Election 2024
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Florida Senator Proposes Ban on Florida Democratic Party
Florida Senator Proposes Ban on Florida Democratic Party
Florida's Preeminent Student Political Journal
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Pretty good lead paragraph.
Pretty good summary.
It leaves me wondering whether Republicans lead by Trump / MTG / Santos / DeSantis are in competition with one another to extend the fringe. Six sigma not fringy enough? Try seven !
In any case distracting voter attention from 2023 issues back to when Democrats supported slavery displaces voter attention to contemporary issues. Coincidence?
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You don't say
One DICK-tator to another
One DICK-tator to another
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The deepening radicalization of Donald J. Trump
Watch how the former president’s positions and rhetoric have grown more confrontational and extreme as he seeks a second term
By Isaac Arnsdorf, Josh Dawsey, and Adriana Usero
In the immediate aftermath of Jan. 6, 2021, President Donald Trump stayed mostly silent, and when he finally delivered his farewell address to the nation, he disavowed the attack on the U.S. Capitol as something that “all Americans were horrified by” and “can never be tolerated.”
Now, as Trump seeks to return to the White House, he speaks of Jan. 6 as “a beautiful day.” He says there was no reason for police to shoot the rioter attempting to break into the House chamber, and he denies there was any danger to his vice president, Mike Pence, who was hiding from a pro-Trump mob chanting for him to be hanged. He has promised to pardon many rioters if he becomes president again.
On this and a host of subjects, from sexual assault to foreign and domestic policy, Trump’s positions have become even more extreme, his tone more confrontational, his accounts less tethered to reality, according to ...
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The trend is for candidates to swing wide in the primary,
and narrow their appeal in the general election, BECAUSE :
~40% of the electorate reliably votes Democrat, ~40% of the electorate reliably votes Republican
leaving election outcomes to be determined by the remaining ~20% of the electorate, the so-called "swing vote". Arnsdorf & etc #27 show Trump swinging wide in the primary.
It remains a puzzle.
Do Trump voters actually trust Trump?
If so, why? Trump has proved himself untrustworthy countless times.
If not, why in the %$#@ do they vote for him ?! How can they vote for a candidate they don't trust? “Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” Dorothy
and narrow their appeal in the general election, BECAUSE :
~40% of the electorate reliably votes Democrat, ~40% of the electorate reliably votes Republican
leaving election outcomes to be determined by the remaining ~20% of the electorate, the so-called "swing vote". Arnsdorf & etc #27 show Trump swinging wide in the primary.
It remains a puzzle.
Do Trump voters actually trust Trump?
If so, why? Trump has proved himself untrustworthy countless times.
If not, why in the %$#@ do they vote for him ?! How can they vote for a candidate they don't trust? “Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” Dorothy
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Nikki Haley’s desperation will endanger trans kids
https://mjarceneaux.medium.com/?source=post_page-----b80c6b1361c--------------------------------Michael Arceneaux
In pursuit of support of her fledgling presidential campaign, Nikki Haley makes a disgusting claim about trans youth.
The dangers associated with another Donald Trump administration are clear and plentiful, but he’s not the only dumb, hateful, and desperate Republican presidential contender to worry over.
When asked to define “woke” during a CNN town hall event in Iowa held on Sunday, Nikki Haley offered a definition that targeted trans children.
“There’s a lot of things. I mean, you want to start with biological boys playing in girl sports. That’s one thing,” Haley, a former South Carolina governor and ambassador to the United Nations now seeking the Republican presidential nomination, said to host Jake Tapper.
“The fact that we have gender pronoun classes in the military now, I mean, all of these things that are pushing what a small minority want on the majority of Americans, it’s too much. It’s too much.”
As Haley sees it, “The women’s issue of our time” is “the idea that ...
Nikki Haley’s desperation will endanger trans kids
In pursuit of support of her fledgling presidential campaign, Nikki Haley makes a disgusting claim about trans youth.
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Good.
For centuries the U.S. military has served as a social safety net, a means of employing at near subsistence level the otherwise unemployable.
This may be a valuable next step in elevating appreciation for our U.S. military volunteers above lip-service levels.
They're collateral casualties of Haley's lunge for power. Either Haley is so preoccupied by her own unbridled ambition she doesn't know of this harm she threatens, - OR -
Haley does know, but does not care.
Pick one.
Haley! Looky here:
BUT: Democrats haven't cornered the market on valuable ethical insight.
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So There’s a Trump-DeSantis Dick and Balls Fight Going On Right Now
By Caleb HoweJust days after it was reported that Donald Trump was planning to touch on Gov. Ron DeSantis’s penis soon, one of the ex-president’s surrogates said to NBC News that the governor needs “a set of balls.” And the DeSantis campaign replied about the “perverted” nature of the Trump camp’s “obsession.”
To be clear, this is all part of a primary race to determine which Republican will receive the party’s nomination to be leader of the free world.
