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It's a word I permanently associate with conservative outrage thanks to him. When I think socially conservative, he's my default.
I'm still waiting for someone to actually do some real analysis of the scope of executive orders by president. I've tried to look at the list, but it would be a full time job to investigate them in detail.
Until someone can point to something like that, I'm incredibly suspicious of the claim that Obama has more "large" orders or has increased their scope. People have incredibly poor memories about things like this.
"stuff I don't like"
Minnesota is currently pushing a bill to revamp student tuition and is having a big push towards a bunch of equality programs
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That said, Obama hasn't done much to scale back the expansion of powers the executive branch enjoyed under Bush. Saying he's using them to create some sort of Marxist wonderland is fucking hilarious though.
And for some reason that would be a bad thing?
Aeris died for your sins.
Yes, that was the metaphor.
I feel old now
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
http://fivethirtyeight.com/
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
So maybe stock up on booze for Tuesday night.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Aeris died. Kotaku lied.
Nate Silver has said that it's approaching the point where the polls would have to be universally wrong for the GOP to not win outright
The scenario that involves democratic victory requires everything leaning their way to break their way, and then get a few lucky bounces
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This is what I love about Silver's stuff. My expectations come election day are set accordingly.
It is definitely moving the goal posts since the raw numbers don't reflect the idea that he's using more executive orders, but it doesn't mean this particular goalpost isn't a valid one to check up on. If there is one thing we should all be cognizant of at this point, it's that human beings are incredibly inaccurate when it comes to judging things they are biased towards/against. That's why I would like to see some meaningful analysis on the subject.
It's work that should have been done by whoever is making the positive claim that he is using broader executive orders, but, since the subject has been broached, I can't definitively say whether he has issued more broad/sweeping executive orders or not. I'm also skeptical of anyone who says they know the answer to that question unless they have some sources to back it up.
But yeah I don't doubt Nate Silver.
It's just that they're going to spend the next two years trying to repeal the ACA and outlaw abortion than actually fix the country.
The subtext in that is that Obama is so far outside their worldview that they can't tell the difference.
Do you have any idea what that means for us when the Democrats Democrat and give them what they want?
Our choices were Trent Franks and a libertarian named Stephen Dolgos.
Though I can understand why the Dems didn't bother. Back in 2012, Trent won with a whopping 63.3%, so they probably figured that trying to run against him again would be a complete waste of funds when a) he hasn't done anything to alienate his voters and b) the odds are stacked even more against a Dem winning than they were two years ago.
So I voted for Franks, because fuck libertarians, you know?
Wait, that happens?
The fact that I identified with that party as a fresh-faced 18-year-old still shames me to this day.
Or rather, they're going to spend that time trying to figure out a way of repealing the ACA without actually changing any of the programs that people actually like, meaning the best they will accomplish is making it even more dumb and broken than it already is.
Listen to an hour of talk radio and pay attention to the ads (which is easy since an hour of talk radio basically is an hour of ads). They tend to be rooted in some primal fear.
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