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I already talked to him about it.
What's owed and what's politically prudent are not the only factors to consider. There's also the principle that victors should be merciful rather than vengeful.
Thanks for warning me about this.
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I'm not talking about mere crassness, but running the executive branch like the mafia. And you can't deliver on policy goals when your appointees are stooges chosen for loyalty rather than ability.
I imagine two possibilities. One is that we go back to presidents who actually act like presidents. In that case, the way Trump behaved will seem unbelievable in the future. The other possibility is very scary: that he's the first of many who rely on the same base.
He would never choose that because it doesn't have the word "Trump" in it.
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Quite possibly, but people won't care so much about them because they'll be about a former president.
Also, Biden didn't actually "take the lead." These votes were always cast. Assuming nothing wild happens, Biden led the whole time. It just looked like he didn't because of the order in which the votes were counted.
But maybe they can keep the clicks coming if they whip up some culture wars on their own account.
Biden now leads in states worth 306 electoral votes. Here's how the map will probably finish pic.twitter.com/jsriBmroWb
I think so. It certainly helped them when he was in office.
BREAKING: Biden has pulled ahead in Pennsylvania, overtaking Trump's lead. abcn.ws/36eCQOJ
Or rather, they asked the voters which labor laws they preferred.
What I mean is that if a party is very effective at recruiting voters within some group, then (by definition of effective) they will get more votes from that group than they would have if such voters had been left to decide for themselves whether to vote and who for.
I don't think the NYT is letting themselves be affected by any schemes Trump has planned.
I wouldn't call it yet, based on the numbers we have.
Why is it significant that voter acquisition costs are lower for Democrats in these communities? That would tend to magnify the Democratic share of the vote, which implies that Trump's policies are even more popular among these voters than the exit poll numbers suggest.
According to this exit poll published in the NYT, Trump got 26% of the nonwhite vote. Perhaps more striking, his share of this vote _increased_ since 2016.
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Now the betting markets finally agree with 538 that Biden has a 90% chance of winning. They take a lot more convincing. A 90% chance means news organizations are on the verge of calling it.
Biden just pulled ahead of Trump in Georgia. Looks very likely to in Pennsylvania as well.
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Maybe. But a realistic one.
A New Banner is needed
Neither hard left nor right
Prediction: We will owe Ivanka Trump a favor, because she's the one who will tell him "It's over," thus averting all sorts of messiness.
It's not just a question of positioning. A large and very vocal subset of the left genuinely are more concerned with ideological purity than individual Americans, many of whom they not-all-that-secretly despise on socioeconomic grounds.
Andrew Yang has a message from America: pic.twitter.com/icqdttncMA
A lot of people on the far left in the US also regard blasphemy as a crime. They just don't use that word for it.
The most vicious ethnic conflicts are between groups indistinguishable to the outside world.
For those who think the 'Latino vote' exists. twitter.com/TheJessieWoo/s…
Can't believe how much dogfooding @Replit is a superpower for our org where our social media manager can spin up an API on a whim to automate something! pic.twitter.com/Oxwq2APpWK
At first I was surprised Cruz is still loyal to Trump. One would have expected this clever rat to have long since abandoned the ship.
Then I realized what's really happening. It's not loyalty. Cruz is bidding to inherit Trump's following. He hopes to be the next Trump. twitter.com/Yascha_Mounk/s…
Memo to Dems: Next time you rig the election, pick up a few senate seats.
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I'm pretty sure there is room for one. People don't see it, but there is.
If 90% of the ballots are from Clark County, there's no reason not to call Nevada. twitter.com/EmmaKinery/sta…
How recently did this happen?
I went to Ramsey, but I went to high school and junior high next door.
Startup opportunity: Create a competitor to reCAPTCHA. While you're at it, make it less annoying. twitter.com/amasad/status/…
I wonder if Google suddenly charging so much for a random service is a sign that their revenues are coming under pressure?
"88% of Trump voters cited the protests over police violence as a factor in their voting decision."
wsj.com/articles/trump…
There exists in this country a pallid intellectual culture that opts for easy nominalisms: it aggregates characteristics to communities it has never taken the time to get to know. It invents categories and then assigns places for everyone.
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