US Midterm Election 2018 Megathread- It's Kavanaugh

[The Parkus Empire]

What did the poor 20s ever do to you. They were roaring after all, do you not like roaring things?

African americans couldn't vote in many states, abortion was illegal, LGBT people had no rights, just to name a few. But i gather you'd have no issue with any that as long as you have your precious bullets.

African Americans were given the right to vote nation wide with the Fifteenth Amendment, and LGBT had all the rights in the Constitution.

[Telconi]

Recently, yeah. Congratulations on that I suppose.

What do you mean?

You've been a major driving force behind the ideological shift.

[Arlenton]

Gooooooooooood

Keep the Senate GOP, I want those sweet sweet SCOTUS nominations.

Yeah so you can return to the glorious 1920s.

Back when both major parties could nominate conservatives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1924

[San Lumen]

African americans couldn't vote in many states, abortion was illegal, LGBT people had no rights, just to name a few. But i gather you'd have no issue with any that as long as you have your precious bullets.

African Americans were given the right to vote nation wide with the Fifteenth Amendment, and LGBT had all the rights in the Constitution.

And yet in many Southern States you had things like poll taxes and literacy tests to prevent them from voting

[Arlenton]

African americans couldn't vote in many states, abortion was illegal, LGBT people had no rights, just to name a few. But i gather you'd have no issue with any that as long as you have your precious bullets.

African Americans were given the right to vote nation wide with the Fifteenth Amendment, and LGBT had all the rights in the Constitution.

Not in the South. Not until the mid 1960s.

[The Black Forrest]

Yeah so you can return to the glorious 1920s.

Back when both major parties could nominate conservatives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1924

Too bad people learned to read.

*shrugs* I would vote for a conservative if he had some decent ideas. But you guys keep giving choices like the shrub, donnie, Cruz, and Rubio.

[Corrian]

As for the other side…

Big donors ready to reward Republicans for tax cuts

Gooooooooooood

Keep the Senate GOP, I want those sweet sweet SCOTUS nominations.

Nothing good about corporations shoveling a shit ton of money into candidates.

[Arlenton]

Gooooooooooood

Keep the Senate GOP, I want those sweet sweet SCOTUS nominations.

Nothing good about corporations shoveling a shit ton of money into candidates.

Voters say otherwise, given those with more money tend to be more likely to win.

Unless they are against Trump.

[Petrasylvania]

African americans couldn't vote in many states, abortion was illegal, LGBT people had no rights, just to name a few. But i gather you'd have no issue with any that as long as you have your precious bullets.

African Americans were given the right to vote nation wide with the Fifteenth Amendment, and LGBT had all the rights in the Constitution.

Uh huh, and certain states took note of that and actively enforced the Fifteenth Amendment in a campaign called Jim Crow.

[Sovaal]

African Americans were given the right to vote nation wide with the Fifteenth Amendment, and LGBT had all the rights in the Constitution.

Uh huh, and certain states took note of that and actively enforced the Fifteenth Amendment in a campaign called Jim Crow.

And nation wide a group dressed in white robes appeared to help the blacks vote right, if they voted at all.

[Hakons]

Uh huh, and certain states took note of that and actively enforced the Fifteenth Amendment in a campaign called Jim Crow.

And nation wide a group dressed in white robes appeared to help the blacks vote right, if they voted at all.

Not in every state, but the KKK did see a resurgence in the early 20s. It focused more on nativism (Anglo-Protestant) than southern revanchism. Indiana sadly became a hub of clan activity during this period.

[The Parkus Empire]

African Americans were given the right to vote nation wide with the Fifteenth Amendment, and LGBT had all the rights in the Constitution.

Uh huh, and certain states took note of that and actively enforced the Fifteenth Amendment in a campaign called Jim Crow.

I don't think Jim Crow laws denied the right to vote, but correct me if I'm wrong.

[Sovaal]

Back when both major parties could nominate conservatives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1924

Too bad people learned to read.

*shrugs* I would vote for a conservative if he had some decent ideas. But you guys keep giving choices like the shrub, donnie, Cruz, and Rubio.

I mean if you want to vote in this country you kinda have to give up on good ideas.

[Sovaal]

And nation wide a group dressed in white robes appeared to help the blacks vote right, if they voted at all.

Not in every state, but the KKK did see a resurgence in the early 20s. It focused more on nativism (Anglo-Protestant) than southern revanchism. Indiana sadly became a hub of clan activity during this period.

Oh, I know. Just wanted to point out that the racial problems of the twentieth where hardly exclusive to the South.

