She’s getting ratioed to hell and back for this, and rightfully so. Dumbest tweet of the day, and that’s saying something when your competition is DJT.
“But we’ll only get votes according to our population instead of massively preferential electoral treatment because of some lines that were drawn on a map 150 years ago!”
A bloo bloo fucking bloo, you twatwaffles. Christ, the rural Midwest is the worst.
Bugger. I hope he continues to communicate the urgency of climate change to the remaining contenders. EPA head is probably where he should end up.
He said he’s gonna announce his future plans tomorrow. Sounds like he’s going to run for governor of WA again.
Sharpe
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I feel that Inslee should be soluted for pushing the most important issue of our time, despite the various political frictional costs, and thanked for his efforts, and wished well as Governor of Washington. Similar to Bernie in 2016, I think sometimes a strong campaign performance, raising awareness of issues, stretching the envelop of what is considered “politically possible” or “within the realm of possibility” can be very beneficial even without an electoral win. Inslee is showing class IMO. It’s too bad the most important issue of our time can’t be enough for a win, but hey, people R broken and politics sucks. I do feel like Inslee made a strong positive contribution to the future potential on this issue. Sometimes you have to take what you can get.
All the tier 1 candidates are tweeting thanks to him - except for Biden, oddly, though I suppose he’ll get around to it.
More confirmation, Inslee out. Thank goodness.
Field culling itself.
Trump will get the nomination, so it won’t matter. I’m glad someone is running against him though.
It is official. John Hickenlooper is going to run against Gardner for the Senate in Colorado. That is going to be a bloodbath
Of course I see your point.
But be cautious. Ernst is a polished and professional politician who knows what she is doing. Her words in and of themselves mean little, but if she can elicit anti-Iowa and anti-midwest comments from liberals around the nation, that turns votes. Because in the current atmosphere, huge numbers of votes are cast against the side perceived to be more hostile and threatening to people like you.
The Electoral College is unfair =. Well worth saying
Rurals or Iowans or Midwesterners are horrible people = Disastrous politics
I was listening to some podcast (maybe the NPR politics podcats?) where they discussed the effect of primary challengers to any incumbent president (though the one I heard was related to bill weld). It’s pretty hotly debated if history would repeat itself given the cult of trump, but in the past it’s seemed to weaken the prospects of the sitting president, even if it only pulls a few % of the vote away.
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/16/722230017/another-rule-trump-could-break-primary-challengers-doom-incumbent-presidents
Did anyone else notice that, yesterday, the 10th circuit court of appeals ruled that states can’t legislate how presidential Electors vote once they have been selected? Faithless Electors can’t be legislated out of existence? This was the Colorado case, where several Democratic Electors tried to vote for Kasich (some strange bid to deny Trump a winning majority?) instead of Clinton.
If it holds up, this probably kills the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, since the state has no power to determine how each Elector votes.
Didn’t listen to the podcast, but it make sense. One of the advantages of incumbency is avoiding having to go on record on things designed to reassure your base, as opposed to attract those who might vote either way in November. Of course, this assumes intra-party opposition strong enough to require the incumbent’s attention.
In the case of Trump, it would also allow Dem operatives to take a page out of the Republican playbook and acquire (even manufacture) evidence that central Republican people favored Trump in some way during the primaries. For the purpose of muddying waters, when Republican operatives inevitably make those charges regarding the eventual Dem candidate.
Have been told by someone who’d be in a position to have a smart, lawyerly opinion on this (a lawyer who once worked at the FEC) that it was going to die one way or another in court anyway.
antlers
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The state still gets to pick the slate of electors-- it shouldn’t make any difference to the compact.
