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Republicans' Huge Underperformance in Oklahoma Raises Alarm Bells
Newsweak ^
Posted on 02/14/2024 3:11:55 PM PST by bigdaddy45
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To: bigdaddy45
A special election squeaker means little, particularly with the very small amount of votes in the race in the first place.
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posted on
02/14/2024 3:13:13 PM PST
by
Pox
(Eff You China. Buy American!)
To: bigdaddy45
These aren’t any proof of anything.
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posted on
02/14/2024 3:14:53 PM PST
by
dforest
To: bigdaddy45
Democrats are searching for any glimmer of hope but this means nothing. People will pour out of every nook and cranny to vote for Trump, not for every Joe Schmoe who runs under the R label.
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posted on
02/14/2024 3:18:12 PM PST
by
libh8er
To: All
The alarm bell is that the Democrats are going to have to cheat even harder in November.
To: bigdaddy45
I feel like the days when we could dominate in special elections and off-year elections are gone. Itโs like things have been inverted and our voters are behaving more like Democrat voters used to and only turning out for presidential elections.
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posted on
02/14/2024 3:22:15 PM PST
by
sam_whiskey
(Peace through Strength. )
To: LegendHasIt
Fortifying elections is their forte.
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posted on
02/14/2024 3:22:59 PM PST
by
griswold3
(Truth, Beauty and Goodness. )
To: bigdaddy45
I told the Republicans there not to vote for him because he wasn’t ‘pure’ enough for me, and therefore a Democrat, any Democrat is FAR BETTER, as that will ‘teach the GOP a lesson’.
(don’t laugh, half the people reading this agree with the above)
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posted on
02/14/2024 3:25:11 PM PST
by
BobL
(Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
To: bigdaddy45
Why Democrat party (who has done everything imaginable to destroy this country) would even get 1 vote really amazes me, let alone come “close” in ANY election, much less win one.
To: bigdaddy45
Newsweek article, will they be wanting to discredit polls entirely?
Without any way to predict elections stealing becomes easier.
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posted on
02/14/2024 3:25:15 PM PST
by
Bayard
To: bigdaddy45
This article sounds like it was written by a concern troll.
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posted on
02/14/2024 3:25:52 PM PST
by
farmguy
( )
To: bigdaddy45
If 50 to 45 percent is only 261 vote difference then clearly the total vote was minimal.
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posted on
02/14/2024 3:28:23 PM PST
by
Fledermaus
(Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
To: farmguy
It was also posted by a TDS concern troll. LOL This is supposed to drive you into DeSantis or Nikki’s arms.
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posted on
02/14/2024 3:33:11 PM PST
by
dforest
To: BobL
Yes, you are right. Half of the people here prefer “loosing with honor” that winning.
We, the Republican are in danger of becoming the PURE 25% party. Pure, but never winning anything!
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posted on
02/14/2024 3:36:45 PM PST
by
AZJeep
To: bigdaddy45
Underperformed or outcheated?
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posted on
02/14/2024 3:38:19 PM PST
by
rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this๐ฉ? ๐ซ๐! ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐!)
To: bigdaddy45
YAWN! This election was for a Oklahoma House District seat, NOT a congressional seat. A 261 vote win out of 5200 total votes. This was a very low turnout. Maybe GOP voters are fed up with Senator Lankford and did not feel like turning out to vote for anyone.
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posted on
02/14/2024 3:39:00 PM PST
by
Flavious_Maximus
(Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
To: dforest
Could you please choose a different metaphor than one whose literal meaning raises instills nausea.
To: sam_whiskey
Itโs like things have been inverted and our voters are behaving more like Democrat voters used to and only turning out for presidential elections. We have traded the high-propensity white college-educated voters in the suburbs for a lot more low-propensity voters who seem to only come out and vote for Donald Trump.
That gets you closer in Pennsylvania and Michigan and that's about it
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posted on
02/14/2024 3:41:29 PM PST
by
hcmama
To: AndyJackson
This one has more umph. You must gird your loins.
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posted on
02/14/2024 3:42:15 PM PST
by
dforest
To: Pox
The default setting of the electorate is to punish the party in power when a gross misdeed is committed.
A couple examples:
- 2008: William Jefferson, who represented the majority black and strongly Democrat district in New Orleans was convicted of bribery and Joseph Cao, ethnic Vietnamese, was elected on the Repulican ticket. He served only one term.
- 2018: Tim Murphy, who represented a district (mine in SW Pennsylvania) so strongly GOP that he had run unopposed in the last two election cycles, was caught in a sex scandal. Since he was not a Democrat, this was not considered resume enhancement, and he resigned in disgrace. Conor Lamb, a pretty boy whose widely touted service in the U.S. Marine Corps consisted of several months in Okinawa as a military prosecutor, edged out a frumpy but competent Republican by 0.4%.
Seeing the writing on the wall, Lamb moved to a more competitive district for the next election.
In both cases, even though the disgraced incumbent was not running, the electorate punished the party of the former incumbent.
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posted on
02/14/2024 3:45:33 PM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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