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dutch777's JournalImpressed....Dem canvasser here in PA were sent in from WA state!
I was taking out the trash and recycling last night and saw two folks waiting for me at the end of the driveway. They had ID badges slung around their neck so I was thinking it was either someone selling solar installs, the new fiber service that just went thru the neighborhood or someone about the election. Turned out to be the latter. They were a husband and wife team and they were from Indianola, WA and had come for the last three weeks of the election to our part of eastern PA to make sure the Dem vote turned out. We were an easy chat for them but I must say I was most impressed that the party really has pulled out all the stops. I remain disgusted that we have to play the Electoral College game and all votes, de facto, are not equal but glad we are at least playing the game well.
Anyone getting the nagging feeling that eLoon is teeing himself up to be a Presidential candidate in the future?
I don't think his ego has any bounds although pesky things like laws and the Constitution would be awfully irritating to him. And at the rate he procreates he could get pushed over the top just by his family members alone. Assuming he doesn't alienate them all between now and then.
It's easy to tell that Dems do not control the weather.
I am pretty sure if we did MTG, Boebert and a few others would have been hit with basketball sized hail by now.
Anyone else getting Repug ads in the DU feed? I realize ads pay the bills but sheesh!
We say anything that faintly looks supportive of the GOP or criticizes Dems and we get censured but I have Lisha Rowe/GOP from PA in three different ads on the page.
I know its a fever dream, but what happens if Trump walks away before the election? Says "America doesn't deserve me!"
By default I suppose Vance has first shot, God help us all. I don't see that Trump would do it as he is too taken with himself, but if he continues to feel humiliated by the election process and sees he has a real good chance of having the vote go against him again, does he save himself another round of being called Loser and prefer just being called a Quitter instead. Sure, he can trot out the Big Lie 2.0 post election but with little serious chance due to age and circumstance of running again in 2028, why bother? I suppose there is the ongoing grift from the fools that send him money for being their ever potential, never to be realized, shining knight but its gotta be getting tired even for him.
How can one donate to Kamala and other Dems and not get inundated with calls, texts, etc. requesting more?
We made donations to Biden last election and were overwhelmed with follow on requests from every Dem in the country to help them too. We are all for the cause but despite assurances it seems our contact info was shared far and wide. We want to $upport Kamala but will not be subject to this avalanche of begging now and onward into the next election cycles. We do realize to comply with campaign finance laws our identity has to be provided for substantive donations.
Has anyone seen a poll in CO 4th Congressional District-- Boebert vs. Calvarese?
All I keep finding is old primary polls that are not helpful. TIA
The dust up around Biden reminds me of all the rules of our national governance we do NOT have.
I don't know anymore than anyone else on exactly what is Joe's condition physical or mental. And I don't know, exactly, how much we as the general public have a right or need to know. But as I felt when Trump wouldn't release his tax returns, or meaningful medical data, or a whole bunch of other info, there really should be a clearer and probably higher level of timely transparency on and around the person we entrust with so much power and who has such all consuming responsibilities. I feel for their need for some semblance of privacy and I know drawing a clearer line between what should be private and what must be public would be a devil of a task but if Trump's time in the public eye has shown one thing, these "accustomed behaviors" we thought all understood and would abide by, if not clearly in writing and law, are now basically meaningless and we as a people cannot rely on them. I sincerely hope we Dems can win across the board in November so that we can address this situation for the sake of all our futures. And by the way, I don't think this only applies to the President. As Lloyd Austin's initially unexplained and poorly communicated (even to the President) absence for medical reasons illustrated, we have to do better on these issues around key leaders.
Report from Europe. Things are not too rosy for lefties or even centrists nor the common citizen.
When the likes of Orban and Meloni are to a significant degree reinforced in their views and power base and the likes of Macron and Scholz are further weakened, it is bad. Bad for EU but also for the US and our non EU allies. I just returned from a few weeks in the Netherlands, Germany and the Baltic countries and I am not heartened. Posters and ads for the EU parliamentary election were everywhere, even in the quaint small towns, thankfully much more tastefully done than how we in the US go about such things, and the local news cycle was focused there as well. I wished I had had more opportunity to talk to more average folks but what I heard from those I did talk to and the American expat friends we visited was grim. Immigration is as much, maybe more of a key issue in the EU and the backlash over it was clearly going to affect the EU election. It was also troubling to hear the level of worry that Russian actions are a serious threat to stability and prosperity and that in typical EU fashion they would probably take 10 years or so to agree on some sort of plan to substantively deal with that. I did like a chalk board put out by a restaurant in Estonia that said in Estonian and English, "Hey Putin, why don't you just fast forward to the part where you shoot yourself in the head in a bunker somewhere?'. While Putin dying sooner than later could be a good thing, it does not cure the myriad of issues the EU faces directly and that need speedier than they seem capable of action. And this is one more serious complication for US state craft which would be even more worrying and problematic with the likes of Trump in the WH.
Disappointing voter turnout in PA primary yesterday. Sub 20 % compared to 40% in 2016.
I know primaries are almost always low turnout but this was really dismal. Glad that Biden won handily and that the Haley protest vote showed up against Donnie but worry that if the lack of enthusiasm extends into November it does not bode well. And as a vet it disturbs me more than a little that not everyone eligible to vote registers and that turnout as a percentage of eligible voters continues to slide so much election after election.
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