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Whatever the results tomorrow they are already called into question. The election will be illegitimate, and the post-election narrative by our mind-manipulating ma$ters has already been written.
"Democrats invoke race in Southern Senate races" by Jeremy W. Peters | New York Times October 30, 2014
Related: Democrats Blue About Black Vote
That's because they are not going to turn out this year. After six years of Obama and Democrat control, things are actually worse for blacks.
The New Politics of North Carolina
This looks like the OLD POLITICS of the PAST!
In the final days before the election, Democrats in the closest Senate races across the South are turning to racially charged messages — invoking Trayvon Martin’s death, the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., and Jim Crow-era segregation — to jolt African-Americans into voting and stop a Republican takeover in Washington.
Not only is it disingenuously distasteful, it shows you that Democrats are just as bad as Republicans despite the self-righteous garbage that spews from their political lips.
The images and words they are using are striking for how overtly they play on fears of intimidation and repression.
What?
And their source is surprising. The effort is being led by national Democrats and their state party organizations — not, in most instances, by the shadowy and often untraceable political action committees that typically employ such provocative messages.
In North Carolina, the super PAC started by Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democrat majority leader, ran an ad on black radio that accused the Republican candidate, Thom Tillis, of leading an effort to pass the kind of gun law that “caused the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.”
Pathetic.
In Georgia, Democrats are circulating a flier warning that voting is the only way “to prevent another Ferguson.” It shows two black children holding cardboard signs that say “Don’t shoot.”
OMG!
That is SO LOW it is TRULY OFFENSIVE! Blacks (and other citizens) have been GETTING BLOWN AWAY all these years under Democrat control.
The messages are coursing through the campaigns like a riptide, powerful and under the surface, largely avoiding television and out of view of white voters. That has led Republicans to accuse Democrats of turning to race-baiting in a desperate bid to win at the polls Tuesday.
It is, and the ma$$ media really didn't make a stink like they would had Republicans run something like this.
“They have been playing on this nerve in the black community that if you even so much as look at a Republican, churches will start to burn, your civil rights will be taken away, and young black men like Trayvon Martin will die,” said Michael Steele, a former chairman of the Republican Party. “The reality of it is, the Democrats realize that their most loyal constituency is not as loyal as they once were.”
That's because DEMOCRATS have FAILED US ALL!
Democrats say Republicans need to own their record of passing laws hostile to African-American interests on issues like voting rights.
Pffft!
Voting in rigged elections means what, exactly, and why shouldn't you have to prove who you are to vote when I have to show my ID almost everywhere I go when it comes to government?
The decision to use such overt appeals reflects just how much they are relying on black voters in the states in the old Confederacy, where key Senate races could decide which party controls the chamber.
I think they are going to be terribly disappointed unless a massive rigging is in the works.
Democrats are defending vulnerable incumbents in Arkansas, Louisiana, and North Carolina. And if they lose more than one of those races without picking up an open seat in Georgia, their odds of holding on to the majority will shrink considerably.
One way to hang on is to increase the share of the black vote that typically turns out in a midterm election. To do so, Democrats are seizing on racial mistrust and unease, the same complicated emotions often used against them in the South.
Just fighting fire with fire as they stoop to the other's level, huh?
The attacks have been most aggressive in North Carolina, where Democrats have said they need to raise the share of the electorate that is African-American to 21 percent, from 19 percent in the last midterm election in 2010, to prevail over Republicans, who control both chambers of the state Legislature and the governor’s mansion.
Looks like a Democrat loss to me tonight.
The group started by Reid, Senate Majority PAC, ran the ad on black radio that Republicans said all but accused Tillis, the Republican speaker of the state House, of killing Martin, the unarmed black teenager who was fatally shot in Florida in 2012. In the ad, the announcer reads through a list of policies Tillis supported that blacks are likely to find offensive, like curtailing early voting in the state. And then it turns more ominous.
“Tillis even led the effort to pass the type of ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws that caused the shooting death of Trayvon Martin,” the announcer says. The music playing in the background abruptly stops.
Republicans have slammed the ad as race-baiting.
It sure the hell is.
For many African-Americans, feelings of persecution — from voter ID laws, aggressive police forces and a host of other social problems — are hard to overstate.
They have become worse than the Jews with all the self-centered whining. Hard for me to believe such thing when I am seeing African-Americans dominating sports in this country and the whole media sector becoming diversified.
