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@cjsbishop God you’re a smarmy prick.

Disappointing stuff from Phil Smith

@cybusMan @AzelfDaGirl The issue Kemp faces is the republican brand (during a midterm where the new democratic base has become very good at turning out) and the competence of Ossoff. He might not lose but it would be a toss up and challenging race if he chooses to go for senate.

@AzelfDaGirl I mean by the same logic you’d also have to question what Brian Kemp is cooking, being extreamly conservative in a blue trending state and having a 34+ approval rating Not bad for someone who will definitely lose to Ossoff (or so I’m told🤷‍♂️)

I need to know what Andy Beshear is cooking. Bro is ardently anti-Trump and a warrior on trans rights and is at a +43 approval in fucking Kentucky

@HassiOnTheMoon @_IAmInvictus @IamSean90 Laws that enforce judeo christain values are homosexuality was criminalised, it was a main justification for prohibition and the requirement that women get the husband’s permission to divorce. Religious morality is as subjective as the moral guidelines of any atheist.

@_IAmInvictus @IamSean90 Correct. It's why we must revert back to the mean and look to judeo-christian values when creating law

Damn in just over 3 minutes, this guy shredded Sam Seder

@skywalkr274 @jcsalomon @esrtweet @DrewSav He had a small chance. Palin initially helped it, but once she talked to the media, she became a huge mistake. Regardless of whether he would've won, Palin did not help his chances.

This idea that Tim Walz is the worst VP pick of the 21st century is nonsense. Edwards, Lieberman, Palin, and Vance were all bad choices. Walz was a perfectly fine choice. There exists a winner's bias where people declare all winning candidates and losing ones bad.

@DrewSav Could someone please tell why Edwards was bad. I thought he was considered well until the scandals came out years later.

@jcsalomon @esrtweet @DrewSav McCain was fighting an election in the worst circumstances against a ridiculously good candidate. Palin tied him to the opposite ideas to those he’d staked his career on and killed his credibility. She was a bad pick.

@esrtweet @DrewSav 2000 is the first election I voted in, and it did not seem Lieberman hurt the Gore ticket at all. (Except for comments that some world have preferred the ticket reversed.) And Palin is the only reason GOP activists even tried to get McCain elected. Very odd list, the OP.

@Liquid_Times @VJMPub I don’t know how you can blame Clark and Ardern when NZ is one of very few OECD countries without a growing far right. NZ Labour had a bad election but hasn’t had a fundamental shift in working class support against them.

@VJMPub From what I can see, during most of Clark's time as PM net migration was fairly low. But Clark & Ardern never bothered to push back meaningfully against the changes under the 4th Labour govt & as a result a large number of working class people have given up on the left.

Centrist neolibs who delivered failure for decades & paved the way for the far-right now be like "uh oh, here comes the far-right".

@TexanCouncilist @SamiTalks I think part of the problem is Democrats had a really good ground game in red states up until the red wave in 2010. Heitkamp was strong but part of a dying part.

@SamiTalks This has to be up there

@Bertaj51 @cjsbishop Lol how old do you think he is.

@cjsbishop Offs are you serious?? Not everything in the past is bad. That’s the era you you grew in. Politics was never meant to corrupt you. Go back to Hutt Intermediate and never forget what your roots are.

The 1970s called, it wants its uncompetitive Fortress NZ economy back

@NeilAxelrod @casey39740474 @Redistrict OK, but you haven't provided an actual reason it is bad. Absentee ballots must be sent in by election day—the same as everyone else. There is no reason that that is a problem. It was also not 50% absentee ballots.

@IanfergM @casey39740474 @Redistrict We know years in advance that an election is happening. There is no reason that absentee ballots, including from overseas, can’t be sent and arrive by Election Day. If you wait until the last minute and miss the deadline, then your vote doesn’t count. Treat people like adults.

