So How Did Repubs Lose A House Race In A District They Gerrymandered To Be Democrat-Proof???

[nat4900]

It's hilarious and quite surprising. Repugs have cheated in Pennsylvania by using gerrymandering for years, which is why the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled recently that the House districts in the state must be redrawn. However, Repugs STILL lost district PA-18 to Democrat Conor Lamb, despite it being one of the reddest districts in the state. Trump won this district by 20% in 2016.

Repugs have got to be very nervous about the 2018 election. Even "safe" red districts could be up for grabs. They better get Putin on the phone quickly and get more help.

....and WHO is NEXT???

After, PA 's staggering reversal last Tuesday, the next big pickup opportunity is in Arizona’s 8th congressional district, where a special election will take place on April 24th. The race is to fill the seat left by disgraced former GOP Rep. Trent Franks in the wake of several sexual harassment allegations.Trump won the district by 12.1 points in 2016 — but hey, he won PA-18 by 21 points, and we obviously know what happened there.

In a closely contested primary, Democrats ultimately chose Dr. Hiral Tipirneni, an emergency room physician and cancer researcher who emigrated to the United States from India with her family when she was just three years old. As you might expect, she’s strong on issues like healthcare — she wants a public option for Medicare buy-in — and immigration, which is a hot point of contention in Arizona.

 

[mdk]

I noticed that these special elections are being created in key states so that Democrats can steal House and Senate seats. They're being spread out over several months so that the Dems can focus all of their energies in each race instead of having to blanket the country. This makes it easier for them to create votes out of thin-air. I noticed that every election seems to have an accusation of sexual impropriety involved. That's how this last seat came open

Tim Murphy admitted to having an affair. It didn’t help that the super pro-life Congressman was pressuring his mistress to get an abortion after a pregnancy scare. He’s a raging hypocrite and I am glad he’s gone.

 

[busybee01]

Oh please. You only wish this had anything to do with Trump. And wouldn't the answer to your question be that gerrymandering isn't why you people lose elections?

The Republicans barely lost to a DINO. If he ran on the Republican ticket, he would have been considered your standard Republican.

Keep projecting. It's what you did before you lost Congress, the Senate, the White House, and most of the governorships across the country. In spite of all the MSM brainwashing, our country has never been better. Lower taxes, most wage earners bringing home more in their paychecks, unemployment at the lowest levels in almost a half-century, Raises and bonuses being handed out, consumer and corporate confidence at record levels, NK begging for relief and ISIS out of Iraq that DumBama Fd up. WTF would people have to vote against when it comes to Republicans?

Republicans spent $10 million saying that Lamb was a Pelosi liberal. Now that he won, they say he is a Republican. He is not pro-life. He opposed the tax cuts for the rich. He supports fixing Obamacare and lays blame for the skyrocketing health insurance costs. A standard Republican? You are the one spinning.

If things are so great then Trump's approval should be at least 50% not around 40%. Voters say Trump is dishonest, untrustworthy, sexist and racist. They oppose his handling of nearly every major issue and even on the economy his positives are only 2 or 3 points above his negatives.

 

[busybee01]

It's hilarious and quite surprising. Repugs have cheated in Pennsylvania by using gerrymandering for years, which is why the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled recently that the House districts in the state must be redrawn. However, Repugs STILL lost district PA-18 to Democrat Conor Lamb, despite it being one of the reddest districts in the state. Trump won this district by 20% in 2016.

Repugs have got to be very nervous about the 2018 election. Even "safe" red districts could be up for grabs. They better get Putin on the phone quickly and get more help.

/——/ Looks like it wasn’t gerrymandered after all

Trump won by 20 so it worked in 2016. It is not working in 2018so far.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Oh please. You only wish this had anything to do with Trump. And wouldn't the answer to your question be that gerrymandering isn't why you people lose elections?

The Republicans barely lost to a DINO. If he ran on the Republican ticket, he would have been considered your standard Republican.

Keep projecting. It's what you did before you lost Congress, the Senate, the White House, and most of the governorships across the country. In spite of all the MSM brainwashing, our country has never been better. Lower taxes, most wage earners bringing home more in their paychecks, unemployment at the lowest levels in almost a half-century, Raises and bonuses being handed out, consumer and corporate confidence at record levels, NK begging for relief and ISIS out of Iraq that DumBama Fd up. WTF would people have to vote against when it comes to Republicans?

