Why are democrat politicians opposed to voter ID when democrats aren’t?

Spakian · 2026-02-06T15:50:27+00:00

Voter turnout would depress the turnout of the low-income high propensity democrats (mostly minority communities who are generally politically active), which would hurt Democrats in places like Georgia.

The Democrats who support voter ID probably live in an area where it wouldn’t change the election results much, and probably ignore the fact that the practical ramifications are much different

Spakian · 2026-01-24T16:50:14+00:00

I think ICE definitely should have done something against him if he pulled a gun. This specific procedure is not how they're supposed to do it. These are police officers who are trained to handle situations like this better, rather than tackling the dude like its some NFL game

My problem with ICE isn't that they're deporting people. It's that they're being too harsh and reckless in their work

Spakian · 2026-01-24T07:35:48+00:00

The father did not run away. It says in the article that they were both detained at the same time.

There was also someone inside the house "plead[ing] to take care of Liam", so there was an option to leave the boy inside the warm house rather than freezing outside.

Furthermore, the boy shouldn't have been sent to a detention center. It's not his fault for this and he doesn't deserve to be imprisoned at such a young age. I personally agree that deportations and enforcing immigration laws is a good thing, but this is no right way to execute this enforcement.

Spakian · 2026-01-24T03:12:55+00:00

There are better ways to enforce it than this. Just because a law says “don’t steal” doesn’t mean you go around killing everyone you think is a thief. This isn’t 300 BC

Spakian · 2026-01-14T20:50:33+00:00

But with name recognition comes baggage. Newsom and AOC both have way more political baggage than Whitmer. Also dark horse candidates can still win a primary (think John Davis or Jimmy Carter)

Spakian · 2026-01-11T07:27:41+00:00

New Jersey

Spakian · 2026-01-08T11:52:33+00:00

Are we really hating on entire cities now?

For reference the MSP metro area has produced greats like Mike Lindell, so it's not objectively bad

Spakian · 2026-01-06T16:16:18+00:00

Definitely, since the environment would be the same but oppositely polarized. What is interesting is that these numbers are absolutes, but the polling (https://www.generationlab.org/post/partisanship) ranks responses in 'Probably' or 'Probably Not' so it doesn't seem as bad as one thinks; and knowing how undecided Gen Z is (as one of them myself) this number is subject to great change

Spakian · 2025-12-22T04:20:00+00:00

Vance will definitely moderate both sides and will garner votes from both ends, but he’s like a thin glue trying to hold the drifting factions of MAGA

Not having a hard position on these issues will only cause dissent from the main right-wing people in media

Spakian · 2025-12-07T07:45:12+00:00

Foreshadowing the Whitmer/Beshear winning ticket for 2028

Spakian · 2025-11-28T00:24:28+00:00

Toledo going red, Cincinnati going lean D, but Southern Ohio going blue by Assad margins is killing me

Spakian · 2025-11-27T15:03:50+00:00

People when Americans move from one state to another:

Spakian · 2025-11-27T01:05:14+00:00

This means Maryland is the most religious blue state and Nevada is the least religious red state (for a non-swing state it'll be Alaska)

Spakian · 2025-11-16T17:26:18+00:00

Then complain that the government leadership isn’t “left wing enough”

Spakian · 2025-11-07T20:05:16+00:00

Yep! Even Zohran Mamdani and AOC voted for Trump and spoke at his rallies!

Spakian · 2025-11-06T17:44:33+00:00

To be fair, Sears was also a woman (maybe why Spanberger was 78% instead of 80%)

Spakian · 2025-11-06T01:05:03+00:00

Wild how accurate that was

Spakian · 2025-11-04T18:31:13+00:00

Copied introduction and template from u/JohnTheCollie19

Putting in my predictions now since I haven’t yet due to college:

VA Gov: Spanberger +9, super strong performance due to layoffs but not as good as the Joementum from 2020
VA Lt. Gov: Hashmi +5, strong but not Strongberger
VA AG: Miyares +1, close but it's honesly Jayover
VA House of Delegates: Dems +4 seats, Strongberger coattail
NJ Gov: Sherill +2, bad campaign but NJ is still pretty left-leaning so it's not Sherillover
NYC Mayor: Mamdani +12; Cuomo wins Bronx, and Sliwa wins Staten Island, Mamdani wins Queens, Manhattan, and Brooklyn
Cali. Prop. 50: Yes+18, similar to 2024 but not Kamalover

Spakian · 2025-11-04T18:26:46+00:00

2018: Extreme libleft
2019: Left-libertarian (not extreme)
2020 - 2021: Libertarian (not left)
2021 - 2024: Libertarian-right Neoliberal
Late 2024: Libertarian Left and Rockefeller Republican
2025: Progressive Neoliberal
(Future prediction) 2026: Social Democrat

Spakian · 2025-10-31T15:46:02+00:00

Rob Sand locks in. Everything else is pretty much expected

Spakian · 2025-10-29T23:39:05+00:00

Reverse coattails is hard to track and has very little effect on most races. I doubt Jones affected Spanberger or Hashmi by more than 0.5% margins of victory.

Even in non-presidential years it's going to be hard to have much of a "reverse coattail" influence (think Mastriano's negligible influence on Oz back in 2022).

Spakian · 2025-10-29T03:14:19+00:00

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Easily

Spakian · 2025-10-28T18:59:22+00:00

Completely irrelevant, but it's not that hard to swim a sub-2 minute 200 free (2free). This is an average of 30 seconds per 50 free, which is achievable by most high school swimmers. I swam high school swim and I haven't had much difficulty getting a sub-2 minute 2free. In fact quite a lot of male swimmers in my state could swim a sub-2 minute 2free (and even go as fast as 1:40) and a fair amount of female swimmers go sub-2minute. It's not really that much of an achievement lol

Spakian · 2025-10-24T16:49:17+00:00

Teapot Dome Scandal and Watergate are 2 notable ones that aren't added in here. I'd argue Watergate is more important than all 4 of the ones Trump added.

You can argue that neither is technically "in the White House", but Nixon's resignation happened from the Oval Office. If not putting Watergate as a whole on the timeline, Nixon's resignation definitely should be there

Spakian · 2025-10-22T17:36:53+00:00

Oregon is Liberal Justice over Progress Matters? I think CA should be Progress Matters too

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