US Midterm Elections

[Jacob]

I'm not sure how to respond to LaCroix...wetlands are an incredibly important part of the environment and also very vulnerable, but LaCroix apparently doesn't see any intrinsic value in that...

I'm still puzzling about how he's somehow distinguishing between "the environment" and "ecology".

[mongers]

I'm not sure how to respond to LaCroix...wetlands are an incredibly important part of the environment and also very vulnerable, but LaCroix apparently doesn't see any intrinsic value in that...

I'm still puzzling about how he's somehow distinguishing between "the environment" and "ecology".

The 'environment' is where you grow crops and where animals that are directly usable as cuts of meat are kept.   (LaCroix)

[CountDeMoney]

The Senate may not be a lock like it looked a few months ago, but the GOP will increase their lead in the House, just like last time.

[Berkut]

I'm not sure how to respond to LaCroix...wetlands are an incredibly important part of the environment and also very vulnerable, but LaCroix apparently doesn't see any intrinsic value in that...

I'm still puzzling about how he's somehow distinguishing between "the environment" and "ecology".

He might be thinking about those wetlands that are outside the environment. Like were they towed that oil tanker.

[Valmy]

The Senate may not be a lock like it looked a few months ago, but the GOP will increase their lead in the House, just like last time.

Why are you talking politics in the wetlands thread?

[Maximus]

The Senate may not be a lock like it looked a few months ago, but the GOP will increase their lead in the House, just like last time.

Why are you talking politics in the wetlands thread?

Yea, quit ducking the issue.

[derspiess]

The Senate may not be a lock like it looked a few months ago, but the GOP will increase their lead in the House, just like last time.

Actually it looked like it was edging closer to 50-50 a few weeks ago but with two or three races starting to favor the GOP candidate it's leaning more towards the GOP.  Fivethirtyeight gives the GOP a 60% shot and that's pretty significant.  Anything could happen in this last month, of course.

Which reminds me, I need to send in for the wife's vote-by-mail ballot

[CountDeMoney]

Be sure to fill it out for her correctly.

[garbon]

College Republican National Committee fires up a swing and a miss in an attempt to reach out to young female voters. I know, women will make the right political choices if we pitch candidates as wedding dresses!

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/college-republicans-make-say-yes-to-the-dress-pa#39jqgut

[Valmy]

I hope their next one compares candidates to beers so I can understand.

[Jacob]

College Republican National Committee fires up a swing and a miss in an attempt to reach out to young female voters. I know, women will make the right political choices if we pitch candidates as wedding dresses!

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/college-republicans-make-say-yes-to-the-dress-pa#39jqgut

It's going to work on derspiess' wife for sure.

[garbon]

Aww...

http://thedailybanter.com/2014/09/republicans-new-black-friend-either-stock-photo-interesting-day/#6cTRRBmCUh5FThJ4.01

Republicans' New Black Friend Is Either A Stock Photo Or Is Having A Very Interesting Day

Earlier, we told you about the enormous fail that is the #IAmARepublican hashtag campaign, and the equally enormous fail of an ad campaign to which it was pegged. As crummy as the "Republicans Are People Too" ad is, you would think that at a minimum, it would feature actual people who are actual Republicans. You would be wrong.
Lots of ads use stock photos, of course, but if you are trying to court a group of people you have been aggressively ignoring as a matter of political strategy, you might want to think about finding a real person to be in your ad. Also, if you're going to include a slide that says, in the plural, "Republicans are black," then you should probably make at least one other person in the rest of your ad black. Alas, that sole honor fell to this attractive, young, apparently Republican woman:


The woman in this photo may or may not be a Republican, but she's certainly been busy. Here she is as a Georgia Black Woman Attorney:


And here she is hiring a Virtual Clone to help out with her online fashion design business:


Which she probably was able to afford by getting coupons for nice glasses:


That paid off with a mentorship with something called the Toigo Foundation:


The fashion designing/lawyering thing apparently hit a snag, so she took out a payday loan:


Unfortunately, that didn't go so well, so she decided to either give or receive biblical counseling (I can't tell which):


Not sure what happened right after that, but before long, she's giving testimonials for New Hope rehabs:


And finally, she's getting a fresh new start studying engineering:


Update: A Facebook user sussed out the source of this photo. It's entitled "Positive Woman," you can find it at iStockPhoto.com, along with another shot of our heroine "cultivating her faith" in, apparently, the London Underground.

I think they should hire me as a consultant as they clearly have no idea what they are doing. As mentioned above, the launched a hashtag about Republicans as part of their campaign to rehabilitate the image of the GOP. I 'm not that twitter savvy but even I know that you don't put out a hashtag for something disliked unless you are hoping to get waves of abuse.

[Eddie Teach]

Maybe they should recycle this one:

[derspiess]

Be sure to fill it out for her correctly.

All I do is inform her of her political opinions.  I would never, ever fill the thing out for her.  She has to fill in those boxes herself

[Maximus]

Aww...

http://thedailybanter.com/2014/09/republicans-new-black-friend-either-stock-photo-interesting-day/#6cTRRBmCUh5FThJ4.01

In what way is that woman black? These Americans are crazy.