Sharpe
2757
Yeah, probably not the time to question the electoral tactics. It just frustrates me b/c I am pretty skeptical that Gov. Youngkin will move expeditiously to fill the seat.
Funeral isn’t til 12/7. I’m betting McClellan or Stoney will get the seat.
Cochise County election board has Seen Enough.
Scotten
2760
Sad! I was hoping the GOP would lose a House seat and these people would be charged with felonies. I’ll never not enjoy FAAFO.
I’m sure Kari Lake has made more than enough money with her post-election grifting to cover this:
Menzo
2762
Kari Lake will have a show on FOX News within 60 days.
Scuzz
2763
She may be Trumps running mate.
This thread rollup on how hard it is to vote in Georgia (in Atlanta I think) is really amazing.
It seems pretty clearly designed to screen out people who can’t afford a two-hour process.
Wonder if it’s the same process in the white suburbs?
It might well be, but people with higher incomes and more flexibility in their scheduling can probably tolerate it more. If you make it inconvenient (or expensive) for everyone, you’re suppressing turnout among poorer people.
It is the bones of the same process, yes.
There is purposeful racism and intimidation built into multiple parts, but the maybe most egregious bits are about artificially limiting the ability of people to vote in liberal precincts by controlling flow and capacity. Conservative precincts mysteriously have plenty of voting locations and staff and hardware. Liberal precincts somehow seem to end up with only a few (or one) voting location, too few people staffed, and a suspiciously large number of broken machines.
I can vote in 15 minutes in my precinct, whereas people I know downtown have waited many hours on the same day.
I very much like the fact I get to vote by mail in Washington. I assume it’s not more common in other states because not allowing it is just another method of voter suppression.
Yeah, I can’t remember the last time I voted in person. Vote by mail really ought to be permitted in every state.
Exactly. Georgia is one (of multiple) states that again limited vote-by-mail after it had been more widely allowed for COVID. The claim is that it’s for vague security and integrity reasons, but of course racism is the real reason.
As with nearly everything in our upside-down dystopian political universe, the MAGA threats about what the left wing would do to undermine democracy are exactly what the MAGA nutcases are already actually doing to undermine it.
Matt_W
2771
Not sure if this link is paywalled:
And now the big reveal, Democrats’ top campaign message:
I worked hand-in-hand with law enforcement to crack down on crimes and keep our communities safe. I led the fight to combat sex trafficking, helped protect victims of sexual assault, and passed legislation to combat law enforcement suicide. I’ve worked tirelessly to get law enforcement the support and resources they need to keep our communities safe
When I shared this factoid on Twitter, I got a somewhat incredulous response from a number of rightists who didn’t believe a Democrat would ever say that. This was funny because these are all real-world messages, in this case, one from Cortez Masto. You can see a version of it here on her campaign website, and it’s similar to the opening of her official bio on her Senate page.
The flip side of the rightists’ incredulity is that a lot of progressives I’ve talked to are a little disheartened to see that the very best thing DFP could come up with is so boring. This message doesn’t speak at all to the big, structural changes that get progressives out of bed in the morning. It doesn’t reference the existential battle for American democracy, and it doesn’t touch on the climate crisis that has become the progressive movement’s top priority or the abortion rights struggle that invigorated so many after the Dobbs decision. It’s just blah.
But part of the reason this blah message works is precisely because it’s blah. Persuadable voters aren’t persuaded by the stuff that gets progressives fired up, in part because if they were fired up about that stuff they wouldn’t be persuadable voters, and in part because everyone already knows that Democrats care about that stuff, so talking about it at the margin doesn’t change anything. And in that light, what takes the message from good to great is that despite being so blah, conservatives were incredulous that a Democrat would actually say it. The content is not that surprising or exciting but the context apparently is — voters were genuinely swayed by a Democrat making some extremely banal supportive statements about law enforcement.
JonRowe
2772
Works for Tony Evers in WI. The most boring candidate you can imagine.
He is just a nice guy. It is really hard for the GOP to go after him, especially as since they completely hamstrung the office of governor in WI, he basically can’t do anything but show up at farms and state and county fairs for photo ops.
That kind of thing is ridiculous, and needs to be outlawed. States should equalize resources for running elections like some of them do for the public schools, if necessary.
Arizona’s long national nightmare is over.
KevinC
2775
Woohoo!
Also, is 51% to 46% considered a landslide these days? Very healthy margin for AZ, of course, but landslide? Maybe in these polarized times?
dtolman
2776
It’s only a landslide if you’re a partisan twitter user, and your candidate won.
