UN US Midterm Elections 2018 Megathread - Blue Wave or Red Tsunami? Because you know we need one.

November 6th, 2018.
You have less than one month to sperg about the midterm elections.

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Tis the end of Drumpf!

It's been an inauspicious beginning to the voting season for Mr Trump and his Republican Party, which continue to struggle under the weight of near-constant self-imposed crises and chaos.

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Could the US midterm elections break Trump's presidency?

President Donald Trump. Source: AAP


Voting in the US midterm elections is now underway.

UpdatedUpdated 27 September
By Rashida Yosufzai, Nick Baker
In this article...

• What are the midterms?
• What do the polls predict?
• Why do these elections matter?
• How could recent developments affect things?
• Could Trump be impeached?
• Will the youth vote make a difference?
• What does it mean for Australia?

Americans have started to cast their ballots in a vote that could shape the rest of Donald Trump's presidency.

Although the US midterm elections are technically held on 6 November, early voting has already started in a handful of states.

Minnesota was the first state to allow early in-person voting on 21 September, with a handful of key states following, including New Jersey, California and Arizona.


Thirty-five states and the District of Columbia offer some form of early voting, meaning every day until 6 November counts for Democrats and Republicans.

It's been an inauspicious beginning to the voting season for Mr Trump and his Republican Party, which continue to struggle under the weight of near-constant self-imposed crises and chaos.

80 per cent chance of winning back the chamber.

Republicans have a 1 in 5 chance of keeping control of the House, while Democrats have about a 4 in 5 chance of winning control of the House. https://t.co/lyNh30TEIw pic.twitter.com/O38qtMPpIz

— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) September 25, 2018
The Senate though is likely to be retained by the Republicans.

According to CNN, the Democrats are defending some two dozen seats, including 10 in states where Mr Trump secured victory in 2016, and five of those where he won resoundingly.

FiveThirtyEight gives the Democrats just a 30 per cent chance of taking the Senate.

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The Democrats could also use their numbers to set up House select committees targeting the president.

"They will have an opportunity to set up special panels and committees to essentially smear President Trump," United States Studies Centre research fellow Dougal Robinson told SBS News in April.

Mr Robinson pointed to the Benghazi committee set up by the Republicans against Hillary Clinton in 2014 to further investigate the fatal 2012 terrorist attack on two US government facilities in Libya.

Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

Once seen as cruising to an easy vote - fulfilling Mr Trump's key promise to stack the Supreme Court with conservative justices - a string of sexual assault allegations has turned the Kavanaugh decision into all-out political war.

According to CNN's national political reporter Eric Bradner, the scandal and lukewarm response from some Republicans to Mr Kavanaugh's accusers could "drive suburban women away in midterms".

I have no doubt that, if the attack on Dr. Ford was as bad as she says, charges would have been immediately filed with local Law Enforcement Authorities by either her or her loving parents. I ask that she bring those filings forward so that we can learn date, time, and place!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 21, 2018
Analysts also point to Robert Mueller's investigation as an ongoing potential source of political curveballs.

Mr Mueller has already indicted more than 30 people in connection with his probe into whether members of Mr Trump's campaign colluded with Russia to help get the real estate tycoon elected.

And speculation has swirled in recent days that Mr Trump may fire embattled deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein - who oversees the Russia collusion probe.

Doubts over how long Mr Rosenstein can keep the job have swirled since shock media reports that he once suggested secretly recording Mr Trump to collect evidence for ousting him under a constitutional amendment for presidents unfit to remain in office.

Mr Rosenstein's firing - and Mr Trump possibly putting someone more pliable in his place - would set off alarm bells over the future independence of a probe, which has the potential to rock both the midterms and the entire Trump presidency.

US wants ‘partnership, not domination’ in Australia and region[/paste:font]


A report co-authored by Mr Robinson predicted after the midterms, Congress would be highly unlikely to support a US re-entry to the Trans-Pacific Partnership - a trade deal between 11 Pacific nations including Australia and New Zealand which Mr Trump pulled the US out of last year.

Another issue that may affect Australia is that if the Democrats retake the House, it is likely to lead to lower defence spending.

Additional reporting: AAP, AFP

This article was originally published in April 2018 and updated in September 2018.

