Seriously, call them regularly. Make buddies with their staffers. Got to their events. Encourage your friends to do the same. Make your voices heard on issues they may respond to like kleptocracy, nepotism, in particular, and others like overt racism in the white house.
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Seriously, call them regularly. Make buddies with their staffers. Got to their events. Encourage your friends to do the same. Make your voices heard on issues they may respond to like kleptocracy, nepotism, in particular, and others like overt racism in the white house.
ItWasMeantToBe19
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If California's incompetence with regards to counting votes leads to a false narrative developing...
That state is so great so why can't it count votes?
That state is so great so why can't it count votes?
whyamihere
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This just started to go viral...
excelsiorlef
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...idate-barack-obama-donald-trump-a7413596.html
Everyone started shouting low turnout before the west was counted because 24 hours news requires an instant narrative.
ItWasMeantToBe19
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To be fair, hopefully California will start counting its votes in a reasonable time now to avoid these bullshit narratives in the future.
excelsiorlef
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God willing.
Clinton is at 61,329,657. Obama in 2012 received 65,915,795. The 7 million number on election night has dropped. Trump is about 400k behind Romney. As of November 12th California had 4 million votes still pending and we know the majority (65%+) will probably go to Clinton. It'll be pretty stinking close to 2012 numbers. The problem is she increased her votes in states that weren't battleground states and that means nothing in the electoral college system
This just started to go viral...
Heartbreaking.
IggyChooChoo
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I am probably not going to make friends with McConnell or Paul staffers, but harping about corruption and deficits and potentially war at their events and to the local offices sounds pretty good.
This just started to go viral...
That sounds too dramatic to be real. Sorry to burst bubbles.
phazedplasma
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Yeah Huma doesn't ride the train dudes. Cmon
whyamihere
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In raw numbers. It'll be down pretty decently in % turnout.
The issue wasn't low turnout. The issue is that a lot of rural workers who voted for Obama in the rust belt voted for Trump this year because Hillary didn't make enough of an effort to appeal to them. And the margins are small enough (10-30k, last I checked) that those states could easily flip back to blue if the next democratic candidate makes a concentrated effort to appeal to them (which he or she definitely will). Which goes back to my opinion on the last page, that the electorate isn't hopeless. This isn't Reagan/Mondale.
Abinash117
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I heard that number a few pages ago slightly after the election, and if that is the case we might have a better idea about what happened.
Also some lobbyist left the team, they might get rid of some more. The irony is that they are the one of the only ones will any experience and knowledge. Ruby might get rejected because of his ties with Venezuela, Qatar, and some Iranian exiles I think.
SaintBrody
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Yeah I agree. Been too many Facebook posts and Tweets this election with no proof that everyone's completely buys in to.
It's not that crazy really, everybody rides the subway on occasion in NYC.
gonna need to see pics or something if this was really being recorded...
whyamihere
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Also, Senate Democrats are having a press conference right now on Trump and Bannon: http://www.cbsnews.com/live/
The next four years are going to be a political warzone. I kind of wish I were a poli-sci major or researcher right now. This election and its fallout is going to be a boon for them.
1.21Gigawatts
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Damn it...
I won't say for sure about the incident described in the FB post, but Huma's residence is in NYC (if I recall correctly) and there's a record of celebrities riding the subway. Huma is less recognizable than most of the people there, I wouldn't be surprised if she rides the subway.
I'm not here to pop your bubble. This is why purity tests are bad, because no human on this world who reaches adulthood is perfect. It's silly to expect so.
Ya, I would never support that lady. She has big associations with the current leader of the government of India who is accused of committing (or rather, condoning) mass genocide...
excelsiorlef
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There are no moderate GOPs
balladofwindfishes
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Big Foot and the Unicorn Queen.
Abinash117
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Thinking about it . Trump has literally no one to replace Obama's people .
Here are his loyalists and the big people that helped Trump while being part of his campaign( besides some of his economic advisors):
Michael T. Flynn
Newt Gingrich
Chris Christie
Ben Carson
Reince Priebus
Jeff Sessions
Stephen K. Bannon
Rudolph W. Giuliani
Reince and Bannon already have the job. Chris got demoted and his people lost the work to work on transition. I think is the only one's to have done the work. Ben Carson looks to be out and Ruby has ties to foreign governments; he might not make it.
That leaves Flynn, Gringrich, maybe Christie, and Sessions. Some of which may not want to be part of the government anymore. Also because of the shake-up in the team the process has basically slowed. Mike Pence and Priebus is going to have to make tons of calls.
