Still feeling optimistic? Let’s take care of that.
And if you didn’t click charmtrap’s link, then you missed this addenda: 70% of those being blocked are African American, per the AP
I’m glad you told me. Without clicking the link, I assume 100% of them were African American. But I guess the GOP would want to block people of Hispanic or Native American Background as well. I assume that’s the other 30%?
You know, you can’t be picky about your racisms.
Nesrie
5020
And where is the person who keeps trying to tell me that the South is somehow less racist because the populations are so diverse except… they keep trying to suppress that very population.
Did you miss typing a word there after “somehow”? (I think I got the point of your post anyway, though, and agree. Also, I do that “thoughts get ahead of my typing” thing all the time.)
Well, let’s see them, Mr Kemp.
For context, though, he’s doing an “exact match” requirement on these.
As someone pointed out on twitter this afternoon, when Michael Bloomberg changed his voter registration to “Democrat”, he neglected to put his middle “R.” initial into the appropriate area and simply listed his name as “Michael Bloomberg”. That’s different from his original voter registration. And it would’ve been flagged in Georgia and gotten his registration held along with all the others there.
Yes, yes, always best to announce your plans weeks ahead of time.
magnet
5028
Yes it is, if you want to motivate voters.
And it’s not nearly as controversial (or ultimately futile) as going for impeachment would be.
Just not sure stuff like this helps the Democrats, to be honest. I guess it definitely fires up the base, but I’m not sure how much more they need to be fired up on the Democratic side right now.
And I think for that narrow sliver of independent voters out there, they like the idea of electing Democrats to congress to act as a firmer check on Trump…but they don’t want to know what that might look like. This is kind of like showing how the sausage is made, so to speak, and it may not help things.
I think that’s part of how we’re seeing Republican numbers in statewide races (senate, governorships) surge since Kavanaugh.
Wisconsin update: Good news and bad news for Dems in the latest likely voter polls. First the bad news: Following his usual pattern of starting out behind and catching up, Gov. Scott Walker has pulled even with Dem. Tony Evers in the latest polls. For whatever reason, the commitment Walker gets from the Milwaukee collar counties doesn’t seem to show up in the polls until late in the game. In any case, I think Evers has his work cut out for him in trying to reverse the momentum. Now the good news: Sen. Tammy Baldwin has increased her lead over State. Sen. and ALEC member Leah Vukmir to double digits. So it looks as though Wisconsin may continue its odd pattern of all red in state-wide elections, except for one of the most liberal U.S. senators. I think beyond any of the issues, Baldwin stands as an example of the value of likability in politics. Everyone, regardless of their political persuasion, seems to agree on how nice she is.
I think there’s always a danger of people thinking it doesn’t matter who they vote for because the Dems won’t do anything useful anyway. Stuff like this tries to thread the needle between giving them a reason to think the House is worth it even if the Senate is lost and not giving Trump supporters enough to circle the wagons around. I mean, going after his tax records is not as clear a threat as impeachment, so if you think he hasn’t really done anything wrong you will just dismiss this as some grandstanding.
I don’t believe that independent voters are swayed against Democrats when they talk about holding Trump to account for things like this, and I know they aren’t the ones driving the Kavanaugh surge - that’s a purely Republican thing (purple states have shifted towards the Democrat). This also has the benefit of not playing into existing sources of passion like misogyny, racism, abortions, or the Mueller “witch hunt”
This seems like it should not be legal.
JonRowe
5036
Yeah, WI is a weird voting state, and people tend not to stick to party lines here. Tammy has the bonus of having been a WI representative for a long time, and that she is super nice, and basically un-assailable. She is super liberal, and votes that way. She doesn’t do a lot of grand-standing, and spends a lot of time in state with the voters.
This is how you keep senate seats in swing states. Once you make the election about yourself, and not about how you will help represent your voters, you lose the midwest. If you look at her ads, the majority of them star regular WI residents front and center, and the ones I have seen focus heavily on healthcare.