So you're denying that Repugs gerrymandered this district, goober? Even though the Pennsylvania Supreme Court said they did?

How did Repugs lose a district that they gerrymandered to GUARANTEE victory???

Lamb a "standard Republican". LOL, what an idiot.

I told you how but you are too dense to read.

Now tell me that Democrats never used gerrymandering when in power. Go ahead.......I dare ya.

Well, at least you're admitting that Repugs gerrymandered the district. I'll give your unremarkable worthless Repug ass credit for that.

Unlike you who won't admit the same for your party. They both do it.

You don't even know how you're being played by these thieves. Their objective is to convince people like YOU that you never really lost any elections; it's just you got cheated somehow. If your party ever told you people the truth, and that is conservatism is alive and well, half of you wouldn't even turn out to vote.

“They both do it” is always the Republican mantra. “But Hillary” has been Trump’s excuse for months.

Republicans have raised gerrymandering to an art form having lost the Congressional popular vote by a wide margin in the past three elections, while easily holding the House.

Holder and Obama are on a mission to overturn gerrymandering in every state prior to 2020. I wish them well.

Republicans have raised gerrymandering to an art form having lost the Congressional popular vote by a wide margin in the past three elections,

Really? How wide a margin?

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Oh please. You only wish this had anything to do with Trump. And wouldn't the answer to your question be that gerrymandering isn't why you people lose elections?

The Republicans barely lost to a DINO. If he ran on the Republican ticket, he would have been considered your standard Republican.

Keep projecting. It's what you did before you lost Congress, the Senate, the White House, and most of the governorships across the country. In spite of all the MSM brainwashing, our country has never been better. Lower taxes, most wage earners bringing home more in their paychecks, unemployment at the lowest levels in almost a half-century, Raises and bonuses being handed out, consumer and corporate confidence at record levels, NK begging for relief and ISIS out of Iraq that DumBama Fd up. WTF would people have to vote against when it comes to Republicans?

Republicans spent $10 million saying that Lamb was a Pelosi liberal. Now that he won, they say he is a Republican. He is not pro-life. He opposed the tax cuts for the rich. He supports fixing Obamacare and lays blame for the skyrocketing health insurance costs. A standard Republican? You are the one spinning.

If things are so great then Trump's approval should be at least 50% not around 40%. Voters say Trump is dishonest, untrustworthy, sexist and racist. They oppose his handling of nearly every major issue and even on the economy his positives are only 2 or 3 points above his negatives.

And there is a reason for that:

Opinion | Study: 91 percent of recent network Trump coverage has been negative

The problem in this country is brainwashing. The second problem is the people that do the brainwashing are an extension of the Democrat party.

If Hil-Liar were President today and had half of Trump's accomplishments, her approval rating would be in the 80's at least.

As long as we allow the MSM to control our minds, we will surly be a communist country in the next 30 years.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Oh please. You only wish this had anything to do with Trump. And wouldn't the answer to your question be that gerrymandering isn't why you people lose elections?

The Republicans barely lost to a DINO. If he ran on the Republican ticket, he would have been considered your standard Republican.

Keep projecting. It's what you did before you lost Congress, the Senate, the White House, and most of the governorships across the country. In spite of all the MSM brainwashing, our country has never been better. Lower taxes, most wage earners bringing home more in their paychecks, unemployment at the lowest levels in almost a half-century, Raises and bonuses being handed out, consumer and corporate confidence at record levels, NK begging for relief and ISIS out of Iraq that DumBama Fd up. WTF would people have to vote against when it comes to Republicans?

So you're denying that Repugs gerrymandered this district, goober? Even though the Pennsylvania Supreme Court said they did?

How did Repugs lose a district that they gerrymandered to GUARANTEE victory???

Lamb a "standard Republican". LOL, what an idiot.

I told you how but you are too dense to read.

Now tell me that Democrats never used gerrymandering when in power. Go ahead.......I dare ya.

Well, at least you're admitting that Repugs gerrymandered the district. I'll give your unremarkable worthless Repug ass credit for that.

Unlike you who won't admit the same for your party. They both do it.

You don't even know how you're being played by these thieves. Their objective is to convince people like YOU that you never really lost any elections; it's just you got cheated somehow. If your party ever told you people the truth, and that is conservatism is alive and well, half of you wouldn't even turn out to vote.

“They both do it” is always the Republican mantra. “But Hillary” has been Trump’s excuse for months.

