Everyone knows the only reason WaPo isn't constantly attacking Warren is because she's never one criticised our overlord Amazon
Not even once
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US PoliEra 2019 |OT6| Have You Hurd About These GOP Retirements?
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Everyone knows the only reason WaPo isn't constantly attacking Warren is because she's never one criticised our overlord Amazon
Not even once
Eh, waiting to murdering the economy until after the most profitable quarter of the year seems like a better idea.
To China's benefit too. Besides, taking it off the list makes it seem like a walk back.
Republicans don't want the black friday before the elections to be weak.
I mean, it's Trump. In the grand scheme of things, I don't think this undermines how China perceives us because the more Trump punishes our economy the worse his bargaining position gets.
So PRRI did an abortion poll. I kinda wish it was a little more granular as the options presented are a little too binary, but I'm trying to correlate abortion support to state's legislation. To me, it looks like Ohio really overstepped its support. Will it have repercussions?
https://www.prri.org/research/legal-in-most-cases-the-impact-of-the-abortion-debate-in-2019-america/
I honestly don't know. I know he's a billionaire who bought his way into the election but his ads don't air here and he has virtually 0 coverage. I know that he's big on climate.
Ha, I'm in a different frame of mind. I was disappointed when this was an NC GOP rep retiring.
Probably not - Ohio is brutally gerrymandered. The generic vote in their state legislature was 52-48 GOP last year, and that was still enough for the Republicans to walk away with a supermajority (61-38).
Still rather shit that Cordray lost, Democrats really needed him to pull through to ensure they wouldn't be totally screwed on policy.
Only silver lining is that they kind of passed redistricting reform, but the way it's set up is still stacked in favor of the incumbent party (you know, the Republicans).
I was thinking how letting a con artist be President was a bad idea again today.
I mean isn't the general idea here that gerrymanders start to buckle when there's a strong shift – like from a populace opposed to their overstepping on a policy? Plus, aren't there state-wide offices this could affect in 2020?
There actually are two Supreme Court seats up in 2020, both held by Republicans. If they were to flip, Democrats would have a majority on the State Supreme Court after they won two seats last year.
If there's anything to give me optimism about Ohio, it's that. A lot of people disregard Sherrod Brown's win as personal appeal, which while true, doesn't negate flipping those two seats (one was against an incumbent and the Democrat still pulled it off relatively easy). I'd say Democrats still have something of a chance in Ohio, it seems like the state is about where Indiana and Missouri were ten years ago, winnable under the right circumstances.
The gerrymander though I don't think is going to break anytime soon, only because I think we would have seen that happen last year. The reason gerrymanders are failing in states like Texas, Georgia etc is because the demographics in those states are zooming left (can't account for blue suburbanites in 2018 when drawing maps in 2010 to say nothing of new minority voters), whereas Ohio is dying and moving away from the Democrats naturally.
Best chance at Ohio having fair maps for the next decade imo is flipping those two Supreme Court seats to ensure a line of defense against GOP gerrymanders.
No, but having an actual billionaire on stage would be quite the target for Bernie and Warren.
They only buckle under "extreme shifts" they make strong shifts medium, and still over come them.
See I have issue with this. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with being a rich person...provided they pay their fair share. Making every single millionaire and billionaire into some spooky boogie man doesn't make sense to me.
Beto's favorables went up by 7% and, more importantly, his unfavorables down by 4%. That's less unfavorable than Biden, Sanders, Warren, Harris, and Booker, per Morning Consult. Room to grow, but it also shows how fickle voters can be.
Nuance has no place in politics. It's why the whole M4A thing is a giant messy pain in the ass.
You just noticed?
I don't think Bernie, who has the most DNC endorsements of any candidate and is losing ground to Warren, will try and play the "rigged" card again tho.
I guess Bernie is the new media whipping-boy after Beto hulked out for a couple days. That's ok tho, because Bernie supporters were totally there for it. Let them get their just desserts. I'm sure NYT will move on or clarify tho - Bernie has too big of a following coming after them to ignore.
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Oh they will find someone to blame. Prolly a weekend contributor on MSNBC.
A New Yorker endorsing a Red Sox pitcher. There truly is no depravity too low for this man.
This is a dumb image. Facebook level meme. Retail campaigning means face to face interactions. Speaking to a large audience is not the same thing.
My #1 Liz Warren could win ALL the caucuses and I still think they are shitty shit
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