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redqueen's JournalIndependents back abortion rights. They're less sure Democrats do.
Speechless - hopefully some of these voters get a clue. The part after the last heading in the snip is shocking to me. I knew lots of voters are ill-informed but holy shit.
But there is one worrying sign for Democrats in the polling data. Over the past two weeks, for example, two new national polls and data from three focus groups conducted in swing states (Ohio, North Carolina, and Michigan) indicated that significant numbers of independent voters remain confused and skeptical about where Republicans and Democrats stand on protecting abortion rights. The upside for Democrats is they may have substantial room to grow with these voters.
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Bennett noted that among independent women, the gaps were even higher, with 43 percent in their latest survey saying they werent sure what Democrats position on abortion was. Focusing on that, and trying to reach that 34 percent of independents who dont have a position, represents a real chance to drive that [pro-abortion rights] advantage, he said.
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Still, independents definitely reported broad pro-choice attitudes in NARALs exit survey, with 54 percent saying theyd be less likely to support Republicans if they tried to pass more abortion bans, and 74 percent of independents said women and their doctors should make decisions about abortion, not politicians.
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New focus groups suggest some voters are very confused
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https://www.vox.com/policy/23710432/independents-abortion-democrats-midterms-2024-election-voters
Am I being paranoid about candidates running as Dems then switching parties
So this guy Geoffrey Grammer apparently has voted in the last 3 Republican primaries. He has John Fetterman's endorsement for MD06.
Thoughts? Getting a bad feeling this list is going to keep growing.
D > R
Van Drew
Ari Kagan
Eric Johnson
Elliott Pritt
Tricia Cotham
Jeremy LaCombe
D > I
Kyrsten Sinema
https://twitter.com/Proud_2b_BLUE/status/1765283067910828120?s=20
Kentucky Senate passes bill to grant the right to collect child support for unborn children
The Republican-led Kentucky senate voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to grant the right to collect child support for fetuses, advancing a bill that garnered bipartisan support despite nationwide fallout from a controversial Alabama decision also advancing fetal personhood.
The measure would allow a parent to seek child support up to a year after giving birth to retroactively cover pregnancy expenses. The legislation Senate Bill 110 won senate passage on a 36-2 vote with little discussion to advance to the House. Republicans have supermajorities in both chambers.
The Republican state senator Whitney Westerfield said afterward that the broad support reflects a recognition that pregnancy carries with it an obligation for the other parent to help cover the expenses incurred during those nine months. Westerfield is a staunch abortion opponent and sponsor of the bill.
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https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/06/kentucky-senate-child-support-unborn-children
https://twitter.com/iamMauriceW/status/1765428788723105835
I don't think tsf will be the nominee
Fox news hosts started fact checking him. Daily fail and the Washington examiner are publishing the story about his fake ai pics with Black people.
More than anything, the loss of DC by such a huge margin, to me, is a sign that he's done. I don't know if they'll oust him at the convention or just stop covering for his cognitive decline or what, but I would bet money I don't have that he won't be the nominee
We need to focus on Republican policies and project 2025 and stop talking about tsf
Can someone please explain what is happening in Haiti ?
Just saw this very worrying tweet but no idea if it's at all credible.
https://twitter.com/dancohen3000/status/1764675059384246309
It's true there is a problem with criminal gangs that kidnap, terrorize and murder innocent people.
What they don't tell you is that these criminal gangs are creations of the system, supported by the US-backed oligarchs.
They also don't tell you that their invasion is targeted against the only figure fighting against those criminal gangs: Jimmy 'Barbecue' Cherizier, leader of the G9 anti-crime federation.
Watch him speak to a huge crowd of supporters about how the ruling class exploits the poor masses.
Unlike Cherizier, US puppet Ariel Henry is reviled by the people. He can't appear in public, let alone draw a crowd of hundreds or thousands like Cherizier.
This is enemy number one of the U.S. empire in Haiti.
Anti-imperialists must resist war propaganda promoted through mass media and defend him, and Haitian sovereignty.
Fury after Exxon chief says public to blame for climate failures
As the worlds largest investor-owned oil company, Exxon is among the top contributors to global planet-heating greenhouse gas emissions. But in an interview, published on Tuesday, Woods argued that big oil is not primarily responsible for the climate crisis.
The real issue, Woods said, is that the clean-energy transition may prove too expensive for consumers liking.
The dirty secret nobody talks about is how much all this is going to cost and whos willing to pay for it, he told Fortune last week. The people who are generating those emissions need to be aware of and pay the price for generating those emissions. That is ultimately how you solve the problem.
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https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/04/exxon-chief-public-climate-failures
I'm so tired of religion being treated like a special set of beliefs
like a category of ideas that are given protected status, this giving its adherents an expectation that the ideas should be respected and not criticized too forcefully.
Religion may not be the only example of this but it's the biggest I think.
More and more studies show an inverse relationship between religion and intelligence. Throughout history we have seen leaders use religion to manipulate the masses for no other reason their own gains again and again and again - yet still so many cling to these ideas.
It's encouraging that the number of nonreligious people is increasing, I just wish it would happen faster.
Four Ways of Looking at Christian Nationalism
This was horrible to read
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But the continuity does mean that todays religious conservatives are mostly just normal American Christians doing normal American Christian politics, not foot soldiers of incipient theocracy. Likewise, what you get in todays clashes over sex education and public school curricula is just a very normally American clash between different moral worldviews that are both informed by essentially spiritual ideas about the human person if you cant see the Protestant roots of wokeness, you arent paying attention not a battle between medieval obscurantism on the one hand and The Science on the other.
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Still, its not clear to me that secular liberals should really fear Christian nationalism more today than in 2000 or 1980. If more radical figures have gained some increased influence, thats mostly because of chaos and disillusionment and decline within Christianity writ large. And in the larger picture, the foundation for Christian politics of any kind, radical or moderate, is just much weaker than when Obama was president, or for that matter Ronald Reagan.
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This doesnt mean religious conservatism wouldnt influence a second Trump administration; of course it would. But it would be the influence of an important but weakening faction in a de-Christianizing country, not a movement poised to overthrow a secular liberalism whose real problems lie within.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/01/opinion/christian-nationalism.html
See secular people? There's nothing to worry about at all! All our real problems lie within!
We can all relax now, comforted by the knowledge that this guy says that Christian Nationalists won't be as bad as all that.
Whew!
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