"You all, the people of Texas, everyone involved in this campaign, ... are showing this country how we can come together," O'Rourke said. "And come together not against anyone else, not against another political party, but for one another."
Don't forget that when Bernie Sanders "let it go," after the fatally flawed NY Primary in 2016 when 1/3 million voters were purged intentionally by high placed Clinton clones in action, the NY media spun it so that it looked like it was "all over" for him, and then the AP jumped the gun and said later that California's primary was all over and he was finished.
This pandering idiotic demeaning garbage should not have to be continuing to happen, and should not be allowed to continue, starting now with you.
[How could the voices of reason, logic, truth, conciliation and long range historical perspective be ignored and even totally drowned out in a state with 28 million people, and how could a supposed majority of voters in Texas be swayed by mere trivial talk of guns and taxes, and even those who bought into the idiotic rhetoric that a vote for Beto's opponent was a vote against abortion, and all of those dangerous people coming north in the caravan, the lies that Mexicans are rapists and drug dealers? Texans have more brains than that; I used to think so, anyway....]
Respectfully,
Stephen Fox
Santa Fe, New Mexico
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
The respect I grew up with for the New York Times was dissipated and rendered asunder during the 2016 primary because of the way the Times consistently butchered Bernie Sanders (in my opinion).
However, lately the Times has not only published intelligent analyses from readers and from independent columnists, but also published brilliant pieces like this one by Op-Ed columnist David Leonhardt.
A SMASHING NATIONAL WIN
If you look at the national results, last night was a smashing win for Democrats. They retook control of the House of Representatives, putting an end to President Trump's legislative agenda and giving them the power to investigate his corruption. Democrats did so with a runaway win in the national popular vote -- likely by about seven percentage points."This is what happens to a party when it controls the White House and the president is unpopular," Bloomberg's Jonathan Bernstein writes. Trump's "disdain for those who didn't vote for him has turned out to be a disastrous strategy." Anyone who finds Trumpism to be abhorrent should be very pleased with the judgment the country just delivered: On his current path, Trump is a clear underdog to win re-election in 2020. And yet last night did not feel like a thorough rejection of Trumpism. In one statewide race after another, Democrats suffered disappointing losses. It happened with the exciting progressive candidates in Florida, Georgia, Ohio and Texas (pending recounts). It happened with the centrist candidates in Indiana, Missouri, North Dakota and elsewhere. Why? Above all, because Democrats are getting trounced outside of metropolitan areas. "The consistent pattern you're seeing is that Republicans are consolidating control of rural white America faster than Democrats are making inroads into educated suburbia," the progressive writer David Klion tweeted. I think Democrats need to take this problem more seriously than they have so far. They need a new approach to nonmetropolitan America, one that asks in an open-minded way which issues are damaging the party there. Is it about moving to the center on immigration, abortion or other issues? Or rather than specific policies, is the problem the party's lack of a compelling story about the country's future? Progressives can't simply write off these parts of the country. Last night's results have given the Republicans a strong majority in the Senate. Until Democrats figure out a strategy for retaking it, they won't be able to pass ambitious laws or control the confirmation process for federal judges. There is no progressive future without a better performance outside of metropolitan America. Economic populism keeps winning. One clue may be in the continued success of the Democrats' economic agenda. Obamacare, in particular, had a very good night. Voters in Nebraska, Idaho and Utah all appear to have approved ballot measures to expand Medicaid. If the results stand, they would extend coverage to more than 300,000 low-income Americans, as Vox's Sarah Kliff explains. Democrats also won the governorships of both Maine and Kansas, whose Republican governors had held up Medicaid expansions passed last year. "Turns out people like Obamacare minus Obama," tweeted HuffPost's Lydia Polgreen. Voter enfranchisement. Voting rights also had a mostly good night. Florida voters approved a ballot initiative that would restore the voting rights of nearly 1.5 million people convicted of felonies. Amazingly, this initiative gives the vote back to 40 percent of all black men in the state, according to Samuel Sinyangwe. Michigan and Maryland voters also passed measures making it easier to cast a ballot, including same-day registration. On the flip side, North Carolina and Arkansas both passed ballot measures requiring voters to present an ID at the polls. These are laws designed to reduce voter turnout.
(Article changed on November 7, 2018 at 17:16)
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