Tuesday Open Thread [6.5.12]
How you can help GOTV in Wisconsin: The AFL-CIO has a widget you can use for making 15 GOTV phone calls.
It is time for another Obama evolution. Jill Harris, managing director of strategic initiatives for Drug Policy Action, the political arm of the Drug Policy Alliance, has a WaPo update on the public’s views on marijuana laws reform, noting:
“A new Rasmussen poll showed that 56 percent of Americans support the legalization of marijuana and only 36 percent oppose it. A Mason-Dixon poll conducted in May found that 74 percent of Democrats, 79 percent of Independents and 67 percent of Republicans believe that the federal government should respect state medical marijuana laws and not prosecute individuals who are in compliance with these laws. [..]
In blue Oregon and California and red Texas, candidates have just succeeded with a pro-reform message. As the momentum builds for marijuana legalization across the country, politicians will have no choice but to get in step with the public. And then we’ll really start to see things change.”
Would that be credible? Gary Johnson has been pro-legalization since the beginning of his campaign, even in the Republican Primary. If Obama “evolves” on this position too, are any of you really going to buy it again?
If Pat Robertson can “evolve” on this issue, anyone can.
Pat Robertson’s evolution wasn’t obviously political in nature. I disagree with Pat Robertson about nearly everything, but the people who do agree with him likely had trouble with this particular evolution. Obama’s evolution would be as convenient as his recent one.
This is damning regarding the gender pay gap: women who change their sex see a 1.5% increase in pay while men who become women suffer a 32% decline in income.