Democrat lost by only 6 points. That's a win for them. All that millions for nothing! They could have found something better to spend it on. Like themselves.

 

Many democrats still think they won the presidential election.
They have a bad habit of turning a blind eye to any news they do not agree with.
Hell, look at the dog. He is about the only person in the U.S. that doesn't know about all of the crooked deals the Clintons have pulled.
He is supposed to be a master of facts. Just imagine how little the ordinary democrat knows about anything.

 

You don't think doggo is a typical demon-rat? I do. Got his head up his ass and won't listen to a thing.

I guess head up the ass would block the ears...

 

He has one ear sticking out.
He only hears the good things about the democrats.
He isn't getting much use out of that ear now.
It has been a long time since the democrats have done anything that could be called good.

 

Hug a liberal. They need it.

 

The real question is how they (democrats) are going to blame the Russians.

 

The "Resist" movement against Trump is not serving Democrats well.

Ossoff is calling this a "moral victory." Well, that and a quarter will buy you...

Others are saying the loss is "a blessing in disguise," and to coin a phrase, if this is a blessing in disguise, it is well disguised indeed.

Back to RESIST.

Rosie O'Donnell sent Ossoff money. Samuel Jackson sent Ossoff money. How could he possibly have lost?!

But seriously: I think that the reason the polls had Ossoff ahead is that the Resist movement is largely a marketing fiction, whose authors, and cohorts have come to believe their own spin. They are mystified that they lost, because they really do believe that Trump has a foot out the door and the next shoe to drop will be his impending impeachment.

It is all fiction. The people who voted for Trump see his unpopularity as a good thing. When the New York Times has one good thing to say about him, then his supporters will start to worry. Everyone who knows anything about how badly screwed this country is realizes that there are no quick fixes, and it is going to take time. Conservatives have a lot more patience than anyone in the media is giving them credit for.

 

Exactly! Trump isn't a politician. We sent him to the White House to clean house. If he wasn't doing his job the leftists wouldn't be screaming bloody hell. Since he is doing what Americans deny him to do they're scrambling like cockroaches when the lights come on. Let the revolution continue!

 

Well put and as far as the poll thing, here is my take which I posted earlier in that resume' thread and is just a quick snapshot of reality ... but go ahead and correct me LMAO.

 

What some people call "polls" we in the investment industry call "rumors" and we live by the motto "if you haven't heard a good rumor by 10 o clock, start one" lol.

Nothing drives excitement like a good rumor ...

 

Was this election won or stolen ???

Researcher finds Georgia voter records exposed on internet

A security researcher disclosed a gaping security hole at the outfit that manages Georgia's election technology, days before the state holds a closely watched congressional runoff vote on June 20.


The security failure left the state's 6.7 million voter records and other sensitive files exposed to hackers, and may have been left unpatched for seven months. The revealed files might have allowed attackers to plant malware and possibly rig votes or wreak chaos with voter rolls during elections.

Georgia is especially vulnerable to such disruption, as the entire state relies on antiquated touchscreen voting machines that provide no hardcopy record of votes, making it all but impossible to tell if anyone has manipulated the tallies.

The true dimensions of the failure were first reported Wednesday by Politico Magazine . The affected Center for Election Systems referred all questions to its host, Kennesaw State University, which declined comment. In March, the university had mischaracterized the flaw's discovery as a security breach.

Logan Lamb, a 29-year-old Atlanta-based private security researcher formerly with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, made the discovery last August. He told The Associated Press he decided to go public after the publication last week of a classified National Security Agency report describing a sophisticated scheme, allegedly by Russian military intelligence, to infiltrate local U.S. elections systems using phishing emails.

The NSA report offered the most detailed account yet of an attempt by foreign agents to probe the rickety and poorly funded U.S. elections system. The Department of Homeland Security had previously reported attempts last year to gain unauthorized access to voter registration databases in 20 states—one of which, in Illinois, succeeded, though the state says no harm resulted.

It also emboldened Lamb to come forward with his findings. Lamb discovered the security hole—a misconfigured server—one day as he did a search of the Kennesaw State election-systems website. There, he found a directory open to the internet that contained not just the state voter database, but PDF files with instructions and passwords used by poll workers to sign into a central server used on Election Day, said Lamb.

"It was an open invitation to anybody pretending to even know a little bit about computers to get into the system," said Marilyn Marks, an election-transparency activist whose Colorado-based foundation participated in a failed lawsuit that sought to bar the use of paperless voting machines in next week's election.

The directory of files "was already indexed by Google," Lamb said in an interview—meaning that anyone could have found it with the right search. Lamb said he notified the center's director, Merle King, who assured him the hole would be patched and who asked to keep his discovery to himself.

Politico reported that the center never notified the secretary of state's office, which oversees elections and contracts with Kennesaw State to manage the technology part. The Associated Press left a phone message and sent email to King seeking comment but he did not immediately respond.

Lamb said he decided not to disclose the problem at the time—mostly because he "didn't want to needlessly escalate things" prior to the Nov. 8 general election. But in March, a security colleague Lamb had told about the flaw, checked out the center's website and discovered that the vulnerabilities had only been partially fixed.

"We were both pretty floored," said Lamb.

