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onetexan's JournalMara Gay re: DEMOCRATIZATION in GA: "Democracy Is Alive And Well And Lives To Fight Another Day"
"The New York Times Editorial Board's Mara Gay weighs in on the outcome of the Georgia Senate runoff, how a multiracial coalition in Georgia is making competitive elections possible and a new Washington Post editorial on Georgia turning purple and why it should be a 2024 early primary state."
Saw her this morning on Morning Joe and i really like her commentaries. The democratization (this multiracial coalition mentioned above) is why Dems have had success in GA last couple years. Alot more work to do but the changing demographics of the Atlanta suburbs is working for Dems
NYT: Democrats See a Blueprint in Fetterman's Victory in Pennsylvania
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/13/us/politics/fetterman-pennsylvania-voters-democrats.htmlDid John Fetterman just show Democrats how to solve their white-working-class problem? Mr. Fetterman’s decisive victory in Pennsylvania’s Senate race — arguably Democrats’ biggest win of the midterms, flipping a Republican-held seat — was achieved in no small part because he did significantly better in counties dominated by white working-class voters compared with Joseph R. Biden Jr. in 2020.
These voters for years have been thought to be all but lost to Democrats, ever since Donald J. Trump turned out explosively high numbers of white voters in rural and exurban counties, especially in Pennsylvania and the northern Midwest. Mr. Biden recaptured Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin two years ago largely by drumming up support in the suburbs, while working-class white voters stuck with Mr. Trump. But Mr. Fetterman, with his tattoos and Carhartt wardrobe, and priorities like marijuana legalization, appears to have regained ground with the white working class — though whether he persuaded many Trump voters to back him, or whether he improved on Mr. Biden with the demographic in other ways, awaits more detailed data...
Mr. Fetterman’s biggest gains were in deep-red counties dominated by white working-class voters. He didn’t win these places outright, but he drove up the margins for a Democrat by 3, 4 or 5 points compared with Mr. Biden.
“Pennsylvania elections are about margins, and he cut into the margins Republicans had across the counties that they usually control,” said Christopher Borick, a political scientist and pollster at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa. “He got a lot of looks from voters who aren’t very open to looking at Democrats right now.”
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Thought-provoking article.
Why hasn't msnbc called for Tina Kotek's win in the OR governor's race?
NPR has a couple days ago: https://www.npr.org/2022/11/10/1134206147/oregon-governor-results-drazan-kotek-johnson
CNN Projection: Democrat Rep. Pat Ryan will win New York's 18th Congressional District
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/election-results-congress-senate-house-11-09-2022/h_76f723da4c2c5300c7679d7cb023e7e3Democratic Rep. Pat Ryan will defeat Republican Colin Schmitt in New York's 18th Congressional District, CNN projects.
Democrats now have 189 of 218 seats needed to control the House, according to CNN's projections.
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Please delete this if already posted but this is HUGE!! He was one of the NY House races listed as vulnerable.
CONGRATS TO REP PAT RYAN!! 
PEW: Democrats Hold Governorships, Make State Legislative Gains
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2022/11/09/democrats-hold-governorships-make-state-legislative-gainsDispelling predictions of a red wave, Democrats seized complete control of the legislatures in Michigan and Minnesota, and held on to governorships in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, maintaining a bulwark against Republican-dominated legislatures in the latter two states.
Democrats also won historic victories in Maryland, where voters elected Wes Moore as the state’s first Black governor, and Massachusetts, where they chose Maura Healey as the state’s first openly gay governor. With those two victories, Democrats increased the number of states where they control the governor’s office and both legislative chambers to 18. Republicans had unified control of 23 states heading into yesterday’s election.
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Congrats to Governors & amazing groundwork teams in MI, MN, PA, WI!!
Financial Times: While Putin doubles down in Ukraine, his gas gambit is failing
https://www.ft.com/content/be331b8e-3a24-4941-b6d0-aa3041f789cf?ftcamp=traffic/partner/feed_headline/us_yahoo/auddev"While Russia needs to sell the EU its natural gas, Europe no longer needs these supplies. Gas is becoming a buyer’s market. The energy crunch should be no threat to unified support for Ukraine, let alone Europeans’ comfort this winter, despite Putin’s machinations.
