Dude, who even knows.
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Also, congratulations to John Fetterman, I was rooting for him. I do think a part of his appeal was appearance, and not just “big oaf big”, but like thinking back on the guys I’d see around my hometown or in high school, that guy set the “Pennsylvania” slider all the way to the right in character creation.
Also, Man Recovering From Brain Damage Who Underdresses For Pennsylvania Winters solidarity. From my recent experiences, “look at this guy who comes off really unsteady and can’t talk well, sure people say his mind’s intact and he can communicate by computer during recovery but he’s obviously mentally useless forevermore!” was not just uncompelling but personally insulting
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Underexplored theory of the election that all those Christians who said they sympathized with Democratic positions but considered overturning Roe of overriding importance are now free to vote those other positions
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Well, this election’s results were within my cone of possibility, but near the edge, and it’ll take a while to find footing before I can see forward again
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Seen at least 2 mutuals marvel at how anyone could vote no on the Oregon resolution to amend the constitution to prohibit slavery. Well, I did, so here goes:
Like, no one’s legally holding chattel, I understood the question as “should we change up systems of prison labor and subject them to general wage labor laws intended for the circumstances of the outside” and had not been convinced that would usefully create a better world.
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Well, Oregon elections are all by mail, today isn’t really distinct
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LA mayor, NY and OR gov races all have Republicans in striking distance in the urban blue coasts
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Seeing Twitter leftists chest-thumping about this and I’m just like “hmm, I wonder if he was registering voters”
Because “violence against people going around registering voters for a federal election” is like the OG federal civil rights criminal offense
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Even the mainstream Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tina Kotek’s ads are shit-talking predecessor Kate Brown, first openly bisexual governor in America and the lowest-polling one in the country.
Which is pretty much because Oregon is so white that the Civil Rights Movement never led to a realignment so a lot of the state Democratic Party was still on a “white working class from rural areas with extractive economies” basis that are getting restive with an state party that’s increasingly nationally-aligned in service to a Portland-based professional class that more and more didn’t even come from Oregon
Which creates the situation where I say “even the mainstream Democrat” ‘cause there’s a third party “Democrat Like The Old Times” (like Bill Clinton in Arkansas!) in this race, Betsy Johnson
Recent polling suggests she’s in 3rd, from a respectable short-of-30% down to 11%, but the defection of her constituency could leave the Republican in 1st. I have sensed a more conservative vibe from her lately, which I don’t read as “mask off” so much as appealing to Republicans as a way to license herself to Democrats as not a spoiler
Even so, Phil Knight, head of Oregon’s flagship corporation Nike, who underwrote much of her campaign, has switched to Republican Christine Drazan, as well as backing Republican state legislators to “bring balance” to the Salem statehouse, which was evenly split when I arrived merely a decade ago. Oregon has no political contribution limits, and between him and timber money it’s clear if the Dems continue their pivot away from being resource-state backslappers there’s a war chest for realignment.
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John Fetterman seems to be running a good campaign from here, the only appeal I can see for Oz is, well, party control, and I think a Democratic Senate majority of 49 + N where N represent centrists that won’t be arm-twisted into filibuster reform would yield the best results for my taste, and I’d be comfortable with N up to 5 at this point
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