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Democrats Explore New Territory…Open Thread for Dec. 7, 2022….

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Democrat Raphel Warnock wins AGAIN in the Georgia US Senate election….

Democrat Fetterman gets Pennsylvania …..

Republican Kari Lake loses for Governor in Arizona….

Republican Ron DeSantis owns Florida…..

Things ARE changing around….

Battleground states are changing….

 

Democrats recognized the rising influence of the Sun Belt in a high-profile way last week, when the Democratic National Committee advanced a plan to replace Iowa, a former battleground state that has grown more Republican recently, with South Carolina and add Nevada, Georgia and Michigan to the early-state calendar.

“The Sun Belt delivered the Senate Democratic majority,” said Senator Jacky Rosen, a Democrat from Nevada who will face her first re-election campaign in 2024. “The party needs to invest in us and that’s what they’ve done by changing the calendar.”

Already, investment in these new battlegrounds has been eye-popping. In Georgia, $1.4 billion has been spent by both parties on three Senate races and the one contest for governor since the beginning of 2020, according to a New York Times analysis.

The flood of political activity has surprised even some of those who have long predicted that their states would grow more competitive.

“We all thought Arizona would probably be a battleground state at some point like a decade or so down the road,” said Mike Noble, the chief of research with the polling firm OH Predictive Insights, which is based in Phoenix. “It’s mind-blowing that it came so quickly to be quite honest.”….

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The shrunken, shifted battlefield reflects a diversifying country remade by the polarizing politics of the Trump era. As white, working-class voters defected from Democrats, persuaded by Donald J. Trump’s populist cultural appeals and anti-elitist rhetoric, demographic changes opened up new presidential battlegrounds in the West and South….

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That new map isn’t entirely new, of course. Since 2008, Democrats have hoped that demographic changes and millions of dollars could help put the growing pockets of the South and West in play, allowing the party to stop chasing the votes of white, working-class voters across Ohio and Iowa….

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  1. Morning Folks…..

    New Thread for a New Day for Democrats and New headaches for House Republicans coming already….

      • Morning people…….

        Ah Politics😔

        Just when Democrats thought they could enjoy their ride in US Senate?

        Sinema drops a power move on them….

        Post coming up after my morning walk.,..

        • And she was a more reliable D vote than even Manchin. That’s why D’s really needed to win in NC and WI, to fully offset potential defections.

          • Yup…….

            The underlying story seems to be that she wasn’t going to win a 2024 primary race…

          • I don’t know about reasonable SE….

            She rode with him on several things….
            Part of this is also a power play….

            BTW?

            Both Manchin and Sinema voted WITH the Democratic’s about 90% of the time….Sinmea MORE YUP

  2. Weekend Republican Trash

    Two Republican hoodlums ,who were part of the Republican Terrorist attack on the Capitol Jan 6 ,have been sentenced to four years in prison.One of the hoodlums wrote “Murder the media” on a door of the Capitol.

    Republican idiot and failed Senatorial Candidate , Herschel Walker, says he wants the Sheriff of Jackson county to find out who didn’t vote for him.The goofball said he was “absolutely shocked” that he didn’t receive 100% of the vote there.

    Defeated Arizona Governor candidate Kari Lake is suing election officials wanting to be declared the winner(the liar lost by 17000 votes) .The best part is that the political prostitute is getting money from the airhead Republicans to back her so called “challenge.” Take every penny the dumbasses have Kari!A grifter like you knows to go hunting among the idiots!

    In Florida ,another case of alleged election fraud brought by Republican presidential candidate, Ron DeSantis ‘ “election police” has been thrown out of court.Desantis ,a fanatical election Suppressor, has now seen three of these joke cases tossed as having no basis whatsoever.Hopefully,the victims of this would be Republican thief(DeSantis was a big supporter of Trumps attempted election theft) are preparing civil suits against the “election police.”

  3. Republican Piece of Garbage of the Week

    Ralph Norman ,a Republican Congressman from South Carolina, was revealed recently to have texted a message to Mark Meadows , White House Chief of Staff ,during the period when Trump and the Republicans were trying the steal the election in 2020 ,urging The Thief in Chief to declare martial law(the dumbass spelled it “Marshall law”).

    Norman ,an uh “conservative, “ had previously joined with Republican bigots Paul Gosar and Louie Goehmert, in seeking to reinstate Republican racist Steve King to his House Committee positions which he had been removed from back in 2019

    In 2021 Norman joined 20 other Republicans in opposing a move to give the Congressional Gold medal to police officers ,who defended the Capitol against the Republican hoodlums and domestic terrorists who engaged in a riot there Jan. 6.

    Norman ,by his action ,has been labeled “unfit” to serve in office by the local newspapers in S.C.and is stumbling all over himself to explain his conduct .

    We need no explanation dumb dumb.

    He s richly deserving of the coveted title”Republican Piece of Garbage of the Week.“Crawl back in the sewer from whence ye came!

    • It’s regressed this far — we no longer call such a politician simply the Stupid Republican Politician of the Day.

      Lot of other things, depending on the Red Target, such as traitor of the day, sycophant of the day, thief of the day, ingrate of the day….

      • Perhaps in this sad case, Bigoted Politician of the Day [for the highly-coveted Theodore Bilbo-Charles Coughlin Golden Scold’s Bridle].

  5. Another Lying Republican

    George Santos a recently elected Republican Congressman has apparently been caught in several Lies.

    He claimed to have worked at Wall Street firms, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup.They claimed to have never heard of him and there is no record of his employment.

    He says he attended Baruch College in New York.Once again?No record of such.

    Says he made three quarters of a mill. last year with some company called Devolder Corp., a Florida company ,deemed by the State as “inactive.”

    Like former Congressman Joe Walsh said ,as he left the Republican Party, they like Lying.

    • Ironic that you report Barbara Walter’s death on the day that Judy Woodruff says goodbye to anchoring the PBS NewsHour.

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