Careful. Some poll results are Democratic-electorate-only while others are broader.
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I have written to my Senator, Kyrsten Sinema a couple of times in detail on the issue of HR 1 and its implications. Absent national legislation, the electoral environment that Mark Kelly will face in 2022 and that Senator Sinema will face in 2024 may be irretrievably unfavorable after the AZ legislature and our hackish Governor Ducey have put in place their voter suppression regime. Running a primary opponent against Senator Sinema would gift the seat to the Republicans. If I can figure this out sitting in Tucson, Senator Sinema can figure it out on the griddle in DC. Better it is to keep demonstrating the recalcitrance of the Republicans while nudging Senator Sinema to a better place where H1 can be translated into national law.
P.S. Mark Finchem intends to run for Secretary of State in 2022. Check him out: he is a piece of work. Democrat incumbent Katie Hobbs is sniffing around a run at Governor to succeed the term-limited hackish Governor Ducey.
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Has Sinema been paying attention? She’s not new to the Senate and should have seen the lengths Republicans went to to seat clearly unqualified people in lifetime judgeships.
Did she not see Obama try to be bipartisan his first term? Every time he gave into a Republican demand, they still voted against him. Did she not just see her Republican colleagues slow-walk then vote against COVID stimulus? Is she not listening to McConnell threaten corporations and clearly state that there would be not Republican votes for Infrastructure?
HR1 is clearly not in the interests of the Republican Party. She should see that from what Republicans in her own state have proposed. McConnell’s corporate comments were based solely on the comments and actions taken by private businesses in light of public policies pushed by Republicans. Unless she’s completely insane, these people have staked the next several election cycles on making it harder for people (non-Republicans) to vote. Does she think bipartisanship is going to make her re-election possible? Has she not paid attention to what the Republican Party and Republican voters did to Republican officials who were considered bipartisan? There’s no way of being bipartisan with this bunch of Republicans- it means giving them what they want, and that’s not going to stop them from painting you as the most Liberal, Socialist etc…
The only way we get HR1 is if Manchin and Sinema step up, and right now, they are enjoying holding up progress. They are literally doing the Republicans job for them. That might keep Manchin in office, but it means Sinema is losing support from the Left and gaining nothing from the Right. And of course, we all are going to have to rely on the courts to slap down this garbage Republicans in 47 states are peddling.
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There was another poll I saw that had Kelly at 48-41 up and Sinema at something like 29-40 down.
But here is the scary part out of this Crooked Media poll:
The Republican Cancel Culture strategy is breaking through in Arizona. 82 percent of voters have heard about the Fox News-generated controversy over Dr. Seuss and 67 percent have heard about the controversy over Mr. Potato Head—more than have heard about the For the People Act or the Arizona GOP’s voter-suppression bills.
- Arizona voters are concerned about what’s happening to Dr. Seuss. 48 percent say that the controversy is a perfect example of liberal cancel culture run amok, while only 42 percent say it’s a fake controversy invented by conservatives to distract from Biden’s American Rescue Plan.
Once again, Democrats’ messaging is miserably bad. Voters don’t seem to know Democrats are the ones supporting election reform, perhaps because they’re failing to present it in a nonpartisan way.
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The House gets along fine without a super majority.
Just sayin’
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Ya hafta understand Arizona. Folks here, especially Mesa and rural parts of the state are deeply conservative and have been voting for Goober majorities in our State House and Senate since 1969. Conservative good… Democrat anti-American and full of those “brown people” is the mind set.
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Finchem has also won the “Least Hetero Sam Elliot Impersonator” competition three years running.
“Sinema” would be a killer name for a porn site.
Seedy-ROM: dirty movies on disc
Telling a group of people to change their behavior or you’ll see to it that they get exactly what they want is no basis for successful negotiation, Kyrsten.
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This was the first time in this Congressional term where Sinema has indicated support for actual legislation instead of bland to inscrutable statements about Senate procedure. It’s a good sign.
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Not hard to wonder if both she and Manchin are enjoying this “kingmaker” role they’ve fantasized themselves into with all the subtlety of a nail gun to the foot.
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I voted for Sinema, and was glad when she beat that bitch Martha McSally, but if she doesn’t get her shit together, I may just vote for whoever is her opponent.
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I don’t think mammalian cells typically do well in a total vacuum.
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And deeply ignorant.
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Yep. Made a trip to Prescott yesterday to visit my 102 year old mother who, BTW, is more progressive than many on this platform. As soon as one leaves major urban areas, however, one returns to 19th and early 20th Century perspectives out of phase with current realities. Not just conservative, but laced with ignorance and a determination to keep life that way. The ranching community where I grew up outside of Prescott never made it through the New Deal. We only had telephones, the crank kind, because ranchers strung the lines from town along fence posts. Some sort of lesson there, perhaps, for not leaving people behind?
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Seriously anybody believe a 50 plus year old lady with purple hair?
She’s 44 (born in July 1976) but point taken.
There is a certain narcissism that seems to affect the thin edges of the curve.
Most folks can’t name their own representatives but yet they know the names of some reps who are perpetually seeking national recognition.
I look at what the persons says and the positions they hold and not hair color, hair length or their age. Sinema holds the super majority to pass a bill is a good thing while at the same time saying HR1 is a needed bill. That is “bothsiderism”. She knows she needs to keep the goobers here in AZ happy as well as democrats. In Arizona that is a near impossibility. And believe me, when I say Goobers I really mean it. Sinema supports the filibuster, I do not since the House gets along with a simple majority. The super majority is supposed to be a catalyst to “bipartisanship” by giving the minority a bit of a say. But McConnell has turned it into a tool to screw the country by screwing anything democrats want to do for the good of the country. Mitch see the filibuster and super majority as methods of power and that is all that fucker cares about. Sinema sits on the fence hoping to get noticed.
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A characteristic of most all politicians is their love of getting noticed. They run to any camera or microphone especially of free of a cost to their campaign coffers. It does not matter the party affiliation, if there’s a camera available a pol will pontificate for that audience, Gaetz is an excellent example of this. Sinema and Manchin have been around a while and understand what the unspoken rules are. Gaetz doesn’t give a shit who he offends. He revels in the role of the school yard bully. I think is career in DC will be a short one.
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