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   Spin

   @Spin

   5:12 PM EST ⋅ Feb 5, 2020

   Miffed White Male (View Comment):

   Spin (View Comment):
   I don’t know about you, but I was better off in most ways…no in ALL ways, under Obama.

   The first day in my adult life that I was involuntarily unemployed was January 21st, 2009, the day after Obama’s inauguration. I remember watching his speech in the cafeteria during lunch on my last day.

    

   Well if he can stop the oceans rising just by getting the nomination, he can sure as heck fire get you laid off.  

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   Ontheleftcoast

   @Ontheleftcoast

   5:28 PM EST ⋅ Feb 5, 2020

   Concretevol (View Comment):
   I agree. Their idea of “serious” is to pander. Warren publicly said she would have a “young trans person” interview her nominee to head the Dept of Ed. for goodness sake! No seriousness in site this election cycle 

   They’re plenty serious about power, the issues are mainly the means to that end. Look what’s coming out about Iowa:

   Keep in mind that Bernie Sanders’ campaign had people in every precinct caucus in Iowa whose job was to get the voting numbers, so that when the state party HQ bungled the count Monday, the Sanders campaign was able to release its own tally, showing that Bernie had won. According to their numbers, Bernie got 29.66% of the final vote, and Pete Buttigieg was second with 24.59%; in the raw vote total, Bernie won by a margin of 4,012 out of 79,162 votes cast. But for some reason — perhaps massive fraud — the official Iowa Democrat count still has only 86% of precincts reporting and it’s Wednesday [expletive] night!

   Gosh, I wonder how this happened?

   The app that was supposed to help the Iowa Democratic Party quickly report Monday’s caucus results – but contributed to confusion and a muddled result as campaigns were in an uproar – is linked to Hillary Clinton campaign veterans.
   Shadow, a tech firm that describes itself as a group that creates “a permanent advantage for progressive campaigns and causes through technology,” is the company that created the Iowa Democratic Party’s app, according to The New York Times. At least the COO, CEO, CTO and a senior product manager at Shadow all worked for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, according to LinkedIn profiles.
   Shadow is associated with ACRONYM, a nonprofit dedicated to “advancing progressive causes through innovative communications, advertising and organizing programs.” . . .
   Groundbase co-founders Krista Davis, who is the current Shadow CTO, and Gerard Niemira, who is the current Shadow CEO, both held senior positions with the Clinton campaign. . . .
   ACRONYM also has picked up funding from at least one dark money group. The New Venture Fund gave ACRONYM $250,000 in 2018 and is one of a number of nonprofit groups controlled by Arabella Advisors — a Washington-based philanthropy company. Both Araballa and New Venture Fund were founded by Eric Kessler, who worked in President Bill Clinton’s administration.

   Let me get this straight: Clinton staffers, with funding from a “dark money group,” created the software that failed on Monday in Iowa, thus cheating Bernie Sanders out of a victory? Coincidence?

   But wait — there’s more:

   Acronym, the dark-money group behind the mobile app that derailed the news cycle by causing widespread delays in the Iowa caucus results, received funding from the political operations of Tom Steyer and Speaker of the House [Speaker] Nancy Pelosi, financial records reveal. . . .

   But wait, there’s even more:

   And there it is. The single largest donor of Shadow Inc., the company behind the failed Iowa Caucus app, is George Soros. pic.twitter.com/qifQHVrTBt

   — Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) February 5, 2020

   Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is Clinton, Bloomberg, Soros. 

   Hostis humani generis.

    

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   Jon1979

   @Jon1979

   6:42 PM EST ⋅ Feb 5, 2020

   Jager: To me, taking Trump seriously would be trying to put the Pelosi-speech-ripping thing behind them fast. Also, ending the constant talk of additional impeachment investigations. If Democrats want to win, they need to take their jobs seriously; no more stunts. Show the country what they want to do and how it will be better.

   If your ego and political ideology requires you to consider yourself to be among the intellectual elites, it’s going to be hard to take Trump seriously, because you view him and his supporters as racist idiots. That may not be the mindset of people like Vance Jones and other political operatives for the Democrats down in the trenches, but it’s the mindset of their hyper-partisan supporters and most of the people working at outlets like CNN. They won’t heed the warnings because they can’t conceive of putting Trump and his handlers on their own intellectual/strategic level (which is also the reason they cling to the idea that the only reason Trump won in 2016 is that a really smart guy like Vladimir Putin helped him win).

