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16 Jul 2019, 11:01 pm

I vote Om Nom for president.


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17 Jul 2019, 8:12 pm

CockneyRebel wrote:
I vote Om Nom for president.


I second this nomination, with a further nomination of CR for Secretary of Agriculture (Sweet Pea Division).


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18 Jul 2019, 9:29 pm

Still have no idea who some of these people are.

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18 Jul 2019, 9:41 pm

fascism vs. socialism - i know which one i'll pick.



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30 Jul 2019, 9:45 pm

Meanwhile, the Beto O'Rourke campaign is moving steadily forward.

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17 Aug 2019, 2:10 am

Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper is the latest Democrat to drop out of the presidential race

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John Hickenlooper, the Democratic former governor of Colorado, has dropped out of the presidential race, clearing the crowded 2020 field of a moderate with a record of pragmatism who never quite caught on with primary voters.

But in a filmed statement, Hickenlooper said that while he was disappointed to be leaving the race, he would “never stop believing that America can only move forward when we work together.” He added that he had “heard from so many Coloradans” that he should jump into the Senate race, saying, “I intend to give that some serious thought”.

Hickenlooper’s presidential campaign was based on using his electoral success in Colorado and his history of political moderation as selling points.

He also broadcast his centrism by emphasizing his ability to “bring people together on many sides of the fence” and by pushing Sen. Bernie Sanders on the issue of socialism

But Hickenlooper failed to stand out in a field of some two dozen candidates. Though he made it onto both debate stages so far, he was not expected to make the third round of Democratic debates in September. Since he announced on March 4, the former governor never cracked 1 percent.


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17 Aug 2019, 2:21 am

the sooner election day comes around and i can once again vote against the GOP, the better.



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17 Aug 2019, 9:32 am

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Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper is the latest Democrat to drop out of the presidential race
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John Hickenlooper, the Democratic former governor of Colorado, has dropped out of the presidential race, clearing the crowded 2020 field of a moderate with a record of pragmatism who never quite caught on with primary voters.

But in a filmed statement, Hickenlooper said that while he was disappointed to be leaving the race, he would “never stop believing that America can only move forward when we work together.” He added that he had “heard from so many Coloradans” that he should jump into the Senate race, saying, “I intend to give that some serious thought”.

Hickenlooper’s presidential campaign was based on using his electoral success in Colorado and his history of political moderation as selling points.

He also broadcast his centrism by emphasizing his ability to “bring people together on many sides of the fence” and by pushing Sen. Bernie Sanders on the issue of socialism

But Hickenlooper failed to stand out in a field of some two dozen candidates. Though he made it onto both debate stages so far, he was not expected to make the third round of Democratic debates in September. Since he announced on March 4, the former governor never cracked 1 percent.


My top 3 choices are now Klobuchar, Bullock and Inslee.


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18 Aug 2019, 5:38 am

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My top 3 choices are now Klobuchar, Bullock and Inslee.

i have my doubts that the environment is gonna be enough to prop up Inslee. besides, he needs to come back to washington STATE and govern HERE.



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18 Aug 2019, 10:43 am

Trump will destroy all of them


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22 Aug 2019, 2:55 am

Jay Inslee drops out of the 2020 presidential race

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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is dropping out of the 2020 Democratic presidential race, he announced Wednesday night on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show."

Inslee plans to send an email to supporters on Thursday announcing that he will run for a third term as governor, two sources close to Inslee told NBC News on condition of anonymity.

"It's become clear that I'm not going to be carrying the ball. I'm not going to be the president, so I'm withdrawing tonight from the race," he told Maddow, vowing he'd help keep the other 2020 candidates focused on issue of climate change, the centerpiece of his campaign. "I've been fighting climate change for 25 years, and I've never been so confident of the ability of America now to reach critical mass to move the ball."

Inslee's presidential campaign was bookended with pleas to take climate change seriously.

Inslee put out a detailed 10-year plan on how he'd move the country to clean energy, spurring other candidates to put out their own plans. Butting heads with the Democratic National Committee, or DNC, he demanded that the organization hold a debate focused on climate change.

The DNC rebuffed his pleas in June, but CNN announced soon after that it would hold a town hall on the issue with the candidates in September. Inslee, however, did not meet the polling criteria the network used for the event — a minimum of 2 percent in four DNC-recognized polls — and was not on the list of attendees the network announced on Tuesday.

While Inslee said Monday that he had reached the 130,000-donation threshold for the next debate in September, his lack of qualifying polls likely would have kept him from the debate stage, as well.

He declined to throw support behind another candidate on Wednesday but said he would endorse the Democratic nominee, "no matter who it is."

Other 2020 candidates were quick to praise his efforts.


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22 Aug 2019, 2:56 am

^^^he needed to come home and ride herd on the legislature.



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22 Aug 2019, 4:15 am

Now, my top 3 are Klobuchar, Bullock and Bennet.


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22 Aug 2019, 4:45 am

Climate Change is supposed to be the existential issue that fires up the base. Yet the Australian election, the Yellow vest movement and Inslee’s early exit are indications of the opposite.


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22 Aug 2019, 4:59 am

the fix is in- the big fool will squeak out another win. odds are even he'll even take back the house.



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22 Aug 2019, 3:35 pm

Joe Walsh expected to announce presidential run: report

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Former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) is reportedly expected to announce his candidacy for president, becoming the second prominent Republican to challenge President Trump for the party's nomination.

The New York Times reported Wednesday that Walsh, now a radio host, will announce his candidacy as early as the weekend. Walsh argued in an op-ed for the newspaper last week that the president needed a primary challenge from the right and told the Times in an interview that he would announce his intentions before Labor Day.

Walsh would join former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld (R), who announced his candidacy earlier this year, as the second Republican challenger to mount the long-shot challenge against Trump, whose approval rating among Republicans has hovered above 50 percent since he took office in 2017

The former congressman supported Trump during the 2016 election but has hammered the president for his conduct in the years that followed. Earlier this year, he sharply criticized Trump over behavior outlined in Robert Mueller's report that detailed the results of the special counsel investigation into the Trump campaign.

"I don't know how anybody can read this report and think, 'This is behavior that we want in our president,'" he told CNN's Brooke Baldwin at the time.

"Criminal behavior, who knows?" he added. "But, boy, dishonest, immoral, unethical? Heck yes it is. And I’ll tell you, Brooke, every Republican on Capitol Hill agrees with what I just said. They can’t say that publicly."

Walsh previously served one term in Congress as a Tea Party-aligned Republican and swiped at Weld as a centrist earlier this month in the Times op-ed.

“The president is more vulnerable to a challenge from the right. I’m on the right, and I’m hugely disappointed that challenge hasn’t yet materialized,” Walsh wrote at the time.


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