Congressional Special Election (last call! unstickied after NY-27 final results)

[Landslide Lyndon]

https://twitter.com/jimmorrill/status/1068225397165314048

Waiting for someone to come up with an innocent explanation of this.  (* settles down with a good book *)

When Republicans do it, it's not voter fraud.

[Landslide Lyndon]

https://twitter.com/McCreadyForNC/status/1068318605278879744

And the people of the 9th chose Harris.

That has not yet been officially established, and your repeated assertions will not make it so.  If the BoE upholds Harris's election, then feel free to gloat at that point; but unless and until that happens, will you PLEASE knock it off?  You have enough of value to say on other topics that I would regret putting you on Ignore, but I'm about 1 millimeter from it at this point.

Why do people even reply to Bagel

Seriously, the guy is either trolling or has reading comprehension issues.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Like Nate Silver said, "yeah, there was rampant election fraud but it didn't determine the winner" isn't exactly a winning argument.

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I'm sure it's a total coincidence.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Called it:

https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1070102416828325896

How can this even be constitutional?

[Landslide Lyndon]

These Republican idiots obviously don't understand that by shielding Harris and the fraudsters are giving one more excuse to the House to refuse seating him and order a new election.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Does this mean that the voter fraud in California will also be investigated?

Never change.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Hey jimrtex... it appears that among the rubes thinking that there is GOP fraud sits... the head of the North Carolina GOP.

https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1070707900576882688

Strong words from a guy whose party doesn't give a sh**t about democracy and the will of the people.

[Landslide Lyndon]

"I did not have electoral relations with that man"

[Landslide Lyndon]

Jimrtex- I’m loving your narrative technique: Pizza box under laundry? Goldmine! In earlier posts the down South repartee! LOL, man!

Didn't you see the CNN interview where the voter admitted that Dowless had helped him fill out his ballot because he couldn't read or write. Let's humiliate the Southern hick on national TV.

The other voter who said he couldn't remember whether he voted for "Harris" or "McCready" is a registered Republican. He did remember who he voted for sheriff. Why didn't the reporter ask him whether he had voted for McVicker or Brown?

Who did the CNN reporter vote for?

Dude, the NC GOP chairman admits that something fishy happened and is OK with a revote.
What are you trying to do here? Is Harris your uncle or something?

[Landslide Lyndon]

Harris and Dowless will be at their sentencing hearings and jimrtex will still argue how he can statistically prove that everything is fine.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Whatever happened with NC's maps getting struck down? Is that still a thing? If so, this election could end up being even more irrelevant.

Yes, they will probably be struck down by the state supreme court, like Pennsylvania's.

[Landslide Lyndon]

And here we go again with the hot takes about how Democrats need to find a way to appeal to rural rednecks and their "economic anxiety".
Funny how after all the beatings Republicans took the last two years not one single pundit or journalist ever said that they should visit some of those affluent suburbs and find a way to appeal to those educated suburbanites. I guess visiting a Starbucks isn't considered as cool as visiting a diner in Hicksville, Ohio.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Cenk Uygur will massively outraise Christy Smith, there are many people on this site that think you have to be a boring centrist who weaponizes identity politics to win, that is simply not true!!!
Cenk will win.

I know this post is old, but I'm marveling at the idea that Erdogan shill Cenk Uygur, who named his company after a murderous Turkish junta, is somehow not one of the most glaring examples of identity politics in America. Man is literally draped in Turkish nationalism. What is that if not identity politics?

But you see, he is a white guy so it's by definition impossible for him to engage in identity politics.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Cenk Uygur will massively outraise Christy Smith, there are many people on this site that think you have to be a boring centrist who weaponizes identity politics to win, that is simply not true!!!
Cenk will win.

I know this post is old, but I'm marveling at the idea that Erdogan shill Cenk Uygur, who named his company after a murderous Turkish junta, is somehow not one of the most glaring examples of identity politics in America. Man is literally draped in Turkish nationalism. What is that if not identity politics?

But you see, he is a white guy so it's by definition impossible for him to engage in identity politics.

Alright, I'm very very very far from a fan of Cenk Uygur, but the idea that he's white is, ironically, one of the most "ignorant white Greek Boomer" things I've ever heard.

Well, he isn't black, he isn't Latino, he isn't Asian, he isn't Native American or Pacific Islander.

[Landslide Lyndon]

1. Arabs and Turks are white by U.S. Census definitions.
2. Islamophobia and xenophobia against Arabs and Turks are definitely a thing, so it’s hard to say they can’t have minority identity politics.

Turks have been very prominent allies of the US for almost 70 years. I don't think they are victims of Islamophobia as much as Arabs, and another reason for that is that they are much more secular.

[Landslide Lyndon]

1. Arabs and Turks are white by U.S. Census definitions.
2. Islamophobia and xenophobia against Arabs and Turks are definitely a thing, so it’s hard to say they can’t have minority identity politics.

Turks have been very prominent allies of the US for almost 70 years. I don't think they are victims of Islamophobia as much as Arabs, and another reason for that is that they are much more secular.

Sikhs are neither Muslims nor aligned with enemies of the U.S., but they still face bigotry and discrimination because of their appearance.

That's the key word. OTOH, you can hardly tell apart a Turk from a Greek, an Italian, or a Spaniard. They blend in effortlessly.
They perhaps are the only case of Muslim people that face more discrimination in Europe (especially Germany) than the US.