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    Tim WernerAnne Branigin
    11/13/17 2:55pm

    Keith Ellison for DNC chair (suck it, Haim Saban!) and Elizabeth Warren / Cory Booker for the POTUS ticket.

    They better not run the likes of Andrew Cuomo.

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      j4x_Tim Werner
      11/13/17 3:23pm

      I keep hearing his name and I think he\whoever keeps floating him is fucking nuts.

      Looking at the current political climate and then looking at Cuomo’s background should not lead one to think “this man can survive the 2020 primary and carry the general”.

      Even people who supported Clinton acknowledge her vulnerability on ties to big business and Cuomo...I mean come on.

      The only politicians more degenerate than New Jersey is New York. Chicago learned it from their neighbors back east

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      MajorBurnTim Werner
      11/13/17 3:27pm

      I really don’t know about Booker, he’s been awfully kind to big Pharma.

      I also worry Warren will be Hillary 2.0 to the Republicans and they’ll manufacture so much outrage and questionable crap she’ll be poisoned for undecideds.

      Kamala Harris and Tammy Duckworth?

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    HuskyBroAnne Branigin
    11/13/17 2:56pm

    I bet his mom was the one who actually predicted the rise of Trump.

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      TheRealMarthaJones3.0HuskyBro
      11/13/17 3:20pm

      So basically what we keep saying about black women.

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      HuskyBroTheRealMarthaJones3.0
      11/13/17 3:36pm

      Most black people who aren’t in politics saw that Trump disaster coming a mile away.

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    Cookie MonsterAnne Branigin
    11/13/17 3:01pm

    “we’re not in it just to win the election. We’re in it to win community”

    This has me more hopeful for Democrats than anything me have seen in long time. They finally starting to realize that it not about one election every four years, and that you have to build lasting, broad base of support everywhere, every year. In fairness, Howard Dean tried that with 50 State Strategy when he ran party, but they dropped that instantly moment he left.

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      MajorBurnCookie Monster
      11/13/17 3:32pm

      And note how he said “Working Americans”, versus trying to appeal to a subset of them of a single color who have adapted a brand identity that leads them to repeatedly screw themselves in the hopes others will be shafted...

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      MaxYedorMajorBurn
      11/13/17 3:47pm

      This is a problem with the Democratic platform going back years. There are swaths of “middle America” full of “middle Americans” that are in bad shape. The Democrats promote all kinds of ideas about bringing economic reform or social programs to poor people in the city, but tell those people to quit their whining. Just because others have it worse doesn’t mean they don’t have it bad. The Republican leadership acknowledges their hardships and makes empty promises. All the while, Democrats can’t figure out why these people keep “voting against their own interests”, but given the choice, would you vote for somebody who acknowledges your plight, but fails to do anything of substance, or the person who tells you, “Pipe down, you don’t even have it that bad”? You’re going to vote for the former every single time.

      Same reason the Republicans struggle to attract minority voters. Most aren’t out-and-out racists, but their reaction to racial inequality is always the same “Hey, are you not better off here than wherever you’re family is from?” Of course the answer is yes, of course it’s better to be here, but that doesn’t by any stretch of the imagination make the US a perfect place for minorities. The Democrats fail to effect much change anymore, but they at least acknowledge that things aren’t always on the up&up, that’s why they do so well with minorities.

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    StartingOverAgainAnne Branigin
    11/13/17 3:27pm

    Some interesting stuff, but to be blunt, his thoughts on Alabama are pure fantasy.

    The only hope in Alabama in the special election is if something like a video or a recorded confession comes out. Even then, I’d anticipate the victory would be less about people switching sides and more about discouragement among the GOP base pushing down their turnout, and even then I would anticipate the Republicans take back the seat in the next election anyways.

    Even if voter suppression weren’t a problem in Alabama creating improved minority turnout, statewide general elections for President and Senators are going to be out of reach for a long time.

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      Dinosaurs and Nachos, Very Legal and Very Cool!StartingOverAgain
      11/13/17 3:58pm

      I get the sense that he’s countering the ongoing narrative-from Dems no less!-that the Democratic party is constantly fucking shit up and losing easy elections. Or that they can’t appeal to the working-class that used to be their base.

