violence and/or the denial of individual rights if they are made to believe that those opposed to their beliefs are enemies of the state. Sort of like Liberals; same side of the coin.

    Sean (1d5074)

  65. Mr. Ace is a powerful voice for change he is a powerful voice for change

    happyfeet (28a91b) — 10/25/2016 @ 4:11 pm

    ace went off the deep end weeks ago. He’s been inventing boogeymen since he embraced Trump and his arguments have been increasingly sillier ever since.

    Sean (1d5074)

  66. “Insanity: writing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

    — Eldorado Slim

    Colonel Haiku (5d48e9) — 10/25/2016 @ 4:13 pm

    2008 – The Polls are Rigged!
    2012 – The Polls are Rigged!
    2016 – The Polls are Rigged!

    Sean (1d5074)

  67. Happy birthday Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso was born this day in 1881 in Malaga, Spain.

    Or, just Pablo Picasso.

    Screwed up name, screwed up art.

    Rev. Hoagie® (785e38)

  68. “Insanity: writing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

    Then you should stop. Trump should have quit in August.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  69. I have no doubt that Trump will be disputing this election next May, just to keep his name in the news, and most of his supporters will be right there with him having proven long sense that they are fukwits anyway.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  70. Mr. Ace strides the fractious meadows of election-logic like a pellucid colossus. I cannot help but be impressed by his cogent understandings.

    He’s awesome like a blossom on a possum, and that’s pretty darn awesome.

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  71. Then move to Sweden because one will.

    Well, that’s just a stupid thing to say. Did you want Obama to become President? No? Did you move to Sweden?

    Chuck Bartowski (211c17)

  72. sweden’s just another word for nuffin left to lose and nuffin that’s all obama left me

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  73. that’s a mouthful, rev, so the candidate who said obama was ‘just in over his head’ or the one who threw the match, the time before, w was ok, but he still barely defeated that rotting timber, john kerry, all told,

    narciso (d1f714)

  74. the ewok is temperamental, when he’s consumed enough nub nub, he’s exuberant, like when he was tagging rubio’s garbage, then he gets despondent,

    narciso (d1f714)

  75. it’s like the python ‘how to do it sketch’

    https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/790992983298482176?lang=en

    narciso (d1f714)

  76. from the norwegian blue thread,

    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/10/22/cologne-attacks-wiped-record/

    if this was happening in say philadelphia or columbus would we know it,

    narciso (d1f714)

  77. Well, that’s just a stupid thing to say. Did you want Obama to become President? No? Did you move to Sweden?

    Chuck Bartowski

    It’s especially stupid to say that now, when it’s brutally clear that Hillary will win the election in a landslide.

    And it’s similarly dumb to get angry with different points of view on this blog. The election’s results will not be changed here. Vote your conscience and sleep easy.

    While I want to express a protest to Trump and know he will be far worse than Obama ever was, I will probably write in McMullin and vote for downticket conservatives. I’m lucky that my ballot will have many.

    Dustin (ba94b2)

  78. the second rule of fight club,

    If the Republicans who abandoned Trump thought they would get praise from the Democrats and weak opposition to their elections, they were wrong. Nobody, especially Obama, has any respect for those who abandon their party’s nominee during an election. Democrats fight to win. Unlike Republicans, no Democrat has abandoned Hillary or criticized her because of her Emailgate scandal, or Benghazi, or pay to play, or anything else. The Democrats are solidly behind Hillary to win. They attack any Republican regardless of whether he endorses or doesn’t approve of Trump. Republicans who attacked or abandoned or refused to endorse Trump do not receive any dispensation from Democrats, especially Obama on the campaign.

    Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/10/obama_attacks_republicans_who_did_not_reject_trump_early_enough_to_satisfy_obama.html#ixzz4O93SkmVv
    Follow us: @AmericanThinker on Twitter | AmericanThinker on Facebook

    narciso (d1f714)

  79. If the Republicans who abandoned Trump thought they would get praise from the Democrats and weak opposition to their elections, they were wrong.

    On the other hand, Trump’s been praising democrats and their policies for years and will resume doing so in weeks.

    Dustin (ba94b2)

  80. So you think we should vote for RINO’s now? I’m so confused. I thought you hated Trump?

    NJRob (a07d2e)

  81. it doesn’t matter if it was smith or santorum or the last guy, the dupont heir, christine or her successor, the dems only have one strategy attack, and attack, and it’s highlander rules, ‘there can be only one’

    narciso (d1f714)

  82. I’m voting for Mark Kirk. He has been anti-Trump from the beginning. He never wallowed in the sty and tried to brush himself off in October. We’ll see how he does.

