“A huge THANK YOU to all our supporters, volunteers, and voters who believed in our vision for a better, brighter District 35,” Keen wrote on social media. “Your dedication, hard work, and votes have brought us to this incredible moment.”
I appreciate your reminder not to make the assumption that all people in Iowa or other “red states “ are MAGA diehards. For instance, there is a very active organization in Texas called Mothers Against Greg Abbot .org who, along with many others, are fighting back. Let’s find out who these groups are and help them out. We need to build coalitions everywhere.
I agree, Susan, and Mothers Against Greg Abbott,is the BEST! Later this morning, I will head out to University of Texas at Dallas to meet two fellow volunteers on behalf of League of Women Voters. Through the afternoon, we will visit two classes and staff a voter information/registration table for Students Demand Action. Here in Texas, there IS NOT online registration...applicants must use a paper form and wet signature. Applications must be hand delivered to county offices 20 miles away. We desperately need more volunteers. I typically lead a few events each week, and we wish we had more volunteers at the ready. All this to say, volunteering in red states can take multiples of time to accomplish the same task elsewhere. I’ve posted information here before. Please spread the word. We need more bodies.
Cathy, I will promote in the newsletter this evening using the text above. If you would like to send custom text to include in the newsletter, please send to rhubbell@outlook.com.
Cathy, I so appreciate your work. BTW, while I realize you are working to register new voters, we probably need to remind our seniors who are already registered that thanks to the Legislature, they cannot assume that mail in ballots will be sent to them as in the past. Each person needs to APPLY for a mail in ballot EVERY YEAR and I believe the deadline is sometime in February (you probably are more up on the deadlines than anyone.)
I was inspired yesterday and wanted to share this story with you. Last year, a young woman in her 30’s wanted to vote republican because she was afraid of all of the immigrants coming in to the country. Yesterday we picked up the conversation again when i suggested that she read the book “The Beekeeper of Aleppo”., a stunning book that for me put the hazards of immigration right up front...but as i mentioned it she told me she had met a recent immigrant from Mexico and was stunned and horrified by his story. It became personal. She has completely turned around her views on immigration. My mother in law was a holocaust survivor who was rescued by a Philadelphia couple and brought to this country. For my husband and myself, it has always been personal. Can we all find it in our hearts to befriend a recent immigrant? To lift them up? To look them in the eye and recognize our common humanity?
I am watching again what the Nazis did and how Hitler came to power. Eerily Trump looks the same. We can never forget the holocaust and how regular people turned into blind followers of a tyrant. There is only one race—the HUMAN RACE. One planet we all live in. Stop drawing lines to keep people out. My heart bleeds for all immigrants
One of my 4th grade students nearly 10 years ago was a girl who rode The Beast with her mother to get here. Quickly learning English, she was a good student, and her mom was cleaning houses to keep their body and soul together. It's always personal.
Please read the excellent book "American Dirt" by Jeanine Cummins to learn about The Beast and harrowing immigration from the south. Then, go find a recent immigrant to befriend. They are phenomenal people!
In noting what works and what doesn't, making issues personal with anecdotal evidence (which meeting an individual qualifies as being) is one winning tactic because there are many people who simply think better with specific examples than with numbers and statistics even if the example they know of is extremely mis-representative. There are people who are more persuaded by emotions than by sheer logic. We see the Republicans doing this all the time; the one fire in CA started by a mentally ill illegal immigrant, for example. So long as we stick with true cases, it's a great strategy.
Yesterday in Florida, the Democrat Tom Keen flipped a state legislative seat in a special election. This is huge. It is due to changes that our new state party chair has brought, including a huge push on her part to get us volunteers to help with GOTV activities. They overcame Republican "dirty tricks" in a district fairly evenly split between Republicans, Democrats and Independents.
Here is the FDP Announcement, important to energize us volunteers, statewide:
Democrats - We did it!
Thanks to your hard work across the state, we just flipped a House seat. Tom Keen is our next State Representative for Florida House District 35.
Florida is winnable — and tonight’s victory proves that.
In 2024, we are going to continue to organize year-round to elect Democrats from the State house to the Senate because we believe Florida is worth fighting for — but we need your continued support to keep this momentum going in 2024!
Tonight’s victory is the first step to taking back Florida and chipping away at the supermajority in the legislature.
I hate having to disagree with you, and I hate even more that I have to agree with Chris Cillizza's analysis of the vote, but unfortunately math is a yes/no option. When it adds up, the answer is yes.
