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Heisenberg
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« on: August 12, 2016, 01:49:47 PM »
« edited: August 13, 2016, 10:58:12 PM by Heisenberg »

Senate: All Republican (specifically Boustany in Louisiana, McCain in Arizona, Rubio in Florida), with the following exceptions:
Sanchez in California (#NeverHarris), Climbing Maggie in New Hampshire (Yuck, but people need to wake up and stop pretending NH is a swing state), Libertarian in New York and Colorado (I do not like Long or Glenn).
Edit: Also, if Beruff or Ward win their primaries, I will NOT support either. And of course, if Duke makes the runoff, I will endorse whoever his opponent is.

Will add House races later.
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« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2016, 09:53:28 PM »

Maybe I'll add more later (assume I support the Republican nominee in most other races), but I'll put these up ahead of tomorrow night's primaries.
House Endorsements (for Arizona and Florida)Sad

AZ-01: Ken Bennett, R-AZ (better than the other candidates, all deeply flawed)
AZ-02: Martha McSally, R-AZ (really worried about this seat in November)
AZ-05: No primary endorsement, will support the GOP nominee in the general for this
AZ-09: (Winner of tomorrow's primary), R-AZ

FL-02: Neal Dunn, R-FL (I also like the other two Republicans, so no biggie if he loses. Safe R seat.)
FL-06: Ron DeSantis, R-FL (Yes, I do like some Freedom Caucus members. I don't really have much against the group, I just really like Paul Ryan as a leader, and would prefer the House GOP leadership not be taken over by far-right obstructionists.)
FL-07: John Mica, R-FL
FL-13: David Jolly, R-FL, #NeverChangingCharlie
FL-17: Tom Rooney, R-FL
FL-18: Rebecca Negron, R-FL (Would support Mast if he won, I like him too, but Negron seems to be the stronger GE candidate.)
FL-19: Francis Rooney, R-FL * (Like Sunrise, #NeverBongino. Stupid crazy carpetbagger.)
FL-23: (Tim Canova in the DEM Primary), Joe Kaufman, R-FL (GOP Primary and General. If only we could win this, #NeverDWS. But unfortunately, it's D+9.)
FL-25: Mario Diaz-Balart, R-FL
FL-26: Carlos Curbelo, R-FL
FL-27: Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-FL
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« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2016, 10:20:39 PM »

Could Heisenburg and/or SATW explain to me why they support Kaufman over Feigenbaum?
I really don't know anything about Feigenbaum (other than that he was destroyed badly in a State House race two years ago, and that he's getting up in age), who strikes me as dull and I charismatic (I could be wrong), but I did read an old article I dug up (from 2012!) when Kaufman wrote about his plan to oust DWS (something about trying to convince Democratic Jews to split their ticket, can't see it happening, though). He lost the primary, so I guess he's not that great. I do not like Disgraced Debbie, and would love it for her to lose (probably it happening, though.)
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« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2016, 01:40:39 PM »

Generally endorse most Republicans, will stand out and endorse Russ Feingold (D) for Senate though. Johnson is getting insufferable and is pretty horrible/worthless person.
Don't get what's so bad about Johnson, and what's so great about Feingold. Feingold was basically the face of the far-left before he lost, and before Sanders and Warren became Senators. If (more likely when, I guess) he wins, he will easily regain his spot as such.
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« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2016, 02:32:54 PM »

Generally endorse most Republicans, will stand out and endorse Russ Feingold (D) for Senate though. Johnson is getting insufferable and is pretty horrible/worthless person.
Don't get what's so bad about Johnson, and what's so great about Feingold. Feingold was basically the face of the far-left before he lost, and before Sanders and Warren became Senators. If (more likely when, I guess) he wins, he will easily regain his spot as such.

He's missed something like 40% of the votes in his time as a Senator so far. If anyone is a good specimen of "you didn't build that" it's Johnson. Married a rich girl who's dad gave him a company to run that almost exclusively sold to his father in law and he succeeded at it, didn't do much else but makes it sound like he's a self made businessman. Also thinks SS is a legal Ponzi scheme and wants to get rid of it. Numerous other things too.
If you hate Johnson so much, then why wouldn't you vote third party/write in instead of voting for a far left moonbat who's basically a socialist.
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« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2016, 03:16:58 PM »

I don't have the whole hate/democrats are evil thing that many conservatives do. Plus I'm big on public transportation/rail/transportation funding person. Feingold will help in that regard, plus I don't agree with the Libertarian's and a third party vote is a waste.
Okay, thank you for explaining. I, while Republican, do not hate every single Democrat in Washington, but Feingold is clearly one of the most left-leaning. There are a handful of races where I actually do endorse the Democratic candidate (like AZ-01). While I do think that voting third party (except in rare cases like NY-22) is a wasted vote, it does provide the voter with an avenue of not voting for a candidate of their party that they don't like while NOT implicitly voting for the other party to control the chamber.
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« Reply #6 on: September 21, 2016, 03:20:26 PM »

3) Joke candidates (Art Halvorson, Frederick Lavergne, etc)
Halvorson is not even a Democrat, he'll switch back to the Republican Party after the election (win or, more likely, lose). He's just an opportunist.
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« Reply #7 on: October 09, 2016, 05:04:17 PM »

Louisiana: I'd rather wait to see if there is a run-off before I decide
A runoff is basically guaranteed, there's no way anyone gets an outright majority in a field that crowded.

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« Reply #8 on: October 09, 2016, 05:27:11 PM »

In VT-AL, I'm endorsing Erica Clawson, because why not?

Same with me. Not that Welch is bad or anything, but Vermont could and should do way better than a pretty generic Democrat like him. Vermont is one of the few places willing to elect real left wingers, so it's kind of a waste of a seat to have Welch in there, IMO.
I love it when a generic Democrat holds a district that could elect someone way way crazier. Wink
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