dcpDarkMatter

Lichtman's still 10 for 11 (considering that Gore did win FL, only to have the SC overturn the results), so I think he'll still be around for a while.

Agreed on the media silos though - the right-wing media ecosystem is almost wholly disconnected from reality and any other viewpoints.

She's been the most accurate Iowa pollster for over two decades now. She doesn't venture out of Iowa. However, that allows her to laser focus in on the voters there.

This is the case for all American territories. A statehood referendum has been put up multiple times throughout the years and there's never been a really definitive result.

"I like Ted Cruz more than the rest of my colleagues. And I hate Ted Cruz."

-- Al Franken

There's only 3 federal judges in that district.

Because the people making those rules don't want those people to vote. They figure, if it's that much of a hassle, they won't turn out. Meanwhile, in Republican-strong areas, they have multiple voting locations and very short lines.

I moved to kbin.earth (which later migrated to mbin).

Right, if she didn't have the votes, she wouldn't bring it to the floor. Simple as that. She didn't not bring it up because she wasn't supportive of the LGBT+ community.

And bringing up DOMA, which was passed in 1996, at least get your facts straight. Republicans controlled the House when DOMA was passed. Pelosi was not the Democratic leader in the House then; that was Dick Gephart. Yes, Clinton signed it. However, there was much more public support for the bill then.

No revisionist history. Pelosi refused to bring it to the floor because she didn't have the votes. There's lots of stuff to criticize her on, but whipping and vote counting aren't that.

Do you remember 2000 - 2006? We had the Republicans floating and pushing anti-marriage freedom constitutional amendments. They controlled the House, Senate, and White House. Republicans controlled the 107th, 108th, and 109th congresses. So while Pelosi could have proposed the Act, there's no guarantee Hastert (the Republican Speaker) would have even have allowed that on the floor.

Decades ago, the parties were much different than today. There were pro-choice Republicans and pro-life Democrats. Only one time in recent (2000+) memory did the Dems ever have the 60 votes necessary for codifying Roe. They used that two-ish week window to pass the ACA.

And that's not even touching on the differing public approval of abortion.

It's not shitting on them - Ohio is simply too far east to be in the Midwest.

Minnesota here - in no way is Ohio in the Midwest.