Doug Jones votes with blue dogs and Trump on budget

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

Is anyone surprised?

FWIW, I don't have anything against releasing their most vulnerable Senators to vote for cloture, as long as they have 40 other Senators to oppose it. The problem is when the Senate Majority Leader elected from New York is too chickensh*t to seriously whip the votes for the shutdown.

He provided the critical 60th vote on cloture for allowing Trump to spy on everyone.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

The base won't hold this against him, but white Alabamians might. He needed some whites, especially college-educated whites, to win and he'll need them again in 2020.

What? White Alabamians would probably be more likely to vote for him if he votes like a centrist.

Have we tried running a progressive in Alabama?

Funny enough, in Idaho, the last 2 Democratic Senators were progressives. I bet a lot of non progressive Democrats have lost, but they elected Glen Taylor, and Frank Church, the former of whom was actually on the 1948 Progressive party ticket.