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Five companies are pulling ads from Sean Hannity's show after his controversial coverage of the sexual assault allegations against Roy Moore. https://t.co/li8e0cIU2U — Axios (@axios) November 12, 2017 Bring on the Brawndo!… I pulled an "Office Space" with my Keurig… Would be a shame if everyone else joined me in the Keurig Smash Challenge #BoycottKeurig …
Monday Morning Open Thread: Jeebus WeptPost + Comments (283)
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Looks like Roy Moore’s not going anywhere. Fox has decided to argue about the exact age of the victims and the Alabama GOP is comparing Moore to Jesus. A new polls shows that Jones and Moore are tied. Look, people, in many ways it would be better for Democrats if Moore wins. I could be …
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(Mike Luckovich via GoComics.com) . If anybody thinks Roy Moore is going to step aside, even if he did what was alleged, they've not been paying attention to his career and they've not been paying attention to this political environment. — Brian W. Schoeneman (@BrianSchoeneman) November 9, 2017 I know: How deep is down? Per …
Friday Morning Open Thread: How Low Can the GOP Go?Post + Comments (328)
The Obama-Clinton Machine’s liberal media lapdogs just launched the most vicious and nasty round of attacks against me I’ve EVER faced!
We are are in the midst of a spiritual battle with those who want to silence our message. (1/4) #ALSen
— Judge Roy Moore (@MooreSenate) November 9, 2017
As an officer of the court, you tried to molest a child who was at the courthouse for a custody hearing, @MooreSenate. Nothing is more vicious or nasty than that, you piece of shit. https://t.co/PcMzh5PplO
— David Simon (@AoDespair) November 10, 2017
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He’ll have his GOP defenders, regardless:
Judge Roy Moore told to withdraw by Senators who won’t or can’t help move Trump agenda. https://t.co/CIu13mbsvo
— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) November 10, 2017
The rush of Senate Republicans coming out quickly to denounce Roy Moore is convincing Moore supporters that this is a coordinated hit job
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) November 9, 2017
They were in the Senate, voting and having lunch, so not exactly hard to get on message. https://t.co/8zGybVEerT
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) November 9, 2017
Tally from my calls to Alabama GOP county chairs: 4 vehemently pro-Moore, 3 no comment/"haven't read the story yet," 15 I couldn't reach, 0 criticism of Moore.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 9, 2017
The Washington Post, continuing their assault, “The GOP’s Roy Moore and Steve Bannon nightmare just came into focus”:
… [I]f Moore’s political career has shown us anything, it’s that he is more than happy to take a stand against anybody who tries to tell him what to do. This is a guy who has made not one but two principled stands that effectively forced his removal from the state Supreme Court. It wouldn’t be surprising to see him try to fight this, especially after President Trump withstood numerous sexual harassment and assault allegations on his road to the presidency. Put plainly: It’s hard to rule anything out in the Trump Era — even a Moore victory.
But if Moore doesn’t win and Democrat Doug Jones does, Republicans’ effective Senate majority will have declined from 52-48 to 51-49. That gives them almost no margin for error in passing legislation.
It would also make the GOP’s Senate majority significantly more vulnerable next year. Given that Vice President Pence breaks ties in the Senate, Democrats need to pick up three seats and hold all their seats (many of them in red states) to win back the chamber. But they only had two obvious pickup opportunities: In Arizona and in Nevada. If Democrats can win in Alabama, those two pickups might suffice. The math and their path to a majority will be significantly clearer…
Senate Republicans should think hard about whether they want to be in ads about how they endorsed Roy Moore next year. Even if Moore can win in Alabama, not every state is Alabama.
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) November 9, 2017
And there may be a bit of a gender gap on this story.
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) November 9, 2017
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Help us fight against Roy Moore or whoever replaces him. No matter what, his name will be on the ballot. We can win this!#TheResistance #AMJoy #FlipAlabamahttps://t.co/d9mR1RjWVB
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) November 9, 2017
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As I’ve written in comments a couple of times over the last few days, I think from early indications from reporting coming out of some state capitols, that you’re going to see allegations of sexual improprieties wash through elected and appointed officials in the states and at the Federal level. This is going to get …
The Follow on Effects of the Weinstein Sexual Assault AllegationsPost + Comments (411)
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A woman angered by a politician’s sexist joke took his seat. https://t.co/EFXroUOCPr pic.twitter.com/bfmKTOXLKJ — Niraj Chokshi (@NirajC) November 8, 2017 Progress happens where it happens, not necessarily where it’s expected. From the Guardian, “‘It’s a revolution’: polygamist sect loses power over Utah town for first time”: A fundamentalist religious sect that commands its women members …
Thursday Morning Open Thread: Fighting BackPost + Comments (220)
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Dear Pundit Friends, please stop attributing this D landslide in VA to "changing demographics". VA hasn't changed that much since last Nov. 8 (Hillary by 5%). The bigger explanation is a backlash to Trump and Trumpism, pure and simple. #VAGov — Larry Sabato (@LarrySabato) November 8, 2017 ex-Bush WH aide Wehner:”If you’re suburban R House …
Think of the message that Trump has sent to Republicans. Stand with him on policy and have him bad-mouth what you passed. Embrace his endorsement and see a loss followed by Trump playing down his support. Embrace his endorsement and his politics, and see a loss followed by actual criticism. These are all one-offs — but politics generally suffers from a small sample size from which to draw conclusions, and no one spends more time trying to draw conclusions than politicians…
It’s unlikely that many Republicans worried about next November will be convinced by Trump’s argument. Instead, they’re likely to take another lesson: Trump can’t deliver a victory for you when you’re trailing, and neither can Trumpism. (In fact, there’s every reason to think that Trump was the liability that his poll numbers would suggest, with Gillespie doing fine in western Virginia but getting beaten badly in more-Democratic Northern Virginia.) Nor will Trump stand with you should things go south.
If, next summer, the question of Trump’s fate as president is raised, how might Republicans in center-right districts be expected to evaluate that decision?…
They'll probably convince themselves voters are angry they havent thrown enough people off healthcare or redistributed enough wealth upwards
— Dan Rosenheck (@DanRosenheck) November 8, 2017
Republicans on election day 2016 vs. election day 2017 pic.twitter.com/nOs02OQoDb
— Sal Gentile (@salgentile) November 8, 2017
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Newly elected Virginia delegate Danica Roem after getting a congratulatory call from Joe Biden last night. Photo by The Washington Post’s @jaheezus. pic.twitter.com/bsEDQ38Xer — Dan Zak (@MrDanZak) November 8, 2017 It’s been talked about here and elsewhere already, but I want to touch on the big win by Danica Roem, the transgender candidate who defeated …