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If you look at his positions over the course of his career, he is damn near always on the right side of history.

It was a gripping race, but in the end you have to hand it to her opponent.

The rumor I heard was basically that Ossa was a poor candidate and the DSA are trying to pick the most solid people to support.

Jefferies literally just met with Kushner before the election. Now, I don’t fault anyone for trying to deal with the White House, someone has to if they want to bring costs down, but doing so before knowing the strength of his own position is either foolish or telling.

He won’t change sides, he gets committee power from being in the majority party. He would have switched in a 50/50 split but not now.

I shat myself on purpose!

Ok, whatever, bye.

If we can get the votes to remove him for crimes against the People, we should do so regardless of political expedience. If the office of the President is to ever have legitimacy again a criminal cannot be allowed to remain there if removal is an option.

An excellent point which brings up the other issue with exit polling is that it only tells us what people who vote think and not people who didn’t vote. Democrats turned out in similar numbers to 2024 (which is huge for a midterm), but Republicans just didn’t show up. Why did they not turn out? Personally, I think it was the gas prices and grocery prices (and the Iran War for causing the former). But that data won’t show up in the exit polls.

Exit polling is always a bit fun to interpret, but it’s a lot along the lines of “Oh I hate all politicians. Not my candidate though, he’s great! Just all the other ones.”

Individual candidates were absolutely supported. The perception of the Democratic party by the people voting for them is bad. Myself included. Rank and file Democrats do not like the leadership of the party. One can only hope some of the new Senators and Representatives can push for better leadership.

At least the measure that would have forced schools to out LGBT+ students to their parents failed. Small comfort, I suppose.

Lol, exit polls show democrats underwater by 8 points with voters. People hate the Democrats, they just hate the Republicans more. Imagine if one of the parties actually listened to voters for once in my lifetime.

Yes. Not all Americans, but a lot of them can only see what is affecting them in the most direct way, they literally lack the ability to conclude that a politician is picking their pocket when they engage in brazen corruption and self-dealing the way that the Trump family has the last two years. It is an indictment of our education system. I’ve known college graduates who literally cannot define the word ‘hypocrisy’ - this is not hyperbole, I have in my conversations with conservatives asked someone to define the word (that they were misusing) and got deer in headlights as a response. It’s that bad. Americans are stupid, really really stupid. Not all of us, but many.

“Gas price bad!” is a message that all Americans understand “Trump is taking bribes and stealing tax money” gets “Well, it doesn’t affect me” as a response. Stupid. So fucking stupid.

A completely fair point.

They need a commission to redraw the maps or Texas will flip again in two years. I hope they know that they only have power because gerrymanders are weak to wave elections.

So many of these bigotry laws will end up hurting cis girls too (and in larger numbers). People are really stupid.

They would need a veto-proof majority anyway. They just needed a Fetterman-proof majority in the Senate.

The thing is, they are mostly correct. A corrupt Trump government was not a problem most voters care about, but when he skyrocketed gas prices he guaranteed that Republican voters would stay home in droves. It was a massive own-goal after getting elected on lowering prices.

Edit: And then he went on TV and bragged how much money he was making on the high gas prices, like even conservatives aren’t that stupid.

I don’t have high hopes for Josh “Throw the trans community under the bus” Turek either.

Exit polls show that 50% of all voters think that the US provides too much support to Israel. Schumer is for sure doing that Principal Skinner meme right now.