27th May 2017, 9:00 AM
Dark Jaguar Wrote:So... you're agreeing that he was a terrible baby, but only differ in that you think that wasn't his fault? Fair enough.I don't know if he was a terrible baby or not as an actual baby, he just never grew out of that infantile behavior and that's the problem. (Of course, if he has an actual mental issue, dementia, or something like that, to explain why he seems to have gotten even more erratic than he was when he was younger, that'd add to it as well.)
Quote:ABF, don't try to spin a close loss as a win. That's ridiculous.
It's the best finish for a Democrat in the Montana House seat since 2000, and is a 10 point improvement over the 16-point loss Democrats suffered there in November. It's disappointing of course, but it continues the trend of Democrats doing significantly better than last year, and that's a good thing. That the Democrat beat the public polling is also noteworthy -- again the best poll showed Quist losing by 8, but he lost by only 6. So yeah, it's disappointing, but it always was going to be a very difficult one to win and if these 10 point improvements continue we'll be up for a very good 2018. (Back in 2013, Republicans won special elections by margins like this I believe, leading up to their win in the 2014 congressional elections...)
The Georgia House race actually has some polls where the Dem is ahead, and both parties are spending there somewhat evenly unlike Montana where Republicans outspent Dems at least 2 to 1, so that'll be a better place to see if we can actually win one. But losing by 6 in Montana, while bad particularly to the incredibly terrible person that is Gianoforte (see: his attacking a reporter), was better than I expected -- my guess beforehand was that Quist would probably lose by 8. Ossoff I think can actually win... it'll be tough, be he can do it.