Even if it was bad luck on her part and both her team, and the House procedures were as correct and well followed as they could have been, it’s a good thing she isn’t the candidate right now, because that would be that.

Let’s add to that giving people someone to vote for.

DNC strategy had been to run dogshit candidates because “hey who are you else are you going to vote for?”

The candidates that are winning now are further left and not water carriers. The base finally gets the problem it created by listening to blue maga/ ABWD as long as they did.

You can’t change change an electorate, at least not in the course of one election cycle. You want to change an electorate? Start speaking the truth and keep giving the same speech as nauseum just like uncle Bernie did. But in the course of a single election, run candidate that meet the electorate where they are at.

A protest with a permit is a parade.

Sure but we can backtest the power of the Trump endorsement, and even as early as 2018, it didn’t mean shit. Something thats been academically notable about Trump is how their ability to defy polling or elevate surprising candidates isn’t transferable. Trumps endorsement has never meant a sure thing, and right now? You’d be better off getting Harris’s endorsement.

This is a grift, I promise. There will be some stupid fucking crypto or something. He’ll lose. Then he’ll go work for OAN or some shit.

Totally agree. Current Democratic leadership is utterly worthless and in practical effect the same as if the Democratic Party was led by republicans. Its a predictable outcome of the alleged pattern of “strategic voting”.

Just shut it down for the next 2.75 years.

Meanwhile half of Lemmy advocating for these bills because ‘llm bad’

Inshallah

Non-paywall link?

The bone saw one or the raping children one?

I’m also trying to find some details on this, but at least these few things:

One, the Khanna-Massie bill was introduced weeks ago. That matters. Its a big difference. It could have stopped all of this from happening.

I know that the Blue-MAGA bill gives Trump a month? So its giving him carte-blanche and kicking the can. You could interpret it as a form of “continuing resolution” for war for one month?

The Khanna-Massie bill stops Trumps ability to wage this war now.

Its early, I’ve not been able to get into the details. Basically, we had a tool in the pipeline to stop this, it was intentionally stalled by Democrats. Now they’ve introduced a new thing, that doesn’t do the thing being introduced to muddy the water around what the thing is.

[@[email protected] sam and emma are discussing the difference here, now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRaSiYeZGtY]

Yeah, so a group of 6 Democrats, core components of the Blue MAGA coalition, introduced a competing War Powers resolution, in an effort to muddy the water around the original War Powers resolution introduced by Khanna-Massie.

The Khanna-Massie War Powers Resolution was introduced two weeks before Trumps assault on Iran. This bill would have stopped Trump in their tracks with regards to Iran. Democratic leadership prevented a vote on this bill in time to stop what Trump has now done. The political interpretation of this was that because the US going to war with Iran was what Israel wanted, Democratic leadership supported what Trump was doing.

Now, 6 Democrats have introduced a separate war powers resolution, which is practically toothless, and which effectively confuses the two bills. The newer bill is a joke.

At the end of the day, its clear that the Blue-MAGA coalition and Democratic leadership support Trumps war in Iran. They want to be able to “appear” to be resisting Trump while not having to commit to anything that would actually limit Trumps ability to make war.

Only the progressive & anti-interventionist Republican caucus actually oppose war in Iran.

[Edit: to be clear, I know this is a totally different Senate bill]

Whose?

The Khanna Massi bill or that false flag bill the Blue MAGA coalition introduced.

Thats wild.

Sounds like the administration is claiming they didn’t have the agency to make a different decision. God where have I heard that before…

You can not “vote harder” a candidate into office. If you have fallen back to that as a strategy, you’ve already lost.

Yeah I’d need to look closely at the districts demographics and citing characteristics. Seeing Kat on stage for the debate, I think she came across as a little green. Which doesn’t bother me, but there was a defensiveness in their tone that neither of the other top candidates had.

I might dig into the district a bit further later to look at the districts demographics. Ill ping you if I get around to that.

Abughazaleh

Be careful putting all your hope on this campaign. Kat’s tied for second, not a distant second, but a solid second. She’s well ahead (90%+) with 18-35’s. But I do think she’s a long shot after looking into the polling (the only polling on this race). I’d put the probability of Kat victory at 20%.

Poll was conducted via

The poll reached voters through text-to-web messages and automated landline calls using “interactive voice response,” or IVR.

It was about 22% land line, 77% text to web. Now I’m always a bit dubious of “polls of likely voters”, because they almost exclusively rely on whatever cohort voted last election. But we work with the data we’ve got, not the data we want.

Something striking is that Biss is not as far ahead as we might expect them to be. I think its going to be tight on election day, tighter than what this poll suggests.

If you look at the cross tabs, Basically, Biss voters split between Kat and Fine as second choice, and all Fine voters break to Biss, and all Kat voters also break to Biss.

Basically, the least popular candidate to Fine voters is Kat, and the least popular candidate to Kat voters is fine. The electorate is very split in this race, and Biss is the benefactor of this. Likewise, there is substantial splitting on the DSA vote. Bushra got the DSA endorsement, not Kat, and that might have been the killer. There is clearly some local infighting happening here, where DSA leadership didn’t like Kat or some such (maybe they view her as a primadonna). Regardless, almost all Bushra voters break to Kat, and they are one of the only candidates where most of their voters break in such a specific way.

If this were typical times and typical campaigns, i’d say Kats done and Biss is going to win this. However, key issue I identified early: this is a poll of “likely voters”. Polling based on this kind of sampling suffers from a “the past is the future” assumption. One thing has been clear about Kat’s campaign is that its not traditional. If Kat has been focusing on building votership into the primary, as in, recruiting unlikely voters to engage, then these results are actually very positive for her, because polling will always underestimate that strategy.

https://evanstonroundtable.com/2026/02/24/roundtable-poll-biss-leads-by-single-digits-over-abughazaleh-fine-in-congressional-primary/