That's like drinking out of the bottom of a Diet Pepsi someone put a Camel Light out in.
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US PoliEra 2019 |OT7| It's happening
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I've still never seen Mean Girls.
Like, it's that gif of Shocked not that shocked? Basically that.
I would kill for a heat map of where each candidate's supporters are. Because when you're in that 11-14% range I think it's super interesting. If your support is super collected around, say, colleges you might net fewer delegate equivalents at 13% than someone at 11%. (I know the polling can't do that really but I would love to know.)
Glancing at 2016, we might another one of these polls in about six weeks, and then starting at end of December every two weeks until caucus day.
I may be naive, but I think the Ukraine thing is finally going to turn the tide.
Yang has been pretty consistently out-polling sitting Governors and Senators. I don't want the dude anywhere near the White House but he's clearly doing something right?
Maybe this is why she thinks a debt moratorium should be universal! Free MBAs and JDs for everyone!
No more having to work as a shockhorror, lawyer, after getting a law degree!
A reminder that in 2016, 28% of Democrats were over 65, and 64% were 45+
And 57% were women.
I'm going to try to be as diplomatic as I can...
...The Fuck?
So sorry someone put a gun to your head, made you attend Harvard Law, then assumed you'd want to work as a lawyer to pay back the loans you took out.
Again, the worst people.
Men are the worst.
They should be seen and not heard.
Also, can we all agree then that Harris is done?
Fifth in Iowa polling.
Fifth in NH polling.
They should be seen and not heard.
Also, can we all agree then that Harris is done?
Fifth in Iowa polling.
Fifth in NH polling.
Attracting GOP crossover support in a Dem primary, same w Tulsi.
I'm giving her two months.
Christina Aguilera is the Voice of our generation and Harris WILL be the nominee.
Thank you.
That's what infuriates me. I understand she's the Speaker and it's her job to put political calculations for the entire House into the equation. But she's been going well beyond that. She's been actively undermining the impeachment process and messaging from the beginning. I'm not going to say she's outright trying to kill it, but she wants to keep impeachment in a tiny little box and put it on a shelf so she can say, "See, we did try to hold Trump accountable!".
But anytime impeachment tries to grow beyond the tiny little box, she does everything in her power to create mixed signals and intentionally conflate a multi-step process into an impeachment boogieman, so she can shove it back into a little box. Some of us would even be happy if Pelosi just sat quietly on the sidelines and let impeachment grow or shrink on its own. But she actively tries to squash any momentum when there's a flashpoint. As Antoz said, she's even providing the Trump legal team ammunition to fight the Congressional subpoenas in court. I know she's not but it really does feel she's taking the side of Republicans when it comes to holding Trump accountable.
Looking at the crosstabs a bit, only 41% of caucus goers think M4A as a sole government program should be the thing we run on, only 36% think free college should be a thing we run on, only 20% think we should run on socialism (with 37% saying it's both bad policy and makes them not comfortable) and only 28% want to run to the left.
This might be why Bernie is having some issues. Warren supports a lot of the same things, but talks about them in an entirely different way.
More people in Iowa supprot running on the green new deal than they do on single payer government only M4A. This is what a lot of us have been saying. It's a REAL heavy lift.
This might be why Bernie is having some issues. Warren supports a lot of the same things, but talks about them in an entirely different way.
More people in Iowa supprot running on the green new deal than they do on single payer government only M4A. This is what a lot of us have been saying. It's a REAL heavy lift.
And this is the key for me: Is she going to be able to keep this going through a general election without people getting wise to it? Or is she going to move a bit closer to the center?
I was thinking more this:Neither seen nor heard you say?
But whatever floats your boat.
Why did you go to fucking Harvard Law and get a degree in law if you didn't want to be a lawyer.
rofl
So far, Warren's gotten away with not talking about it at all really. She speaks on M4A in aspirational terms on what it will be. But she's yet to answer the tax question or put out a (real) plan of her own to be scrutinized. Now that Buttigieg has done so, she's officially the only top tier candidate who hasn't.
Warren is still benefiting from being handled with kids gloves.
She'll keep talking about the same things the way she has, I expect. But, she's smart enough to realize when an issue is a loser you don't keep hammering on it. It's good political sense, and I appreciate it from her. Like taxing the wealthy and the assault weapons ban are popular across the board. Doing something about healthcare is popular across the board. But she's shown she's not so ideologically fixated on a specific policy proposal at the expense of actually achieving something. To me, that makes a good candidate and a good nominee.
