How? I mean, I wish he was out of public life. His acquittal was legally correct post-McDonnel, but morally out of whack. But you don't know how anything works.
There is a way, but it seems state by state, so maybe not in NJ. http://www.courant.com/opinion/editorials/hc-ed-repeal-party-loyalty-law-20160211-story.html They can also say denounce the candidate even if they can not stop him from running, here in Illinois we have a Nazi running for congress because he was unopposed in the Republican primary, State Illinois officials have denounced him (he has no chance of winning the heavy democrat district).
Cross posting but Woohoo!! The Dems managed not to shot themselves in the foot!! https://slate.com/news-and-politics...alifornia-lockout-in-key-house-primaries.html
I saw that, there was one race that was pretty close (for second place) when I went to sleep last night, it looks like the Dem pulled it off.
Obviously this isn't a huge deal in the grand scheme of things, but I'm coming to really enjoy stories like this. Local elections matter so, so much for myriad reasons – but especially with regard to building a deeper bench.
Republicans supposedly had a very deep bench, 17 deep I think. They ended up with the demagogue reality TV star...
And they won, and control everything in DC, compared to the Democrats, who had no bench and control nothing.
Not to mention those state level offices that are useful when it comes to allocating resources for education, superstructure, etc.
Anyways, more California results. There will be a Democratic senator, either Feinstein or De Leon. The Republican guy finished in the top two in the governor's race, so that should be a walkover for Newsom. There hasn't been a statewide Republican elected in California since Governator Arnold left office in 2010, and insurance commissioner Steve Poizner also left that office in 2010. Poizner is back, trying for insurance commissioner again, this time as a "no party preference" (i.e. independent, because he knows that having an (R) after your name is not helpful in statewide races - my wife and I went through the list of candidates for Governor and Senator and crossed out all the Republicans, because anyone who still identifies as a Republican here in the age of Trump clearly doesn't want our votes). Poizner may think that we've forgotten how he ran for Governor in 2010 on a hard-right anti-immigrant Republican ticket, and got whipped by Meg Whitman who then got whipped by Jerry Brown, so Poizner is, like, double-whipped or something. But we haven't forgotten. He says now that he regrets going so hard anti-immigrant in 2010, but that's just because he's a political opportunist who will say whatever he can to try to gain votes. There should be another clean sweep for Democrats in statewide races in November. For the House, people are talking about how Democrats dodged a bullet by getting one of their guys in the top two in all of the critical House races, but nobody's talking about how Republicans got locked out of nine races. Here's the top-two breakdown for the 53 house races: Democrat vs Republican - 43 Democrat vs Democrat - 3 (CA-6, CA-27, CA-44) Democrat vs third party / NPP - 3 (CA-5, CA-34, CA-40) Democrat vs nobody (ran unopposed) - 3 (CA-13, CA-19, CA-32) Republican vs Republican - 1 (CA-8) The first category includes a bunch of walkovers e.g. Nancy Pelosi's district where a token Republican managed to finish second. CA-8 is a mostly rural, pretty solid Republican district (CVPI R+9) consisting of places like Death Valley National Park and the Owens Valley, the now-dry former farmland that Los Angeles stole the water from a century ago. So there's a breakdown of California's non-proposition results from last night. There will be a number of interesting House races between now and November, to see if criminal morons like Nunes and Rohrabacher can get kicked out by a blue wave.
Yeah, but it was not the deep bench. It is like if you said that France was going to win the WC because they have what amount to 3 squads of quality players, only for them to win because a 4th division player was written in in the list of 35 as a joke and he somehow ended up being the tournament's MVP.
This is the CA secretary of state site for all the house races: https://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns/us-rep/district/all Scroll down to CA-22, and yes, Nunes is at 57%. I don't know if there are still late / mail in votes to be counted but it's unlikely to change by much. Nobody should be thinking it will be easy to dislodge these criminal morons, because they could only get elected as Republicans by being in pretty heavily Republican districts (the CVPI for CA-22 is R+8) - even though their criminality and moronness are obvious to thinking people, they're still pretty popular in their districts.
I totally agree with you that the size of the bench was not related to the election win in 2016, but there is some value to fighting and winning those county-level and state-level races - it will be a long process to undo the gerrymandering that is built in to a bunch of red states.
You probably originally followed her when she was with DC United. I think she was in one of the roles that Lindsay Simpson now has. I think she left the team to move to New York to do yoga or something and then became political on twitter especially when it was about women. I've actually muted her a few times because she can be heavy handed with her privileged feminism. I guess she has a podcast or something now. I didn't realized she is now verified on twitter.
I guess that in California the democrats lost their super majority in the senate. https://www.yahoo.com/news/latest-t...p-primary-candidates-142231420--election.html
The gap is widening again. I am not surprised....I always thought that the closer we are to the elections, people will come to their sense. New NBC poll:Dems lead generic House ballot by 10 points, 50-40.Key point: Despite economy, voters still want a check on Trump by a large margin:https://t.co/Ln1zXQjrp4Which makes this scenario below more likely: https://t.co/soyGgRALrZ— Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) June 7, 2018 1004709649000681475 is not a valid tweet id 1004561747137744897 is not a valid tweet id
Wow, Bernie Sanders is a bigger dick than I realized. This is from a Washington Post e-mail subscribers can get, it will probably be in tomorrow's paper: In 2018, the 76-year-old says he is focused on coasting to a third term as Vermont’s junior senator. His name will appear on the Democratic primary ballot in the state’s August primary. But when he wins, he will formally decline the nomination and run as an independent in the general election. Doing it this way ensures he will have no Democratic challenger.
And reversing gerrymandering. In no version of the real world is having a deep bench a bad thing, or even a meaningless thing.
Stop just focusing on the president. Every seat in every statehouse and on every schoolboard and in every city council matters. Building a bench that's both broad and deep is the only way we'll be able to undo all the awful crap the republicans have inflicted upon us.
You know the Dems don't have to stand for such realpolitik, right? They could run their own candidate and then lose the election to a Republican.