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MikeH
06-20-2017, 10:38 PM
Real Clear Politics is calling the Georgia 6th District for Karen Handel. After all the $$ the out-of-area Democrats pumped in there, you would have thought they would have bought the election. It'l be interesting to see how the Libs excuse ths one. Hugh, hugg loss for the Dems.

MargieRose
06-20-2017, 11:06 PM
Two losses for the Demos, tonight: Georgia and South Carolina. :jump:

NJ Stinks
06-21-2017, 12:31 AM
Real Clear Politics is calling the Georgia 6th District for Karen Handel. After all the $$ the out-of-area Democrats pumped in there, you would have thought they would have bought the election. It'l be interesting to see how the Libs excuse ths one. Hugh, hugg loss for the Dems.

Would you have put a nickel on the Dems in a district they hadn't won since 1979?

The key is "out-of-area Democrats". Unless one thinks these non-resident Dems were handing out cold cash to get GOP'ers who wanted $$$ to betray themselves....

tucker6
06-21-2017, 06:29 AM
The Democrap party will never learn from history.

Tom
06-21-2017, 02:46 PM
Come on Stinky, all we heard for weeks was this was a referendum on Trump.

It was not.
It was a referendum on the democrat party.

The streak continues.......0fer.

woodbinepmi
06-21-2017, 02:53 PM
They should be used to it by now. Even heard a mouthpiece speaking this morning on how it was good news for the Dems and it just goes to show how much people hate Trump. It must be nice living in their own little dream world.

ElKabong
06-21-2017, 02:58 PM
Would you have put a nickel on the Dems in a district they hadn't won since 1979?

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Try 30 million dollars....now tell me who the stupid party is. :)

MargieRose
06-21-2017, 03:17 PM
Well, so far the Repubs have taken five "special elections." Georgia was the best win, considering how much Demo money was thrown at Ossoff. I heard that Rosie O'Donnell sent him $1,000,000...https://s.aolcdn.com/cdn.webmail.aol.com/resources/core/images/emoji/facewithrollingeyes.png And, the polls keep saying that Trump's approval rating is the lowest ever? Really? I don't think so.

The 2018 midterms will be a Repub landslide and Trump will win again (if he runs) in 2020.

lamboguy
06-21-2017, 03:20 PM
Well, so far the Repubs have taken five "special elections." Georgia was the best win, considering how much Demo money was thrown at Ossoff. I heard that Rosie O'Donnell sent him $1,000,000...https://s.aolcdn.com/cdn.webmail.aol.com/resources/core/images/emoji/facewithrollingeyes.png And, the polls keep saying that Trump's approval rating is the lowest ever? Really? I don't think so.

The 2018 midterms will be a Repub landslide and Trump will win again (if he runs) in 2020.if at all anything we all have learned is to never pay to much attention to the polls, and don't trust any form of media. very cynical i know, but that's the way things are!

Jeff P
06-21-2017, 03:39 PM
Would you have put a nickel on the Dems in a district they hadn't won since 1979?

You're right. I wouldn't have bet on the outcome.

But on the other hand I wouldn't have gone all in on this like the DNC did.

Seriously, if I were calling the shots for the DNC:

I wouldn't have made sure every mainstream media outlet ran stories featuring polls that had been doctored to show my candidate ahead by 7 points just four days out when in fact he wasn't.

I wouldn't have made sure every mainstream media outlet ran stories touting the election as a referendum against the Trump presidency.

I wouldn't have made sure those same stories touted this as the most important election in recent history.

And I absolutely wouldn't have wanted Colbert to talk about the election during filming of yesterday's show as if we had won -- several hours before the results were known.

To my way of thinking -- all of this -- everything in the DNC playbook that was done --

Way too much over the top.

I think it may have backfired.

People have a way of resisting once they realize they're being force fed.



-jp

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MikeH
06-21-2017, 04:26 PM
From everything I've read, the Dems, the Media, and the Entertainment Industry went "all-in" on this, and lost... lost Big Time.

There were articles here in the Los Angeles newspapers about how many Hollywood types WENT to Georgia to support Ossoff, let alone all the $$ they threw his way.

jocko699
06-21-2017, 04:45 PM
if at all anything we all have learned is to never pay to much attention to the polls, and don't trust any form of media. very cynical i know, but that's the way things are!

I completely agree Lamboguy.

barn32
06-21-2017, 06:07 PM
if at all anything we all have learned is to never pay to much attention to the polls, and don't trust any form of media. very cynical i know, but that's the way things are!I get all my news from Rachel Maddow and she hasn't been wrong yet.

Clocker
06-21-2017, 06:17 PM
While many on the left continue with the usual excuses (e.g., the GOP won with the bigot vote), some Dems are starting to look at their own party.

“I think you’d have to be an idiot to think we could win the House with Pelosi at the top,” said Rep. Filemon Vela (D-Texas), who supported Pelosi in her last leadership race. “Nancy Pelosi is not the only reason that Ossoff lost. But she certainly is one of the reasons.”

Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-N.Y.), who backed a challenge to Pelosi last year, said the results of the Ossoff race further underscore that Pelosi should let someone else take the reins.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/21/nancy-pelosi-fallout-georgia-special-election-239804 (http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/21/nancy-pelosi-fallout-georgia-special-election-239804)

Clocker
06-21-2017, 06:37 PM
Politico quotes an anonymous source they identify as a Democratic operative:

“We no longer have a party caucus capable of riding this wave. We have 80-year-old leaders and 90-year-old ranking members. This isn’t a party. It’s a giant assisted living center. Complete with field trips, gym, dining room and attendants.”
http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/playbook-power-briefing (http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/playbook-power-briefing)

Jess Hawsen Arown
06-21-2017, 06:46 PM
I credit the Democrats with all of their money for sealing the deal in Georgia. Few Republican voters showed up the first time. But the liberal media telling Georgia that they would be the vanguard for a Democrat recovery in 2018 sealed the deal and the voters came out BIG LEAGUE (or BIGLY as the word the Dems use to mock President Trump) to kick the woeful Dems in the solar plexus.

I have no idea which was the better candidate. Years ago, voting for the best candidate is all that mattered. But since this is not your fathers Democratic Party any more, making sure the Dems lose as much as possible is critical for this nation's recovery. So congrats to the new Georgia congresswoman --whoever you are.

JustRalph
06-21-2017, 07:08 PM
I get all my news from Rachel Maddow and she hasn't been wrong yet.

Yeah, right

http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/28/maddow-meltdown-a-fact-check-of-rachels-faulty-fact-checking-video/

ElKabong
06-21-2017, 09:37 PM
Politico quotes an anonymous source they identify as a Democratic operative:


http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/playbook-power-briefing (http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/playbook-power-briefing)

Pretty easy to see why mostcompost and his like are yellow dog dems. The description laid out pretty much fits the mold.

maddog42
06-21-2017, 09:40 PM
Democrats haven't won this district in nearly 40 years. To lose by less than 4% is quite an improvement. This district has 9% more republicans than Dems. It is educated and affluent and the Dems ran a moderate "milquetoast" of a candidate. The Democrats main error was investing too much emotionally and financially in a red district.

NJ Stinks
06-21-2017, 09:55 PM
But on the other hand I wouldn't have gone all in on this like the DNC did.

Seriously, if I were calling the shots for the DNC:

I wouldn't have made sure every mainstream media outlet ran stories featuring polls that had been doctored to show my candidate ahead by 7 points just four days out when in fact he wasn't.

I wouldn't have made sure every mainstream media outlet ran stories touting the election as a referendum against the Trump presidency.

I wouldn't have made sure those same stories touted this as the most important election in recent history.

And I absolutely wouldn't have wanted Colbert to talk about the election during filming of yesterday's show as if we had won -- several hours before the results were known.

To my way of thinking -- all of this -- everything in the DNC playbook that was done --

Way too much over the top.

I think it may have backfired.

People have a way of resisting once they realize they're being force fed.



-jp

.

I agree completely.

Tom
06-21-2017, 10:01 PM
To lose by less than 4% is quite an improvement.

The media was all over this as a referendum of Trump.
This was a key race.

And they lost.
4%, 40%.........it is a loss.
Keep telling yourself you are really winning......and we can see a replay of 2016 in 2018. Face it, the dems have no power, no leadership, nothing at all to offer.

davew
06-22-2017, 09:57 AM
the election was hacked (again)

http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/21/dems-already-blaming-ossoff-loss-on-hacks/


and then the weather was bad

DSB
06-22-2017, 10:54 AM
Maybe the hacks that cost him the election were democrat political hacks... the ones who engineered his campaign....

barn32
06-22-2017, 11:02 AM
Face it, the dems have no power, no leadership, nothing at all to offer.It's interesting how they were saying the exact same thing about the alt-right-wing-whackos, oh not so very long ago.

woodtoo
06-22-2017, 11:08 AM
Very interesting indeed. I don't see a good ending here thou.
Move away from Nancy P she can not save you..

Clocker
06-22-2017, 11:21 AM
I get all my news from Rachel Maddow and she hasn't been wrong yet.

True. She very cleverly deduced the truth about the Georgia election. The Dems lost because of bad weather. :p

FantasticDan
06-22-2017, 11:38 AM
These special elections were held to replace reps that had joined the Trump admin, the main component being they never would have been chosen unless they came from heavily red districts where the GOP was 99% sure the seat wouldn't be lost in the election..

So yeah, such a "major defeat" for the dems.:rolleyes: What made it disappointing was that it was so much closer than anyone originally figured it would be.

reckless
06-22-2017, 02:20 PM
What our alt-left friends simply refuse to understand and admit is the media played each and every one of these Special Elections as a mandate against Trump. They said that Trump is the most unpopular president ever, has no legislative accomplishments to date, and many Republicans fear for their own seat in 2018 because of Trump.

Georgia CD 6 was especially fodder for the alt-left lunatics and their partners-in-crime, the madia. What a team: .1 per cent billionaires and celebrities plus fake news stenographers for the DNC.

