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US PoliERA 2018 |OT8| Democrats projected to gain F5 seats
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Correct, if I had god like powers over the US government I would abolish the Senate entirely.
Somebody check on the black guy in Idaho and make sure he's okay.
Kidding aside, did this turn out to be something?
I've asked around and haven't found anything. Don't really want to get on a watchlist for googling 'white power truck rally' or anything like that. I'm sure someone on the Boise subreddit knows, but I haven't gotten an answer yet. Haven't seen any more trucks in a while, so I don't know what's going on.
Let McCready do what he's doing. He's on track to flip a deep red seat. FWIW, he's one of those generic "fix healthcare" guys.
I know some of you stay out of the OT for political threads (including those of you who didn't post in my movie thread...) but this is too funny not to post here:
File that away next time someone pops up to say how smart and rational Shapiro is as a conservative commentator.
File that away next time someone pops up to say how smart and rational Shapiro is as a conservative commentator.
I don't think Harris fits any of these categories seamlessly. She's undeniably progressive and has that appeal, but she has a measured but no-nonsense way of speaking and presenting herself that I think would appeal to more moderate Dems. Of the names listed, I think she's done the most to present herself as a bridge candidate between the factions of the Left. People really responded to the way she grilled the shit out of Kavenaugh.
Her only potential stumbling block that I can see from here are the Southern primaries and the challenge Booker might pose. But even there I think she's beginning to edge Booker out.
Man staring at this picture, I finally get how his hair works. First he takes all the long hair on the side and make a combover but then he takes all the hair from the back of his head and combs it forward. That's insane.
Alright, cool. :)
Obviously a Constitutional amendment or act of God to make that happen isn't coming anytime soon, hehheh. So that all being the case, as long as it does exist and we're stuck with the thing, might as well make the most use we can of it as well, eh? Especially since it's so easy to argue in favor of--"returning to the founding principles of the Senate which have been forgotten," "increasing representation for the American people who have long gone unheard," "showing our commitment to the American values of democracy," etc. As long as the institution DOES in fact exist, I can't really think of a good argument not to do that.
Especially since, ironically, if anything were to be able to shift the Overton window towards arguments of actually just abolishing the thing and make people actually even begin to consider a Constitutional Amendment in favor of that + delegating the Senate's responsibilities to the House or whatever, it would likely be "abuse" of the Senate by continuously adding more and more states and forcing the Senate to be an inherently political topic in of itself that does it.
...Though naturally even that wouldn't do it of course since even if everyone else in the country somehow started to hate the Senate, a Constitutional Amendment, by normal processes, would require the Senate itself to vote against its own continued existence and put themselves out of a job which obviously ain't going to happen no matter what, no matter how much everyone else hates them. So yeah, it's not going anywhere no matter what, even in some crazy hypothetical future. So that all being the case, it's existence safe and secure no matter what and the creation of new states so easily defendable and so hard to argue against ("my opponent clearly just hates democracy, my opponent is arguing for Americans NOT to have representation, can you believe that? I've never heard anything less American in my life," etc)... why not make the most of it exactly and just carry it to its logical endpoint already?
In my ideal world i'd see the senate neutered rather than abolished entirely:
President: has more or less the power's of France's president. Broad control of the day-to-day for diplomatic and military affairs, arbiter of who gets to control the House (in terms of kingmaking for coalitions). Gets free choice to appoint one supreme court justice after their first election win (so every newly-elected president gets one, or if you come in via the line of succession you have to win a re-election).
House: Switch to statewide-proportional-representation to change us to a proper multiparty system. Vest all powers except military and diplomatic administration in the Speaker. Direct control over all cabinet-level departments except State, Defense, and DHS.
Senate: Remaining powers are to veto treaties and presidential appointments with a 3/5s majority. Void the 17th amendment and let the states decide whether to directly elect them or have them appointed by the governor or state legislature, with the reasoning being because the position loses importance, there's a danger that more extreme voters would be the only ones who'd care to vote for Senator, similar to what happens with EU parliament. State senators are responsible for picking Federal District judges in a form of the old Blue Slip system (all district judges in your state need consent of both Senators to be appointed). Committees of senators from the relevant states can promote those district judges to appeals circuit courts governing their state.
President: has more or less the power's of France's president. Broad control of the day-to-day for diplomatic and military affairs, arbiter of who gets to control the House (in terms of kingmaking for coalitions). Gets free choice to appoint one supreme court justice after their first election win (so every newly-elected president gets one, or if you come in via the line of succession you have to win a re-election).
