Last night I got a pollster call. It didn't take long to figure out they were trying to figure out who they could run against Heller.
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That's good. I don't know what this is about or who that is, but I'm all in favour of all the Senators getting fired.
The main problem is that the people who would replace them kind of suck.
The main problem is that the people who would replace them kind of suck.
LordKiran
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Heller did the right thing and voted no.
The scumbags are looking to field someone farther right to run against him. The pollster had several prospects, the only one I knew I wouldn't vote for even if they weren't far right.
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Really someone who will say yes no matter what.
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??? He hasn't voted at all.
Sarah Palin.
The oddity is that the Senate bill is failing for much the same reason the House bill was having issues, conservatives verses radicals. Putting another radical in Nevada doesn't help, because radicals are against the bill too. The trouble the Republican Establishment has bumped into is that it is easy to primary a gerrymandered House seat, the Senate... not so much. The entire state votes for a Senator and that enters the calculus immediately when looking at legislation that is about as popular as Congress.
Funny, the right-wing Establishment is the threat to people in the House... the electorate is the threat to the people in Senate.
Technically not, but the fact that people said they would vote no was enough to keep there from being an actual vote. Thus I would say he voted no.
zorq
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Heller is a smart guy.
Nevada was won by Clinton last year and Obama both times before. Despite having an open Senate seat after Harry Reid retired, the Democrat won the Senate. Nevada's demographics have been changing to a more blue hue for years now and while the D's seem to mostly stay home for off year elections Heller is likely feeling the heat for his run next year in '18.
Factor in the fact that Obama care now has majority support nation wide (55% according to gallup) and it starts to look like a smart move to set himself up as a moderate R by opposing unpopular legislation to win reelection in the still very purple state of Nevada.
The only problem is that ANY Republican dissenters to the Republican health care bill casts a dim light on it and that shade reflects on the whole Republican brand. So now the Republicans have to take Heller down to help themselves save face. Because if Obamacare ISN'T the next worse thing to Stalin's gulag then it becomes even more clear that the Republicans are full of shit and have been lying through their teeth for years.
Nevada was won by Clinton last year and Obama both times before. Despite having an open Senate seat after Harry Reid retired, the Democrat won the Senate. Nevada's demographics have been changing to a more blue hue for years now and while the D's seem to mostly stay home for off year elections Heller is likely feeling the heat for his run next year in '18.
Factor in the fact that Obama care now has majority support nation wide (55% according to gallup) and it starts to look like a smart move to set himself up as a moderate R by opposing unpopular legislation to win reelection in the still very purple state of Nevada.
The only problem is that ANY Republican dissenters to the Republican health care bill casts a dim light on it and that shade reflects on the whole Republican brand. So now the Republicans have to take Heller down to help themselves save face. Because if Obamacare ISN'T the next worse thing to Stalin's gulag then it becomes even more clear that the Republicans are full of shit and have been lying through their teeth for years.
Copernicus
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It would probably be easier, albeit not necessarily a sure thing, for the Democrat to run against someone who was not an incumbent in a state whose GOP incumbent was essentially fired for partisan political reasons. If Heller survives a primary battle, then he will be in a much stronger position with so-called independents. He will be seen as a moderate. And the Democratic candidate will have to struggle harder to win independent voters over.
The actual term is "Primarying". This is when an incumbent is challenged in the primary election by candidate supported by their own party, usually for failing to toe the party line. It's based on that strange delusional fantasy that conservative candidates lose because they aren't conservative enough. This was the rational for Romney and McCain losing to Obama.
This only works in states with closed primaries. In my state, primarying one of our Senators would give the election to a Democrat. It wouldn't really matter which Democrat.