We are all doing this "he's not as strong as they say" dance without looking at an important piece of data. That is, the question of who the DeSantis and Haley voters - and the Vivek voters - would vote for if the particular candidate wasn't running.
The answers were: 75% of the DeSantis voters would vote for Trump if DeSantis wasn't running. 40% of the Haley voters would also vote for Trump were she not there. 100% of the Vivek voters wuld vote for Trump.
So, make the race Trump and DeSantis with Haley out, and Trump's total goes up to around 60-62%. Make it Trump-Haley with DeSantis out, Trump's total is around 72-74%. In both cases, those are what are called "solid incumbent wins numbers." In th GOP primary, Trump is effectively the "incumbent."
There are no "magic beans" that will defeat him, and telling ourselves "he can't win" is the same "winning" strategy Democrats employed in 2016. It's "whistling past the graveyard."
The only solution is the one you advocate in your posts every night, Robert. Get to work. The only way he is going away is to Defeat Him.
I still think he's a flight risk. He faces 32 felony counts in NY March 25. 90% odds he will lose the immunity appeal. He has a 50/50 chance he will lose the Colorado ballot case. He has at most a 4% chance to win if he is tried in DC.
His civil exposure is huge, and at a minimum he'll have to post a supersedeas bond of 120% of the amount of judgment.
So far nobody has waged a character campaign, which could finish him off politically.
Anecdotally, when a MAGAT is asked how they can vote for a guy who stole from kids with cancer, they choke on their beer.
I WISH he would leave! And never come back! Maybe a conviction in New York would have that effect! Remember that 31% of Iowa voters who showed up said he should not be President if convicted of a felony! And we all know how bad the turnout was in Iowa, so I think it's a good number to keep in mind as we work our tails off to increase turnout among Democrats, especially the YOUNG voters. Those who are paying attention, including my granddaughters, are already working to enlist their friends to register to vote. WE need to get them worried about living in an autocracy and losing the ability to control what happens to their bodies. It works!
Hope you're right. I've heard from young voters who are upset at Biden over the Gaza situation. However, when the choice comes down to Biden vs Trump, I hope the fact that many of them are college educated or in college right now, will help them realize what they need to do.
It may be a group where anti-Trump messaging and a realistic presentation of the likeliest future for Gaza, for all immigrants, and for US freedom to protest if Trump became president would be most effective.
If we factor in his possible/probable dementia, he won't go abroad, and stay there. I don't believe he's so far gone that he would be the old man who leaves the house and ends up in Boise, not knowing how he got there. He's a sad sack of an individual, easily corrupted by the likes of Epshtyn and... the whole cadre of dirty tricksters, fabulists, woman-haters, and worms [meaning no insult to actual worms].
One of the problems here is that for too many R voters, voting for a Democrat is simply not an option. Democrats have been demonized by right wing media. Democrats do need to show up, demonstrate that they do understand where people are at and that they will work to deliver what's needed. At least some of Haley's voters would vote for Biden. It may make a difference in the general election.
I get your premise but I don’t buy your numbers about who voters for Haley or DeSantis would vote for if it were Trump and Biden. I think there is another category which is Republicans who can’t vote for Trump or Biden and stay home. That is a big unknown
My sister in law in Cedar Rapids Iowa was upset on Tuesday with the Iowa Caucus results. She said "This is not the Iowa I grew up in". Of course I sent her your newsletter yesterday and will do so today, encouraging her to subscribe. I told her "Robert will help you see things in the right light".
Thank you Robert. Our citizens in Iowa deserve better than what our media delivers them with this caucus stunt.
My sister in Des Moines was distraught -- and embarrassed by the "ignorant hicks" the media put on-air (her words). Iowa IS different from the place in which I grew up, true, but there are smart Democrats still there. Don't give up on them.
Thank you Robert for saying that so-called red states are not a lost cause. I live in Florida and last night we got Democrat Tom Keen who flipped a seat in the Florida legislature. Last year we got a Democrat for mayor in Jacksonville, once a large Republican stronghold. The wheels may turn slowly, but turn they do. Onward!