[Sovaal]

Uh huh, and certain states took note of that and actively enforced the Fifteenth Amendment in a campaign called Jim Crow.

I don't think Jim Crow laws denied the right to vote, but correct me if I'm wrong.

De facto they infringed upon them heavily.

[Valrifell]

Nothing good about corporations shoveling a shit ton of money into candidates.

Voters say otherwise, given those with more money tend to be more likely to win.

Unless they are against Trump.

It's more like that money allows candidates to spam ads, and getting your name out there and ruthlessly dragging the other schmuck through the mud. People don't really make the connection between the money they know is being donated and the ads they see on TV, it's a very abstract kind of thing, really.

[Valrifell]

I don't think Jim Crow laws denied the right to vote, but correct me if I'm wrong.

De facto they infringed upon them heavily.

Actually they didn't even hide their attempts to restrict voting to "de facto." So-called literacy tests were widespread, after all.

[San Lumen]

Uh huh, and certain states took note of that and actively enforced the Fifteenth Amendment in a campaign called Jim Crow.

I don't think Jim Crow laws denied the right to vote, but correct me if I'm wrong.

There were things called literacy tests and poll taxes.

[Thermodolia]

Voters say otherwise, given those with more money tend to be more likely to win.

Unless they are against Trump.

It's more like that money allows candidates to spam ads, and getting your name out there and ruthlessly dragging the other schmuck through the mud. People don't really make the connection between the money they know is being donated and the ads they see on TV, it's a very abstract kind of thing, really.

Granted spamming ads can go the other way as was seen in the GA-6th with Ossoff. Who basically made peope desensitized and not really caring

[Guy]

Speaking of, what the fuck are these districts?

The funny thing about Maryland redistricting is that Democrats could've gotten an 8-0 map, with quite normal-looking districts, if they were willing to draw one district that jumped the Chesaspeake Bay. They weren't, and we're left with this really quite weird-looking map that's only 7-1.

If federal courts hold partisan gerrymandering to be unconstitutional, that'll be a very good day. An even better day will be when a federal law is passed requiring independent commissions, partisan-blindness and consideration only of relevant factors in redistricting -- or even better, proportional representation (multi-member districts).

The issue is that Democrats have been the 'losers' in this gerrymandering-fest. Democratic states are more likely to vote for independent commissions, VRA tends to hurt Democrats over more than help them, and sometimes they simply haven't grasped opportunities presented to them.

So I'd really rather not get to a situation where Maryland and Illinois are somehow overturned, but NC/Wisconsin/Ohio/Michigan/Utah/PA are upheld.

[Bakery Hill]

Speaking of, what the fuck are these districts?

That's the dumbest shit.

[Saiwania]

Trump is on track to try to rig the 2020 census, his potential pick to run it is Thomas Brunell, who has a history of gerrymandering for Republicans' benefit. If there is no blue wave this year, it'll be far easier for the country to regress even more.

The "Kansas experiment" in Trickle Down economics, will be applied on a national basis among many more bad and devastating economic policies. The nation's treasure and resources will be absolutely looted and when everything goes to hell, the people responsible will be long gone; having disappeared but taking their ill gotten gains with them.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Speaking of, what the fuck are these districts?

Fucking hell, burn it with fire.

[San Lumen]

Trump is on track to try to rig the 2020 census, his potential pick to run it is Thomas Brunell, who has a history of gerrymandering for Republicans' benefit. If there is no blue wave this year, it'll be far easier for the country to regress even more.

The "Kansas experiment" in Trickle Down economics, will be applied on a national basis among many more bad and devastating economic policies. The nation's treasure and resources will be absolutely looted and when everything goes to hell, the people responsible will be long gone; having disappeared but taking their ill gotten gains with them.

He wrote a book saying free and fair elections were bad. I would have to think someone like that would be so controversial that even some Republicans would vote against the pick but considering how they've rubber stamped almost every other pick i have my doubts.

[Corrian]

Trump is on track to try to rig the 2020 census, his potential pick to run it is Thomas Brunell, who has a history of gerrymandering for Republicans' benefit. If there is no blue wave this year, it'll be far easier for the country to regress even more.

The "Kansas experiment" in Trickle Down economics, will be applied on a national basis among many more bad and devastating economic policies. The nation's treasure and resources will be absolutely looted and when everything goes to hell, the people responsible will be long gone; having disappeared but taking their ill gotten gains with them.

He wrote a book saying free and fair elections were bad. I would have to think someone like that would be so controversial that even some Republicans would vote against the pick but considering how they've rubber stamped almost every other pick i have my doubts.

Does that guy even go through a vote process to pick him, though?