And this:
Republicans for the Rule of Law = RINOs !
And this:
tell us, the Democrats: should we win?
Has Catamount posted since Mueller have his statement yesterday? Would also be curious to get Wrangor’s thoughts at this point given that he said repeatedly that Trump was exonerated because no charges had been brought.
That’s a pretty large base. They’re definitely going to vote so they’re looking at 45% of the popular vote before having to convince anybody else.
Not sure he's starting with as much as 45% of the electorate, but it is at least in the low to mid 40s, and it's because he is cleaning up with evangelicals and non-college educated whites like no one before him. But because we don't elect by popular vote, what is more important is he starts out with a very likely baseline of 205 EVs. Throw in AZ, NC and FL, and his probable baseline goes up to 260. So right now (and plenty of things could change in the next 17 months), the probable result of 2020 Trump v. generic Dem is Mr/Ms Generic wins 278-260. And because Mr/Ms Generic will crush him in most of the northeast and west coast states and because Dems are gaining ground in TX and GA, I have begun to posit that there is a good chance that Mr/Ms Generic could win by 5-8% of the popular vote and still have this close an election, which is unprecedented. Through 200+ years, the current record is Tilden winning by 3.2% of the vote in 1876 but losing 185-184 to Hayes, though there should be an asterisk by that election because the KKK and other white groups were extremely persuasive in convincing southern blacks and Republicans to stay home that day. Because of Trump, we will probably experience the largest EC v. popular vote disparity in our history.
I say 45%, because it's a solid 40% who is very likely to vote. Democrats not only need to turn the large majority of that 60% but they also have to get them out to vote.
NewEngland, you were talking about this moment yesterday.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...chment-proceedings-despite-criticism-n1011176
Cathy Garnaat, a Republican who supported Amash and the president said she was upset about Amash’s position but wanted to hear his reasoning. She said that she will definitely support Trump in 2020 but that Tuesday night was the first time she had heard that the Mueller report didn’t completely exonerate the president.
“I was surprised to hear there was anything negative in the Mueller report at all about President Trump. I hadn’t heard that before," she said. "I’ve mainly listened to conservative news and I hadn’t heard anything negative about that report and President Trump has been exonerated."
If Donald loses the election next year he will face indictment quickly.
That’s supposing he doesn’t get the election results locked up in the courts
NewEngland, you were talking about this moment yesterday.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...chment-proceedings-despite-criticism-n1011176
Cathy Garnaat, a Republican who supported Amash and the president said she was upset about Amash’s position but wanted to hear his reasoning. She said that she will definitely support Trump in 2020 but that Tuesday night was the first time she had heard that the Mueller report didn’t completely exonerate the president.
“I was surprised to hear there was anything negative in the Mueller report at all about President Trump. I hadn’t heard that before," she said. "I’ve mainly listened to conservative news and I hadn’t heard anything negative about that report and President Trump has been exonerated."
Agreed, but on #6 I'd add that no one should vote for Republicans for any statewide as well as federal offices either. Unless they see that there is a real price to be paid for this behavior, it will never end.
Our forever wars have rounded $2.5 Trillion and are headed towards 3, and you don't really hear a lot of "how do we pay for it?" Trump's asking for another $750BN increase in FY 2020 for military spending! Dems aren't really batting an eye at that 5% increase there though.
It's an utter lack of political will that keeps us from erasing student debt and moving towards public higher education or broadening health care and child care access, not a problem of implementation or possibility, and there is broad support for these policies, polled with well-credentialed methodology. You can read all about them.
Again, it'd be far simpler if you just admitted you don't agree with the policies than saying they wouldn't work or can't happen.