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The [presidential election] is done with conventions
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Warren 2020
45% chance Trump doesn't show up.
Warren 2020
The nowcast shows 58%.
Hey. We do not celebrate murder on this forum.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Warren 2020
It was incredible and made me feel proud of my party. We somehow managed to shift the party platform markedly to the left while reclaiming the moral center of the country that the Republicans have dominated for my entire lifetime.
FUCK YES AMERICA
WE'RE GONNA WIN
It started very rocky, but it came together masterfully. The analogy I used earlier was that Obama laid it up for Clinton last night, and Hillary dunked it tonight. It wasn't a 360 through the lags back board shattering dunk, but it was a solid posterizing.
Given how well she spoke tonight, and how much of a talking pumpkin Trump can be when you give him a microphone, it's likely she takes him apart in the debates.
alt response: well run show full of stars and compelling speakers. great human stories. I cried about our country's problems and injustices. I cheered and felt joy when optimistic solutions were discussed. I laughed when trump got skewered with pinpoint precision again and again. we had a coherent message and it was uplifting and professionally conveyed. almost no bad speeches.
we made the RNC look like a clown show.
We're all heaps stoked, mate
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
It was a clown show. It was angry white men yelling at other angry white men for four days about brown people.
Michelle spiked her microphone into the earth's core and we were off to the races.
Cheers for the summaries!
Moving to the state that split its electoral votes for Obama fills me with a little hope I wont just be casting my vote into the void.
I think it was Ezra Klein who wrote yesterday that Obama needs Clinton to win to cement his coalition as the default majority in Presidential elections. If they just show up for him then he's an anomaly.
This convention spoke to every part of that coalition and then yesterday and today tried to bring back white, blue-collar Midwesterners. It was confident in a way that maybe even the Obama conventions were not quite to the same degree.
Warren 2020
hello darkness my old friend....
And it's not a small amount either, and not nobody names. Some of the names are known conservative bloggers and luminaries who are basically admitting their party has lost it's mind. On some level, I feel bad for them. As much as I disagree with their politics on a lot of issues, I think most of them are probably good folks who are watching something they believed in fall to utter shit under a demagogue.
check your local races. take your energy and look into your local party apparatus if you can.
cast your vote toward a future hard purple Texas.
I am really liking this guy. He's a poverty lawyer true believer. You gotta respect that.
I can't stress my joy over the italicized. 04 is the first election I followed, largely because 2000 was the first one I really understood, and I've never grasped why the dems couldn't make this argument.
She said EVERYTHING I've always wanted to hear, she made the point for the things I believe in a way that pays full respect to love of country.
*waves from Oregon*
We never matter, not on the national level. Not unless we come up with some crazy idea like making weed legal.
Steam, Warframe: Megajoule
I think the party is unified.
dude. dude. Trump is supposedly going to target Oregon.
Like, we're not really in play but, I'ma get out there anyway.
Also lots of local races to look at!
Of course, we're all vote-by-mail now anyway, so...
Steam, Warframe: Megajoule
The booing Monday along with some crazy polls had me convinced we were going to lose this thing.
But then Michelle spoke. Then Bill. Then trump asked Russia to hack Hillarys emails. Then Joe. Then Barack.
I became confident that we were going to win. And tonight Hillary only helpedl further that.
I'm still scared but it's less a sense of inpending doom and more "I found a weird orange bump and need to see a doctor but it's probably nothing."
Hopefully it just turns out to be a cheetoh.
seriously this
If Texas flips blue or even just becomes a reliable swing state the GOP has a problem it might not ever recover from
I mean, ya know, if making Trump their nominee isn't one already
I volunteered one time at a voter hotline that was just like, explaining to people how to vote and where to turn it in etc. Some people arrange for folks to pick up their ballots because they are disabled or housebound. It gave me good feels to volunteer!
Our EC vote may be foregone but don't let it keep you from getting involved if you want to.
There's also fundraising.
I'm still not sure. He'll likely bluster and posture, show 15 minutes of research on some random thing, and have that be declared his victory for being surprisingly competent. People still get antsy about strong women, so she's going to have a tough line to toe where she's indignant about his bullshit, on point with policy, and still not get shouted over.
I mean, not just him this time, but you get the idea.
Warren 2020
Eh, I mean, the GOP sits on a knife edge, but it could go either way. God forbid Trump wins and validates the extreme right ideology, we're in for a roller coaster ride. If Trump loses, but it's not a mandate, the moderates are still going to be playing tug of war for the soul of the party in 2020. If Trump gets trounced, like landslide trounced, it's an abject rejection of the far right and I think the GOP actually rebounds in 2020 with a strong moderate. It may not work in 2020, but it would lay the ground work for their swing back to center which surely must be the eventual outcome of a Trump loss big or small.