Smallest swings towards Trump, by state (w/ several million ballots still to be tabulated): 1. Washington 0.7% 2. District of Columbia 1.0% 3. Utah 1.0% 4. Oklahoma 1.2% 5. Wisconsin 1.5% 6. Kansas 1.5% 7. Nebraska 1.8% 8. North Carolina 1.9% 9. Oregon 1.9% 10. Maine 2.3%

@ColMustard88 @NateSilver538 I think the point is that Alaska is intensely independent. It does weird things sometimes. It has consistently rejected MAGA (and even Palin now). It's the republican equivalent of Maine if the GOP candidate was a moderate, really unlikely but possible.

OK fine, I wrote up the Harris-wins-Alaska column. natesilver.net/p/alaska-alask…

@MikeRinaldiJr @TronVTron @Redistrict @CookPolitical There is literally zero chance Dems will keep WV. Manchin was barely a Democrat and still gonna lose, when mainstream Dems run they lose in landslides.

@TronVTron @Redistrict @CookPolitical What about WV? If we are being honest that’s a flip and an important reason why republicans will win the senate… WV + MT + OH = Republican Senate

New @CookPolitical: our battleground polls w/ BSG/GS Strategy Group show Dems in strong position in statewide races. #AZSen: Gallego 51%-42% #MISen: Slotkin 50%-42% #NVSen: Rosen 54%-36% #PASen: Casey 53%-40% #WISen: Baldwin 50%-43% #NCGov: Stein 48%-40% Full analysis by @JessicaTaylor: cookpolitical.com/analysis/surve…

@Supersonic_OG @Doctor_Dray_ @androo829 @esjesjesj He wasn't particularly centrist. He just got killed. That's it. His legacy is entirely tied to the fact that his presidency was forcefully ended before the consequences of decisions like Vietnam had been seen.

@Doctor_Dray_ @androo829 @esjesjesj JFK took a centrist approach and is often regarded as one of America’s best presidents

Terminal case of 9-year-old brain

@mockdisasterttv @androo829 @esjesjesj All your political opinions are terrible but you did prove the problem. Everyone has to have an opinion, an outlook based on values. There are binary choices that must be made you can't just listen to both sides and always make everyone happy.

The problem is that socialists think expanding government power to tax (steal from the working man), pick economic winners (wealth redistribution), and wield lethal force with the backing of the justice system (self-explanatory) is good because they either want that amalgamation of power for themselves or they don't believe that some of their "comrades" will do anything, up to including blackmail and murder, to acquire that power, which will then be abused in the worst ways imaginable. The Libertarian right believes that the solution to the potential abuse of government power (which is backed by police and military) is to constrain it for everyone. The socialist left believe that the consequences of the abuse of government power are worth the benefits as long as they are the ones in control, so advocate for a bigger government and more social programs that end up degrading over time due to mismanagement and inefficiency (Canadian healthcare). You will get a ton of very stupid replies talking about how "one side wants to murder minorities". That is because most socialists are very dumb and, rather than become frustrated with their inability to have an actual conversation about how government services become bloated, expensive, inefficient, and even hazardous, it is quicker for them to just call people racist or something.

@TalaricoStan @firebornnn How? Best case scenario Tester and all the other swing state incumbents win and dems get a 50-50 split in the senate. Winning Texas or Florida is less likely than Biden actually winning the election which is not gonna happen.

@PaulusWessex @sandramay353 @TheSpinoffTV Also as I said the press pass is connected to all of those rights which are key to our free press, it’s a random shut down of media scrutiny at a time when they’re passing vast loads of legislation under urgency.

@PaulusWessex @sandramay353 @TheSpinoffTV The editors had every intention to use the pass a lot. Salient does a large amount of news reporting and the prior editor did use it. The reason made no sense, they randomly cancelled a press pass, by the way they also never informed Salient or VUWSA of the reason.

‘It is a direct attack on our ability to engage in meaningful journalism and provide students with information that is relevant and accessible to them’ thespinoff.co.nz/media/04-03-20…

@PaulusWessex @sandramay353 @TheSpinoffTV Their press pass is being revoked. That’s more than just sitting at the seats in parliament. It’s press releases and the ability to attend press conferences. Without any good reason, just the random selection of student journalism as not being important.

@IanfergM @sandramay353 @TheSpinoffTV No one is being barred?