If you can, pick someone who’s on the ballot. Most write ins don’t get counted.
Again, with all due respect, what you’re saying is not really accurate as anyone who follows the Court would tell you. The Court is not currently split 5/4 between justices who are eager to overturn Roe. Roberts is a swing vote that tends to side with the liberal wing when it comes to sweeping restrictions, but he’s by no means a rock upon which to depend.
Replacing RBG with another Trump pick (who, like Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, will be on the Court for 30+ years) and potentially even replacing Thomas (who is no spring chicken) with another young Justice will swing the balance of the Court for a generation on abortion, affirmative action, environmental regulation, and a laundry list of other extremely important issues.
So you’ll have to pardon me if I react less than charitably to the oh-so-clever and above it all “not a dime’s worth of difference” bullshit I thought we’d done away with after 2000 taught us differently.
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They at least get counted as “present” in the voting statistics, but anything written in will be a wash because no mass-write-in campaign is going to be more than a token gesture.
I would love to see that (I plan to write-in for Warren when my state holds its primary in another month or so) but there are very practical reasons why they are needed in the Senate. Both represent states with Republican governors. 
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Really? Trump’s mere existence as incumbent doesn’t earn your vote for any opponent? Then there’s no hope.
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Jebus willing, but if Dems could take the Senate at some point in a Biden administration and Dems could form a standing CFPB committee chaired by Warren? * * chef kisses fingers * *
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Damn straight. If you think voting for imperfect candidates is an ineffective way to create the change you seek then just wait until you see where “not voting at all” gets you.
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I had the chance to vote Kerry, but chose not to and still regret it despite Kerry easily carrying the state.
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I think that’s a minimum for an endorsement from her IMO. Like that bureau is her pet project.
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It takes 67% of states to call an Article V convention, but to ratify an amendment (however it is proposed) requires 75% of states. In other words, for a purely partisan amendment, 38 states would need to have a Republican majority (at least) in both chambers, and a Republican governor, (assuming the particular state’s constitution gives the governor a veto).
I’m sure the GOP would love to achieve that situation, but even with the system as heavily rigged as it is, it’s not remotely likely.
Even calling a convention to propose the amendment would require a Republican clean sweep in 34 states. If they managed that, and if there was no time limit on the amendment, then it’s possible that four of the remaining 16 states would fall under total Republican control, and ratify the amendment, at some future date. But until that happened – which it wouldn’t – they wouldn’t have changed anything except to make it impossible for them to campaign on anything other than abortion.
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I’m going to go ahead and say that I’m grimly girding myself for Biden’s victory lap. I have a pretty good idea of what he thinks about people like me, and I’d like to think I don’t care, but he’s the winner and I’m one of the losers (as per usual), so it is going to hurt a lot.
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“FUCK!” - Mouths attached to brains
Yes- this. Make Mitch her servant. I like this idea.
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I like it too, but not nearly as much as I like the idea of tossing him out on his ass entirely.
Go Amy!
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God YES. I think I would orgasm if I watched Moscow Mitch perp walk disgusted out of the Senate.
That man deserves to be punched in the face at least once by every American citizen. He makes trash look good
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I sympathize with your frustration that actual progressive candidates can’t seem to make any headway, but why on earth do you think things are going to be any different if Trump wins again? The centrists didn’t learn their lesson the first time, as evidenced by Biden winning the primary. If 4 years of Trump wasn’t enough, you think 8 will magically teach them their lesson? America is a lost cause. We will never learn from our mistakes. There will be no progress within our lifetimes, no universal healthcare, no Green New Deal. Thinking that not voting will make things better is like believing in Santa Claus. NOTHING will make things better, not any more. But they can always get worse, much, much worse, and they will under four more years of Trump.
To just sit idly by and hand Trump another victory because you desperately believe Democrats will stop being idiots if things just get bad enough is a huge gamble- a gamble played with the lives of all the people who will suffer and die under his incompetent and outright evil leadership. I’m not going to sugar-coat things and tell you that the bloody stump of America’s limb is going to grow back into a healthy leg if you vote for Biden- but slapping a bandage on it is still better than bleeding out.
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28 states have laws in effect now that call for a convention its shockingly closer than you give it credit for.
Ok so when Biden takes his ‘moderate pick’ to replace RBG that turns the court 6-4 anyway you are going to be ok with that?
Because that’s ‘going back to normalcy’ - moderate picks that could pass the senate. Or do you fully expect Biden to pick a judge that is avid Pro-Choice (like the Republican’s would do on the opposite side)?
edit avid - not avoid.
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Whereas I’d like to see him politely escorted out…in handcuffs.
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Or maybe just sent on his way Thunderdome-style.
We can substitute the horse with a Boston Dynamics cargobot in the interest of preventing animal cruelty.
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There are no supreme court justices alive from the time when there wasn’t either a center-right Democrat or far-right Republican in office. I’m very confused how you would call the 4 voting for women’s rights picked by Obama and Clinton as somehow radical compared to a Biden nomination.
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