538 article on Senate’s Rural Skew

[Kyle Rittenhouse is a Political Prisoner]

You love to see it. The Senate is the bulwark of American values.

[Kyle Rittenhouse is a Political Prisoner]

If running far-right candidates wins you a majority in the Senate...then are they really "far-right"?

Yes.

Why do Democrats think they're the arbiters of what "normal" political positions and conventions are?  lol

We aren't, public opinion is. Polls show that Democratic politicians are on average are near the center and Republican politicians are on average well to the right of it.

The Republicans have done an excellent job of distorting what "normal" looks like and painting anyone even slightly to the left of them as a crazy extremist. Polls in 2016 showed that Trump was perceived as more "moderate" than Clinton, which anyone who actually pays close attention to politics realizes is absurd.

The truth is that 60% of Americans support legal abortion, 70% support a public option for healthcare, 80% think corporations don't pay their fair share of taxes, 78% think the wealthiest people don't pay their fair share of taxes, 87% think Social Security should be preserved even if it means raising taxes, 76% describe themselves as "somewhat" or "very" concerned about climate change, 84% (including 77% of gun owners) support universal background checks, 74% support requiring employers to provide paid parental and medical leave, 67% support same-sex marriage, and 66% support a $10 minimum wage.

The Republican Party opposes all of these. The Democratic Party supports all of them. The Democratic Party is in the center.


Sorry if this sounds like a rant, but it's the truth.

The Democratic position on abortion (legal up until the moment of birth, publicly funded), gets 10-15% support. How is that moderate? 

[Kyle Rittenhouse is a Political Prisoner]

The Democratic position on abortion (legal up until the moment of birth, publicly funded), gets 10-15% support. How is that moderate?

Source?

I couldn't find any polling on abortion up until birth specifically, but polling on third trimester abortions is a decent proxy.

Yeah, and the Democratic position isn't even generally legal in the third trimester, it's legal in all cases, publicly funded.