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(58,724 posts)Maybe the R next to the name can serve as well.
TheBlackAdder
(28,076 posts)lame54
(35,141 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)But why doesn't The Don wear one? Things have changed a little since Hawthorne's time.
lame54
(35,141 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)lame54
(35,141 posts)TomSlick
(11,035 posts)If you take NRA money, you don't get my vote.
rurallib
(62,346 posts)aikoaiko
(34,127 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)safeinOhio
(32,532 posts)some great actors. So many of them.
aikoaiko
(34,127 posts)I oppose gun bans (like AWBs) and gun confiscations (like in Australia), but I can support other gun control laws depending on the details.
We had a good showing in Savannah GA
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I was happy to be there and support the general theme.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Exotica
(1,461 posts)snip
But those ratings are often hard to find. Past years ratings are recorded on a section of the NRA-PVFs site requiring a membership for access. On Thursday, The Washington Post was able to review the most recent letter grades for members of the U.S. Senate and compiled this breakdown of how all 100 of them scored.
Most members of the Democratic caucus have F grades, as you might expect. But nine of the 49 Democratic and independent senators have grades above F, including four Sens. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.), Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) who have grades of A-minus or higher. Those senators represent four states that consistently vote Republican, so its perhaps not surprising that theyd have better NRA scores than their peers. All four were in the Senate when it considered compromise legislation on expanding background checks after the massacre at Connecticuts Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012, but only Heitkamp opposed the effort. (Manchin was a co-sponsor.)
The other five Democrats are interesting. Each represents a state won by Barack Obama in 2012, including both senators from New Mexico. Pennsylvania is a particularly weird case: Its Republican senator has a lower grade (evaluated in 2016) than its Democratic one (evaluated in 2012). Thats probably a function of Sen. Patrick J. Toomey (R-Pa.) having been a co-sponsor of the 2013 background-check compromise.
Only two other Republicans have grades below an A: Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz) and Susan Collins (R-Maine). Both supported the Toomey-Manchin bill. But neither paid a political price for that support. Each was reelected after that vote.
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pbmus
(12,418 posts)magicarpet
(13,945 posts).... the writing is on the wall. A high NRA rating will doom someone's candidacy. Your a goner if you worship guns or you take that blood money.
Straw Man
(6,613 posts)... after researching the significance of the letter that Hester Prynne wears in Hawthorne's novel.
Stuart G
(38,365 posts)Sens. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.), Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.)..
Progressive liberals will not win in those states. Do you want the above, who vote with the rest of the Democrats on almost all social issues. (not gun issues, obviously)...or do you want republicans. It is simple and very clear.
Tester is running for re-election.. How about a republican instead?..A liberal will not win in Montana....
Tester is now the senator...let's keep him. Yes, he ain't perfect on issues. On most all key votes, he votes D..
Do you want a R instead?..Do you want a chance to take over the senate?.
.......Fuck the NRA ratings....if we take back the senate...then we really do Fuck McConnell..and I would like to see him loose his position as majority leader..wouldn't you?
And I hate McConnell, the way he treated Obama is unspeakable...If we can take him down, that will be worth it.