Wanna let off a little angst?
"... You didn’t listen to us in 2016 when we said Hilary Clinton was unelectable. You didn’t listen to us when we said Donald Trump had a real chance at winning. But you blamed the entire catastrophe on the handful of us who didn’t vote for your candidate.
"And now the second Bernie Sanders suspends his 2020 campaign, you’re all over us to commit to your boy, Joe Biden.
"We’ve been here before. We have a pretty good idea how this story ends. Maybe you’d do well to listen to us for once. ..."
Yep, that pretty well says it.
ReplyDeleteSo guess who got poison ivy from clearing out the leaf debris from the stones along our house? It’s a fairly mild case, though mean enough.. But now I have to find out where the darn plant is!
ReplyDeleteOut here we have Toxidendron diversilobum [poison oak] [Click] Would I be correct to assume you have Toxidendron radicans? [Click] The leaves are quite different. Wikipeidia says there are both eastern and western varieties of poison oak and poison ivy.
DeleteYep, that's the stuff. We also have Poison Oak and Poison Sumac. But Poison Ivy remains the most common bane.
DeleteGee--three different kinds! Lucky you!
DeleteScientists say a now-dominant strain of the coronavirus appears to be more contagious than original [Click] It is unclear whether vaccines being developed for the older strains will work on the now dominant strain, or whether recovery from the one will give immunity to the other. The boffins are working on it.
ReplyDelete‘Trump Is Really Aiming to Take Down Fox’ [Click] Good luck with that.
ReplyDeleteOur local food bank has opened a second location.
ReplyDeletePOTUS Has A Meltdown Over Anti-Trump GOP PAC Ad Blasting His Handling Of Outbreak [Click] Meltdown? Excellent!
ReplyDeleteBarack Obama Will Deliver Televised Commencement Address For 2020 Grads [Click] Just the sort of thing a real President would do; on top of that, a lot of those grads will be able to vote this year.
ReplyDeleteCNN: Even Barr Is Warning Trump Against SCOTUS Case That Would Nuke Obamacare [Click] And we know what happens to Trump’s lackeys when they don’t show adequate loyalty.
ReplyDeleteCovid-1: two epidemics, NYC and the rest of the country (very approximately) [Click]
ReplyDeleteRural Infection Rates [Increase] As Urban Outbreaks Subside, Data Says [Click]
Trump Plots ‘Small County’ Strategy to Win Re-Election [Click] By Doug Sosnik, political director in the Clinton administration. It’s a deep dive, but to summarize:
ReplyDelete1)Trump needs to win the Sunbelt states he won in 2016—Arizona, Florida and North Carolina, plus Pennsylvania or Michigan.
2) He is focusing on Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and
3) In those states he is focusing on turning out people thought likely to vote for him, i.e. non-college educated whites in small rural counties.
Eligible citizens who didn’t vote in 2016:
Michigan:
Non-college white: 1,563,809
College white: 412,191
Non-white: 643,000
Pennsylvania:
Non-college white: 2,289,875
College white: 603,125
Non-white: 695,000
Wisconsin:
Non-college white: 819,356
College white: 160,644
Non-white: 306,000
To say that this is a narrow path is quite an understatement, especially given that the Covid-19 epidemic is just now starting to have a strong effect on rural counties, as control measures are relaxed in at least some such areas and the Administration continues trying to completely destroy Obamacare. (I figure that if they destroy Obamacare, that will make Medicare For All an easy lift for a Democratic Congress and President.)
Among other things in the paper, there is a graph of voter participation in midterm elections since 1900; the 2018 turnout was greater than any other since 1914.
DeleteOn re-reading the post I realized I had omitted something:
Delete3) In those states he is focusing on turning out people thought likely to vote for him, i.e. non-college educated whites in small rural counties WHO DID NOT VOTE IN 2016.
A 5-year-old boy was pulled over in Utah on his way to California to try to buy a Lamborghini
ReplyDeletehttps://www.cnn.com/2020/05/05/us/5-year-old-driver-utah-trnd/index.html
Do you know where your keys are?
But, hey, he was prepared to pay top dollar for it. He had $3 in his pocket!
DeleteOh, Lordy....
DeleteTwitter walks back suspension of Green Party presidential candidate Howie Hawkins' campaign account [Click]
ReplyDeleteAngela Walker is Howie Hawkins’ running mate. [Click] That sounds OK to me.
ReplyDeleteThe President Is Unraveling [Click] “The country is witnessing the steady, uninterrupted intellectual and psychological decomposition of Donald Trump.” Decomposition is a good choice of word.
ReplyDeleteFive GOP Governors Defend Keeping States Open [Click] Rachel Maddow: “It’s not often that you can recognize — in real time — the kind of mistake that will haunt a politician every remaining day of their blessed lives, but it helps when five of them co-sign it together, under a headline like this.”
ReplyDeleteI should print this out so that I am reminded to check how things are going in Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska and Wyoming.
OHIO; COVID 20,969 and 1,135 deaths.
ReplyDeleteJudge reinstates New York's presidential primary after state cancelled it [Click]
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ReplyDeleteRuth Bader Ginsburg 'resting comfortably' after nonsurgical treatment for benign gallbladder condition [Click]
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds Joe Biden leading Donald Trump by just two points nationally, 43% to 41%.
ReplyDeleteBiden led by 6 percentage points in a similar poll last week and by 8 points in a poll that ran April 15 to 21.
Do remind me of how electable Uncle Joe is.
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