Creator of The Many Rantings of John, a blog about classic film, past Oscar races, & elections analysis. Frequently distracted by cute boys-fully vaxxed. He/Him
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Whether you voted for Donald Trump, Lindsey Graham, or someone else, you deserve leaders who care more about lowering your bills than playing politics in Washington.
That’s what this campaign is about.
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Dems won the US Senate that year. Just looking at that graph isn't good enough to see what was going on under the hood.
John T retweeted
Found it @RealDonaldTrump – where’s my $1 million?
You can wire it straight to the 10,000 election workers who are volunteering their time to protect against your efforts to steal the midterms.
NEW: Trump is offering $1 million to anyone who reports cases of "voter fraud" in the midterms or past elections that lead to a conviction.
It's his latest attempt to present rare cases of illegal voting as a widespread problem that threatens U.S. elections. demdock.com/4zSmNC2
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This is always the case, but we see no evidence of Reps being more likely to be waiting for election day in Clark County, NV. Of the Dems and Reps that have voted so far, only 3% of each voted on election day in 2024. If Dems were at 15% and Reps at 3%, that would be different.
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Absolutely not. We don’t make spending or strategic decisions based on external polling.
🚨Wedgewood Polls released a survey on October 14 showing the Mississippi Senate race at Republican +4. The fabricated results prompted Senate Majority PAC, aligned with Chuck Schumer, to announce a $1.2 million television ad investment on October 20, described as its first major spending in the race after prior zero investment.
Wedgewood later stated that the poll data was fabricated. The admission followed an investigation into the firm’s methodology and data integrity.
Follow: @MorseReport
John T retweeted
This is one of the most obvious indicators that the two parties are not the same and don’t value democracy the same. Republicans have stripped power from state offices in AZ, KY, NC, WI, and other states immediately after they were won by Democrats. Democrats do not do this.
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As one of the candidates featured in these polls - the infamous one in late June that showed me plummeting into single digits (which was at odds with our internals) - here's the impact of this "experiment"
- Donations dried up
- Volunteers were devastated and pleading for guidance on what to do
- Reporters hounded me with calls to drop out
Sure, a point was proven. Polling is broken. But tens of thousands of people poured their hearts, time, energy, hard-earned money into something they believed in - for a year-and-a-half, and it was treated like a game. Our volunteers gave their all. And then some. I felt like I had let so many of them down.
To be extremely clear, Michigan Democrats are locked in to beat Mike Rogers. We WILL send @AbdulElSayed to the US Senate.
But between crap like this, endless fundraising texts that drive supporters away with spammy fake deadlines and trash "match" claims, scam PACs run rampant for firms to grift without actually supporting candidates, undisclosed content creators pushing content out either misrepresenting themselves as residents of states they don't live in or hiding whether they were paid and by who so they could make a buck, and the tidal wave of dark money ads -- I hope Democrats are ready to blow up the system with campaign finance and transparency reforms.
Trust is already at an all-time low. We don't get out of this mess without rebuilding trust.
And media - who loves to ride the drama of a pollercoaster - needs to take a hard look at what's legitimate and what's not.
If this teaches us anything - DON'T GET COMPLACENT AND DON'T TRUST THE POLLS.
LOCK IN. SIGN UP FOR A CANVASSING SHIFT. LEAVE NOTHING TO CHANCE OVER THE NEXT TWO WEEKS.
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John T retweeted
The ad released by Vivek Ramaswamy is disgusting. Everyone, including Jon Husted, should be willing to condemn this ad.
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Acton releases a response from her brother, which makes me think this will become even more of a backfire. Vivek has simultaneously elevated the horrific story of her upbringing, framed her as someone who's overcome unthinkable horror, and painted himself as a sleeze
John T retweeted
The biggest warning light for Dems is their continued lag w/voters who disapprove of Trump-winning just 82% of them in new WP/ABC poll. That’s at the low end for out-parties in past 35 years. That’s plenty to win House but they’ll likely need a bit more in red state Senate races
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“we will pay any price….to assure the success and survival of liberty.” Is this still true? Do we prize liberty or do we prize power and purse? No more clear test than the choice between Ukraine and Russia. Abandon Ukraine and we abandon liberty. Eventually even our own.
John T retweeted
There's only one pro-choice candidate in this race, and it's me.
Michele Tafoya can't even define "reasonable access to abortion."
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This is disqualifying.
Anthony doesn’t know the largest city in the district because the only time he’s in #NY21 is to harass me and my family on our farm.
Not something you see every day:
I asked Anthony Constantino, the Republican running in #NY21, what the biggest city in his district is. He told me to "ask Grok." (It's Rome, population 32k — I did not need to ask Grok for that.)
John T retweeted
If Murphy lost and Don Davis (D, NC-1) won, it would be a clean example of a “dummymander,” because all this cycle’s remap did was hurt Davis by making Murphy’s district less Republican
And here's GREG MURPHY on air in Greenville. Ds have him in an unusually close race in his Trump +14 district.
youtube.com/watch?v=3zDuBSP8…
"I'm Greg Murphy. I drive to D.C. and across Eastern North Carolina all the time. Gas prices are too high. I get it. As a husband, I know groceries are very expensive. As a doctor and a patient, I know health care isn't affordable, so I'm working to bring down costs. To get oil flowing again, to fight greedy insurance companies, I aim to be a voice of reason in a sea of insanity."
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it’s a cliche exercise, but imagine if you read about another country where the head of state was looking to strip citizenship of a prominent critic from ethnic and religious minority. you wouldn’t have to think on whether it was fascism.
WSJ reports that the Trump administration is deploying federal agencies in an effort to denaturalize and deport Representative Ilhan Omar: wsj.com/politics/policy/ilha…
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If you're only reading books published in the last fifty years, you have only the faintest glimpse of literature as an art.
The same principle applies if you're only watching recent films. You barely understand the medium.
