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Nov 12 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
In most of America, the story was about a red wave that never materialized

In Michigan, the story was about a blue wave that made history

This is what it looked like huffpost.com/entry/how-gret…
And for those who missed it, here’s my #longread pre-election profile of Gretchen Whitmer, which includes a close look at her political profile and how it plays in Michigan.

huffpost.com/entry/gretchen…
And yes, I have thoughts on how it might play elsewhere in the country.

Topic for another day.

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Oct 27
Epstein is "hard-core MAGA," as Steve Bannon once put it.

She wants to "minimize" federal funding, which she says means federal control. UM among top recipients of such $$$, which underwrites its world-class research.

Can't replace that with banners.
The whole Bannon interview is worth watching if you want a sense of where she's coming from, what she wants to do. rumble.com/v11hpzl-the-ca…
If you've heard of Epstein, it's because she was the Trump/MAGA Republican who ran for Congress against Haley Stevens back in 2018. Epstein didn't win, but she did make some news.

@joshtpm can tell you about that. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/never-g…
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Oct 26
I've said previously who you think "won" a debate usually says more about which candidate you support than how that candidate performed. I still think that. I'm not even sure how you define "win." Most truthful? Most articulate? Most engaging? ... #MIGov
But after the last #MIGov debate, I noticed conservatives flooding twitter with declarations that Dixon won -- I guess because she had some good lines and looked like she belonged on the stage. Not how I saw it. ...
So in case that happens again, following #MIGov debate 2, I'd just like to note that Whitmer -- to my eyes and ears -- was sharper, seemed more engaged, and had a lot more to say about what she's actually done and what she wants to keep doing ...
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Sep 23
This is a principled position for Republicans, who voted against the Democratic Rx reforms. It's also politically hazardous.

These reforms consistently poll well, even when voters hear counter-arguments.

axios.com/2022/09/23/gop…
See, for example, the polling from @KFF kff.org/health-costs/p…
I would imagine Kevin Brady saying that repeal of the Rx provisions would be a "top priority" for Republicans is in the script of an advertisement Democrats are crafting this very minute.
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Sep 22
"Top Republican Healthcare Message" seems to be a set of broad principles that don't make especially clear the actual GOP position on health care -- i.e., their opposition to the Rx pricing system Dems just enacted.
The policy platform that appeared online briefly this week, before GOP leaders took it back down, was a little more specific on this point. huffpost.com/entry/kevin-mc… Image
Which, by the way, is an intellectually coherent view that plenty of serious people have.

There is an honest and important debate to be had over tradeoffs between regulation and innovation -- how real those tradeoffs are, how new policies affect them, etc.
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Sep 4
Democrats are making a big play for seniors in the midterms, citing

(a) the Medicare drug price reforms they just enacted

(b) threats to Social Security and Medicare by the likes of Rick Scott.

@Robillard has the details (1/x) huffpost.com/entry/democrat…
As @Robillard notes, seniors turn out more reliably in midterms and in recent elections they’ve skewed Republican — although Ds kept margin close in 2018, helping them to their big sweep that year. (2/x) huffpost.com/entry/democrat…
You can see this playing out in Arizona, where Sen. Mark Kelly (D) is focusing on Rx prices, Social Security and opponent Blake Masters (R) is trying to downplay/walk back past support for Social Security privatization.

Again, @Robillard has details (3/x) huffpost.com/entry/democrat…
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Sep 2
This is wild.

So that Michigan abortion rights petition, the one that deadlocked the election board because of no spaces between some words?

Turns out spaces are there electronically, but for some reason don’t display on official copy.

@jonathanoosting shows it here:
Full backstory in the @BridgeMichigan article

Apparently removal of an extra “the” in the text of the original somehow triggered a set of changes in the display, and effect was to compress a bunch of spaces between words.

bridgemi.com/michigan-gover…
Anyway there’s never been any real ambiguity over meaning of the amendment, which got what appears to be a record number of signatures and has a good chance of passing — but only if the state Supreme Court acts.
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