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« Reply #75 on: August 10, 2021, 01:40:58 PM »

One of the benefits of the Republican turnover and lack of inherent respect for incumbents is that you don’t get saddled with old people who have outdated ideas (although of course there’s always a Sinema).

I think people underestimate the possibility of Sinema just not running for re-election.
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« Reply #76 on: August 10, 2021, 02:20:14 PM »

One of the benefits of the Republican turnover and lack of inherent respect for incumbents is that you don’t get saddled with old people who have outdated ideas (although of course there’s always a Sinema).

It's up to Ruben Gallego if he primaries her, she won't run, if not she will run, AZ isn't am R state, it's a blue state, if Hillary wasn't tramautized by Comey even if McCain won Reelection, she would of won AZ, AZ since 2016, has been a tipping point

I think people underestimate the possibility of Sinema just not running for re-election.
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« Reply #77 on: August 14, 2021, 01:32:04 AM »

If President Biden (whose lead moderate senators like Joe Manchin generally follow) still refuses to support either the elimination of the filibuster or at least a carve-out for voting rights, then all that is really happening is political kabuki theater.  Biden is merely giving speeches full of empty words in support of voting rights, while congressional Democrats are holding empty, symbolic votes (if that) on voting legislation that everyone knows will never see the President's desk.  The only likely lesson that will be imparted to black voters is that they've been taken for a ride, that they are not important enough to President Biden despite the fact that they are the main reason he won the presidential nomination in the first place. I suspect that Biden is too busy trying to ingratiate himself with white working class voters in the Rust Belt to be concerned with the very real likelihood that minority voters in key Sun Belt states will not be able to exercise their right to vote as a result of Republican voter suppression laws that Biden evidently doesn't care enough about to eliminate or alter the filibuster.      
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« Reply #78 on: August 14, 2021, 01:44:30 AM »

I will start by saying I have not read the thread. The FTP act is a terrible piece of legislation opposed by R and Ds alike who actually run elections

many people do not realize the actual day to day operations that are involved in elections and this bill causes a lot of problems. Its clearly a show bill that grew outside of what the house realized.

1. its probably not legal, as it is a federal take over of elections
2. parts of it calls for technology that doesnt exist.

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« Reply #79 on: August 14, 2021, 02:06:08 AM »

SCOTUS can overturn the ban on Gerrymandering anyways when Rs file it in Crt, it won't pass muster in a 6/3 Crt
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« Reply #80 on: August 14, 2021, 10:01:43 AM »

If President Biden (whose lead moderate senators like Joe Manchin generally follow) still refuses to support either the elimination of the filibuster or at least a carve-out for voting rights, then all that is really happening is political kabuki theater.  Biden is merely giving speeches full of empty words in support of voting rights, while congressional Democrats are holding empty, symbolic votes (if that) on voting legislation that everyone knows will never see the President's desk.  The only likely lesson that will be imparted to black voters is that they've been taken for a ride, that they are not important enough to President Biden despite the fact that they are the main reason he won the presidential nomination in the first place. I suspect that Biden is too busy trying to ingratiate himself with white working class voters in the Rust Belt to be concerned with the very real likelihood that minority voters in key Sun Belt states will not be able to exercise their right to vote as a result of Republican voter suppression laws that Biden evidently doesn't care enough about to eliminate or alter the filibuster.      

Harsh but fair.
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