Welcome to this week’s edition of “Stuff You Should Read. “2020 Post-Mortem (Part One): Portrait of a Persuadable Latino” by Equis Research Equis Research is a polling firm founded by Obama veterans Carlos Odio and Stephanie Valencia that focuses on the LatinX community. They recently released a fascinating analysis of the LatinX vote in the 2020 election. Figuring out how Trump made gains with that community is essential.
Nate Cohn may be an ethical guy for admitting wrong, and may or may not be a good pollster. This is petty but I find his Sunday pieces on G.S. so annoying with the cutesy animations and sounds I want to punch the tv — we just skip it now. That mode treats viewers like idiots. Finally, a place to say it.
Democrats did not do enough to combat the Trump narrative on the economy among Latinos or anyone else. His actual policies -- deficits to transfer income to the rich, trade restrictions, and immigration restrictions we BAD for the economy. A Biden offer of asylum to Venezuelans fleeing "socialism" would have been a powerful security and economic message.
Great mix today. Agree with Vanessa F that the Cohn piece is important to include because it does demand framing/push back (Monday PSA discussed this in brief). Please keep it up; love this NL.
Osa's Fair Fight twitter rebuttal should be mandatory reading for every person and local government in the country. What they chose to criminalize, provisions to replace county boards at whim, and special election foreshortening are alarming; while provisions to ensure frivolous and COSTLY challenges are going to wreak havoc where applied.
Question: are there a few goose/gander items with regard to the frivolous ballot challenges that could be taken advantage of by democrats in huge numbers in red counties to force board of elections hearings where elderly republicans must show up in person to defend their right to vote? Could making massive swaths of frivolous claims and publicizing it as a protest to showing just how costly and easily weaponized provisions in this new law are?
The misery on living on low wages and the political logic of a higher minimum wage is clear enough, but why not channel that energy into raising the EITC? While we are at it, why not remove the tax on wages that funds SS and Medicare (by not quite enough) and replace it with a VAT?
If eliminating CO2 emissions and encouraging reduction in the CO2 already emitted is as important as Kolbert (correctly) thinks it is, why can't she and many others bring themselves to proposing a tax on net emissions?
Thank you for including the Nate Cohn piece here as well as the rebuttal. That piece by Nate pisses me off more each time I think about.
PS The new rule allowing the G legislature to replace key staff at will says everything. I wish people would focus more on this.
Nate Cohn may be an ethical guy for admitting wrong, and may or may not be a good pollster. This is petty but I find his Sunday pieces on G.S. so annoying with the cutesy animations and sounds I want to punch the tv — we just skip it now. That mode treats viewers like idiots. Finally, a place to say it.
Democrats did not do enough to combat the Trump narrative on the economy among Latinos or anyone else. His actual policies -- deficits to transfer income to the rich, trade restrictions, and immigration restrictions we BAD for the economy. A Biden offer of asylum to Venezuelans fleeing "socialism" would have been a powerful security and economic message.
Great mix today. Agree with Vanessa F that the Cohn piece is important to include because it does demand framing/push back (Monday PSA discussed this in brief). Please keep it up; love this NL.
Osa's Fair Fight twitter rebuttal should be mandatory reading for every person and local government in the country. What they chose to criminalize, provisions to replace county boards at whim, and special election foreshortening are alarming; while provisions to ensure frivolous and COSTLY challenges are going to wreak havoc where applied.
Question: are there a few goose/gander items with regard to the frivolous ballot challenges that could be taken advantage of by democrats in huge numbers in red counties to force board of elections hearings where elderly republicans must show up in person to defend their right to vote? Could making massive swaths of frivolous claims and publicizing it as a protest to showing just how costly and easily weaponized provisions in this new law are?
The misery on living on low wages and the political logic of a higher minimum wage is clear enough, but why not channel that energy into raising the EITC? While we are at it, why not remove the tax on wages that funds SS and Medicare (by not quite enough) and replace it with a VAT?
If eliminating CO2 emissions and encouraging reduction in the CO2 already emitted is as important as Kolbert (correctly) thinks it is, why can't she and many others bring themselves to proposing a tax on net emissions?