Analysis of underlying supply patterns reveals that, contrary to common belief, Europe is securing enough gas and liquefied natural gas from global markets to fully substitute for lost Russian supplies already. What is more, it can fully replace every last bit of Russian gas without any need for demand destruction or even substitution away from gas.
Since the invasion of Ukraine in February, EU sourcing of Russian gas has plummeted from 46 per cent to 9 per cent. This pivot came partially through increased piped gas from Norway and Algeria. Even more noteworthy, the dramatic increases in shipped LNG imports from the US and elsewhere have replaced the lost Russian vaporous gas from the targeted pipelines. This new supply surge to the EU now approaches, based on our calculations, 40 per cent of total global LNG supply.
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Good short article. Putin's gambit hasn't paid off at all.
Yard sign 'Liberty lives here'
So yesterday the hubby & i walked our pup around some streets in our subdivision & saw 2 houses that had a white sign with black letters that said 'Liberty lives here'. I've seen those dark American flag signs at another house, and other RW signs as well. I can't tell if the liberty sign is another one of those masked RW signs as well. Anyone know?
HuffPost: RUSSIAN OIL CHIEF AND PUTIN CRITIC PLUNGES TO HIS DEATH
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ravil-maganov-russia-dies-hospital-fall_n_63108241e4b0da54bae623efState media later reported Ravil Maganov jumped out of a hospital window and died by suicide. Lukoil, meanwhile, said the chairman died after "severe illness."
Oy vey..another of Putin's critics got too close to the window
Trump's Second Term Would Look Like This
Source: The Atlantic
Ever since the U.S. Senate failed to convict Donald Trump for his role in the January 6 insurrection and disqualify him from running for president again, a lot of people, myself included, have been warning that a second Trump term could bring about the extinction of American democracy. Essential features of the system, including the rule of law, honest vote tallies, and orderly succession, would be at risk.
Today, however, we can do more than just speculate about how a second Trump term would unfold, because the MAGA movement has been telegraphing its plans in some detail. In a host of ways—including the overt embrace of illiberal foreign leaders; the ruthless behavior of Republican elected officials since the 2020 election; Trump allies’ elaborate scheming, as uncovered by the House’s January 6 committee, to prevent the peaceful transition of power; and Trump’s own actions in the waning weeks of his presidency and now as ex-president—the former president and his allies have laid out their model and their methods.
Begin with the model. Viktor Orbán has been the prime minister of Hungary twice. His current tenure began in 2010. He is not a heavy-handed tyrant; he has not led a military coup or appointed himself maximum leader. Instead, he follows the path of what he has called “illiberal democracy.” Combining populist rhetoric with machine politics, he and his party, Fidesz, have rotted Hungarian democracy from within by politicizing media regulation, buying or bankrupting independent media outlets, appointing judges who toe the party line, creating obstacles for opposition parties, and more. Hungary has not gone from democracy to dictatorship, but it has gone from democracy to democracy-ish. Freedom House rates it only partly free. The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance’s ratings show.
Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/trump-2024-reelection-viktor-orban-hungary/671264/
Long article but well worth reading. The GOP are hellbent on orbanizing the country w a full takeover should the GOP win the levers of power again.
NYT Editorial Says Prosecuting Trump 'First Step' to End Democracy 'Crisis'
The New York Times said Donald Trump must face prosecution over his "unprecedented assault" on American democracy to show that no one is "above the law."
In an editorial published on Friday, the Times suggested that it is vital that the former president be criminally investigated over his attempts to overturn the 2020 election results, including a plot to install fake electoral officials in a number of key states, before he "roused an armed mob" to storm the Capitol on January 6.
The paper's editorial board said that while "no one should revel" in the prospect of a former president facing criminal prosecution, Trump's actions have "brought shame on one of the world's oldest democracies and destabilized its future."
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The rest of the MSM needs to follow suit!! 
Way past time!!
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