2026 Elections: To the Midterms and Beyond!

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

a man is as faithful as his options.

Honestly, I am surprised this quote or something akin to it isn't attributed to someone like Einstein, who infamously didn't believe in monogamy as anything more than a legal arrangement.

And instead, it's Chris Rock.

 

[Russell Jaslow]

If the Nazi tattoo didn't sink Platner, sexting isn't going to, especially in the age of Trump. He isn't the perfect candidate, but the main alternative was the 200 year-old Mills, and that's a non-starter.

Anyone who votes for Suzie at this point is going to vote for her regardless.

But will democrats just not vote at all? Which can also hurt.

 

[Kepler]

I mean I mix them up all the time.

 

[Kepler]

But will democrats just not vote at all? Which can also hurt.

Why would they not vote? "On the one hand is the Hesitant Haggard Handmaiden of the Derp Reich, helping destroy our country, our planet, our future, and our lives and liberties. But on the other hand there's a guy who played hide the sausage outside of normal working hours. Oh, I can't decide!"

A Dem who votes like that is another Useful Idiot like liberals who can't help feeling that the most important thing is all lives matter.

 

[psych]

Women who consistently vote for Democrats will care. The regurgitated "thoughts" of Republican women are irrelevant because they are hypocrites with no leg to stand on, seeing who they elected in 2016 and 2024.

That list includes Susan Collins, the opponent of Graham Platner, right?

I've got news for people. Every high office male politician since Cicero had affairs before and during his tenure in office except Hitler, Obama and, probably, Jimmy Carter.

It's time for people to grow up. Cheating on your spouse is a shit thing to do but it's entirely separable from being an executive or legislator. Proximity to power brings out the banquet, and a man is as faithful as his options.

WAGs understand this. The blue noses can too.

I hate it’s a bunch of guys on here having this conversation, but I agree with this take, unless it turns out it wasn’t consensual, which in that case, if he’s not the Democratic nominee for President in 2028, we’re missing a golden opportunity on what the American people want.

 

[Russell Jaslow]

Why would they not vote? "On the one hand is the Hesitant Haggard Handmaiden of the Derp Reich, helping destroy our country, our planet, our future, and our lives and liberties. But on the other hand there's a guy who played hide the sausage outside of normal working hours. Oh, I can't decide!"

A Dem who votes like that is another Useful Idiot like liberals who can't help feeling that the most important thing is all lives matter.

Because democratic voters are dumb. How many times do we hear they didn't like the D candidate, so they just refused to vote?

 

[Bronco]

(Normal caveat of VPNMW) - cuz they sure aren't Blue in my state.

Just want to mention that (nearly all of us here) vote from a position of privilege. Give voters someone to vote for if you want their vote.

 

[ticapnews]

(Normal caveat of VPNMW) - cuz they sure aren't Blue in my state.

Just want to mention that (nearly all of us here) vote from a position of privilege. Give voters someone to vote for if you want their vote.

Just because we're almost universally straight, middle-aged, college-educated, fourth or fifth (or eighth) generation American, white men doesn't mean we're privileged!

 

[psych]

(Normal caveat of VPNMW) - cuz they sure aren't Blue in my state.

Just want to mention that (nearly all of us here) vote from a position of privilege. Give voters someone to vote for if you want their vote.

I don’t disagree at all, thus my caveat of hating that its men having this conversation, mostly, if not all, educated white men…I mean we’re all fucking college hockey fans, which, if that isn’t one of the whitest, rich people sports outside of lacrosse… anyways I digress.

Black women vote what, 93-95% Democrat? They voted for Clinton and Biden over Sanders and, well, Sanders, but they propelled Doug Jones to a AL Senate Seat in 2018. I won’t claim to know why they choose the more moderate candidates, at least recently, but they have. They’re far more fucking reliable for Democrats than us white guys, with far worse payout. Anyways, I’m cool with whoever they’re choosing. If they’re backing candidates like Platner, all six of them living in the snow next to Drew in Maine, I’m all fucking for it.

One more thing is the VPNMW is exactly the description of the white guy who is privileged enough to write an article in The Atlantic about how he’s voted four times in his life and Democrats left him, and why I am so enraged by someone posting like that, like it was a good thing. Fuck no. Asshole white dudes like that are exactly why candidates like Harris and Clinton lose. Fuck them.

 

[Drew S.]

Drew is definitely filling in that circle for his boo

I wish I could find my post when he first announced. This guy is a democrat in name only and there is more stuff to come out that is much worse. I truly do not understand how the powers that be thought he was even an average candidate.

Edit: one thing that is frustrating is the Democrats have like five really strong candidates running for governor. It’s a shame one or two weren’t in the Senate race. They obviously stayed out of the Senate race because of Mills.