traderdave wrote: To me, Warren was impugning a nominee for Attorney General.

Monkeyboy wrote:I don't think I want anyone to die. It would be much more healthy for our democracy if they were just exposed for the horrible people they are. Then they could be…

drsmooth wrote:

traderdave wrote: To me, Warren was impugning a nominee for Attorney General.

really need help with this new definition of impugning. As I understand it, at the time McConnell pulled his prank, what she was doing is reading.

traderdave wrote:

drsmooth wrote:

traderdave wrote: To me, Warren was impugning a nominee for Attorney General.

really need help with this new definition of impugning. As I understand it, at the time McConnell pulled his prank, what she was doing is reading.

Not sure if you were referring to my use of the word or McConnell's but I was simply representing his position.

pacino wrote:suicide bomber in Kabul killed 20 outside the Supreme Court in Afghanistan

Taliban; they've said that people that work for the judiciary are NOT considered civilians.

While the top map includes Democratic-leaning counties around big cities, the Southern Black Belt and the Mexican border, the second captures many of the rural Midwestern counties that helped deliver Mr. Trump the election. A Wall Street Journal analysis found during the primaries that the most rapidly diversifying counties in a cluster of Midwestern states were more likely to vote for Mr. Trump.

In the general election, voters were more likely to shift to Mr. Trump in the counties with the strongest growth in the Hispanic and nonwhite populations since 2000, according to research from a coming book by Ryan Enos, a Harvard political scientist. It appears in survey data, Mr. Enos argues, that this shift in 2016 was driven by whites who had previously voted Democratic — and who don’t appear to have responded in the same way to rising diversity before Mr. Trump’s campaign.

“When I talk to people about their concerns about immigration, they often talk about language,” said Daniel Hopkins, a political scientist at the University of Pennsylvania.“They talk about being uncomfortable having to ‘press 1 for English,’ or seeing Spanish-language signs. They talk about the feeling of dispossession that comes from having lived for a long time in a community and seeing it change.”

That sense of lost identity and ownership echoes how white communities often reacted to desegregation, Mr. Hopkins said. It is not, however, abrupt demographic change alone that unnerves, his research has found, but that kind of change amplified by politics.

In the short run, diversity is difficult,” said Robert Putnam, a Harvard sociologist. He published a widely discussed paper in 2007 arguing that diversity causes groups to withdraw from one another, both from people who don’t look like us and — surprisingly — from those who do (people generally “pull in like a turtle,” he wrote). His data suggesting that diversity reduces trust and social capital was cited by opponents of affirmative action. But in his full argument, Mr. Putnam too insisted that the trouble eventually ebbs.

“In the long run, America is pretty good at coming to terms with that and moving past it,” he said. “But the long term is measured in terms of decades.”

CalvinBall wrote:What a dumb move. No one would have read the letter or had known Warren read it. Instead Mitch made it a thing. Savvy stuff.

Brantt wrote: You are kidding yourself if you don't think it was done intentionally.

Brantt wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:What a dumb move. No one would have read the letter or had known Warren read it. Instead Mitch made it a thing. Savvy stuff.

It actually is savvy stuff.

Doing anything possible to elevate Elizabeth Warren as the prime face of the Democratic party and opposition is a huge win for Republicans. You are kidding yourself if you don't think it was done intentionally. You think Hillary Clinton didn't play in middle America? Wait until you see the results with Elizabeth Warren. She is loved by her base and hated by the rest of the country. Her campaigning with Hillary really hurt Clinton IMO.

Woody wrote:You know, it's possible for both things to be true. This is politics, so it was clearly planned with an intention in mind. But it's also true that THE LADY HAD A POINT. If you're too racist to be a judge in the 80's, why the hell should you get to be attorney general in 2017?