The researcher, Chris Grayson, said he, too, was able to access the same voter record database and other sensitive files in a publicly accessible directory. Grayson contacted a friend who is a professor at Kennesaw State. Two days later, the FBI was called in to investigate.

It did not bring charges against either researcher, finding no evidence of illegal entry . "At the end of the day we were doing what we thought was in the best interest of the republic—informing the parties that needed to be privy to this sort of issue," said Grayson.

The special election next Tuesday will fill the seat vacated by Republican Tom Price after he was named Health and Human Services Secretary. It has attracted national attention, including that of President Donald Trump, for whom it could be a bellwether.

First-time candidate Jon Ossoff is a Democrat with a national security background. His GOP opponent is former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel.

 

This was reported days ago, and it doesn't mean anything.

Everything that was "exposed" is public record and can be bought for marketing from list brokers. All these fools did was expose the records they bought.

Look up Experian Corporation to see what marketers and political consultants can buy about you. Do it only if you really want to drop dead from the magnitude of what it means when they say "we have no privacy anymore."

EDIT - Posted this in the wrong thread. Copying it to where it belongs.

 

THIS TIME ...

Look at the other thread on breaches I just posted where it goes deeper and into personal info other than just surface ... and in the thread you are moving it to it is not as cut and dry !!!

So I will save the trip and just say you are misinformed here instead LOL.

 

Funny how "breaches" are irrelevant when your horse wins LMAO ...

 

Sure but that is typical. Political consultants and marketers always cross rented demographic data with their own metadata. It is not very useful otherwise.

One thing that is not clear in your posts is that these lists do not tell consultants who voted for whom. There is no way they can know that, because voting chits are not identified with a personal key. All they show is political affiliation and the recency/frequency in which you vote. That is why metadata is added. They add all kinds of other metrics, like home value, stock holdings, philanthropic giving, and even stuff like magazine/newspaper subscriptions, to try to infer which way you vote.

 

Breaking News: Evidence of the USSD (United Shouting Socialists Dumbocracy - aka Hol'Yor'Ass'Nois) appears to have attempted to influence the outcome of the Special Election for the Georgia 6th District seat in the US House.




Hollywood Fail: Jon Ossoff Loses Georgia Congressional Election Despite Massive Celebrity Help

Democrat Jon Ossoff lost his bid against Republican Karen Handel in Georgia’s Sixth District special congressional election Tuesday night, representing a stunning rebuke of Hollywood and the numerous celebrities who stumped for and contributed to the Democrat’s campaign.

The race to fill the seat long held by former Rep. Tom Price (R-GA), now President Donald Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, had received national media attention as Democrats used the contest as an opportunity to measure the party’s prospects to win elections in the run-up to the 2018 midterms.

Ossoff, a 30-year-old documentary filmmaker-turned-Democratic politician, had received a steady stream of support from some of Hollywood’s biggest stars. Some of the most vocal celebrity critics of President Donald Trump, including Rosie O’Donnell, Jane Fonda, and Samuel L. Jackson, donated time and money to help Ossoff’s campaign.

In April, Jackson cut a 45-second radio ad endorsing Ossoff, urging Georgia voters to “stop Donald Trump, a man who encourages racial and religious discrimination and sexism.”

Actor John Leguizamo’s assertion that democracy itself hinged on Ossoff winning underscored how desperate Hollywood was to send a resounding message of resistance to Trump’s presidency.

But Tuesday’s results were likely to prompt more soul-searching among the political left, who are still looking for their first significant post-Trump election victory.

Actress Alyssa Milano, an early Ossoff supporter, personally drove voters to polling sites for the Democrat during the April election that forced Tuesday’s runoff.

No joke. Call [redacted] and Alyssa Milano and I WILL PICK YOU UP and take you to early vote! Now.
— Christopher Gorham (@redacted) March 27, 2017
​

With the prospect of moving to Georgia for film work, Milano saw Ossoff’s long-shot election as a way to continue her political activism in the Trump era.

“After Trump was elected, I decided to dedicate my time and passion to trying to flip seats,” the Charmed star told Variety.

Milano previously said she wanted “to puke” after Ossoff’ failure to reach the 50 percent threshold required to avoid Tuesday’s runoff.

On Tuesday, the Who’s the Boss star launched a social media campaign encouraging people to tweet photos of themselves after hitting the polls.

Actresses Sarah Silverman and Debra Messing attacked Ossoff’s opponent, Karen Handel, on social media in the run-up to Tuesday’s election.

Despite the belief of numerous political experts that Ossoff would fall short in the Republican-dominated district that helped send Trump to the White House, the president had earlier declared Tuesday’s election to be a matchup between “Hollywood vs. Georgia.”

The president took to Twitter Monday to urge Georgia voters to pull the lever for Handel.

The Dems want to stop tax cuts, good healthcare and Border Security.Their ObamaCare is dead with 100% increases in P's. Vote now for Karen H

— Donald J. Trump (@[redacted]) June 19, 2017
​

 

Here is an idea!
Tax candidate election funds.
Everybody says the rich aren't paying their fair share of taxes. So when one carpet bagger spends 40+ million on a losing race, think of all the other taxes could be cut.
Every candidate will have any and all campaign funds taxed at the highest rate with no deductions.
The liberal democrats should love that.

 

It looks like Hollywood is not near as important as they think.
Not everyone wants some actor to make decisions for them.
Many prefer someone with more substance.