I wonder what will happen when they find out about Texas.
All our states are becoming foreign countries. General Ripper did warn us that a foreign substance is being introduced into our precious bodily fluids without our knowledge.
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JJ Abbott is a great follow on twitter for what’s what in PA.
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Keeping the ‘weird’ and ‘creepy’ labels affixed to Trump-Vance is subversively beneficial.
Know it’s unlikely Tim Walz can wedge ‘couchfucker’ into his stump speeches-- but who knows?
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No, but it’s purrr-fect!
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And you get to keep him intact!
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The restoration of voting rights to former felons after they completed their sentence is a no brainer. Even some red state governors have embraced it. Appealing to some of their base? Unfortunately governors like DeSantis have made restoring former felon’s voting rights far more difficult, literally administrative Jim Crow, even after a referendum overwhelmingly passed.
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Best laugh I have had in many days
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Big laugh about trump folk criticizing Walz on allowing felons to vote. Did the cult forget their boss is a convicted crimonal??
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Don’t let that fool you. There’s a real “edge” to the people there. It’s the Canadians and Scandinavian and the cold in them – to their bones…
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Spot on. That “what Vance doesn’t get / we mind our damn business round here” rant was gold. Best audition for the veep spot ever. I’m so pleased with Harris and her choice.
Plus the teacher skills should pay off with that washington press gaggle. Classroom managed.
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Ummmm. Walz is a hunter.
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Jeebus, look at those kids in the picture next to Huckabee. They look like they are a cross between the children from the Omen and Children of the corn.
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A nice idea, but I don’t think it’s possible. Candidates would be jockeying for position in the media a year or more before the campaign window anyway, and 100 days isn’t enough time to raise the kind of money it takes for elections these days.
That money goes to public outreach; and this is a huge country to cover with rallies and ad campaigns in traditional and online media. If campaigns couldn’t start raising money a year or more out from the election, how would enough people get to know the candidates? I think this would be shot down easily on Constitutional grounds.
RE: election day as a holiday.
A stupid idea. So is “election weekend.” Because the very limited time scale makes it easy to cause delays in voting due to inadequate polling places where the most (and most Democratic) voters live. You get the one chance.
In New Mexico, there are two full weeks of early voting at vote centers. In the major counties, you can vote at any vote center, not just one designated for your precinct. They’re open from 10am to 8pm, for the benefit of people who work. And prior to that, there are two weeks of voting in the County Clerk’s offices.
Election Day is your last chance to vote. As it should be.
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…thereby lampooning them.
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And Florida was a Democratic stronghold for decades until all of a sudden it was not. The reason Scarborough was so in the tank for Shapiro is that he knows how to read precinct level elections returns and polling trends. In 2016, the national result was +2.1% for Biden, while PA went .7% for Trump. Therefore, PA was 2.8% to the right of the national electorate. In 2020, Biden won the national vote by 4.4%, and carried PA by 1.2%. So four years later, PA went 3.2% to the right of the national electorate. By any definition, Trump was unpopular in 2020, yet he increased his relative performance in PA. And remember, Biden won not because he ran up the score in Philly or the Burbs, but because he ate into Trumps huge advantage in Republican strongholds. Harris probably needs a National win of at least 4% (and maybe 4.5%) to carry PA. This is actually that first piece of good news for Trump in 3 weeks. Had she taken PA off the table, Trump would have had to win 5 of the remaining 6 swing states. With PA in play, he has multiple paths. And in fact, the betting markets have moved slightly towards Trump this am - the first real movement back in his direction in a few weeks.
I suspect Trump replaces Vance with Stefanik in the next week, which should help him a bit in the Philly burbs. Hold on tight!
My career as an educator can be roughly divided into three parts:
I spent the first part as a teacher teaching kids that no one else wanted to teach in California and New Jersey (children of migrant workers, special education, and homebound due to medical or behavioral issues).
This led to me spending the second part as an educational psychology professor in Pennsylvania and Indiana teaching future and practicing teachers and helping dispel the stereotypes of the children no one wanted to teach. I was deeply moved when one of my students contacted me via Facebook years later that it was because of what she learned from me that she decided to pursue her master’s degree so that she could become a special education teacher in Chicago at a school that had difficulty finding/keeping teachers. 
The third part of my career was spent teaching professors and graduate students how to teach at the higher education level. This circled back to my area of expertise–teaching and learning in higher education. Again, I was able to dispel stereotypes and help them understand how their teaching assumptions and behaviors impacted their students–especially first-generation students. I had the privilege of mentoring hundreds of new instructors (and helping older faculty find their way out of the metaphorical paper bags they found themselves in when they were sent to me for mentoring by their department chairs or deans).
Why am I giving you my life story? Because seeing Tim Walz, an impactful teacher according to the testimonies from former students, on the ticket feels the same way it did when I was an elementary education student and “one of us teachers” was going into space on the Challenger. We felt so proud that Christa McAuliffe was representing us.
I am ecstatic that Tim Walz is the VP nominee. I think he is the perfect balance for VP Harris.
I am also happy that their first joint campaign stop will be at Temple U. where I got my start teaching future teachers and future professors.
(My dissertation focused on how to use a certain online technology tool as a teaching tool that was obsolete within 6 months after I finished it. Oh, well. It was groundbreaking when I did my study!)
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