How will Trump keep his voter base energized? "More Winning."
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TRUMP HAS A TWO WORD RESPONSE WHEN REPORTER ASKS HIM HOW HE WILL KEEP GOP BASE ENERGIZED
5:52 PM 10/10/2018
Benny Johnson | Reporter At Large

President Donald Trump made portions of the White House press corps chuckle with his response on how he intends to keep Republican voters fired up after the ultimately successful confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

“How do you keep your base energized now that you have this Kavanaugh victory?” one reporter asked. Tuesday was the first day that Kavanaugh sat on the court after a contentious battle over his nomination.

“More winning,” Trump said.

Trump was leaving the White House on his way to a campaign rally Tuesday night when he took questions from reporters in the White House driveway.

The president was also asked about the mobs of paid progressive protesters that took over Capitol Hill during the contentious debate over Kavanaugh’s confirmation. Trump was specifically asked about the intense “energy” of the protesters.

“A lot of those were paid protesters. You saw that they are all unhappy because they haven’t been paid yet,” Trump alleged about the protesters. (RELATED: Trump Has A Theory Why The Anti-Kavanaugh Protesters Are So Mad)


Trump brought up his new trade deal with Canada and Mexico as a major policy win. “Our deal with Mexico and Canada was fantastic,” Trump said. “China wants to make a deal so badly. We will see where it goes. But I don’t think they are ready.”

Trump Will Lose 60 Seats in the house... Unless... Please Visit My Site
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MATT DRUDGE WARNS OF MIDTERM BLOODBATH: TRUMP TO LOSE ’60 SEATS IN THE HOUSE LIKE OBAMA DID’
2:41 PM 09/14/2018
Peter Hasson | Reporter

Conservative news giant Matt Drudge on Friday made a somber prediction about Republicans’ chances in the November midterm elections, predicting President Donald Trump will see his party lose 60 seats in the House of Representatives.

Drudge, who runs the influential Drudge Report, compared the upcoming midterms to the electoral bloodbath Democrats suffered in the 2010 midterm elections under former President Barack Obama.

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“Trump and Obama both have 47% approval at this time of presidency, according to Rasmussen. Trump will also lose 60 seats in the House like Obama did during first midterm!” Drudge wrote on Twitter. (RELATED: Democrats Should Immediately Abolish ICE After Retaking Congress)

He added cryptically: “Unless…”

Democrats have to gain 23 House seats in November in order to flip the lower chamber. Democrats have an 83 percent chance of retaking the House, according to FiveThirty Eight.

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The Weird :
Mark Taylor "Red Tsunami Prophecy"
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Mark Taylor (The Trump Prophecies): Most Important Midterm Elections In All Of US History
July 30, 2018 29 3159


Mark Taylor says the upcoming 2018 elections are the most important mid-term elections in all of America’s history. Here’s why…

Mark Taylor interviewed by Greg Hunter on USA Watchdog

Mark Taylor, author of the popular book “The Trump Prophecies,” contends, “If you are part of the army of God, you need to be ready also because there are going to be politicians that are going to resign. We have had the biggest number of resignations probably in history. This midterm election is going to be huge. This is going to be a red tsunami. They keep talking about the blue wave. I think it’s going to be a blue drip, a leaky faucet, and that is all they are going to get. You have had more resignations than we have ever seen. Now is the time to go in and capture this ground and hold it for the Kingdom of God. . . . It’s not a left or right thing. God is moving us towards a place of righteousness. That’s what’s happening right now. So, he’s going to be replacing these people. If you are called to be a judge, senator, congressman or a council person, I don’t care what level local, state or federal, take your place and get ready. If you are in the Army of God and you don’t vote, you need to get off your behind and register to vote. These are going to be the most important midterm elections in America’s history—period.”

In closing, Taylor says, “I don’t think there is going to be another Democrat in the White House for a long time, if ever again. I believe you are seeing the death of the Democrat party right now.”

Join Greg Hunter as he goes One-on-One with Mark Taylor, co-author of “The Trump Prophecies,” which has been made into a movie that is releasing in early October.

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[Unpleasant]

At the risk of sounding like an idiot, can someone better at American politics explain how the party with 10 million more votes still lost? Is it the same rules that technically cucked Hillary Clinton out of a win? I’m not upset or anything I just want to learn.

The elections that just took place are subdivided among state lines for senators and distinct districts within states for congressmen. Congressmen jobs are assigned proportionally to a state based on population, so the states with very low population may have as few as one house representative, whereas in the most populous state, California, they have 53 representatives.

