I wonder if there are ways to help in the fight against the kinds of voter suppression that kept Abrams out of the governor’s office?
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Sure. Plenty of little things to be done, including making the Democratic party more responsive at a local level.
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FiveThirtyEight’s forecast model is up now:
As of right now it gives Trump a 29% chance of re-election, which is FAR too high for my comfort. We’ve all got to work harder to push that number down as close to zero as possible.
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Pennsylvania here - I’m pulling that lever early and often.
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Some of the more recent Biden donors is the guy who runs Zynga, Ev Williams (one of the founders of Twitter), the wife of one of Google’s founders, Soros (obviously) & Tom Steyer.
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FWIW and speaking as someone tasked with finding people to do this stuff, there are always local elections in play that can make surprisingly large differences in day to day government and how policy is actually implemented, and the people that volunteer for those campaigns are the ones who act as the boots on the ground in registering people to vote and for poll watching. They’re the folks who keep an eye on the polling place and can step in when someone is turned away inappropriately to make sure they get provisional ballots, they can make the call when they try and shut down with 100 people still in line, all of that stuff depends on local election volunteers.
I figure if that same reasoning is good enough for Angela Davis, it should be good enough for anybody who purports to give a shit about advancing progressive/leftist goals.
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Along those lines,
I persist in my belief that there is hope.
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I really do hope so. That will only happen with constant pressure from the left wing of the party.
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University of Michigan cancelled the mid-October debate, not Biden.
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It’s kind of amazing that we have the oldest candidate ever who would be only the 2nd Catholic ever elected President picking a black/Asian woman who was raised on Hinduism and is married to a Jewish guy - And we’re calling this the safe choice.
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That is true…
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Also - neither is Ivy League. U Delaware and Howard.
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U of Delaware isn’t even the Harvard of Delaware…
I make this joke because of two friends who are proud Fighting Blue Hens.
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Well, Howard is pretty Ivy league, in the sense of being an excellent school… but it’s HBCU, so it was kept out of the “real” Ivy leagues.
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Yes. But lots of excellent schools have never broken the Ivy hold. It’s a pretty big deal for an Historically Black University to put someone on the ticket.
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It’s the Penn State of Delaware?
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Oh yeah!
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Damn.
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That is amazing.
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