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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) Tweeted:
No one should be forced to choose between their right to vote and their right to stay healthy like the debacle in Wisconsin this week. https://t.co/fbDCbOb9qN
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LakeArenal
(28,817 posts)During the recall, Barack Obama promised to put on his comfortable shoes and join us. Sarah Palin came but no Barack Obama. I was very disheartened.
I love Barack totally.................................
If president Obama was still in power, how much less horrible all of this would be!!
LakeArenal
(28,817 posts)Loved ones disappoint us sometimes. Doesnt mean you dont love them like crazy.
hannah
(141 posts)Why cant the people of Wisconsin file a Class Action suit claiming a violation of civil rights?
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)If it reaches the state Supreme Court, it will fail. Evers' appeal to them lost 4-2, with Kelly (the candidate) not voting.
If it reaches a Federal judge, it will be overturned by an Appellate judge.
Say goodbye to Democracy. This state is f**ked. The other 49 will soon resemble dominoes.
Tweedy
(628 posts)Wisconsin does have no excuse absentee balloting as do almost all of the swing states and blue states. Governor Evers will do what he can to prevent a repeat of that election.
Even Utah and Nebraska have switched to mail ballots.
Ohio has too.
It would be much better if this president were not a sadistic nincompoop, true.
Yet, we have many competent governors and they are doing everything they can.
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)We're a Banana Republic with snow.
The citizenry waited and watched, anticipating a decision to postpone the election (as in many sane places), but the GOP wanted their boy (Kelly) to keep the SC red. Then the decisions went up the ladder to more redness.
We need Visine as much as we need TP--and for the same reasons.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)The gop moves there are frightening now
Where will it go with the 5 dufii on the Supreme Court protecting GOP power at the expense of the public health?
Continue to hope that empathy will beat out ideological fanaticism on our highest court.
The brain power is definitely there. Is the morality? We shall see.
OMGWTF
(3,955 posts)Tweedy
(628 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)SleeplessinSoCal
(9,112 posts)I think the courts and politicians of that party are and will behave like headless monsters.
peoli
(3,111 posts)Not sure if Joe Biden did the same
MyOwnPeace
(16,926 posts)You know he's not in the band anymore, right?
peoli
(3,111 posts)AwakeAtLast
(14,124 posts)Cha
(297,196 posts)Cha
(297,196 posts)than Joe Biden did to WIN.
peoli
(3,111 posts)But there are also people who had the courage and vision to make the right call ahead of time and people who DIDN'T. There are also people who mocked BS for making the call ahead of time and actually disagreed with him and mocked him, maybe you remember that, who are also recommending this post about someone calling it out AFTER IT HAPPENED.
Cha
(297,196 posts)his campaign Before the Wisconsin primary, if he were so concerned, instead of the Day After.
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MyOwnPeace
(16,926 posts)Since Moscow Mitch's courts are NOT going to overturn gerrymandering, it is up to us. It is the people in control of the state legal bodies that make the "maps" that control the votes. SO, in 2020 each state legislature will have the opportunity to make new voting districts.
NOW is when it is SO important to GET OUT THE VOTE!
You are not only working to get rid of IQ45, you are working to have control of whether or not we have FAIR elections!
Fuzzy numbers here (I'm not feeling like doing the "serious" research today) but over 65% of Wisconsin voted Democratic in the last local elections for state representatives - meaning 35% of the votes were RepubliCon - and yet the RepubliCons still control both the House and Senate.
THIS is why votes count. You CANNOT stay at home, even if they force you to wear a mask!
THEY ARE EVIL SHITS!!!!!!
We must GET OUT THE VOTE!!!!!!!
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)GOTV!
pansypoo53219
(20,976 posts)iemitsu
(3,888 posts)who should be impeached and charges with attempted murder.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)a car ? They limited the polls and he is I think 21- anyway, it was the first time he was voting -what a shit show