@cardplayerlife@lightstonea this isn’t a single issue election and Walz has a more progressive (and significantly longer) electoral record. Fs much criticism of Shapiro is antisemitic but, fair or not, adding him to ticket would, to an extent, refocus campaign on foreign war, rarely a political winner
@catehall nah this is the best news cycles she’s gonna get (maybe outside of dnc) and the admittedly limited polling does not diverge significantly from hypothetical ones that did not show her with much better standing than Biden Also unlike other dem candidates name rec less of an issue
@MattGlantz can’t tell if this is sarcastic but gl getting dems to turn out to vote for manchin. fair or not he’s persona non grata among much of the congressional and dnc leadership. wouldn’t stand a chance with minority turnout plummeting
Wasn’t expecting all the not Biden bets to pay off so quickly. May still be too late for dems tho. Regardless this has got to be the dems worst approach to an election since 1860
@alanshearer completely unprofessional coverage of the semi final. "Doesn't care" whether it was a pen or not. Great to see such hard hitting analysis from one of the BBCs top paid "experts"
@Lance_Bradley@TheHendonMob If they keep adding more bracelet events each year, more players reaching those kind of numbers, so does backlog of broadly accepted deserving candidates increase or bracelet just get devalued?
@DavidBakhtiari to make up for decreased tax revenue from higher income brackets (assuming the flat rate you propose will be lower than the current 37% top income tax bracket) the flat rate would have to be higher than the current rate for lower income individuals who are already struggling