115th Congress the final chapter: And Gerry Mander as the Speaker.

[unofan]

Both the Senate and the House should be Dem by now because of what Turtle Boy said. Somehow him coming out and saying he wants more tax cuts for the rich and he wants to destroy SS, Medicare, and Medicaid isn't enough? Really? How ****ing stupid are people?

The Senate was never going to flip. The GOP only has 9 seats up this year. They could go 0-fer and still have 42 seats. And they were never going to go 0-fer.

But by all means, keep telling us how the Dems chances dropping from 1-in-5 to 1-in-6 means things changed, chicken little.

[ScoobyDoo]

Re: 115th Congress the final chapter: And Gerry Mander as the Speaker.

The Senate was never going to flip. The GOP only has 9 seats up this year. They could go 0 fer and still have 42 seats. And they were never going to go 0-get.

But by all means, keep telling us how the Dems chances dropping from 1-in-5 to 1-in-6 means things changed.

O-fer isn't a flip? Seriously you people are so confusing. But, hey, you want to shoot me for reporting what I hear, feel free. It's exactly what happened in 2016.

[dxmnkd316]

Re: 115th Congress the final chapter: And Gerry Mander as the Speaker.

They shave their box though, right?

I don’t even know how to respond to your post sometimes lol. Good lord.

538 has the Dems with an 80-85% chance of winning the house.

That's the same as rolling a die and winning if anything other than a 1 rolls.

I'll take those odds.

538 was the only one who saw something that none of the other pundits and stat houses did. That trump had a chance. Everyone else was saying mortal lock. The closer we got to Election Day*, the more he more he backed off “lock”.

*why autocorrect capitalizes that I have no idea

[unofan]

O-fer isn't a flip? Seriously you people are so confusing. But, hey, you want to shoot me for reporting what I hear, feel free. It's exactly what happened in 2016.

I'm shooting you because you're chicken little. You're the guy who loses to someone drawing an inside straight and *****es about the universe being against you for the next decade.

[ScoobyDoo]

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I'm shooting you because you're chicken little. You're the guy who loses to someone drawing an inside straight and *****es about the universe being against you for the next decade.

I've never been the guy who's drawn an inside straight. But, shoot away.

I find on this board that what I do (or at least try to do) is make very fine points. They're small points that are often missed. I type them out that way on purpose. Yeah, most people miss them but I don't care about that.

[French Rage]

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O-fer isn't a flip? Seriously you people are so confusing. But, hey, you want to shoot me for reporting what I hear, feel free. It's exactly what happened in 2016.

OK, yes, 0-fer is a flip. It's also not ever ever happening since some of those seats are going to be in really red states. The point being, needing to only defend 9 seats is pretty unheard of, so it was always a much bigger climb in the Senate.

[Handyman]

I still don't get it. I watch it once in a while and I listen to Rush as I did today and you would have to be a complete moron to fall for that ****.

Then you get it. They are morons. Even the educated ones.

[ScoobyDoo]

Re: 115th Congress the final chapter: And Gerry Mander as the Speaker.

Then you get it. They are morons. Even the educated ones.

There cannot be that many stupid people on the earth. I'm not that smart.

[Handyman]

O-fer isn't a flip? Seriously you people are so confusing. But, hey, you want to shoot me for reporting what I hear, feel free. It's exactly what happened in 2016.

You sound like a gambler regaling us with his one big win...forgetting of course all the times you lost before that.

We get it, you watched CNN or Faux and they said it might go sideways. That isn't surprising it was predicted they would say this.

[Handyman]

There cannot be that many stupid people on the earth. I'm not that smart.

"Think of how dumb the average person is then remember half the people are dinner than that"
-George Carlin

[BassAle]

Re: 115th Congress the final chapter: And Gerry Mander as the Speaker.

"Think of how dumb the average person is then remember half the people are dinner than that"
-George Carlin

didn't know Carlin was into cannibalism

[wolverineTrumpet]

Re: 115th Congress the final chapter: And Gerry Mander as the Speaker.

I still don't get it. I watch it once in a while and I listen to Rush as I did today and you would have to be a complete moron to fall for that ****.

You watch it once in awhile. Others listen to this crap non-stop. They hear it in their echo chamber.

If you hear an outlandish story once, you may dismiss it. From a second source, you may start to question. From a source that claims it's "fair and balanced" and has "news" in its name...maybe now you believe the content is factual. You continue to hear the same stuff over and over from the only people you talk to and the news feed on your social media, and you begin to think the other side is lying. Pretty soon you're listening to Alex Jones and believing his latest conspiracy.

[ScoobyDoo]

Re: 115th Congress the final chapter: And Gerry Mander as the Speaker.

You watch it once in awhile. Others listen to this crap non-stop. They hear it in their echo chamber.

If you hear an outlandish story once, you may dismiss it. From a second source, you may start to question. From a source that claims it's "fair and balanced" and has "news" in its name...maybe now you believe the content is factual. You continue to hear the same stuff over and over from the only people you talk to and the news feed on your social media, and you begin to think the other side is lying. Pretty soon you're listening to Alex Jones and believing his latest conspiracy.

I guess I've never fallen for that even in mass doses. I guess I was able to learn critical thinking skills despite the fact that I washed out my first go at college. Personally I don't know how anyone could go through life (barring a handicap of some sort that would have my sympathy) without critical thinking skills. Seems to me that skill should be at the top of anyone's food chain.

[Rover]

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O-fer isn't a flip? Seriously you people are so confusing. But, hey, you want to shoot me for reporting what I hear, feel free. It's exactly what happened in 2016.

Problem is you're parroting Republican talking points. What else do you expect them to say? That they're fuked so call the hearse already?

Reminds me of 2006, when my incompetent great uncle Karl had the press believing that the GOP was going to hold on by 2 seats. Oddly enough this is the same thing they're saying now, although I don't know why they keep picking two seats as their majority. Then, like now, there was also an approximately zero chance that the Dems would also take the Senate, as they'd need every race to break their way. The minute a party stops projecting confidence is when their fundraising completely dries up and things start to snowball.

[ScoobyDoo]

Re: 115th Congress the final chapter: And Gerry Mander as the Speaker.

Problem is you're parroting Republican talking points. What else do you expect them to say? That they're fuked so call the hearse already?

Reminds me of 2006, when my incompetent great uncle Karl had the press believing that the GOP was going to hold on by 2 seats. Oddly enough this is the same thing they're saying now, although I don't know why they keep picking two seats as their majority. Then, like now, there was also an approximately zero chance that the Dems would also take the Senate, as they'd need every race to break their way. The minute a party stops projecting confidence is when their fundraising completely dries up and things start to snowball.

I'm parroting nothing of the sort.