https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61488082

Not a moment too soon.

I was worried that with eight candidates, he’d come out ahead of any one of them… and it might be unlikely a Dem could beat him in solid red NC.

Is North Carolina solid red? I thought I'd seen that the Senate seat is a potential Dem pickup opportunity.

Apparently Dr. Oz and the other wacko's (just not quite as wacko and not endorsed by you know who) race is too close to call. I'd LOVE to see Oz go down, totally unqualified and a known medical quack to boot.

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Originally posted by Nina:
Apparently Dr. Oz and the other wacko's (just not quite as wacko and not endorsed by you know who) race is too close to call. I'd LOVE to see Oz go down, totally unqualified and a known medical quack to boot.

You forgot to mention that he doesn't actually live in the state for which he is running for senate. He is using his in-laws address and claiming he now lives with them instead of in the million dollar mansion he has lived in for years and still owns in NJ.

The thing about Oz is that despite having Trump's endorsement, the Trumpsters are deeply suspicious of him....they think he's part of the hollywood liberal elite. And I do think he's more moderate than the other wacko, so he might actually win over some centrists but at the same time, he has a solid group of haters among the diehard Trumpies that could work in the Dems favor. I do kinda wish the 3rd place woman would have won - she's from around here and she's awful awful awful - probably never could have carried the general. I think Oz or the other guy (McCormick) have a better shot unfortunately.

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Originally posted by QuirtEvans:
Is North Carolina solid red? I thought I'd seen that the Senate seat is a potential Dem pickup opportunity.

Good Q. I don't know. I've just been seeing in the news that whoever wins the republican primary in Maddie's district is a shoe-in in the general.

But, maybe he could have gotten what Roy Moore did.


Many years ago in Washington State, a woman named Ellen Craswell ran for governor. She took every opportunity to say that her allegiances were first to (her) God, second to her family, and third to the State and its laws. She ran in a primary field of about 10 other candidates who were all nearly identical slices of white bread. She got more votes in the primary than any other one candidate because she was the one who stuck out like a sore thumb. She got creamed in the general.

But it was a lesson in dilution of the primary. In a large field of mostly shades of grey, the one oddball wins. Heck, if Kasich and Rubio had bowed out in 2016, Cruz probably would have gotten the nomination instead of the great orange menace. Maybe not. But it would have been worth putting your political career on hold for a couple years to save the country from the disaster that was the I-1 occupation.

NC is purple in general elections. Its assembly is thoroughly gerrymandered to generate a large GOP majority. Dems are packed into overwhelmingly blue districts around the cities, and suburbs are packaged with rural areas (where KKK sentiment is normal) to create a cherry-red legislature. Current governor is a Democrat.

For me, Oz has already demonstrated that he's willing to say (lie) about anything for a buck. Perhaps I should take a more pragmatic look and make a determination based on whether he's someone who might play well with others, but I can't--particularly as he's an educated man and I'm pretty sure he knew what he was saying was, at best, highly misleading.

Dr. Oz shouldn't be a senator or a doctor

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Originally posted by Lisa:

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Originally posted by Nina:
Apparently Dr. Oz and the other wacko's (just not quite as wacko and not endorsed by you know who) race is too close to call. I'd LOVE to see Oz go down, totally unqualified and a known medical quack to boot.

You forgot to mention that he doesn't actually live in the state for which he is running for senate. He is using his in-laws address and claiming he now lives with them instead of in the million dollar mansion he has lived in for years and still owns in NJ.

And he also owns an $18MM mansion in Palm Beach.
How DOES it work legally is terms of how a candidate declares his/her home state or residence?

I'm sure there are a lot of tax ramifications, based on number of days worked (however defined) in each state, and I'd think the state of residence would be at least as strictly defined when it comes to elections.

I find him sickening too, but I don't know which candidate to wish wins in the primaries (of those three in PA - not that they have equal chances of winning, including the laggard). I guess, it's as Lisa says that either of the two (tied as of now) front runners are about equally likely/unlikely to win the PA senate seat. Ugh ugh ugh.

Speaking as someone with many Turkish family and friends, I think it's fascinating that running as a Republican, he retained his Islamic affiliation.

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Originally posted by Lisa:

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Originally posted by Nina:
Apparently Dr. Oz and the other wacko's (just not quite as wacko and not endorsed by you know who) race is too close to call. I'd LOVE to see Oz go down, totally unqualified and a known medical quack to boot.

You forgot to mention that he doesn't actually live in the state for which he is running for senate. He is using his in-laws address and claiming he now lives with them instead of in the million dollar mansion he has lived in for years and still owns in NJ.

I didn't know that.

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Originally posted by Amanda:

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Originally posted by Lisa:

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Originally posted by Nina:
Apparently Dr. Oz and the other wacko's (just not quite as wacko and not endorsed by you know who) race is too close to call. I'd LOVE to see Oz go down, totally unqualified and a known medical quack to boot.

You forgot to mention that he doesn't actually live in the state for which he is running for senate. He is using his in-laws address and claiming he now lives with them instead of in the million dollar mansion he has lived in for years and still owns in NJ.

And he also owns an $18MM mansion in Palm Beach.
How DOES it work legally is terms of how a candidate declares his/her home state or residence?

I'm sure there are a lot of tax ramifications, based on number of days worked (however defined) in each state, and I'd think the state of residence would be at least as strictly defined when it comes to elections.

I find him sickening too, but I don't know which candidate to wish wins in the primaries (of those three in PA - not that they have equal chances of winning, including the laggard). I guess, it's as Lisa says that either of the two (tied as of now) front runners are about equally likely/unlikely to win the PA senate seat. Ugh ugh ugh.

Speaking as someone with many Turkish family and friends, I think it's fascinating that running as a Republican, he retained his Islamic affiliation.

How does one decide one’s state of residence? It didn’t work for Nicholas Kristof. He was planning to run for the governor here in Oregon, but a judge ruled that he didn’t qualify for the residency period. rejected

Oz is a slimy quack.