2026 Congressional Elections

[gehringer_2]

1 minute ago, Motown Bombers said:

Classic abuser mentality. Blame everyone else instead of the abuser. 

LOL - your're really reaching here not to hold incompetent pols as incompetent.

[Motown Bombers]

1 minute ago, gehringer_2 said:

LOL - your're really reaching here not to hold incompetent pols as incompetent.

I'm not the one trying to blame Schumer because Platner is a Nazi woman abuser. That's all you and frankly puzzling. 

[gehringer_2]

4 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

It's Schumer's fault Platner is a Nazi who abuses women. Blame the Jew. 

Platner is a symptom. A moribound party is the desease. It's exactly how Trump got control of the GOP in microcosm

Edited 9 hours ago by gehringer_2

[Motown Bombers]

Just now, gehringer_2 said:

Platner is a symptom. A moribound party is the desease. It's exactly how Trump got control of the GOP in microcosm

Democrats are competitive in states they shouldn't be because of Schumer like Texas, Ohio, Iowa and Alaska. Trump got control of the party because of people like you who accepted the Nazi. Why are you not blaming the New England Dems like Sanders, Warren and Murphy who have all supported Platner? Trump captured the GOP because republicans capitulated like the New England Dems. 

[gehringer_2]

13 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

because of people like you who accepted the Nazi.

oh lord MB, get of your horse. Nobody here has done one thing to help or hurt Platner one way or the other. Unless someone here sent a campaign contribution we are completely immaterial to the situation.

[Motown Bombers]

11 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

oh lord MB, get of your horse. Nobody here has done one thing to help or hurt Platner one way or the other. Unless someone here sent a campaign contribution we are completely immaterial to the situation.

I said like you, not you or anyone here for that matter. 

[gehringer_2]

5 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

I said like you, not you or anyone here for that matter. 

🙏

[gehringer_2]

39 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

Why are you not blaming the New England Dems like Sanders, Warren and Murphy who have all supported Platner? Trump captured the GOP because republicans capitulated like the New England Dems. 

If Platner craters and loses, there will be plenty of blame to go around - no doubt. Maybe even if he wins and then it goes badly. 

Edited 8 hours ago by gehringer_2

[oblong]

1 hour ago, Motown Bombers said:

The problem is the control of the senate affects Michigan and control of the senate runs through Maine. I do think Dems have a path without Maine, but it's more difficult. National Dems are going to have to answer for Platner. You attack Paxton, what about Platner? 

Sure but I have no responsibility for that. I’ve never been there and don’t know anybody from there. The local party and politicians and voters decide this.  Not us or Schumer or Bernie or Hillary or whoever else.  Th voters should know better.  

[Motown Bombers]

Why did Chuck Schumer make him do this?

 

[Motown Bombers]

25 minutes ago, oblong said:

Sure but I have no responsibility for that. I’ve never been there and don’t know anybody from there. The local party and politicians and voters decide this.  Not us or Schumer or Bernie or Hillary or whoever else.  Th voters should know better.  

There are options. We don't have to accept it. The voters chose Biden but Dems were able to find a way to remove him from the ticket. 

[oblong]

I dont understand what “accept” means in this context.  I can say I accept or don’t accept it.  How does that change anything?  What did I do different there?  It has no effect on what the voters there will do.  They’re not listening to me. 

[pfife]

This is total erasure of the value of virtue signaling and its a traveshamockery

 

[Motown Bombers]

2 hours ago, oblong said:

I dont understand what “accept” means in this context.  I can say I accept or don’t accept it.  How does that change anything?  What did I do different there?  It has no effect on what the voters there will do.  They’re not listening to me. 

We, as Democrats, do not have to accept Platner as the nominee. Dems have shown they are very skilled at overturning the results of a primary.  I have already emailed Slotkin and Peters about Platner. Just waiting on George Clooney to weigh in. Dems can also support a write in campaign for Costello. There is also a path to a majority in the senate without Maine. I think even if Platner wins, Dems will need a buffer as he has never shown previously to be a progressive. 

[oblong]

Legit question.  Is this something the DNC is involved with or is it theMaine Democratic Party?  

[pfife]

Throwing out election results and installing somoene isnt tyranny when MB supports it

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, Motown Bombers said:

Dems will need a buffer as he has never shown previously to be a progressive. 

he may end up universally hated by his own party like Ted Cruz, but the one thing I don't get any sense of is that he's GOP mole. His current progressive postures may be a politics of convenience to get elected, but the risk of him joining the GOP seems small - he's not holding out any olive branches to Trumpers - he's savaging Trump in his campaign. And apart from that, changing parties in this environment doesn't make it easier to get re-elected like it might have in the 70's - it just makes both sides hate you.

Edited 1 hour ago by gehringer_2

[pfife]

Yesterday he bothsides'd the Epstein files.

[Motown Bombers]

5 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

he may end up universally hated by his own party like Ted Cruz, but the one thing I don't get any sense of is that he's GOP mole. His current progressive postures may be a politics of convenience to get elected, but the risk of him joining the GOP seems small - he's not holding out any olive branches to Trumpers - he's savaging Trump in his campaign. And apart from that, changing parties in this environment doesn't make it easier to get re-elected like it might have in the 70's - it just makes both sides hate you.

Fetterman also was a progressive populist. Platner as recently as 2020 voted for Collins. I don’t think he will switch parties but he is definitely a wild card. 

[gehringer_2]

re: Fetterman:

One of the last posts on LiberalPatriot -- about Qinnipiac polling on Fetterman.

https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/john-fetterman-and-the-new-era-of

Then, on the death of TLP

https://artofassociation.substack.com/p/the-strange-death-of-the-liberal

The line in the 2nd that rang the bell to me was this one:

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“American politics features two minority parties, and neither seems interested in building a national coalition.”

For either party - eke out one house of Congress or the Presidency every other cycle, continual split government gridlock. It's why too many people in the middle aren't caring that Trump is willing to break everything.

Edited 1 hour ago by gehringer_2