Moderate Republicans run as Democrats because the GOP brand is toxic here, and officially the race is nonpartisan. Believe it or not, this happens in inverse in heavily Republican areas as well (or, it used to).

The last thing I want to do is relitigate Obama, but “most like” is doing so much work here lol. He was not an outsider.

His only positive accomplishment was letting Greg Spotts cook for a bit and that was an accident.

all 1800 was missing was curving roads and water infrastructure and yeah i am in soooo much trouble

and then you get illiterate college students and are definitely not pressured wink wink to grade on a curve

86 years* clearly it’s bed time

Fun wild fact is that Dems gained a voter registration advantage over Republicans in WV during FDR’s first term. They still had a ~200k voter registration advantage in WV in 2016, which they finally did lose in 2020 - after 84 years.

It’s his fucking job to keep the party in line and together on votes and he let his own Minority Whip vote yes

It’s Schumer’s job to keep the caucus together on major votes. This deal doesn’t happen unless he’s either supporting the negotiations or he’s unable to whip the votes (his own minority whip voted yes!!!)

Shaheen (NH) (retiring)
Hassan (NH)
King (ME)
Cortez-Masto (NV)
Rosen (NV)
Kaine (VA)
Durbin (IL) (retiring)
Fetterman (PA)

I think that’s the 8 who are yeses

I guarantee the reason these fucking worthless pieces of shit caved is because they're being personally inconvenienced by the air travel delays.