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US PoliEra 2019 |OT9| I'm really glad I'm not on Twitter nearly enough to understand all the references
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That seat won't elect a Republican with Trump on the ballot.
How many of his campaign officials will try to dig up dirt and post it on RedState against his new opponent?
We all take turns updating it. I do every second Friday - I just make up stories about real estate based on what my zillow score is and applying it to random states — and my desk mate does the sport recap on Sunday but he just asks his mom who won and then types it and sticks a picture of that football man who wears Uggs.
Somehow he doesn't understand that a lot of the places that burn are upper-middle class enclaves up in the foothills and canyons, and more conservative inland areas of the state. His response always reads as a big fuck you to big GOP strongholds in the state.
Yes, kind of like Obama with the individual mandate. Obama didn't support the individual mandate until after he became president. He didn't backtrack in the general after campaigning against it so hard in the primary. Doing so would have hurt his integrity and his chances to get elected. That's all I'm saying. Sure, a hypothetical Warren presidency may backtrack on certain positions in order to actually get something passed — I expect that. I'm just saying I don't expect her to do so until she becomes president and at least shows she made an effort to do what she planned. She won't reverse course during the election — neither the primary nor the general. That being said, I do expect her transition plan to be fairly long and soft so as not to scare people away with the prospect of rapid, unknown change.
Beshear won GOP state senate districts 12 (60-38), 23 (52-45), 24 (49.5-48.4), 26 (53-44), 28 (54-43), and 32 (50.8-47.6)
District 28 is Ralph Alvarado's district, Matt Bevin's own running mate for the election
Considering the decades long grudge Cubans have against the Dems, I'd hope Puerto Ricans have the same against the ghoulish GOP.
Same.
Slightly OT, but Hillary got those historic margins in Miami by winning a majority of Cubans in the county (she lost them statewide). I imagine Gillum and Nelson failed to replicate those numbers considering they lagged with Hispanic voters in general.
It's pretty discouraging, because at this point I think even if you did get a single payer plan that works, no one will believe you.
Like, I listen to the Bulwark, which is this podcast for Never Trump conservatives that actually walked the walk and left the conservative media ecosystem. They're pretty reasonable and I have no reason to question their integrity, they're well-informed, and open-minded. But like, you get them on health care and every scintilla of good sense goes out the window. It's like these guys live in a world where America is the only first world country. It's all "there's no way it would work, this is absurd, look at the tax hikes, there is no WAY this is affordable," and they don';t even answer the obvious counterpoint of "well, if this is so ridiculously beyond the pale unaffordable, why can everyone but us afford it?" But the cynicism is so bad they just assume there's some kind of trick if the numbers work out.
So Warren comes in and says "okay, yeah, this looks like a massive tax increase, but your employer already spends a bunch of money on your health care and all we're going to do is funnel it into a public program, and coupled with progressive taxation your actual bills aren't going to go up much" and people just think it's accounting shenanigans. Because a priori they assume single payer is a pipe dream and any plan that claims to make it affordable must just be pulling the wool over your eyes.
Or just, some people just will not believe you when you say that you can keep your doctor. And like, yeah, I know, Obamacare. But single payer is literally putting every doctor in the country on the same network. One network. Not only will you keep your plan after single payer is passed, single payer will prevent you from ever having to change doctors because you lost your job or your insurance changed their policies. And unlike the above, this argument isn't even complicated, it just spills out of the literal definition of the program. But no one will believe you. It's too utopian, it's too "and I'm going to give you rainbows and unicorns, too." Especially when you combine it with "actually your taxes aren't going to go up that much."
We've been living with this abusive system for so long that most of America doesn't think a functioning health care system is even possible.
There seems to be a sizable Dem apparatus in PR though right? I imagine the San Juan mayor who's on Bernie's campaign will want to run. Are there more Dem primary participants than Republican primary participants there?
They have two prominent parties there that don't map neatly onto the mainland's politics. In fact, as you might imagine, the issue of statehood defines their politics. Some pro-statehood people, such as the current Resident Commissioner (non-voting representative in the US House) affiliate with Republicans, some anti-statehood people affiliate with Democrats, and vice versa. It's a bit messy. We would probably actually need to make them a state before their politicians started aligning with either the Democrats or GOP based on other issues.
The political parties in PR basically just amount to whether you want PR to be a state or remain a commonwealth. So the San Juan mayor and the Governor of PR who resigned are in different parties in PR, but both affiliate with the Democrats.