There are two senators per state, and each senator is, in theory, as important as the other. None of their votes counts for more or less than the other. You could have five small states break for Republican senators whereas California votes in two Democrats and have a situation where there are more total votes for the democratic California senator than there are the Republicans from less populated states altogether.

This is entirely by design because the US is a big place and was a big place back when the framework of government was proposed, and the founders knew that mob rule would greatly disenfranchise the less populated areas and citizens.

 

[Poiseon]

I don't even have the words for this shit.

https://mobile.twitter.com/SugarTrapMinaj/status/1060208894859984902

Jesus fucking Christ. I hate people like this. Never voting Democrat if these fucks are their main supporters. I'd rather be associated with Nazis than these evil fucks.

 

[Hux]

Let's not forget the real winners (losers) in all this, either: The Reagan Battalion is pants-shittingly angry because pretty much every single person they were endorsing got trampled into the floor. Maybe all of the people they were endorsing, actually. I haven't double-checked yet.

A Twitter group named after the king of Neocons pissed off that the Neocons of the GOP are going out of the party by hook or by crook

How entirely unexpected and out of character

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

What pisses me off about the Georgia elections is the fact that Hank Johnson won again for the House. And it isn't so much the fact he's Democrat as much as it is that he's a really stupid man.

This fucker won with 79% of the vote.

 

[Poiseon]

A Twitter group named after the king of Neocons pissed off that the Neocons of the GOP are going out of the party by hook or by crook

How entirely unexpected and out of character

The old Republicans are warmongers and elitist sacks of Shit like George Bush. People voted for Trump and his supporters because the GOP establishment is full of wage-slave driving cunts and the Democrats don't give a fuck about the country. Trump's populist points and actually following through with what he said he would do is what makes him so popular. I've never voted for a Republican, I voted for Trump. I think that's how the vast majority of Trump's supporters see it.

 

[Norvic]

Eh, you know they're pissed about the outcome when I can go to the Yahoo front page and every single shred of evidence that there was a midterm election yesterday is gone. Map of outcomes? Gone. Graphs? Gone. Headlines? Gone. You have to scroll more and more down to see something even mention it tangentially.

Wait, Yahoo still exists? What year is this?

 

[ConfederateIrishman]

Are they a bunch of out of touch Jesus freaks butt mad trump is a no-good sinner or what?

The irony of some folks taking Reagans name for their anti-trump kool kids klub is just too much.

Neocons mostly, good riddance to them I say

 

[BubbleButt]

Jesus fucking Christ. I hate people like this. Never voting Democrat if these fucks are their main supporters. I'd rather be associated with Nazis than these evil fucks.

I personally know more people that wish death upon their political opponents than I'm comfortable with.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Another Pokéfag upset that a state voted in a voter ID law. Gee, it's like they really don't want to get caught with voter fraud.

At least here's a Democrat who thinks Clinton running again is a bad idea, but let's see if they change their tune when she announces she's campaigning for a third time.

Although I'm honestly still reeling that Florida voted to restore voting rights for criminals. If it wasn't specific in that there's still a restriction to it, that doesn't sit right with me. What's everyone else's take on it?

 

[ColtWalker1847]

A Twitter group named after the king of Neocons pissed off that the Neocons of the GOP are going out of the party by hook or by crook

How entirely unexpected and out of character

Reagan was straight conservative. No neo about it.

It was the "compassionate conservative" guys like GWB who were the neos.

Fuck, might as well call Goldwater a neocon.

 

[Poiseon]

I personally know more people that wish death upon their political opponents than I'm comfortable with.

Funny the same people who usually do that are the seven actual Nazis in a America and millions of soy-sucking hipster cunts from the suburbs.

 

[Poiseon]

Another Pokéfag upset that a state voted in a voter ID law. Gee, it's like they really don't want to get caught with voter fraud.
View attachment 586683 At least here's a Democrat who thinks Clinton running again is a bad idea, but let's see if they change their tune when she announces she's campaigning for a third time.

Although I'm honestly still reeling that Florida voted to restore voting rights for criminals. If it wasn't specific in that there's still a restriction to it, that doesn't sit right with me. What's everyone else's take on it?

Depends on the severity of the criminal charges. What are the specifics? Did they give voting rights back to people who got arrested on things like pot charges, or did they go as far as rapists and the like?