Robert, thank you for everything. I guess I am more worried about the voters in Southern states or those who have gerrymandered districts more so than Iowa. When some Iowan Trump supporters were interviewed, I kept mumbling “These people are just plain dopey!” Really, I said stupid, but then realizing that a vast majority didn’t even get their vote in, made me realize that perhaps they are not happy with any of the R candidates. That could be another reason for the low turnout. I want to say that I know here, in Northern CA, there are many people writing postcards, calling their members of Congress, emailing them also, using social media to engage people. It’s going to be mostly all races of women and much of Gen Z who will save democracy.
She should not have accepted jurisdiction in case # 1 per local rule and per a published 11th Cir decision, and IMHO now she has a duty to stand for voir dire on bias.
28 U.S. Code § 455 - Disqualification of justice, judge, or magistrate judge
(a)Any justice, judge, or magistrate judge of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his [or her] impartiality might reasonably be questioned.
In addition to her questionable conduct, she is married to Josh Lorence, a restaurant executive, whose employer may be tied to Trump.
Women will win this election for Pres. Biden, yes the most important health issue ripped away by a bunch of political hacks, then compounded with prison, financial ruin etc. The commercials made by victims will NOT be buried in ignorance. Women will win this election & the GOP are left in our dust.
We all know that Trump will claim voter fraud if it looks like Biden is winning. I am also afraid of voter repression in extreme MAGA areas. Please join me in an effort to get the White House to request UN Observers to be placed in critical swing states to counter GOP fraud claims and to make sure elections are held as fairly as possible.
I think this is a good idea. Who makes that decision? The UN sends observers to other countries when there are questions about fair voting. That would be a higher authority to debunk voter fraud, in my humble opinion.
I am not getting too excited about the results of Iowa because of the weather factors which I believed influenced the turnout. New Hampshire with a more diverse demographics is a much better weathervane and let’s see what happens there. We are kinda in a catch 22 because we want both Trump to be the Republican nominee and we want proof that a percentage of Republicans will reject Trump and vote and deny Trump the presidency. It’s too early to get excited or depressed so we need to be patient and take one day at a time. Let’s see if all the court appearances and ranting and raving will impact both voter turnout and the percentage of the wins.
This is why we need easier voting. Why can’t we all use vote by mail? I live in NH and having a primary in January is crazy. Many people can’t make it to the polls in frigid temperatures and possible blizzards. We have way more independents than either republicans or democrats. I am seeing a lot of Independents for Nikki around the area. She might beat Desantis. Either way, we MUST convince as many people as we can to get out and vote. I will be standing at my polling station holding a Write In Joe Biden sign.
Judge Loose Cannon must be stressed out: She has to ensure that all of her actions please The Loser's demand that nothing happens until after the 2024 electon, while at the same time fully complying with the law and Judicial Rules in a way that she hides her bias. She fears that she will eventually drop a stitch and her strategy will unravel.
Judge Cannon probably spends her ime figuring out just how close she can get to the judicial cliff edge without falling over. It's been clear from the start that her actions are calibrated to stick a thumb in the eye of her judicial superiors and all her naysayers.
Tom Keen won seat in the Florida House District 35 Special Election!
By 590 votes. Every vote counts!!!!!
Thank you, Lynell !!💙
“A huge THANK YOU to all our supporters, volunteers, and voters who believed in our vision for a better, brighter District 35,” Keen wrote on social media. “Your dedication, hard work, and votes have brought us to this incredible moment.”
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2024/01/16/democrat-keen-wins-state-house-35-special-election-over-gops-booth/?share=twotusnel2whgpoociee
Go Florida!
Very good news. Every battle, every step matters!
I appreciate your reminder not to make the assumption that all people in Iowa or other “red states “ are MAGA diehards. For instance, there is a very active organization in Texas called Mothers Against Greg Abbot .org who, along with many others, are fighting back. Let’s find out who these groups are and help them out. We need to build coalitions everywhere.
I agree, Susan, and Mothers Against Greg Abbott,is the BEST! Later this morning, I will head out to University of Texas at Dallas to meet two fellow volunteers on behalf of League of Women Voters. Through the afternoon, we will visit two classes and staff a voter information/registration table for Students Demand Action. Here in Texas, there IS NOT online registration...applicants must use a paper form and wet signature. Applications must be hand delivered to county offices 20 miles away. We desperately need more volunteers. I typically lead a few events each week, and we wish we had more volunteers at the ready. All this to say, volunteering in red states can take multiples of time to accomplish the same task elsewhere. I’ve posted information here before. Please spread the word. We need more bodies.
