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I mean the stuff like expanding the Supreme Court, Green New Deal, election reform, Medicare for All, student loan forgiveness, etc. Most of that’s a nonstarter even with Dems in control of Congress. The moderate R’s and more moderate D’s like Manchin won’t pass any of it. Some less controversial items will be easier though. Nominating justices (inc. Supreme Court of anyone retires), confirming cabinet members, and even passing more advanced pandemic relief should be easier.
I don't think expanding the court was ever a serious proposal. The Green New Deal is basically just an outline and has no real details behind it, so I don't know why everyone gets so bent out of shape with it. It's been vastly misrepresented. On election reform, what would be objectionable? I think most Americans support M4A, so that wouldn't be radical. Student debt is a massive problem, so it has to be addressed to some degree, and college has to be made more affordable at the very least.
At 12:07 Eastern, David Perdue leads Ossoff by 1,888 votes with an estimated 73,000 left, with 20,000 in DeKalb. DeKalb, Fulton and Chatham are the 3 largest counties with remaining votes.
Warnock leads Kelly by 35,000.
Decision Desk has already declared Warnock the winner, but no mainstream source has of yet.
It looks likely that Ossoff will pass Perdue when the remainder of the vote comes in from those three Blue counties, but there are potentially 17,000 votes from Americans Abroad (mostly military) that have until Friday to be received. Loeffler looks like a sure loser, but the military vote could still save Perdue and with him the Republican majority in the Senate.
Trump's not the smartest tool in the shed but continually lying about how this voting process was rigged and then begging them to go out and vote in the senate runoff in the next breath definitely wasn't the smartest thing to say.
With Trump out of office in two weeks, the guy probably could care less at this point if the Republicans kept the Senate or not, and maybe he actually wanted the Democrats to win both seats, basically one giant middle finger to the Republican Party on his way out the door!
I don't think expanding the court was ever a serious proposal. The Green New Deal is basically just an outline and has no real details behind it, so I don't know why everyone gets so bent out of shape with it. It's been vastly misrepresented. On election reform, what would be objectionable? I think most Americans support M4A, so that wouldn't be radical. Student debt is a massive problem, so it has to be addressed to some degree, and college has to be made more affordable at the very least.
Many Democrats don’t support Medicare 4 all, canceling student loan debt, or the Green new deal, forget most Americans.
At one time I wanted to move to the NorthWest. I would love to stay in the south but who knows. I will have a bachelors degree next June so I may apply for jobs all over the country and in Europe. Talk to the wife see what she wants and thinks. I know 1 of her best friends is moving to Florida and another's husband is being stationed to Oklahoma so I dunno.
At 12:07 Eastern, David Perdue leads Ossoff by 1,888 votes with an estimated 73,000 left, with 20,000 in DeKalb. DeKalb, Fulton and Chatham are the 3 largest counties with remaining votes.
Warnock leads Kelly by 35,000.
Decision Desk has already declared Warnock the winner, but no mainstream source has of yet.
It looks likely that Ossoff will pass Perdue when the remainder of the vote comes in from those three Blue counties, but there are potentially 17,000 votes from Americans Abroad (mostly military) that have until Friday to be received. Loeffler looks like a sure loser, but the military vote could still save Perdue and with him the Republican majority in the Senate.
Warnock has won. Just FYI, he does not like you white people. On the positive side, that is a two years seat. I look to see Perdue run for it in 2022.
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At one time I wanted to move to the NorthWest. I would love to stay in the south but who knows. I will have a bachelors degree next June so I may apply for jobs all over the country and in Europe. Talk to the wife see what she wants and thinks. I know 1 of her best friends is moving to Florida and another's husband is being stationed to Oklahoma so I dunno.
You're leaving Georgia because it's too left leaning but are open to moving to Europe? lolol
At 12:07 Eastern, David Perdue leads Ossoff by 1,888 votes with an estimated 73,000 left, with 20,000 in DeKalb. DeKalb, Fulton and Chatham are the 3 largest counties with remaining votes.
Warnock leads Kelly by 35,000.
Decision Desk has already declared Warnock the winner, but no mainstream source has of yet.
It looks likely that Ossoff will pass Perdue when the remainder of the vote comes in from those three Blue counties, but there are potentially 17,000 votes from Americans Abroad (mostly military) that have until Friday to be received. Loeffler looks like a sure loser, but the military vote could still save Perdue and with him the Republican majority in the Senate.
Military vote is usually a 60/40 split leaning R. A lot of service members are non-white. It'll be interesting this Purdue/Ossoff race.
I don't think expanding the court was ever a serious proposal. The Green New Deal is basically just an outline and has no real details behind it, so I don't know why everyone gets so bent out of shape with it. It's been vastly misrepresented. On election reform, what would be objectionable? I think most Americans support M4A, so that wouldn't be radical. Student debt is a massive problem, so it has to be addressed to some degree, and college has to be made more affordable at the very least.
I’m not debating the merits of these issues and don’t disagree with your opinions on most of those items. But national opinion doesn’t matter as much as the opinion of the Senator’s constituency when items are presented to the Senate. If, for example, voting for student loan debt forgiveness is unpopular among his constituents in W. VA (where the percentage of residents with degrees is low), he won’t vote for it. And his one “Nay” vote would kill it given the 50/50 split. Same for something like election reform which may be popular nationally, but could take away some voting power from smaller, more rural states if adjustments are made to the electoral college - Manchin would be killed in W. VA for helping push that through.
So you're definitely wrong on those. The GND is not even a real plan, so we can't exactly gauge support for it.
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