It’s unfortunate this doesn’t explore the negative impact of same-party elections on turnout.
In statewide races, same-party Senate contests have seen millions of voters leave the ballot blank - almost always because the party they like isn’t on the ballot.
You can like top two, but this is a clear downside. A ton of voters have no interest in choosing between two candidates of the opposite party - and when they do vote, like in 2016 and 2018, their patterns didn’t cleanly align with the more moderate candidate.
Sep 19, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Not mentioned in the article: Raskin has a long history of election denial, questioning the legitimacy of the 2000 presidential election, the 2016 presidential election, and the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election.
Why would any Republican be bipartisan with Democrats again after what they did to Meijer? The moral of the story here is no good deed goes unpunished.
Meijer voted for impeachment. He voted for BIF. He voted for the gun control bill. He voted for the January 6 commission.
Democrats aggressively funded an election denier (on false grounds) to take him out. They will then run ads about how Gibbs is an extremist.
Nov 11, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I think one thing this election has shown is that people need to stop treating minority conservatives like jokes and start taking them seriously. The Republican Party is becoming more diverse, just like the country, and it’s wrong to dismiss minority conservatives as tokens.
Maria Elvira Salazar deserved to be treated better. John James deserved to be treated better. Young Kim deserved to be treated better. Their campaigns were either ignored or downplayed the whole race.
Aug 17, 2019 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Quite possibly the dumbest of all gun control policy proposals.
According to the NRA, there are between 8.5 and 15 million "assault weapons" in the United States. Other estimates range from 10 to 20 million. I'll pick 10 as a conservative guess.
An entry-level AR-15 costs around $650. Let's assume the government "buys back" all assault rifles at this cost. That's a total of $65 billion for this "buyback", assuming 100% compliance and that each rifle is bought at that cost.
May 26, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Surprise surprise, the author of the @latimes "one-state solution" article is an anti-Semite.
*Supports BDS
*Supports right of return
*Opposes the existence of Israel
*Denies the link of the Jewish people to Israel
*Calls Israel an apartheid state and compares it to Jim Crow
*Wrote articles for Electronic Intifada
*Described Hamas missiles as "Minor border skirmishes" but attacked Israeli response
*Described Israel as a "colonial power" displacing "indigenous people" and minimized terrorism as "armed, and sometimes crude, popular resistance"
