Thom Tillis wins GOP Senate primary in North Carolina

[LiberalElite]

Source: USA Today

WASHINGTON — Thom Tillis won the GOP Senate nomination North Carolina on Tuesday, delivering a big win to establishment Republicans over Tea Party insurgents.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/05/06/north-carolina-senate-tillis-tea-party/8780335/

[lostincalifornia]

1. No surprise

[Ash_F]

2. Good?

[SunSeeker]

4. No, bad. We were hoping for the really crazy teabagger.

Hagan, who is very vulnerable with bad poll numbers, was hoping to repeat what Claire McCaskill did with Todd Aikan. Hagan was hoping that crazy shitstain Brannon would win. Tillis will be a tougher component, and has a lot of money.

Looks like the GOP finally learned its lesson and the Repukes are falling in line with the establishment.

[Kelvin Mace]

5. It also doesn't help that Hagan

hasn't exactly made friends on the left with her center-right politicking. Not a lot of enthusiasm around my house for her, though we'll hold our nose and vote.

[Archae]

3. This guy may not be Tea Party...

But it's going to get ugly and Tillis will pander to the Teabaggers.

[onehandle]

6. Increasing the odds that the GOP will take the Senate.

And young Obama voters will fail to show up again, destroying their own futures.

Too busy on Snapchat.

[BlueEye]

9. We're not all like that!

I'm a 21 year-old Obama voter (albeit not in NC), but I can assure you I will be at the polls in November. I try to impart the same urgency on my peers. There does seem to be a general lack of awareness however, and it's extremely frustrating. Even our local chapter of the College Dems is making a half-assed effort at GOTV compared to the amazing work we did in 2012. In my opinion, part of it is attributable to a failure in civics education. So many people my age don't even understand the political system, and that these midterms are absolutely critical to the agenda of the President they so enthusiastically voted for two years ago. A lame duck Obama is bad for Democrats, bad for the next Democratic presidential candidate, and bad for America.

[rep the dems]

10. I hear ya, man

It's an uphill battle with people like us. I'm 23 and have always tried vote even though it's usually been absentee while I've been at school, studying abroad, or working on a campaign. I've found that a lot of people are happy to weigh in on issues (whether they understand them at all or not) but when they have to do more than just talk, it's too much trouble. I think our generation has this sense that that's all it takes: if you have a spontaneous political conversation or change your profile picture to an equality sign or watch House of Cards, you're political. Just like you can call yourself a writer for keeping a blog, a photographer for posting pictures to instagram, a nerd for wearing thick rimmed glasses, etc. It's what you do that counts, and for a lot of young people that equals nothing.

[DEMTough]

12. Ouch.

I'm 20, voted for Obama in '12, and I actually did the research for the sample ballot for both my mom and I here in Orange County, CA. How many voters do research these days? If they did, we'd have a Democratic majority for years. One thing's for sure, I had to search pretty hard to find the actual lesser of several evils down here.

People I talk to seem to connect to me, and understand me when I discuss the issues and my beliefs (While I add a tad of humor). They're impressed. Communication is a key element that a lot of Democratic politicians just don't seem to grasp.

Also, I don't have Snapchat on my phone. Too busy studying for Berkeley/working at my job.

[Iliyah]

7. Dem has a better chance in NC, so I would not rule her out.

[Dawson Leery]

8. The latest polls show Tillis weaker than the others.

That seems to go in the face of the view that Tillis is strongest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_North_Carolina,_2014#Polling_2

The other polls are no longer posted.

[DFW]

11. As a southerner, I offer this consolation

In my part of the country, many Republican voters are robotic, Foxsucking radical rightists. They are motivated by extremism, not moderation. If they don't get their way, they tune out about as fast as we would have if our 2008 nominee had been Max Baucus. Tillis is a slap in the face to them. Kay Hagan has a good chance of being re-elected, though it won't be without a full court press.

[Dawson Leery]

13. The latest polls show Tillis weaker than the others.

Mr. Tillis is on board with Santorum's plan to allow states to outlaw contraception.

Tillis has many achilles heels.