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

Status
Not open for further replies.
RAFUH said:
I heard they are trying to get abortion amendments on some of these states ballots. Dems will need it

Click to expand...

It would take a serious wave election to unseat Baldwin and Casey, or flip that Michigan seat even though Stabenow is hanging it up. Things would have to swing hard in the other direction for Cruz to go down. You would think that a guy who invoked the Fifth Amendment seventy-five times in his deposition on defrauding Medicare and Medicaid while the head of HCA would struggle to win elections, but Rick Scott does it somehow.

Tester, Sherrod Brown and Sinema are up against it. Those are tough holds.
 
Martin Alvito said:
It would take a serious wave election to unseat Baldwin and Casey, or flip that Michigan seat even though Stabenow is hanging it up. Things would have to swing hard in the other direction for Cruz to go down. You would think that a guy who invoked the Fifth Amendment seventy-five times in his deposition on defrauding Medicare and Medicaid while the head of HCA would struggle to win elections, but Rick Scott does it somehow.

Tester, Sherrod Brown and Sinema are up against it. Those are tough holds.
Click to expand...
I continually find it baffling that even the deepest red Texans continue to support Cruz, when he is one of the least stereotypically Texan people I can think of. Soft, Harvard educated, smarmy - he's like the anti-Texan. You'd have to imagine that at some point even MAGA people would be like I ain't voting for that beta
 
Pittsburgh Footy said:
I continually find it baffling that even the deepest red Texans continue to support Cruz, when he is one of the least stereotypically Texan people I can think of. Soft, Harvard educated, smarmy - he's like the anti-Texan. You'd have to imagine that at some point even MAGA people would be like I ain't voting for that beta
Click to expand...
I doubt your stereotypical Republican Texan votes in primaries.
 
RAFUH said:
Hate to ruin it for you...

Click to expand...

And why not? The state constitution also bans partisan gerrymanders, but the Republicans managed to get the new, partisan congressional districts to stick despite the supreme court striking the maps down in 2022. The Republicans dragged the process out so that there was no choice but to use the maps in 2022, and after they flipped the state supreme court they simply dismissed further legal challenges.

Now the redistricting commission has come forward with maps that more or less lock both chambers of the Ohio legislature in Republican hands.

Why wouldn't politicians have contempt for voters who sit back, watch this take place and do nothing? So long as voters continue to vote for Republicans for statewide office, this will keep happening, because of how the commission seats are allocated.
 
Martin Alvito said:
And why not? The state constitution also bans partisan gerrymanders, but the Republicans managed to get the new, partisan congressional districts to stick despite the supreme court striking the maps down in 2022. The Republicans dragged the process out so that there was no choice but to use the maps in 2022, and after they flipped the state supreme court they simply dismissed further legal challenges.

Now the redistricting commission has come forward with maps that more or less lock both chambers of the Ohio legislature in Republican hands.

Why wouldn't politicians have contempt for voters who sit back, watch this take place and do nothing? So long as voters continue to vote for Republicans for statewide office, this will keep happening, because of how the commission seats are allocated.
Click to expand...
Deplorable, the lot of them
 
Spadge Vernacular said:
I find it all very disturbing and cannot comprehend any man treating women in such a way.

I'm sure it'll swing back to sanity, it has to, and hope that it happens sooner rather than later.
Click to expand...
Even if/when it does swing back - will it go back (and move forward) as far as it should? Or if there's a little roll-back due to some judges acting with integrity, will we be satisfied?

There's an awful lot of frog-boiling going on.....
 
MrPerfectNot said:
Even if/when it does swing back - will it go back (and move forward) as far as it should? Or if there's a little roll-back due to some judges acting with integrity, will we be satisfied?

There's an awful lot of frog-boiling going on.....
Click to expand...
The demographics say they always lose hard in the end, unless they completely destroy democracy between now and then.

Think about it this way: there are a lot of boomers, considering their age bracket, and not a lot of people my age. America is becoming more and more racially diverse, in part because the right has gutted our schools (which leads to the importation of highly educated, skilled labor, largely from non-European countries) and that influx tends to vote left rather than right. There are a whole lot of young people right now, and churches have a hard time retaining them.

Sooner or later, the baby boomers die. Maybe my generation shifts right somewhat as we age, but there just aren't as many of us. The result is a big shift to the left.

One good way to think about the Republicans is that they're a team with a championship window, and they know it's closing. It's now or never, for them. This probably explains why otherwise intelligent people (not many of them left in the party, but still) have elected to go along with Trump's nonsense, and have done short-term things that will circle around to bite them in the end. It's find ways to circumvent one-man-one-vote, or get crushed in a decade or two with no end in sight.
 
Martin Alvito said:
The demographics say they always lose hard in the end, unless they completely destroy democracy between now and then.

Think about it this way: there are a lot of boomers, considering their age bracket, and not a lot of people my age. America is becoming more and more racially diverse, in part because the right has gutted our schools (which leads to the importation of highly educated, skilled labor, largely from non-European countries) and that influx tends to vote left rather than right. There are a whole lot of young people right now, and churches have a hard time retaining them.

Sooner or later, the baby boomers die. Maybe my generation shifts right somewhat as we age, but there just aren't as many of us. The result is a big shift to the left.

One good way to think about the Republicans is that they're a team with a championship window, and they know it's closing. It's now or never, for them. This probably explains why otherwise intelligent people (not many of them left in the party, but still) have elected to go along with Trump's nonsense, and have done short-term things that will circle around to bite them in the end. It's find ways to circumvent one-man-one-vote, or get crushed in a decade or two with no end in sight.
Click to expand...
Fully agreed re the demos and the winning window for the GOP - the risk is how much damage they truly do on their way out / down.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Welcome

Join the Everton conversation today.
Fewer ads, full access, completely free.

→ Log in 🔑 Register
🛒 Visit Shop

Support Grand Old Team by checking out our latest Everton gear!
Back
Top