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Sure, who knows when that will be. Texas may not go blue this year but the demographics are changing and will be blue soon. A blue Texas would change the electoral college math for a long time. We won't see any changes with governors this year, but as the Dems get more.local control, and judges are starting to fight against racist gerrymandering, we will see fairer districts in states as well.

Exactly. Then when the pendulum swings back Dem as the polls and early voting are pointing to, change the rules by adding a couple more justices.

What would the rights reaction be if the Democrats nominate a Muslim?

These numbers are comparing 10/10 to the actual. The entire 2016 saw a ton of movement, see here: The 2020 election has not seen anything like above. It's been relatively flat for Biden and Trump. Plus don't forget there was a big swing in votes after the Comey election. I would agree with you on early voting numbers in any other year. However, a much larger set of the population is early voting than ever before due to COVID. NC I think goes Trump of any of the swing states.

The Republicans should fill this seat. It's in the Constitution that they can. However, it also was that Garland should have been brought to the Senate. Republicans betrayed that. They're going back on their word now. Lindsey Grahams spine looks worse than Daks foot. I didn't say how the amendment process works, I just said start the process. Give those.700,000 US citizens taxation with representation.

And making DC a state would change the Constitution. So let's get the process started already.

You don't see this kind of excitement for Trump: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/10/10/joe-biden-and-kamala-harris-hay-bale-display-set-fire/5954953002/ Unfortunately, someone burnt it down the next day. What's his source on this? Is this an actual thing or is he just making things up? I thought the right hated anonymous sources? Well though, is it anonymous if it's just him making things up?

Yea but imagine what the founding fathers would think if you told them you could fit 700,000 people in 10 square miles!

I think there is some redeeming idea s Trump brought: 1. Term limits on politicians 2. Separating lobbyists from politics and not having politicians beholden to lobbyists

My friend just texted that one to me and it's pretty funny.

The Dems packing the court is contingent on them winning the Senate. Will he or won't he, it is hard to tell. If he does it, who will it anger? The right. They're not voting for him anyways. In a scenario where the Dems control the House, Senate and White House, you're going to take a gamble then on if Dems can keep the get out to vote in the mid-terms (historically that hasn't happened). Not doing it angers the left. I personally think Biden is only there for 4 years anyways so that could give them some coverage in 2026 to still keep an engaged left. I would say go for it. Since Trump was sworn in, the Dems have been more engaged then ever (similar to the Tea Party post Obama). What can the Dems do to keep that momentum, whereas the Tea Party lost theirs? Not to go off topic but on your points: I lived in DC. It's crazy it's not a state. The only reason it's not a state is politics at this point. Republicans don't want it because it adds two more Dem senators. Not adding DC does keep more of a competitive balance to the Senate where either party has a shot to win. If you support keeping the Senate the way it is, why not support keeping the Supreme Court similar in structure? Let the Dems add 4 judges of Barrett passes. 3 liberal and 1 moderate. The court will then have a similar make up and no one party is in control.

Cannot the same be said that the Dems warned McConnell if you fill RGB with Barrett during an election year (which is his opposite position with Garland) that they'll pack the courts using the technique of McConnell's getting rid of the Supreme Court filabuster. You know, you reap what you sow.

Can you expand into this? What is single party control in this scenario? Harry Reid taught him to waive the filabuster on lower court and judicial appointments. 4 years ago, McConnell made up a rule on not appointing a Supreme Court Justice in an election year. Like 3 years ago, McConnel followed Reid and got rid of the filibuster on the Supreme Court. Reid never made up a rule of when the Senate should offer consent on Supreme Court appointments.

Do we count 2020? More people with health insurance means more people with health coverage, which hopefully means more lives saved. It did though when McConnell made up some dumb rule 4 years ago that never existed before.

No one should have a problem with the confirmation of Barrett. She is well qualified for the position. I doubt there would be any pushback from the left of it wasn't for Garland.

So the solution wasn't hire people who will do a good job but hire people who will be yes men, pledge loyalty, and always agree with him. I do believe Bidens mental capacity is diminished similar to Trump. It happens with old age, but hope Biden will not use that hiring policy.

Another reason to vote for Biden is Trump's hiring practices. He promised to bring on only the best people. However, he's had to fire a ton of people and shortly after firing them bashes how unqualified they are. So we have: 1. Trump is hiring incompetent people, which is terrible for the country 2. Trump lied to us when promising to hire only the best

That's a good point I never thought about. I think a majority of Dems have tuned out Trump and understand his lies vs what's real. Republicans still listen to him. So with that in mind, it wouldn't see surprising to see Democrats vote early in the same manner and the Republican vote actually end up being supressed.

Would you please point to the section of the Constitution that says either how many Supreme Court justices there are or that more cannot be added? Thanks! They literally would have won the Senate, House and Presidency legitimately for them to pack the Supreme Court. Republicans basically did work on packing the court the second McConnell refused to give advice and consent on Garland. Also none of this Court packing talk happens if Republicans wait until after January to try to get a justice on the Supreme Court like they demanded be done with Garland.

I'd chalk it up more as a gaffe than a political position. All the voters know the Dems are going to pack the court once they win the Senate and White House.

RIP Herman Cain. If only you didn't go to that Trump rally with no masks and no social distancing.

That's the thing. The media can say what they want, but actual ballots coming in are showing Democrats and Republicans aren't. I mean it's not a huge surprise, the polls showed Dems would early vote more than Republicans, but not by the margins: Americans are voting early in the 2020 general election at an unprecedented pace, with elections officials having already received more than 9 million ballots in the 30 states that have made data available, and that data indicates that registered Democrats have returned more than twice as many ballots than Republicans thus far https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/520306-democrats-surge-past-republicans-in-early-voting In Florida, registered Democrats had out-voted registered Republicans by a slim 37 percent to 35 percent margin by this point in 2016. Today, almost 53 percent of votes cast in Florida have come from registered Democrats, while Republicans account for just 28 percent In North Carolina, registered Democrats have cast 52 percent of all ballots so far, up from 36 percent four years ago. Registered Republicans account for just 17 percent of the ballots, down from 37 percent in 2016. And in Pennsylvania, a state at the heart of Trump's reelection strategy, registered Democrats have cast more than three-quarters of all ballots. Republicans made up just 15 percent of ballots returned to date.

Please describe the correlation of people showing up to events in a pandemic to showing voter turn out? We literally have hard data on voter turnout already from early voting and mail in ballots and it's been overwhelmingly Democrat.

Should we get an edit to the title to switch if to when?

So true. He seems like the kind of guy who would throw temper tantrums on Twitter. The full quote of they don't deserve to know: “Well sir, don’t the voters deserve to know-” DiMattei began to ask, as Biden interjected “no they don’t deserve,” before asserting “I’m not gonna play [Trump’s] game… he’d love that to be the discussion instead of what he’s doing now.”