Current Affairs General US politics (ie, not POTUS related)

[Martin Alvito]

A victory for RCV!

I know, right? Their citizens are pretty engaged as Americans go, so it makes a lot of sense for them. Not sure how it would work out in some of the other states that are no bueno on education.

 

[Tin-Tin]

 

[Ruairi77]

I know, right? Their citizens are pretty engaged as Americans go, so it makes a lot of sense for them. Not sure how it would work out in some of the other states that are no bueno on education.

Yea. I got involved with the “yes on 2” campaign here in mass in 2020. Unfortunately it failed.
I think COVID really scuppered us.
you wouldn’t believe the amount of well educated people who hate the two party system voted it down!
a lot of ‘better the devil you know’ stuff. Infuriating.

 

[Martin Alvito]

Yea. I got involved with the “yes on 2” campaign here in mass in 2020. Unfortunately it failed.
I think COVID really scuppered us.
you wouldn’t believe the amount of well educated people who hate the two party system voted it down!
a lot of ‘better the devil you know’ stuff. Infuriating.

People don't understand the math on first-past-the-post versus other systems, or have the math to grasp it if you try to explain it. It is what it is.

 

[Ruairi77]

People don't understand the math on first-past-the-post versus other systems, or have the math to grasp it if you try to explain it. It is what it is.

Mainers get it!

 

[Martin Alvito]

Mainers get it!

Another very politically engaged state right there. Decent education system, too.

 

[TN Toffee]

Another very politically engaged state right there. Decent education system, too.

So…you’re saying it’s not likely coming here to Tennessee any time soon??

 

[Martin Alvito]

So…you’re saying it’s not likely coming here to Tennessee any time soon??

In a state with a gerrymandered, locked-in legislature that can tell any governor off whenever it likes? No way enough of the 99 reps or 33 senators cross the aisle to give that up.

 

[Martin Alvito]

'Where's J.D.?:' Vance's Ohio Senate campaign prompts GOP concerns

CINCINNATI -- Ohio voters will begin casting their ballots in six weeks -- and J.D. Vance has been difficult to find.

www.cnn.com

Candidate quality matters, kids. Think you're going to replicate Trump's success in a statewide race over and over with people that have never held elective office? Think again. This is a tight race where a lack of ground game can lose, despite the structural advantages Vance enjoys.

 

[verreauxi]

 

[BlueTX]

 

[RAFUH]

In fairness, do we really believe any of them care whether or not a women has an orgasm so long as they do

 

[BlueTX]

In fairness, do we really believe any of them care whether or not a women has an orgasm so long as they do

Unknown. There's serious doubt any of them have ever had the pleasure of touching a woman.

 

[devogue]

 

[Martin Alvito]

In fairness, do we really believe any of them care whether or not a women has an orgasm so long as they do

Proper weird, right? Other great apes will be happy to demonstrate that any male of this species can get off whenever they want, if you go to the zoo.

The whole point of the interaction is to get the female off.