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11 Dec, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Ah yes, trying to score political points on a congresswoman frivolously accused of anti-semitism by ... mocking her Hanukkah greeting?
This is to say nothing of the merits of this historical parallel which are questionable. They were restoring Jewish sovereignty in response to religious repression imposed by an imperial power.
And as @NickBaumann and I noted in this deep dive, Hannukkah was a Jewish civil war and the rabbis of the Talmud downplayed the militaristic component of Hanukkah for a host of political reasons: huffpost.com/entry/real-his…
I'm just imagining what kind of mini-scandal it would be if a non-Zionist member of Congress like Tlaib *didn't* offer her constituents Hannukah greetings. Damned if you do.
Anyway, Happy Festival of Lights!

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10 Dec
My one critique of the excellent @JaneMayerNYer report on Feinstein's decline is that she is a little too soft on Democrats for not nudging her out in 2018 ... newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
... Sure, Feinstein may have insisted on running again, but it was Democrats' choice to rally to her side against @kdeleon, an accomplished legislator and the son of Guatemalan immigrants.
This was Exhibit 1,783 in how the Democratic establishment selectively uses racial representation when it suits its interests.

Other examples include backing Cuomo over Nixon and Rahm over Chuy Garcia.
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27 Nov
New: I did an overview of Gov. Newsom's choices to replace Kamala Harris in the Senate. Pressure groups are divided into three camps: Advocates for a Black woman; advocates for a Latino; and advocates for someone LGBTQ. Plus, ideological gaps within each: huffpost.com/entry/gavin-ne…
I hoped to shed more light on what frontrunner California Secretary of State Alex Padilla's policy agenda and interests are.

I struggled to come up with details about that, which is its own statement about the politics here. "Inoffensive liberal" seems like the best description.
There is a small, but significant faction pulling for former state Senate President Kevin de Léon, arguing that his run against Sen. Dianne Feinstein showed a prescient "chutzpah."

That includes the Imperial County Democratic Central Committee.
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25 Nov
An interesting comparison for context here is that Clinton and Obama outperformed Ellison here in 2016 and 2008, albeit by smaller margins.

The Biden-Omar gap was 16 points.

The Clinton-Ellison gap was about 5 in 2016. Obama-Ellison gap was about 2 in 2008. ImageImageImageImage
Interestingly enough, Ellison actually outperformed Obama in 2012, getting 74.7% to Obama's 73.5% ImageImage
That appears to be because unlike in 2008 and 2016, there was no third-party candidate on the ballot between Ellison and a Republican.
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25 Nov
In an article I co-wrote with @ryangrim and @ArthurDelaneyHP, Sperling praised Grand Bargain opponents on the left for shifting the debate on Social Security to one about retirement income, rather than fiscal insolvency. huffpost.com/entry/barack-o… Image
Reed has not, to my knowledge, expressed any similar level of appreciation for the left's role in that debate -- or criticism of the austerity craze of 2009-13.

In fact, he reiterated the basic "everything should be on the table" mantra in 2018:
These are pretty fundamental policy and philosophical differences between the left and the Democratic establishment.
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19 Nov
New: I looked at the ways that Republicans' "defund the police" attacks hurt Democrats and tried to treat the issue of whether it matters and who is to blame for that exactly with some nuance: huffpost.com/entry/republic…
Key figures on the "defund the police" attacks, via @Kantar:

Trump and allied groups used the attack in ads that aired 77,647 times; congressional Rs, allies used it 103,000 times.

Biden did not directly rebut it on TV; congressional Ds did in ads that aired 22,000 times. ImageImage
I also looked at how many top left-wing pols and organizations embraced the slogan and the room it gave Rs to use guilt by association.

For example, GOP used NextGen's stance to blast Sara Gideon.

A political faux pas by stakeholders, or just testament to GOP ruthlessness? ImageImage
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20 Oct
I just spoke to Michael Scott, a chef, and Lee Kuczynski, a food service worker.

They voted Obama, Trump and now Biden.
Lee and Michael, who has heard your joke about Steve Carell’s character in The Office, want lower health care bills. They also “back the blue,” but don’t think Biden is anti-police.
I was talking to voters outside the Luzerne County building, where the line for early voting is about an hour (most of the queue is inside). People also have questions/requests. But you can drop off a pre-completed absentee ballot in the blue box.
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