Comments on: The state of the unions https://thenewneo.com/2024/04/01/the-state-of-the-unions/ A blog about political change, among other things Tue, 02 Apr 2024 19:41:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 By: richf https://thenewneo.com/2024/04/01/the-state-of-the-unions/#comment-2732056 Tue, 02 Apr 2024 19:41:57 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=133368#comment-2732056 Gavin Newsom would probably run if he can find someone to ask him to…

]]> By: FOAF https://thenewneo.com/2024/04/01/the-state-of-the-unions/#comment-2732040 Tue, 02 Apr 2024 18:31:01 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=133368#comment-2732040 I wish I could disagree with you, Niketas.

]]> By: Niketas Choniates https://thenewneo.com/2024/04/01/the-state-of-the-unions/#comment-2732037 Tue, 02 Apr 2024 17:27:13 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=133368#comment-2732037 It simply does not matter how voters feel about anything. All that matters is which ballots get counted. The Dems will see to it that enough ballots for the D candidates, whoever they are, however determined (primary shenanigans, Hawaiian judges, whatever) get counted in the deep blue precincts that matter to swing the Electoral College.

Something like 30% – 50% of voters don’t vote their own ballots. The D’s get them counted for D’s. The R’s do not do this. That’s how it works now.

We’re setting ourselves up for another “red wave” mirage if we don’t take a hard look at the new reality of how elections actually work. Not the Schoolhouse Rock stuff that may have been true 50 years ago, about how people are doing in polls.

Polls long ago ceased to be a tool of measuring public opinion, they are now purely for shaping media narratives. You can measure public opinion if you want and you have the money to pay for it…

]]> By: Dax https://thenewneo.com/2024/04/01/the-state-of-the-unions/#comment-2732034 Tue, 02 Apr 2024 16:45:37 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=133368#comment-2732034 “…also with some good competent Dem history, like Obama in 2008…”

He was an undistinguished party hack who served one term in the state legislature, and less than one in the Senate before he ran (or was run) for President.

https://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Barack+Obama

]]> By: Abraxas https://thenewneo.com/2024/04/01/the-state-of-the-unions/#comment-2732031 Tue, 02 Apr 2024 15:43:06 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=133368#comment-2732031 “Baron Trump” in the novel was actually a Baron, and the Don in the novel was Spanish, so the parallels to present-day reality weren’t as close as early reports said.

Democrats aren’t going to get a savior. Remember 2020? There were any number of half-way competent (straight, white, male, boring) candidates in the Democratic primary race, but none of them got any traction. As bad as Biden is, it would be a lot harder to bring an unknown into the race than to go with what they already have.

But if Kennedy can get above 5% isn’t Biden toast? Or will Kennedy take away enough votes from Trump that Biden still survives? If he does, I wouldn’t want to live through the years of servile puffery that the media’s going to give Biden, the Comeback Kid and the new Harry Truman.

]]> By: Anne https://thenewneo.com/2024/04/01/the-state-of-the-unions/#comment-2732024 Tue, 02 Apr 2024 15:01:06 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=133368#comment-2732024 Is Bill Clinton handing out cigars?

]]> By: CV https://thenewneo.com/2024/04/01/the-state-of-the-unions/#comment-2732016 Tue, 02 Apr 2024 14:05:46 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=133368#comment-2732016 You got me, Neo! And extra points for the cute headline.

]]> By: Miguel cervantes https://thenewneo.com/2024/04/01/the-state-of-the-unions/#comment-2732013 Tue, 02 Apr 2024 13:32:19 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=133368#comment-2732013 Live or memorex

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kz9pc6_ZiIM&ab_channel=WhatisGoingonWithShipping%3F

]]> By: Butkus51 https://thenewneo.com/2024/04/01/the-state-of-the-unions/#comment-2732010 Tue, 02 Apr 2024 12:59:03 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=133368#comment-2732010 Now every day is April Fools day. Its lost its panache.

]]> By: Tom Grey https://thenewneo.com/2024/04/01/the-state-of-the-unions/#comment-2732009 Tue, 02 Apr 2024 12:56:05 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=133368#comment-2732009 April 1???
Or, as Babylon Bee watchers have noted, absurd has now often become current events.
I don’t believe Biden will be the Dem nominee in Nov. But really don’t know who will be, and the process of changing to somebody else is intermittently interesting; sometimes fascinating, like here (for some), often seemingly to be useless speculation.

Were there a medium young (40-50?), photogenic, somewhat unknown but also with some good competent Dem history, like Obama in 2008, that would be the kind of Savior the Dems want. It’s getting late to identify any such unknown, but there don’t seem to be any attractive known political Dems. So Newsome remains top alt pick, despite his incompetence/ terrible record.

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