Democratic (Party) Direction

Kucinich, who spent some of his time away from elected office serving as a Fox News contributor, is a rare politician who is now occupying that sweet spot where Sandersism meets elements of Trumpism.

wtf is up with that goofy zoom effect

kung-fu action

Huge Dem strategy report from McElwee commissioned by Justice Dems. (Have yet to read.)

https://www.futureoftheparty.com/

Again, no mention (at least the summary) of campaign finance reform. IDGI...

at least in the summary I mean

i know i know 538, but i think this is at least a useful way of thinking about 2018 strategy, even if the individual views advanced are not useful. i'm not sure what the right answer is. don't focus on russia. focus on healthcare even though they "won" that battle. what else?

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-issues-should-democrats-ignore-in-2018/

soybean farmers

Huge Dem strategy report from McElwee commissioned by Justice Dems. (Have yet to read.)

https://www.futureoftheparty.com/

― Simon H., Monday, April 9, 2018 8:16 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is cool but boy are some of these graphs demanding of a hard squint

It would be cool if voters gave as much of a shit about "issues" as they claim to

Why should they

because It would be cool

if people voted that would be cool too

lets all agree to do cool stuff in 2018

otm

so you're saying that what's left of 2018 can be salvaged? good great idea!

Democrats 2018: Let’s Salvage Some Stuff

Democrats 2018: Please Salvage

21 salvage

Democrats 2018: Because We're Still Having Elections, Probably

HOOS, can you send someone to give Bill Nelson a shot of bull's blood or something

"He's a very nice young man" -FEINSTEIN after meeting ZUCKERBERG.
"He's very young. And he has 27,000 employees. And it's - that's amazing. He's obviously smart. He obviously knows what he's doing and he has a very pleasant personality. He's not hard-edged in any way that I saw."

— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) April 9, 2018

feinstein needs to retire

that sounds like something that someone who doesn't know how to use email would say. zuckerberg is one of those young computer using guys, he knows how to send the emails, he seems very nice

I’m at an analyst conference with a bunch of g4rtner types and I have seen two people drafting tweets in Microsoft word. Feinstein reminds me of these people.

They suck btw

Zuckerberg probably called her "Madam Senator" until she insisted he just call her Diane.

their interests are aligned, whaddaya expect

I have seen two people drafting tweets in Microsoft word

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, April 10, 2018 6:10 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh what the fuck is this

So you’re telling me if I write an MS word plugin that posts tweets I can sell it to consultants for $79?

Bang where is my $10k/mo MRR

I'm not gonna lie when I tweeted for my job I drafted in a text editor because I was so scared I was accidentally going to hit "Tweet" before it was ready

^ wisdom

thats hustling backwards, twitter is a life on the edge, you might fire off some typos, some violent threats to your enemies, you might even accidentally have a nip slip, just another day on the twitter streets`

CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE: 80 percent of the economic growth generated by the Republican tax cuts will eventually go abroad and benefit foreigners

FUCK THE RICH. what's so hard about that message?

http://www.newsweek.com/republican-tax-plan-donald-trump-cbo-884129

Nina Turner expressed some concerns about the legality of the raid on Michael Cohen’s office on CNN today. So that’s great and normals

Nina Turner expressed some concerns about the legality of the raid on Michael Cohen’s office on CNN today. So that’s great and normal.

California AFLCIO just endorsed Kevin de Leon over Dianne Feinstein, while the same unions in New York, at Andrew Cuomo's command, split with their own Working Families Party lest Cynthia Nixon get a boost. Why the difference? Read https://t.co/TBqtNlX9pQ

— Harold Meyerson (@HaroldMeyerson) April 16, 2018

cuomo is so shook pic.twitter.com/Fr8GjnGhkw

— KT NELSON (@KrangTNelson) April 16, 2018

it begins(?)

March: Cuomo (66%), Nixon (19%)
Mid-April: Cuomo (58%) -8% , Nixon (27%) +8%

And this thing is only just getting started. https://t.co/K2zIQ3Gpo0

— Luke Savage (@LukewSavage) April 17, 2018

she's running

NEWS: Andrew Cuomo just announced that he's granting all parolees in New York the right to vote by executive order.

— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) April 18, 2018

what a fuckin knob

“I am an undocumented person,” Cuomo says, saying he is the descendant of Italian immigrants pic.twitter.com/aQzHlaPPmA

— Joseph Spector (@GannettAlbany) April 12, 2018

pffft

Andy trying to be Mario is even clumsier than i wd've expected

more good news:

CNN has projected that Republicans won the special election in Arizona's 8th Congressional District, but once again Democrats have overperformed in a deep red district, in another sign the national environment is in the their favor.

The vote count is not final, but Republican Debbie Lesko is currently ahead of Democrat Hiral Tipirneni by about a 5-point margin.
In a neutral environment, the margin should be much wider. President Donald Trump won the district by 21 percentage points in 2016 and Mitt Romney won it by 25 percentage points in 2012. Combining those outcomes and controlling for how well Democrats did nationally in each of those contests, we can say that Arizona 8 is 25 points more Republican than the nation. Lesko looks like she's going to do about 20 percentage points worse than that.

Whomever you are, Hiral Tipernini, you made the GOP spend money in Maricopa fucking County, so you’re all right by me.

love how Trump and co. are gloating about this victory

With Hoyer in Denver, Tillemann met the minority whip at the Hilton Denver Downtown to make the case that the party should stay neutral in the primary and that he had a more plausible path to victory than the same centrism that Coffman had already beaten repeatedly.

Hoyer, however, had his own message he wanted to convey: Tillemann should drop out.

In a frank and wide-ranging conversation, Hoyer laid down the law for Tillemann. The decision, Tillemann was told, had been made long ago. It wasn’t personal, Hoyer insisted, and there was nothing uniquely unfair being done to Tillemann, he explained: This is how the party does it everywhere.

Tillemann had heard the argument before from D.C. insiders and local Democratic bigwigs, all of whom had discouraged him from challenging the establishment favorite. The only difference was that for this conversation, the candidate had his phone set to record.

https://theintercept.com/2018/04/26/steny-hoyer-audio-levi-tillemann/

https://i.yomyomf.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/virgil_sollozzo_4.jpg

It wasn’t personal, Hoyer insisted, and there was nothing uniquely unfair being done to Tillemann, he explained

obviously no big surprises here but it is laid out a little more explicitly than usual

well after enjoying such a great run of sustained electoral success, why change tactics?