2014 Election Day Thread

[Talint]

I think this just about sums it up

Brilliant. lol

[Cantih]

I am back from working election day. Turnout was not primary-horrible, but still fairly shit.

http://yourfuckingpollingplace.com/

Since thefuckingweather is the best site, this is also the best site.

hubby can't vote because he is at work the entire time voting is open.

Already addressed, but yeah, idk about compensation, but from what I knew, employers MUST let employees have time off to go vote.

watching Obama and a Republican controlled Congress try to accomplish things for two years

Repeal obamacare, repeal obamacare, repeal obamacare. It's pmuch gonna be like the FX Simpsons marathon, you turn the TV on days later, it still goin'.

hmmm maybe I read it wrong when I initially researched it. It sounded like this was to go hand in hand with obama care to make sure plans were following it.

What already exists is a state panel to advise (just advise) on the terrible/not-so-terrible rates that insures put out. Authority to do things is limited.
Prop 45 would add that panels job to the state elected office of insurance commissioner, who would have more authority to tell insurers who try to set shit rates to go take a flying fuck at the moon. Of course, this means if you get a bribed/lobbyist commissioner, not so awesome. But if you follow the money, shitty medical groups like Kaiser were catapulting money to run ads for no on 45 to kill it.

[Andalusian girls]

Gonna happen when you have a bunch of weak kneed democrats running and shying away from Obama.

his approval rating is 42%

when the ship be sinking you don't proclaim faith in the captain

[Tyrath]

his approval rating is 42%

when the ship be sinking you don't proclaim faith in the captain

Because running away from him seems to have worked out so well.

[Andalusian girls]

little they could have done was going to work out well for them. they simply had more incumbent's seats up and they had an extremely unpopular sitting president, hurdles that historically are almost impossible to overcome in the aggregate, regardless of how individual races are conducted.

Republicans will have to deal with the first issue in 2016 when they have 23 incumbents up for election as opposed to 9 Democrats. math usually beats politics.

[Tyrath]

42% is hardly extremely unpopular. Assuming republicans and democrats are split evenly in the country, that's basically just most republicans + a few more and we all know republicans have been selling Obama as the devil since day 1.

[Andalusian girls]

historically speaking it is the second lowest approval rating a second term president has had during the midterms of their sixth year, only failing to live up to Dubya's majestic 'blood relatives and staffers' 36%.

by the by party identification on a national level is (roughly)

38% independent
32% Democrat
24% Republican

and though he's lost 91% of Republicans he's also lost 65% of independents and and 20% of Democrats. extremely may be too subjective a word but he sure proved unpopular enough to lose Congress badly eh.

[Not Kuno]

Unless the president is handing out free blowjobs, in this current era of internet and social media, no president is going to have ratings as high as they used to have.

[BaneTheBrawler]

yeah but i think the growing number of people identifying as independent is indicative of the real problem: neither party is doing their jobs, and people know it.

[Tyrath]

Unless the president is handing out free blowjobs, in this current era of internet and social media, no president is going to have ratings as high as they used to have.

Even then half the country would hate him because that's gay, dude.

[kuronosan]

yeah but i think the growing number of people identifying as independent is indicative of the real problem: neither party is doing their jobs, and people know it.

Nobody voted independent in Kansas last time. This time he almost won the senate (and would have had people not voted for the other candidates).

People are waking up.

[Sho]

his approval rating is 42%

when the ship be sinking you don't proclaim faith in the captain

Doesn't work well in this political atmosphere. They were better off siding with their captain while it sinks than trying to abandon ship. Now 2016 will look bad as well for them. Approval ratings isn't a good barometer either anymore, seeing as the general public is starting to dislike politics over all and everyone included.

yeah but i think the growing number of people identifying as independent is indicative of the real problem: neither party is doing their jobs, and people know it.

This is the correct answer and the reason why I swapped to Independent in 2009. People are starting to get tired of politicians playing politics and not working together to get anything done on the Hill.

[Dantrag]

These results are basically what happens ever 6-8 years. Republicans will hold the house and senate for that amount of time then America will shift again for who they vote for. Republicans did a much better job of campaigning than Democrats. Democrats were on the defensive instead of the offensive. They didn't tout the unemployment at all, the stock market, price of gas, nothing. Whom ever is their political adviser on which issues to make commercials about and how to steer the conversation in their favor failed completely.

[tyven]

The election day message from the American people: Give us higher minimum wage, weed, abortion and conservative leadership!

I DONT GET IT U GUYS

[Dantrag]

The election day message from the American people: Give us higher minimum wage, weed, abortion and conservative leadership!

I DONT GET IT U GUYS

If you notice, there were no tea party people that were up against "normal" republicans. They went centrist and controlled the rhetoric and dems didn't do shit about it.

[Soa]

The Senate and House elections went pretty much as expected (Hagan losing the only real surprise for me), but holy shit what the hell happened to the Governor races? How the fuck did Scott, Walker, and Brownback all get re-elected? At least my shitty Governor is gone thank God.

[Dantrag]

Hagan almost only focused on teachers and the school budgets. That was pretty much the only ads that aired... ever.

[Quicklet]

I'm torn on the takeaway from this election, but my gut tells me that this is a consequence of Democrats campaigning too defensively and hoping that they could convince people that things were more optimistic than the average person perceives them to be. Things like delaying immigration action in the hopes of keeping conservatives from getting riled up may have backfired, and now Obama is trapped between going back on his promise to take executive action after the election or poisoning the relationship with the new Congress before they even get a chance to do anything.

I don't think this is really a vote of confidence in Republicans at all. I just think people are tired of politicians not giving them straight answers and they took it out on Obama this year. If the newly elected Congress doesn't back up its talk of fighting for the average person (and I have no reason to believe they will), you're not going to see their approval ratings climb out of the single digits and it will come back to bite them within a few election cycles.

[Talint]

If you notice, there were no tea party people that were up against "normal" republicans. They went centrist and controlled the rhetoric and dems didn't do shit about it.

It is worth noting that the tea party crazies, to which this was supposed to be a referendum on and how the establishment took them out, are still there.

- Paul LePage has won reelection.
- Rick Scott has won reelection.
- Sam Brownback has won reelection.
- Scott Walker has won reelection.

As well as a lot of the individual house races.

It was a great night for the tea party in general though.

[wipers]

I'm voting for these guys I tells ya !