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YAAAAAAAAASSSSSSS!!!!
I'm going to contemplate that a big part of Birdie's favourables dropping... is things like that embarrassing as fuck "Media bias" thread, lol.
Rigged MSNBC!!!!!!!!! omitted him from a graphic (of people that were at the GLAAD Iowa forum). lollllll
(They're bigger fuckup seems to be... they don't know that Joe Sestak is not Michael Bennet, but I mean... fair enough)
Rigged MSNBC!!!!!!!!! omitted him from a graphic (of people that were at the GLAAD Iowa forum). lollllll
(They're bigger fuckup seems to be... they don't know that Joe Sestak is not Michael Bennet, but I mean... fair enough)
I don't disagree, but I'm starting to think that oppo on her is running fairly dry since we've seen basically nothing out of anyone other than "she used to be a republican." But hey, I could be wrong and she's the most horrendously corrupt politician this side of Trump. Not that that's likely, but I mean technically possible. Even Trump hasn't had anything for her on Twitter.
I'd rather people find a way to keep her in the race way-the-crap more than about a dozen who still are.
Also, Kamala did lose support from last time (-1). Not as much as the other three he mentioned but still. That is quite the take though lol
Wow
After the shit she said about Imani Gandy's law work? For years?
Oh she is traaaaaaaaaash.
Yeah...I don't really see any personal landmines up ahead for Warren. The main landmine, her Native American heritage, already exploded well before it could have affected her momentum. In hindsight, that the was possible move for Warren to have made. All the stuff about Warren dropping a nuke on herself and how she was bad for so easily rising to Trump's bait is kinda hilarious now.
I just don;t know how much there there is to hit her with tbh. The "she was a Republican!" thing is dumb and literally no one cares. The DNA thing is long gone, and not really something you can weaponize in a primary. The way she talks about policy is totally different from the way Bernie does. (It's the preaching vs teaching thing.) She gets off the hook with some of her tax answers cause she's nimble enough to walk herself out of the bear trap. She's new enough on the national stage that her political record is basically all formed from 2012 onward, where most dem supporters had already moved pretty far to the left. Biden has a treasure trove of horrible things. Harris has things you can squint and spin negatively. Tulsi is a train wreck. Pete can't talk about minority issues to save his life. On paper, Warren is just a really good candidate. IDk what it would take to really damage her favorables yet.
Warren is regularly asked about whether she'll need to raise taxes. And deftly deflects to costs so that no one gets that soundbite.
Campaigns have tried to lay the seeds for negative stories... and none of them have taken root.
Forma REPUBLICAN.
Consulted with CORPORATE AMERICA on bankruptcy.
Used to take BIG DONOR MONEY.
Has said she will take BIG DONOR MONEY for the GE.
Cosying up to ESTABLISHMENT.
DNADNADNA
Susan Sarandon.
You don't need to attack Warren by bringing up some past misdeed. You isolate her trickery on the Healthcare question and call it out.
Biden got the closest to doing this. And him hammering Warren on not admitting that her plan would raise taxes (coupled with her dodging the question) was one of the strongest moments he had in the last debate, and simultaneously one of her weakest. Become it's become painfully clear that she's dodging on this issue. It's not so much her savvy in dodging the question as it is nobody really wanting to take the hit and attack her on this. If I'm on a campaign, and I'm not concerned about taking a hit for attacking a favored candidate, I'd advise my candidate to call that out and go in for the kill. It might not work, but pointing out the ways in which your competitor is "playing politics" is traditionally a good way to pull a candidate out of the "darling" bubble so that you can actually engage them.
But hey, now I AM writing fanfiction. I just really want to see her get roughed up one good time before the general to see how she adapts.
That movie was such a damn cocktease. The mothman has next to no presence!
I actually want her to get hit too, because I want to see how she handles it. So I'm with you there. I just think she's a good enough politician to wiggle her way out of it without sounding like a politician. The way she talks about M4A is more an end goal, and she's given herself enough space to really put forth a lot of different plans and saying that's what she's always been for. So I don't disagree with you, but I just think (from what I've seen so far) she can navigate it well enough.
I like how unintentionally pitiful that is. "Of the 19 still running, we literally are only able to beat one."
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