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Post by jdredd on Oct 29, 2014 13:28:05 GMT -5
america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/10/2014-midterm-electionsgopvotersuppressiondemocrats.html"The 2014 midterm elections are turning into a battle not at the polls but in the courts. The Republican campaign strategy appears to include curtailing voting rights, specifically targeting groups that tend to vote for Democrats. This strategy is part of a movement I would call the Second Great Disenfranchisement in U.S. history. The First Great Disenfranchisement came after Reconstruction and ended in the 1870s; it ushered in the era of Jim Crow, polls taxes, literacy tests and grandfather clauses as tools to deny African-Americans the right to vote. Today measures such as voter fraud claims, requiring voter IDs, long voting lines, the elimination of early voting and the gutting of the 1965 Voting Rights Act are being deployed to rig elections even before votes are cast." What does it say about your party when you have to suppress already low voter turnout to win elections because your ideas aren't enough? It's pretty sad that the courts are aiding the efforts instead of blocking them..
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Post by jdredd on Oct 30, 2014 16:01:54 GMT -5
As in the 2010 Tea Party tsunami, the Democratic Party is expected to take a "shellacking" in the midterms. The silver lining is once again the rout will stop at the California border. Jerry Brown, the country's best governor, should cruise to an unprecedented fourth term, and we will keep our two old ladies as Senators. Maybe California should secede instead of Texas.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 1, 2014 4:50:07 GMT -5
Only 4 more days until the midterms, and you know what happens on Wednesday: The start of the 2016 Presidential campaign. I can hardly wait.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 4, 2014 4:57:56 GMT -5
On another thread I asked "Will Judaism survive Zionism?". Tomorrow's question is "Will the Democrats survive Obama?". They will, of course, and as sure as night follows day, when the GOP has control of both Senate and The House, they will screw it up, and the pendulum that is the fickle American voter will start back the other way.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 4, 2014 18:59:18 GMT -5
Also, while six years of Obummer has led to a surge for the Old White Guys Party, it was worth it. It's still better than having McCain or Romney as President.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 14, 2014 14:26:33 GMT -5
www.thenation.com/article/190385/how-democratic-party-lost-its-soul"What we need is a rump formation of dissenters who will break free of the Democratic Party’s confines and set a new agenda that will build the good society rather than feed bloated wealth, disloyal corporations and absurd foreign wars. This is the politics the country needs: purposeful insurrection inside and outside party bounds, and a willingness to disrupt the regular order. And we need it now, to inject reality into the postelection spin war within the party. On one side, the right-wingers will blame the loss on Obama’s unpopularity, claiming his economic policy is too liberal; progressives must counter that the Democrats lost because they had no economic message aside from Obama’s replay of tired Wall Street bromides that misfired so spectacularly. This is the fight that really matters, and it was coming no matter how bad the Democratic losses were. If the Wall Street/Walmart wing of the party wins—if Hillary Clinton is the nominee in 2016—any hope that Democrats will embrace the imperative for fundamental change will be lost. Dems will become the party of the past, defending wrong ideas that failed and losing more elections." Here's Greider making the inevitable case that the Dems lost in 2014 because they moved to far to the right on economic issues. I'm not so sure he's on to something. California is one of the few states that stuck with the Democrats. Was it because of economics, or was it because California rejects (in general) redneck gun-and-Bible culture that infects so many other states? I don't know.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 6, 2021 16:29:27 GMT -5
It could be an interesting comparison between 2014 and 2022. Or not.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 4, 2021 1:05:07 GMT -5
Most pundits are predicting a big loss for the Democrats in 2022.
What difference will it make?
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Post by jdredd on Oct 28, 2021 14:24:00 GMT -5
I added “The Red Wave” to the title of this thread because I think it’s a sure bet the Dems will take a hit in 2022 unless something changes quickly. I am less than optimistic that we will have President Harris, the Geezer-in-Chief looks pretty stubborn about holding on to power. A politician with a huge ego? Who knew? Trump was insane, but at least he wasn’t one of the walking dead.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 4, 2021 22:27:03 GMT -5
I think the Republicans have to get over themselves after their “big” win in Virginiageddon. It wasn’t exactly the end of the world as we know it. That will probably happen next November, but even so this is a war that has been going on since 1968. And the GOP may not have stupidities like COVID mandates and CRT to count on. The codger-in-chief could even get us in a war by then, and people rally around war Presidents. Don’t tell the codger.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 1, 2022 23:00:21 GMT -5
I don’t even think a red wave in November will be the end of the world unless they get a veto proof majority, which I doubt. The end of the world has probably been postponed until 2024.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 9, 2022 23:17:57 GMT -5
So 2022 turned out not to be another 1994 or 2010. I’m almost sad, a major drubbing of the Dems might have ended Captain Senility’s 2024 aspirations. I’m still counting on God to save us from that. Not that you can count on God for anything but your own eventual demise. It’s almost like there is no God. Hmmmm….
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