Cockburn is a terrible name.

Didn't they win by spending significantly (with PAC money included)?

In contrast to the DNC

May 2017, Republicans Have Best May Fundraising in a Post Presidential Election Year Ever

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The Republican National Committee raised $10.8 million in May, upping its 2017 fundraising total to $61.9 million, the committee said on Friday.

The RNC said it was its best fundraising haul in May of a post-presidential year. RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel credited the "network of loyal grass-roots donors across the country and bold leadership from President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans," she said in a statement.


“We are incredibly grateful to the unprecedented number of donations that continue to pour in from across America,” said RNC Finance Chairman Steve Wynn. “Breaking yet another fundraising record would not be possible without the unwavering commitment from Republican supporters, who know the president and Republican leadership are dedicated to improving and strengthening our country.”

In May, the RNC spent $10.5 million, finishing with $41.8 million in cash on hand and no debt.

The Democratic National Committee hasn't released its totals for May. In April, the DNC brought in $4.7 million and spent $6.4 million. The committee finished April with $8.8 million in the bank.

Nothing to see here. Perez is doing a great job really. Resistance working flawlessly.

You said the Dems were stupid to contest such a Republica stronghold. Yet, the Republicans had to dump money into an R+20 district to eek out a win. It looks to me like the Republican Party is going to need every penny of that money to have a chance of avoiding a massacre in 2018.

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Interesting. I'm afraid of the Ron Paul nationalists who might be mules though.

The die-hard Ronulans aren't really a menace. We saw that at Occupy. By coincidence, both those fads, so to speak, peaked about the same time. There were a whole lot on Ronulans at first. If you go back, and look at the early news clips of Occupy, you'll see plenty of "Audit the Fed"/goldbuggery/R(Love)ution/etc signs. But... about three weeks later, they were all gone. Every single one.

Why this isn't a problem, is also why a conservative "Rhino Party" that mirrored the Mules wouldn't be viable. RWNJs are basically human trash. They're no good at, and don't really GAF, about the nuts and bolts of urban camping, or of phone banking. They don't, in general, volunteer. When they do, the fact that they're human trash means they are usually decidedly negative help. This is why all significant conservative political action is professionalized and astroturfed. This is why the Tea Party didn't become an actual political party.

But, this points out two more demographics the Mules would be designed to capture: (a) your hippy-dippy stoner Libertarian-type-ers, who aren't really into the Koch bros uber alles at it's core, and (b) your typical Librulz Occupy type, who s the Donkeys, but can't stomach actually being a Donkey.

Watch the skies traveler for the trickle down.

Role Playing The Resistance: How Liberals Grift Movements In The Age Of Trump
https://shadowproof.com/2017/07/13/r...-age-of-trump/

Anyone know where LirvA's at now? I kind of imagine he either went full MAGA-CHUD or is organising for the DSA, no middle ground.

I'll tell you... but first I'm curious. Why did you ask that Q in this thread?

Just the mention of Ron Paul.

Rumor is he's around.

Holy cow!

Dems can't talk about healthcare right now because there's too much appetite from their constituents for single payer.

Their media machine? I don't think an out-of-power party drives the media focus as much as you are assuming here.

Ratings kind of do though. Calling it a bunch of nothing no one cares about see seems off.

It's possible, but I don't think it's clear that Maddow-Hayes-O'Donnell one after the other all doing their entire show on the same story every night is the best thing for ratings. They don't seem to try anything else, so I don't see how they could know.

It does sound cheap and easy though. Combo of laziness, cost, and not being controlled by the Dem party, but both of them having the similar interests of giant corporations at heart.

Msnbc took over the number one spot doing what they are doing. Ratings got to be a least part of the reason they have Russia on all the time. People like scandal.

Is the DNC a lefty group?

There is really know way to show that so my assertion wins!!

Shuffle,

Do you think Tony Perez or whoever calls up Brian Roberts* and tells him what to put on his shows? I think it's more likely that Brian Roberts (and others like him) calls Tony Perez and tells him what to put on his show, er platform.

*CEO of Comcast, which owns NBCUniversal, which has the NBCUniversal Television Group division, which has the NBCUniversal News unit, which owns MSNBC.

DNC is a centrist capitalist group. At least they support civil rights, but that's a pretty low bar.

The US is lucky that many multinational corporations support civil rights, not wanting to alienate any groups of consumers.

That's correct but as we saw in the North Carolina fight, the corporations are fine with "compromises" that really continue to discriminate against vulnerable communities as long as they can save face by not having the laws look quite so vicious on their face.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.506358f8df86

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