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I like Silver's description of "voters/public sentiment: Highly influential, but very distracted/disengaged. Position somewhat amorphous/flexible." He might have added bored,…
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True - we are supposed to be the big tent party after all! 🙂
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Wow. I still haven't really figured out how I feel about Grayson's style: my heart tends towards Obama's "our better…
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Yeah, those coal/oil state Dems are definitely key. I wonder too, if Graham is really serious, if that would provide…
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All good suggestions, Booman. The one thing about climate change, which you hinted at, is that beyond the politics it's…
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Fuck Kucinich. He has lost an enormous amount of political goodwill in the Democratic party, forever.
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Very interesting stuff. And weird about Frankfurter - I could have sworn I read some opinion of his in law…
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But the court-packing scheme, while hugely unpopular with the public, did eventually have the desired result for Roosevelt. The anti-New…
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Well, Hopper is something of a Boomer icon, given his role in the making of "Easy Rider".
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He looks like a healthy little chubster.
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I believe I read somewhere that homeschooling is generally detrimental to kids because they miss out on all the socializing…
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So often true, although it is always a surprise to hear about it in such unvarnished language. I never followed…
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What a great follow-up that would be to Borat and Bruno.
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Maybe he is actually a brilliant performance artist who is using the communicatory medium of the televised Sunday talk show…
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Well then, they will be back in due time. The Republicans are on an unsustainable electoral trajectory.
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Thanks. Yeah, the GOP was definitely ahead of us on the disciplined caucus thing. I think you're probably right too…
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And as you note, the party system was very different (and in major transition, e.g. with the rise of the…
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That's a good point which I hadn't considered. It's hard to compare that era with most of the times listed…
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Interesting about the chart claiming we are the most polarized in 130 years. I feel like I always read that…
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Would have responded to you with my comment below, but it hadn't posted yet. Yeah, in a way seems like…
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