2017 Elections

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Federal (appeals) court orders new NC legislative elections in 2017

North Carolina lawmakers must redraw their legislative districts by March 15 and hold new elections by the end of next year, a federal court ruled Tuesday.

That order follows up on a ruling from this summer that found lawmakers had unconstitutionally relied on race when they drew 28 state House and Senate districts.

Although lawmakers had told the court they should be given more time to redraw their districts and should not have to hold elections until 2018, a three-judge panel disagreed.

"This gives the State a total of seven months from the time the districts were held to be unconstitutional, which is longer than it took the 2011 legislature to redistrict the entire state," read the order....

Yep, the racist, Constitution-hating NC GOP threw away a bunch of our money, again.

[O Really]

This, along with McCrory apparently being on the cusp of officially crushed, is definitely good news in a month of misery. I wonder what havoc the worthless scumbags will try to get by with before having to run for office again. More attempts at voter suppression, I'd guess.

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And, the new AG is J. Stein (not that one).

[O Really]

Oh yes - that should be a big help, too. And unless the Republislugs really do try to pack the Supreme Court, we'll have a leg up there, too.

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At what point does mocking SC, AL and MS become hollow and desperate?

[O Really]

I'm pretty sure there remain some significant differences. NC is under occupation of a hostile force, and large numbers of the populace are joining the resistance. Those other states are generally happy just to wallow in their own mud.

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Agreed, but a statewide re-do of the election is a pretty big deal.

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East Canada, according to Det.Thorn:

French presidential contender Emmanuel Macron’s unique love story

Not that I endorse teacher-teen relationships, but having gotten past that the French aren't puritanical.

Trump Says Terror Attack Will ‘Probably Help’ Marine Le Pen In French Elections
Trump said Le Pen is “strongest on borders, and she’s the strongest on what’s been going on in France.”

France's Macron appears set for Elysee in runoff with Le Pen

Centrist Emmanuel Macron took a big step towards the French presidency on Sunday by winning the first round of voting and qualifying for the May 7 runoff alongside far-right leader Marine Le Pen.

Though Macron, 39, is a comparative political novice who has never held elected office, new opinion polls on Sunday had him easily winning the final clash against the 48-year-old Le Pen....

Conceding defeat even before figures from the count came in, rival conservative and Socialist candidates urged their supporters now to put their energies into backing Macron and stopping any chance of a second-round victory by Le Pen, whose anti-immigration and anti-Europe policies they said spelled disaster for France....

A new Harris survey saw Macron winning the runoff by 64 percent to 36, and an Ipsos/Sopra Steria poll gave a similar result....

Pre-Trump election Brexit was a shocker to many. Since then, Holland and now France have rejected rightwing nationalistic populism. I think Germany is up next while the UK will soon reaffirm the current government.

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Macron wins French presidency by emphatic margin: projections

... Three projections, issued within minutes of polling stations closing at 8 p.m. (2 p.m. ET), showed Macron beating Le Pen by around 65 percent to 35 - a gap wider than the 20 or so percentage points that pre-election surveys had pointed to....

Macron and Obama win, Le Pen, Trump and Putin lose.

[O Really]

Vive la France!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g4fhqCSdLQ

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. . . Pre-Trump election Brexit was a shocker to many. Since then, Holland and now France have rejected rightwing nationalistic populism. I think Germany is up next while the UK will soon reaffirm the current government.

And the idiot RWers in Britain are beginning to grasp, in the dim way of RWers anywhere, that they (and their stunning ignorance) have been played.

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And the idiot RWers in Britain are beginning to grasp, in the dim way of RWers anywhere, that they (and their stunning ignorance) have been played.

I'm not following it closely, but I think the cons are doing well there. What are you referring to? Could say more about the weakness of the left than the strength of the cons, though. Anyhow, their cons are well left of our cons.

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Brexit is a fool's errand. And the fools got fooled.
Apparently they restricted voting to village idiots.

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In close House race, Republican Karen Handel gets help from Paul Ryan

"Since then Handel has more openly embraced Trump."

Rotten timing. Prediction: She's toast.

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Fox News crew ‘watched in disbelief’ as Montana’s Greg Gianforte (R) ‘slammed’ and ‘began punching’ reporter

Congrats to new Democratic MT US Rep. Rob Quist!

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Fox News crew ‘watched in disbelief’ as Montana’s Greg Gianforte (R) ‘slammed’ and ‘began punching’ reporter

Congrats to new Democratic MT US Rep. Rob Quist!

70% mail in vote

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Ouch, and the special election is today. Maybe it'll inspire some otherwise nonvoters. I guess we'll see.

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Fox News crew ‘watched in disbelief’ as Montana’s Greg Gianforte (R) ‘slammed’ and ‘began punching’ reporter

Congrats to new Democratic MT US Rep. Rob Quist!

I dunno. All them thar "rugged, he-man, individualists" out thar in Montanny probly like that sort of low-brow shit. And that reporter guy worked for one of them Limey papers, too.

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Hard to say, the governor and one Senator are Dem. Plus, Trump.

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Oh well.

Gianforte wins Montana special House election despite being charged with assault

Montana Republican admits his original story about assaulting a reporter was a lie
What Greg Gianforte said after winning an election was drastically different than the story his campaign told the day before.

No actual admission that he lied, it's just the only logical conclusion. I won't hold my breath waiting for the apology for the lie.