Did you seriously just preface your argument with “watch this?” What’s that even supposed to mean in context?

If we ever have the consensus necessary to eliminate the EC, eliminating the EC is going to be an afterthought to all the other things that a 2/3rds majority of the country being in agreement about something so controversial in 2019 is going to be doing with such a commanding mandate.

One of the biggest issues facing The Left is that it simultaneously wants to be a Big Tent kind of organization and it wants to achieve political success. It’s tough to do both; one of the reasons why the House Freedom Caucus is so successful is because it has rigid demands on who can join it and can therefore act in…

This is...not good. We really do not want the status of the Electoral College to be the focal point of this election, hopefully it does not become that. That’s the sort of single issue voting that will drum up Republican support against Democratic support.

Letting California and New York decide which Democrat is going to be president every four years is hardly better. I highly doubt you’d be in favor of abolishing the Electoral College if it meant Republicans were going to win in perpetuity. It’s not perfect, but there’s hardly a better system for (in theory) forcing…

Counterpoint: Politics is entirely about appearances, and has very little to do with what candidates actually believe.

Only weirdo bloggers whine about Beto being insincere. Sincere people are boring and a drag to be around. Regular people like me don’t want that shit.

God forbid the man ever discuss the things that have interested and excited him during his life. He seems very genuinely multifaceted. I feel like you’re just sour over your punk phase not blossoming into empassioned political star and finding a story to whine about how real punks just go on to whine on the internet.…

Because he's energized voters in a way unseen since Obama, that's why. 

Right? I swear I heard the *whoosh* sound when I read that line.

Lol @ Aunt Splintypat huffing your smelling-salts over here. “Would you mind turning off your fundamental personality for the duration of this campaign, Mr. O’Rourke? We just don’t find it appropriate.”

Because no one is as stupid as you.

Problem is, he grew up and now seeks actual real world solutions. How dare he! Splinter has not.

They’re not discussing anything. They’re just shitting on anybody that has the audacity to run.

For what’s worth, the guy does have some personality and charisma and since politics is nothing more than the ideological competition for resources, the fact that he seems amiable and charismatic (helpful characteristics for one aiming to be persuasive) is important. It’s not as though he comes to this with nothing in…

I don’t know much about Cornyn, but I cannot imagine that he is somehow more unlikable than Ted Cruz.

“Democrats should be in power forever. Also, every Democrat is terrible and you shouldn’t support them.” -Splinter

So many things are wrong in this piece, let’s just touch on two. 

This criticism of Beto is exactly why I want him to win the nomination. Policy doesn’t matter. What a candidate believes in doesn’t matter. The only thing that does matter is a candidate’s ability to beat the mentally ill idiot currently in the White House. Primary whoever wins in 24 if you want to but the only thing…

lol. If only he had 18 months to lay out his ideas/plans/whatever...