Yep. He might not be much better on Freedom of the Press, though. He tried to create a government-run news service in 2013 to limit press access.

Personally I’m glad someone initiated the recounts, hopefully this may shed some sunlight on the vulnerabilities of our voting systems. Plus Waukesha County is a snake-pit of Walker operatives, I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if there was some vote-rigging there.

Also the 45% of people who stayed home, which many of those Stein voters would have likely added to had she not been on the ticket. Blaming third parties is an easy scapegoat.

I don’t really disagree at this point, although if our democratic institutions and system of checks and balances - which have already been severely weakened over the last 40 years - do not hold, we may look back and wish we had opted for the possible Constitutional crisis instead.

I don’t think it’s that far-fetched either. Some people say Pence would be worse. Pence is awful, but his views are mainstream Republican awful and he’s probably a bit more predictable. He is less likely to do some populist things that go against GOP orthodoxy.

I believe you’re correct. But I think the Colorado electors who want to challenge the state law as unconstitutional are separate from these seven? I’m not sure. Probably not a chance in hell.

We are all about to find out what happens when oligarchs are allowed to run the system. Trump appears to be promoting a brazenly kleptocratic agenda. If there ever was a time for Hamilton Electors, this is it (so far there are seven).

I guess that might explain his preternatural ability to cyber?

I’m convinced that the only reason Obama won in 2012 was that they were able to successfully head off the GOP’s efforts through an army of poll watchers, having a better data game (Narwahl vs. Orca), and with the help of Anonymous:

but [Carter] helped lay the ground work for theme of American self interest that ironically leaves us more vulnerable in the region.

Greg Palast thinks so, mainly via voter roll purging/caging:

Well sure, basically it can be distilled down to the fact that voters simply liked Obama more than they did Clinton. But to your point about how tribalism relates to the Democratic coalition, I’m afraid we’ve become more fractured and less willing to listen to other points of view within our own party. If there is a…

the coalition that was melded together to elect Barack Obama drifted just far enough apart that a small number of voters switched allegiance and another slug of voters just wasn’t interested enough in showing up to vote.

Oh wait...someone did try to do that!!

Their situation is unlikely to change, since the TPP didn’t include any enforcement mechanism to go along with the much-touted better labor protections for developing countries.

Does this mean we get a do-over?

Joseph Stiglitz has written some good think tank stuff critical of the TPP. You are probably correct, though about the average person opposed to the TPP. I think it has become shorthand for some of the problems of globalization. I’m not opposed to globalization, but we need to be smarter about it and not hand the keys…

They didn’t “overwhelmingly vote for Clinton.” Hillary underperformed among lower income voters, especially in the Rust Belt. Per NYT exit polling Clinton won 53% of under $30K of and 51% of $30-50K. Obama won those income brackets by 63% and 57%, respectively. Those voters should be an easy target for Democrats.

Hillary underperformed among lower income voters, especially in the Rust Belt. Obama won 63% of under $30K and 57% of $30-50K. Clinton won those income brackets by 53% and 51%. And although she won those “concerned about the economy”, Trump won those who said “my financial situation has gotten worse in the last 4…

Who are these mysterious far-left voters you’re referring to? Because I’ve never heard anyone take those positions, and I spend a lot of time on /r/politics, where you see just about every position imaginable.