Tue Jun 30, 2020, 10:54 PM
kentuck (100,528 posts)
Interesting vote totals in Kentucky
https://www.politico.com/2020-election/results/kentucky/
Democrats out-number Republicans in Senate races, by more than 100,000 votes.
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kentuck | Jun 2020 | OP |
Marie Marie | Jun 2020 | #1 | |
Brother Buzz | Jun 2020 | #2 | |
Wanderlust988 | Jul 2020 | #9 | |
pnwmom | Jul 2020 | #11 | |
Dems2002 | Jul 2020 | #12 | |
pnwmom | Jul 2020 | #15 | |
LiberalFighter | Jul 2020 | #14 | |
Hermit-The-Prog | Jun 2020 | #3 | |
ffr | Jun 2020 | #4 | |
yellowdogintexas | Jun 2020 | #5 | |
DavidDvorkin | Jun 2020 | #6 | |
Post removed | Jul 2020 | #7 | |
LeftInTX | Jul 2020 | #8 | |
BannonsLiver | Jul 2020 | #10 | |
Lucinda | Jul 2020 | #13 |
Response to kentuck (Original post)
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 10:57 PM
Marie Marie (9,358 posts)
1. Oh please oh please let this carry over to the General Election.
I want to see the voters wipe that smirk off of Mitch's lipless face.
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Response to kentuck (Original post)
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 11:00 PM
Brother Buzz (28,770 posts)
2. I really, really doubt Booker supporters are going to vote for Moscow Mitch
It's all about GOTV, Baby!
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Response to Brother Buzz (Reply #2)
Wed Jul 1, 2020, 03:09 AM
Wanderlust988 (361 posts)
9. No, but they could sit home if Amy doesn't court them better
Ignoring Louisville and Lexington, especially the Breonna Taylor situation wasn't a wise move and there's some anger with her about that. She's spending way too much time on the farms and not enough time cultivating the Democratic base, which she needs to come out if she has any prayer of winning.
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Response to Wanderlust988 (Reply #9)
Wed Jul 1, 2020, 04:42 AM
pnwmom (103,827 posts)
11. They're not much of a "base" if they'd let McConnell win. I think she's wise to try to broaden
her support.
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Response to pnwmom (Reply #11)
Wed Jul 1, 2020, 05:48 PM
Dems2002 (509 posts)
12. What do they have to vote for if she claims to support Trump?
I don’t care how annoyed people are with voters, the job of a candidate and their campaign is to win. It is astonishing to me that some Democrats are content to let our elected leaders voice support for Trump in order to somehow triangulate and win, but express annoyance that supporting Trump comes with some blowback.
Harry Truman knew what he was talking about when he said, given a choice between a Republican and a Democrat who acts like a Republican, voters are gonna pick the Republican. Amy has run a terrible campaign. 40 million dollars and she barely beat her opponent who spent $3 million. Her desire not to offend means that she has no values. This is actually not how one wins support from Independents, let alone voters who don’t vote all the time. What exactly has changed for poor people in Kentucky over the last 15 years? Trump sucks, sure, but outside of covid, has life been all that different for non political people? I feel like when Democrats say f voters, they are picturing some spoiled white male bernie bro type, and not a single mom with two parttime jobs and rickety childcare who rarely pays a lot of attention to politics because voting has never made much of a difference for her daily life. Give her something to vote for and maybe she will get up an hour early or stand in line for two hours to do it. But she doesn’t owe us a thing, we are the ones who owe her. And maybe if we actually make government work again, we will earn her vote next time as well. |
Response to Dems2002 (Reply #12)
Wed Jul 1, 2020, 06:02 PM
pnwmom (103,827 posts)
15. That's a gross distortion of Amy's position. And why are you blaming her for the last 15 years? nt
Response to pnwmom (Reply #11)
Wed Jul 1, 2020, 05:52 PM
LiberalFighter (41,141 posts)
14. To a point. But not by agreeing with Trump which I hope she doesn't.
I don't expect it to happen.
It is part of the reason imo that Indiana Senator Donnelly lost in 2018. |
Response to kentuck (Original post)
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 11:05 PM
Hermit-The-Prog (18,387 posts)
3. Please let Traitortrump and Moscow Mitch discourage GOPer voters!
Stay home, Republicans, or be forever linked to the Gangsters Of Putin.
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Response to kentuck (Original post)
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 11:09 PM
ffr (19,758 posts)
4. Wow, the totals look promising. Positive and a good sign.
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Response to kentuck (Original post)
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 11:33 PM
yellowdogintexas (17,465 posts)
5. democrats had a hot race and Republicans did not
Moscow Mitch had essentially no opposition and the Democratic contest was a real horse race, right down to the wire.
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Response to kentuck (Original post)
Tue Jun 30, 2020, 11:34 PM
DavidDvorkin (17,876 posts)
6. That's probably because the Democratic race was competitive
Whereas the Republican one (I assume) was not.
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Response to kentuck (Original post)
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Response to kentuck (Original post)
Wed Jul 1, 2020, 02:25 AM
LeftInTX (14,612 posts)
8. Texas Democrats far outpaced Republicans in the 2008 presidential primary
What happened in November???
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Response to LeftInTX (Reply #8)
Wed Jul 1, 2020, 03:22 AM
BannonsLiver (11,572 posts)
10. Who cares. It was 12 years ago. Zero to do with 2020.
Response to kentuck (Original post)
Wed Jul 1, 2020, 05:50 PM
Lucinda (28,990 posts)
13. The first thing i did on the day the results came in, was to compare
voter totals in both primaries. It was quite encouraging.
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