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Wed Nov 11, 2020, 10:00 PM

I want the Dems to challenge McConnell's election. Discuss. nt

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Reply I want the Dems to challenge McConnell's election. Discuss. nt (Original post)
Progressive Jones Nov 2020 OP
regnaD kciN Nov 2020 #1
sheshe2 Nov 2020 #5
mtnsnake Nov 2020 #8
Cartaphelius Nov 2020 #9
Progressive Jones Nov 2020 #18
malaise Nov 2020 #36
The Wielding Truth Nov 2020 #2
Hekate Nov 2020 #3
chillfactor Nov 2020 #10
Hekate Nov 2020 #14
Progressive Jones Nov 2020 #19
Hekate Nov 2020 #30
Generic Brad Nov 2020 #20
Progressive Jones Nov 2020 #23
Generic Brad Nov 2020 #24
Progressive Jones Nov 2020 #26
ancianita Nov 2020 #22
Cartaphelius Nov 2020 #4
stillcool Nov 2020 #6
Cartaphelius Nov 2020 #7
onenote Nov 2020 #15
ancianita Nov 2020 #25
onenote Nov 2020 #37
ancianita Nov 2020 #38
chillfactor Nov 2020 #11
onenote Nov 2020 #16
Cartaphelius Nov 2020 #32
tritsofme Nov 2020 #12
Post removed Nov 2020 #34
tritsofme Nov 2020 #39
zackymilly Nov 2020 #13
KentuckyWoman Nov 2020 #17
roamer65 Nov 2020 #21
Cartaphelius Nov 2020 #35
Progressive Jones Nov 2020 #27
Stinky The Clown Nov 2020 #28
Progressive Jones Nov 2020 #29
Lucinda Nov 2020 #31
treestar Nov 2020 #33

Response to Progressive Jones (Original post)

Wed Nov 11, 2020, 10:01 PM

1. On what grounds? nt

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Response to regnaD kciN (Reply #1)

Wed Nov 11, 2020, 10:09 PM

5. Just make shit up.

They do. It would be a hoot.

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Response to sheshe2 (Reply #5)

Wed Nov 11, 2020, 10:23 PM

8. This

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Response to sheshe2 (Reply #5)

Wed Nov 11, 2020, 10:23 PM

9. Why? When you can tell the truth?

 


check out the link.... you might be surprised...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214533572

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Response to Cartaphelius (Reply #9)

Thu Nov 12, 2020, 12:22 AM

18. Thank You ! nt

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Response to Cartaphelius (Reply #9)

Thu Nov 12, 2020, 08:15 AM

36. +1,000

Looks quite suspicious

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Response to Progressive Jones (Original post)

Wed Nov 11, 2020, 10:02 PM

2. What would we have to do?

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Response to Progressive Jones (Original post)

Wed Nov 11, 2020, 10:03 PM

3. You discuss

What basis do you have for your fantasy besides “I want”?

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Response to Hekate (Reply #3)

Wed Nov 11, 2020, 10:36 PM

10. There was really no excuse for your sarcastic response.

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Response to chillfactor (Reply #10)

Wed Nov 11, 2020, 10:50 PM

14. Believe me, I was not being sarcastic

OTOH, I have always (since 2002) reacted poorly to random people on an interactive board who simply tell us to “discuss” a topic to which they then contribute nothing (zero, nada) in their own OP. What are we? High school students taking midterm exams?

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Response to Hekate (Reply #14)

Thu Nov 12, 2020, 12:23 AM

19. Please lighten up. We're on the same side. nt

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Response to Progressive Jones (Reply #19)

Thu Nov 12, 2020, 02:02 AM

30. Okay

We are all under stress. When Angela Merkel’s Armistice Day* speech makes me cry — that’s a sign of stress. *I forget what she called it

Just tell us what you think yourself, next time. Then we’ll discuss. And (ahem) I’ll only be slightly snarky.

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Response to Hekate (Reply #14)

Thu Nov 12, 2020, 12:25 AM

20. You're going to lose a point with that answer

Hopefully you can make it up in the extra credit section.

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Response to Generic Brad (Reply #20)

Thu Nov 12, 2020, 12:31 AM

23. Please explain. nt

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Response to Progressive Jones (Reply #23)

Thu Nov 12, 2020, 12:33 AM

24. I was responding to Hekate.

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Response to Generic Brad (Reply #24)

Thu Nov 12, 2020, 12:39 AM

26. OOOPS! My bad. Sorry. nt

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Response to Hekate (Reply #14)

Thu Nov 12, 2020, 12:30 AM

22. Completely agree.

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Response to Progressive Jones (Original post)

Wed Nov 11, 2020, 10:05 PM

4. Before you start fighting....

 

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Response to Cartaphelius (Reply #4)

Wed Nov 11, 2020, 10:19 PM

6. thanks...definitely looks hinky...

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Response to stillcool (Reply #6)

Wed Nov 11, 2020, 10:22 PM

7. Easy peasey!

 

Glad to help...

