The real value of Hickenlooper at this point is that he decreases the odds that we end up with Senator Jared Polis

TBH this bullshit probably isn’t worth protecting a single house seat over

I’m not in NJ so I haven’t seen the ads but I wonder how much of this comes from him being a fucking freak and her seemingly having a normal personality

Like I’m pretty confident that healthcare reform and social democracy appeal more to the average voter than big fiscal and antitrust do, but you can’t do social democracy when Manchin and Sinema are your deciding votes on everything.

It was almost the exact same segment of the parkway too

And that includes stuff like transportation, land use, and energy that would persist even if one of those places managed to completely eliminate economic hardship.

I don’t think that this is necessarily wrong on the long-term but I think it overestimates how close we are to the post-problems phase. Even the most affluent suburban counties in the U.S. still have enough concrete issues that they can’t go completely post-material.

This is probably a hot take on here now but I’d still probably rather have a somewhat liberal senator in their 60s than a Warner/Spanberger clone in their 40s

Crazy part is that it wasn’t even reelect, he’s a freshman

Man I hope we don’t get McAdams 2.0

It’s interesting bc I feel like nowadays even pols with technocratic agendas try to play up the identity politics side, which is how you get nonsense like neoliberals claiming that YIMBYism and free trade are going to win back low-propensity Trump voters.

Would I need to RSVP?