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Based on the available metrics, Kamala Harris is currently one of the most progressive members of the U.S Senate. The data is consistent on that. (thread)
ProgressivePunch.org ranks her 4th in lifetime crucial votes and 5th in lifetime overall votes.
GovTrack.us ranks her first in progressive ideology in their report card on the 2019 legislative session -- with "1" being the most conservative and "0" being the most progressive. govtrack.us/congress/membe…
For FiveThirtyEight's tracking of votes vs. Trump's position in the 116th Congress -- our current legislative session, which began in January, 2019 -- Harris ranks 99th in how often she votes with Trump (or 2nd along progressive lines). projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump…
VoteView.com -- a project out of UCLA -- ranks her 2nd in progressive voting for the 116th Congress.
It's not surprising that Sen. Harris is seen as a logical progressive complement to Biden. Whether or not she's your choice is one thing, but the cumulative data, at least, is fairly consistent on her ideology: she's a very strong progressive.
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I've been seeing this notion going around that the VP choice ultimately doesn't matter, which is really strange and inaccurate. It really doesn't make sense on any level.

So, let's recap why does it matter.
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This is not a hypothetical thing. It's happened nine times in our history.
Eight presidents have died while in office and one resigned. That's 20% of our nation's presidents that have left unfinished terms. 1-in-5.

Of those vacancies, four succeeding VPs have gone on to be elected to their own terms. Most of the nine won their party's next nomination.
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Minor pet peeve that is basically meaningless in our current political environment, but it still bothers me, so...
Barack Obama is never going to be in the White House again, but lately, someone will tongue-in-cheek propose he should be Biden's running mate and then someone else seriously replies to that remark that he's constitutionally ineligible now and then a whole ass argument pops up.
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At the time that Mary Kay Letourneau was arrested for raping a child, I was 10 years old. I was also being raped by a grown woman at that time. The message from a lot of adults, especially men, to me and so many other kids--particularly boys--is that women can't be predators.
There were many reasons I didn't tell anyone what was happening to me, but the biggest, by far, was that I didn't think an adult would believe me. Seeing grown men joke about teen boys being raped by women and how great that was only reinforced my fears.
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