      I’m a Democrat through and through but I get really tired of all the whining, to be honest. I’m also a Midwesterner and I live in a very rural, very red state. There’s not a lot for a Dem voter to be hopeful for out here but I’m also predisposed to fucking hate whining about how all the Dems ever do is lose. (Usually in the same breath as talking about needing to get rid of older, female politicians who get. shit. done.)

      I think Keith Ellison understands how to be a strong Democrat and push back against a narrative that a lot of Midwestern, blue-collar, “economic insecurity” types are really resistant too. I’ve said over and over that Dems need to stop chasing Trump voters, but if you’re going to do it, Keith Ellison is probably the guy to listen to.

      Yeah, Roy Moore is going to win Alabama. But pissing and whining about how impossible it is before the election even happens is how you get a bunch of possible Dem/undecided voters in Alabama to stay home.

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      TzaDinosaurs and Nachos, Very Legal and Very Cool!
      11/13/17 4:03pm

      All the stars. That narrative has gotten downright obnoxious at this point and too many people are clinging to it instead of doing anything to try and help things.

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    Rooo sez BISH PLZAnne Branigin
    11/13/17 4:42pm

    And of course he’s the predominant Muslim whom that pedophilic bigot Roy Moore said shouldn’t be holding his seat merely because of the religion he happens to practice. (I think there is more than one practicing Muslim in Congress now, but they’re much paler.)

    I don’t think anybody should be surprised the white (male) supremacist bigots straight out of A Handmaid’s Tale who want to be in charge have a special interest in getting rid of the folks who turn out to be most competent and strategic and most prophetic.

    As Business Insider reported, the group broke into laughter at Ellison’s suggestion. As we all know, Ellison would be proved correct.

    Now the deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee has a bold new prediction: The political left will take back Congress in 2018.

    Still struggling with the fact that they laughed (especially George Stephanopoulos, who ought to know better - though maybe he’s had a convenient lapse of memory concerning the proliferation of those Willie Horton ads in ‘88 back after the Dems made John Sasso resign from the national campaign because they “didn’t want to fight that way”, after he was hailed as a brilliant young Rhodes Scholar and a vanguard of the “bright new left”).

    #CassandraBro #WeToldYouSo

    Oh, well. Now I am excite.

    #StillWeRise

     

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      rapbattlegeniusRooo sez BISH PLZ
      11/14/17 1:56pm

      Haberman laughed at Ellison and now she’s the trump family’s defacto PR contact at the NYT. She should be shamed out of journalism and public life

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    Rooo sez BISH PLZAnne Branigin
    11/13/17 4:42pm

    And of course he’s the predominant Muslim whom that pedophilic bigot Roy Moore said shouldn’t be holding his seat merely because of the religion he happens to practice. (I think there is more than one practicing Muslim in Congress now, but they’re much paler.)

    I don’t think anybody should be surprised the white (male) supremacist bigots straight out of A Handmaid’s Tale who want to be in charge have a special interest in getting rid of the folks who turn out to be most competent and strategic and most prophetic.

    As Business Insider reported, the group broke into laughter at Ellison’s suggestion. As we all know, Ellison would be proved correct.

    Now the deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee has a bold new prediction: The political left will take back Congress in 2018.

    Still struggling with the fact that they laughed (especially George Stephanopoulos, who ought to know better - though maybe he’s had a convenient lapse of memory concerning the proliferation of those Willie Horton ads in ‘88 back after the Dems made John Sasso resign from the national campaign because they “didn’t want to fight that way”, after he was hailed as a brilliant young Rhodes Scholar and a vanguard of the “bright new left”).

    #CassandraBro #WeToldYouSo

    Oh, well. Now I am excite.

    #StillWeRise

     

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    jcn-txctAnne Branigin
    11/13/17 8:36pm

    Based on this article and last Saturday’s SNL show, the democratic party needs to up their game and get, foster and groom some good candidates for every level of government.

    I recently heard Kamala Harris of California and Christopher Murphy of Connecticut being floated as possible candidates. Good candidates are only part of the equation, democratic voters need to do they part show up and vote.

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    ArtistAtLargeAnne Branigin
    11/14/17 9:18am

    All well and good, but how are you going to keep the good politicians from getting bribed out of office with cushy post political jobs?

    Because that’s how we really got here.

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    KCJAnne Branigin
    11/13/17 4:02pm

    Thars what you get when you don’t listen...

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    wohdinAnne Branigin
    11/13/17 9:58pm

    Please.

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