Politics Bad signs for the Republican Party

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  1. Minstrel

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    I think it was actually you who missed the point, if you think a bad fundraising month speaks to coming doom for the party.

    And yet, it's still hard for you.
     
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    I think the fundraising speaks to "bad signs for the republican party."

    Again, whoosh!
     
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    It doesn't speak to bad signs for either party. As 2007 shows.

    For a more contemporary example, Clinton had many months where she had bigger fundraising than Trump. Keep trying, though.
     
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    Good luck with that.

    Democrats can't win if they can't afford to buy votes.
     
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    That's clearly why they won every branch of government in landslides in 2008 despite that poor fundraising in 2007.

    Time to switch to another tack, like "Democrats can't win unless they get the dead to vote for them." This one failed you.
     
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    I get it. You think the massive fundraising advantage for the republicans is somehow no advantage.

    That's just moronic.

    It's a sign that people are supporting the republicans far more than the democrats. Democrats have no message, bad ideas, and their rule is fresh in the peoples' minds.

    Trump won.
    Trump won.
    Trump won.
    Of all people.

    That's how bad Democrats are. They're not getting better about it, as the fundraising numbers show.
     
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    No, I think a short stretch of fundraising says nothing about which party is about to win, and it's amusing that your own article underscored the point. Money matters, but taking a small sample size as if it's meaningful is silly. There's still over a year before the elections and these things keep reversing themselves. Last summer, Clinton was running up huge fundraising months while the GOP was struggling just to round up funds and sponsors for their national convention.
     
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    Ahhh....so you finally admit the Republicans bought the last election. Took you long enough to finally admit it. #nothingburger
     
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    Good luck with all that.

    You have a bad story and no money. Republicans have a stronger economy and more money and more voters in most states.

    Yeah. Good luck with all that.
     
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    How did they buy the election? They were massively outspent. At least at the presidential level, but also PACs.
     
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    I'll take your skepticism under advisement, with the context that this expertise is coming from the same guy that assured us all that Obamacare was going to be repealed months ago.
     
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    So on one hand you say money is necessary to win the election and then you turn right around and say elections can be won without it. So very typical. Do you ever try to follow your own train(wreck) of a thought.....?
     
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    FINALLY MY STATUS AS A MOVER AND A SHAKER IS RECOGNIZED!
     
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    Ha!
    It would be cool if she keeps sucking up all the money. Wow! I bet that would draw flies.
     
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    I say it's a sign of support, nothing more.

    Republican donors are energized enough to provide a massive war chest in comparison to democrats who seem to have a tiny base of energized people.
     
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    Boy are you going to have egg on your face again.

    And again. And again.
     
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    I'm just using your logic....or what passes as such. You say on one hand that money matters and the turn right around and then say it doesn't. At least your inconsistencies are consistent.
     
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    I haven't made any poor predictions. Mostly because I don't make predictions. You, however, keep embarrassing yourself.
     
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    You say this shit like you haven't paid attention to politics in the past 60 years. There's always an ebb and flow.

    The bottom line is the country does better economically when the Dems are in control. But you'll find some chart to "prove" that wrong...
     
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