Top ten reasons to vote Democrat

I get your point, I really do. But it is somewhat of a straw man. Democrats don't seem to be running on anything.

The things I'm seeing Democrats running on here in Minnesota are "fairness", "education", "quality health care"--in other words nebulous terms meant to appeal to emotions. Oh, and reminding people that the GOP opponent supported Trump.

So basically the Dems are running on emotional word generalizations and against Trump.

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'Trump Bump' from the rally for Repub candidates in MN?

 

Yes, I think so. Trump's been here twice in the past couple of months. The Reps could take the 8th Congressional District and need to hold onto a couple more. Also, for the first time in a long time Minnesota state government could go completely red. They have a good shot at beating Sen. Al Franken's replacement as well.

The political ads are relentless. I've been watching politics for decades and I don't remember it this consuming here in Minnesota.

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Don't forget

Regulate the press.
Confiscate ALL guns.
Maybe knives too (ala Great Britain).

 

But how inundated are you with political ads, being where you are?

I know here in NC, considered a possible swing state, the ads haven been nonstop.

 

Here in Minneapolis, during local news, they are wall-to-wall. One after the other, sometimes a rival's commercial plays immediately after someone else's. I don't watch very much broadcast TV but I'd say regular network prime time programming has at least two political ads per half hour.

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My part of Wisconsin is saturated with them. I think it was Friday that every piece of mail we received was a political ad. It has become common to get at least three per day, most of it tied to our senate race.

 

I have a personal dilemma.

Here in Florida, the Republucan governor and Legislature sold us on a lottery to add money to Education and immediately cut the General Fund for education by the exact same amount that the Lottery brought it ... thus lying to the people, cheating education out of additional funding they were promised and allowing for more personal benefits to themselves (like a pay raise). Yet we held our nose and continued to support the Republican Party because what the Democrats proposed was worse.

Then our most recent Republican Governor has stopped providing Lottery funds to schools completely and has simply reduced funding by still maintaining the lower levels from the General fund as well. Now schools are struggling to get approval for a bond initiative (kicking the tax down the road) in order to meet budgets. In addition, this same Republican Governor helped revise the laws related to pain drugs so that my wife on full disability with a degenerative spinal condition, cannot get the drugs she needs to deal with her chronic pain.

My dilemma is that this worst Governor ever, is the Republican candidate for US Senate from Florida. I cannot hold my nose and vote for the lesser of two evils this time. I cannot support a man whose actions have directly harmed my family and send him to Washington with a mandate to engage in 6 more years of hurting families and the working class and helping himself and the 1%.

If the Republican Party insists on being the party of the 1%, then I hope they have enough 1 percenters to win the elections. However, I have reached the point where my Party has an OBLIBATION to offer a candidate that I can vote for and still sleep at night. It is no longer enough to simply vote against the Democratic candidate.

So yesterday, I cast my first vote for a Democrat since Jimmy Carter. If the Republicans loose control of the Senate because of Florida, they have only themselves and their out of touch political machine to blame.

 

Sounds like NE Wisconsin. The Tomah VA Scandal is the big thing at the moment.

 

That would be problematic for me brother because he is probably pro-choice.

Even a pro-life JFK bluedog Democrat would be difficult (but possible) for my support because the Democrat Party supports abortion as a part of their political Platform/Mission.

I am a former JFK Democrat.

But I hear you, things can get tough and challenging.

 

I live the county in which Slick Willie came in 3rd in 1992, behind Bush and Perot, and there re noticeably more democrat campaign signs posted this time, especially for Beto O'Rourke to unseat Ted Cruz for the Senate. I don't think there's a realistic chance of that, but this shows there is just more agitation than normal. Not only that, there is a concerted effort to promulgate polls showing the desired results. Does Cruz lead O'Rourke by 6 points or 2? Here's how to evaluate Texas polls.

 

Lol, with your state's recent flip, I imagine your only going to see an increase.