what??

People seemed to have gotten very annoyed by the party "not having" a primary in 2024 and Harris being anointed etc. Now in theory the viability of additional parties mitigates all that but selling it may be difficult.

I was initially lukewarm on Steyer, but I’ve come around to the idea that it’s actively good to have a billionaire help lead the charge to tax billionaires.

What is the best non list based PR model? I worry a ton about selling the list structure to the public and think it has the most problematic constitutional issues (though I am open to being wrong there)

WHAT?!?

At least at the state level for federal offices. I think the ethical question becomes important when/if dems have the power to institute a national reform plan for house of representative districting.

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The thing is there are some statements that truly are universal it just that these are not them.

Personally that is why I think these kinds of categorical statements are bad. They always smuggle in some set of unstated assumptions

You are incorrectly thinking there is one filibuster and that changing this rule would at all effect or implicate the 60 vote threshold for normal legislation when it would not. This senate has already voted to change rules for nomination timing and block consideration by a simple majority.

*and it

No, nominees already only require 50 votes for cloture. They would simply be going nuclear on this one rule at would not impact the legislative filibuster.

Yes, and a dem or Tillis would object that the rules require 60 and then a majority would vote to overrule the objection.

The majority can change the rules anytime it wants and has done so already during this Congress.

As a background matter it is ALWAYS true regardless of what the rules may say right now on paper.

So thats not exactly true. The full senate can vote to discharge the nominee from the committee.

Do we know that he doesn’t have the votes in the full Senate?

Vote Blue No Matter Who: Party Politics as Political Agency Politics is a collective enterprise aimed at controlling the state, and requires working together as co-partisans.

"vote blue no matter who" includes sewer socialists

www.liberalcurrents.com/vote-blue-no...

Matt has some good sober thoughts here even though I generally disagree and would vote for the amendment if in VA. I will, however, be pretty mad if dems do not move to fix the collective action problem here nationally when they next have unified control.

I think this may be what people mean when they say you are "intense," a lot to unpack here. But you keep doing you!

I think adopting a party list system is going to be way to big a lift. Voters have just too ingrained an association with voting for a specific candidate and legitimacy. (see eg all the squawking over Harris being "installed"). Maybe eventually we get there, but there have to be intermediate steps

Usually no for the obvious reasons! But the most recent round of this discourse was set off by Corry Booker shaming some individuals for abstaining from voting for Harris in 2024.

Need to read the piece still, but in general I am on board. However, the dynamics at play are complex and I think its important to note that elected politicians making these kinds of arguments tends to be the worst situation as it has the air of entitlement and tends to lack true reciprocity

We are so back!

Iowa polls

Governor
🟦 Rob Sand: 51%
🟥 Randy Feenstra: 39%
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Senate
🟦 Zach Walls: 46%
🟥 Ashley Hinson: 44%
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🟦 Josh Turek: 46%
🟥 Ashley Hinson: 45%

netchoice.org/new-72-of-am...

I would like to know more for sure, but I think the act of having to continually reapply it is part of the point.

Israeli Soldier in Lebanon Sledgehammered a Statue of Jesus

"The military ... said it was working to assist the community in Lebanon to restore the statue to its place."
(Really? Maybe worth mentioning that this village is in the Israeli buffer zone and the residents may never be allowed to come back.)

AH OKAY.

this is a recalled R+11 sample. 51/40.

I’ll fuckin take it

This was very hard for me btw 😭

The thing is if you do not feel it and find no personal motivation to change, changing for others would be both bad and doomed to fail. The ultimate goal is to find a partner who jives with you as you.