Hear me out on this

I think that the Democrats were counting on the SCOTUS pick and confirmation making the midterm a single issue election because they have nothing else to run on

if Cocaine Mitch can get the confirmation done, then in Theory the dems have nothing else to run on

I get that, but I think it’s too risky for them. I doubt it would be worth it.

look, the Democrats know that introducing the articles of Impeachment is just the first step. They need a Senatorial Majority for it to mean anything, and would still need 2/3 of Congress to agree on the removal

Good point. They won’t find anything though.

They don't need to. It's political

How likely do you think the “Bluewave “will even happen?

there are a lot of factors to that, and I'm about 50% on iyt

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Oh.

I hope it fizzles out. Lol

Keep in mind that everything I just said up there, about the steps to impeachment, is well known by political scholars on the left as well

the lay people don't know it, but most scholars do

and the Progressives are going to the voting booth believing that their very lives depend on getting Trump out of office, even though they don't quite know why

I think you see turnout for this election that rivals 2016, and election fraud on an unprecedented scale

RBG is going to cling on til death. Kavanagh will still be an election issue for the left regardless of whether he's confirmed before the midterms. The left will believe they can remove or something.

Does election fraud even happen? I’ve always heard that it rarely ever happens.

I always had the feeling no one was looking very hard. third parties can't verify because they aren't allowed access to voting info (for good reason). Only the FBI can investigate. In cases where you hear about stacks of absentee ballots being "accidently" delivered somewhere, there are no follow ups and considered isolated. Also we never get to hear about who dead people voted for when they find a dead person voted (who are they protecting at that point).

I guess so. I’ve always thought that claim was a bit fishy anyways. How do you know if fraud has been committed if you don’t have a way to check the identity of the voter? Also, I wonder if some people do door to door campaigning after ballots have been mailed out in states that do that.

On a state level there is a political fight over purging voter rolls. One side wants the rolls checked more often for dead people, and for people who haven't voted in a long time (like a decade) to be taken off. The reason being to keep dead people from being used, and to remove people who have moved (the state doesn't know when you move). The other side claims too many people get accidently removed and some people just don't vote for a while and will be surprised when they come back to vote and aren't registered. I personally find it very suspicious that one political party is always in favor of the policy that makes fraud easier. Not to mention I am not bothered by processes and policies that make it harder for shallow and less engaged citizens to not vote (e.g. no same day registration, voter id, auto- purging dead people from rolls)

Also not a fan of absentee ballots. I feel that person should have to at least pick those up in person or something (my exception would be military deployment).

But you can same day register in most places

I always wondered when you have same day registration do they require any kind of id?

Yeah. It’s a difficult issue. On one hand, I don’t want people to be unnecessarily kicked out of the system, but I understand how fraud could be made easier.

In Wisconsin we have same day registration and voter ID

But before Voter ID, you just walked into a polling place with a piece of mail that had your name on it. I see the problem with that because in 04, I was legally getting mail in 3 places in three districts

In 06, at election time, I was getting mail at three addresses in 3 districts in 2 different states

Were you getting voting stuff at all three locations?

I moved states, and the previous state I lived in still sends me stuff about voting. I could vote at both addresses, and if someone new that they could easily vote using my name through absentee without ever showing any id.

I wasn't getting voting stuff. I did it legally and only voted at my aunt's house. But I could have done so at my parent's house and my campus and no one would have questioned it

My old apartment in Kenosha is vacant, without voter ID, some union guy would probably be voting from there

you know that's why they send people around to remind them to vote

I'm actually completely ok with same day registration as long as Voter ID is in place.

thanks @Salacious Swanky Cat and @grant . I think you gentlemen made my Sunday Video for me

Yay!

well, prepare for an apathetic Matt Christiansen tonight

Why is that @J Edgar?

I don't know how far the delay is for NFL mobile, so no spoilers, but where I'm at in the game, the Vikings are going to be hard pressed to win. Still doable, so no spoilers, but hard pressed for sure

I'm not big on NFL but my family watches college football so I'm aware of it as a consequence

I know that LSU beat Auburn by a cunt hair last night