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Gothmog

(144,005 posts)
Fri Apr 6, 2018, 05:49 PM Apr 2018

At a private luncheon, Senator Heller says low turnout is key to re-election, promised ACA repeal

The GOP is the party of voter suppression and can only win races by cheating https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/4/5/1754685/-At-a-private-luncheon-Senator-Heller-says-low-turnout-is-key-to-re-election-promised-ACA-repeal

Senator Dean Heller has been avoiding constituents and his staff tossed out a woman battling Stage 4 cancer when she dared to ask about his stance on the Affordable Care Act, but he sure had a lot to say on the subject at a mysteriously closed-to-the-press luncheon where he was collecting checks and making promises. The Las Vegas Review-Journal was able to get audio of Heller’s speech to the Nevada Republican Men’s Club and his comments were surprising, especially his strategy for winning in November:

“We now have less than 60,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans. Let me be more clear. If we can get that number below 50,000, I can’t lose,” Heller said Tuesday in Las Vegas, according to audio obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “I can’t lose. Because the ratio of voter turnout in a non-presidential year — we’re in a non-presidential year — the tendency of Republicans to vote is higher than the other party.”

A sitting U.S. senator is hoping people don’t participate in democracy. How can you represent a state where you are trying to discourage the majority from turning out for an election? Based on current trends in special elections, Heller’s strategy is going to be a loser. Bigly.
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At a private luncheon, Senator Heller says low turnout is key to re-election, promised ACA repeal (Original Post) Gothmog Apr 2018 OP
ACA repeal? mercuryblues Apr 2018 #1
"the tendency of Republicans to vote is higher than the other party. bearsfootball516 Apr 2018 #2
His comment is historically accurate regarding Nevada Awsi Dooger Apr 2018 #8
That echoes what hair-style challenged Trey Gowdy said yesterday. yonder Apr 2018 #3
Was truly suprise when that story Wellstone ruled Apr 2018 #4
He is a dirty scumbag. I hope he loses, BIGLY. n/t CaliforniaPeggy Apr 2018 #5
lol, no chance of a "low turnout"...unless only one voting machine is available in Nevada... beachbum bob Apr 2018 #6
I hear a traitor talking Angry Dragon Apr 2018 #7

mercuryblues

(14,491 posts)
1. ACA repeal?
Fri Apr 6, 2018, 05:58 PM
Apr 2018

Can they remember more than 2 minutes in the past. they have control over all 3 houses and still can't get it repealed. So they continue to nip at it piece by piece.

bearsfootball516

(6,369 posts)
2. "the tendency of Republicans to vote is higher than the other party.
Fri Apr 6, 2018, 06:02 PM
Apr 2018

He must not be paying attention to the special elections across the country this year. Some Republicans seriously have their heads in the sand.

 

Awsi Dooger

(14,565 posts)
8. His comment is historically accurate regarding Nevada
Fri Apr 6, 2018, 07:11 PM
Apr 2018

I lived in Las Vegas for 25 years and I worked GOTV a couple of times, once in a presidential year and once in a midterm. It felt hopeless in the midterm. Democrats didn't seem to care.

Granted, this was early 2000s before Harry Reid and others fortified the Clark County operation. But Heller is relying on the long term trend of the so-called cow counties turning out heavily in midterms while Clark County comparatively snoozes. Reid had several very narrow escapes due to that dynamic, when his re-election bid fell in a midterm cycle as opposed to presidential year. He was underdog to Sharron Angle in 2010 but pulled it out in an upset due to heavy Hispanic support, which was under estimated in the pre election polls and apparently also in the initial exit polling.

Heller is pushing for Republicans to sharply out pace Democrats in registration numbers leading to November, dropping from a 59,000 deficit to below 50,000. That seemed to be the basis of his comment, far beyond the low turnout angle adopted by Daily Kos and in the header here. It is logical from his perspective. His is willing to take his chances on turnout as long as the bottom line registration numbers don't get too far out of hand.

Frankly it is the logical from his perspective and from the perspective of any Republican. That's why I have been emphasizing for more than a year that our focus should be almost exclusively on new registrations, instead of whining about Trump or to lesser extent worrying about GOTV. The GOTV shove is already handicapped if the registration bottom line is not where it needs to be, or where it should be given Trump's sustained low approval rating. Those college aged kids are willing to register in our favor but you have to make yourselves known. Otherwise they'll have the smart phone in their face all day and won't bother.

It is all about the math. The other side always understands that, while we often sleep. Nevada is not nearly as friendly to our side as conventional wisdom prefers, not in midterm years. Check Trump's approval rating in the state, which has always been higher than seemingly logical compared to other states that voted for Hillary.

yonder

(9,631 posts)
3. That echoes what hair-style challenged Trey Gowdy said yesterday.
Fri Apr 6, 2018, 06:05 PM
Apr 2018

That the GOP is only in it to win elections. Pretty much "damn the constituents, full power ahead".

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
4. Was truly suprise when that story
Fri Apr 6, 2018, 06:16 PM
Apr 2018

popped up in his main donor's Newspaper.

Well,the Nevada Dems have the Recording of this so called meeting behind closed doors. And it will bury Slime Ball Heller.

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