The Resurgent Young Voters

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Wednesday April 06, 2016 · 1:11 AM PDT

2016/04/06 · 01:11

A funny thing happened this primary season in America, young folks showed up to vote. Specifically, unlike the chart I show above (from www.electproject.org/...), this primary season 18-30 year olds are voting at the same rate as older voters (www.nytimes.com/...).

Eyeballing that chart, it looks like the normal young voter rate is around 20% lower than the rate for all voters, depending on the cycle you are looking at it might be closer to 15%. Who are those young voters coming out to support?

Well, again and again, Bernie Sanders wins those voters by unheard of margins.

So here is the question we need to ask. Will those literally millions of young voters show up to vote for Hillary? Are they showing up because they suddenly realized that any Democrat is better than whoever the Republicans nominate, or are they showing up for Bernie? This is a REALLY important question that people need to ask, not only for the Presidential contest, but for the Senate too. Maybe Clinton will win despite not getting out the young vote (see Donald Trump), but if she wins while a lot of Democratic Senate nominees lose, she could find herself facing a fully Republican congress for the duration of her presidency (we are not going to win Senate seats in 2018, it is an off year and we will be playing defense for the Senators who got the Obama coattails in 2012).

What is more important, the first female President, or the Senate?

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31 votes Show Results

Will 18-30 year old Bernie supporters come out to vote in November if he isn't on the ballot?

31 votes Vote Now!

Will 18-30 year old Bernie supporters come out to vote in November if he isn't on the ballot?

Yes

6 votes

13 votes

Not sure

11 votes

It shouldn't matter

1 vote

Constitutional Amendment?

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Thursday October 17, 2013 · 3:14 PM PDT

2013/10/17 · 15:14

So I don't know if we could get this passed even with the current anger, but I have to get this off my chest.
Can we please get a Constitutional Amendment saying that when the US Budget expires, that the members of the House, Senate, and the US President must remain in the capitol building until a new budget or CR is passed?
I'm pretty sure that if they can't leave the building and have to order pizza and Chinese just to eat, that the shutdown won't last more than a week ever again.

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If congress can't pass a budget...

53 votes Vote Now!

If congress can't pass a budget...

Who cares?

3 votes

They should not be paid.

8 votes

They should be expelled/charged with a crime.

4 votes

They should be locked in the capitol building until they get an agreement.

10 votes

The government should continue on the prior year's budget until an agreement is made.

28 votes

Another way to scare Republicans

computant

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Sunday October 13, 2013 · 7:55 PM PDT

2013/10/13 · 19:55

So while ago I talked about how to scare republicans, and therefore get them to the bargaining table. You have to remember that many Republicans thought patterns are fear based, so getting them to fear what we want is a good way to get them to move in the correct (or "right" if you will pardon the pun) direction.

I had talked about how if we are optimistic, crowing about how much their actions will help Dems win political fights, and restore social spending while gutting the military, they might balk.

But they may think we are wrong about that, so lets talk about their bank accounts (below the fold of course)

computant

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Saturday October 12, 2013 · 8:09 AM PDT

2013/10/12 · 08:09

If the Debt Ceiling isn't raised, Obama should direct the Treasury to immediately stop payments for any border patrol expenses. The Border patrol and INS should be told to go home until the debt limit is raised.
Then Obama can calmly ask the Tea Party if they would rather have border patrol, or a shut down gov't

Time for Obama to concede to R's?

computant

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Wednesday October 09, 2013 · 12:07 PM PDT

2013/10/09 · 12:07

Someone once described Akido to me as the polite martial art. If someone punches in your direction, it is incredibly rude to get in the way of the punch, you should move out of the way and even help make their punch faster by tugging on their arm.
Perhaps Obama should concede the Republican argument that he doesn't have to raise the debt ceiling, and say, in essence, "OK, so you gave me two conflicting laws, I get to decide which to follow."
But how? See below the break.

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How should Obama deal with the debt limit

125 votes Vote Now!

How should Obama deal with the debt limit

Sacrifice Obamacare for the budget

4 votes

Wait for Republicans to blink

52 votes

Immediatly cut military procurement contracts to buy more time

10 votes

Tell military to suspend all available payments (including all procurement contracts) to buy more time

4 votes

Tell Republicans that if the debt limit isn't increased he will have to stop all military spending to stay under the debt limit.

55 votes

How to scare Republicans into Passing the CR

computant

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Monday October 07, 2013 · 10:13 AM PDT

2013/10/07 · 10:13

Right now the Republicans, both in the House and the rank and file voters, are seeing Democrats worried, complaining, being negative. We are expressing our dislike and fear of the shutdown.

This means that they have leverage.

So how to be positive, make them worry, end their leverage? Below the fold.

computant

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Sunday October 06, 2013 · 8:32 PM PDT

2013/10/06 · 20:32

Simple question, why is military spending the one part of government spending the Republicans like?

Answer, $140 Billion in procurment contracts, along with billions more in contracts for food, gate guards, payroll, and everything else the military used to do for themselves.
How to reduce the wasteful spending on the military, thus diverting funds for things like food for kids and medicine for 50-somethings?

How to fix it? After the break.

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Which shifts should Obama make in military spending?

27 votes Vote Now!

Which shifts should Obama make in military spending?

Fewer Contracts, more government workers.

5 votes

Military design of Weapon Systems

0 votes

Military assembly of Weapon Systems

0 votes

All of the Above

22 votes

How to convince a Republican

computant

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Saturday October 05, 2013 · 9:54 AM PDT

2013/10/05 · 09:54

Lets face it, the party divides are too great to bridge by a quip or even a good talking point.

That great guy who always votes Republican is going to keep doing it next year and 20 years from now, no matter how persuasive your arguments. In some ways, party identification is more like Religious identification than opinion.

But that can be a good thing too. If we can convince the friendly Republicans we know of one or two important points, then they return to their friends on the other side of the great divide with new ideas, new outlooks, which will be accepted precisely because they are Republicans.

A couple key ideas and the "how to" below the fold.

computant

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Friday October 04, 2013 · 9:34 AM PDT

2013/10/04 · 09:34

One thing I think people forget about the President is that he is not, constitutionally, a leader. He is an executive.
People get wrapped around the veto, and the fact that with the staff, and the executive ownership of the departments, the President proposes the budget.
But the President also administers the budget...

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