And they see no hyperbole in the attacks.
“It’s not race-baiting; it’s actually happening,” said Jaymes Powell Jr., an official in the North Carolina Democratic Party’s African-American Caucus. “I can’t catch a fish unless there’s a worm on the hook.”
Looks like baiting to me.
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"Democratic attack ads aim to save Senate majority" by David Espo | Associated Press October 28, 2014
WASHINGTON — Their majority in jeopardy, Senate Democrats unleashed a late-campaign round of attack ads Monday accusing Republicans in key races of harboring plans to cut Social Security and Medicare.
So have Democrats!!
Once again it is the SAME OLD SHIT coming from them!!
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The televised attack ads, financed by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, come with little over a week remaining until elections that will test whether Republicans can win control of the Senate for the final two years of President Obama’s term. The GOP is also hoping to pad its majority in the House. Thirty-six states will elect governors.
Obama’s weak approval ratings have buoyed Republicans in numerous states, and Democrats are counting on a costly get-out-the-vote operation to save their Senate majority....
So a theft is in the works, and if Democrats keep the Senate it is an indication of massive fraud. The Senate votes are a referendum on Obama. Period.
Republicans said the campaign attacks would fail.
Carl Forti, political director of American Crossroads, which has spent millions supporting Republican candidates, said, ‘‘Incumbent Democrats have been getting pounded for over a year for voting for Obamacare, which cuts Medicare by hundreds of millions of dollars and Medicare Advantage as well.’’
And that issue has hardly been brought up by the ma$$ media -- as predicted in these very pages.
What you likely do not know is because of the premium spikes Obama has decided to remove that trouble$ome issue for Democrats from the campaign trail by automatically reenrolling you. Just wait until you get the new premium payments and deductibles next year! Democrats thought they have it bad now.... wait until you can't get access to your own records while the hackers can!
And, oh, yeah, death panels are back, ready or not. I mean, I'm fein with certain obituaries and now oppose the idea of government health care after seeing where the idea came from. Even if I was still for the idea, the last government I would trust to administer it is the government of AmeriKa. It's AmeriKan medi$ine now.
As for the long-term, it looks like you will have to fend for yourself.
‘‘Millions of votes have already been cast around the country. It’s a little too late for Democrats to try and muddy the waters by attacking Republicans for cutting Medicare,’’ he said.
Or food stamps. Or unemployment benefits.
In the most recent midterm election, 2010, voters 65 and over accounted for 21 percent of all ballots. Two years ago, that percentage declined to 16 percent.
In both years, older voters supported Republicans over Democrats. They preferred Mitt Romney over Obama by 56-44 percent two years ago, according to interviews with voters leaving their polling places. In 2010 they gave 59 percent of their votes to Republican congressional candidates and only 38 to Democrats, according to a similar survey....
Is that why I am the way I am now after having been a died-in-the-wool Democrat for most of my existence?
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Of course, Obama thinks throwing money around via the usual suspects will save them, and Democrats are pinning their hopes on the youth they have betrayed and who won't vote for the obvious reasons. That's the environment they are finding themselves in.
"Graham says remark about helping white men was joke" by Jeffrey Collins | Associated Press October 31, 2014
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Senator Lindsey Graham’s remark at a private, all-male dinner about mainly helping white men if he became president was a joke taken out of context, his campaign said Thursday.
Humor often carries the truth; however, the real question is, is he going to help gay white men like himself?
But Graham’s opponent, Democratic state Senator Brad Hutto, said the comment shows he is a typical Republican who is not concerned about the middle class, poor, minorities, or women.
About 20 seconds of clips of Graham’s speech were provided to the Associated Press, and Graham’s campaign confirmed that it was him speaking. CNN first reported the remarks Wednesday, less than a week before the election to decide whether Graham gets a third term in the Senate. He has outspent Hutto by a wide margin and is a big favorite to win in conservative South Carolina.
After using profanity to say the government is messed up, Graham tells the group: ‘‘If I get to be president, white men who are in male-only clubs are going to do great in my presidency.’’
Remember Bush said “some people call you the elite. I call you my base?”
Graham made the remarks as part of a 10-minute speech at the Hibernian Society of Charleston at a charity event where politicians are invited to give private speeches that are serious, but also include jokes told at their expense or to poke fun at the group. Graham’s campaign said his intention with the joke was to needle the historically Irish Catholic group. A recording of his entire speech to the group has not surfaced.