Here is the link that gives more info about volunteering. I work with several organizations, and they are all great--we just need more people, and these groups need donations. https://docs.google.com/file/d/1VcHgVEw__Yh_7j-FWoUt3jpWe4TsJl0V/edit?usp=docslist_api&filetype=msword
Cathy, I will promote in the newsletter this evening using the text above. If you would like to send custom text to include in the newsletter, please send to rhubbell@outlook.com.
thanks for all you are doing!
This is great! I just forwarded it to my friends at Seniors Taking Action. The more we can work together the better!
Thanks Cathy! I just sent your post and link to my friends in Dallas asking them to join in this effort.
You're doing great work, and you inspire me!
Cathy, I so appreciate your work. BTW, while I realize you are working to register new voters, we probably need to remind our seniors who are already registered that thanks to the Legislature, they cannot assume that mail in ballots will be sent to them as in the past. Each person needs to APPLY for a mail in ballot EVERY YEAR and I believe the deadline is sometime in February (you probably are more up on the deadlines than anyone.)
I was inspired yesterday and wanted to share this story with you. Last year, a young woman in her 30’s wanted to vote republican because she was afraid of all of the immigrants coming in to the country. Yesterday we picked up the conversation again when i suggested that she read the book “The Beekeeper of Aleppo”., a stunning book that for me put the hazards of immigration right up front...but as i mentioned it she told me she had met a recent immigrant from Mexico and was stunned and horrified by his story. It became personal. She has completely turned around her views on immigration. My mother in law was a holocaust survivor who was rescued by a Philadelphia couple and brought to this country. For my husband and myself, it has always been personal. Can we all find it in our hearts to befriend a recent immigrant? To lift them up? To look them in the eye and recognize our common humanity?
I am watching again what the Nazis did and how Hitler came to power. Eerily Trump looks the same. We can never forget the holocaust and how regular people turned into blind followers of a tyrant. There is only one race—the HUMAN RACE. One planet we all live in. Stop drawing lines to keep people out. My heart bleeds for all immigrants
One of my 4th grade students nearly 10 years ago was a girl who rode The Beast with her mother to get here. Quickly learning English, she was a good student, and her mom was cleaning houses to keep their body and soul together. It's always personal.
Thanks for your post. It has to be personal for us to,win.
Please read the excellent book "American Dirt" by Jeanine Cummins to learn about The Beast and harrowing immigration from the south. Then, go find a recent immigrant to befriend. They are phenomenal people!
It’s a good read.
Will do!
In noting what works and what doesn't, making issues personal with anecdotal evidence (which meeting an individual qualifies as being) is one winning tactic because there are many people who simply think better with specific examples than with numbers and statistics even if the example they know of is extremely mis-representative. There are people who are more persuaded by emotions than by sheer logic. We see the Republicans doing this all the time; the one fire in CA started by a mentally ill illegal immigrant, for example. So long as we stick with true cases, it's a great strategy.
Great example, Linda. The courage of your conversations should be a model for all of us.
Yesterday in Florida, the Democrat Tom Keen flipped a state legislative seat in a special election. This is huge. It is due to changes that our new state party chair has brought, including a huge push on her part to get us volunteers to help with GOTV activities. They overcame Republican "dirty tricks" in a district fairly evenly split between Republicans, Democrats and Independents.
Turnout is key.
My texts and postcards worked!?!?!?!!!
It's a great feeling that I had a tiny tiny role in this victory by sitting in my house in Colorado writing postcards.
❣️
me too!!! (In the Springs) I was so happy reading the good news last night.
Tom Suozzi in NY is the stack I'm working on now :)
I also have been writing for Suozzi. You’re in COSpgs? Me too!
Yup! In ONE.
I’m by East Library. Not so far!
google his name and you can read about what happened. I think he won by maybe 2%
590 votes
❣️❣️❣️
OMG Yes.
Here is the FDP Announcement, important to energize us volunteers, statewide:
Democrats - We did it!
Thanks to your hard work across the state, we just flipped a House seat. Tom Keen is our next State Representative for Florida House District 35.
Florida is winnable — and tonight’s victory proves that.
In 2024, we are going to continue to organize year-round to elect Democrats from the State house to the Senate because we believe Florida is worth fighting for — but we need your continued support to keep this momentum going in 2024!
Tonight’s victory is the first step to taking back Florida and chipping away at the supermajority in the legislature.
Thank you for your continued work and support.
