Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
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UPDATE: Someone just asked PBO if he regrets not developing more cordial relationships with Republicans in Congress. He allowed himself a sigh of exasperation before giving a sane and measured response. That’s why he’s president and I’m not: I would have grabbed one of the flags and skewered the questioner with the pole.
President Obama’s Post-Thumping PresserPost + Comments (355)
In what can only be described as a crushing defeat, Republicans have seized the Senate gaining full control of Congress. Course, it doesn’t really put your mind at ease when you hear about shenanigans like these in North Carolina:
Percy Bostick, 69, of Greensboro said he tried casting a vote for Democrat Kay Hagan — who is locked in a tight battle with her GOP opponent — however the machine, located in the Old Guilford County Courthouse — assigned his vote to Republican Thom Tillis….According to Bostick, the machine finally recorded his vote for Hagan on the fourth attempt….According to Guilford County elections director, Charlie Collicut, his office has received 14 reports of voting problems since early voting started Oct. 23.
Go, ‘Murica. Sigh.
Team Blackness also discussed the street harassment viral hashtag #DudesGreetingDudes, the story of a child who found crystal meth in her Halloween candy, and a Craigslist ad asking for “cool black kids” to hang out with someone’s bullied son.
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This Is What a Republican Congress Looks LikePost + Comments (7)
Last night sucked, but it’s all in the game: midterms favor Republicans, presidential election years favor Democrats. And the next redistricting election — 2020 — is a presidential year. So don’t trip, organize. How about top five or ten lists of uplifting quotes from movies, songs, books, whatever.
1. Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes, well, he eats you.
2. I don’t care whether you’re J.P. Morgan or Irving the tailor– you ride it out.
3. It’s always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.
4. Then they’ll take you to Cloughprior and shove you in the ground / But you’ll stick your head back out and shout “we’ll have another round”
5. Marlowe’s an asshole, he doesn’t get to win – we get to win.
After January, I predict that the DC media will re-discover the evil of the filibuster and also re-discover how it obstructs government so terribly. I further predict that the phrase “60 votes needed for passage” will be struck from the media lexicon, to be replaced with “majority vote needed for passage”.
I’ll just leave that prediction here and check back in a few months to see if I’m right.
Wakes up, looks around.
“Shit, that really happened.”
I feel like I spent the night trapped in an elevator listening to Sarah Palin.
GBCW.
NBC News Exit Poll: Younger voters make up smaller share of midterm electorate http://t.co/ua20O9aSLj#NBCPoliticspic.twitter.com/nctKriEtQ4
— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 4, 2014
The midterm electorates have been +17, +20 and +25 points old people versus young people. Old people want their Medicare and Social Security untouched or enriched, and don’t give a fuck about birth control as they are no longer in the childbearing cohort, and have minimal direct stakes in costs that are only incurred in fifteen or twenty years from now. They are making a death bet that the costs of their good times today won’t be borne by them as they’ll be dead when the bill comes due. It is a rational bet.
The younger cohort has been steady in their mobilization. The fascinating and scary thing to me is the increasing mobilization of the post-60 crowd. Some of that is natural demographic growth as the Boomers are steadily adding to that cohort every day, but the percentage of possible voters to actual voters seems to be increasing at a higher rate as well. Throw in the fact that the oldest voters in 2010 were slightly more Democratic leaning than their younger cohorts, and the older Boomers replacing them are more Republican this is a bad sign for the next couple of mid-terms for Democrats.
We have a presidential electorate where the young participate and issues with a 15 year pay-off horizon are on the table, and then we have an off-cycle electorate that assumes that they’ll be dead in 15 years, so let the good times roll.
*appears from nowhere*
Huh, where did that 5% margin that the polls underestimated the GOP come from, anyhow?
Oh, well then.
*vanishes into the abyss*