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Henry Wallace from Iowa, FDR's VP. Other than that, the closest would be Paul Wellstone or maybe LaFollette from Wisconsin a century ago. Hearst was more populist than socialist. Or the AFL-CIO leaders in the 50s 60s 70s.

Can anyone imagine Sanders turning Texas? His main argument was that younge Hispanics were turning out for him, but the sympathetic Castro comments would have crushed him in Florida.

Conor Lamb already rallied back in that area of PA...seems like a foregone conclusion Biden will eventually win there.

There's only been two significant successes in my 51 years on earth. Hope and change candidates who are articulate and have charisma and the ability to connect with voters. Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Two in my lifetime. At one point, I would have argued Mario Cuomo possessed that same ability, but he never seemed to want to put himself and his family through the process of being under the national microscope (and many argued there were too many NY politics skeletons buried in his closet as well.) Jessie Jackson had it, from an oratorical standpoint, but he was never going to be able to extend his niche support, at least not back in the 1980's and early 90's.

The Dems and their establishment did get the idea of Biden landslide badly wrong, and it cost America, in the end, their refusal to take reality seriously. You shouldn’t join them in this game of denial and wishful thinking. Those of you who are about to condemn me for pointing it out should be holding them to account — the Democratic machine, Nate Silver, etcetera, instead. Because even if Biden pulls off a victory now, he has surely been denied a mandate. He may win, but the chance of a resounding triumph is now dust in history’s wind. .... Ultimately, believing in a Biden landslide cost Demcorats, and Americans, this — the chance to prevent Trump’s coup. The one he was always going to try, if the vote was even remotely close. Betting on a landslide, believing in the polls, undermined the very possibility of one. That’s not some kind of paradox, it’s just basic logic. If you believe that you’re going to triumph, why bother trying to the absolute limits of your capabilities? So the nightmare scenario is now here. Biden doesn’t just have to win an election now. He has to stop Trump from winning a coup. All that is the price of believing the fantasy of a landslide. It’s lethal and catastrophic. Biden may yet win, but sadly it won’t be a triumph. And there is still the coup to consider. Please. Please. Take it seriously. Don’t minimise it. Because even now, you will be making another mistake. That the coup can’t succeed, just because democracy has to win. Learn from this mistake, my friend, don’t be naive. The point of a coup is to end democracy. And there is now every chance that Trump and his fanatics will succeed at just that. https://eand.co/why-there-was-no-biden-landslide-b7156091a2d8

On Georgia: But make no mistake: Partisans (and donors) in both parties can do the math we just did. Which means they, too, know the massively high stakes for the Senate (and the country) at work in Georgia over these next few months. Which means that millions upon millions of dollars will pour into both of these races and they will both get covered like mini-presidential races by the state and national media, since there will be no other elections out there. Handicapping the two potential runoffs is virtually impossible at the moment because of the level of uncertainty in the presidential race -- and in Georgia in particular. If Biden winds up winning the state, and that's certainly at least a possibility as of this moment, then Democrats may well be energized heading into the runoffs. Or maybe Republicans, who have long taken the state's conservative bent for granted, will see the two likely Senate runoffs as a chance to reassert their state's ideological lean. Plus, with the amount of money and national media attention (and scrutiny) that will land on all four of these candidates, it's hard to know who will blossom and who will wither. What we do know for certain is that the 2020 election -- and the battle for the Senate majority -- is far from over. And Georgia is the next battleground. https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/05/politics/georgia-senate-jon-ossoff-david-perdue-kelly-loeffler-raphael-warnock/index.html

Unfortunately putting 20 million off ObamaCare with no national GOP health care plan since the 1980's might be the only way to pressure McConnell or Graham. That said, they just had hundreds of millions of dollars and the kitchen sink thrown at them to no avail. Let's count down the number of minutes after Biden is officially president-elect before they start arguing about the national debt and there's absolutely no money available without raising taxes on the upper upper middle class/rich and corporations....which of course the Senate will never approve.

now you only need the 1994 America Online dial-up modem connecting sound to go along with it.

Except back then, working across the aisle didn't automatically risk your political career. It made you a maverick, at worst... see McCain, John.

Arizona/Maricopa County drop coming up at top of the hour...

They should just let McConnell appoint them all and then blame him in 2022 when everything has gone to all hell in a handbasket. This would be the first President with an oppositional Senate in most everyone's lifetime.

"Trump won. I have no doubt,” said Youngo, one of about 100 pro-Trump protesters, who gathered Thursday afternoon outside State Farm Arena chanting “Stop the cheat!” Inside, poll workers feverishly counted ballots, most coming from heavily Democratic parts of the state favoring Biden. Youngo, who lives in DeKalb County, said she doesn’t trust the process. “Georgia is a red state,” she said. “The truth is President Trump was way ahead. Now they’re suddenly finding all these Biden votes.”

Like actually giving one speech in WI and not fighting for MI and PA until the last 2-3 weeks. Millions spent trying to turn purple states. NEW DEVELOPMENT: Pro-Trump protesters convinced the fix is in https://www.ajc.com/politics/election/pro-trump-protesters-convinced-the-fix-is-in/FL44ZCNCCFGIPEL5UEEWSLO6DI/

Shocking out of McConnell... As a stream of key swing state votes begins to turn the election in presidential nominee Joe Biden's favor, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., wasted no time in signaling that he would block potential progressive nominees for Cabinet positions if the GOP keeps its grip on the upper chamber. A source close to the majority leader told Axios that a Republican-controlled Senate would work with Biden to confirm centrist nominees but reject so-called "radical progressives" or other individuals who rankle conservatives. The source said Republicans would do all they could to limit a Biden agenda, adding: "It's going to be armed camps." source: Yahoonews.com Axios

Via the Associated Press: U.S. voters went to the polls starkly divided on how they see President Donald Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic, with a surprising twist: In places where the virus is most rampant now, Trump enjoyed enormous support. An Associated Press analysis reveals that in 376 counties with the highest number of new cases per capita, the overwhelming majority — 93% of those counties — went for Trump, a rate above other less severely hit areas. Most were rural areas in Montana, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and Wisconsin.

So much for Reagan’s shining light on a hill/beacon of hope for world democracies... Now we have a quite different version of American Exceptionalism that countries like Russia and China and Iran and North Korea...well, pretty much every single dictatorship in the world, to run on their news reels for the next 20-30 years. Hopefully Brazil and India don’t use Trump as an example, or the future of democracy is going to be pretty bleak.

And Fox has pretty much the same number of viewers as CNN and MSNBC. Who reads newspapers any more?

Or the Bengals wide receiver...

Georgia down to around 3,600...

Gee, I thought Arizona and GA had Republican governors...? Let’s just hope Chatham County in GA puts Biden over the top tonight. Unleash Covid on the US, pretty much force the majority of those in the Democratic Party to vote by mail while telling your own supporters to vote in person and then present no evidence or proof of any fraud...didn’t we already spend millions on the Kobach Commission report?

What was Trump’s position of Bush/Gore when he supposedly a NY Democrat?

And the Dixie Chicks once were embarrassed to be Americans. That seems almost quaint right now. Where are ballots being counted without Republican observers allowed in the room?

Stop the count! Oops, we’re actually behind in Arizona and Nevada. Election over.

Russia as a foreign entity “helping” Trump through bots and social media and Facebook and THEN election/voting fraud in terms of the actual process on Election Day are two entirely distinctive issues...

Poll watching and poll interference are clearly two distinct matters...soon there will be heavily armed protestors going to disrupt counting centers and threaten/intimidate the safety of workers.