The dick fight (Note: you can read “dick” with either slang meaning and it still works here) started with a Rolling Stone article just over a week ago, in which it was reported that Trump’s campaign is, as Mediaite’s Sarah Rumpf put it, “scheming ways to sink to even lower and stupider depths as the GOP presidential primary battle heats up — by mocking the size of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ manhood.”
The details are worse than you think.
On Friday, NBC News published an article with Round Two inside it, which Axios reporter Alex Thompson highlighted on Twitter.
DeSantis super PAC head and former state chair of the Trump campaign in Nevada Adam Laxalt was quoted, ahead of a political event this weekend which will host several Republican candidates, saying that “I was a two-time Trump chair. I don’t see a path for him to win Nevada in a general election. Those voters are not coming back.”
NBC’s Natasha Korecki and Henry J. Gomez got a response from current senior adviser to the Trump campaign Chris LaCivita: “Not surprised Ron DeSantis is looking for a set of balls.”
The event this weekend, which like several recent primary events will be ....
So There’s a Trump-DeSantis Dick and Balls Fight Going On Right Now
The Trump campaign and a pro-DeSantis Super PAC are having a war ahead of a testicle eating event in Nevada that GOPers plan to attend.
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Not sure where to put this
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Self explanatory
Absentee voting or voting by mail | USAGov
Apr 5, 2023 ...Absentee voting allows you to vote before Election Day by mail or drop box. Learn how to get an absentee ballot, cast your vote, and meet ...https://www.usa.gov/absentee-voting
Might "vote by mail" circumvent this apparent effort to deny votes to these groups?
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It will definitely help - whether it will be enough???
I was born in '54.
... makes me an old man. So:
I'm a bit skeptical about entrusting my electoral ballot to the U.S. postal service, not known for infallibility. So:
I've been voting in person. BUT:
I've read news accounts of voting lines being hours long, and even recall an account that it was illegal to provide water to those that had been waiting for hours in direct sunlight.
Perhaps mine is purely a naïve delusion, but I'd like to believe there was a time in U.S. history, perhaps while I was alive, when if a party's platform wasn't appealing enough to attract electoral support, the platform would be adjusted until that support was forthcoming. BUT !
It seems today rather than Republicans making their message appeal to the plurality / majority, they just try and block the votes of those that would vote against it.
I think that's very bad.
... makes me an old man. So:
I'm a bit skeptical about entrusting my electoral ballot to the U.S. postal service, not known for infallibility. So:
I've been voting in person. BUT:
I've read news accounts of voting lines being hours long, and even recall an account that it was illegal to provide water to those that had been waiting for hours in direct sunlight.
Perhaps mine is purely a naïve delusion, but I'd like to believe there was a time in U.S. history, perhaps while I was alive, when if a party's platform wasn't appealing enough to attract electoral support, the platform would be adjusted until that support was forthcoming. BUT !
It seems today rather than Republicans making their message appeal to the plurality / majority, they just try and block the votes of those that would vote against it.
I think that's very bad.
PS #36
Gerrymandering is not a one party disgrace. I understand, when conducted constructively by sincere non-partisans, organizing congressional districts by function might make sense. BUT !!
"sincere non-partisan" if it exists at all is the exception, not the rule. SO !!
Would it be fairer to simply use an orthogonal grid standard to define the borders of every congressional district in the U.S.? Is there a reason we don't already do that?
Gerrymandering is not a one party disgrace. I understand, when conducted constructively by sincere non-partisans, organizing congressional districts by function might make sense. BUT !!
"sincere non-partisan" if it exists at all is the exception, not the rule. SO !!
Would it be fairer to simply use an orthogonal grid standard to define the borders of every congressional district in the U.S.? Is there a reason we don't already do that?
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Yep - they complain that young voters don't support them. And that minorities don't support them. So the solution is to prevent those groups from voting.
"Tax cuts accounted for only about 25% of the deficit." U.S. Vice President Richard Cheney, Sept. 14, '03
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OK, so you're not wild about the graph-paper approach to congressional districting.
The term gerrymandering is named after American politician Elbridge Gerry, Vice President of the United States at the time of his death, who, as governor of Massachusetts in 1812, signed a bill that created a partisan district in the Boston area that was compared to the shape of a mythological salamander. The term has negative connotations, and gerrymandering is almost always considered a corruption of the democratic process. The resulting district is known as a gerrymander. The word is also a verb for the process.
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OK, so you're not wild about the graph-paper approach to congressional districting.
The term gerrymandering is named after American politician Elbridge Gerry, Vice President of the United States at the time of his death, who, as governor of Massachusetts in 1812, signed a bill that created a partisan district in the Boston area that was compared to the shape of a mythological salamander. The term has negative connotations, and gerrymandering is almost always considered a corruption of the democratic process. The resulting district is known as a gerrymander. The word is also a verb for the process.
More from Wikipedia Wikipedia text under CC-BY-SA license
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Remember, it's only gerrymandering if the other guy is doing it.