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   Jeff Hawkins

   @JeffHawkins

   7:25 PM EST ⋅ Feb 5, 2020

   Jones is smart. I disagree with his politics, but he sees defeats as internal, not external.

   Other Democrats blamed Russia, Jones tried to look for root causes.

   democrats think beating Trump should be easy. They overrate his unpopularity.

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   James Lileks

   @jameslileks

   9:49 PM EST ⋅ Feb 5, 2020

   Jeff Hawkins (View Comment):
   democrats think beating Trump should be easy. They overrate his unpopularity.

   Or they overrate the effect of his unpopularity among people who don’t like the Tweeter-in-Chief but regard the overall record of his tenure as positive. The media and the Ds seem to assume Trump has lost the reluctant 2016 voters, because he’s so demonstrably awful, right?. They never seem to consider that what’s self-evident to them is not shared by people who are not marinated in the sweaty broth of politics 24/7. 

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   namlliT noD

   @DonTillman

   

   10:37 PM EST ⋅ Feb 5, 2020

   DrewInWisconsin, Oaf (View Comment):

   Jager: To me taking Trump seriously would be trying to put the Pelosi speech ripping thing behind them fast.

   How can they put it behind them if we remind them every single day between now and election day how mean and petty that was.

   We are going to remind them, aren’t we?

   Oh yeah…

   

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   Umbra Fractus, cum Insigne

   @UmbraFractus

   3:54 AM EST ⋅ Feb 6, 2020

   James Lileks (View Comment):

   Jeff Hawkins (View Comment):
   democrats think beating Trump should be easy. They overrate his unpopularity.

   Or they overrate the effect of his unpopularity among people who don’t like the Tweeter-in-Chief but regard the overall record of his tenure as positive. The media and the Ds seem to assume Trump has lost the reluctant 2016 voters, because he’s so demonstrably awful, right?. They never seem to consider that what’s self-evident to them is not shared by people who are not marinated in the sweaty broth of politics 24/7.

   My experience has been the opposite: Between his surprisingly effective administration and the Dem candidates’ complete bat-poopery, he’s actually picked up a few non-voters from 2016.

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   Cato Rand

   @CatoRand

   4:46 AM EST ⋅ Feb 6, 2020

   Umbra Fractus, cum Insigne (View Comment):

   James Lileks (View Comment):

   Jeff Hawkins (View Comment):
   democrats think beating Trump should be easy. They overrate his unpopularity.

   Or they overrate the effect of his unpopularity among people who don’t like the Tweeter-in-Chief but regard the overall record of his tenure as positive. The media and the Ds seem to assume Trump has lost the reluctant 2016 voters, because he’s so demonstrably awful, right?. They never seem to consider that what’s self-evident to them is not shared by people who are not marinated in the sweaty broth of politics 24/7.

   My experience has been the opposite: Between his surprisingly effective administration and the Dem candidates’ complete bat-poopery, he’s actually picked up a few non-voters from 2016.

   I think he has.  Me, for one.  I voted for Gary Johnson in ’16 and as things are going, will probably vote for Trump in ’20.  Not because he’s perfect god knows, but because he hasn’t lived down to my worst fears in ’16, he’s done some good stuff policy-wise,  and perhaps most importantly, as it stand it looks like the a democrats are playing “hold my beer.”

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   Ed G.

   @EdG

   

   7:57 AM EST ⋅ Feb 6, 2020

   DrewInWisconsin, Oaf (View Comment):

   Seawriter (View Comment):

   DrewInWisconsin, Oaf (View Comment):

   Seawriter (View Comment):
   Guys, stop playing defense and go on offence. Go after Democrat Senate and House seats. Take advantage of the moment. Democrat morale is crumbling.

   I hope our Third District Republican Party is listening . . . but I suspect they’ll just put up some token old guy to challenge Ron Kind again.

   So, get involved. Start with your county party. Ask them who is running in the 3rd District Primary. Get their positions, pick the one that looks best, and start campaigning for that person.

   Someday when I have time and the kids are out on their own. At this point in my life, it’s not possible.

   Agreed. Illinois – Chicago even – should be open field for a real Republican (a real conservative). When the kids are grown and I can better afford to step on some toes then I would like to get involved building that. Right now being seen separated from the herd is dangerous. I hope that President Trump makes offense in deep blue strongholds a priority in the near future.