#Electoral

everyone's doing corbyn retrospectives & i don't have any provocative takes. felt in a weird position all along as my family & several comrades were corbynites while i wasn't. i
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There sees to be basic confusion about goals here. Our goal shouldn't be "make sure each party wins sometimes." The goal is "pick the government based on free elections where
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Thought experiment: there is to be a general election. Election is cancelled because of pandemic. But Electoral Comm says fear not, we have an algorithm. It takes into account the
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I'mma need all my black and brown leftist/socialist/commies and anti-capitalist to take a deep sigh and be prepared NOT to vote for Biden. We can not continue down this path
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In 2000 I voted for Ralph Nader. I despised the corporate-friendly Dem Party.Nader had no strategy to win or to build political power.The Green Party still has no viable strategy.Organizations
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All conventions are a mix of reaching out to wavering voters and shoring up your base. The D convention, especially Biden's speech, was perhaps 65/35 in the reaching-out direction. Night
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1/3 Born & raised in Texas when the state was Union and Democratic. Karl Rove, under Bush, changed all that. Left Texas for Colorado, but family still there. Gerrymandering is
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but voting for the Green Party isn't a "protest" vote against our sham democracy, the Green Party is sham democracy. They don't
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Some (incomplete) thoughts on today’s #QueensSpeech (content note: mention of rape, gender based violence and homo/bi/transphobic persecution) (1/16) We agree that changes need to be made to the asylum system
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It is a very, very bad doc if you want to understand Brexit/Trump or what’s really going on with social media, microtargeting, etc.It basically relies on taking slide decks from
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Prepare for four straight years of this after Biden loses to Trump. Welcome to hell 2020 new Bernie supporters, 2016 supporters you just got promoted to the next circle!https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1247924099311177730 I
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The world of voter ID laws is a dynamic one, when talking about ID laws you may usually think about in-person voting, yet mail-in ballots are become more important, due
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TODAY’S ELECTION TASK: making a plan to vote. if you’ve already asked for a mail in ballot, then you can just ignore this next thread. If not read on. Studies
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One other question is what is Biden wins some of these states but not others.Biden is ~99% to win if he wins *any two* of FL, NC and AZ but
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The only part of that times piece worth bothering with is the stuff around the idiocy of labour panicking at pre campaign polling and going full remain, which was not
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I love Oregon but honestly the president’s weird obsession with this state is truly unjustifiable It is not a red state, it is not even close to a swing state,
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