Republicans have raised gerrymandering to an art form having lost the Congressional popular vote by a wide margin in the past three elections, while easily holding the House.

Holder and Obama are on a mission to overturn gerrymandering in every state prior to 2020. I wish them well.

They are? And just what are these two CITIZENS doing about that?

 

[busybee01]

Oh please. You only wish this had anything to do with Trump. And wouldn't the answer to your question be that gerrymandering isn't why you people lose elections?

The Republicans barely lost to a DINO. If he ran on the Republican ticket, he would have been considered your standard Republican.

Keep projecting. It's what you did before you lost Congress, the Senate, the White House, and most of the governorships across the country. In spite of all the MSM brainwashing, our country has never been better. Lower taxes, most wage earners bringing home more in their paychecks, unemployment at the lowest levels in almost a half-century, Raises and bonuses being handed out, consumer and corporate confidence at record levels, NK begging for relief and ISIS out of Iraq that DumBama Fd up. WTF would people have to vote against when it comes to Republicans?

Republicans spent $10 million saying that Lamb was a Pelosi liberal. Now that he won, they say he is a Republican. He is not pro-life. He opposed the tax cuts for the rich. He supports fixing Obamacare and lays blame for the skyrocketing health insurance costs. A standard Republican? You are the one spinning.

If things are so great then Trump's approval should be at least 50% not around 40%. Voters say Trump is dishonest, untrustworthy, sexist and racist. They oppose his handling of nearly every major issue and even on the economy his positives are only 2 or 3 points above his negatives.

And there is a reason for that:

Opinion | Study: 91 percent of recent network Trump coverage has been negative

The problem in this country is brainwashing. The second problem is the people that do the brainwashing are an extension of the Democrat party.

If Hil-Liar were President today and had half of Trump's accomplishments, her approval rating would be in the 80's at least.

As long as we allow the MSM to control our minds, we will surly be a communist country in the next 30 years.

Oh why don't you shut up. You can't stand the fact that voters see Trump for what he truly is. The fact is that Trump does more damage with his tweets than the MSM. You can brainwash yourself into believing that pile of excrement but voters are not as stupid as you think they are.

 

[OKTexas]

It's hilarious and quite surprising. Repugs have cheated in Pennsylvania by using gerrymandering for years, which is why the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled recently that the House districts in the state must be redrawn. However, Repugs STILL lost district PA-18 to Democrat Conor Lamb, despite it being one of the reddest districts in the state. Trump won this district by 20% in 2016.

Repugs have got to be very nervous about the 2018 election. Even "safe" red districts could be up for grabs. They better get Putin on the phone quickly and get more help.

There are about 40,000 more registered dems than republicans in PA 18 and Trump won the district by 19 points. They just aren't hard leftist dems there, that why the district dems had picked a candidate and didn't have a primary. So other than being totally wrong, you might have a point.


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[Ray From Cleveland]

Oh please. You only wish this had anything to do with Trump. And wouldn't the answer to your question be that gerrymandering isn't why you people lose elections?

The Republicans barely lost to a DINO. If he ran on the Republican ticket, he would have been considered your standard Republican.

Keep projecting. It's what you did before you lost Congress, the Senate, the White House, and most of the governorships across the country. In spite of all the MSM brainwashing, our country has never been better. Lower taxes, most wage earners bringing home more in their paychecks, unemployment at the lowest levels in almost a half-century, Raises and bonuses being handed out, consumer and corporate confidence at record levels, NK begging for relief and ISIS out of Iraq that DumBama Fd up. WTF would people have to vote against when it comes to Republicans?

Republicans spent $10 million saying that Lamb was a Pelosi liberal. Now that he won, they say he is a Republican. He is not pro-life. He opposed the tax cuts for the rich. He supports fixing Obamacare and lays blame for the skyrocketing health insurance costs. A standard Republican? You are the one spinning.

If things are so great then Trump's approval should be at least 50% not around 40%. Voters say Trump is dishonest, untrustworthy, sexist and racist. They oppose his handling of nearly every major issue and even on the economy his positives are only 2 or 3 points above his negatives.

And there is a reason for that:

Opinion | Study: 91 percent of recent network Trump coverage has been negative

The problem in this country is brainwashing. The second problem is the people that do the brainwashing are an extension of the Democrat party.

If Hil-Liar were President today and had half of Trump's accomplishments, her approval rating would be in the 80's at least.

As long as we allow the MSM to control our minds, we will surly be a communist country in the next 30 years.

