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2022 Governor Race ratings | Cook Political Report

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MD gov is solid D it’s not voting for a chud

Votes that divide the gop and unite the dems are good

I need to put some plants that are attractive for butterflies in the ground. Yikes

25 minutes ago, GeneticBlueprint said:

This is absolutely awesome. I am wondering just how bipartisan it is though. Bipartisan enough to clear 60 votes in the Senate?

If it can’t clear 60 then the 1/5 requirement it would impose is pointless anyway!

41 minutes ago, Anathema- said:

America is different than Maryland.

Thank Christ 

Walker is funny sad, oz is funny haha

18 minutes ago, sblfilms said:

Besides getting love from the terminally online kids, what has this sort of thing or what AOC does, when has it actually done anything to achieve the policy goals of those politicians and the people who cheer for it?

 

Seems mostly to just make people feel good

Making people think positively about you and poorly of your opponent is good. Is this reaching everyone in the electorate from twitter? No, but at this phase it’s about defining your opponent and fetterman framing oz as an out of touch carpetbagger helps define the message down the line. 
 

Tv ads make the biggest difference, and getting news stories about a political stunt (the plane flyover jersey beaches) helps define who oz is in this race. 

He’s boosted and whatever but it seems appropriate to have a thread on our elderly president catching a deadly disease

6 minutes ago, Anathema- said:

 

All Republicans are a joke.

Yes. But for a Republican even he’s a joke. 

He’s right 

Man there was a whole ass team at the energy company I used to work at to service and keep up toughbooks, I wasn’t involved in that group but when they talked about it I thought it was just the name of some dumb custom corporate thing but TIL it’s an actual product 

10 hours ago, sblfilms said:

I will die laughing if this Dem play results in any of these psychos winning the general

Eh, these psychos won by a big enough margin it’s clear this is what the psycho Republican electorate wanted, dem help or not. 

This is good. Requiring 20% of senators to object alone is a very good step. At the very least it raises the bar for coordination which makes it much more difficult to actually do a coup. 
 

That said laws will do nothing to stop bad faith legal theories (of which there are still a few that I know of!) from overturning election results so we do have to hope that ~half of a given party’s senators aren’t brain damaged so to avoid the courts. 

It really helps when your opponent is a joke

1 minute ago, stepee said:

 

ok let’s try the first one

You get no argument from me!

2 hours ago, stepee said:

So how do you start the process to abolish the senate anyway? That seems like it would be popular since literally nobody thinks that particular system hasn’t completely failed. 

The “easier” path requires constitutional amendments to reduce the power of the senate making it basically useless like the House of Lords in Westminster systems. A lot of people believe that abolishing the senate would require unanimous consent from the states because of one particular clause of the constitution. I personally don’t buy it (all new amendments supersede existing amendments or constitutional language) but it’s a widely held belief. 

Make them vote against it Jfc 

There's far more similarities in party operation and intra-party politics between the GOP and the Bolsheviks than I'm comfortable with.

Their shared intellectual roots might have something to do with it. I forget who said it but 'neocons* are the descendants of disillusioned Bolsheviks' is an argument that I'm buying into more and more.

*maga people being themselves disillusioned neocons

4 minutes ago, Bloodporne said:

There's a thing I've never seen in the States at all where people will absolutely openly stop, stare and look you up and down if you look in any way different, it's hideous behavior and something many younger Germans I grew up with utterly DESPISED about our culture.

wont germans do this if you try to cross the street and you don't have the "walk" signal?

one of these guys is a conservative intellectual. the other is marco rubio