‘‘Senator Graham is confident the people of South Carolina will judge him based on his record of accomplishment and will also put in its proper perspective these jokes, which were taken out of context and delivered in a private, roast-type dinner before a well-respected charity in Charleston,’’ Graham’s campaign spokesman Tate Zeigler said in a statement.
His opponent said Graham showed his true self at the event. He pointed out Graham has voted or spoken out against bills aimed at establishing equal pay for women and raising the minimum wage and the Violence Against Women Act.
‘‘When behind the closed doors of a private club, Lindsey Graham let his true colors show. He is only interested in his own ambitions and the best interests of the wealthy donors he hopes will fund his possible presidential campaign,’’ Hutto said in a statement.
I will say this: I would be happy as hell were Graham to be defeated. Another scum incumbent voted out!
Graham has upset some people in his own party in recent years by saying Republicans must diversify and cannot be the party of angry white men if they want to remain relevant in American politics.
In the other clip from the Charleston meeting, Graham makes jokes about religion.
Uh-oh.
‘‘Do we have any Presbyterians here?’’ Graham said, as laughter from the group drowns out the punch line. ‘‘Do we have any Baptists? They’re the ones who drink and don’t admit it. Methodists? Baptists who can’t read.’’
Jokes are a staple of Graham’s public remarks, and he frequently jokes about religion in his public speeches. He often points out that Americans settle their religious differences on the church softball field, while religious differences are sometimes settled through terror and war in the Middle East.
Nothing like being prejudiced against Muslims, huh?
Yeah, AmeriKa doesn't settle its differences through wars, oh no.
What a detestable piece of excrement is Graham. Must be from hanging out with and doing all the Zionist bidding.
Earlier this week, Graham told business leaders he thinks immigration reform has to be tied to changing Social Security and Medicaid because the nation needs more workers to support its aging population.
Oh, he is FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION and AMNESTY, huh?
Related:
"illegal immigrants, who mow the lawns, trim the hedges, clean the swimming pools, park the cars, serve the hors d'oeuvres, tidy up the mansions, and do many of the other things that make life so enjoyable for the rich"
Intere$ting.
‘‘Where do you get the workforce if 80 million Baby Boomers are going to retire unless you start having four kids after you are 67 like Strom [Thurmond]?’’ Graham asked, pausing before the punch line. ‘‘Any volunteers?’’
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Ha, ha, ha.
Related:
"With smoke lingering in the air and Halloween cobwebs draped around support beams, Republican Scott Brown and his wife, Gail Huff, arrived first, greeting those at the bar with jokes about joining them for a beer and small talk about Sunday’s Patriots game, and Brown said “We have an opportunity to change history, to change the direction of our country, to right the ship. Do not waste this opportunity to send a message to Washington.”
Pfft!
As Brown and Huff got into the truck outside, they mostly ignored the matching truck across the street – decorated with crossed-out “Scott Brown/Massachusetts” signs and symbolic Koch brothers oil drums – and a young man dressed as a king, who told Brown he was here for his “secret meeting,” a nod to Brown’s old quote claiming “secret meetings with kings and queens.”
No violin player in a bikini this time?
Also see: Ayotte's Off Year
Scott Brown, Jeanne Shaheen beat drum in N.H.
Senate’s mutually assured obstruction
Well, whatever happens it is to be expected (despite the argument of conventional myths made for the Obama administration) and it will help provide the backdrop for the 2016 presidential campaign, which looks like it will be between the same familiar faces thus leaving no one to vote for.
"Hillary Clinton returns to N.H., hints at 2016 issues; Economy, equality highlight her push for reelecting Hassan and Shaheen" by Joshua Miller | Globe Staff November 02, 2014
NASHUA — Hillary Rodham Clinton said she and her husband were raised to believe the American Dream was within your reach if you worked hard.
The conventional myth we are taught to live under so the wealthy can collect even more dough.
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She also told the fired-up audience that the Republican agenda for this election, stripped down, is fear.
“It’s trying to instill fear. They’re staking everything on it. Fear is the last resort of those who have run out of ideas and run out of hope,” she said, adding that Shaheen and Hassan are “fearless.”
See North Carolina and what Democrats are doing down South, you detestable piece of excrement!!!!!!!!!!
