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I don't think enough people realize how much the DC area hoops community needs this mentality from its stars, cliché as it may sound to an outsider.
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One of the very wrong lessons many top Democrats and ~Left~ media folks took from the Obama era was that there was a naturally ascendant supermajority of young and nonwhite progressive voters who would render swing voters unimportant; that elections were 'all about turnout'.
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Honestly Bernie just loafed by being so unwilling to budge on single-payer. He might have won some goodwill with more Democrats if he'd have indicated more flexibility on how we get to universal coverage. Just bad political instincts. All Dems are for universal healthcare.
People think Medicare for All means universal health care.
We tested this recently, asking voters what they think M4A means on an open-ended question and the top response by far was universal health care.
Only a fraction thought it meant single-payer.
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This was foreseeable, as accepting this offer would've eaten into his ability to focus on the things he's truly passionate about in life, like hitting his wife.
UFC CEO Dana White declines Trump’s offer to become press secretary, source says cnn.com/2026/11/07/politics/…
Whether they replace Schumer or not isn't high on my list of concerns tbh but to the extent it should be considered, abating the NYC-centric leadership and coastal city brand of the Democratic Party is at least a compelling reason.
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Are there flashier or younger people who could stand for Senate leader? Certainly. But there's a reason Harry Reid—not the most inspiring or charismatic guy—is still heralded. His job wasn't a vision. The job was to wield power effectively and protect the caucus.
I have my notes about Leader Schumer, but under the circumstances I think he deserves more credit than a lot of folx #OnHere are willing to give.
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No matter how much the party annoys me, this is why I'm a Democrat. Former Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, who turns 87 years old in a few weeks, said it better than I ever can. theiowamercury.substack.com/…
When I was an 11 year old boy living in Council Bluffs, Iowa, our very own Senator Tom Harkin changed my life and gave me, and so many other disabled Americans, an on-ramp to society.
Throughout our campaign, I’ve said it will be beautifully poetic when the man who takes back Senator Harkin’s seat is only here because of his work. Iowa, together, we made history, and we wrote beautiful poetry.
Thank you, Iowa!
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Might be too early to tell, but I think something else might've ended on Tuesday too: The Era of Rancid Feelings.
Marked principally by leaders and political types choosing to be rigidly dogmatic, assholes, or racing to their most base instinct, feels like most people said enough!
The limit, in fact, DOES exist.
Across the country, you had a sea of happy warriors ushered into office by an electorate crying out that it just simply should not be this hard.
This isn't a kumbaya thing. It's a cut the shit and focus thing. And it's incredibly pleasing to me.
Funniest part of the whole 2026 election to me is the undeniable merit of "you gotta hand it to Chuck Schumer" takes
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100%. Get the power. Build trust with constituents. Consolidate the power.
It’s very apparent when people making comments about our newly elected officials haven’t been paying attention to a word they’ve said their whole campaign.
This is Texas. This is not Oregon. Or California. Or Illinois. Bipartisanship is a requirement so we don’t lose our spot we’ve worked too damn hard for in 6 years because we swung to far left too soon.
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Agreed. It is more important than ever for candidates in competitive races to be comfortable and compelling on camera, not just talking to voters directly. Very few exceptions. That transcends ideology.
Impossible to quantify but underrated feature of this Dem statewide candidate class: just a crazy number of Good At Talking candidates. Mostly millennial men doing different impressions of Obama, but it works.
I’ve long lamented the lack of emphasis Dems put on charisma when selecting candidates; if this cycle is any indication, that seems to be changing.
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Was commiserating with a friend about how tiresome the in-fighting is. Candidates who treat it as a relic of the past will fare well in 2028 IMO but some of it is the natural consequence of an insurgent faction gaining clout. People who disagree are gonna try to win it back.
You can't lecture people about epistemology when you insisted, against all evidence, that denouncing ICE was bad electorally because it raised the "salience" of an issue that was good for the GOP. It turned out to be total BS.
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Don't forget that the incident kicking off voter anger at TX Rs and inspiring united opposition to broken TX leadership was their cramming a hyper-partisan & discriminatory mid decade redistricting map down Texans' throats. It blew up in their faces.
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important to understand that the only remaining republicans are extremists in safe seats, and we should expect a even more radicalized party going forward. But we should also expect a continuation of the party-wide commitment to protecting pedophiles.
🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS -- REP. JIM JORDAN will announce this morning that he's running for House minority leader.
The Ohio Republican is the first person in the minority leader race.
JORDAN will make the case that the leadership needs new blood, investigations are his specialty.
MIKE JOHNSON and STEVE SCALISE have not said what they will do yet.
(@PunchbowlNews text subscribers had it first)