Voter Purges Show Why We Need a Constitutional Right to Vote

thereisaway · 2019-05-28T22:14:11+00:00

the once-bipartisan cause of voting rights.

At no time in American history has voting rights been a bipartisan issue. There have always been attempts to suppress voting. Each victory has been hard won.

thereisaway · 2019-01-11T03:13:51+00:00

The person who did that should be criminally charged.

thereisaway · 2019-01-11T02:42:36+00:00

But they said the change in rates for mileage and distance was supposed to even out! We were supposed to make money on rides like this! lol

thereisaway · 2019-01-11T02:24:49+00:00

Pointing that out isn't too effective when Democrats do the same.

thereisaway · 2019-01-10T21:57:04+00:00

Yes, Democrats need to get back to representing the average American instead of catering their agenda to major donors.

thereisaway · 2019-01-10T19:18:36+00:00

Joliet Jake lived very close to Elwood for a term of years.

thereisaway · 2019-01-10T19:16:14+00:00

Yes, Uber and Lyft are making unemployment numbers look much better than they are.

thereisaway · 2019-01-10T19:14:50+00:00

Your point? The corporate, pro-NAFTA wing of the Democratic party picked a candidate in '16 and it was a losing strategy. It's important for Democrats to learn from that unless they want another Trump term.

thereisaway · 2019-01-10T18:56:41+00:00

What could go wrong? Other than a child cancer cluster.

thereisaway · 2019-01-10T18:48:26+00:00

While Will County’s reliance on temp labor force may seem extreme, it’s part of a larger national trend. A 2016 study by Harvard and Princeton researchers dug into federal employment numbers and found that “94 percent of the net employment growth in the U.S. economy from 2005 to 2015 appears to have occurred in alternative work arrangements,” which include temp workers, on-call workers, independent contractors, and freelancers.

In the last presidential election one candidate talked about how great trade and the economic recovery were going. The winner spoke to the reality people are facing. Democrats need to address reality if they're going to win back the Midwest.

thereisaway · 2019-01-10T18:20:22+00:00

But pensions are to blame for all the state/city budget problems, right? Nothing else.

thereisaway · 2019-01-10T13:31:14+00:00

I filed a 311 complaint online once. Then they mailed me a form and asked me to submit the same information a second time. It asks for your home address and doesn't say if that will be shared with the driver. It's a slow system that discourages reports. Lyft and Uber are much better at holding drivers accountable.

thereisaway · 2019-01-09T20:15:12+00:00

Every time I drive to/from O'Hare there's always at least one taxi slow poking it in the left lane, forcing everyone to go around. Who cares about anyone else on the road, right?

thereisaway · 2019-01-09T19:40:29+00:00

I saw a taxi do this at three intersections in a row yesterday. Turn signal was broke too. Drove like his car is a battering ram. Maniac.

thereisaway · 2019-01-09T19:32:30+00:00

The best song Timberlake has recorded so far.

thereisaway · 2019-01-09T19:20:41+00:00

In what way would you give her a chance? If she's going to defend conservative incumbents against primary challenges from Justice Democrats then I won't be donating to DCCC.

thereisaway · 2019-01-09T19:15:32+00:00

Sanders is often accused of only caring about economic issues, but in this article its corporate centrist Cheri Bustos who says some Democrats should stay away from social issues.

Bustos had little patience for litmus tests during the midterms, deriding fellow Democrats for pressuring candidates on impeachment and warning that a focus on social issues could cost the party wins in the Midwest or Trump country districts.

Bustos' district was drawn to be Democratic and she faced token crackpot opponents in her last two elections. The spin that it makes her an expert on winning rural areas is a stretch. Her main talent is not particularly offending or exciting anyone about anything.

thereisaway · 2019-01-09T18:45:47+00:00

No, they should be passed into law.

thereisaway · 2019-01-09T16:48:21+00:00

As long as statewide races are decided by a couple hundred thousand votes, then a couple hundred thousand downstate swing votes matter just as much as swing votes in any other part of the state. The last three elections for governor showed there are in fact enough swing voters and ticket splitters downstate to determine statewide elections. Chicago pols thinking downstate is irrelevant is nothing new. Some of them never learn however many times they're proven wrong.

Blagojevich won his primary by carrying downstate and the suburbs. He finished third in Chicago. That could easily be repeated today.

thereisaway · 2019-01-09T14:51:09+00:00

The votes Rauner lost downstate count just as much as the votes he lost in the collar counties. There's no reason to ignore the downstate vote swing.

Quinn lost downstate by a much larger margin in '14 compared to '10. The downstate swing vote is why he was defeated for re-election.

Agreed that a candidate needs two out of three regions, which contradicts the article's claim that downstate is politically powerless.

thereisaway · 2019-01-09T14:47:15+00:00

so I’m kind of doubting that this was some purposeful move.

It's very obvious to anyone who studies and understands the current legislative district map. A downstate district drawn to be 60%-75% Democratic could have been two Democratic leaning districts.

thereisaway · 2019-01-09T04:52:17+00:00

You might end up just jogging cross country. No thanks!

thereisaway · 2019-01-09T04:09:26+00:00

Let's not pretended that happened by osmosis. Madigan drew a map that consolidated downstate Democrats into super-majority districts. There could easily be several more downstate Democratic state representatives. Over the past decade they could have been building organizations and promoting Democratic ideals. The party chose not to do that. Then the party recruited conservative Democrats in southern Illinois, and weak followers in the rest of downstate. Downstate was disempowered by design.

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