KevinC
3548
Yep, first thing that went through my head when I read about the Roger Stone verdict. A whole lot of “lying to congress” type stuff in there. He’s probably drowning in flop sweat right now.
Three, since the two people listening were in agreement.
Menzo
3551
This is an obvious attempt at witness intimidation by the DOJ. By prosecuting Stone they are telling witnesses that they have to tell the actual truth. SHAME.
The sun belt is not safely democratic right now. I think the issue is actually that the distance from tipping is larger so the same amount of increased turnout across the board wouldn’t flip the key sun belt states but would flip the key rust belt states.
Bingo.
It’s easier to spot them in 2019, because they’re TRULY embracing the nutso-ness of Trumpism, but in 2008 John McCain had 35-40% support of voters who were completely all in on him.
In 2012, Mitt Romney had at least 40%, if not more, that were as much committed to him and unreachable.
This is completely do-able.
It’s just that it is hard work, and full of setbacks.
But it is do-able. This ain’t Mondale, '84.
Right on schedule. The Trumppalos* gotsta have their fix.
*BTW, should I “stop making Trumppalos happen?”
Just to second the Nebraska bit, as a Nebraskan what I’m hearing is that the local dems are smelling blood in the water. Local rural interests (aka most of the state) aren’t terribly happy with the uncertainty the trade wars bring to their future. A friend of mine threw her name in the ring to go up against a long-time incumbent Republican congressman because this might be the first time in over a decade he’s vulnerable.
Yeah, I have family and friends in St. Joe’s MO, which is fairly close by. And that area of the country (as you WELL know as a Nebraskan, so I’m speaking to the forum in general!) is not just corn, but also soybeans. And soybean farmers are really the ones who were first impacted by this stuff.
And yes, these farmers and people who work agribusiness based on these farms are getting subsidies. But in this part of the country you really do have honest-to-goodness fiscal conservatives who HATE seeing money unnecessarily spent. And so what we keep getting wind of is that farmers there are looking at a fine crop, not being able to sell (or even plant high yield acreage) and then getting government handouts to ease that pain. And these are proud folks who WANT TO SELL THEIR CROPS. They don’t want the government kickbacks, unless they have to take them. They want to sell what they produce.
We hope it is. But while it’s easy to pull out 35% or 40% as a number to put on this, do we really know what the number is? Undecided voters in the last few days of the election last year broke massively for Trump. People who are currently undecided might well do the same. They might be lying about being undecided or they might be hedging against something really bad happening, but it’s hard to look at people who currently say they will vote for him and assume his floor is no higher than that.
The scary scenario is one where he’s already got an unpersuadable 47% across the rust belt. I think it’s highly unlikely the number is over 50%, so that means there’s still a chance, but if it actually takes Trump killing someone with his own hands on video to move some of the “persuadables” off him, then 35% is just the dream.
“35-40% of the likely voters will vote for the GOP nominee no matter how boring or odious” sounds a lot better than “47% of likely voters will vote for the GOP nominee no matter how boring or odious”. How do we know which scenario we’re in?
Menzo
3558
I have it on good authority that witness intimidation is not in the Constitution.
Checkmate, dumbocrats.
Menzo
3560
If this were a movie, President Warren would name her as Secretary of State during the closing credits.
Was that Nunez or Jordan shouting in the background about wanting a chance to answer?
Because it was awesome. Like playing the part of the Stanford band as Cal spikes the football. “Holding the trombone here is Congressman Nunez.”
Menzo
3564
They STRENUOUSLY OBJECTED to Schiff adjurning the hearing.
“Had I known counsel STRENUOUSLY objected…”
Timex
3567
It’s going to be funny if it turns out that Sondland paid a million dollars to Trump’s inauguration just for the privilege of going to prison for perjury.
