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Open Thread — Sunday Afternoon, January, 20 2019
Two Dkos posts this weeks on troubling stories involving Minnesota students. The first is one by FlannelGuy with a post on a Trump 2020 banner Jordan High School students brought to a basketball game against Minneapolis Roosevelt. The second post by Marissa Higgins is on a Minnetonka teen’s Nazi-themed Valentine’s Day Dance invitation.
The incidents were among several topics we discussed yesterday at our Twin Cities Kossacks monthly meetup. Ten TC Kossacks gathered at Turtle Bread in Minneapolis for a toast in celebration of our one-year anniversary of regular monthly meetups. Rosebuddear has a separate post with pics.
It’s been a lot of fun this past year as convener of these meetups. I’ve had some great conversations and thoroughly enjoyed meeting and getting to know fellow Kossacks here in MN. If you live in Minnesota, I hope you can join us at future meetup, held on the third Saturday of each month at rotating locations (see info at the bottom of this post for details on our Feb. meetup).
As we did at our first meetup a year ago, we had a poll asking assembled Twin Cities Kossacks the following questions:
- How long will Trump last in office?
- Who are your top three picks for President in 2020?
The results of the Trump question this year was a tie:
How long will Trump last? — 2019 TC Kossacks Poll
Out by end of 2019 (impeached or resigns) |
2 |
Out by end of 2020 (impeached or resigns) |
4 |
He won’t run for re-election |
0 |
He runs, but loses in 2020 |
4 |
He is re-elected in 2020 |
0 |
Others |
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For comparison, here’s what TC Kossacks thought at our meetup a year ago:
How Long Will Trump Last ? — 20018 TC Kossacks Poll
- Out of office by the end of 2018
|
2 votes |
- Out of office by the End of 2019
|
2 votes |
- He Won’t run for re-election in 2020
|
3 votes |
- He runs, but loses in 2020
|
1 vote |
|
0 vote |
|
1 vote
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What’s your prediction for how long Trump will stay in office? Take the poll below.
The other poll question was to gauge preferences at this point for 2020 Democratic candidates for President. Here how people ranked their top three choices for 2020. This year we also asked people to indicate which person they did not want as a candidate.
Top 3 Picks for 2020 — Jan 2019 Twin Cities Kossacks poll
Most votes for 1st Choice |
TIE: Warren & Klobuchar (3 votes)
>After those two, next top 1st place votes tie: O’Rourke & Castro (2 votes)
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Most votes for 2nd choice |
Klobuchar (4 votes)
>After her, O’Rourke is top 2nd choice pick (3 votes)
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Most Votes for 3rd Choice |
Harris (4 votes)
>After her, top 3rd choice pick tie: Warren & Brown (2 votes)
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Most “no” votes |
1st — Biden (5 “no” votes)
2nd — Oprah (4 “no” votes)
3rd — Tie: Bloomberg, Sanders, Gabbard, McAuliffe, O’Rrourke (3 “no” votes)
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Very likely some Minnesota bias going on here in support of one of our own. But it’s not just Minnesotans that have been talking up Sen. Klobuchar. Here’s the vote from our Twin Cities Kossacks meetup we had in January 2018:
Top Three Picks for 2020 — Jan 2018 Twin Cities Kossacks poll
Candidate |
1st choice |
2nd Choice |
3rd Choice |
Sen. Warren |
3 votes |
1 vote |
1 vote |
Sen. Booker |
2 votes |
0 |
0 |
Sen. Sanders |
1 vote
|
1 vote |
1 vote |
Sen. Harris |
1 vote |
1 vote |
1 vote |
Sen. Klobuchar |
1 vote |
2 votes |
0 |
Sen. brown |
0 |
2 votes |
1 vote |
Sen. gillibrand |
0 |
1 vote |
2 votes |
Gov. McAuliffe |
0 |
0 |
1 vote |
rep. Danica roem |
0 |
0 |
1 vote |
Frmr Vp Biden |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Oprah |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Gov. Inslee |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Here are the details on our February meetup:
- The next Twin Cities Kossacks Meetup will be held Saturday, Feb 16, 4 p.m. at the Iron Ranger, 1085 Grand Ave, St Paul, MN 55105. Look for us at a table with a Daily Kos sign. This pub is near the intersection of Grand and Lexington, good transit access, there is parking in back.
Hope you can join us. Please post below, or Kosmail me, idlemoments,, if you are a yes, or maybe. it really helps to know how many people are coming so we can grab enough chairs.
What’s going on in your world today? As always, this is an open thread, post away.