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The MidTerms: The staggering amounts of money being spent – politicalbetting.com

I was very struck by the above table showing how much money has been spent on some of the Senate campaigns where voting takes place today.
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The answer is already becoming clear. He plans to be less belligerent, more forward-looking, with an increased focus on policy rather than rhetoric. It will be a more restrained Mr Trump in 2024.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/11/08/secret-how-donald-trump-plans-win-2024/
I just spat out of my coffee.....The Telegraph really is a joke of a newspaper these days. He literally repeated the same approach to Ron Desantis as he did with all the other candidates last time only last night.
Have It.....
Stephanie Beatriz who plays Rosa Diaz in Brooklyn 99 does her acting without either glasses or contacts but is legally blind without them.
What a waste of money. They could have given it to sick kiddies.
Or better still, to environmental charities.
This will be repeated across the state.
Down a mere 33% today.
(not that I'm pro ID cards, partic, just can't really see much difference)
Don't like the results? The election must have been rigged
https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/07/us_midterms_misinformation/
Summary: misinformation about unreliable voting machines is spread on social media; comes mainly from American right-wingers, then from Russia; intensity should be reduced because Trump is not standing.
That’s John Fetterman and Mehmut Oz, possibly the two most unsuitable candidates up for election today, and all the polls have nothing between them.
Gavin Williamson's responsibilities finally appear on the Cabinet Office website. https://twitter.com/JackElsom/status/1590004133620482048/photo/1
"Once I tried to take the wrong children home from school!"
There has to be a better way.
I expect Williamson's tenure to be coming to an end following due process, and certainly it is a distraction that is not needed by Rishi
However, Bloomberg is reporting that the UK and EU are close to a break through on Northern Ireland and they attribute today's strengthining pound to this
I have sensed for some time Rishi is far more pragmatic on controversial issues , and I expect his meeting with Macron will see the channel crossings problem addressed to our mutual benefit, as I expect Macron's outer EU nation proposals to be seriously discussed and considered
https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers/minister-of-state-minister-without-portfolio--2
Isn't that what these sort of are anyway?
In fact, is ANY country in just 'EFTA' without also being in the EEA or having an additional agreement with the EU anyway (There's only four, three are in EEA, and the Swiss have additional treaties with the EU).
Despite my concerns at Sunak’s ideology, it is of considerable relief that we do at last seem to have a grown up in charge. Truss and Johnson clearly weren’t, and May should have been, but wasn’t, because she was held hostage by the nutters.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-08/uk-and-eu-are-close-to-breakthrough-in-long-running-brexit-spat
It was the government using it as a Trojan horse to link all our data and give everyone and her grandmother access to it
Mind you, she is still a very poor HS
The next meeting is arranged to take place in London
If I have understood this correctly, I'm still slightly bemused by a Chief Whip complaining about bullying. Isn't that what they exist to do themselves?
And if the report I have seen in the Guardian documents the whole thing, such an allegation now looks to me at least in part like revenge taken cold - which dissension is perhaps more worrying for the Tories than the thing itself.
"Vile" and "threatening" seems a little overegged - he just seems pissed off, and I can't see anything that can be called "misogynistic". Unless there is a claim that a theoretical man in the same position would not have had the same reaction.
I've not commented on other party's reactions, since they would say what they are saying regardless of what actually happened.
I'm going off these reports:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/nov/08/gavin-williamson-under-growing-pressure-over-bullying-accusations
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/nov/05/gavin-williamson-faces-inquiry-over-abusive-messages-to-wendy-morton
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/nov/04/rishi-sunak-under-pressure-over-gavin-williamson-vile-messages-to-wendy-morton
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2022-election-forecast/senate/
Apple has it easy; by controlling the hardware, you fantastically reduce the number of combinations you need to support.
Without Windows, the world would be much poorer.
Are we back to the basically broken system unable to function, and lawyers who exist to gum it all up using the process as a weapon? In which case the fix is a reformed system, rather than borderline racist ranting about a different question - 'Albanian Criminals' as a diversionary tactic from a useless HS.
(I have not been following this very closely.)
You are harking back to the glory days of 30 years ago when people like you knew about computers and no one else did. Those days are gone.
There is an irony in that is reported that in 2006 Wendy Morton and 5 other conservative councillors were found guilty of bullying themselves apparently
https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/1078280.councillors-resign-following-row-swearing-chamber/
This bit was unusual for any mainstream newspaper:
"The former president then went on to tell a story in which he himself had come off second best. 'That's self-deprecating, I hate to admit it...' he smiled. In previous elections Mr Trump tended not to tell self-deprecating stories."
So what actually was the supposedly self-deprecating story, then? Why doesn't Allen say?
