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With the Senate set to acquit Donald Trump of crimes even they admit he committed, we're wading into a dangerous new era.

Trump is facing reelection armed with dictatorial powers and has already shown he has no qualms in burning everything to the ground.

themuckrake.com/main/dispatche…
What we saw last night at the State of the Union is only the beginning. The Republican Party has wrapped itself in faux-patriotism, rabid militarism, and meaningless spectacle and is dedicated to undermining any democratic institution and law that might cost them power.
The Republican Party was sick before Trump. That's the only way he could've ever taken power, but since he took over he was drug them into deeper and deeper water and they've been overjoyed.

What happens next is likely a dive headfirst into the abyss. We need to be ready.
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Jared Yates Sexton
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Seems like a good morning to re-up this piece on The Muckrake on how arguments over “electability” are utterly meaningless as no one has a clue what’s going to happen and it leads to awful candidates like Bloomberg and a loss of hope for a better future.

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Gameifying politics and treating like something to predict instead of participate in trivializes what it’s supposed to be: the process by which we better the world.

Worrying about “an electorate” that may or may not even exist limits reform and change and leads to autocracy.
Instead of participating in the prediction games if pundits and cable news, both designed for entertainment and profit purposes, look at your vote as an investment in something you believe in and want. Stop worrying about what will play with who. Fight for the future you want.
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Jared Yates Sexton
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For all you Reaganites who still get misty over pictures of the Gipper on a horse and believe the rich know best what to do with their money - Bloomberg paid hundreds of millions of dollars to get exposed as a creep on national TV last night.

In LAS VEGAS of all places.
I mean, how many schools could have been paid for? How much healthcare? Infrastructure improvements? Literally anything for the public good? Instead, you get an unlikeable tycoon struggling to talk about his army of NDAs.

You couldn’t ask for a better explanation of what’s wrong
Bloomberg’s not even on the ballot for Nevada. He had to gas up his private jet, load up thousands of analysts and communication experts and pollsters, fly across the country, and then wait to just be eviscerated.

He paid so many people to lie to him and give him terrible advice
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Jared Yates Sexton
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No. This political crisis doesn't call for more power for the ruling elites. The ruling elites messed this system up in the first place and enabled people like Donald Trump to come to power.

The answer is more democracy.

themuckrake.com/main/ruling-el…
Smoke-filled rooms picked Richard Nixon, who drunkenly ordered a nuclear first strike on North Korea and transformed the American government into his own personal weapon.

We need a better informed, empowered electorate. Handing power to the powerful ensures change can't happen.
And the sad truth is this: Donald Trump could have never become a nominee or president if the system was healthy or if it worked. It's been dreadfully sick for decades now and is in desperate need of change and reform.
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G. Elliott Morris
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#NEW I wrote about "electability" and the 2020 Democratic primary for the paper this week. We combined political science and polling data and found that a moderate Dem with strength among working-class whites has the best chance against Trump.

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The 2020 election is likely to be close. Trump's approval rating & GDP growth suggest that he'll win about 49% of the two-party vote, per our modeling. He's clearly competitive, especially when Democrats need to win the popular vote by about ~2.5pts to win the electoral college.
So the "electability" of the candidates is a particular concern for Democrats.

So what do we know about who is more likely to win general elections?
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G. Elliott Morris
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#NEW We have matched up county-level preferences for music genres with 2016 election results and have found the👏 key👏 data 👏 that capture the cultural currents that made Obama supporters flip to Donald Trump:

liking hard rock music.

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The data we have (from @VividSeats) is truly incredible. In every county, we have a record of the share of concert/etc ticket sales that fall into each genre in 2015/19. Here's that map (with each county scaled for population). Cities like rap/hip hop. Rural areas like country.
The music genre that most correlates with Republican vote share is, as you might expect, country music. A preference for "New Age" music (whatever that is) and Rock are also "red". Rap, Hip Hop & R&B, as mentioned, are "blue" music—as is liking alternative artists or Latin music.
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Interesting read !
BRENNAN CORRUPTION :
John Brennan was the American progenitor of political espionage aimed at defeating Donald Trump. One side did colluded with foreign powers to tip the election — Hillary’s....
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#JohnBrennan ‘s #CIA operated like a branch office of the #Hillary campaign, leaking out mentions of this bogus investigation to the
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Josh Russell
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Based on this nbc data you can still find lots of bot/troll accounts twitter missed.
how to:
Search hashtags ON a date.
Search for the actual tweets.
the accounts all "look" the same, low status counts, low follower counts, created at the same tnbcnews.com/tech/social-me…gbquNiCcd2
just using that and a tip from @z3dster gets me 6 accounts to look at.

@MarlonStepherd
@Mich_Heart_Rt
@DannyyyyPayton
@Joe_B_R
@worynynizuzy
@rogyvahumin

those are all troll factory/internet research agency accounts.
so pull the accounts that follow them.
you get all these shady looking accounts with the same stats.
drop the false positives, drop the duplicates. you get about 180 accounts worth looking at.
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