Looks like the GOP Senate races are not going well

Discussion in 'Politics' started by gwb-trading, Aug 15, 2022.

  1. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    You would think that GOP Senate candidates could come up with better talking points about the economy than this. But you would be wrong.

    Senate GOP candidate Blake Masters suggests diversity at Federal Reserve is harming the economy
    Masters, of Arizona, defended the remarks in a video and lashed out at what he called President Joe Biden's "affirmative action regime."
    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/20...-suggests-diversity-federal-reserve-rcna45389

    You would think that GOP Senate candidates would stick by their positions. But you would be wrong. So in summary... Election denier denies denying Election.


    Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters scrubbed language on campaign website saying the 2020 election was stolen from Trump
    https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/29/politics/blake-masters-campaign-website-changes/index.html
     
    #101     Aug 30, 2022
  2. #102     Aug 30, 2022
  3. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Let's see what the conservative publication has to say about Masters.

     
    #103     Aug 31, 2022
  4. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Rubio -- "August has been a total disaster.'

     
    #104     Aug 31, 2022
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    #105     Aug 31, 2022
  6. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    fear is the selling point of cons, you know that
     
    #106     Aug 31, 2022
  7. Mercor

    Mercor

    Fetterman wont debate Oz....He better be careful....If independents break 3-5% right it will wipe out even Pennsylvanian for the Democrats

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    #107     Aug 31, 2022
  8. UsualName

    UsualName

    This is hard to compute…

     
    #108     Aug 31, 2022
  9. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    No need. Sleepy beat bottomless Donnie by 10M votes from the comfort of his basement.
     
    #109     Aug 31, 2022
  10. It's a ranked choice ballot system.

    Round one determines if anyone got more than 50% - if no (as was the case) then,

    they eliminate the lowest of the candidates (and all write-ins unless they got a half a per cent or something like that) then they take the second choices for the people who voted for the one eliminated (Nick Begich in this instance) and add those votes to the remaining candidates (Palin and Peltola) to see if that pushes either one over the 50% mark, which it did for Peltola.

    The system allows for going to third and fourth choices too if needed.

    Alaska does not have a party primary system now. It's the top four candidates who get the most votes in the primary. Could be a mix of parties or all the same party. However the votes come in.

    It gets complicated but on the other hand it eliminates having to hold a run-off if no one gets a majority. Just crank the computer and see what people's second choices were if their first choice was eliminated. You still can't do it all on one election night though because you have to wait for the mail in and write-ins to come in. The first round was August 16 and here we are today just finalizing it.
     
    Last edited: Aug 31, 2022
    #110     Aug 31, 2022
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