TPM: Sherrod 'seriously considering' 2020 run

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Monday November 12, 2018 · 10:40 AM PST

2018/11/12 · 10:40

I know, I know … enough of me about Sherrod Brown. But I think he would be formidable, and apparently now he’s thinking hard about it.

talkingpointsmemo.com/…

A short item on TPM …

Brown: “We are thinking about it for the first time seriously,” citing “sort of a crescendo” of support for a run.

Brown’s wife Connie confirmed that “we’re thinking about it.”

HuffPost story boosts Sherrod for 2020

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Saturday November 10, 2018 · 1:09 PM PST

2018/11/10 · 13:09

“Want To Beat Trump In 2020? Look At Sherrod Brown’s Big Win In Ohio ...”

www.huffingtonpost.com/…

“Brown has a reservoir of wisdom the Dems could draw from,” former Virginia Rep. Tom Perriello said Tuesday.

Of all the Democrats who could plausibly play a part in the looming drama of the next presidential campaign, the raspy, rumpled populist emerged from Election Day with by far the most to brag about.

Like his fellow Rust Belt Democrats … Brown cruised to reelection in a state that broke for Trump in 2016.

When asked about a possible White House bid, he usually says “I don’t like the idea of running for president” … but admits he hasn’t ruled it out. [Yay!]

“I hear it more and more,” Brown conceded in a September interview with the Cincinnati Enquirer. “I think about it from time to time.”

This is the man for 2020 … I am absolutely convinced.

Brown hasn’t moderated staunchly liberal views on social and cultural issues … and “For 18 years, he has refused to enroll in a congressional health plan, saying he would not accept federally subsidized care until the American public could also avail itself of the same option.”

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TPM: Chris Freaking Christie on AG short list

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Thursday November 08, 2018 · 8:21 AM PST

2018/11/08 · 08:21

Wasn’t this guy ‘toast’? Big huge orange jumpsuit? Once again: IOKIYAR, the Supreme Law of the Land. Even if he doesn’t get the job, why is he still a free man, or taken at all seriously in a civilized country?

I think we know the answer, sadly.

Others mentioned: Giuliani … Pam Bondi … of course Lindsey Graham the Pathetic … and Kobach.

talkingpointsmemo.com/...

Remember ‘Bridgegate’?

“He’s gonna have to resign!” “Wait until the investigation ends!”

This makes me sick. I hate Republicans with the heat of a million suns.

Nevada Looking Good: Latest From Ralston

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Friday November 02, 2018 · 9:51 AM PDT

2018/11/02 · 09:51

thenevadaindependent.com/…

As of 9:55 a.m. Eastern, he reports (with some paraphrasing):

On Thursday the Ds boosted Clark turnout to its highest total so far (31,400) and added more than 4,000 to the southern firewall … now 37,500, almost guaranteeing 40,000, he says “would give them some comfort and give Republicans heartburn.”

No guarantee, but with Washoe a wash so far, GOP needs a huge Election Day turnout there for a good chance.

Clark firewall “very” predictive of results, with some caveats of course.

D statewide lead 15,000 — probably 14,500 after all Thursday votes counted — or 2.7 percent. It means GOP needs indies breaking by double digits or severe D-base bleeding for Heller and Laxalt to win. As firewall grows, GOP margin for error diminishes.

“Election Day turnout — usually only 30 percent in a midterm, but conceivably higher in this one — is still the known unknown.”

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Nevada: Latest from Ralston ... looks good

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Monday October 29, 2018 · 8:42 AM PDT

2018/10/29 · 08:42

thenevadaindependent.com/…

His main view as of this morning:

“The lead in Clark County is now about 25,000. So a 35,000-vote firewall to offset rural losses is reasonable, although today and Tuesday are traditionally the best days for the GOP in Clark of the two-week period. The robust Washoe numbers for the Dems — they have won eight of nine days and have a 1,000-vote lead there — also could help mitigate rural bleeding.”

35K would be equal to what Reid carried off in 2010 (adjusted for population growth).

40K would be huge for us.

Not a major believer in EV tea leaves but Nevada might be an exception to my personal rule ...

'White Civil Rights Rally' in D.C. in August

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Thursday June 21, 2018 · 12:05 PM PDT

2018/06/21 · 12:05

Haven’t seen this here, will delete if I missed an earlier post.

This is … well I just don’t know what. Free speech and all, but the very fact there are people who would want or need to do this is depressing. It would seem prime to become a horrific circus.

www.npr.org/...

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Bernie: 'Summit a positive step'

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Tuesday June 12, 2018 · 5:18 PM PDT

2018/06/12 · 17:18

How can we miss you if you won’t PLEASE go away?

The eminent Senator Sanders, admitting the ‘summit’ was ‘light on substance’ (ya think?) calls the Idiot Pig Grifter Piece-of-Human-Garbage Imprisoner-of-Children’s ridiculous meeting a “positive step in de-escalating tensions” with North Korea.

