2018 Congressional Recruitment/Fundraising/Ratings Megathread

[Hindsight was 2020]

Rick Nolan is retiring according to Twitter

[Young Conservative]

http://www.fox9.com/news/rick-nolan-retire

Nolan out.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Charlie Cook estimates D takeover chances at 60% in the House and 25-35% in the Senate: https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/663877?unlock=RK7ACM79HRT8QLEW.

[Gass3268]

Yikes, not looking good for Jenkins in WV:

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[junior chįmp]

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[Virginiá]

Democrats dominating Senate fundraising battle

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/10/democrats-senate-fundraising-2018-402087

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[136or142]

Yesterday was the filing deadline in Indiana and Alabama.  The Republicans don't have a candidate against Terri Sewell in Alabama. 

So far Democrats have 66 candidates in 66 Republican held districts in Illinois, Texas, West Virginia, Kentucky, New Mexico, Ohio, Alabama and Indiana while Republicans have candidates in 27 of 32 Democratic districts.

[Virginiá]

Yesterday was the filing deadline in Indiana and Alabama.  The Republicans don't have a candidate against Terri Sewell in Alabama. 

So far Democrats have 66 candidates in 66 Republican held districts in Illinois, Texas, West Virginia, Kentucky, New Mexico, Ohio, Alabama and Indiana while Republicans have candidates in 27 of 32 Democratic districts.

I wonder how much the House popular vote will be affected by an unusual imbalance in the number of contested seats when all is said and done (few Safe R seats w/o Dem challengers vs more Safe D seats w/o Rep challengers). I'm guessing off the top of my head that most of the uncontested Safe D seats are regularly won by 70%+, so the gains shouldn't be too stark.

[krazen1211]

Hey GOP, where's your megadonors now?

They are not really needed quite yet. Donald Trump won the 2016 election despite having less money than Hillary Clinton.

Please stay on topic to Congressional elections and I encourage people not to reply to trolls. --Brittain33

[Bidenworth2020]

Hey GOP, where's your megadonors now?

They are not really needed quite yet. Donald Trump won the 2016 election despite having less money than Hillary Clinton.

Please stay on topic to Congressional elections and I encourage people not to reply to trolls. --Brittain33

>equating trump with the gop establishment

[Brittain33]

>equating trump with the gop establishment

That's a good point. Setting aside the trolling aspect, yes Trump won without spending as much money because he was a celebrity who could command a ton of free media (who was also running against the 2nd most unpopular candidate in history). That advantage doesn't accrue to, say, Dean Heller.

[Virginiá]

Desperate Republicans turn to Adelson

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/11/sheldon-adelson-republicans-2018-402098

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[Torie]

"Money is the mother's milk of politics."

Jess Unruh

[Badger]

Hey GOP, where's your megadonors now?

They are not really needed quite yet. Donald Trump won the 2016 election despite having less money than Hillary Clinton.

Please stay on topic to Congressional elections and I encourage people not to reply to trolls. --Brittain33

It would help if those even the Mods identify as trolls were simply banned.

[Brittain33]

It would help if those even the Mods identify as trolls were simply banned.

People I identify as acting as trolls on boards I moderate may not meet the standard set by the overall Forum terms for being banned as trolls. That said, there may be room for further debate on this in general and with regard to specific posters and I encourage people to raise this on one of the forums dedicated to moderation for discussion.

It also helps if people report posts as troll posts, creating a record.

[Blair]

Politico Playbook reporting that Pelosi raised nearly $50 million for the DCCC last quarter. 

[Jeppe]

Politico Playbook reporting that Pelosi raised nearly $50 million for the DCCC last quarter. 

My queen is alive.

[Badger]

It would help if those even the Mods identify as trolls were simply banned.

People I identify as acting as trolls on boards I moderate may not meet the standard set by the overall Forum terms for being banned as trolls. That said, there may be room for further debate on this in general and with regard to specific posters and I encourage people to raise this on one of the forums dedicated to moderation for discussion.

It also helps if people report posts as troll posts, creating a record.

Most people don't bother doing so anymore, Brittain, because no one believes that last sentence.

[Brittain33]

It would help if those even the Mods identify as trolls were simply banned.

People I identify as acting as trolls on boards I moderate may not meet the standard set by the overall Forum terms for being banned as trolls. That said, there may be room for further debate on this in general and with regard to specific posters and I encourage people to raise this on one of the forums dedicated to moderation for discussion.

It also helps if people report posts as troll posts, creating a record.

Most people don't bother doing so anymore, Brittain, because no one believes that last sentence.

I won't speak for the moderator community or banning policies as a whole—mainly because I am not as engaged with it or familiar with those policies as other moderators, which is my own deficiency—but I make an effort to compensate for that by responding actively to reports of individual posts on the boards I moderate and actively moving against trolling. I am surprised how few posts I consider to be active trolling get reported, and I would say that 90% of the posts that get moved to King Lear's concern trolling thread I move on my own initiative without being reported. That may just be because King Lear and I both happen to be very interested in remapping and I see his posts in real time.

Those are just my observations. I'm happy to take replies publicly to this post here on this thread and if there's interest in a discussion on moderation on these boards, can discuss with Virginia how best to have that forum without further impacting this particular thread.

[Gustaf]

It would help if those even the Mods identify as trolls were simply banned.

People I identify as acting as trolls on boards I moderate may not meet the standard set by the overall Forum terms for being banned as trolls. That said, there may be room for further debate on this in general and with regard to specific posters and I encourage people to raise this on one of the forums dedicated to moderation for discussion.

It also helps if people report posts as troll posts, creating a record.

Most people don't bother doing so anymore, Brittain, because no one believes that last sentence.

The people who tend to oppose bans typically cite a lack of reported posts as a reason. So I'd say it definitely helps shift moderators.

[136or142]

It would help if those even the Mods identify as trolls were simply banned.

People I identify as acting as trolls on boards I moderate may not meet the standard set by the overall Forum terms for being banned as trolls. That said, there may be room for further debate on this in general and with regard to specific posters and I encourage people to raise this on one of the forums dedicated to moderation for discussion.

It also helps if people report posts as troll posts, creating a record.

Most people don't bother doing so anymore, Brittain, because no one believes that last sentence.

The people who tend to oppose bans typically cite a lack of reported posts as a reason. So I'd say it definitely helps shift moderators.

Can we please get back to Congressional Recruitment, like the posts I've made on the states which now have final primary candidate slates that nobody has responded to?

Never forget: the voters are always right (the bastards.)

[GeorgiaModerate]

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[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

Sort of surprisingly, Corey Lewandowski is doing a better job than the media of actually analyzing the 2018 midterms.

From Salon on Margaret Good's win:

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[Landslide Lyndon]

Sort of surprisingly, Corey Lewandowski is doing a better job than the media of actually analyzing the 2018 midterms.

From Salon on Margaret Good's win:

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Yeah, unheard of for Democrats to win in Wisconsin and New Hampshire.
What a blathering idiot.

[Shameless Lefty Hack]

Sort of surprisingly, Corey Lewandowski is doing a better job than the media of actually analyzing the 2018 midterms.

From Salon on Margaret Good's win:

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Yeah, unheard of for Democrats to win in Wisconsin and New Hampshire.
What a blathering idiot.

The mayor of Manchester had been a Republican since 2006, and the WI-10 is a deeply republican district.

Speaking of blathering idiots...