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How about high quality sex education and free contraceptives, including plan B? Neither would be terribly expensive, both would prevent many many abortions.
This PA voter will tell them for free. The Rs ran terrible candidates. No one liked Oz, who had made a fortune scamming gullible people with quack remedies. Mastriano was a Trump terrorist who paid for several busses to take rioters to invade the Capitol on January 6. >

Mastriano's close association with neo-nazi media platform heads really, REALLY looked bad in a state where the Tree of Life shooting happened. >

Not to mention his opponent, Josh Shapiro, is Jewish. Something about being openly antisemitic while running against a Jewish man really looked bad. >

While Shapiro won by a comfortable margin, still, 41.7% of Pennsylvanians saw no problem with the Neo-Nazi. That’s kind of scary. >

41.7% of voters saw no problem with a Neo-Nazi. And many rural voters are programmed to think that any negative traits about Republican candidates are “fake news”. It’s still not good, but it’s not as bad as 41.7% of Pennsylvanians. >

Programmed to think or willfully ignorant? Some 74 million saw with their own eyes for four years of lies, alternative facts, missteps, gaffes, fumbles, fuck-ups, foibles and petty politics in action and went to the trouble of asking for a second helping. >

I think you underestimate the power of propaganda. These people are basically brainwashed into seeing democrat = baby killer. And they vote on that single issue overwhelmingly. >

I live in PA, my family is republican. Can confirm they simply voted to “protect life.” They didn’t even like Oz or Mastriano, but the abortion issue is that important to them. >

My family lives in PA. Maybe your family is different, but the reasons mine give are mostly just excuses - the real reason is they don’t like that the state has become less white, and they don’t see white supremecists as a big problem in comparison. >

Consultants: After a deep dive into the data we have the answer
GQP: Well what is it?
Consultants: You're not going to like it
GQP: Tell us
Consultants: Seriously. You're not going to like it. Are you sure?
GQP: TELL US! Why do you think we gave you all of our ~~rube's~~ donor's money
Consultants: People figured out you only want to make their lives miserable and voted accordingly.
GQP: THE ELECTION WAS RIGGED!!! WE KNEW IT. >

A true consultant would put a finer spin on it to ensure that they continue to reap the benefit of being a preferred contractor.  It would be more like “we did both primary and secondary research and the findings were clear, while it’s possible that there were any exogenous factors impacting the outcome, our research shows that the messaging of the campaign did not resonate with the 18 to 34 high school and college educated demographics across both men and women who skewed higher in the participation percentage than in the past.” >

Yes this simple answer would be spelled out over the course of 300+ pages. >


Why are we here - page 1 - 5
Executive Summary - pages 6 - 10
Background and supporting data - pages 11 - 50
Hypotheses and Extrapolations - pages 51 - 100
Conclusions and Recommendations - pages 101 - 125
Supporting Material - pages 126 - 300 >

In the next round…I think maybe we should add a section on testing methodology. >

I think they just want to blame Hunter's laptop in the end >

So maybe supporting things people don't want is the problem?  I bet they aren't looking at that.  They are looking to how to redistrict. >

Maybe they are looking at what voters want, especially younger voters and soon to be voters, and taking the opposite position.  Because of course they know more about what voters need than the voters themselves do?  Kinda the authoritarian playbook because it was better in their idealist minds?   If they keep this up, they'll win themselves out of office eventually. >

Well the GOP has no platform. The GOP is interested in power, but they aren't going to just abandon their key crazy points.  They can't so they have really no where to go but denial and delusion.  For 40 years they have always done the same things.  I don't expect that to change.

If they keep this up, they'll win themselves out of office eventually.

yes >

Those in power have the resources to retain power.   Power is addictive.  Entitlement breeds greed.   Problem is retaining power means as we've seen tweaking the system in their favor.  Things like weakening voting and packing the courts.  This imbalance could now take another generation or two. >

Mastriano is a Christian Taliban and Oz is a TV buffoon. Give me the 100k. >

Oh I'm sure it's way more than that lol >

ok this is pretty funny:
“We didn’t do that well at all. Here you have Biden with a lot of failures. Super high inflation — higher than it’s been since 40 years — gasoline prices, interest rates going up, small businesses under the gun, and we have international problems existing. And yet no red wave,” said Rep. Dan Meuser (R-Pa.), who is helping finance the postmortem. “We want the God’s honest truth.”
We made up all these issues issues that aren't real and we want the God's honest truth...
"To me, there’s definitely a reasonable way of maintaining my pro-life position without being offensive to others.”
No, no there isn't. Taking away other people's rights will always be offensive, as it should be. >

Hahahahaha - I was just copy/pasting Meuser’s line about maintaining his pro-life position without being offensive. (Interesting word choice there).
How about stick with your “principles” of small government and not telling people what to believe and do? That’s a start? Right?