Charlie Board

Basically the bottom fell out of pop radio in 1986 of the golden era that ran from 1965-1984. 1989 was probably the nadir.

The idea that 'running on economic populism' precludes holding any positions that are not economic is just.....bizarre.

Every economic populist in US history has also held other positions!!!

That said....'making cars more affordable' certainly IS a form of economic populism.

Putting aside the moral cost of letting people starve (as only true monsters could) there's also the fact that SNAP accounts for a full 12% of grocery purchases in the United States....so the notoriously low margin grocery sector is about to go into full-blown depression.

We need a Severance spinoff that's just people opting into 9 hours a day of not knowing who Trump is.

I agree that filibuster reform should be an absolute litmus test in blue states.

But in purple/red states first priority is winning a seat and preventing a Republican vote. THEN worry about which reforms you can get them to support. Electability is job 1

And again.....Senators who don't support it in Jan 2027 might possibly succumb to two years of intelligent pressure and further Trump/SCotUS/GOP insanity.

Or, God forbid, even die and be replaced if we're accounting for all possibilities and worried about old candidates.

Maybe. But it takes 51 votes to nuke the filibuster in 2027 vs only 50 in 2029 if we have the White House. 51 is almost impossible - the two closest races are *Dem* seats we have to hold and it means winning NC and Maine PLUS TWO long shots.

Best bet is get partway there in 2026 & finish in '28

I agree with you in principle, but filibuster reform is 100% irrelevant until at least Jan 2029.

And winning any seats we can before then makes it easier to get to 50 reform votes then.

Plus even this seat....you have two years to pressure Mills or, well, she IS old and.

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Tasteless to talk about it, but realistically probably less than 50-50 he's even alive in 5 years.

It tells you a lot about how sincere the anti-gerontocracy movement on the left is that they were all in on Bernie last year at age 83 with a history that includes a heart attack in recent years.

12 year

So you are saying both it 'has come to this' and "it's not that choice yet"?

No need to answer - rhetorical question. ;)

I fully get the frustration

If he'd had 52 seats I'm pretty sure Biden could've restored it to its historical form. Would've taken 55-60 to eliminate it completely I think.

Shrug. I suspect a majority of Maine primary voters will think that IS the choice in front of them.

Unless a strong new filibuster-supporting candidate materializes out of nowhere. (Though I suspect changing Mills' mind is probably slightly more likely)

Not if the choice is between a D who supports it and an R.

Then you're moving the ball in the wrong direction.

It sucks that Mills isn't willing to go there (yet).

But....

1) Eliminating the filibuster does us no good until at least Jan 2029 and

2) Every seat we win in 2026 gives us more margin to spare in a filibuster vote in Jan 2029

3) Every vote matters from Jan 2027 - Dec 2028

Not really related to your point but......you KNOW if Broder were alive he'd have found a way to blame all this on Dems and be ok with Trump.

Also, the idea of flying around in a fighter jet full of your own shit to begin with.....

So are you on the ground in ME?

I suspect the 'white rural voters are racists' comment was fatal to him. But I'm utterly despondent over Mills' filibuster position.

Are there any other remotely plausible options in the race yet?

Is there a simple way to undo application of a block list?
Say, maybe, in January 2029?

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Man, I HATE it when fragile people respond to facts with blocks instead of good faith response. Straight up GOP-cult style behavior

I really would like to see one of the Platner advocates engage honestly with Maine's track record of non-GOP selections. That's what the primary will be about.

But racists HATE being CALLED racists - I actually think yesterday's reveal of the 'white rural voters are racist' statement was the actual dealbreaker.....

If I was't clear, my apologies - but I can't really make it clearer without knowing what part you didn't get.

Put another way 'reach out to independents, infrequent voters and nonvoters' as a primary strategy hasn't worked anywhere that I can think of in a competitive purple general.

Got example?

lol!

With respect (seriously), I'd just say we've heard the praises of 'independent crossover appeal plus energizes the base, young voters, nonvoters' sung a LOT since 2016 but I honestly can't of anywhere it's actually worked yet that wasn't pretty safe blue to start with.

What races have I missed?

I agree, but I don't think we *start* getting from here to there in a must-win state - with the entire future of the republic on the line - where the path to victory runs squarely and mathematically inescapably through ........rural white people.

That's a battle for very different field

"But see, my wife didn't look like a shiny dumpster on wheels!"

TBF, neither do men!

I was sitting here thinking....I don't think I've EVER (not even once) seen anyone actually using it as a, you know, truck. Never seen ANYTHING in the 'bed'

'order of magnitude' is an arithmetic term that weighs very heavily against your reading and lines up very well (and numerically reasonably accurately) with the plain reading of 'number of people'.

It seems to me to be bad faith to read *anyone* as claiming NK to be *more important* than CRM now