Another strange thing is how despite their endless self-favoring gymnastics with poll analysis, these factions just don't make significant gains within the coalition. Sporadic at best. It's almost as if they aren't good at political strategy and attaining power. Yet they post well!

I point this out regularly and they constantly assert that Cuomo was a strong competitor and vanquishing him was a massive achievement

How is bass supposed to change construction costs? Would you argue that the land should remain undeveloped until larger projects pencil out?

This is it.

Functionally the ACA with bigger subsidies is just as good as m4a. You're splitting hairs. There are many paths to affordable universal coverage. You can also have an M4A that stinks.

If you think you can 'go big' by publicly bashing your coalition members, that is not going to work. It never has and never will. You have to build. It takes years of work. It takes years to get to where you have a significant number of members in a body.

You can have any impression you want. If you want to be within the coalition and get things done, you need to build a majority within the coalition. Currently you are nowhere close. And it's been this way forever. Because it's a coalition. Medicare for all does not have the votes and never has.

It is a team. A very large diverse team of humans. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of politics. Which is not surprising. The faction that holds this critique of the democratic party never achieves any significant amount of power within the party. For decades.

There seems to be a lot of math illiteracy (innumeracy?), thinking that a full enthusiastic auditorium with 2500 (or even 25000) people (who may not even be locals) automatically translates into a majority in an entire Congressional district with 325-375,000 registered voters.

Mr. President, the television appearance of this individual this past weekend was indicative of the exact underskill I have previously asserted.

It's horrible. Got lucky because our newer crv has manual HVAC controls.

This experiment has been conducted already with Medicaid expansion. Minimal if any gain

I'm not enough of a historian to really argue deep similarities, but from a high level, it looks like the same multiple forms of alienation and simplistic, overly reductive explanations of causality as the mid century US left's critiques. Nobody ever wins much, nobody ever reckons with failure.

Diplomatofnight. Not to be confused with, adversary of light. I prefer, avatar of all galactic knowing

So strange how they have so much trouble persuading enough people to take anything over. I mean, they're correct, right? So why does it never happen? Puzzling.

In his TV appearance today, he was forcing a fake smile. People are massively overrating his charisma, which I think is better than average, far from "generational".

That poll data is not good data, at all

Agree, think I would do the same if I were you. Not sure we would agree on defund, Gaza campus protests, tho (If I paid for school I don't want my semester blocked, plus, they're ops) but probably 80% otherwise.

Isn't it amazing how fans think this was a great performance. It was a whiff at a giant slow pitch

Haha!, very far from new. Tons of experience in politics and living with folks of all families. Full respect. But your certainty about your predictions is really weird. I have a ton of correct predictions too. I will still enjoy reading your posts

Thank you for that interesting context. I Would be surprised if it had anywhere near the effect you say it will. It's too far long ago, too general, and he's just using the cop thing symbolically. It's not as if he would be running a tough on crime 1990s race

I don't think he has a snowball's chance

Even Arnold would not have been able to get elected again statewide. There was a lot of Republican disillusionment before the end of his second term

He's a sharp guy. He's also a BS artist. He knows exactly what he's doing. He's also not fooling people with that forced smile. Obama on his worst day never forced a smile like that through an answer.

Correct way to answer: say what you think we are fighting for, instead of dumping on your team. 100 years? I guess civil rights, for example, was weak sauce for him?

Terrible answer. Dumps on the team and fails to provide a vision

Bad answer by this supposedly great messenger. He should immediately answer this question with his vision. Fumble.

Almost impossible to poll. What are the precise definitions of each of those? 10 people could interpret each of those multiple ways. I think focus groups could help here, even tho that is also limited tool

Very hard to poll. I can see a lot of overlap among the selections