Normalizing isn’t just for the media anymore!

The senator stressed that Congress must play an integral role in bringing stability to the region.

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Article: 'How White Suburban Women Are Organizing in Middle America'

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Friday February 23, 2018 · 9:19 AM PST

2018/02/23 · 09:19

This is an encouraging and interesting article by Nancy LeTourneau in Washington Monthly:

washingtonmonthly.com/…

Some highlights:

This is not a leftist Tea Party, because newly engaged suburban activists hail from across the broad ideological range from center to left. It’s not a Sanders versus Clinton redux, because that “last year’s news” divide is flatly irrelevant to the people working shoulder-to-shoulder in the present. It’s not an Occupy Wall Street-type questioning of liberal democracy, because these activists believe laws can make good government as strong and transparent as possible. It’s not the 1960s, with young people leading the way—although there are lots of helpful teenagers in the background saying, “Mom, it’s fine: go to your meeting; I’ll get dinner myself.”

The need to contest “every seat, every election” is a new mantra among activists in red or purple communities, appalled by the range of elective offices they discover all around them for which Democrats stopped even fielding candidates over the last decade.

Relying organically on what social movement theorists call “relational organizing,” the newly active volunteers mobilized existing social networks to bring in newcomers and connect to expertise.

One word comes up over and over again when talking about what these women are doing: pragmatism … Republicans gave them the initial issue around which to organize when they immediately took on the task of repealing Obamacare. That gave these groups the specific goal of intervening to make sure they were not successful …

What has happened over the last week after the Parkland shooting is that this movement organized by white suburban women could be augmented by the students who are organizing on the specific issue of gun violence.

A good read. I think/hope it will bear solid electoral fruit …

A tempered view of the shutdown by Josh Marshall

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Tuesday January 23, 2018 · 8:08 AM PST

2018/01/23 · 08:08

I greatly respect Josh’s view … he always takes a step back for the bigger picture.

talkingpointsmemo.com/…

What do you think?

In practice they really haven’t given up anything. They will have the same leverage … The big news here is Democrats playing to their same pattern of reflexive self-flagellation, which generally sets one faction against another to no purpose. For those who watch politics constantly and are consumed by internal dramas and squabbles about Democratic ‘toughness’ and bad strategy, this is either a deflating defeat or a confirmation of pre-existing intra-party critiques. Democrats lost. Democrats weak, Trump strong!

The reality is that very few people whose opinions of things are not set in stone are even paying attention to the optics of this. The policy question … remains to be decided … Get up, dust yourself off and realize that this is a skirmish in a larger political battle which will come to a head again in three short weeks.

… Democrats are fighting for key policy priorities with virtually no power. That’s not easy. It won’t be accomplished in a day. That’s an honorable position not a shameful one.

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TPM: "Democrats Poised To Accept Deal To End Shutdown"

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Monday January 22, 2018 · 9:05 AM PST

2018/01/22 · 09:05

TPM 11:58 a.m. EST.

talkingpointsmemo.com/…

Senate Democrats are on the brink of accepting a deal to end the government shutdown in exchange for the promise of a vote on the DREAM Act in the coming weeks, three sources tell TPM.

The details of the deal aren’t yet clear. But multiple Democratic sources familiar with an ongoing meeting of Senate Democrats on the Hill made it clear that an agreement to reopen the government for a few weeks was all but certain late Monday morning.

Let the predictable wailing begin.

9th Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski accused of sexual misconduct

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Friday December 08, 2017 · 2:51 PM PST

2017/12/08 · 14:51

www.washingtonpost.com/…

(Looked but didn’t see this on the site; will take down if old news.)

A former clerk for Judge Alex Kozinski said the powerful and well-known jurist, who for many years served as chief judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, called her into his office several times and pulled up pornography on his computer, asking if she thought it was photoshopped or if it aroused her sexually.

Heidi Bond, who clerked for Kozinski from 2006 to 2007, said the porn was not related to any case. One set of images she remembered was of college-age students at a party where “some people were inexplicably naked while everyone else was clothed.” Another was a sort of digital flip book that allowed users to mix and match heads, torsos and legs to create an image of a naked woman.

Bond is one of six women — all former clerks or externs in the 9th Circuit — who alleged to The Washington Post in recent weeks that Kozinski, now 67 and still serving as a judge on the court, subjected them to a range of inappropriate sexual conduct or comments. She is one of two former clerks who said Kozinski asked them to view porn in his chambers.

Sarandon has no regrets; says HRC 'was dangerous'

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Monday November 27, 2017 · 9:31 AM PST

2017/11/27 · 09:31

“It wouldn’t be much smoother … we’d be at war … look at all the bad things Obama did that we didn’t notice.”

www.huffingtonpost.com/…

“People are really hurting; that’s how this guy got in.”

The scale has yet to be built that can measure the idiocy.

Multiply her times the hundreds of thousands who followed her lead.

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