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Hillary called blacks "super predators who must be brought to heel (like dogs)".
Now she picks a white male as VP.
RACIST.
well, she is counting on blacks to show up regardless. Hillary knows that she has a real problem with white voters. Kaine was picked to make her seem more authentic. Also, Kaine gives her a decent chance to win Virginia. At least felons won't make the difference.
This is not a pick that my side of the party likes...he's very moderate on many issues...that said, it does make sense for the following...1) The more liberal Senators like Booker, Warren, and Sherrod Brown of OH are all in states w/ Republican Governors currently...hence, if they win, then Republican Governors would choose Republican Senators to replace them...VA is the only state out of those ones that has a Dem governor, so when they win, another Dem can be placed in the Senate.
2) Liberals like me are not going to vote for Trump regardless, so a VP pick should help bring more moderates her way and this might do that...3) This all but guarentees Virginia to Hillary...he's been very popular in that swing state.
This is not a pick that my side of the party likes...he's very moderate on many issues...that said, it does make sense for the following...1) The more liberal Senators like Booker, Warren, and Sherrod Brown of OH are all in states w/ Republican Governors currently...hence, if they win, then Republican Governors would choose Republican Senators to replace them...VA is the only state out of those ones that has a Dem governor, so when they win, another Dem can be placed in the Senate.
2) Liberals like me are not going to vote for Trump regardless, so a VP pick should help bring more moderates her way and this might do that...3) This all but guarentees Virginia to Hillary...he's been very popular in that swing state.
It's all moot at this point, but that isn't really true about Warren...
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In the event of a Senate or House vacancy, Massachusetts currently requires a special election to be held within 145 to 160 days. In the interim, the governor has the authority to appoint a successor. But Reid’s team has identified a portion of the law that allows an officeholder to start the special election clock by filing a resignation letter, but also announcing an intention to vacate the seat at a later date.
In theory, Warren could file such a letter 145 days before the Jan. 20, 2017 inauguration and successfully block Baker from picking any temporary replacement. But that would expose Warren to a potentially awkward position. If Clinton lost the November election and Warren wanted to keep her Senate seat, she would have to make the politically difficult decision of rescinding her planned resignation — or run for an open seat that she created.
A more likely scenario would be that Warren would start the clock ticking for a special Massachusetts ballot only if Clinton won, with an intent-to-resign letter dated the day after the Nov. 8 national election.
That would give Baker’s temporary appointee less than three months to serve between Inauguration Day and the special election. While that might prevent a Democratic majority from taking over in January, the damage, from a Democatic perspective, might be limited to a short period of time until Massachusetts’s Democrat-leaning electorate went to the polls to elect a senator in a special election.
This is not a pick that my side of the party likes...he's very moderate on many issues...that said, it does make sense for the following...1) The more liberal Senators like Booker, Warren, and Sherrod Brown of OH are all in states w/ Republican Governors currently...hence, if they win, then Republican Governors would choose Republican Senators to replace them...VA is the only state out of those ones that has a Dem governor, so when they win, another Dem can be placed in the Senate.
2) Liberals like me are not going to vote for Trump regardless, so a VP pick should help bring more moderates her way and this might do that...3) This all but guarentees Virginia to Hillary...he's been very popular in that swing state.
Here are ten things about Kaine that actually matter...
1. He proposed 4 billion tac increase in Virginia (shot down by legislature)
2, He cut funding for public higher education by 4.6 billion
3. He proposed an additional 2.5 billion dollar tax increase for "infrastructure"
4. He has no mind of his own and voted along party lines over 90% of the time as a senator
5. Kaine supports President Obama's executive orders which attempted to protect up to five million illegal immigrants in the U.S. from being deported
6. He supported the nuclear agreement with Iran that we now know does nothing to prevent them from developing a nuclear weapon.
7. He received a perfect score rating from planned parenthood.
8. Kaine has proposed increasing the social security tax on middle class
9. As governor of Virginia he has accepted over 160,000 dollars in "gifts"
10. He has campaigned and supported a woman who is a traitor against the USA; exposing national security secrets, forming foreign policy for personal money donations to her "foundation", lying to us soldiers and diplomats families regarding the death of their loved ones overseas for personal gain, oversaw the creation of ISIS an international terrorist organization that is continuing with near daily attacks against US interests and allies. So number 10 is....he obviously has no shame.
Here are ten things about Kaine that actually matter...
1. He proposed 4 billion tac increase in Virginia (shot down by legislature)
2, He cut funding for public higher education by 4.6 billion
3. He proposed an additional 2.5 billion dollar tax increase for "infrastructure"
4. He has no mind of his own and voted along party lines over 90% of the time as a senator
5. Kaine supports President Obama's executive orders which attempted to protect up to five million illegal immigrants in the U.S. from being deported
6. He supported the nuclear agreement with Iran that we now know does nothing to prevent them from developing a nuclear weapon.
7. He received a perfect score rating from planned parenthood.
8. Kaine has proposed increasing the social security tax on middle class
9. As governor of Virginia he has accepted over 160,000 dollars in "gifts"
10. He has campaigned and supported a woman who is a traitor against the USA; exposing national security secrets, forming foreign policy for personal money donations to her "foundation", lying to us soldiers and diplomats families regarding the death of their loved ones overseas for personal gain, oversaw the creation of ISIS an international terrorist organization that is continuing with near daily attacks against US interests and allies. So number 10 is....he obviously has no shame.
You didn't get the memo?
Nothing any candidate said or did in the past matters anymore. It's all history and the only thing that matters is what they say and do now.
Unless, of course, you believe Trump is pro-choice, supports socialized medicine, and believes Hillary would make a "great president."
There was a thread not too long ago about how the Trump staff in Tampa had a few black people and the local Clinton office was all white.
I reminded the poster that the Democrats put a black person in the White House, not some backwater campaign office in Florida.
At least they are starting to open themselves up to the idea of diversity, though.
Greater Tampa Bay Area has 2/3 the population of your entire wonder bread state.
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