Team FDP
I hate having to disagree with you, and I hate even more that I have to agree with Chris Cillizza's analysis of the vote, but unfortunately math is a yes/no option. When it adds up, the answer is yes.
We are all doing this "he's not as strong as they say" dance without looking at an important piece of data. That is, the question of who the DeSantis and Haley voters - and the Vivek voters - would vote for if the particular candidate wasn't running.
The answers were: 75% of the DeSantis voters would vote for Trump if DeSantis wasn't running. 40% of the Haley voters would also vote for Trump were she not there. 100% of the Vivek voters wuld vote for Trump.
So, make the race Trump and DeSantis with Haley out, and Trump's total goes up to around 60-62%. Make it Trump-Haley with DeSantis out, Trump's total is around 72-74%. In both cases, those are what are called "solid incumbent wins numbers." In th GOP primary, Trump is effectively the "incumbent."
There are no "magic beans" that will defeat him, and telling ourselves "he can't win" is the same "winning" strategy Democrats employed in 2016. It's "whistling past the graveyard."
The only solution is the one you advocate in your posts every night, Robert. Get to work. The only way he is going away is to Defeat Him.
I still think he's a flight risk. He faces 32 felony counts in NY March 25. 90% odds he will lose the immunity appeal. He has a 50/50 chance he will lose the Colorado ballot case. He has at most a 4% chance to win if he is tried in DC.
His civil exposure is huge, and at a minimum he'll have to post a supersedeas bond of 120% of the amount of judgment.
So far nobody has waged a character campaign, which could finish him off politically.
Anecdotally, when a MAGAT is asked how they can vote for a guy who stole from kids with cancer, they choke on their beer.
What the current Lincoln Project ad.
Most voters vote for the tallest candidate and/or the one that appears to be the most macho. That's a fact.
That ad is good for people like us, but not for the "lumpen" who crave "strength" over reason.
Commercial: Don't play it no more No, no, no, no, no, no, no!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRBfDyQ94Jo
I WISH he would leave! And never come back! Maybe a conviction in New York would have that effect! Remember that 31% of Iowa voters who showed up said he should not be President if convicted of a felony! And we all know how bad the turnout was in Iowa, so I think it's a good number to keep in mind as we work our tails off to increase turnout among Democrats, especially the YOUNG voters. Those who are paying attention, including my granddaughters, are already working to enlist their friends to register to vote. WE need to get them worried about living in an autocracy and losing the ability to control what happens to their bodies. It works!
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1. Psychologically, anticipation of failure is worse than jail.
2. Gen Z trend 70% Democratic.
Hope you're right. I've heard from young voters who are upset at Biden over the Gaza situation. However, when the choice comes down to Biden vs Trump, I hope the fact that many of them are college educated or in college right now, will help them realize what they need to do.
It may be a group where anti-Trump messaging and a realistic presentation of the likeliest future for Gaza, for all immigrants, and for US freedom to protest if Trump became president would be most effective.
Saudi Arabia does not have an extradition treaty with the US. And Jared does have some connections there, eh?
UAE. Saudi is culturally too strict. His major source of income is from Oman.
Hey, he’s got options!
Let him fly away to some gilded sandpit and never hear his name again.
He's too narcissistic for that, plus the secret service
If we factor in his possible/probable dementia, he won't go abroad, and stay there. I don't believe he's so far gone that he would be the old man who leaves the house and ends up in Boise, not knowing how he got there. He's a sad sack of an individual, easily corrupted by the likes of Epshtyn and... the whole cadre of dirty tricksters, fabulists, woman-haters, and worms [meaning no insult to actual worms].
One of the problems here is that for too many R voters, voting for a Democrat is simply not an option. Democrats have been demonized by right wing media. Democrats do need to show up, demonstrate that they do understand where people are at and that they will work to deliver what's needed. At least some of Haley's voters would vote for Biden. It may make a difference in the general election.
I get your premise but I don’t buy your numbers about who voters for Haley or DeSantis would vote for if it were Trump and Biden. I think there is another category which is Republicans who can’t vote for Trump or Biden and stay home. That is a big unknown
And defeat him BIGLEY!!! Good points TCinLA!
My sister in law in Cedar Rapids Iowa was upset on Tuesday with the Iowa Caucus results. She said "This is not the Iowa I grew up in". Of course I sent her your newsletter yesterday and will do so today, encouraging her to subscribe. I told her "Robert will help you see things in the right light".
