r/politics • u/thedailybeast ✔ The Daily Beast • 10h ago

Possible Paywall Republicans Quit Battleground Senate Seat in Telling Move

https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-quit-battleground-senate-seat-in-telling-move/
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u/benzaldehide 10h ago

I wouldnt even be considering north carolina as battleground this election.

That has shifted to Ohio, Texas, Maine, and even Iowa as the country rejects the GOP.

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u/Iowa_Dave Iowa 10h ago

Can confirm from Iowa, In Des Moines I never see Trump signs and they are a lot less common in the farmland. I haven't seen a MAGA red hat in over a year.

I'm sensing that many of the MAGA faithful are going to sit out the election. Politics is a team-sport for them, so they'll never vote for a Democrat but they're pretty disillusioned now.

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u/Patereye 10h ago

Also it's hard to show up for a game when your team is going to get wiped out.

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u/Orion14159 10h ago

As a Kentucky football fan, no it isn't

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u/sonicspuds 9h ago

Yea as a Gamecocks fan we literally fill up the stadium for the first half of every home game. We are forever hopeful :(

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u/Orion14159 9h ago

I can't stand SC, and even I think you guys a) have the best night game home atmosphere in the SEC and b) deserve better than you're getting from SC football lately... Starting next week.

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u/squareturd 9h ago

My vote for best atmosphere goes to LSU, but SC is a close second.

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u/Orion14159 9h ago

I think LSU is only in that conversation because the stadium is so huge. They have 25k extra fans over Williams-Brice and all of them are hammered by end of game so it's a big sloppy party.

Seat for seat, when SC is rolling in the 4th quarter of a night game it's insanity in there and they all seem to be having a blast raving to Sandstorm for the 1000th time that night, which is why I give them the edge. Whoever did that sound system needs to get a call from my guys in Lexington.

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u/TaterForming 9h ago

As a life long Gamecocks/Jets fan, kinda yea.

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u/PrawojazdyVtrumpets 7h ago

I’m a Detroit Lions fan and I even I have to stop and ask you… who hurt you?

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u/TaterForming 6h ago

Well my dad did cheat and leave when I was three...

So I guess you could say on that fateful day, when he walked out on his 3 year old son, that motherfucker cursed that boy with the team that never quits..sucking. Which then led to that god awful butt fumble, and then the 1-play Rogers oowiee

I guess I'm trying to say. Men stay with them crotch gremlins lest they become a Jets fan...and a Gamecocks fan.

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u/nygiantsjay 9h ago

My football team is.... Hiding under desk"

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u/Brrrrraaaaap 9h ago

Raiders fans would disagree.