The Supreme Court is already 6-3 due to Democratic incompetence. Not sure how the Supreme Court is even a relevant issue. |
Alsobrooks, that’s why she has all of the endorsements. |
No, the Supreme Court is 6-3 due to the Republicans' radical and undemocratic pursuit of power over anything else. If I do something bad, which you are unable to stop me from doing, that bad thing is my fault, not yours. |
She doesnt have *all* of the endorsements. She has most of the MD machine dems. Trone has plenty of endorsements too, but endorsements dont vote, and I wonder how much they sway the average voter. |
Help me understand. I keep reading about voting for Hogan as dangerous for the Senate because of the majority .Are there any other seats that are potentially flipping either one way or the other?
I am voting for Hogan, but I want to understand why people who like him are voting for him because of the Senate. And if you’re curious, I’m not a Trumper. In fact, I loath him and I’m voting for Biden. |
I don’t know which senate seats could potentially be flipped this election cycle, but I think it’s a very safe assumption that if Hogan wins, Republicans will have a senate majority. That means that if Biden also wins, his Supreme Court nominees (if there is an opening) will never even get a vote, just like Merrick Garland. Then Republicans will likely win the midterms and a golden opportunity to reshape the SC will evaporate forever. If both Hogan and Trump win, please don’t fool yourself into thinking that “moderate” Larry Hogan will courageously stand up to Trump and MAGA and block Trump’s SC nominees. I absolutely guarantee you that this will not happen. He will wither under the pressure and fall in line just like every Republican before him and Trump’s nominee will be on the Court for the next 40 years. |
This is all based on the premise that Trump wins and that a liberal justice retires/dies during this presumed Trump presidency. To the best of all of our knowledge Sotomayor, Kagan and Brown Jackson are not in ill health, nor are they likely to retire during a hypothetical Trump presidency. Trump replacing say, Clarence Thomas, doesn’t change anything it keeps the status quo, so I would only consider the liberal justices in this scenario. I just find all of this too attenuated to force me into voting against Hogan. YMMV. |
Sotomayor is an obese diabetic. Thomas and Alito are old and replacing him with a 45 year old women entrenches republican dominance of the court for a generation |
Remember when Kavanaugh looked Susan Collins in the eye? |
Do you want Biden to have the chance to potentially replace Thomas or Alito if they die or have to retire? And how would you feel if you voted for Hogan and his victory was the only thing holding that up? |
I don’t know what this means. Please explain. |
Yeah, this isn’t swaying me. My vote for Larry Hogan isn’t what’s holding it up, it is the overall dysfunction in our political system. To be frank I think Congress needs an infusion of politicians like Larry Hogan to become somewhat functional again. |
Well, no, it's not, because you haven't voted for him yet, and he hasn't been elected yet. However, your vote for Larry Hogan, if he gets elected, will contribute to the overall dysfunction in our political system. |
Are people who can't remember 2016 already old enough to vote? |
“When I met with Justice Kavanaugh before his confirmation hearings, he looked me in the eye and said that he considered Roe v. Wade the law of the land,” she said. “Nothing in his confirmation hearings suggested that he would ever be less than trustworthy with a woman.” https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/susan-collins-shocked-that-brett-kavanaugh-would-ever-lie-to-a-woman Hogan will likewise fall into line and vote to confirm any republican nominee |