When I started reading your post, @FrancisUrquhart, I thought it was what you were saying, not the Torygraph, and I thought "Hmm, well if FU is right then Trump's opponents should logically adopt a strategy of baiting the hell out of him". But, as you say, it's obviously bullsh*t.
It's probably no more than a hook for Kellyanne's book.
Is Kellyanne still shacked up with George Conway? George made a good effort in 2020. The Lincoln Project's videos were superb.
The Conways' daughter Claudia made a good contribution during the election campaign too. (Note: I think she is cool but absolutely NOT in the sense that Leon might.) That said, I dug Kellyanne telling her in a fury "You're lucky your mother's pro-life!"
https://wisdomofcrowds.live/lies-damned-lies-and-disinformation/
TLDR: people in democracies have always used spin and rhetoric, the focus on misinformation, foul play and the validity of elections is stopping parties from going through the necessary reflection and course correction after each defeat.
Watching TV in the bar, literally every single advert was for a candidate.
It was insane.
My business is in Arizona. During the 2020 election, the price of YouTube advertising in the final weeks was about 10x higher than normal levels. We had to pull back to zero.
https://twitter.com/scottishsun/status/1589898505564426240?s=46&t=42yyP7SrdXrd6oh9uqQchw
* If I understand the timing correctly. Given the recent games of Happy Families, Blind Man's Buff, Pass the Parcel and Musical Chairs at the top of the Tory Party, I may have got some of the three dimensional chess positions wrong.
https://mobile.twitter.com/_valgraham/status/1589968558217662464
* Conflict Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) ("[The CSSF] enables 14 government departments and agencies to address security priorities in a collaborative way. The CSSF operates in over 80 countries and territories".
* GREAT campaign ("We are a nation of creative thinkers, daring dreamers and curious scientists. A place where fresh ideas and unique perspectives are welcomed, and where exploration and curiosity pave the way for progress."
* Supporting the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster on driving the delivery of Government’s priorities
* Geospatial Commission
* Office of Government Property
* Government Property Agency
* Places for Growth
* Government Communications Service
https://mobile.twitter.com/ksadjadpour/status/1589952530016243714
In the last 8 weeks Iran’s regime has killed over 300 protestors, imprisoned nearly 15,000, and threatened to execute hundreds more, yet Iran’s women persist. Today female university students removed their forced hejab and chant, “I am a free woman.”
When there is a possible workplace disciplinary or grievance issue, the employer should find out all they reasonably can about the issue. This is known as an 'investigation'.
An investigation is to:
- see if there is a case to answer
- make sure everyone is treated fairly
- gather evidence from all sides
- help the employer to see what should happen next...
To protect everyone involved in a disciplinary or grievance case, the employer must make sure they follow a fair procedure. The investigation is an important part of this.
If the employer does not carry out a reasonable investigation, any decisions they make in the disciplinary or grievance case are likely to be unfair. This could risk legal action.
The case began after Citizens United, a conservative non-profit organization, sought to air and advertise a film critical of then Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton shortly before the 2008 Democratic primary elections. Broadcasting the film would have been a violation of the 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, which prohibited any corporation, non-profit organization or labor union from making an "electioneering communication" within 30 days of a primary or 60 days of an election, or making any expenditure advocating the election or defeat of a candidate at any time. Citizens United challenged the constitutionality of this law, and its case reached the Supreme Court."
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
These decisions have weakened the political influence of newspapers and our TV networks. Opinions differ on whether that is a good thing.
(One thing to remember is that US congressional districts have much larger populations than your constituencies; there are 435 House seats for a population of about 332 million, and many of the districts are quite large geographically, making door-to-door campaigning impractical.
Moreover, much TV advertising is wasted, since TV markets rarely match single-district boundaries. So, for example, most of the TV spending on House seats here in the Seattle area is wasted.)
NEW
Axing Britannia 2.0 is another blow for Brexit Britain
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/11/08/axing-britannia-20-another-blow-brexit-britain/
He was threatening, though. "There is a price for everything" was a threat.
I am a sad slave to Apple.
6pm EST (11pm UK) = most of IN and KY
7pm EST (12mid UK) = most of FL, Georgia, New Hampshire, SC, VT, VA
7.30pm EST (12.30am UK) = NC, Ohio, WVa
8pm EST (1am UK) = Pennsylvania plus gaggle of other states from Maine to (most of) Texas
9pm EST = 8pm CDT = 7pm MDT (2am UK) = New York also Wisconsin also Arizona, Colorado & New Mexico
8pm MST (3am UK) = Nevada & Utah
8pm PST (4am UK) = California, Oregon, Washington
8pm Alaska Standard Time = 7pm Hawaii Standard Time (5am UK) = Alaska & Hawaii
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2022/nov/08/gavin-williamson-rishi-sunak-uk-politics-latest-live-news