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    Creating this thread to talk about other random races throughout the country that don’t warrant their own thread.

    Starting it off with the governor race in NC. The GOP candidate Robinson is ultra MAGA and has made comments like women shouldn’t be allowed to vote. News came out yesterday about his Porn addiction back in the 90’s. He used to visit on a daily basis.

    www.thedailybeast.com

    MAGA North Carolina Guv Candidate Was Regular at Porn Shop: Employee

    “Every night that I worked, which would have been five nights a week, I saw Mark (Robinson),” Louis Money, who worked at Gents Video & News in Greensboro, North Carolina, said.
    www.thedailybeast.com
     
    Betting on the outcome of US congressional elections may now be legal thanks to a Wednesday federal appeals court ruling.

    The Commodities Futures Trading Commission asked the appeals court to block Kalshi — a financial exchange startup — from offering “Congressional Control Contracts.” The contracts allow buyers to bet on which political parties will win the House and Senate following the 2024 election.

    On Wednesday, the appeals court declined to block a lower court’s decision that allowed betting on the outcomes, opposing the CFTC’s argument that the betting could “potentially be used in ways that would have an adverse effect on the integrity of elections, or the perception of integrity of elections.”………

    www.independent.co.uk

    Betting on the election will soon be legal in US after massive court ruling

    Betters have already poured hundreds of millions of dollars into the political prediction market
    www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk
     
    Optimus Prime said:
    Betting on the outcome of US congressional elections may now be legal thanks to a Wednesday federal appeals court ruling.

    The Commodities Futures Trading Commission asked the appeals court to block Kalshi — a financial exchange startup — from offering “Congressional Control Contracts.” The contracts allow buyers to bet on which political parties will win the House and Senate following the 2024 election.

    On Wednesday, the appeals court declined to block a lower court’s decision that allowed betting on the outcomes, opposing the CFTC’s argument that the betting could “potentially be used in ways that would have an adverse effect on the integrity of elections, or the perception of integrity of elections.”………

    www.independent.co.uk

    Betting on the election will soon be legal in US after massive court ruling

    Betters have already poured hundreds of millions of dollars into the political prediction market
    www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk
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    We don't need to be turning our politics into more of a game than it already is. :jpshakehead:
     
    this could have gone in a number of threads
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    Texas is typically viewed as one of the safest states in the country for Republicans. But new voter data shows that Democrats may make the Lone Star State more competitive in 2024 than it's been in decades.

    According to the San Antonio Express-News, Texas has seen a surge of both new residents and new voters since 2018, with the state adding more than 2.5 million new registered voters to its rolls in the past six years. The last time that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was up for reelection six years ago, he narrowly defeated then-Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas) by just roughly 215,000 votes statewide.

    New voters don't necessarily mean more favorable territory for Democrats. Republicans prevailed in both the 2020 presidential and 2022 gubernatorial elections, for example. But the Express-News reported that many of the new voters added have been in some of Texas' bluest areas, including the I-35 corridor from Laredo to the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area, the Houston metro area and in Austin and the surrounding counties.

    In Harris County alone (which houses Houston), more than 670,000 new voters have been added to the rolls. Harris County went from being one of the reddest metropolitan areas in the United States to eventually voting for Barack Obama by just a few thousand ballots in 2008. However, in 2020, President Joe Biden carried the county with 56% of the vote, earning 217,000 more votes than former President Donald Trump.

    "They’re terrified," Harris County commissioner Rodney Ellis, who is a Democrat, said of Republicans in an interview with the Express-News.

    Ellis pointed out that in response to the growing number of Democrats registering to vote in Harris County — where 16% of Texas' population lives — Texas' Republican-dominated legislature has taken several steps to weaken their opponents' influence in the Democratic stronghold. In 2021, this meant gerrymandering Harris County's three congressional districts in order to protect Republican members of the House of Representatives from losing their reelection bids.

    Texas Republicans have also curbed Harris County's efforts to make voting easier and more accessible, ranging from decreasing the number of ballot drop boxes to just one per county in 2020 to restricting drive-by and all-night voting. The Lone Star State's largest county has also been subjected to numerous lawsuits from Republicans over how it conducted its 2022 election.............

     
    The Republican candidate in a crucial US Senate race in Montana has accused young women of being "indoctrinated" into becoming "single-issue voters" on abortion.

    In recordings made public on Monday byThe Char-Koosta News, a newspaper on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana, Tim Sheehy said that reproductive rights were "all [young women] want to talk about" and falsely claimed that Democrats support murdering babies after they've been born.

    The former US Navy Seal is running against Democratic incumbent Jon Tester for one of Montana's two Senate seats, which is highly contested and could easily end up deciding control of the chamber.

    "Listen, they've been indoctrinated for too long," Sheehy is reported to have said during a campaign stop at the Big Sky Motel in Superior, Montana in September 2023.

    "I sat with a group of younger folks a couple of months ago, talking about just various issues, and one of them was life. Because of course, young women between the ages of 19 and 30, abortion is their number one concern.