 

[Dr. Henry Armitage]

Because Stacey Abrams is like over $200,000 in student loan and credit card debt, she owes the IRS $50,000, and she somehow scraped up $50,000 which she loaned to her campaign.

It's easy to see why she's hanging on for dear life when the outcome determines whether she'll be living in the governor's mansion, or a van down by the river.

Running for governor so you don't become homeless. That's a bold strategy cotton, lets see how it plays out for her.

 

[RP 520]

Are they a bunch of out of touch Jesus freaks butt mad trump is a no-good sinner or what?

The irony of some folks taking Reagans name for their anti-trump kool kids klub is just too much.

Nah, just establishment. They were big supporters of people like John McCain, John Kasich, Marco Rubio, Jeb!, etc.

 

[Antipathy]

If the US doesn't function, what the fuck are all the other countries doing that we're on top? Maybe it's for the best that the US "Doesn't function" according to Europeans from the least functional countries in the world.

If and when world war 3 happens, it'll be the fucking US again that the free world hinges on, because you idiots keep letting china and russia grab all the power they want.

Also start contributing to the UN cheapskates. We're sick of footing the bill for literally everything in the world.

The Saudis are laughing all the way to the bank, funded by the U.S. The Chinese are doing pretty good, all things considered, and nobody's going to fuck with Russia.

Meanwhile the U.S is screeching about itself and a couple thousand people on the border, the Commonwealth is shitting its pants over being PC, the EU is falling apart, and Africa is still a shithole, but the Chinese are colonizing it. When WW3 happens, everyone will get nuclear buttfucked, so it's just going to be proxy wars in Africa and maybe Europe for the foreseeable future.

 

[It's HK-47]

Let's not forget the real winners (losers) in all this, either: The Reagan Battalion is pants-shittingly angry because pretty much every single person they were endorsing got trampled into the floor. Maybe all of the people they were endorsing, actually. I haven't double-checked yet.

Yep. Barbara Comstock, Mia Love, Mike Coffman, Carlos Curbelo, and John Faso all lost, or are losing their elections.

Spoiler

 

[Antipathy]

Yep. Barbara Comstock, Mia Love, Mike Coffman, Carlos Curbelo, and John Faso all lost their elections.

Let me just say that I'm glad. Reagan can suck a dick in Hell, and no matter where you fall, it's a relief to see Reaganites failing.

 

[Poiseon]

The Saudis are laughing all the way to the bank, funded by the U.S. The Chinese are doing pretty good, all things considered, and nobody's going to fuck with Russia.

Meanwhile the U.S is screeching about itself and a couple thousand people on the border, the Commonwealth is shitting its pants over being PC, the EU is falling apart, and Africa is still a shithole, but the Chinese are colonizing it. When WW3 happens, everyone will get nuclear buttfucked, so it's just going to be proxy wars in Africa and maybe Europe for the foreseeable future.

No one will use nukes except terrorists. The damage it does to a region renders the resources there entirely useless.
Official prediction; The US in around fifty years will go to war with China, northern Africa, and the newly formed Islamic European Union. Russia, being vastly Christian will side with the US along with south American nations. US naval power will regulate the fighting mostly to Europe and north Africa, with a secondary front opening up along China's northern border once the Islamic European Union starts to buckle under the might of the American-Russo alliance.

 

[Poiseon]

Let me just say that I'm glad. Reagan can suck a dick in Hell, and no matter where you fall, it's a relief to see Reaganites failing.

Never saw them as Reaganites. From what I've seen Reagan actually gave a shit. These shitty, ultra rich Republican fucks just want to fuck the common man and invade every fucking country imaginable for their resources. Good to the see the last vestiges of the warhawks getting their asses kicked out of power.

 

[Creep3r]

I don't even have the words for this shit.

https://mobile.twitter.com/SugarTrapMinaj/status/1060208894859984902

I was honestly expecting some salt or some laughs after the results, but instead I only see mundane reactions or people not giving a shit one way or the other (outside of twitterdrones buttmad about Trump's latest tweet that is; that shit's a gold mine of lunacy as usual), but the worst thing I didn't expect were dozens (if not hundreds) of people celebrating a poor old woman's death on Facebo0k, Twitter and Reddit. That's just fucking sickening. It even says a lot when r/politics starts questioning the people they hang out with on there.
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/9uttvs/