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Seth Meyers: Republicans Don't Know What's in Their Own Health Care Bill

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷6/22/2017 8:32:50 am PDT

re: #204 Interesting Times (rest cut):

Yes, ~62 million voters may be hopelessly brainwashed GOP cultists beyond all hope and reason, but it’s the voter suppression, stupid. Dems need a milkshake message that brings all the non-voters to the polls.

I’m guessing that if this keeps up, those sixty-two million voters will be a lower number next time around (assuming Mr. Trump makes it that long). The combination of motivated Democrats, so-called independents, apathists, and depressed Republicans might do it.

The Trump voters who were tepid on the guy and only pulled the lever because (R) and not because what he stood for (graft) may be significantly less motivated to vote. (Consider the lowered turnout for GA6’s GOP for example). The GOP’s number-crunchers have to know this as well.

While in my town it was obvious to everyone who I supported (Sanders, then Clinton from my yard signs, plus I’m a Democrat), my wife was busy sewing doubt in this election on her own (I didn’t put her up to it). She was busy selling Gary Johnson to wavering Republicans (as she can do the Libertarian schtick since she used to be an LP member).

While that didn’t flip the town from GOP to Libertarians, the LP got a whole lot more votes here than they might have expected, all at the expense of the GOP. (I still want to know who the two Green Party voters were - I know everyone here and I can’t figure that one out.)