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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWatching Morning Joe now and smiled.
Claire McCaskill decorated her kitchen cabinets with red, white, and blue bunting. She is great.
She made a good point. Trump won Missouri by 19 points. He is down 10 points. Her thoughts are that this sets up Trump losing states he won by less than 5.
hlthe2b
(102,276 posts)I know those rural farmers, but hope springs eternal.
lanlady
(7,134 posts)Her commentary is always smart, biting, and spot-on. She and Eugene Robinson are the main reasons I watch Morning Joe.
StaunchDemocrat1957
(66 posts)Missouri's loss and all of our gain!
riversedge
(70,218 posts)Kahuna
(27,311 posts)TruckFump
(5,812 posts)She is wonderful. I felt so badly when she lost. But she most certainly is a great addition to MSNBC.
malaise
(268,998 posts)Sharp and funny
logosoco
(3,208 posts)to live in the state of Missouri!
I love that she has a role that gives her a chance to speak out (I don't have cable but follow her on Twitter!).
monmouth4
(9,705 posts)tooth as they say. Need new images, vitality, energy.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)Trump won the EC with a few razor thin margins. I don't see how he can possibly still have that support when every single indication, including 2018 mid-term results, favorable ratings that never broke 50% over the last four years, and 2020 polling shows he's lost ground pretty much everywhere. Still dependent upon actual voting, but I have cause for cautious optimism.
Tom Rivers
(459 posts)Joe has strong favorables. Trump's are in the toilet. Trump hasn't expanded his base and has presided over chaos. His key indicator numbers are terrible. Obviously as we know nothing is impossible and American voters can be unpredictable, but if the roles were reversed I would have a very difficult time seeing a Dem win with similar numbers.
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)with 5 minutes left to go
itcfish
(1,828 posts)Sorry I don´t understand your comment. Joe has been anti-Trump for a long time now.
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)was "upbeat: about florida. This was gone this morning. Of ANY political pundit HE KNOWS Florida and he knows its not looking good
DoBotherMe
(2,339 posts)Or drumpf?
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)as indication
DoBotherMe
(2,339 posts)I'm a mess today and my brains are scrambled. Thank you
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)and that is why he is an Independent.
Why can't you take him at his word?
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)America's conservative party needs to be fumigated and get new leadership, but understandable that it's not a happy time for him.
As for why he should not just be taken at his word? He was working hard to elect Republicans and empower their big donors right up through 2016, although the Republican Party had already long been taken over by Big Money corruption and social and religious extremists. He played a significant part in the party's decades of betrayal of its own voters, its role in creating and serving our new centimillionaire and billionaire classes, its increasing use of election theft to win, and its growing authoritarianism -- right up to the point that it was actually self destructing and had become actively dangerous under the weight of the corruption and white power insanity that lead to Trump.
Then he left.
Yes, his voice of moderate conservatism is sane, responsible and valuable now, but of course we also take him not just at his word but at his history and actions. Those tell me he wants the Republican Party to retain and grow "sustainable" power under more competent, stable leadership. I'm sure that's what most of the party's enormously powerful donors want also.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)I take him with a grain of salt because he says he is a "small government" Republican. I know what that means and am perfectly able to figure him for "not with us."
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. For now. With reservations. If he goes back to his former ways, he won't be my ally. Simple as that.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)collaborating with extremism, though. A lot of them were apparently trying to wait it out, imagining/hoping things would eventually return to normal, but their party just continued devolving into something they once couldn't have imagined.
However, it doesn't seem to have been the continued shift of power and wealth away from the people to the few that finally forced the ones I read about to leave. And that's become extreme.
AZ8theist
(5,461 posts)Morning JERK OFF is part of the reason we are in this shithole.
I DON'T GIVE A FUCK WHERE HIS IS NOW.
HE WAS PART OF THE PROBLEM AND A TREASON TRUMP BOOT LICKER. FUCK HIM.
MsLeopard
(1,265 posts)Spot on!
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Let it never happen again.
mtnsnake
(22,236 posts)based upon your comment above.
Joe has been one of the most vocally loud anti-Trump pundits the media has had to offer over the course of the last several years. In any of the Morning Joe shows I've watched, he goes after Trump with a vengeance every morning.
Marcuse
(7,482 posts)shrike3
(3,600 posts)Former Florida congressman Joe Scarborough has his doubts about polls showing Florida Man Donald Trump trailing Delaware Man Joe Biden by 4% in Florida.
Who believes Biden is up 4% in Florida? Scarborough, host of MSNBCs Morning Joe, tweeted Thursday. If you do, let me connect you with a Nigerian businessman I know who has a great deal for you. He just needs an advance-fee first.
Niagara
(7,610 posts)PunkinPi
(4,875 posts)GumboYaYa
(5,942 posts)I live a few blocks from one of the early voting sites and have seen the persistent lines there the past few weeks. I expected a lower turnout today. We showed up at 5:45 for the polls opening at 6:00. In past years we did this and maybe had 15-20 people in front of us. We had over a 100 in front of us this morning. By the time we voted the line had wrapped around the building and into a nearby park. I have never seen anything like this at our polling place in the 20+ years we have voted there.
madaboutharry
(40,211 posts)The republicans keep saying that Election Day voting will overwhelm the early vote.
I guess we just have to wait.
GumboYaYa
(5,942 posts)We are one of the strongest precincts in the state for Democrats. Last election our vote was 83% Dem.
Ligyron
(7,632 posts)Another sure way to tell is they'll be the ones trying to vote twice.
bucolic_frolic
(43,161 posts)that will translate to a margin of 13+ million votes.
I'll believe it when I see it. The high turnout on election day is a bit unexpected.
VA_Jill
(9,971 posts)and her husband live in Independence. He posted a pic this morning on FB of the line at their polling place. Long and socially distant...and that was at 8 am.
I love Claire. She left her last fvck behind her when she left the Senate, and she is hilarious and biting on MSNBC. She's especially good when on with the "Three Amigas" (Rachel, Joy, and Nicolle). Nobody wants to be dissected by those four!
LymphocyteLover
(5,644 posts)same for Indiana, as best as I can tell
2Legit
(90 posts)It still galls me that that back-bencher-jockeying-to-be-in-the-room-where-it-happens, Josh Hawley is now in her seat. If there is a camera around, he is posing for it.
Evolve Dammit
(16,733 posts)NoRoadUntravelled
(2,626 posts)nt
Greybnk48
(10,168 posts)She is a straight shooter! One of a kind!