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Clinton said some have questioned why Democrats talk so much about women. Her answer: “Women’s rights, here at home and around the world, are like the canary in the mine. You start taking away, you start limiting women’s rights, who’s next?”
Pffft!
How many drone missiles murdered women during your tenure, you c***?
The electronic surveillance of this government doesn't give a damn about your gender, either. This use of the issue politically, like race, is nothing more than GENDER-BAITING!
This woman is disgusting, and the thought of her as president means the end of this nation (almost done anyway).
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The event with Clinton came two days before Shaheen and Hassan, both Democrats in competitive races, face voters.
It's looking like New Hampshire is the one place that might reelect Democrats.
Nationally, analysts predict strong currents of displeasure with Obama will pull down Democrats, who are poised to lose seats in the US House of Representatives and, potentially, control of the US Senate.
But recent polls have found Shaheen leading Republican challenger Scott Brown, a former Massachusetts US senator, and Hassan leading Republican businessman Walt Havenstein....
Jennifer Horn, the New Hampshire Republican State Committee chairwoman, released a statement ahead of Clinton’s visit. It said, in part, that Clinton and Shaheen “share one thing in common — they have both supported Obama’s failed leadership.”
Clinton’s New Hampshire visit comes after a series of campaign stops across the country, from Kentucky to Colorado to Pennsylvania.
In September, Clinton also paid a visit to Iowa, a key presidential proving ground.
Related: Voters know it’s not that hard to find ‘pork’
She endorse that woman, did she?
In recent days, Democrats across New Hampshire have expressed mixed feelings about the potential of Clinton making another run.
She doesn't even have the support of her own party!
At a cafe in Manchester, 79-year-old Pat Collins, a Democrat, said she felt “mezzo mezzo” about Clinton.
Well, yeah, and I'm sick of the supremacism, sorry.
The reason? “I don’t think you should have the same family: like the Bushes and the Clintons and all of that,” said Collins, who lives in Manchester.
So many of us agree.
Emily Jacobs, chairwoman of the Coos County Democratic Party in northern New Hampshire, said some Democrats in the area have concerns about Clinton’s ties to corporations. “We’re a Bernie Sanders area,” she said with a chuckle, referring to the self-described democratic socialist US senator from nearby Vermont.
You mean $ocialist, right?
But Jacobs said emphatically, “When it comes down to it, she has the best shot, and we’re going to have her back. Overall, there’s a good feeling for her.”
She added she is excited about the prospect of a woman president: “It’s time.”
Can't you find another woman, a better woman?
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"Party leaders nationwide clash over Obama as election nears" by Steve Peoples | Associated Press November 03, 2014
WASHINGTON — Claiming new momentum less than 48 hours before polls open across America, Republicans on Sunday assailed President Obama in a final weekend push to motivate voters as Democrats deployed their biggest stars to help preserve an endangered Senate majority.
I'm detecting a subtle semantic bias, you?
And believe me, that is not to endorse pinhead Republicans who will make things worse with their majority. We've seen this all before, folks. Every time we vote for change the same old interests are still served.
GOP officials from Alaska to Georgia seized on the president’s low approval ratings, which have overshadowed an election season in which about 60 percent of eligible voters are expected to stay home.
‘‘This is really the last chance for America to pass judgment on the Obama administration and on its policies,’’ the GOP’s 2012 presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, said on “Fox News Sunday.’’ The same message was sent by Republicans across the country during the weekend.
I don't like him, but it's true. We are all, Democrat, Republican, black, white, woman, man, Obumming about the last six years. They started with hope and promise even if you didn't vote for the man as the war criminal Bush left town, but he's actually been worse -- or shall I say, he has simply carried forward the plan left him and now, with his war on phantom ISIS, has left a plan for the next guy/gal.
Obama has avoided the nation’s most competitive contests in recent weeks, but encouraged Democrats to reject Republican cynicism during campaign appearances Sunday in Connecticut and Pennsylvania.
He's campaigning on the most friendly turf, a sure sign of failure.
While the elections will determine winners in all 435 House districts and in 36 governors’ seats, the focus is on the Senate, where Republicans need to net six seats to control the majority in the Congress that convenes in January. The Republicans already control the House, and a Senate takeover could dramatically change Obama’s last two years in office.