One of the announcers claimed he got a big cheer, but I'm gunna wait for receipts
I understand all of this from the Discord chat we had earlier but I was mainly curious if Dems/Reps have actually been building any goodwill/infrastructure with the politicians there. Bernie bringing on the Mayor is a good sign at least.
To be fair -- Knight did win with Trump on the ballot in 2016! But I doubt he wins again. He was a pretty bad campaigner.
Well, yeah, a lot of those suburban districts pretty clearly voted Hillary for president and for their GOP representative as a "check" on her. That dynamic will be totally different next year. I struggle to think of a Clinton district Trump and the GOP can flip, especially since 80% of Romney/Clinton voters intend to vote for the Democratic presidential nominee and Democratic House incumbents/candidates, per Voter Study Group.
A pretty good one, I think. Black turnout has increased in early voting.
These are the same geniuses who, when accused of doing the thing they actually SAID they did, denied it, and to prove their innocence, released a redacted summary that proved they did in fact do it, then admitted they did do it after all, but that they didn't do anything wrong and that WE were the wrong ones for saying it was wrong. Then they claimed they weren't actually going after Joe Biden, they were going after ALL corruption - and now want to bring in two complete unrelated totally legitimate witnesses to grill about it - Joe and Hunter Biden. They want to use the trial about them trying to frame Joe Biden in secret, to frame Joe Biden in public.
What is ETTD? I'm watching the game but haven't seen Trump anywhere
everything trump touches dies
a JBE win would be amazing. That would be 2/3 red state gov wins and 2 rejections of trump visits.
This bodes well going forward. I read on twitter that the aprox population number of areas that flipped D was twice that of the areas that flipped R.
I'm glad I read to the end because I thought this was current.
I was like, "So Bloomberg wants to... throw the election to the House?"
Again, we have them hellbent on spending the cash they were going to get from robbing the bank.
That is the fate of all who support Individual-1: if you dont own him somehow, he'll frontstab you, just without the slurs the non-supporters get.
That is the fate of all who support Individual-1: if you dont own him somehow, he'll frontstab you, just without the slurs the non-supporters get.
My company is going to the Supreme Court shortly to fight the illegal attempt to kill DACA - we have Dreamer employees we're trying to protect and Microsoft is the only big company to be named in the suit. Other big tech companies have filed Friend of the Court briefs tho.
It';lol be interesting to see how the two new justices vote. The action by Sessions was on its face illegal and in a sane world it would be open and shut, but Kavanagh in particular may owe Trump a very public favor here. On the flip side, if Kavanaugh votes against the Trump administration even as a matter of rule or simple law, I am curious to see if Trump can hold his tongue. I really doubt it, even with all his family holding him down, I bet he'd tweet something absolutely insane.
Which I kinda want to see, almost as much as I want these poor kids to not be shitting their pants about something that should be settled and is utterly inhumane and pure red meat for racists that doesn't help anybody except Trump.
It';lol be interesting to see how the two new justices vote. The action by Sessions was on its face illegal and in a sane world it would be open and shut, but Kavanagh in particular may owe Trump a very public favor here. On the flip side, if Kavanaugh votes against the Trump administration even as a matter of rule or simple law, I am curious to see if Trump can hold his tongue. I really doubt it, even with all his family holding him down, I bet he'd tweet something absolutely insane.
Which I kinda want to see, almost as much as I want these poor kids to not be shitting their pants about something that should be settled and is utterly inhumane and pure red meat for racists that doesn't help anybody except Trump.
Good answer from Schiff. The GOP just wants to be able to hit Biden has hard as they can during these hearings and they can't really do that without Hunter Biden there.
It's literally impossible to diagram past, "Fellow Billionaire" - like, nothing. Not a misplaced parentheses, nothing.
She's not allowed to hate the Jews, only they are allowed to hate the Jews, just not in this particular set of tweets. The hypocrisy of these shirt stains.
Like most things from the GOP, it's a motion to set up more gas-lighting.
I wouldn't mind some reporters asking republicans if Biden being guilty of their suspicions absolves Trump of QPQ. Because I think the answer would be telling.
Everything Trump Touches Dies. Coined by Rick Wilson (also the title of his first book) to describe the president's unique ability to ruin people's lives purely by association with him.
I guess you aren't familiar with Jewish surname conventions.
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