Red Mosquito

Simple Torture wrote:

McParadigm wrote:No wonder they have been fighting any attempt to investigate the decision making on this.

The story of how these documents came out is wild. This guy died, and his estranged daughter didn't find out until she Googled his name, then her mom gave her all of his old computer stuff, and she assumed these documents had already been made available in various lawsuits. When she found out they weren't, she worked to get them released.

Peeps wrote:i have to believe pelosi and others are holding off on the impeachment process seeing if they can flip the senate and get the necessary votes without relying on some R's flipping

Ms. Hofeller said her decision to open her father’s files to his opponents was a bid for transparency, devoid of personal or political animus. Although she believed he was undermining American democracy, she said, their estrangement stemmed not from partisan differences, but a family dispute that ended up in court. Ms. Hofeller described herself as a political progressive who despises Republican partisanship, but also has scant respect for Democrats.

Her father, she said, was a brilliant cartographer who was deeply committed to traditional conservative principles like free will and limited government. As a child, she said, she was schooled in those same principles, but every successive gerrymandered map he created only solidified her conviction that he had abandoned them in a quest to entrench his party in permanent control.

“He had me with the idea that we are made to be free,” she said. “And then he lost me.”

Simple Torture wrote:

Peeps wrote:i have to believe pelosi and others are holding off on the impeachment process seeing if they can flip the senate and get the necessary votes without relying on some R's flipping

I can think of a lot of scenarios, and crazy things can happen, but I don't think there's even a one-in-a-trillion chance that the Democrats pick up 22 Senate seats in 2020.

Peeps wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

Peeps wrote:i have to believe pelosi and others are holding off on the impeachment process seeing if they can flip the senate and get the necessary votes without relying on some R's flipping

I can think of a lot of scenarios, and crazy things can happen, but I don't think there's even a one-in-a-trillion chance that the Democrats pick up 22 Senate seats in 2020.

i thought i saw a graphic that only 17 were needed. still daunting but one can dare to dream

Simple Torture wrote:

Peeps wrote:i have to believe pelosi and others are holding off on the impeachment process seeing if they can flip the senate and get the necessary votes without relying on some R's flipping

I can think of a lot of scenarios, and crazy things can happen, but I don't think there's even a one-in-a-trillion chance that the Democrats pick up 22 Senate seats in 2020.

Green Habit wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

Peeps wrote:i have to believe pelosi and others are holding off on the impeachment process seeing if they can flip the senate and get the necessary votes without relying on some R's flipping

I can think of a lot of scenarios, and crazy things can happen, but I don't think there's even a one-in-a-trillion chance that the Democrats pick up 22 Senate seats in 2020.

This also presupposes that Trump gets reelected, thus necessitating the impeachment. That likely makes the odds even longer.

PHATJ wrote:Trumps support is growing in Minority communities.

Simple Torture wrote:

PHATJ wrote:Trumps support is growing in Minority communities.

Link?

"Today's @realDonaldTrump approval ratings among black voters: 36%," Rasmussen said in a tweet. "This day last year: 19%."

That is a staggeringly high number for a man who only won 8 percent of the African-American vote in 2016.

McParadigm wrote:Rasmussen is, of course best known for being the most inaccurate of all the national pollsters in 2018. They consistently showed Republicans winning the popular vote by a little over one percent (they lost it by 8.6%), and getting a third of the black vote (they got less than 10%).