    But I also have no respect for Republicans who found Trump’s rump kissing sweet in July and ran off in October. Crapweasels like them is why we got Trump in the first place.

    nk (dbc370)

  83. So you think we should vote for RINO’s now? I’m so confused. I thought you hated Trump?

    NJRob

    Hate’s the wrong word. I fear the idea of Trump in power.

    I voted for Romney so obviously I’m cool with voting for RINOs. Just vote for the most conservative candidate who can win. At some point, though, Hillary is so far ahead of Trump that just because she’s the more conservative of the two doesn’t mean you have to vote for her. Though I’d understand if you did.

    Dustin (ba94b2)

  84. a place

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  85. where nobody dared to go

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  86. the love that we came to know

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  87. even the bene gesserit, don’t go there,

    narciso (d1f714)

  88. they call it Trumpadu

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  89. I don’t see why the “don’t give her a black check” strategy would appeal only to casual Republicans.

    Those ads are said to be very effective – the best ads they can think of. They don’t say “don’t give her a black check” but sometrhing more like “don’t elect a rubber stanp for Hillary Clinton”

    This is a very powerful message.

    Sammy Finkelman (42d229)

  90. ooh damn Mr. narciso steppin on my flow

    look at you

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  91. and that was a great standup act, more conservative, lol,

    narciso (d1f714)

  92. I don’t see why the “don’t give her a black check” strategy would appeal only to casual Republicans.

    Those ads are said to be very effective – the best ads they can think of. They don’t say “don’t give her a black check” but sometrhing more like “don’t elect a rubber stanp for Hillary Clinton”

    This is a very powerful message.

    Sammy Finkelman (42d229) — 10/25/2016 @ 5:36 pm

    Too bad they don’t have a ground game, otherwise more people would get the message. The fact that Trump thought he could do this all on his own magnetism and brand recognition without a proper ground game betrayed the down ballot candidates. Witty ads in the last weeks of the election will barely move the needle.

    Sean (1d5074)

  93. Just say “Hell No!!!” to political dynasties. Show that you have a spinal column!

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  94. C’mon Cleveland!!!

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  95. rincey rince and his pervy mitt romney posse can ride to the rescue of the down-ballot trash

    maybe they can sell calendars featuring slicked up boytoy paul ryan and his hawt abs

    or get sore loser ted’s sacky to arrange a sweet sweet sacky loan for everybody

    c’mon R’s

    lemme see some of that bootstrappin resourcefulness

    ayotte lol

    what an utter sheboygan

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  96. so one team last won 70 years ago, and another a century ago,

    narciso (d1f714)

  97. 2008 – The Polls are Rigged!
    2012 – The Polls are Rigged!
    2016 – The Polls are Rigged!

    Sean (1d5074) — 10/25/2016 @ 4:17 pm

    =======================================

    Fever Swamp M00nbat! Film at elebenty!

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  98. If the Republicans who abandoned Trump thought they would get praise from the Democrats and weak opposition to their elections, they were wrong. Nobody, especially Obama, has any respect for those who abandon their party’s nominee during an election.

    If I cared what Democrats thought of me I wouldn’t have spent the last year telling them that Hillary Clinton is the single most corrupt and dishonest person to ever be nominated by a major party. I only care that I can look at myself in the mirror when I brush my teeth in the morning, and that would be harder to do if I had actually cast a ballot for an ignorant witless blowhard like the guy the GOP nominated. No, he doesn’t get my vote just because he’s not her. (This is the part where you lecture me on a binary choice.)

    JVW (6e49ce)

  99. if you don’t have a binary choice you have no choice at all

    that must feel very empowering

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  100. criss-cross applesauce spoons in your bowl

    Mr. Trump’s got something to say about it

    and it goes something like this

    don’t go for second-best baybeee

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  101. “Laughing too hard is her authentic weirdness.”

    — John Podesta

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  102. well with due respect, the focus should be exclusively on red queen, it’s not like she doesn’t have enough material, the warehouse where they stored the ark couldn’t hold it all,

    narciso (d1f714)

  103. so one team last won 70 years ago, and another a century ago,

    According to Wikipedia, there are probably something like only 500 people left in the world today who were alive last time the Cubs won the World Series, 108 years ago. Estimates of living people who have reached the age of 110 run between a low of 150 and a max of 600.

    And the Cubs are just waving at Kluber’s pitches.

