His poison will live on long after he’s dead. He’s throwing fucktons of money at politicians, conservative friendly universities, conservative “News” organizations, Youtube right wing grifters, you name it.
The Republican-controlled Florida Legislature has unveiled another election bill that would further restrict where voters can drop off mail-in ballots and also force party primary candidates into runoffs if they don’t get more than 50% of the vote.
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State Rep. Anna Eskamani, D-Orlando, called the continued attempt at culling drop boxes “unnecessary and politically motivated.”
“Republicans continue to feed into its rhetoric that elections are stolen and are not legitimate,” Eskamani said. “… When you limit the options for folks, it is intentionally designed to just make it harder to vote.”
But Eskamani said the other major proposal in the new bill, a return to primary runoffs for state and federal races, was “worthy of exploration,” even if she couldn’t support the overall bill.
Currently, party primaries are held the third week of August. Whoever gets the most votes in their respective primaries, even if just a plurality, face off in the November election.
The new bill would change the primary date to the third week of June. Any primary race in which the winner doesn’t receive more than 50% of the vote would move to a runoff between the top two candidates in August, with the winner of that primary securing his or her party’s nomination.
Despite the unneeded restrictions on the ballot drop boxes the changing of the primaries would be really good.
Worried House Republicans are looking to Johnson for plans for keeping their majority after record-low productivity for this Congress. Instead, he is offering thoughts and prayers.
The one time a Republican politician sent serious thoughts and prayers lmao
I highly recommend people freezing as many embryos and doing s tax credit on them at a state level. Also, federal should not provide any more to the state for said children. And build a wall around the state.
I would say they ameliorated it. They definitely did not end it. The maps still likely advantageous overall to the GOP, and even if they weren't... partisan gerrymandering will ALWAYS be a part of the system there until they modify the laws around it to, at minimum, establish an independent nonpartisan commission to handle future maps.
There is no such thing as an objectively fair election map. Everything is a tradeoff. If you could truly design a flawlessly optimal map, then the technique you used to do so almost by definition replaces the need to even bother with having the election -- just use your algorithm to pick the representatives.
And no, there's no future technology that will fix this issue. When you chose one place and not another to draw a line, either way it influences results. It is a value judgement which outcome is preferable -- one the computer is simply not capable of making.
You can only try to be reasonable and fair. So long as the process is fundamentally political, it cant be. Dems might be way better than the GOP when it comes to supporting fair democracy, but the Dems also have a long history of partisan gerrymandering when they have power. And even when the gerrymandering isn't to achieve political goals, it will still do other unfair things like entrenching incumbency in a partisan system.
Press the advantage and enshrine into law an independent and nonpartisan districting organization. Even this cannot possibly fix all issues with districting, but at least it can disincentivize the worst behavior.
Average 40 year old will have anywhere between 5 to 10 presidents in their lifetime. This is more of a history quiz than an opinion poll. How many presidents can you name? What did they all do?
Yeah, if you polled a bunch of American History professors or other people especially qualified to think about the entire set of presidents then that might come across as a little more convincing.
The 2024 Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey was conducted online via Qualtrics from November 15 to December 31, 2023. Respondents included current and recent members of the Presidents & Executive Politics Section of the American Political Science Association, which is the foremost organization of social science experts in presidential politics, as well as scholars who had recently published peer-reviewed academic research in key related scholarly journals or academic presses. 525 respondents were invited to participate, and 154 usable responses were received, yielding a 29.3% response rate.
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