Two days before this election, on CNN, MSNBC, and the once-great Fox News Network, I heard the exact same analysis on why little Jon Ossof has a great chance of winning, which will 'strike a severe blow to the Trump presidency'.

They all had this analysis:

The Georgia 6th is a different, their words, district than what it was when Newt Gingrich was in Congress.

They said the district today is mostly 'very highly-educated' -- a direct insult to the Georgia residents in general, and Trump supporters, in particular -- are 'professionally' employed with many 'newcomers' to the Atlanta with little ties to the area.

And they all said that since Trump won the CD by only 1.5 per cent, that means Karen Handel and the GOP should be 'very worried'.

Again, they all repeated that this election is a mandate on Trump.

Well, pertaining to the last comment, I agreed. The race was a mandate on Trump, and thanks to Trump and his successes to date, Handel won by over 4 percentage points -- even outperforming Trump!!

These last few days, after the election, I read all the liberals rags and fringe posts on here and all basically said it's no big deal she won, it was expected. :lol:

I am betting that next year, Handel's re-election victory will be far greater than Tuesday's 4 per cent points, and in 2020, Trump will win by much more than 1.5 points when he's re-elected too. You could go to the bank on this. Mark my words.

rastajenk
06-22-2017, 02:26 PM
So yeah, such a "major defeat" for the dems.:rolleyes: What made it disappointing was that it was so much closer than anyone originally figured it would be.

Well, that depends on what you mean by "originally." From when the original reps were tapped for the administration, maybe you're right. But from when the Dem won the primary with nearly 50%, and had nearly six weeks to gain a percentage of a percentage point plus one and he couldn't do it with all that outside money, then I'd say no, it wasn't as close as some said it would be, and not in a good way.

boxcar
06-22-2017, 02:55 PM
What our alt-left friends simply refuse to understand and admit is the media played each and every one of these Special Elections as a mandate against Trump. They said that Trump is the most unpopular president ever, has no legislative accomplishments to date, and many Republicans fear for their own seat in 2018 because of Trump.

Georgia CD 6 was especially fodder for the alt-left lunatics and their partners-in-crime, the madia. What a team: .1 per cent billionaires and celebrities plus fake news stenographers for the DNC.

Two days before this election, on CNN, MSNBC, and the once-great Fox News Network, I heard the exact same analysis on why little Jon Ossof has a great chance of winning, which will 'strike a severe blow to the Trump presidency'.

They all had this analysis:

The Georgia 6th is a different, their words, district than what it was when Newt Gingrich was in Congress.

They said the district today is mostly 'very highly-educated' -- a direct insult to the Georgia residents in general, and Trump supporters, in particular -- are 'professionally' employed with many 'newcomers' to the Atlanta with little ties to the area.

And they all said that since Trump won the CD by only 1.5 per cent, that means Karen Handel and the GOP should be 'very worried'.

Again, they all repeated that this election is a mandate on Trump.

Well, pertaining to the last comment, I agreed. The race was a mandate on Trump, and thanks to Trump and his successes to date, Handel won by over 4 percentage points -- even outperforming Trump!!

These last few days, after the election, I read all the liberals rags and fringe posts on here and all basically said it's no big deal she won, it was expected. :lol:

I am betting that next year, Handel's re-election victory will be far greater than Tuesday's 4 per cent points, and in 2020, Trump will win by much more than 1.5 points when he's re-elected too. You could go to the bank on this. Mark my words.

C'mon, c'mon, get real. Quit gloating, for you have no reason to gloat. This loss by PJ Boy was a huge victory in the alt reality of the radical left. If you expand your mind and move into their universe, you can smell the stench of their victory.

chadk66
06-22-2017, 03:15 PM
These special elections were held to replace reps that had joined the Trump admin, the main component being they never would have been chosen unless they came from heavily red districts where the GOP was 99% sure the seat wouldn't be lost in the election..

So yeah, such a "major defeat" for the dems.:rolleyes: What made it disappointing was that it was so much closer than anyone originally figured it would be.
if what your saying is true then that just proves the DNC is even dumber than any of us imagined. 30 million LOL:pound:

davew
06-22-2017, 03:52 PM
the democrats are playing the long game and are right where they want to be. In a couple years the countries misfits, persecuted minorities, LGBT, lazy and unwilling to work, environmental followers and wannabe socialists will become the majority in the country. They will not lose when they become old enough to vote ....

chadk66
06-23-2017, 01:31 PM
the democrats are playing the long game and are right where they want to be. In a couple years the countries misfits, persecuted minorities, LGBT, lazy and unwilling to work, environmental followers and wannabe socialists will become the majority in the country. They will not lose when they become old enough to vote ....I think a huge part of their base will be prevented admittance to this country and/or deported.

Tom
06-23-2017, 09:59 PM
It's interesting how they were saying the exact same thing about the alt-right-wing-whackos, oh not so very long ago.
Still true.
The GOP is useless, always will be.
But compared to the dems,,,,,,