You know George Washington and Ben Franklin are rolling around in their presidential graves at the thought that this is now a Roughing the Passer penalty in America:
I've been going to San Francisco for the past several years for Thanksgiving at my uncle's house and gotta be honest, not a lot of salad. So much for "data journalism" LOL.
If Dems/Kav-outraged are going to overcome this defeat, they must first acknowledge public opinion is *not* on their side right now in the states that decide the Senate.
Impassioned protests & 2020 “nominee funds” aren’t a substitute for the more complex task of changing minds.
Voting *against* him and doubling down on her image of honesty/authenticity is a high-variance strategy and will probably not work. But the alternative is quite possibly worse, and you want to take high-variance strategies when you're down in the polls.
Yeah, I don't get why this isn't more of a part of the conversation. Also, these lies were almost daringly cynical—hard to categorically disprove (*prove* to me that Kavanaugh & buddies didn't have their own non-canonical definition of "boofing") but just not at all plausible.