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There is a very slim chance we may take or get runoffs for both the Alaska and NC Senate seats, which I believe would get us a tie not counting the GA runoffs. If that happens I will lose my mind and it shall never return. Carville has been ranting about us taking the AK seat for days. I thought he was insane on that one two nights ago, but he also began insisting Michigan was a red mirage then and he was right.

You forgot the part where he is working with JFK Jr., who faked his death. I'm not kidding.

It makes me a little misty knowing that Agnes would have a lot to say about this era of our lives. She and Debbi Morgan did not miss when all but addressing the camera head-on re: GOP men and abortion rights in 2013. That episode of AMC 2.0 was the best episode of soap opera in that entire accursed decade IMO. We are weaker culturally and spiritually for not being able to educate a generation with her two main soaps right now, both AMC and OLTL. They were made for these times.

On that I agree. We keep telling these people the language and approach are wrong and they don't want to hear it. I think a lot of progressive initiatives are worthwhile and worth pursuing, but if you can't sell it you can't make shít happen. Anything approaching the word 'socialism' is radioactive in this country and will remain that for at least a couple more generations. Police de-escalation, demilitarization is a lot better to work with than acting like you want to abolish the cops. We can deliver policies on par with shared liberal goals and call them different things. Incredible:

Doesn't matter. Perception is reality with some of these things. Another good point made on the Dem call: Pascrell said Schumer is a problem for them, leaving Pelosi doing a good job but "with one hand tied behind her back". IMO that's right. Schumer is a good man but weak.

Trump and Bush both called these numbers a mandate, sometimes without the Congress or the Senate. We can too.

Pelosi disagreed with her. I see both points of view; she's right that that rhetoric hurt a lot of moderates and has to be reworked and rebranded in how we talk about de-militarizing the police, etc. But what gets Spanberger elected in a red state is not the issue or chosen cause of every Dem across the nation in very different places, and Spanberger needs to recognize that. I'm very glad she held her seat, but I'm tired of moderates demanding the party always hew to them first and last. They have to meet us halfway too. That doesn't mean I'm remotely interested in hewing to the goals of, say, the Squad, because I think only Pressley and AOC have made strides to mature, but I still think the party needs to be prepared to take names and kick ass. Fight for our issues, don't run from them just because of our red state members. Give them room to moderate locally. But the only thing the GOP and their less committed swing voters respect is strength or the appearance thereof. When Trump and Bush won with numbers like what we're now facing, they called it a mandate and walked tall, and the media believed it. We have to do that. We have to be forceful and we have to take it to them. Pelosi did also say it flat out: "Joe Biden has a mandate." Good. Meanwhile:

The GA remaining numbers are razor-thin but based on what I am seeing Biden can take it. It will be very close but I believe it. Call it.

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No one in their bench has the raw power he has with that base, and the built-in TV recognition. That's their problem going forward.

Whoa! @marceline @JaneAusten

Exactly. I don't believe this country will be ready for Kamala in four years. Not after what we've been through, and not after what these people did. It's surprised me before, you never know. But I think eight is a better shot.