(02-23-2021, 03:48 PM)fredtoast Wrote: 1.  The law suites filed by Dominion.  There will always be a small portion of brainwashed Trump followers, but when all these issues are hashed out in courts of law instead of in internet chat rooms a lot of people will end up eating crow and having to accept reality.

2.  Possible legal/financial problems by Trump.  Again, a small portion will believe that any criticism of Trump is just a "witch hunt", but if he is forced to admit defeat and settle some of these issues in court it will diminish his authority.  It will also expose how much he profited from money donated to his campaign.

3.  Impact of Covid on economy.  No matter how much we try to fix this by just churning out more government debt there will be serious consequences over the next two years.  We are not really fixing the economic problems.  Instead we are just kicking them down the road.  And since Dems are in control they will take the blame.

(02-23-2021, 03:48 PM)fredtoast Wrote: 3.  Impact of Covid on economy.  No matter how much we try to fix this by just churning out more government debt there will be serious consequences over the next two years.  We are not really fixing the economic problems.  Instead we are just kicking them down the road.  And since Dems are in control they will take the blame.

(02-26-2021, 10:30 AM)masonbengals fan Wrote: The hard left policies of the Biden administration is what will help the GOP in the 2022 elections.

(02-26-2021, 10:48 AM)Nately120 Wrote: I guess we will see, but 2020 seems to indicate that the GOP needs to revise their playbook a bit.  Throwing every democrat into the same "dangerously liberal" pile will certainly get a percentage of the base moving, but the GOP lost a lot of middle ground and independent voters with all the alarm sounding.

(02-26-2021, 10:50 AM)GMDino Wrote: This is exactly what they will do/are doing.  Like a broken record the gqp is now playing all the hits! 

"The bill is too big"
"The left wants to spend your money"
"This is unpopular"

Blah, blah, blah...

(02-26-2021, 10:55 AM)Nately120 Wrote: Right, and that will get a certain percentage out there, but looking at bills with bi-partisan approval polls and saying "This is awful and no one wants it and it's more liberal than an art school full of gender-fluid commies" isn't a logical path to success.  The fringe nuts already believe that all democrats are so liberal the world will end in 6 months, so why not actually deal in some reality to draw in some of the middle votes they lost in 2020?

They continue to hammer home the illogical rhetoric that the small group that is already 150% behind wants to hear and alienate people who actually think numbers and polls and political actions mean more than empty hype.

(02-26-2021, 10:58 AM)GMDino Wrote: They're just waiting for Trump to ride back in on his white golf cart stallion and save the day!

Just like he did for the House in 2018 and the Senate (and himself) in 2020.

(02-26-2021, 10:30 AM)masonbengals fan Wrote: The hard left policies of the Biden administration is what will help the GOP in the 2022 elections.

Quote:On Monday afternoon, the legislators approved a bill repealing no-excuse absentee voting, which 1.3 million voters used to cast ballots by mail in 2020, including 450,000 Republicans. They were also set to consider a bill on Monday evening ending automatic voter registration, which 5 million of the state’s 7.6 million voters used to register since it was implemented in 2016.


The Senate bills follow the passage of a sweeping House bill last week that cuts weekend voting days—including on Sundays, when Black churches hold “Souls to the Polls” get-out-the-vote drives—restricts the use of mail ballot drop boxes, prevents counties from accepting grants from nonprofits to improve their elections, adds new voter ID requirements for mail ballots, gives election official less time to send out mail ballots and voters less time to return them, and even makes it a crime to distribute food and water to voters waiting in line.



Collectively, these bills represent the most sustained effort to roll back access to the ballot in Georgia since the Jim Crow era. The same is true nationally, where Republicans have introduced 253 bills in 43 states in the first two months of this year to make it harder to vote.

Quote:Georgia elections official Gabriel Sterling gained national attention a few months ago by pushing back against President Donald Trump's false claims of voter fraud.


But Republican state lawmakers in Georgia, inspired by those falsehoods, have introduced a handful of bills that would increase barriers to voting for some people.
Georgia is among 43 states that are considering similar legislation, according to the Brennan Center.


Sterling, a Republican who is now the chief operating officer for the Georgia secretary of state's office, says some of the measures backed by Republican Georgia state lawmakers go too far.


But he argues that many of the proposals could end up helping elections administrators.

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There was no widespread fraud in Georgia, he says, but there were small numbers of double voting, out-of-state voting and voting by felons. Rules involving photo IDs could make things easier for elections workers, he says.


"In a state like Georgia, where the election is getting closer and closer, every vote's going to count," Sterling says. "And anything we can do to make the system more secure and provide confidence to everybody, that's the kind of things that we need to be focusing on."


Sterling talked with NPR's Scott Detrow on Morning Edition about the proposals under consideration and why he opposes the Democrat-backed voting rights bill that passed the U.S. House last week.

(03-09-2021, 03:42 PM)Nately120 Wrote: God bless freedom....also, let's make it against the law to hand people water or to let people sit if they are waiting in line to vote.  

Cancelling freedom.

(03-09-2021, 03:42 PM)Nately120 Wrote: God bless freedom....also, let's make it against the law to hand people water or to let people sit if they are waiting in line to vote.  

Cancelling freedom.

(02-26-2021, 10:55 AM)Nately120 Wrote: This would be like taking a PR job for the Bengals and being like "You should be a Bengals fan because no one likes the Steelers, they aren't popular, and they never won a damn thing but we have."  I mean, sure you'll make die hard Bengals fans happy, but you aren't bringing in anyone who isn't already drinking the orange flavorade.

Also, the NFL is rigged.

(02-26-2021, 10:30 AM)masonbengals fan Wrote: The hard left policies of the Biden administration is what will help the GOP in the 2022 elections.

(03-09-2021, 10:32 PM)Benton Wrote: Well... that is potentially vote buying.

(03-09-2021, 03:42 PM)Nately120 Wrote: God bless freedom....also, let's make it against the law to hand people water or to let people sit if they are waiting in line to vote.  

Cancelling freedom.