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Your All-Purpose DL NATIONAL Election Results Thread
This is your, yep, All-Purpose DL National Election Results Thread. Don’t worry, we’ll have another thread for the Delaware results.
DL Open Thread 11/3/20, Election Day
The concept of “election day” might be on its way out. More than 97 million votes were cast before polls opened today, about 67% of the entire 2016 total. The fate of the nation will be decided by how many more votes are out there. Drive-thru votes in Houston are safe for now, as a […]
What (else) is on the ballot?
Whatever happens America will be a will be a very different country on Wednesday. It will be a country that looked into the abyss and said “no thanks” or one that looked in the abyss and said “why not?” Also…
Economics: Several states will consider ballot initiatives intended to reduce economic inequality, including: a measure to establish a $15 minimum wage in Florida; a step toward a more progressive income tax in Illinois; higher taxes on the affluent in Arizona; and property taxes on businesses in California.
Puerto Rico statehood: American citizens in the territory will vote in a non-binding initiative to signal whether they want the island to become a state. If it passes, a future Congress is more likely to add two new states — Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C.
Justice Democrats: They’ve endorsed five House candidates trying to win election for the first time. Perhaps the most intriguing: Kara Eastman, who’s running in a swing district in Nebraska.
The ability of Uber and Lyft to take advantage of employees:. “Gig economy” companies are backing an initiative that would allow them to continue paying their drivers as independent contractors rather than employees, saying it’s vital to the business model. Many labor unions oppose the measure, saying it would prevent drivers from earning a living wage.
Ranked-choice voting: Voters in Alaska, Massachusetts and a handful of cities will decide whether to adopt ranked-choice voting, which makes it easier to vote third party without undermining a major-party candidate. Currently, only Maine uses the system statewide.
Marijuana/Shroom Legalization: Arizona, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey and South Dakota will consider versions of marijuana legalization, while Oregon and Washington, D.C., will vote on whether to ease restrictions on mushrooms.
Rounding the Coroner
With with 231K dead Americans, that Trump has any kind of shot of winning ANY states goes to show what a truly fucked up shithole country we’ve become. Digging out of the Trump disaster is going to take decades.
Maybe the new squad in Dover will take up my old, new idea?
Most people don’t enjoy the simple, boring act of putting money in a savings account. But we do love to play the lottery. So what if you combine the two, creating a new kind of savings account with a lottery payout? Hey new Legislature, Let’s seriously look at a “no lose lottery” also known as […]
Which Delaware Statewide candidate is going to post the biggest win vs their entirely execrable DEGOP opponent? (Part 2)
Surprisingly, 538 has Coons beating LBR’s winning margin.
Coons – 64.2%
Biden – 62.1%
LBR – 60.4%
This is probably due to a lack of polling on these non-competitive races.
But if Delaware voters do put such a lopsided beatdown on every DEGOP statewide candidate, I sincerely hope we can dispense with all the Coonsian bowing and scraping to the wingnuts in a misguided attempt to appear “bi-partisan”
If you want to like Kyle Evans Gay more than you already do, listen to this
State Senate candidate Kyle Evans Gay joins Rob in the virtual bunker to talk about how her background affects her views of the criminal justice system, the importance of actually accomplishing things in Dover, and why she know longer supports Cathy Cloutier. But first, football. I also enjoyed this one in which a group of […]
Angry Simpletons of America Unite!
There is no sub-text in this election. If you can still vote for Trump in view of everything we know, you are a real dummy. It is hard for me to imagine there are enough angry, gullible doofuses in America to make this close, but I guess there are plenty of them.
Cuckold Fetishist Jerry Falwell Jr. Sues Liberty University
You couldn’t make this shit up because it wouldn’t be believable. Jerry Falwell Jr., whose predilection for watching his wife fuck the pool boy caused a wee bit of an image problem for the pretend-Christian university his father founded, is suing the school because, he claims — how’s his for bloated cojones — it ruined […]
Song of the Day 10/29: Blind Faith, “Can’t Find My Way Home”
This one’s for all the poor saps at Trump’s Omaha rally the other night who got stranded miles from shelter in freezing temperatures when their buses didn’t show up. Apparently, whoever’s writing this Reality Show From Hell is overly fond of ham-handed metaphors. That’s the version that’s spawned a hundred covers, but it’s not the […]
Schumer and Ocasio-Cortez Respond to GOP Court Packing
AOC: Expand the court. Republicans do this because they don’t believe Dems have the stones to play hardball like they do. And for a long time they’ve been correct. But do not let them bully the public into thinking their bulldozing is normal but a response isn’t. There is a legal process for expansion. Schumer: […]
A: Republicans Aren’t Hobbled By Having Chris Coons on Their Team
Q: How do Republicans get away with it?
Duncan Black at Eschaton makes a good point: There’s something to be learned from the “we’re just doing this” way Republicans go about things. A way to stop something from being portrayed as “controversial” is to just assert that it isn’t.
Of course, the GOP isn’t burdened by having to drag around Chris Coons. A Senator who is, at his best, hand-wringing deadweight, and at his worst, working for the other side.
Phil Shawe setting piles of money on fire in Gov race
If you are a regular reader of caribbeannewsglobal.com you already know that John Carney “has fueled ‘The Delaware Way’ where a few elite and mostly white men stay in power while communities of color and low-income residents lose ground,” You know that because TUSK STRATEGIES spokesman, Chris Coffey, is working overtime to attack “the underhanded […]
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