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@bdquinn What made Mills such a bad candidate? Everything about her just seems inoffensive and bland, and she has already proven capable of winning statewide office.

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@Lurker27794215 Not sure though. The timing isn't perfect. And the fact that the Supreme Court ruled against Colorado should have taken some of the energy out of the issue.

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@Lurker27794215 Yeah, it is interesting. My pet theory is that the turn came because of Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, when the discussion around gay marriage stopped being about a paper the gov issues and started being about what gays could force you to do.

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@ElectionCenter_ Really? How is it at all possible that Democrats haven't been thanking their lucky stars that the filibuster exists these last 14 months. Did you really expect a Democratic Senator to say "Screw it, let's let the GOP do anything they want for the next 6 months"?

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@SER1897 To be fair, what he was on trial for were victimless crimes. Generally people don't care too much about those.

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@SER1897 While strictly better than "this is fine", it is still an awful argument that Regan broke things in the 80s and California still hasn't figured out how to fix it. Especially since GOPs are happy to unequivocally say shutting asylums was a mistake while Dems are "housing first".

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@CQueenbeejdl @constans I suppose everyone's timeline is different. All I saw was just endless discussion of how the reflecting pool was ruined because it was blue.

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@abunchoflions @ettingermentum Not on this. He was talking about ending the filibuster after the stroke.

I think it was getting an inside look at what laws would be passing if the filibuster wasn't around. I'm actually shocked that every Dem isn't coming out in favor of it.

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@ettingermentum I guess that seeing the benefits of the filibuster for the last year and a half was eye opening.

Could you when imagine the laws that would be getting passed these days without it?

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@bdquinn No. That isn't what happened and anyone who spends a few milliseconds would realize this because the government spends way more than $8M on transgenic mice.

What actually happened is that the GOP identified 6 studies that injected mice with sex hormones.

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@CpainvestorinOR @Garrett_Archer Except Al Gore was about continually recounting. It takes CA this long just to do the first count!

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@void_who There is no way to know how people voted before election day. But you know how many Democratic and Republican voters had voted every day since the ballots were mailed out.

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@void_who Because who has returned their ballot is semi-public knowledge as soon as the ballot is received; they don't wait until election day to release that info). It is then easy enough to match up those records with voter registration records to see which party they registered with.

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@dubbblue5 @onehandpolitics better developed ballot harvesting ground game (which is legal in CA) and those ballots are effectively mail in ballots when it comes to processing.

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@dubbblue5 @onehandpolitics A big part is because of Trump's comments in 2020 caused many conservative voters to avoid mail-in voting. Party officials tried to reverse that and even got Trump to half-heartedly endorse "banking your vote", but the effort fizzled.

Another aspect of that Democrats have a much

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@AbelDebabel5785 Because of the red mirage effect. More Republican voters vote in-person which is counted day-of. Democrats are disproportionately likely to vote by mail. So all the remaining ballots are expected to be bluer than what has already been counted.

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@goldmanbear Are you saying anyone did? I'm assuming that is a near universal experience.

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@Onemoretime2212 Out of curiosity, who actually does the signature verification? Is it temp poll workers? Permanent government staff? Or do the Republicans and Democrats send people and have to agree on the validity of each ballot?

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@m7pilot @Elex_Michaelson Was a bit dubious. But one time I was in a hurry and signed my ballot in a different way and they actually sent me a letter to say that almost rejected my ballot and to update my registration if my signature changed.