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zoux posted:lol when did we move from all politics are local to all politics are national it was a rove/atwater tactic iirc
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zoux posted:Would someone please tell me why everyone is freaking out about this more than I've ever seen people freak out about a disease outbreak ever. Even the ebola scare wasn't this bad. Ebola is far deadlier than coronavirus, but coronavirus spreads more easily. The other half of the issue is a lot of the earlier suppression of information from China leading to a lot of mistrust.
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So this is a thing - pretty loving shocking, and it is late and I dont care to see if the crosstabs are posted but if a good poll, holy poo poo https://twitter.com/evanasmith/status/1228197466010292224?s=19
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ha ha ha ha ho ho https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1228208833131995136
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have any polls for the dem senate race been conducted? both cristina ramirez and sema hernandez seem good, to me, so i'd like to vote for whichever is most likely to win
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Finicums Wake posted:have any polls for the dem senate race been conducted? both cristina ramirez and sema hernandez seem good, to me, so i'd like to vote for whichever is most likely to win Texas Tribune did an "Ask the frontrunners" article, and Sema Hernandez didn't make the cut for it. Otoh Cristina Ramirez does have the questionable support of Alec Baldwin.
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Finicums Wake posted:have any polls for the dem senate race been conducted? both cristina ramirez and sema hernandez seem good, to me, so i'd like to vote for whichever is most likely to win I think the last one I saw had like 60% undecided or something
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1stGear posted:Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment. Yeah but for right now it's got GOP pols shook, and they aren't as inured to disappointment and failure as we
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Texas Dems aspire to be as popular as Generic Democrats
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:ha ha ha ha ho ho I mean this will last about as long as the Dem nominee doesn't say poo poo about fracking.
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https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1228344396392759296 That's true, we do say that all the time, hayseeds and yokels that we are.
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as they say in vidor, more scared than a black man with national stop and frisk after sun down
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I've heard "scared as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs"
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Sab0921 posted:I mean this will last about as long as the Dem nominee doesn't say poo poo about fracking. https://twitter.com/danielmarans/status/1228480998582685698?s=21 😬
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Finicums Wake posted:have any polls for the dem senate race been conducted? both cristina ramirez and sema hernandez seem good, to me, so i'd like to vote for whichever is most likely to win
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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/15/texas-dems-sweat-bernie-sanders-ticket-110524 The Texas Democratic party really is the worst.
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Sardonik posted:https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/15/texas-dems-sweat-bernie-sanders-ticket-110524 "We can't have a candidate with new ideas! It might affect the old ideas that have worked so well for thirty years!" I also enjoy how enlightening this quote is: quote:“The reality is that every Democratic president candidate has happily endorsed socialist policies,” Texas GOP Chairman James Dickey said. It doesn't matter who you run you stupid fucks, the GOP are still going to call them pinko commies.
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Sardonik posted:https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/15/texas-dems-sweat-bernie-sanders-ticket-110524 quote:"There is overall uncertainty which is growing. The real fear for Texas D’s remains Sanders," Bill Miller, a longtime Austin lobbyist who has worked with both Democrats and Republicans, said of a Sanders ticket. “'We’d be hosed' — that’s what they’re saying. The drain at the top goes down to the bottom.” Worst bbq and worst opinions.
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That's really disingenuous. Bill Miller is a hard-line right-wing kinda guy. To paint him as some sort of reasonable moderate who's worked with both sides is intentionally misleading.
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I mean national political reporters are the same people who gave us “Beto couldn’t even beat Ted Cruz”
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saintonan posted:That's really disingenuous. Bill Miller is a hard-line right-wing kinda guy. To paint him as some sort of reasonable moderate who's worked with both sides is intentionally misleading. it's politico
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Surely they will get more votes by refusing to be affiliated with strong positions that people care about and inoffensively keeping their heads down.
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:i asked my socialist organizer friends who are more informed than i am about who i should vote for in the senate race, and they gave me a depressed, gloomy look and said "none of them" and cristina ramirez is a fraud apparently but i'm just the messenger! Is she at least plausibly capable of moving the overton window to the not-right and or maybe not voting for the coming Iran War? Also Sema is crazy but she's our crazy. Houston supremacy.
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Marxalot posted:Is she at least plausibly capable of moving the overton window to the not-right and or maybe not voting for the coming Iran War? Christina's stated positions seem like the best of the group. Medicare for All, mandatory paid parental leave, $15 minimum wage, criminal justice reform (including bail reform) etc...
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Sab0921 posted:Christina's stated positions seem like the best of the group. Medicare for All, mandatory paid parental leave, $15 minimum wage, criminal justice reform (including bail reform) etc... Same for Sema while also being really loud about the MIC among other things. They both seem fine from what little information seems to be available about them (neither really has an extensive public record). Cristina also seems to have pissed off some of the worst extremely online libs by being endorsed by some actress that the hashtag resistance totally cancelled for not being sufficiently differential to Clinton back in 2016? That was at least pretty loving funny. On an unrelated note,  - We recommend Amy Klobuchar in Democratic primary for president [Editorial]Eat poo poo, Chronicle. e: I started poking around google, she got the Nina Turner Endorsement while potentially halfway lit at St Arnolds - https://www.facebook.com/SemaForTexas/videos/vb.192655561258777/2279395529007595/?type=2&theater Marxalot fucked around with this message at 23:20 on Feb 16, 2020 |
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https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1229054383540887555?s=20 Senator, turn on your monitor
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i got a text from a volunteer for delia garza, seems like the real deal. decriminalize ALL drugs at low weight, end cash bail for any non-violent offense Badger of Basra posted:https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1229054383540887555?s=20 if men could just keep their legs closed we wouldn't have to do this
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I had no idea that the Denton country Democrats were also having a chairman race. Got a mailer for Ira Bershad. Any ideas who I should go for?
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I saw Bernie endorsed someone else for Travis County DA, dunno what their deal is. But OR has made a lot of lovely local gov endorsements.
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Badger of Basra posted:I saw Bernie endorsed someone else for Travis County DA, dunno what their deal is. But OR has made a lot of lovely local gov endorsements. i'll need one of you other nerds to expound on the difference but this is county attorney, not district attorney the guy running for TCDA was a director of the workers' defense project and that's good
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looks like all the candidates are sprinting left https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2020-02-07/travis-county-primary-candidates-jockey-to-champion-criminal-justice-change/ i'll be voting selvera, not garza. inject the portuguese model straight into my veins
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Marxalot posted:Same for Sema while also being really loud about the MIC among other things. They both seem fine from what little information seems to be available about them (neither really has an extensive public record). Cristina also seems to have pissed off some of the worst extremely online libs by being endorsed by some actress that the hashtag resistance totally cancelled for not being sufficiently differential to Clinton back in 2016? That was at least pretty loving funny. The only difference to me is Cristina seems to have put together a much better organization than Sema. That's worth something. Sema doesnt seem like a serious candidate.
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Arcella posted:
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It's 46. Almost half  The Senate has got to go, or at least change to representational though I dunno what the point of a second proportional chamber is (like 49 states have so....) but we talk about huge political lifts, m4a, Supreme Court reform, etc. Changing/abolishing the Senate to fix it is about the biggest lift I can imagine. zoux fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Feb 17, 2020 |
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zoux posted:It's 46. Almost half House members are accountable to their district, Senate members are accountable to the entire state. That can be true for 15 Senators just as much as 2.
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saintonan posted:House members are accountable to their district, Senate members are accountable to the entire state. That can be true for 15 Senators just as much as 2. Huh?
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PostNouveau posted:Huh? He is saying the Senate would be elected at-large by the state rather than single member districts.
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