mainers be like another 500,000 votes against big money in politics
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mainers be like another 500,000 votes against big money in politics
the only other possible contender, at least on the dem side who has expressed interest and would really shake things up, might be nirav shah who was the state cdc director during the pandemic and was/is pretty broadly popular and everyone knows who he is.
all four are declared. pingree has raised the most as of the last campaign finance deadline
just this one which is basically a name rec poll. i dont think it means much yet other than king is absolutely benefiting from people thinking he is his dad because there is no world where 80% of people know who he is lol
his favorability among dems statewide is like -35
its possible. i would be a little surprised if he did. he likely knows he cant win a statewide primary, let alone such a crowded. and then the independent lane has already been claimed by rick bennett.
golden announced a few months ago he decided to run for reelection in cd-2 rather than going for governor.
jeffries' approval is about 20 points underneath trump's
so much money gets wasted on quixotic campaign finance efforts that will inevitably get struck down. im almost willing to say its bad that people care about this as an issue because of that
it’s so cool that we had 2 incredibly unwell, close to death presidents in a row
evangelical white woman living in a rural area who attends church weekly and went to a far right anti-gay christian college, yet is still a lib
my sister is part of the 9% of evangelicals voting for harris lol
which cuts both ways of course. she can be an incredible voice on palestine with the trade off of being only a rep. its a pretty different strategy than aoc (or even zohran w/re: policing for example)
something ive thought about quite a bit is that she is able to be so good, because she has no desire for higher office, and so is able to fully commit to the politics of her local constituency.
kind of ironic for all of the evil social media has done (and that people who only get their news off it are morons), that if you only follow traditional media you also have no idea whats going on in the world either
I do not deny the existence of class interests as such. I do deny class distinctions always being the most important and salient divisions in any given circumstances and I do deny that having class interests addressed will automatically supersede deeply seated preexisting bigotries on the whole.
temperance movement but for gambling
the 2018 dem primary had 126,000 votee cast. so like 5% of the primary electorate was at the rally lmfao
if you had a rally in new york city that had 1% of its metro area it would be like 200k people if you want a sense
i feel like its worth noting that 6000 people is 1% of portlands greater metro area or 0.5% of the states population
during bernie's speech, he said one of the reasons he wants graham to join him in the senate, is because graham will vote to block further aid to israel and that we need more of those voices in congress!
probably the biggest applause moments (at least where it felt like from where i was sitting in the front section) were this abortion line, his gaza line, and then when troy talked about rights for the wabanaki. the mood was economic populism, but also one infused with justice for all
they shook hands and hugged at the end. i can't remember if he specifically said like "graham for senate" or not (he might have) but that was the implication at least
that was one of the most exhilarating rallies ive ever been to
yeah its crazy in here
iam president bringing incredible energy
still like an hour before speakers. in the music section before it starts
the venue feels pretty full. the way back is empty, but most of the rest is full
very excited
i dont know how people can see graphs like this and it not be clear that the lefty anti-free trade position is dead for a generation
favorite first time watches of august insomnia a fish called wanda phantom thread election
a bunch of you really believe that trump is the unstoppable god king who can do whatever he declares and it is dumb as hell
body double
if trump is cleveland this means were on track for a midwestern governor succeeding him, only to die in his 2nd term to be replaced by a very young new yorker vp. looking forward to president aoc in 2033.
i feel like maximal humor needs to occur by trump dying after the dems retake either chamber of congress next year, and so vance can't get a VP confirmed
i feel like hes not dead, but also this feels like when people where figuring out the VP picks based on black cars rolling up to vance and walz houses
got to meet my sisters cat tonight. she was very timid
driving in storms sucks man
were in a weeks long drought that then decides to finally end with a big thunderstorm at the exact time i gotta drive to nh. why
i think thats a pretty reasonable source of skepticism, but fwiw his district for state house is r+20 and is held by the gop house leader, and the senate seats is like r+30. doesn't shock me he didnt bother, a lot of the people who run for those kinds of seats here are basically placeholders
any of them have their constituencies and areas they would do well in, but idk if it would be enough to overcome statewide oystermentum. whereas mills probably just does assad numbers in the dem core and thats the ball game. unless people think shes too old/graham really juices young voters
i could see breen, frey or fecteau being the leading candidate, but all would have a much harder time against platner. my money rn is if mills stays out platner will win the nom, if she does enter, she probably wins
names you get seen thrown around in the press as potentially interested candidates include former state senator cathy breen, speaker of the house ryan fecteau, AG aaron frey, dan kleban who owns a brewery and the chief of the penobscot nation kirk francis
also created this hilarious graph. literally just that meme about swapping out the chip in the wojacks head
it caused her approval among independents to tick down a bit, presumably because they saw her in a more partisan light rather than her more typical moderate image
inshallah
nah wood is a grifter, they have other people who will jump in if she does not
her popularity dipped a bit this year cause of the trump stuff, but her favorability here is second only to angus. also easy to forget she is from rural cd2 and so is able to do better in northwestern maine than other dems while still bringing votes in the south/midcoast
i dont think schumer wants mills because of palestine, i think he wants her because shes very good at winning elections in maine and is very popular
this is a great article, with a lot of bits people are pulling out, but i wanna point to this. were like the size of the bronx, we dont have that many people and everyone does kinda know everyone. ME politics world is even smaller. there being this much groundswell of grassroots people says a lot
i think so far this is all he has said on the topic (along with the general anti-war stance on his site). definitely curious to see where he goes from here.
