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May 31, 2024, 04:11:51 PM
News: Election Simulator 2.0 Released. Senate/Gubernatorial maps, proportional electoral votes, and more - Read more

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 on: Today at 04:11:27 PM 
Started by Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon - Last post by Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon
A final vote is beginning.

Aye

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 on: Today at 04:11:18 PM 
Started by Geoffrey Howe - Last post by Torrain

Parachuting a former SNP politician from Greater Glasgow into the middle of Berkshire, in a seat vulnerable to the Lib Dems would be *wild*.


False alarm - normality restored.

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 on: Today at 04:10:37 PM 
Started by PSOL - Last post by Canis
PSL's ticket Claudia and Karina are pursuing ballot access in 22 states

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 on: Today at 04:10:07 PM 
Started by OSR stands with Israel - Last post by Skill and Chance
They probably view a Trump victory as a sure thing, so they want to be on his good side smh

Though the fact that 68% of his campaign contributions comes from large dollar Donations vs 14% in 2016 is a massive shift . It does seem like in some ways the business establishment has more or less come to view Trump as part of the establishment now but his populist appeal is less too given that number .


Makes sense.

Yes.  On actual policy, he pivoted big time toward Generic Business R after the first 1-2 years of his term.

TBH this is the kind of thing that makes me wonder if the suburbs could be maxed out for Dems for a while?  What if 2022 was Peak angry suburban women?

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 on: Today at 04:09:52 PM 
Started by Skill and Chance - Last post by Yoda
I love how this idiotic proposition fundamentally implies that there are scores of red state prosecutors out there who have had damning criminal evidence on the Clintons and Obama for years now and have just been doing nothing with it for.....reasons?

because using lawfare to go after political opponents over nonsense has long been frowned upon and considered banana republic. we've passed the rubicon on that. A right-wing prosecutor in AR can now indict the clinton's over Whitewater. damn the statute of limitations, New York clearly doesn't care about that. And this ain't the 90s or early 2000s anymore, so I don't think a jury from rural Arkansas is gonna have much mercy on the Clinton's

Well, at least you're smart enough to realize/admit that whatever charges some red state prosecutor would hypothetically file against the Clintons, Obama or Biden would be nonsense.

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 on: Today at 04:09:25 PM 
Started by JMT - Last post by President Punxsutawney Phil
As long as he's going to keep voting for Biden's nominees for the rest of the year I guess it doesn't matter much.

Manchin already stated earlier this spring that he won't confirm any more Biden judges unless they get Republican votes.  The possibility of any senate Republicans voting for further Biden judicial nominees probably went to zero yesterday.  Every confirmation from here on out could be a 50/50 affair with Harris tiebreaking.

Assuming Sinema doesn't devote her final months with some more grandstanding. I can't tell you how glad I am that we will get rid of them in congress soon.

The alternative to the Dem base putting up with senators like Manchin and Sinema is likely a quasi-permanent Republican supermajority.

Imagine actually believing this Roll Eyes
What do you think Democratic Senate majorities in the bulk of the 20th century were built on?

I think that the realignments since then have rendered this question completely irrelevant.
The fundamentals of coalition building have remained exactly the same.

This is simply not true
The smaller your tent is the harder it is to win large majorities.
I don't know why that's apparently so hard to understand.

The Democratic Party is a large tent.  It’s simply that corporatist de facto Republicans like Manchin and Sinema aren’t welcome in that tent.


Leaving aside that, I'm not denying that voter blocs have moved over time and shifted. But the basics of how demographics act in concert or in opposition with/to each other within the political system and have expectations from it remains as it has. Likewise, corralling the votes remains as it has. Maintaining a majority coalition with trifecta control requires taking such coalition management needs into account as well.
If people like you managed to shut out the likes of Manchin and Sinema of course we'd have a harder time taking a majority and would have an even harder time winning large majorities.That in turn would hurt our ability to wield power altogether.
"It's good to have zero senators from deep red states" is quite a take, one that if our party's leaders shared that, we'd be a party of losers. That we held at least one senate seat in a state as deep red (by 2024) as West Virginia continuously for over a century was good, not bad.
I want to win. I want to have trifectas. I want to win majorities on all levels. Whatever is good practice to that end, I'll happily accept. Manchin still caucuses with Democrats. His state has shifted massively anti-Dem over the past 20 years. I'm happy he still caucuses with Democrats, who are we to claim we know how the winds are blowing better than he does?

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 on: Today at 04:08:57 PM 
Started by I spent the winter writing songs about getting better - Last post by GeorgiaModerate
So Trump is only facing 82 felony counts now?

88 I think. It was 91 before the judge struck 3 in this case.

Do we say it's 54 now? lol

34 down, 54 to go.

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 on: Today at 04:08:21 PM 
Started by Mr. Smith - Last post by YE
Durkin and McIntyre.

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 on: Today at 04:06:49 PM 
Started by Aurelius2 - Last post by kaoras
I think it was because he ordered to stop ALL government spending on infrastructure, plain and simple.

Overall, it has been very sad to see all the Argentinians coming to Chile to buy 1,5 dollar tuna cans because they can no longer afford to do so in their country. Last year it was common for Chileans to go to Argentina to buy subsidized stuff in the supermarkets because it was artificially cheap, however, Chilean supermarket prices are not cheap, they are around the same or more expensive than Spain for example!

Argentinians used to come here to buy electronics, not basic foodstuff.

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 on: Today at 04:05:57 PM 
Started by President Punxsutawney Phil - Last post by certified hummus supporter 🇵🇸🤝🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦
Absolutely not

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