I’m worried about that too. I mean, at the federal level? Honestly, it’ll be ugly but I think we’ll survive Trump if it comes down to it. Not well, but I don’t think we’ll be a smoking crater in the earth when he’s out of office. (Although going after Martinez makes me think he’s actually more unhinged than I thought;…

Fair point, but I’m mostly just annoyed that we have those senators who claim to be Democrats but caucus with the Republicans. Like, why is that even a thing? Why is that a thing we elect?

It’s much more American middle class to kill someone yourself. It’s the 1% who outsource.

Mother Jones seems to have as well, at least to some extent. I’m really interested in the analyses of this, because I’m sure there was an increased Sanders turnout at the caucus, more people overall vote in the primary, and then Nevada was in between. I want to see which bits affected what.

You may not know - you can vote in the caucus by surrogate ballot - you can fill out the ballot and have someone bring it to the caucus for you, though you can’t mail it. Disability is one of the qualifying exemptions for not voting on site in the caucus. So are religion and work and I think a couple other things but…

Washington has a weird system. The Democrats assign delegates through the caucus, which was in March; the Republicans assign SOME delegates through their caucus, which was last month, but the remainder of their delegates are assigned through the primary. We usually don’t have a primary unless a) there’s a competitive…

Right, but remember, #notallmen. The bad ones are labeled for our convenience!

I just walked past the student I had last year who is clearly a sociopath, who threatened to rape and kill me (and I got effectively fired for it, it’s a long fucked up story) and didn’t feel safe till I was sure he hadn’t gotten on my bus. Haven’t seen him in just about a year; wasn’t ready for it; super not happy…

Maybe the most horrifying part of this shitshow of an election cycle for me has been how many people support Hillary (I’m one) and won’t say it out loud. The number of people who belong to a secret Facebook page or whatever because they’re harassed for supporting her over Bernie is just ... I am having an easier time…

Yeah, I noticed that when I was processing caucus ballots and it was very striking how consistently non-whites were voting for Hillary, particularly African-American voters of all ages. Among Latinos I noticed that younger voters were much more likely to vote for Bernie, but it was interesting. It was statistics and…

I know we will, which is comforting. We are the opposite of a swing state. :) But I’ve been thinking a lot about this belief here that Bernie is the greatest and it’s clearly not shared in more conservative parts of the country, which is my issue - because we’re so “liberal” here (in quotes because of course we’re…

What.

Oh, women don’t watch television, and any property women like is automatically unsuccessful because of that. DON’T YOU KNOW THIS?

Between the fact she’s on Whose Line and Archer, and I actually watch two shows (which has literally never happened before) she is clearly the best actor ever. I adore her. Also, Whose Line allows her to be funny (she is apparently hilarious in real life) while she has to play the straight man in Archer so much, so…

I agree that they try to be better about being progressive, but one thing I thought of the other day that I hadn’t, previously (and I swear I’m smart) is how far out of the norm progressivism actually is. I can sit here in my pretty progressive bubble (well, I call it that, we have that rep here in Seattle, and if…

The thing I find most ridiculously upsetting about all of it is that there’s a belief (I live in Washington, so we of course went for Bernie whole-heartedly) that the country as a whole is super excited about Bernie and if only HRC’s attack-PACs would stop suppressing the wishes of the people we’d have a revolution.…

Total agreement with this. I’m tired of being attacked like I’m some kind of goddamn idiot fascist when I say I support Clinton over Sanders. I’m also tired that I feel like I have to remain silent in order to not spend my days fighting with people about that. But as the Sanders campaign has blown up this week I’ve…

I think there’s a general sense that the DNC is somehow not what it is, which is a semi-private organization, not a government entity, and therefore it is not bound by the rules of fairness that in theory apply to government entities. The DNC is not required to listen to all voices if they don’t want to. I’m not…

I agree with this comment 100%. I’m having trouble seeing myself voting for him if he does somehow get the nomination, honestly. He’s not doing good things here any more.

It’s almost as though that might distort one’s perception of the sound!