Super Delayed Tuesday Amid Coronavirus Uncertainty

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Georgia, maybe. That’s really about it. I don’t think she adds much appeal in Texas versus any replacement-level VP pick, and there is nowhere else in the South that is even remotely close to flipping. I suspect her impact would be much more meaningful in places like MI, PA, and WI.

ETA: Duh, I forgot all about NC, although its already in play. Still, she could be very helpful there.

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All well and good, but it took Oregon 6 years to get voting by mail implemented. Systems didn’t change overnight, or within 2-3 months.

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I’m mostly referring to her impact on down-ticket races because of the increase in POC voting she could bring.

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Most of those POC voters in the South have been packed and cracked into gerrymandered districts where a marginal turnout increase isn’t likely to make much difference. Of course, it will be the last election using the districts drawn in 2011, so demographic change could allow Dems to flip some more of those originally safe-R-but-by-10-points-not-20 seats, as happened here in Texas in 2018. So I’ll rate your claim as “plausible.” :wink:

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OK,
(heavy sigh)
In memory of those we have lost and will lose because of trump (you know what I mean) I offer this from my garden. An escapee who decided to grow, if it can be believed …out of the wood planks of a small table I built a few years ago for potted plants.
In weeks to come icelandic poppies of many different colors will abound… assuming the neighborhood heathen cats don’t decide to pee on them.

Hauling a hose around and talking to my plants is a major activity for this old curmudgeon. My dog tends to follow me with these expressions that say “why do you bother when you could be giving me a treat?” I have to try for some sort of normalcy.
Thisyears poppies are from a mixed packet of seed from Mark’s Ace Hardware. Thought I’d give them a shout out.

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Too late and too short the Florida Governor will be signing a “stay at home” order after all the spring break infection beach parties are over.
Beach Blanket Covid.
Time for the clinch of the slow dance.
Music please.

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Thank you. :heart_decoration:

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trump and his obsession about ratings and popularity.
Only in this alternate universe,
I like the old one better. Because things tended to make sense and be more… logical.

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A lot of the delay was due to Republicans blocking the implementation.

So far there are still primaries scheduled in April…Wisconsin on the 7th, Alaska on the 10th, Wyoming on the 17th and Puerto Rico on the 26th.

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I want her to win GA senate seat.

Some folks would disagree they revile all except the magical cotton candy unicorn they have been supporting since 2016.

I pray I’m wrong

Shocked outrage and denial from the broleteriat in 3…2…1…

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There’s at least one misstatement in the USA Today piece about why Trump can’t simply cancel the 2020 elections. The writer says that under the Constitution, if no new president and vice president take office on January 20, 2021–on account of no certified winner of the electoral-college contest having been declared in December 2020, in turn after canceled presidential elections in November 2020) then the presidency is legally vacant and presidential powers devolve upon the Speaker of the House–presumably Nancy Pelosi.

But that couldn’t happen. If Trump manages to cancel the November 2020 election, then the present House of Representatives reaches the end of its term in early January 2021–and there is no Speaker Pelosi. Similarly, one-third of the Senate would also be gone. That would mean the presidency devolving upon the President Pro Tem of the Senate–or rather, the President Pro Tem of the remaining two-thirds of the Senate: Charles Grassley.

Whether the remaining 2/3 of the Senate would be empowered to elect a new President Pro Tem, and what the party balance in such a truncated Senate might be, I don’t dare speculate.

Point is: We’re in a hell of a potential mess.

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I read something a couple of weeks back that suggested a different result to the scenario which you described. The gist of it was that the President Pro Tempore of the Senate would wind up being a Democrat by virtue of the Democrats’ contolling the Senate in this scenario, due to so many Republican senators’ terms having expired (there being, as I understand it, 22 Republican senators’ seats being contested this Fall and far fewer Democratic senators’ seats being contested).

Is there something wrong with what I read?

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Cowardly sycophant V P Pence these are FACTS that cannot be denied;
#1 Trump is the proven world record U S Presidential serial liar in U S history.
A few of Donald Trump’s false Covid-19 related claims:
Jan 21: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China.”
Feb 02: “We pretty much shut it down, coming from China.”
Feb 10: Trump says without evidence that the coronavirus “dies with the hotter weather”
Feb 24: Trump baselessly claims the situation is “under control”
Feb 26: “And the 15 in a couple of days is gonna be down to close to zero.”
Feb 26: Trump wrongly says the coronavirus “is a flu”
Feb 27: Trump baselessly hints at a “miracle”
Feb 28: “Coronavirus. This is the new hoax… You’ll be fine.”
Mar 02: “They’re going to have vaccines very soon.”
Mar 03: “Not only the vaccines, but the therapies… another word for cure.”
Mar 04: Trump falsely claims Obama impeded testing
Mar 04: “We’re talking about very small numbers in the United States.”
Mar 05: Trump wrongly claims the virus only hit the US “three weeks ago”
Mar 06: “Anybody… that needs a test gets a test… the tests are beautiful."
Mar 06: Trump falsely says US coronavirus numbers “are lower than just about anybody”
Mar 10: “It’s really working out, and a lot of good things are gonna happen.”
Mar 12: “It’s gonna go away.”
Mar 13: “No, I don’t take responsibility at all.”
Mar 29: "If… deaths remain under 200,000, we… have done a very good job.”
Oh, and no Mike, fat watery orange pigs cannot fly