Related: What Will Change If/When Republicans Take The Senate?
In two words, not much. It's a replay of Clinton's final two years.
The GOP seems certain of picking up at least three Senate seats — in West Virginia, Montana, and South Dakota. Nine other Senate contests are considered competitive, six of them for seats in Democratic hands.
Democratic Party leaders are predicting victory.
‘‘I’m very proud of this president,’’ Democratic National Committee chief, Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, said on ABC’s “This Week.’’ ‘‘I think we’re going to win the Senate.’’
Well, you can only lose it since you have control of it now; however, it is the delusion that gets to you. I suppose they have to present such a front in politics.
In New Hampshire, former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton headlined a rally for Governor Maggie Hassan and Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat locked in a reelection fight against Scott Brown, a former Massachusetts senator.
In Georgia, where Democrats see an opportunity to gain a seat, Republican David Perdue called Democrat Michelle Nunn a ‘‘rubber stamp’’ for Obama in a Sunday debate.
Nunn mockingly told Perdue he sounds like he’s ‘‘running against the president.’’
‘‘You’re running against me, David,’’ Nunn said.
In Colorado, Democrat Mark Udall’s best hope remains a robust ground game. He made four stops to fire up door-knockers, reminding them to knock on doors before the Broncos game.
Related: Cultivating Colorado
Broncos lost.
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Oh, now they finally notice third-parties (that usually allow massive vote rigging judging by past elections)!
A last look at the polls:
Looks like a +7 for Republicans.
Also see: A need for campaign finance reform: Current system is exhausting
Meanwhile here at home I will be looking to put a Herrting on Markey for the obvious reasons.
And tomorrow?
"Obama rethinks agenda for next 2 years" by Peter Baker and Michael D. Shear | New York Times November 02, 2014
WASHINGTON — Whipsawed by events and facing another midterm electoral defeat, President Obama has directed his team to forge a policy agenda to regain momentum for his final two years in office even as some advisers urge that he rethink the way he governs.
That's delusional. He suffers repudiation at the polls and is going to continue selling his agenda? Hello!
Without waiting for results from Tuesday’s elections that few in the White House expect to go well for Obama and the Democrats, top aides have met for weeks to plot the final quarter of his presidency.
Anticipating a less friendly Congress, they are mapping possible compromises with Republicans to expand trade, overhaul taxes, and rebuild roads and bridges.
For a president who has lost public support and largely failed to move his agenda on Capitol Hill since winning reelection two years ago, there may be little hope for significant progress if Republicans capture the Senate and add to their House majority.
But if Republicans are fully in charge of Congress rather than mainly an opposition party, both sides may have an incentive to strike deals, at least during a short window before the 2016 presidential campaign consumes Washington.
With or without partners on Capitol Hill, Obama will continue to exercise his executive authority to advance policies on climate change, immigration, energy, gay rights, and economic issues, aides said.
Meaning he is going to be a dictator like he has been.
The president may announce quickly after the election a unilateral overhaul of immigration rules to make it easier for millions who are in the country illegally to stay.
He held off because the issue -- despite propaganda pre$$ polls -- has proven a huge loser for Democrats (how they constantly miscalculate politically, 'eh?).
And many presidents in their last years have turned more to foreign policy, where they have a freer hand to set direction.
So how many more wars is he going to start before leaving?
“There’s still lots of time to get things done,” said Senator Bob Casey, a Pennsylvania Democrat who is described by some White House aides as one of the president’s closest allies in Congress. “I’m actually optimistic about what he can accomplish in these next two years.”
That leaves me pessimistic.
But as he sorts through the results this week, and in weeks to come if some Senate races go to runoff elections, Obama will also confront the question of whether he has to change the way he operates. Even some strong supporters are quietly recommending changes in his staff and a more open decision-making process.
Among advisers inside and outside the White House, there is a growing sense that Obama has closed himself off within a shrinking circle of aides.
It seems to be a characteristic of the imperial presidency because the same was said of Bush.
Some advisers who had been influential said they were no longer consulted as much. They worry that Denis R. McDonough, the White House chief of staff, has taken on too much himself.
David Axelrod, a former adviser to Obama, said the president should make a fresh effort to work with the new Congress despite deep frustrations that led him to bypass legislators this year. “What he can’t do and won’t do is put his feet up on the desk and cross days off the calendar,” he said.
I wish he would do that.
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