Oh why don't you shut up. You can't stand the fact that voters see Trump for what he truly is. The fact is that Trump does more damage with his tweets than the MSM. You can brainwash yourself into believing that pile of excrement but voters are not as stupid as you think they are.

Yes, many voters are exactly that--stupid.

"Oh, but I don't like Trump's tweets!" WTF would anybody be stupid enough to vote against a guy because of his tweets?

Let me ask, if you had 100K to invest in the market today, would you choose to invest in a company based on the owners Tweets or how successful he's running the business? This is the exact same thing. Trump is doing a fantastic job with the country, but because some don't like his demeanor, they are going to vote against his great accomplishments.

Don't tell me voters aren't stupid.

 

[WheelieAddict]

Oh please. You only wish this had anything to do with Trump. And wouldn't the answer to your question be that gerrymandering isn't why you people lose elections?

The Republicans barely lost to a DINO. If he ran on the Republican ticket, he would have been considered your standard Republican.

Keep projecting. It's what you did before you lost Congress, the Senate, the White House, and most of the governorships across the country. In spite of all the MSM brainwashing, our country has never been better. Lower taxes, most wage earners bringing home more in their paychecks, unemployment at the lowest levels in almost a half-century, Raises and bonuses being handed out, consumer and corporate confidence at record levels, NK begging for relief and ISIS out of Iraq that DumBama Fd up. WTF would people have to vote against when it comes to Republicans?

Republicans spent $10 million saying that Lamb was a Pelosi liberal. Now that he won, they say he is a Republican. He is not pro-life. He opposed the tax cuts for the rich. He supports fixing Obamacare and lays blame for the skyrocketing health insurance costs. A standard Republican? You are the one spinning.

If things are so great then Trump's approval should be at least 50% not around 40%. Voters say Trump is dishonest, untrustworthy, sexist and racist. They oppose his handling of nearly every major issue and even on the economy his positives are only 2 or 3 points above his negatives.

And there is a reason for that:

Opinion | Study: 91 percent of recent network Trump coverage has been negative

The problem in this country is brainwashing. The second problem is the people that do the brainwashing are an extension of the Democrat party.

If Hil-Liar were President today and had half of Trump's accomplishments, her approval rating would be in the 80's at least.

As long as we allow the MSM to control our minds, we will surly be a communist country in the next 30 years.

Oh why don't you shut up. You can't stand the fact that voters see Trump for what he truly is. The fact is that Trump does more damage with his tweets than the MSM. You can brainwash yourself into believing that pile of excrement but voters are not as stupid as you think they are.

Yes, many voters are exactly that--stupid.

"Oh, but I don't like Trump's tweets!" WTF would anybody be stupid enough to vote against a guy because of his tweets?

Let me ask, if you had 100K to invest in the market today, would you choose to invest in a company based on the owners Tweets or how successful he's running the business? This is the exact same thing. Trump is doing a fantastic job with the country, but because some don't like his demeanor, they are going to vote against his great accomplishments.

Don't tell me voters aren't stupid.

 

[WheelieAddict]

"It's the voters that are stupid because they don't like the presidents moronic tweets" lmao

 

[Darkwind]

Oh please. You only wish this had anything to do with Trump. And wouldn't the answer to your question be that gerrymandering isn't why you people lose elections?

The Republicans barely lost to a DINO. If he ran on the Republican ticket, he would have been considered your standard Republican.

Keep projecting. It's what you did before you lost Congress, the Senate, the White House, and most of the governorships across the country. In spite of all the MSM brainwashing, our country has never been better. Lower taxes, most wage earners bringing home more in their paychecks, unemployment at the lowest levels in almost a half-century, Raises and bonuses being handed out, consumer and corporate confidence at record levels, NK begging for relief and ISIS out of Iraq that DumBama Fd up. WTF would people have to vote against when it comes to Republicans?

So you're denying that Repugs gerrymandered this district, goober? Even though the Pennsylvania Supreme Court said they did?

How did Repugs lose a district that they gerrymandered to GUARANTEE victory???

Lamb a "standard Republican". LOL, what an idiot.

Are you brain dead?

The Democrats ran a conservative, more so than the Republican, and outspent the republican significantly.

The then won a district that at the end of the year, won't exist anymore and the money they tossed at that race won't be available for other, real races for Congress.

So, who looks fucking stupid now?