Thank you Robert. Our citizens in Iowa deserve better than what our media delivers them with this caucus stunt.
My sister in Des Moines was distraught -- and embarrassed by the "ignorant hicks" the media put on-air (her words). Iowa IS different from the place in which I grew up, true, but there are smart Democrats still there. Don't give up on them.
Thank you Robert for saying that so-called red states are not a lost cause. I live in Florida and last night we got Democrat Tom Keen who flipped a seat in the Florida legislature. Last year we got a Democrat for mayor in Jacksonville, once a large Republican stronghold. The wheels may turn slowly, but turn they do. Onward!
With a bit of inflation the wheels turn a bit more quickly. 😉
Robert, thank you for everything. I guess I am more worried about the voters in Southern states or those who have gerrymandered districts more so than Iowa. When some Iowan Trump supporters were interviewed, I kept mumbling “These people are just plain dopey!” Really, I said stupid, but then realizing that a vast majority didn’t even get their vote in, made me realize that perhaps they are not happy with any of the R candidates. That could be another reason for the low turnout. I want to say that I know here, in Northern CA, there are many people writing postcards, calling their members of Congress, emailing them also, using social media to engage people. It’s going to be mostly all races of women and much of Gen Z who will save democracy.
And SoCal, too! 🤗
Thanks for the reference to "Judge Aileen Cannon Is Quietly Sabotaging the Trump Classified Documents Case."
I wonder whether anyone has filed a bias complaint against her?
https://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/judicial-conduct-disability?fbclid=IwAR2xcadqadXE37Am-ps_CKGwiLK9Udt-gklQx4LzAB2bfyb1P9tNodDQtvQ
She should not have accepted jurisdiction in case # 1 per local rule and per a published 11th Cir decision, and IMHO now she has a duty to stand for voir dire on bias.
28 U.S. Code § 455 - Disqualification of justice, judge, or magistrate judge
(a)Any justice, judge, or magistrate judge of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his [or her] impartiality might reasonably be questioned.
In addition to her questionable conduct, she is married to Josh Lorence, a restaurant executive, whose employer may be tied to Trump.
Great idea! Will do so today!
Women will win this election for Pres. Biden, yes the most important health issue ripped away by a bunch of political hacks, then compounded with prison, financial ruin etc. The commercials made by victims will NOT be buried in ignorance. Women will win this election & the GOP are left in our dust.
We all know that Trump will claim voter fraud if it looks like Biden is winning. I am also afraid of voter repression in extreme MAGA areas. Please join me in an effort to get the White House to request UN Observers to be placed in critical swing states to counter GOP fraud claims and to make sure elections are held as fairly as possible.
I think this is a good idea. Who makes that decision? The UN sends observers to other countries when there are questions about fair voting. That would be a higher authority to debunk voter fraud, in my humble opinion.
I am not getting too excited about the results of Iowa because of the weather factors which I believed influenced the turnout. New Hampshire with a more diverse demographics is a much better weathervane and let’s see what happens there. We are kinda in a catch 22 because we want both Trump to be the Republican nominee and we want proof that a percentage of Republicans will reject Trump and vote and deny Trump the presidency. It’s too early to get excited or depressed so we need to be patient and take one day at a time. Let’s see if all the court appearances and ranting and raving will impact both voter turnout and the percentage of the wins.
Turnout indeed is the key. Today's thought..
Trade your handwringing for Doorbell ringing!
This is why we need easier voting. Why can’t we all use vote by mail? I live in NH and having a primary in January is crazy. Many people can’t make it to the polls in frigid temperatures and possible blizzards. We have way more independents than either republicans or democrats. I am seeing a lot of Independents for Nikki around the area. She might beat Desantis. Either way, we MUST convince as many people as we can to get out and vote. I will be standing at my polling station holding a Write In Joe Biden sign.
Bundle up and stay warm!
Great perspective and analysis of Trump’s “big win” in Iowa, Robert.
And I hope your wife Jill is feeling better these days.
Judge Loose Cannon must be stressed out: She has to ensure that all of her actions please The Loser's demand that nothing happens until after the 2024 electon, while at the same time fully complying with the law and Judicial Rules in a way that she hides her bias. She fears that she will eventually drop a stitch and her strategy will unravel.
Judge Cannon probably spends her ime figuring out just how close she can get to the judicial cliff edge without falling over. It's been clear from the start that her actions are calibrated to stick a thumb in the eye of her judicial superiors and all her naysayers.