So Democrats in power want to amend the state Constitution, but only temporarily, specifically to give themselves more power?
I get that Texas is basically doing the same, but in Texas they’re just following the established standard process, using the rules to their advantage. In California they’re changing the rules to allow them to do the same, ignoring the standard process. And not just changing rules, changing their Constitution.
Funny how this article says “both are expected to pass Thursday”, when the only thing being passed in California is approval to hold a special election.
Republicans do whatever they can to win within the rules, Democrats do whatever they can to get what they want regardless of the rules.
NY’s “novel” case for $500M against Trump for paying his business debt on time got tossed at the appeal level.
This was from the NY AG who campaigned that she would “get Trump” (and no other criminals under her watch) and found some law that had never before been used to persecute him under. She’s appealing her loss, of course, since it’s just the NY taxpayers money being spent, so why not?
That’s patently untrue. First of all, changing the rules is also within the rules, as is changing the constitution. And second of all, what Republicans do is also not always within the rules, so it gets struck down by the courts later.
Well, the point was that the Democratic Party is losing support and at record low levels of approval -
while the republicans have been gaining broadly and in particular with traditionally democratic leaning groups like young people, union workers, blacks and Hispanics, etc. so it’s a big problem for the democrats, while apparently the republicans are either successfully catering to the desires of the majority in terms of policy, or are so much closer to what the average wants due to the democrats’ fringe controlling the party’s policies (defund the police, open borders, pro-trans issues, etc) that they’re increasingly unelectable in non-gerrymandered broad elections.
You are wrong. What are you supposed to use to decide the rank? It is hard enough to make an overall decision of the best candidate based on multiple factors, but now this cockamamie system wants you to make fine gradations.
I have given you in previous discussions, objective evidence of the failure of RCV leading to recall elections.
Another objective fact is that RCV is almost exclusively used in leftist areas. The left is well organized, and they use RCV to foist their radical candidates such as the communist Zoran Mandami in NYC.
Seriously? You are trying way to hard to manufacture objections.
That is only evidence of voters regretting who they voted for. The voting system isnt going to change [what we consider to be] stupid votes.
How so? Because if Mandami beats Cuomo, it will be because a majority of voters chose Mandami over Cuomo. There’s literally no other way for it to happen.
I bet you just love In-n-Out and hate The Cheesecake Factory. It’s definitely much easier to select one out of three very similar burgers than one dish from a 30-page menu.
Voting is a right and a responsibility. It should not be as easy as picking a burger at In-n-Out!
Now illegals are entitled to choose where they deported to? And criminals are entitled to the benefits of a plea deal even after rejecting the plea deal?
Vote with your feet, blue state population losses and red state gains expected in the next census, making winning the presidency much much harder for democratic candidates.
Across all of the possible scenarios in the nine states that would be considered battlegrounds in the 2032 election, Democrats would see about a third of their current winning Electoral College combinations disappear if population projections hold. However, when looking only at the most feasible winning combinations based on voting behaviors in the 2024 election, the outlook is far worse. Of Democrats’ 25 most plausible paths to victory in 2024, only five would remain.
It doesn’t really matter much. CA NY are solidly Democrat while TX FL are solidly Republican as of 2024.
Small shifts in population won’t move those needles much, but they will give more all-or-nothing electoral votes to the bigger red states over the shrinking blue states (even more if the republicans manage to someone get the next census to not count illegals, which disproportionately prop up the blue state population declines and they would lose even more seats if those were based solely on citizen populations).
But if it is Democrats leaving, it could potentially swing whatever state they move to since there are a lot of smaller states with much less margin. Same as if Florida is importing Republicans, it’s pulling them from somewhere. It’s not as straightforward as people are moving to FL/TX from CA/NY, even if that’s where the gains and losses are in the final tally.
Someone is not amused by the socialist’s good prospects and destructive policies of legalizing crime.
His résumé reads less like a mayoral candidate and more like someone applying to moderate a subreddit on Marx, and now he wants to beta-test socialism on 8.5 million unsuspecting New Yorkers?
Now, shoplifting, drug use, DWI, harassment, prostitution, even a good old-fashioned sidewalk sucker punch—are all rebranded as “non-serious.”
This isn’t some fever dream. It’s straight from his platform, where he and his socialist pals sneer at policing as “class war” and demand we end what they call the “criminalization of survival.”
He’s still running at 85% to win in the betting markets