 

[mudwhistle]

It's hilarious and quite surprising. Repugs have cheated in Pennsylvania by using gerrymandering for years, which is why the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled recently that the House districts in the state must be redrawn. However, Repugs STILL lost district PA-18 to Democrat Conor Lamb, despite it being one of the reddest districts in the state. Trump won this district by 20% in 2016.

Repugs have got to be very nervous about the 2018 election. Even "safe" red districts could be up for grabs. They better get Putin on the phone quickly and get more help.

I noticed that these special elections are being created in key states so that Democrats can steal House and Senate seats. They're being spread out over several months so that the Dems can focus all of their energies in each race instead of having to blanket the country. This makes it easier for them to create votes out of thin-air. I noticed that every election seems to have an accusation of sexual impropriety involved. That's how this last seat came open.

Dems are stealing seats in a gerrymandered Repug district??? Got it, goober.

Yes. And both sides gerrymander......

 

[mudwhistle]

I noticed that these special elections are being created in key states so that Democrats can steal House and Senate seats. They're being spread out over several months so that the Dems can focus all of their energies in each race instead of having to blanket the country. This makes it easier for them to create votes out of thin-air. I noticed that every election seems to have an accusation of sexual impropriety involved. That's how this last seat came open

Tim Murphy admitted to having an affair. It didn’t help that the super pro-life Congressman was pressuring his mistress to get an abortion after a pregnancy scare. He’s a raging hypocrite and I am glad he’s gone.

Yes.....and thanks to Obama and the NSA they were able to target him and discover all of this.
Notice how this rarely becomes an issue with Democrats. Unless they're stupid enough to get their pictures taken doing it, like Al Franken, it never seems to bother anyone.....especially the media.

 

[Mac1958]

If this were a one-off, the Republicans might have a point. But this is just the latest in a long line of losses.

Some are sounding the alarm, but the rest are pretending everything is fine.
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[JoeB131]

If this were a one-off, the Republicans might have a point. But this is just the latest in a long line of losses.

Some are sounding the alarm, but the rest are pretending everything is fine.

Actually, it's more a matter of lying in the bed you made.

The GOP could have stopped Trump at any one of a number of points. They could remove him now by invoking the 25th Amendment.

They refused to do so. And now that the dumb white trash in the rust belt is figuring out that Daddy's Union Job isn't coming back because Republicans don't really want it to come back, they are voting against these guys in droves.

Now, normally this isn't a big deal. Presidents have lost big in the midterms and still managed to eek out a second term - Obama, Clinton, Reagan, Nixon.

the reason why it MIGHT be a big deal this time is that along with those congressional seats comes the statehouses that have the ability to redraw them.

So 2018 is important, but so is 2020.

If Democrats do well in both, redraw the districts and roll back the voter suppression laws against minorities, the GOP is probably done and good riddance.

 

[BluesLegend]

If this were a one-off, the Republicans might have a point. But this is just the latest in a long line of losses.

Some are sounding the alarm, but the rest are pretending everything is fine.
.

Aren't you ignoring the long line of wins? Rep's won 4 in a row after Trump won and hell Dem's threw $50 million at one house race and still lost. Don't take a simpleton view on these elections.

First off this latest so called win, the margin was .002% and that's IF the count holds up. And the Dem opponent, yeah LIED has damn ass off pretending to be a Republican so the choice was a republican or another guy who also claimed to be a republican. We all know once the Dem gets to the House he will be forced to vote as Pelosi tells him to vote.

 

[BluesLegend]

If the Dem ran as a Dem on Dem policies and positions on the issues and won THEN there might be a point to this election. The fact is the Dem ran as a Trump Republican so if the Dem ends up winning this race congrats you proved Trump Republicans are still popular.

 

[Erinwltr]

Oh please. You only wish this had anything to do with Trump. And wouldn't the answer to your question be that gerrymandering isn't why you people lose elections?

The Republicans barely lost to a DINO. If he ran on the Republican ticket, he would have been considered your standard Republican.

Keep projecting. It's what you did before you lost Congress, the Senate, the White House, and most of the governorships across the country. In spite of all the MSM brainwashing, our country has never been better. Lower taxes, most wage earners bringing home more in their paychecks, unemployment at the lowest levels in almost a half-century, Raises and bonuses being handed out, consumer and corporate confidence at record levels, NK begging for relief and ISIS out of Iraq that DumBama Fd up. WTF would people have to vote against when it comes to Republicans?

Actually, look at Lambs positions. He is quite the liberal Democrat and not a Dino.