The flip part has to do with who is senate leader, and all the powers that come with it.

He does if republicans have less than 51...

Like, that's how we decide which party gets actual leadership positions with power, and which party gets empty suits with no real duties.

If Fettermann caucus with Dems or Republicans, that really really fucking matters...

And it's depressing no one understands, like, this should just be shit everyone knows before they graduate highschool....

There was a guy I knew back in high school, he was an idiot, and he knew it, he was one of the rare idiots who would actually listen to someone smarter than him if you tried to explain things to him. He leaned fairly conservative to begin with, but when he said some stupid bullshit you could get him to change his mind if you explained why it was stupid.

At some point I heard that he died, turns out that was exaggerated a bit, but he did get a pretty bad head injury, spent some time in a coma, etc. but he is mostly ok

But the next time I ran into him I noticed that he's just not as willing to hear things out and change his mind anymore, and I can't help but think that's the brain damage.

On par with every other republican.

He put on a pretty good front up until his stroke right before the primary. It's debatable whether what he has become since is who he was all along, but he definitely won for more reasons than merely not being Oz, the carpetbagger.

This matters for leadership as Fetterman still caucuses with the Democrats.

Or, just get people to vote the way the GOPs do.

Look up Jerry Falwell and his Moral Majority. Jerry was a televangelist who grabbed the GOP by the grassroots.

He used his extensive mailing list to find the small local GOP clubs that decide who is going to be the next sheriff or country clerk. If there'd been twenty people at the last meeting, Jerry's folks would show up with fifty.

Why abolish the senate?

Or we abolish the senate and expand the house to the several thousand representatives it should actually be. Term limits on legislators in a small legislature just makes the party even more powerful because nobody will have name recognition except the party. It also highly encourages working with lobbyists who promise to get you a cushy landing spot after your term. For what most people have an issue with, an age cap with a good retirement would work.

This isn't a normal cycle tho...

The "fight everywhere" plan is paying off huge, state parties are operating at campaign levels and have been for over a year.

"Knock on wood" and all that, but the next two midterms are gonna be blood bath, simply be cause some of these seats are seeing their first serious and well funded challenger in decades.

They're seats neoliberals handed to Republicans to prevent an actual majority of Dems and them having to do anything.

I'm usually right about this shit, we're gonna see record breaking turnouts and a blue wVe. Everyone will take the wrong lesson from this too.

The gains are because this is what happens when neoliberals don't have the reigns to the DNC, and that's all it's ever taken.

DONT worry! I'm SURE Protecting Pedophiles! Protecting Billionaires! Starting Multiple Wars! Making it IMPOSSIBLE to Afford to Live! Eliminating VA Benefits! Defunding our Troops! Killing American Citizens in the Street! Kidnapping Children at the Request of the Federal Government! will Convince Republican voters to NOT vote Republican!

If we fucking show up we can take Texas. Talarico is polling at or above the Republican candidates and they're still fighting it out while Talarico builds his base.

Alabama voted in Doug Jones, likely a fluke that we won't be able to repeat, but there is a very thin sliver of hope.

Guys always been a disaster. His stunts as mayor were ridiculous.

Calling it a coup removes meaning from the word "coup" and then we won't be able to describe what's happening when it actually happens.

Terror for non-white non-Christians, or status quo?

Idiot.

They’re not going to be shocked because they are rigging it in their favor. I think it’s the libs who are going to be shocked this November when there is blatant cheating and no one in power puts up a fuss. It’s not like the Republicans have never stolen an election with the permission of the Democrats before (2000 and 2024 to name two).

Not only did he win, he got more than twice the votes as the second place guy. He won literally every county, and not by small margins.

https://www.cnn.com/election/2022/results/pennsylvania/democratic-primaries/senate