November 4, 2014

Time Magazine’s 2014 Election Night Drinking Game

November 4, 2014November 4, 2014 Buck Banks

In celebration of our democracy, here are TIME’s 2014 Election Night drinking game suggestions:

“Ground game.” The key is to pace yourself. Drink one sip.
An incumbent is described as “embattled.” Drink three sips.
A Taylor Swift reference. Drink three.
“It will all come down to turnout.” Finish your drink.
John King doodles on his Magic Wall. Drink one.
A network presents publicly available information as an exclusive. Drink three.
Hologram sighting. Finish your drink.
A Democratic dynasty candidate loses. This includes: Mark Begich, Jason Carter, Andrew Cuomo, Mary Landrieu, Michelle Nunn, Mark Pryor, Mark Udall. Drink one. Let’s not go crazy.
Democrats win a battleground state: Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Hampshire or North Carolina. Finish your drink.

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Americans Are Turned Off by and Tuned Out of Midterms

November 4, 2014November 5, 2014 Buck Banks

People feel they’re victims of the process, that politics isn’t something to participate in, it’s something that is done to them. The feeling is getting worse, it’s getting much deeper, it’s covering larger and larger groups within the electorate …. Their frustration is much worse than anything I’ve heard before.

— Democratic Party pollster Geoff Garin, quoted in Politico.

Republicans Have Already Begun to Gloat

November 4, 2014 Buck Banks

In the game of expectations, it’s typical for parties to remain cautiously optimistic before a major election even when everything looks to be going their way. Republicans, however, are nearly gloating.

No Matter Who Wins, Both Political Parties Are Going Extinct

November 4, 2014 Buck Banks

Whichever side emerges victorious, both Republicans and Democrats should face up to a much bigger truth: Neither party as currently constituted has a real future. Fewer and fewer Americans identify as either Republican or Democratic according to Gallup, and both parties are at recent or all-time lows when it comes to approval ratings. Just 39 percent give Democrats a favorable rating and just 33 percent do the same for Republicans. Not coincidentally, each party has also recently had a clear shot at implementing its vision of the good society. If you want to drive down your adversary’s approval rating, just give him the reins of power for a few years.

— Nick Gillespie, writing in the Daily Beast.

As 2016 Presidential Campaign Gets Underway, Poll Finds Tea Party Base Dissatisfied With GOP Field

November 4, 2014November 4, 2014 Jon Ponder

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As the midterm elections wind down and the 2016 presidential campaign gets underway, polling analysis by Aaron Blake at the Washington Post finds that voters are unimpressed with the GOP bench:

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On this Election Day we’re unhappy to confirm
That the 2014 campaign has left us feeling infirm.
After four billion dollars
Somehow democracy feels smaller,
And we’re glad to say goodbye to these nasty midterms.

Jon Stewart Skewers GOP for Stoking Fear and Pessimism to Win Midterms

November 4, 2014 Jon Ponder

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Day: November 4, 2014

Time Magazine’s 2014 Election Night Drinking Game

Americans Are Turned Off by and Tuned Out of Midterms

— Democratic Party pollster Geoff Garin, quoted in Politico.

Republicans Have Already Begun to Gloat

In the game of expectations, it’s typical for parties to remain cautiously optimistic before a major election even when everything looks to be going their way. Republicans, however, are nearly gloating.

— National Journal

No Matter Who Wins, Both Political Parties Are Going Extinct

— Nick Gillespie, writing in the Daily Beast.

As 2016 Presidential Campaign Gets Underway, Poll Finds Tea Party Base Dissatisfied With GOP Field

Midterm Madness Ends

Jon Stewart Skewers GOP for Stoking Fear and Pessimism to Win Midterms

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer.”

— Vice President JD Vance, on Fox News.

“Your generation has a great bullshit meter, because you’re fed bullshit online all day. And the Democratic Party brand right now is so bullshit.”

— Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D), quoted by The Atlantic, speaking to college students.

“We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

— Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

Numerati

+175,000

“The U.S. State Department announced on Monday that it has revoked more than 175,000 visas during President Donald Trump’s administration so far,” Fox News reports.

$4,600

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30%

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

61% to 35%