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Response to stillcool (Reply #6)

Wed Nov 11, 2020, 11:11 PM

15. Kentucky has been like this for a long time.

Last edited Thu Nov 12, 2020, 08:36 AM - Edit history (1)

Going back decades, registration in the state has heavily favored Democrats over Republicans -- not unlike a lot of southern states. It has slowly moved in the direction of Republicans, mostly because new registrations have overwhelmingly been Republican. But the totals still show more Democrats than Republicans because there is no real reason for Kentuckians who registered twenty years ago as Democrats to change their registration simply to reflect a new party preference. There are 500,000 more registered Democrats in Kentucky than there are registered Republicans -- but for decades the number of votes cast in Kentucky for Democrats has been a fraction of the number of voters who are registered as Democrats.

If we want to look as stupid as Republicans, make the argument that Kentucky really has hundreds of thousands of Democrats whose votes were suppressed based simply on the number of voters who once upon a time registered as Democrats.

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Response to onenote (Reply #15)

Thu Nov 12, 2020, 12:34 AM

25. I just dropped Alison Greene's tweet on both Amy McGrath's and Obama's FB walls.

I don't care how long this vote count corruption's been going on. The Bob Bauer team ought to get in there and challenge the votes in all those f'd up counties.

McGrath's a veteran, and it's the least the DNC's legal team can do to get that count straight through a court battle, and maybe, at least, demand a recount.

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Response to ancianita (Reply #25)

Thu Nov 12, 2020, 08:45 AM

37. You're going to be disappointed if you think anyone will take this "evidence" seriously.

McGrath, Obama, Bauer --- they are professionals. They know the numbers. They know that past registrations don't mean squat when it comes to forecasting what party or candidate voters in Kentucky currently prefer.

Consider the following: In Ballard County, the number of registered voters increased by around 8% between 2010 and 2016, but the number of registered Democrats actually declined, while the number of registered republicans increased by around 75% (the number of independents and libertarians also increased). That trend is far more representative of the political leanings of Kentucky's voters than the total numbers, which are skewed by hundreds of thousands of registrations that date back to a time when, like much of the south, Kentucky was solidly in the Democratic camp, but only because southern Democrats acted more like today's Republicans.

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Response to onenote (Reply #37)

Thu Nov 12, 2020, 09:33 AM

38. I hear you.

It wouldn't be too much to ask to have these numbers checked, canvass the accuracy of registrations, and let other Democrats know something. But no, I really wouldn't be disappointed. Having lived in the South, I was always way more disappointed in the silent, spiteful dishonesty of Southern govt leaders who create perpetuate a climate of exclusionary provincialism.

I only posted to their walls to show that people in the country would like to know about this. And I don't trust that the DNC actually does as much as it can to verify voter records, or why would Greene see these numbers on actual county records and received no reasonable explanation for them.

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Response to Cartaphelius (Reply #4)

Wed Nov 11, 2020, 10:41 PM

11. saw that earlier today

but how do we begin an investigation of a slimeball like Moscow Mitch?

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Response to chillfactor (Reply #11)

Wed Nov 11, 2020, 11:12 PM

16. First we come up with actual facts.

otherwise we're just doing the same stupid shit as the Republicans in attempting to manufacture a controversy without actually doing our homework.

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Response to onenote (Reply #16)

Thu Nov 12, 2020, 08:09 AM

32. I would posit that "discussion"

 

would include the creation of a baseline off evidence necessary
to supporting an agreed upon response to the issue at hand.

But that's just me, I guess.

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Response to Progressive Jones (Original post)

Wed Nov 11, 2020, 10:43 PM

12. I want $10 million and a pony. Discuss.

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Response to Post removed (Reply #34)

Thu Nov 12, 2020, 11:09 AM

39. Eat shit.

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Response to Progressive Jones (Original post)

Wed Nov 11, 2020, 10:48 PM

13. I want a cichlid for a pet. Discus. nt

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Response to Progressive Jones (Original post)

Wed Nov 11, 2020, 11:19 PM

17. I agree with the approach we are taking.

A third of Americans have gone insane. Someone needs to be an adult.

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Response to Progressive Jones (Original post)

Thu Nov 12, 2020, 12:28 AM

21. I think we should start trying to flip Dump's electors.

Attack, attack, attack.

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Response to roamer65 (Reply #21)

Thu Nov 12, 2020, 08:14 AM

35. You mean educate, educate, educate

 

don't you? Attacking reduces numbers on BOTH sides.

Education, done correctly, increases the knowledge base.

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Response to Progressive Jones (Original post)

Thu Nov 12, 2020, 01:10 AM

28. Every election, with approvals in the upper 20s or low 30s in KY, Mitchen gets reelected

How does that happen?

Amy McGrath has standing to challenge or even sue.

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Response to Stinky The Clown (Reply #28)

Thu Nov 12, 2020, 01:13 AM

29. I hope that's in the works. nt

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Response to Progressive Jones (Original post)

Thu Nov 12, 2020, 02:11 AM

31. There certainly is a lot of buzz floating around about things that look shady

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Response to Progressive Jones (Original post)

Thu Nov 12, 2020, 08:10 AM

33. Makes as much sense as the concept Biden's win

can be challenged.

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