(Master Thread) 2024 Election Strategies, Issues, & Candidates [merged threads]

[Boiler 45,464]

MSNBC

 

The gift that keeps giving

 

 

[TBoneTX 45,264]

This Election Shows Why The Electoral College Is A Genius Idea

 

Every four years, various "experts" whine about the Electoral College, that seemingly bizarre feature of the Constitution whereby a handful of "electors" from each state get to choose the next president.  This year proved why the Electoral College, which so many complain about but very few understand, was an incredible invention of our nation's founders.

On election night, Chris Hayes, the insufferable MSNBC talking head, was one of the people spewing out the hackneyed complaint, saying "We have this very funky and terrible system called the Electoral College which decides elections in a way that is totally different than every other election in the United States, and the way that anything is decided anywhere else in the world.  We should scrap it."

The left has been trying mightily to undermine the Electoral College for decades.  The latest gambit is [...]

 

https://issuesinsights.com/2024/11/11/this-election-shows-why-the-electoral-college-is-a-genius-idea/

[TBoneTX 45,264]

If so, LONG past time.

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The Biggest Losers On Election Night Were The Obamas

 

About a week before the final day of the election, The Wall Street Journal published an editorial titled, "A Harris Victory Means the Fourth Term of Obama."  Although Kamala Harris failed her bid for the U.S. presidency spectacularly on Tuesday, the biggest losers of the 2024 election were the Obamas.

No one has had more influence on the Democrat Party in the last decade than the Obamas.  The Democrat Party used to be a place working-class Americans called home.  It was sympathetic to kitchen-table issues such as how soaring crime and food and gas prices affected ordinary Americans' quality of life.

 

But under President Obama's leadership [...]

 

https://thefederalist.com/2024/11/11/the-biggest-losers-on-election-night-were-the-obamas/

[TBoneTX 45,264]

As well they should be, and double and triple.

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Many in government are worried about Trump's return.  At DOJ, they're terrified.

 

A collective sense of dread has taken hold at the Department of Justice, which drew Donald Trump's rage like no other part of the federal government during his campaign.

Some career attorneys at DOJ are already considering heading for the exits rather than sticking around to find out whether threats from Trump and his allies are real or campaign bluster.  Those threats range from mass firings of "deep state" lawyers to expelling special counsel Jack Smith from the country.

"Everyone I've talked to, mostly lawyers, are losing their minds," said one DOJ attorney, who like most of the people interviewed for this article was granted anonymity to speak freely about colleagues and avoid retribution from the president-elect and his allies.  "The fear is that career leadership and career employees everywhere are either going to leave or they're going to be driven out."  [...]

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/10/trump-return-justice-department-00188623

[TBoneTX 45,264]

Prosecute the director & assistant, and fire the top 3 levels and anyone lower who supported them.

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FBI brass 'stunned' and 'shell-shocked' over Trump reelection

 

The brass on the seventh floor at FBI headquarters in Washington have been in a daze and wary of a housecleaning since Donald Trump was reelected president on Tuesday, inside sources say.

The Washington Times learned through several anonymous bureau sources that senior agency executives were "stunned" and "shell-shocked" by Mr. Trump's victory over Vice President Kamala Harris.

 

"You know the fit test?  How they let the standards slack on the fit test?" said the first FBI source, referring to the agency's physical fitness requirements.  "Everyone's going to have a real problem when they're running for the door."  [...]

 

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/nov/7/fbi-brass-stunned-shell-shocked-donald-trump-reele/

[TBoneTX 45,264]

VDH sticks in the knife and twists, ever so politely.

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The Fault, Dear Democrats, Is in Yourselves

 

[...] After the Democratic train wreck, half the party is suddenly damning George Washington Joe for sticking around too long, even though party grandees cooked up the scheme in the first place of nominating the cognitively challenged Biden in 2020 to shut out his radical (and supposedly unelectable) primary rivals.

 

Now that his successor Harris has bombed, in the leftist mind, Joe has gone from a Washingtonian Olympian to a veritable selfish Richard Nixon who clung to office far too long and supposedly ensured his party's defeat.

Yet still, others now blame [...]

