Des Moines Register endorses Mike Franken for US Senate in Democratic Primary

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5. if Pete endorsed her, that is good enough for me (and I so rarely put much stock in endorsements)

The only federal office candidates I every was genuinely excited to vote for (I turned 18 in 2014, so missed out on Obama)

were

My House Rep Ted Lieu who I adore (I am registered at my father's house in Los Angeles)
Kamala Harris for Senate in 2016
Kevin de León for Senate in 2018 (not so excited but I so wanted him to replace Feinstein, but he lost to her in the run-off)
Buttigieg for POTUS in 2020 (I voted overseas ballot before he dropped out, but still so proud to vote for a fellow LGBTQ)

plus Newsom in 2018 for Governor

that's it

I give money to many out of state candidates that I like, especially the Senate this year, we are fucked if we do not flip it.

I have given to 8 Dems (Greenfield included) of the 13 flippable (some more than others) Senate races, waiting to see who wins the two Georgia Senate seat primaries, plus waiting to see if Sibelius gets in for Kansas (she is our only hope) and Tim Mcgraw in TN (he was our best hope by far.) Both are not going to run though, grrrr. Begich in Alaska isn't running, so that is shot, we are going to get crushed, unfortunately, as we will have no Dem candidate.

So frustrated with Sibelius and McGraw,and to a lesser extent with Begich, Abrams and Yates, all of whom refused to run. (Yates and Abrams are in VP contention and AG (Yates) contention, so I cut them some slack.) The other 3, none, especially the first two. Those are both OPEN seats (KS and TN), and both would be favourites or at least 50/50 to win the general if they entered, ffs.


I was not thrilled at all with Sanders or Clinton in 2016 (I was for O'Malley but he dropped out before we got to vote for him, and Biden didn't run), but I voted and worked my ass off (with expats in London) for Clinton, but also had a really bad feeling the last month when they went to the 'expand-the-map' bullshit to try and rub it in Rump's face, plus the double whammy of Mueller and the now-forgotten massive Obamacare premium increases right before Mueller that started the poll slide that Mueller then really kicked into overdrive with his bullshit. I still have no idea why they did not wait 2 weeks to announce those increases, until AFTER the election, surely they could have thought that far ahead and sorted it.