Yeah but what would the GOP have wanted him to do? What would they have enabled him to do?

Nothing of course. He took the information to McConnell and he warned President Obama not to say anything publicly about or he would attack him as interfering in the election. Whether President Obama should have done so anyway is debatable but if he had, Republicans would be following McConnell's marching orders and using his talking points and probably filing lawsuits, voting against sanctions, etc. No doubt about it. None of them would be appreciative of the fact that President Obama did anything in the heat of the election and would have attacked the credibility of the election if Hillary HAD won. As a matter of fact, though, Hillary DID raise the issue of Trump ties to Putin to some degree during the campaign and is now being proven correct.

No. No. No.

I want some kind of universal/single payer/medicare-for-all system as much as everybody else but I also realize that, regardless of what some people say, it's not actually a slam-dunk for getting something passed anytime soon (enhanced background checks poll well too but we can't even those actually passed either) and IMHO we can't afford to make it- or anything else- a particular litmus test for candidates for office, leadership, etc.- right now. We still need to ensure that the progress that we HAVE made in terms of the ACA doesn't get destroyed/rolled-back at the moment. Then we need to rebuild our Congressional majorities and win some more statehouses in 2018 and 2020 and, of course, getting Trump out of the WH at least by 2020. We have a brilliant House tactician in Nancy Pelosi and, by no means, should we run her out of her position over this. Her critics got a chance to vote for somebody else at the start of this Congress and they still overwhelmingly picked her. Her critics need to follow her lead and support her until the next Congress and regular opportunity to pick another leader comes along. Now is the time to be fighting against Trump/GOP, not each other over things that are not realistically going to be enacted anytime soon.

Welp. That's good enough for me!

It's not too late to stop and 'fess up to their base that they can't do it

or that it was a morally bankrupt/bad idea to begin with and that there is no good way to do it without harming lots of people. Of course, that would require courage and, despite their ability to savage and smear their opponents, they don't have the kind of spines necessary to stand up to their idiot, rabid, rabble-rousing base that they've spent the last 8 years playing to.

The right thinks that they are so "clever" naming orgs

It seems like this would be a ripe picking for the ACLU (which I'm sure this org was trying to present itself as a facsimile of).

I don't believe so

DNC adopted a lot of Bernie's platform but I can't think of any particular policy positions that the Republicans latched on to to attack her with. Most of what sunk her were Republicans demonizing and smearing her, promotion of fake Clinton scandals that were somehow made equivalent to Trump's real scandals, Russia's influence in spreading false and misleading information into the political ecosystem, Comey keeping the e-mail server investigation in the forefront, particularly right before the actual election, and the media constantly paying much more attention to Donald Trump at Clinton's expense. Clinton losing was not so much about people voting against liberal Democratic policies. It was mostly about voting against Clinton herself- even for some progressives, unfortunately.

Though I'm sure that Fox at some point told everybody that she was once "the most liberal Senator" in Congress- just like they did with Kerry and Obama (and probably Gore).

I was pleasantly gobsmacked about Indiana SOS denying the width and breadth of this request

We're a Republican-locked State at the moment and our Republican SOS and Mike Pence dramatically shut down a Democratic-leaning voter registration effort last fall in a massive state police raid leading up to the November elections- the outcome of which we have yet to hear about AFAIK.

I thought that we were supposed to have a secret ballot? The fact that Kobach requested actual voting records for people now makes me wonder if he knows something that the rest of us don't know about............