House: Switch to statewide-proportional-representation to change us to a proper multiparty system. Vest all powers except military and diplomatic administration in the Speaker. Direct control over all cabinet-level departments except State, Defense, and DHS.
Senate: Remaining powers are to veto treaties and presidential appointments with a 3/5s majority. Void the 17th amendment and let the states decide whether to directly elect them or have them appointed by the governor or state legislature, with the reasoning being because the position loses importance, there's a danger that more extreme voters would be the only ones who'd care to vote for Senator, similar to what happens with EU parliament. State senators are responsible for picking Federal District judges in a form of the old Blue Slip system (all district judges in your state need consent of both Senators to be appointed). Committees of senators from the relevant states can promote those district judges to appeals circuit courts governing their state.
All these voters putting their money together so that their voices can be heard. I'd rather hear from the bots hired by a shell corporation LLC.
She just needs one standout speech/moment to just really take off. The hearing was a start but I don't think it'd be enough on its own
I would encourage you to PM B-Dubs if you're annoyed by this. Maybe mods will take further action if enough people bring it to their attention.
2 years ago: "Add a couple points to Clinton's polls because of her superior ground game."
I am pretty sure to abolish the Senate would require a Constitutional Convention, not an Amendment. The likelihood of this happen is almost never, because it has only been done when establishing the country's foundations.
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As an article I posted explains, the party being carried by the wave usually outperforms the polls by an average of 3% on election day:
I'll quote a more relevant passage for you:
This is not 2016. It is not a presidential election. The dynamics are completely different and in our favor.
But if you acknowledged that, you couldn't get in the subtle digs implying people are being overconfident.
I don't think you can just say "add 4 points to Democrats", but it's also true that polls generally tend to understate the side that wins because the majority of undecideds to swing one way.
He is truly insane. Not just in the "you're a shitty person" way, but also the "your brain doesn't function and you need a restraining device" way.
The best way to advance Senate reform as a Constitutional issue is to pack the Senate with representatives of nonwhite-majority states. GOP will immediately become a strong advocate of overhauling the Senate.
In addition to his horrible policies, he is just so fucking annoying...
I wonder how many Trumpsters agree that this is the best economy ever.
OK I will bite, finally. Who does he think the 17 angry democrats are?
Is she going to blow this?
Arizona Senate: Kyrsten Sinema's anti-war group blasted 'U.S. terror,' depicted soldier as skeleton in 2003 flyers
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/15/politics/kfile-sinema-flyers/index.html
Arizona Senate: Kyrsten Sinema's anti-war group blasted 'U.S. terror,' depicted soldier as skeleton in 2003 flyers
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/15/politics/kfile-sinema-flyers/index.html
She had nothing to do with the poster.
Mundane McSally milking the veteran shit as much as she can.
I'm excited and scared about this election.
If we win, the public might actually find out the truth about what Trump and the people around him did. How they won. What litany of crimes have they committed since, and assuredly before. Everything Trump is would be laid bare.
If we lose I'm pretty sure we're weeks away from Hitlerish shit, like internment camps for kids... oh wait.
If we win, the public might actually find out the truth about what Trump and the people around him did. How they won. What litany of crimes have they committed since, and assuredly before. Everything Trump is would be laid bare.
If we lose I'm pretty sure we're weeks away from Hitlerish shit, like internment camps for kids... oh wait.
Not that I agree with that statement (and the race seems pretty competitive), but:
Arizona is like the deep south of the west.
He's literally just stringing his own buzzwords together now. There's barely any coherence (not that there was ever much to begin with).
I've said this before, but most voters (like, over 80%, maybe over 90%) don't pay attention to shit like that Sinema thing. A lot of politicking is actually just masturbatory, only appealing to people who follow 200 political accounts on Twitter (which isn't most users, and that's not mentioning all the people who don't plug into these things at all).
The way politicos worry about stories getting out, they're basically arguing that CNN should be bringing in Super Bowl ratings. They aren't. People don't pay attention to this stuff.
The main thing on voters' minds right now is probably the Manafort/Cohen guilty verdicts/plea. That was big enough to replace the previous dumb thing Trump did, and his numbers (and the GOP's as a whole) went down after that in the aggregate.
The way politicos worry about stories getting out, they're basically arguing that CNN should be bringing in Super Bowl ratings. They aren't. People don't pay attention to this stuff.
The main thing on voters' minds right now is probably the Manafort/Cohen guilty verdicts/plea. That was big enough to replace the previous dumb thing Trump did, and his numbers (and the GOP's as a whole) went down after that in the aggregate.
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