he had this to say in an interview last week (havent read this new article yet)
isnt this somewhat predicated on the new blood being straight upgrades? like: shaheen -> pappas durbin -> krishnamoorthi peters -> stevens not exactly inspiring swaps, particularly on an issue like israel for example
thats a fair point. i guess i read it as the pitch that would be given next year when people are paying attention, but youre right
or the inverse -- cutting off parents after "Dad, I'm gay" goes poorly. have to imagine a lot of those people are in the kamala camp and think of it as political
i would assume the age bit is because she'll be 78 by the primary next spring
america in a multiparty system would be way more insane than i think is generally assumed. def wouldnt just be the standard euro left/SD/lib/green/EPP/right wing mix
We will use these resources to build the strongest campaign Maine has ever seen.
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
torres coming off as an absolute psychopath to humanistic line of questioning here
the only exception in fighting games is i play marth in melee, but he is also kinda gay
this is me. i will only play female characters in fighting games and, with some exceptions, will really only play an rpg if there is the option to be a woman
i am just very skeptical that the legacy media is capable of handling events like this with much accuracy given the ties to obscure/occultic far-right politics and will opt for the easier (and premade) narrative
materials cost is way up and we’re raiding all the job sites, so I guess this makes sense
every day i am haunted by this from First Reformed
Maine has the oldest population of any state and a high rate of disability. Question 1, on the November ballot, figures to make voting (especially by mail) much harder for many, and particularly for older folks and people with disabilities. New in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/maine-questi...
beast mode
yeah and the flip side is as it continues to boom (and the prices go up) lot of current portlanders are moving to cheaper parts of the state
oh for sure. a lot of republicans move there from southern new england
i do miss public transit, i loved living in a big city. covid brought me back up here cause i had to move back in with my parents. i assumed i would end up leaving for a city again, but met my partner instead
In the richest country on Earth, hospitals are closing en masse. In rural Maine you’re driving an hour to the nearest birthing center. The hospital in Blue Hill where I was born is closed. It’s a disaster brought on by decades of pure greed, and nothing short of Medicare for All can turn the tide.
people forget the greens do kind of insanely well here in state wide races. they were getting like 10% in gubernatorial races in the 90s/00s. 5% in the 2020 senate. they're still a total joke full of cranks but they have an appeal to a certain kind of mainer
(in fairness its 70% dem)
yeah i had previously vowed to never live in a town smaller than portland again after growing up in rural nh, yet here i am living in a town of 20k people lol
for sure. maine had a similar back to the land movement as vermont in the 70s, but at a smaller scale. so there's already a pretty strong crunchy undercurrent. then you add in no longer needing to live in boston for jobs and the feeling youre talking about. its a recipe for big demographic shifts
i have a theory that maine is going to vermont-ify over the next couple decades due to post-covid in migration and the advent of wfh. we're 8th in per capita net migration and the state economic report on who is moving here its all woke people with masters degrees from mass
city upon a hill motherfucker
its cause new england is the center of the universe
Okay this guy is anti-war and still normal in Ukraine and USAID, all my doubts are gone
its pretty impressive with the caveat that these are all in hancock county which is his part of the state he will for sure win
oh for sure. i just meant like bernie on his own can only get like 2k, its the compounding that theres him plus two candidates people are into
he is insanely charismatic
maybe, he did a rally here last fall that fit in a 1.8k one
the portland event on monday got so many rsvps that they had to switch from the 1,000 seat venue to a 9,000 seat one
Full houses in Sullivan (population 1,244), Ellsworth (population 8,907) Sorrento (population 279), and Orland (population 2,203). We’re building something big enough to win. Find a town hall near you: grahamforsenate.com/events
It is fascinating and a bit horrifying that in some ways we're moving past traditional mass politics into something like fandom politics
let's fucking go
It's gone beyond even rolling back 1776. It's turned into an attempt to roll back the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
all these guys yearn to be a peasant in the duchy of shithole-backwater and are gonna destroy the richest economy in world history so they can cosplay it
pax britannica podcast getting to the stuart restoration
Bucket list item: Speak at a rally with Sen. Bernie Sanders on Labor Day ✅
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
oh for sure
this is 100% correct, but i would go further and argue that the cynicism at the root of both basically makes socialist politics impossible
thats pretty interesting. you are right there is still a kind of electoral oriented person who doesnt like to show up to stuff. in my experience i just feel like their relevance has been overestimated
no im saying re: understanding anything. people easily volunteering for an exciting campaign doesnt really mean much when if we had followed their plans it wouldn't have happened because we would not have created the conditions for it to occur
i think thats less to do with differing groups of people and more so the same groups of people being incoherent. the venn diagram of "i like zohran" and "purge the (((zionists)))" is way more of a circle than i think a lot of people realize
i think it used to be like 5 years ago, but the amount of turnover post-pandemic im not really so sure