    JVW (6e49ce)

  104. “I know this email thing isn’t on the level. I’m fully aware of that. But her inability to just do a national interview and communicate genuine feelings of remorse and regret is now, I fear, becoming a character problem (more so than honesty).”
    — Neera Tanden

    “We’ve taken on a lot of water that won’t be easy to pump out of the boat. Most of that has to do with terrible decisions made pre-campaign, but a lot has to do with her instincts.”
    — John Podesta

    “Almost no one knows better [than] me that her instincts can be terrible.”
    — Neera Tanden

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  105. 54. Sean (1d5074) — 10/25/2016 @ 3:54 pm

    I’m curious, does your logic work in reverse? If I fail to vote for Hillary isn’t it then tantamount to electing Trump? What if I don’t vote for either, am I essentially electing both?

    It depends upon which one you most would not want to see as president. That’s the one you’re voting for.

    If you evaluation of whch one is the lesser (or maybe that should be the worser) of two evils changes, so does your vote. It’s tricky that way.

    Sammy Finkelman (42d229)

  106. Pitchers get tired.

    As for American Gold Digger, and its “Republicans get no respect from Democrats”, there ain’t nothing like putting up a straw man to knock down and seem profound to morons.

    nk (dbc370)

  107. if you don’t have a binary choice you have no choice at all

    that must feel very empowering

    happyfeet (28a91b) — 10/25/2016 @ 5:54 pm

    The “Binary choice™”:

    1. Trump
    2. Hillary
    3. Third-Party
    4. Write-In
    5. Vote only down ballot
    6. Stay home

    Sean (1d5074)

  108. well it’s always nice to have a dream:

    http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/10/25/mcmullin-happy-block-trump/

    narciso (d1f714) — 10/25/2016 @ 6:16 pm

    Did anyone honestly think his candidacy was anything other than an alternative to Trump? How is this news? Oh wait, it’s Breitbart, it’s not news, it’s propaganda.

    Sean (1d5074)

  109. re ms. mccabe’s target,

    http://www.ancreport.com/report/origins-syrian-war-richard-h-black-senator-virginia/

    his analysis may be flawed in part, but there was significant influence from gulf states like the kingdom and the emirates as I pointed in my own blog,

    narciso (d1f714)

  110. “there ain’t nothing like putting up a straw man to knock down.”

    — “Mother’s Milk” to American lawyers

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  111. Here’s some binary for you:
    01010100 01110010 01110101 01101101 01110000 01101011 01101001 01101110 01110011 00100000 01100001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01101001 01100100 01101001 01101111 01110100 01110011

    nk (dbc370)

  112. 106… Forget it, Sammeh… it’s Goofytown.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  113. now this a whole acre of burning straw,

    https://twitter.com/pspoole/status/791001740065771521

    narciso (d1f714)

  114. 01001001 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01101110 01101011 00100000 01001001 00100111 01101100 01101100 00100000 01101101 01100001 01101011 01100101 00100000 01100001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01101101 01111001 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101101 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100 01110011 00100000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01101101 01111001 00100000 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100000 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01110011 01100101 01100101 00100000 01101010 01110101 01110011 01110100 00100000 01101000 01101111 01110111 00100000 01110011 01101101 01100001 01110010 01110100 00100000 01010100 01110010 01110101 01101101 01110000 01101011 01101001 01101110 01110011 00100000

    nk (dbc370)

  115. no, he said he wanted to prevent both, ‘prisoner’s dilemma, makes it improbable a choice, also consider if smod willing he succeeded, the onus of that result would fall on him and by proxy
    his coreligionists in utah, and nevada,

    narciso (d1f714)

  116. Here’s some binary for you:
    01010100 01110010 01110101 01101101 01110000 01101011 01101001 01101110 01110011 00100000 01100001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01101001 01100100 01101001 01101111 01110100 01110011

    nk (dbc370) — 10/25/2016 @ 6:22 pm

    I don’t know if I’d go that far, at least not in all cases.

    😉

    Sean (1d5074)

  117. this was the piece, mind you this was before the jayvees really became big time players

    http://narcisoscorner.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-syrian-imbroglio-by-narciso-old.html?view=timeslide

    narciso (d1f714)

  118. nk (dbc370) — 10/25/2016 @ 6:27 pm

    Just as long as you don’t cuss. For all we know, the moderator catches binary versions of expletives too.

    JVW (6e49ce)

  119. “Hope for the best; prepare for the worst.” I agree. Who’s know what will happen tomorrow, sigh.

    Gmail sign in (a032ef)

  120. Ordinarily I would expect 2018 for be great for the GOP, but Trump is the ultimate wedge issue and I predict the GOP loses the house and does not regain the senate it loses this year. Trump is the best thing that ever happened to the left.

    Dustin (ba94b2)


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