Reply With QuoteAgreed. The Democrats are moving in that direction too. Will they go too far or will they pull back from the brink??Originally Posted by Geeko Sportivo
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The whole country is about to go Blue. The polls show this clearly.
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Agreed. The Democrats are moving in that direction too. Will they go too far or will they pull back from the brink??
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Congratulations on making a decent post... (regarding the urban/rural divide, anyway)
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Cornyn will win. Idk about 2022 because it isn't 2022 yet...
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No. No they aren't.
Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
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You're doing nothing but making unverified claims.
It won't age well.
Ask me how I know this
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Yes. That's my data as well. Especially THIS snippet, which is appropriate for THIS thread.
The figures are particularly dramatic in Texas, a state that has been known for low overall rates of voter participation, including among young voters. But turnout among young Texans skyrocketed in 2018, and an analysis of early voting suggests that young voters in that state could be on pace to set records this year. More than 800,000voters under 30 have already voted in Texas, and 66% of them did not vote in 2016.
Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
Phantasmal (10-30-2020)
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Idiot. You're trying to claim that youth voters aren't voting, when all evidence to the contrary is being forced down your throat.
Nobody's interested in your denominators. All voting is through the roof, in direct rejection of trump's voter suppression efforts.
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I fear that this is gone forever. Gingrich started this with his 'contract on America', and bipartisanship has slowly been withering on the vine ever since.
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Phantasmal (10-30-2020)
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Then the human race is doomed.
That said, I disagree. Two steps forward, one step back is still progress.
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Beto was a tease, that ended up being a farce. He's been active ever since in getting people to the polls. It seems to be working. I think you already said that it might take another election cycle to complete, but Texas is heading Blue.
I'm hoping that the general election, as opposed to the Beto mid term makes enough difference to oust Cornyn. Jones is going to be close in Alabama, but Mr. Football is a complete moron who just hails trump every step of the way. Running against a pedophile in a special election is vastly different than running in a general for a 6 year term.
I hope Alabama lets college football be football, and adult politics be adult politics.
Assuming a Jones loss, it looks like Dems might still pick up 3 seats. Maybe more in a best case scenario. Georgia is fascinating after the last debate.
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Doc Dutch (10-30-2020)
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The problem is that it now takes a supermajority to get anything passed. When Schumer does away with the filibuster it will help, but that still isn't bipartisanship.
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Doc Dutch (10-30-2020)
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A supermajority isn't a problem. The problem are two political parties so diametrically opposed that they can never agree on anything.
Look at it like a couple. If they are always fighting, the marriage will fail. Counseling may save it but both have to be willing. Congress is dysfunctional because neither are willing to work out their differences.
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That's what I mean. Nothing gets passed without a supermajority, and that doesn't make for compromise. Even when Clinton lost Congress, they still managed to legislate.
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Doc Dutch (10-30-2020)
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The problem has been worsening since the 90s. I blame the end of the Cold War as the catalyst. Clinton, Gingrich and even Trump are not causes; they are the results.
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