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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThey Will Vote Yes, As If Their Lives Depend On It
Because it probably does. I have little doubt that those so-called undecideds have been threatened. Or perhaps blackmailed in some way.
Make no mistake, that is why this is in the bag. That is why the whole hearing today was predetermined. They know there won't be a single defector. THEY KNOW! Because the alternative for these people is probably something they're not willing to risk.
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They Will Vote Yes, As If Their Lives Depend On It (Original Post)
LandOfHopeAndDreams
Sep 2018
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He would have voted that way anyway. We at least get more outraged Dems. Only silver lining.
Funtatlaguy
Sep 2018
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BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)1. Sadly, I agree.
Sidthelib
(14 posts)2. It's a done deal IMO
What Im worried about now is that Kav is going to go absolutely scorched earth after hes comfirmed. Abortion gone, federal voter ID laws, etc.
Funtatlaguy
(10,870 posts)3. He would have voted that way anyway. We at least get more outraged Dems. Only silver lining.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)4. Too many of them are compromised by putin. SC will have no value soon.
too bad
brush
(53,764 posts)5. Their political life as a party does depend on it because after this anti-woman...
debacle they don't have long for control of Congress. Having the Supreme Court is all they'll have. And forget about trump after 2020.