#MichaelCohen understood the power of a supermarket #tabloid, which would reach #voters "at the cash register of so many supermarkets & bodegas." He testifies: "If we can place positive stories about Mr. Trump, that would be beneficial. He adds: "And if we could place negative stories about some of the other candidates, that would also be beneficial."
"Mike Johnson's lies about illegal immigrants voting are] such a toxic mess of nonsense and racism that even debunking it stabs little daggers into democracy. ...
The only point of this kind of racist tripe is to preemptively explain why Trump lost."
Sometimes I wish just one Republican state would leave the US to found it's own country.
Just one, which could try out all the book burning, closed borders, fewer women's rights, religios politics, non-scientific medicine — so everyone could really see, what that leads to.
For years, politicians in Europe blamed everything on the EU, but I can assure you, when Britain left our union and became a country with considerable challenges, it crushed the EU blame game in many countries.
Now, I have always voted since I was first eligible in the '80s. But I want to post a reminder that there are massive systemic issues with our voting system.
We can each do our individual best, while also recognizing that systemic issues do not have individual solutions.
We do not have "apathetic" voters, we have massively, intentionally disenfranchised voters.
Mark Jacob reports that the less people know, the more they like Trump: "Republican voters find comfort in their intentional ignorance. ...
A new poll shows that people who don’t follow political news at all favor Trump over Biden, 53% to 27%.
As Jacob concludes, "A lot of Trump supporters are not really voting for Trump. They’re voting for their own fears and prejudices" — of which Trump is a channel.
"This is the world that #SamuelAlito and his friends in the #SupremeCourt have created, and this is the world they want for us....Ladies of America, #women#voters of America - is this good enough for you?"
Tampa Democrat Andrew #Warren has been locked in a protracted legal battle with the Republican governor after he was #suspended from his elected position of #stateattorney in 2022.
The Tampa #prosecutor suspended from his job by Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday he would ask voters to return him to his post.
In #Arizona, #AbortionRights advocates have said they gathered enough signatures to create a #BallotMeasure that will ask #voters whether to amend the state constitution to prohibit any “#law, regulation, policy or practice” interfering w/ #abortion before fetal viability or later if needed to “protect the life or physical or mental #health of the pregnant individual.”
"Eric Hovde, a Republican candidate for Senate in Wisconsin, floated the bizarre idea that people in nursing homes should be disenfranchised because they’re simply too close to death to be 'in a point to vote.'”
The #republicans have been in power in #Texas for over 25 years. They’re running ads telling #voters to #vote for them so they can fix what’s broken. The #gop broke Texas and now they want you to re-elect them to fix what they broke. Really?
As #Elections Loom, Congressional Maps Challenged as Discriminatory Will Remain in Place
With control of the House of Representatives hanging in the balance, the time-consuming appeals process means elections in multiple districts will take place using maps that have been challenged as discriminatory to #voters of color.
Known for his improvised & volatile performances, #Trump is now ending many of his rallies w/ churchlike ritual & casting his prosecutions as persecution.
The meditative ritual might appear incongruent w/the raucous epicenter of the nation’s #conservative movement, but #Trump’s political creed stands as one of the starkest examples of his effort to transform the #GOP into a kind of #ChurchOfTrump. His insistence on absolute #devotion & #fealty can be seen at every level of the party, from #Congress to the #RNC to rank-&-file #voters.
If you support proportional representation then you might want to sign this petition that is asking the Labour Parry to prioritise voting reform in government.
While PR is not a sufficient change to transform UK politics for the better it is certainly a necessary element.
Signing won't take you long & who knows perhaps Keir Starmer & his team might listen...
The problem with any commitment to shift policy (such as today's 'commitment' to small business) that Rishi Sunak comes up with in the run up to the election, is that voters will likely respond:
'you had 15 years to make this commitment & haven't, why would we believe you now?'
The Tories like many long-running Govt.s really can only really trade on the record, and that for them is the problem.
Their supporters may try & claim a new phase, but its unlikely to convince
If you take the view (as many economists do) that inflation is in large part a reflection of consumers expectations about inflation, then the decline in UK consumer expectations suggests that inflation can be expect to continue easing...
Whether the Sado-Monetarists of Threadneedle Street (BoE/MPC) take this as (further) evidence that interest rates should be cut is another matter... they may want to punish those pesky upstart workers a bit more yet.
An armed and masked soldier checks #voting booths when #voters are inside. "Look what's going on, and it's been like that the whole day" - a voice is heard behind the camera, presumably of an observer.
We've already seen mass imitations and falsifications of elections in Russia, but it's the first time seen soldiers with a rifle looking over the voter's back. In the fascist totalitarian state of russia.
Ink in the blogosphere is beginning to spread about the proposed #Biden#HumanitarianAid bridgehead on the Mediterranean coast of #Gaza.
Some are saying it’s a distraction to appease #voters while Biden continues to provide arms and cover. Some, that the intention is to actually benefit the #zionists by providing a place to evacuate #palestinians. Some go so far as to claim it’s intended as the terminus of the #Israeli#RiverToTheSea dream.
My take? These theories fail to understand the #evil genius leaders in the U.S. are capable.
Hot Take:
We should teach the #Bible in public schools.
The three religions most active in #AmericanPolitics all claim to believe in at least the first half of this book, and it is the most misquoted and misrepresented book on the planet, because most of the #voters have never read it.
In a functional #democracy, it is unacceptable for so much of the voting base to be completely ignorant on a factor which drives policy on such a massive scale.
Q. will the 'secret non-Trump voter' save the #JoeBiden?
In each of the #SuperTuesday polls, while winning #Trump polled below the expected proportion of votes.... across the suburbs of America, Republican #voters may have had enough of Trump despite his support elsewhere in the party/country.
If these voters were to sit on their hands in November & if there are enough of them, might Biden scrape through?
Time will tell & a lot of Democrats will be hoping they will!
Americans' Climate Fears Gave Democrats the White House in 2020—Study
"A new report from CU Boulder's Center for Environmental Futures (C-SEF) revealed that many #voters in the 2016 and 2020 elections were driven to cast their ballots based on #ClimateChange concerns. This influence may have won the Democrats the election in 2020.
The researchers say the same concerns could influence votes in the coming 2024 election."
"Some #voters may be starting to see the connections between #ClimateChange and the kitchen-table issues that they consider to be higher priorities than climate change."