    "That's all they want to talk about. They are single-issue voters. "It's all about pro-choice, pro-choice. 'Republicans are pro-life, they want to take my rights away and lock me up and throw me in prison.'"

    Sheehy then said the voters' attitude changed when he described to them the Democrats' position on abortion, which he characterised as supporting "murder,” and argued that Republicans should not stop trying to persuade younger women to vote for them.……..



    www.independent.co.uk

    Republican in key Senate race claims young women are ‘indoctrinated’ on abortion

    Montana GOP candidate Tim Sheehy claimed abortion was ‘all young women want to talk about’
    www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk
     
    Optimus Prime said:
    The Republican candidate in a crucial US Senate race in Montana has accused young women of being "indoctrinated" into becoming "single-issue voters" on abortion.

    In recordings made public on Monday byThe Char-Koosta News, a newspaper on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana, Tim Sheehy said that reproductive rights were "all [young women] want to talk about" and falsely claimed that Democrats support murdering babies after they've been born.

    The former US Navy Seal is running against Democratic incumbent Jon Tester for one of Montana's two Senate seats, which is highly contested and could easily end up deciding control of the chamber.

    "Listen, they've been indoctrinated for too long," Sheehy is reported to have said during a campaign stop at the Big Sky Motel in Superior, Montana in September 2023.

    "I sat with a group of younger folks a couple of months ago, talking about just various issues, and one of them was life. Because of course, young women between the ages of 19 and 30, abortion is their number one concern.

    "That's all they want to talk about. They are single-issue voters. "It's all about pro-choice, pro-choice. 'Republicans are pro-life, they want to take my rights away and lock me up and throw me in prison.'"

    Sheehy then said the voters' attitude changed when he described to them the Democrats' position on abortion, which he characterised as supporting "murder,” and argued that Republicans should not stop trying to persuade younger women to vote for them.……..



    www.independent.co.uk

    Republican in key Senate race claims young women are ‘indoctrinated’ on abortion

    Montana GOP candidate Tim Sheehy claimed abortion was ‘all young women want to talk about’
    www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk
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    Suuuure, Tim. You quoted some scripture and they all went "Omg, You're right! I'm totally gonna carry dadgrampa's incest squid to term and praise God when it dies in agony! Praise Jeezus!"
     
    The Cook Political Report on Tuesday shifted the Wisconsin Senate race from “lean Democrat” to “toss up,” handing Republican Eric Hovde a boost as he tries to unseat Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.).

    Baldwin, the two-term incumbent, has led throughout the campaign but has hit choppy waters as the race hits the final month. A recent poll by the Cook Political Report showed Baldwin leading by 2 points (49 to 47 percent), with similar internal polls on both sides of the aisle helping them cement the ratings change.……


     
    bird said:
    Hell, Trump did the same. It appears that everything is becoming meaningless.
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    That is exactly it. Trump has been breaking norms and ethics with abandon and not much has ever happened to him. He’s remaking the GOP in his image. There’s nobody left - even someone like Hogan who is not considered MAGA - that will stand up for what is right.
     
    a conservative thinktank on 14th Street in Washington DC, awaiting Larry Hogan, the Republican candidate for US Senate in Maryland, one staffer turned to another. “It’s nice having something to vote for, for a change,” the staffer wryly said.

    Shortly after, the former governor arrived for his speech at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (Jinsa), part of his campaign to win in a state that hasn’t elected a Republican senator since 1980.

    When he left the executive mansion in Annapolis last year, Hogan told his friendly audience, he had governed for eight years as a popular moderate but had not been looking for another job – “And frankly, I didn’t yearn to be a part of the divisiveness and dysfunction in Washington,” he said.

    “But when I saw a bipartisan package to secure our border and to support Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan and other American allies fail because people were told [by Donald Trump] to vote against a critical [immigration] bill that they claimed to be for, it made me frustrated enough that I knew I had to step up and try to do something about the mess in Washington.”


    Washington is not Maryland but the Old Line State is just a few miles up 14th from Jinsa. There, Hogan faces the Prince George’s county executive, Angela Alsobrooks, for an open seat in November – a race in which the Democrat, who if she wins will be only the third Black woman ever elected to the US Senate, enjoys significant polling leads.

    The race has become potentially decisive in determining Senate control, and a test of anti-Trump sentiment on the right. Significant spending and endorsements are pouring in.

    Highly regarded as a local leader and “tough on crime” Democrat, Alsobrooks defeated a DC establishment candidate, the congressman David Trone, in her primary and is now piling on praise from party grandees. She recently released an ad featuring Barack Obama and secured support from the Washington Post.

    On Thursday night, the two candidates will meet for a high-stakes debate.…..

    www.theguardian.com

    Can ex-governor’s anti-Trump stance swing key Senate seat for Republicans?

    Maryland’s Larry Hogan faces a tough task against Angela Alsobrooks in a race that could decide control of chamber
    www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
     

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