 

https://amgreatness.com/2024/11/11/the-fault-dear-democrats-is-in-yourselves/

[Ban Hammer 13,330]

33 minutes ago, TBoneTX said:

VDH sticks in the knife and twists, ever so politely.

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The Fault, Dear Democrats, Is in Yourselves

 

[...] After the Democratic train wreck, half the party is suddenly damning George Washington Joe for sticking around too long, even though party grandees cooked up the scheme in the first place of nominating the cognitively challenged Biden in 2020 to shut out his radical (and supposedly unelectable) primary rivals.

 

Now that his successor Harris has bombed, in the leftist mind, Joe has gone from a Washingtonian Olympian to a veritable selfish Richard Nixon who clung to office far too long and supposedly ensured his party's defeat.

Yet still, others now blame [...]

 

https://amgreatness.com/2024/11/11/the-fault-dear-democrats-is-in-yourselves/

it's so great watching the left turn into cannibals.

[TBoneTX 45,264]

Salena Zito knocks it out of the park!

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Working-class realignment not going away any time soon
 

BUTLER, Pennsylvania — On Oct. 4, several weeks after being shot at the Butler Farm Show Complex here in Western Pennsylvania, then-candidate Donald Trump came back to the very spot he stood when disturbed loner Thomas Matthew Crooks fired several shots at him, almost ending Trump's life and taking the life of a Western Pennsylvania father.

For anyone paying attention that day, it was clear the race was over.  If we are all being honest, it was likely over even before the first rally began on July 13.  I've argued in my reporting that Trump's inevitability began 18 months earlier, when he showed up 42 miles from here in East Palestine, Ohio, when nobody in the White House could be bothered.

But back to the assassination attempt:  [...]

 

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/3225782/working-class-realignment-not-going-away-any-time-soon/

[TBoneTX 45,264]

Best news ever!    

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BREAKING:  Republicans Will Keep Control of the House

 

It's official:  Republicans will maintain control of the House of Representatives for the next term.  Decision Desk HQ called the race for Arizona's 6th Congressional District for Republican Juan Ciscomani and shortly thereafter called the House for Republicans.  [...]

 

https://pjmedia.com/paula-bolyard/2024/11/11/breaking-republicans-will-keep-control-of-the-house-n4933998

[Ban Hammer 13,330]

apparently Polymarket is way more accurate..........

[Pooky 3,781]

11 minutes ago, Ban Hammer said:

apparently Polymarket is way more accurate..........

Pollsters … the only people being paid to be less accurate than meteorologists ☠️

[TBoneTX 45,264]

22 minutes ago, Pooky said:

Pollsters … the only people being paid to be less accurate than meteorologists ☠️

Or economists.

[TBoneTX 45,264]

 

WATCH:  Oprah Gets Cornered by Reporter and Asked About Her Million Dollar Payday From Kamala

 

If there was anything that gave you a window into why you shouldn't vote for Democrats and how bad they are with money, it would be how Kamala Harris and her team reportedly spent like drunken sailors, ripping through the huge amount of money they had for their campaign.  They had over a billion dollars and not only spent it all in a few months but they are now reportedly $20 million in debt.

As we reported, she managed to outspend Trump at a clip of over $55 million, while his total came in under $10 million; he won while using hundreds fewer employees.  [...]

 

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/11/11/oprah-remarks-on-kamala-town-hall-n2181856

[TBoneTX 45,264]

*** Some posts have been split from this thread into a new thread, "Trump Appointees & Nominees" -- the election is over, after all.  If anyone finds posts here that are better in the new thread, please holler. ***

[TBoneTX 45,264]

Brief update on Alaska's results:

 

"We're still sorting out the results of Alaska's elections.  It looks like ranked-choice voting (RCV) is narrowly going down.  It looks like Nick Begich III is going to replace Mary Peltola in Alaska's at-large House of Representatives chair.  But nothing is finally decided yet, some of the outlying communities are still outstanding – so we're crossing our fingers."

 

From:

https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/11/11/alaska-man-monday-a-sad-thing-a-bad-thing-and-a-happy-thing-n2181793