The man that tweeted about getting yelled at; it says to me that many may not come forward to work or they might get rejected flat-out. With Trump being the way he is, and the news about Bannon. I don't know if many is going to get involved.
Here are his loyalists and the big people that helped Trump while being part of his campaign( besides some of his economic advisors):
Michael T. Flynn
Newt Gingrich
Chris Christie
Ben Carson
Reince Priebus
Jeff Sessions
Stephen K. Bannon
Rudolph W. Giuliani
Reince and Bannon already have the job. Chris got demoted and his people lost the work to work on transition. I think is the only one's to have done the work. Ben Carson looks to be out and Ruby has ties to foreign governments; he might not make it.
That leaves Flynn, Gringrich, maybe Christie, and Sessions. Some of which may not want to be part of the government anymore. Also because of the shake-up in the team the process has basically slowed. Mike Pence and Priebus is going to have to make tons of calls.
The man that tweeted about getting yelled at; it says to me that many may not come forward to work or they might get rejected flat-out. With Trump being the way he is, and the news about Bannon. I don't know if many is going to get involved.
It's insane when you think about it. One of the most basic things you do as president is put your team together. These are such influential positions that people would be jumping for joy to join an administration to help drive change in a particular aspect of the country. The difficulty they are having says so much...
excelsiorlef
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It's funny the EC was put in place to avoid candidates like this from actually taking power.
I'm not saying they should but it's funny nonetheless.
Reid might be the best single person for DNC chair. He gives no fucks, plays bareknuckled, built an incredible machine in NV, and can take it as a full time job.
Dunno if it's the role he wants, but either way, too "establishment"
Got the Shakes
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Yet people bought into his bs "I hire the best people" narrative. Can't hire the best people if you've literally pissed off every person qualified to take those jobs.
Bam Bam Baklava
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How much do the people running the DNC or RNC matter in the end? Seems like 90% of it just being at the whim of public sentiment and how they want to vote.
Or if you need a death eater mark to join up
It doesn't fix the issue of Presidential votes not mattering in heavy red or blue states, but it does give states like Texas, New York, California, and Florida the power they're frankly supposed to have.
Got the Shakes
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This too.
Anyone else here a bit surprised there wasn't some sort of special edition of The Apprentice where is was Donald and his kids picking the cabinet lol?
Please don't make this conclusion. I'm not saying take Harry Enten's word as gospel either, but here you go.
excelsiorlef
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But that's not the argument I was refuting.
Quite a bit. A competent DNC chair can rebuild the local/state parties, who then can recruit good candidates for office.
Brawly Likes to Brawl
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Student walkout happening in DC right now:
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The more you increase the size of the House, the more you increase the extent to which the electoral outcome does not match the vote well. If you picked any 10km^2 area and looked at the people there, very few of these areas will have average demographics that will match America's average demographics, because similar people economically, socially, and racially tend to cluster. You get a sorting effect, where each district will tend to be more lopsided than if they were larger with fewer and fewer close district, and social demographics that feature less clustering will receive a disproportionately large amount of representation. In America, that's the Republicans.
(There's a fairly complicated proof of this, but you can sort of imagine: if America was a single district that elected a single person, they'd be D, because America is. If you cut America into two districts, you'd either have D/D or D/R - there's no way to cut it into R/R. If you cut America into three districts, you could have D/R/R, D/D/R, or D/D/D - you can start packing Democratic voters into just one of the districts to create more and more Republican voters. As you increase the number of districts, the extent to which the house becomes dominated by the least packed party increases. This process happens naturally just through population movement patterns.)
So if you increase the membership of the House, you do give more power to larger states, but you also make larger states more Republican in the House at the same time.
As an N.B., this proof doesn't hold if the districts get *really* small - if there was one district per voter, then the results couldn't be biased because if a party got 52% of the vote it is literally impossible for it to do anything other than won 52% of the seats. IIRC, the exact relationship follows Pascal's triangle and there's a formula for it, but I've not read this paper in a really long time.
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Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
Student walkout happening in DC right now:
Kids, stay in school and learn so you don't recreate this mess in the future. A walkout does nothing.
Student walkout happening in DC right now:
Silver linings in a dark time. The Obama coalition knows who their friends are now more than ever. This is the same way workers rights cemented together the Irish/Italian/Polish communities in FDR's time. Solidarity. Black lives matter and pride flags flying side by side is truly beautiful.
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