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Larry Hogan, Charlie Baker? Yeah, you could argue Biden, but I don’t know how conservative he is fiscally. Amen. Although I think Trump still might have won because people were intrigued by him, although many hated Hillary.

What politicians are closest to that?

How are Biden’s policies socialist and how is the sausage made in congress?

It would seem that the first few things they will want to do is roll out the COVID relief bill to increase payments. I do wonder if they will limit the payments by means testing it, making those who received payments before but did not need the money will have to show financial hardship to get more payments. From there I wonder if he will want to try and get the immigration bill passed and add a public option to the ACA. Infrastructure could be a part of the recovery bill if it is tied to an increase in payments. I’ll be curious to the objections though. But they should pass bipartisan immigration reform, it is entirely possible to do so with this congress. I guess, but I think there is more to it than him hurting people. How did Obama forget about them? Did his recovery bill not boost them or did the lack of trade policies to fix the past not help the Democrats with voters? There has to be more although many just liked him and his policies, even if he lied to them. And yet, somehow the $100-$200 from the tax bill seems to have made the difference for some people. Wonder what messaging could help the Democrats. I wouldn’t count Larry Hogan out if he were to run, especially if the progressive wing of the congress has their way. He is popular in his state and could appeal to different kinds of republicans. Hopefully this means there is no recount or lawsuits filed. It’s hard to believe that news got gobbled up by Wednesday’s unfortunate events. Cool how Ossoff was more of a long shot but won a full term. Would they do that through legislation, just like the ideas of packing the courts? Seems risky to use political capital on that. We can only hope that the rural voters change their minds after things have not been delivered for them economically.

I want to know if the Biden administration will speed the vaccinations up. They seem to be very slow moving with a lot of the public wondering when they’ll be vaccinated while essential workers appear to slowly get their vaccines.

PMs with this kind of discussion could last, but some posters won’t last. I can’t understand people who voted Republican, are highly intelligent and voted for him a second time. I also want to know if the white working class had always been for republican presidents in our history. Were they Reagan Democrats? Did they support Bush? Or did they vote for Democrats and flip to Trump? I wonder what policies Democrats could have done to gain these people throughout the years, though.

We had some good conversations over PM too and he identified me as being someone he knew from long ago on these boards. It’s a small world that he came back after all of this time and remembered who I was. We had some very civil conversations there and he knew a lot about foreign policy, which I appreciated since I know very little (I care more about domestic policy).

Hopefully lessons were learned and the inauguration is more on lockdown than yesterday was. Security should be beefed up like it was for the BLM protests (whether that was right or not) to keep the new administration safe. He was here late last night reading when I was reading here and watching CSPAN. Thank god. Crazy how much has changed since the other night when they won!

Should be: Mully and Haugh from 5-9 Bernstein and Rahimi from 9-12 Holmes from 12-2 Parkins (and Spiegs, Rami or Anthony Herron) from 2-6 Ostrowski from 6-10 Overnights with the Grobber

I would think so. To me it makes more sense to remove him under the 25th amendment and put Pence in charge for the last few weeks rather than put the country through another impeachment trial.

https://apple.news/AY827ZaFURiuYBoNINsWRRg

McConnell appeared to shut down the PA debate (I think, unless nobody had anything to say) and seven senators voted yea. Sounds like they won’t reconvene for business until tomorrow.

Pennsylvania’s did not...yet. Edit: Are they going in alphabetical order of states?

https://twitter.com/QTRResearch/status/1346911888173633536?s=20

Does Trump direct the defense department?

This just reminded me of Designated Survivor.

Warnock is as it stands right now, outside of the recount threshold. Purdue or Ossoff is obviously a different story. https://ballotpedia.org/Recount_laws_in_Georgia

Without question but I appreciate the moderators and admins keeping it open for as long as you all did. Thanks again.

Me too. I learned a lot from a lot of smart people here over the last few months.

And yet, the “radical” and “socialist” policies that certain members of the GOP said would be enacted don’t have a good chance of passing. I think of things as being even if they get 50/50 in the senate.

Sorry what is the rest of the 233,000? Mail votes?

What channel?

I would love the people I elect to be like him.

I don’t know who to to trust anymore. “Um, he's sick. My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.”

130,000 in total in DeKalb, 117,000 early voting, remainder is the day of. We don’t know if mail in ballots are counted.