restoration is the word i've used
i thought you've long said words and rhetoric don't really matter...it is policy and actions that do...isn't that your position...so if some dems want to blow off some steam and say they will pack the courts does that really matter
i don't think packing the courts is a good idea at all and would be surprised if something like that actually happened
but i do think DC statehood is likely if they win the senate and that has some effect on the long-term balance of power
puerto rico is more iffy but not out of the realm of possibility
but those things have been out there as possibilities for a while now...i think the dems should focus on that if they want to consolidate power rather than trying to pack the supreme court
and the smarter dems (and I would not put Schumer and Kennedy in this group) know that
Last edited by nsacpi; 09-19-2020 at 06:21 PM.
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
https://www.politico.com/amp/news/20...college-417880
Biden up substantially more than Hillary at the same point in 2016, particularly in state polls.
Cant wait till we hear all thr stories of what the pollsters got wrong after trump wins.
Here's a hint.
Democrat oversampling and we have created an environment where a trump supporter puts their livelihood at risk for saying they support him.
Prepare to be disappointed on election day.
Natural Immunity Croc
The polls don't look good for orange one but if he loses he will have left us with lower taxes, less regulation, no new wars, and 3 supreme court justices who aren't liberal hacks.
Not bad for a term. I expected substantially worse.
"Something something Trumps incalculable damage to institutions and norms..."
- nsacpi
Less government power please...
i don't think there is any doubt very poorly chosen one will turn out to have been a very consequential president...just not the kind of consequential that his supporters imagine
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
FFF - BB, BB, 2B, HR, 2B, HR, 1B, BB, BB, 1B, BB, BB, HR
acesfull86 (09-20-2020)
Sarah Longwell is one of the smartest and most effective ex-GOP strategists working against very poorly chosen one
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
Failure to control COVID
Lol
Natural Immunity Croc
While voters see Mr. Trump as the better steward of the economy, they increasingly view him as the weaker option for dealing with coronavirus. Mr. Biden now has a 22-point lead, 51% to 29%, on who is better to manage the outbreak, up from 11 points in June. Mr. Trump has faced sustained criticism for playing down the threat while pushing to reopen the economy.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-l...d=hp_lead_pos2
Their latest poll also shows Biden doing well with seniors, a group that has moved his direction on concerns about very poorly chosen one's "herd mentality" strategy.
But hey we know those polls are all wrong and that all voters love very poorly chosen one on all issues.
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
For months Joseph R. Biden Jr. has condemned President Trump as a failed steward of the nation’s well-being, relentlessly framing the 2020 election as a referendum on the president’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Now, confronted with a moment that many believe will upend the 2020 election — the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the prospect of a bitter Supreme Court confirmation battle — Mr. Biden’s campaign is sticking to what it believes is a winning strategy. Campaign aides said Saturday they would seek to link the court vacancy to the health emergency gripping the country and the future of health care in America.
While confirmation fights have long centered on hot-button cultural divides such as guns and especially abortion, the Biden campaign, at least at the start, plans to chiefly focus on protecting the Affordable Care Act and its popular guarantee of coverage for people with pre-existing conditions.
Arguments in a seminal case that could determine the future of the health care law are set for a week after Election Day, with the administration supporting a Republican effort to overturn it. Mr. Biden will accuse the president, as he already has, of trying to eliminate protections for pre-existing conditions during a pandemic, aides said, with the stakes heightened by a Supreme Court now short one of the liberal justices who had previously voted to keep the law in place.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/19/u...gtype=Homepage
this is a politically smart way to frame the question of who fills the SCOTUS seat
stays away from the culture wars
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."