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ESRB ratings are wholly useless in getting an idea of how mature a person needs to be to be able to engage in something rated by the ESRB without causing problems in their mental development.

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Lyndon Johnson was a horrible president as he quite possibly made the worst set of foreign policy choices ever by any US President in the history of the Country.

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Lyndon Johnson was a horrible president as he quite possibly made the worst set of foreign policy choices ever by any US President in the history of the Country.

His foreign policy was indeed awful, but his domestic policies were some of the best and most progressive ever.

Not even all of his foreign policy was a disaster. Detente slowly started under the Johnson Administration and the Non-Proliferation Treaty was approved under his watch.

The United States did not have even the slightest bit of moral justification towards even giving South Vietnam any level of trade relations or diplomatic acknowledgement.

Johnson went all the way to the wrong side of the issue forcing massive numbers of Conscripts to fight for South Vietnam.

Thats easily the worst foreign policy choice made by any US President ever in the whole history of the Country.

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EMILY's List is a front group for the Democratic establishment posing as a women's advocacy PAC.

This so much.
They of course have the criteria for endorsing candidates that they publicly post as having to help give sway to their endorsements among more people, and they have hidden criteria based on the interests of many of their donors.

Just like Andrew Cuomos "Womens Equality Party" farce.

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Democrats completely failed to play their hand to the extent they could done with regards to the Kavanaugh situation in late 2018, very much severely underplaying their hand, as had they focused heavily on pushing the point to the maximum possible extent, instead of just not really talking about the issue very much if at all for the most part, then they could have easily gotten the disapproval ratings of Kavanaugh up to the low-70s, with the following electoral effects:

Bill Nelson, Beto O Rourke, Claire McCaskill, Joe Donnelly, Mike Espy, Phil Bredesen, Heidi Heitkamp win their Senate races; 54-46 Democratic Senate

Andrew Gillum, Stacey Abrams, Fred Hubbell, Billie Sutton, Richard Cordray, Mark Begich, Molly Kelly, James Smith, Ben Jealous, Drew Edmondson win their Gubernatorial races; 33-17 Democratic Distribution

296 to 139 Democratic Control of the House by winning the following Districts:

NC-09, GA-07, NY-27, TX-23, MN-01, IL-13, KS-02, NE-02, PA-01, TX-21, PA-10, TX-31, TX-24, KY-06, IA-04, CA-50, MO-02, NY-01, OH-12, TX-10, PA-16, OH-01, MI-06, MT-01, TX-22, NY-24, WA-03, CA-22, MN-08, NC-02, FL-15, NC-13, IL-12, NY-02, AR-02, VA-05, AK-01, TX-02, MI-07, TX-06, CO-03, CA-04, NY-23, FL-18, TX-25, FL-16, WA-05, IN-02, CA-01, TX-03, AZ-06, VA-01, OH-14, NC-08, AZ-08, WV-02, WI-06, MI-03, WI-01, NJ-04, MI-02

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People tend to heavily overstate how much of Ohio is rural.

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There is absolutely no way that Trump does not lose at least a few points in Coal Country from what he had in 2016, even if he once again wins it in a huge landslide.

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Atlas WAY overrates the speed of "trends" (that often don't exist anyway).

Trends have no speed. They happen once, and then for the next election, its a new statistically independent trend.

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There is a very massive chasm lying in between the ideologies of Karl Marx and the ideologies of Vladimir Lenin, of which those 2 ideologies are wholly incompatible with each other.

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Having a stronger team of candidates in downballot races can make a substantial difference in the performance of upballot candidates that are on the same ticket. This even applies to cases where the downballot races are different by District such as for the US House while the upballot races are statewide such as for the US Senate and state Governorships.

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People who supported Kavanaugh in 2018 are at least 100 times more deplorable than people who supported Trump in 2016.

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There is nothing hypocritical about speaking out against Trump’s behavior and rhetoric while voting with him 90% of the time on policy

Far more than just the "other 10% of votes" on Trumps policy positions are on issues that are very much intertwined with Trumps behavior and rhetoric in the impact they have on society.

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Most people have completely failed to learn a very important lesson from 2012 regarding the impact of polarization on the performance of incumbent presidents running for re-election, and the failure to apply such to 2020 predictions has people insanely overestimating Trumps chances and performance in 2020.

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Since presidents are decided by electoral percentage and not popular percentage, it is better to talk about presidents victory margins by their electoral percent, like Trump winning 57 percent of the vote

If that was the case, Trump would still really only have 50.4%, not 57%. But the Electoral College needs to be abolished in any case.

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The randomness of a coin flip can be more easily disrupted than that of a game of rock paper scissors.

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Most "bellwether" streaks are statistical coincidence rather than the bellwether actually being representative of the national mood in any sociologically testable way.

Thread title said Unpopular, not Popular. Thats a Popular take.

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I would rather debate with redeaglepolitics whether Macomb County, Michigan will trend D or R than have sex.

Ditto.

Truth

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Roe v Wade overturn in the summer of 2020 is inevitable, and anyone who thinks otherwise is just engaging in wishful thinking.

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Opposing at least some level of reform to the US Senate as is is not just wrong, its also racist as the US Senate in its current form structurally entrenches systematic disenfranchisement of minority racial groups.

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There is no such thing as a monolithic social conservative demographic, and there is also no such thing as a monolithic social liberal demographic.

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Susan Collins is heavily disfavored in Maine in 2020, and is not part of the path of least resistance for Republicans to hold the US Senate. In addition, its more likely for Trump to win re-election nationally than for Collins to win re-election in Maine.

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Even if Joe Biden accomplished nothing else, if all he managed to do was to pack SCOTUS with 8 new seats, I would still consider his presidency to be a smashing success.

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I consider allowing Malapportionment in the US Senate to be a the biggest moral failure of the Founders of the US of all their failures, even moreso of a moral failure than allowing Slavery, because Malapportionment in the US Senate could survive intact with Slavery gone, but Slavery would have not survived intact for very long if not for Malapportionment in the US Senate.

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Usage of Genetic Human Enhancement Technology is definitely ethical if it can be shown to actually help the people affected, and to work as intended with the people applying the technology knowing what they are doing. Infact, not using such technology becomes unethical if such can be shown to be the case.

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Calling for the death penalty to be used for any crimes less bad than murder should not be classified as political speech, but as hate speech, and should be punished as such wherever hate speech is punished.