Recent content by adma

To be fair, the structure of the US legislative bodies means that Dem leadership, or for that matter GOP leadership, has never been a very strong motivator in voter decisions re those bodies--Jeffries/Schumer certainly aren't commanding "prime ministerial" figureheads; and that's by design, not...

I realize that; which is why we're in more of a potential draw situation than an outright Dem win situation. Still, currently by way of Wikipedia, there are 9 GOP Senate seats currently rated by at least one polling agency "Lean R" or narrower--if *all* of those flipped, we'd have a Dem Senate...

Not anymore--or at least, it's not a sure thing anymore. *That's* how deep things have been effed up.

I know; that's what I meant by "opposite end of the ideological spectrum". But as per my "generic Liberal" point, in the Chretien/Martin era especially, voters voted for the brand, not for the person, because the other contender parties were perceived as not ready for prime time.

Re the NDP in SSW: it's not like there isn't *long-term* potential here (and besides 2011, don't forget that John Harney in the 70s and Reid Scott in the 60s also represented much of this area). However, I agree that unless there's an "Avi bump" the party's in no shape to be even 2nd-place...

Consider that Trump and Hegseth might have different goals--plundering vs Rapturing w/a dash of video-game cosplay.

Unstable *and* lackadaisical enough to take the advice of Christian Nationalists to that end--the "End Times is the End Goal" crowd.

Many on the left are very sympathetic to if not outright allied with Christianity, too Think of the Social Gospel, et al.

I can still see it being narrower, even if tokenly so--narrower than Miller vs Pitfield in '06--and a big part of it is that for whatever reason (racism, sexism, etc), Chow has always been branded as more "alienating" than Miller. Even when she was leading in the polls going into past mayoral...

All the same, here's things looking like a statistical tie, already. https://davidcoletto.substack.com/p/with-tory-out-torontos-mayoral-race And it makes sense--particularly when it comes to amalgamated municipal entities, there's always going to be that demo that's *really* antsy about the...

Except that once you trigger something as totalizing as Armageddon, there'll be nobody left to try you for said war crimes. And you may think that, as the Faithful, you'll achieve Transcendence; but that's like saying that nobody knew or cared who Elliott Rodger was before Isla Vista, and...

And if you think any of that is scary...

You'll probably ultimately be seeing Russian-style propaganda about how dying for one's country is a heroic and worthy cause.

Yeah, they're not going to flip Fulton County, However, they *could* make it difficult for voters in "Democrat precincts" to vote--that is, it went 71-27 Dem last time; shave off enough Dem votes through suppression tactics so it's more like 60-40 when it comes to "recorded votes", and that's...