MT-AL: Rob Quist (D) vs. Greg Gianforte (R) vs. Mark Wicks (L), May 25

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XD the Internet is great

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Police will be holding a press conference soon https://mobile.twitter.com/jmartNYT/status/867547810245246976

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You know what this means Greg will win but get arrested for assault so we get another special election

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It's really getting depressing reading endless RW reactions loving what he did like this is really getting scary guys

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http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/early-turnout-at-metrapark-polls-is-light-despite-gianforte-s/article_ec11bb83-c76e-51a5-bf93-f11b9f1f6c2d.html

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Chuck Todd has Tom Perez on and is really laying into him over not treating this race as seriously as he has done with Georgia

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Chuck Todd has Tom Perez on and is really laying into him over not treating this race as seriously as he has done with Georgia

Tom Perez takes so much heat from everyone

I agree but on this issue I don't Tom really should of lumped this race in with GA-06 whenever he spoke

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people have been calling in asking if they could change their vote - according to CNN, and only 1 voter out of 75 said they changed their vote from GG to RQ and Pubs tended to agree with GG and encouraged his behavior according to Kyung Lah

Again this is getting scary guys and no both sides don't do it

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The knife's are out for GG within the party an they are mad in particular that should he win he is going to be vulnerable in 2018 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/25/us/montana-special-election.html?_r=0

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https://twitter.com/alexis_levinson/status/867849890919055360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.redditmedia.com%2Fmediaembed%2Fliveupdate%2Fyznzjfyy2rm2%2FLiveUpdate_56348d5c-41a2-11e7-9e24-0ec220880c66%2F0

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Translation: A Republican can bodyslam me and i'll still vote for him because of the R next to his name!!

Actually her tweet she then reveals she was actually talking to Quist voters who were already not voting for GG

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I await the calm rational voices of dispassionate analysis to come forth and offer a lively, educational view of results.

Quist is up with 0.5% "2018 WILL BE A BLOODBATH" Quist goes down .005% with 50% of vote in "IT'S OVER THE DEMS ARE DEAD AS A PARTY"

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It's just sad now that Greg winning is going to lead to Trump trolls "HAHAHA get wrecked libtards let's beat more of you up" all over twitter

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Let's be honest. "Law and order" types are only "law and order" types because they don't want black/brown skinned people living near them or their families.

White guy body slams someone and he's a rebel.

That is a sad truth

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I seriously would love to know how in the Trumpers world "deplorables" was more dividing an divisive then cheering on Greg an his actions here like Rush is doing

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Let's not act as if this special election tells us anything about 2018 or 2020, regardless of who wins. You guys are acting as if the presidency is at stake tonight.

Oh I agree he probably won pre-body slam but it's just depressing that this type of behavior is going to be encouraged

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Kyung Lah confirms more voters went out to vote Gianforte because of slamgate and it helped his performance on election day

I don't give a sh*t if it is "elitist" but that is deplorable

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It says a lot about how low the opinion of the democratic party is in rural areas of middle america when a reality tv star and a man who beats up reporters defeat democrats.

Or it says alot about rural areas that they vote for a reality tv star an a guy who beats up reporters

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We can win these voters for sure (here's me being optimistic), but it'll take 3rd way Clintonite centrists like Jim Justice, John Bel Edwards, and Joe Manchin, not far-left purity troll-endorsed candidates who are foisted on the party by the likes of ssuperflash and jfern.

Ah, yes, let's just keep doing the exact same thing we did in 2016. That worked out really well.

Suburban whites across the board are more liberal then rural whites, since a good portion of them are college educated.

If you want to win over rural voters, you are going to have to shift to the right on both economics and  social issues and I know that is something you don't want to do.

You really think Democrats couldn't successfully appeal to rural voters stricken by massive economic anxiety with policies that involved broad wealth redistribution?

Nope sorry to break it to you but rural areas are finishing a turn red that has been happening since Reagan an now suburban areas are shifting blue. An like some reps would of been saying about rural voters with Reagan you are dead wrong on suburanties be only a temporary shift

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If MT chooses to elect a criminal congressman, then they deserve him. It's a sad thing to witness.

This is why you lost.

Montana's newly elected congressman may have assaulted someone, but a Democratic poster said voters deserve who they vote for, and I found that mean, so Democrats are the real bad guys!!!!

I don't know many other Republicans throwing punches, but I sure have seen a lot of Democrats do it. That is far worse than your party's arrogance and collective cognitive disconnect.

Has it ever been praised with the exception of Spencer? Dude Rush an Drudge as well as numerous Fox hosts are publicly praising what he did say what you will about Berkley but Obama, Bernie, an Warren have all publicly condemned it an the "safe space" phenomenon in general

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We can win these voters for sure (here's me being optimistic), but it'll take 3rd way Clintonite centrists like Jim Justice, John Bel Edwards, and Joe Manchin, not far-left purity troll-endorsed candidates who are foisted on the party by the likes of ssuperflash and jfern.

Ah, yes, let's just keep doing the exact same thing we did in 2016. That worked out really well.

Suburban whites across the board are more liberal then rural whites, since a good portion of them are college educated.

If you want to win over rural voters, you are going to have to shift to the right on both economics and  social issues and I know that is something you don't want to do.

You really think Democrats couldn't successfully appeal to rural voters stricken by massive economic anxiety with policies that involved broad wealth redistribution?

History says no.

Just look at the type of Democrats who had any kind of success in those regions. Some on the left don't want to hear it, but left-wing economics isn't some silver bullet that will win over these type of voters.

You have made comments showing very little intellect & continue to make false statements (like Trump) & acting like a political hack.

The Democratic party under FDR & Truman were wild left on economics & won rural white voters & voters everywhere in huge margins. No1 could touch FDR who is considered one of the greatest POTUS' in history.

There is absolutely no statistical or empirical evidence to say rural whites are economically very conservative in which case Rand Paul or Ted Cruz would be the nominee & not Trump. Obama, the so-called Kenya born Muslim socialist communist won the rural votes in Iowa.

As we type, Quist is going to lost by 7% odd, much better than Hillary's 21% margin. KS-04 went from 30% to 6% loss, a massive boost for the Democrats - Both ran as unabashed liberals. Jason Kander who ran a pretty liberal candidacy ran 15-16% points ahead of Hillary or so.

Bernie Sanders was running 10% ahead of Hillary in all polls after a gruelling primary campaign. So you can keep making generalized statements which are completely political hackery & have no business with reality.

But the sad truth is rural voters vote on culture issues before economic issues FDR won so well with economics because he didn't touch civil rights with a 20 foot poll. That is Trump's appeal he makes cultural warrior issues his bread an butter

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Hey MT, Marty and any local Montanan who would be the best recruit to knock GG off in 2018?