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Lost track of time, but just tuned in to the Cruz/O'Rourke debate—on CSPAN now, for the next hour.
God, Ted Cruz is such a creepy little troll.
I may just tweet that every three or four minutes through the rest of the hour.
Ted Cruz is just so gleeful. You can see him restraining the urge to giggle every time he says something vile, and sometimes he doesn't quite manage it. #TXSenateDebate
Oleaginous. Unctuous. Loathsome. #TXSenateDebate
"When the president attacks you, your wife, your father, how you respond is your business. When he attacks our country, that's our business." Nice shiv between the ribs from Beto. #TXSenateDebate
Beto is being unabashedly progressive tonight, even when he doesn't have to be. In a question on Kavanaugh, he brought up Cruz's votes for anti-gay and anti-trans judges. #TXSenateDebate
Just a bit more oomph from Beto would be nice when Cruz is batting him around, but in general he's doing well for a first debate. #TXSenateDebate
I think it's smart for Beto to be who he is and not run away from it. There's a long proud tradition of Western progressivism that he's drawing on. It's exciting. #TXSenateDebate
Cruz goes on at some length about how sad his kids are when he leaves for the campaign trail. I won't attach the relevant GIF, but I wanna. #TXSenateDebate
Cruz says Beto wants to bankrupt Medicare by giving it free to "illegal aliens." That's a Friday before the election line. He's running scared. #TXSenateDebate
Beto thanks Texans for inviting him into their dreams. Hubba hubba. #TXSenateDebate #debaeto

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Oct 6, 2018
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It's not that we don't know how to make it easier and more attractive for people to vote. It's that a lot of people in power—disproportionately, though not exclusively, Republicans—aren't interested in doing so.
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Oct 5, 2018
Just a reminder that the vote that's happening right now is a vote invoke cloture—to limit debate and move to a vote on the nomination. Voting yes now (as Collins, for one, will do) isn't a tell on your vote tomorrow.
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David Brooks thinks the problem with people's responses to the Kavanaugh nomination is that they predictably adopted positions in line with their prior sociocultural commitments. Which position is, of course, predictable and in line with his prior sociocultural commitments.
"People formed their opinions on Kavanaugh mechanically and predictably!" says Brooks, in a column that anyone who's ever read two Brooks columns could have dictated verbatim a week ago.
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An interesting, easy to miss, sentence from WaPo's piece on Manchin and the Kavanaugh vote tonight.
Note the phrasing here—Republicans think they can get Manchin "if they can get 50" votes without him. But they only need a total of 50, since Pence can break a tie if needed.
Now, this may be an error—@seungminkim, can you comment?—and what they meant to say was that the GOP believes that if they can get to 49, Manchin may get them to 50, but that's not what the piece currently says.
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