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Wow, Batboy is still undead? I thought he’d been killed by laughter at his “plan” for government.

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Ta, Stephen. Rick Scott, who was wealthy to begin with, has pocketsful of ill gotten gains from ripping off Medicare and Medicaid. Let's forget that NEVER.

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"As Vanity Fair observes, Scott is one of the least popular politicians among voters in Florida, a state that includes Marco Rubio and Ron DeSantis."

How I love the understated.

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"CNN rang in the new year with a detailed list of the 10 Senate seats most likely to flip in the November election"

How 'evidence based' is this?

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Sent dome dineros

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"CNN rang in the new year with a detailed list of the 10 Senate seats most likely to flip in the November election, and eight of them are incumbent Democrats."

that just doesn't scan...not in this environment...I can see republican incumbents KEEPING their seats, but TAKING seats from Democrats? If anything democrats are in a STRONGER position than they've been infor a generation...

Where is the breakdown on this? Because if this is true, we might as well hang it up...We can't survive another 4 years with ANY republican majority in either the House OR the Senate...Seriously...If Republicans take the senate I'm done with the news feeds and social media...I'd rather spend spend whatever's left of my life doing the things I enjoy than fretting over something that's pretty much hopeless...

Seriously, we HAVE to at least KEEP the senate on top of TAKING the House or it is OVER

maybe I'm just having a bad day and feeling hyperbolic, its just that I didn't realize that the Senate is already a done deal...This was news to me and quite a shock and I still don't buy it even as someone prone to pessimism...It just doesn't track

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Given how Republicans always come home (and lie to people in polls about that), I think we just have to make sure we get turnout. Clearly, Democrats...being human...cannot run a completely mistake-free campaign to take away any plausible reasons to vote for Skeletor here, so really what we have to do is just get people to the polls and get the job done. But never believe these polls!

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Jan 4Liked by Stephen Robinson

And Beto will beat Cruz!...and those terrific pilot ladies will beat McConnell and Cornyn!

Republicans can count.

They want a Senate majority.

To quote from Buffy, "Here endeth the lesson."

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With Joe Manchin’s seat almost certainly lost, democrats need to pump a shit ton of resources into ousting Rick Scott, Josh Hawley, and Ted Cruz. They’re seen as the most vulnerable republicans this year.

And oh yeah, Dems can’t afford to lose any seats in states like Pa and Oh either.

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I'm going to have to disagree with one thing - Gerrymanders don't actually change the results of a statewide election. It may make people feel better to say that the reason your state is represented at all levels by a specific party is because of the evils of gerrymandering but really you just have only one party actively voting. Now that may be true in FL because the Democratic party sucks but it could also be because they are infected with a bunch of racist trolls who vote MAGA over all. That said, if I were forced to bet I'd out my money on Skeletor for the win. I have complete faith in the degeneracy of the FL voting age population.

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This may have been addressed earlier but why do we have no cat pic on this story? Are we only replacing Republicans with cats?

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Rick Scott underwater....wouldn't that just make my day! This weasel always seems to escape... winning once by half of a % and his message always sucks. McConnell will come out of his shell and Rhonda Santis will also support Scott before it's over.

But Ms. Mucarsel-Powell has her own successes backed by the President's extremely strong list of policy wins to run on and we must support her in every way.

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I’ve stopped having any expectations of good things coming out of Florida since 2020, and it has done wonders for my mental health.

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Mitch's one and only problem with Scott is he said the quiet parts out loud not any disagreement on policy.

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“the exceptionally wealthy Scott.” Medicare fraud pays well.

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I love the video! She's saying exactly what I always say about the Democratic party's lackluster ability to engage voters. "There was absolutely no infrastructure bringing our voters out... There was absolutely no structure to communicate with our voters."

And she's talking about a big purple state like Florida! No wonder the Democratic party is virtually nonexistent in middle America. It's like, they've got a decent product, but their brand has a bad name and the packaging is generic, plain cardboard, and nobody sees any reason to snazz it up and grab people's attention.

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