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As backward as Tennessee is, Alabama is even more so.  Nevertheless, VW unionized in Chattanooga, and the Mercedes vote was 45 percent yes.

At the very least, the threat to unionize caused Mercedes to increase salaries somewhat and to provide further bonuses.  So I would say the UAW and the union-friendlier NLRB made some positive impact for the workers.  And the opportunity to vote again will come back soon.

Ah, the doom and gloom. The only polls that matter are the exit polls on Election Day.

That being said, these numbers are atrocious for Biden. As a Gen Z voter myself, I am disenchanted with the state of the union right now. Still, I think that Biden has a fighting chance to recover in these 6 months if he plays his cards right. So far the 2020 Biden coalition is fractured, and previous elections have shown that polls consistently underestimate Trump. I think we will see Biden get a ton of soft support back after the conventions once the reality of the rematch sets in. A conviction of Trump will only complicate things for him further and should even things up by Election Day.

Biden needs to rethink his electoral strategy. Gains with White voters alone won’t save him, he needs to show he’s doing something on the economy and trying to make peace abroad. Going all in on WI/PA/MI and adding NC should be the strategy. Play defense in those states as well as the 2016 states. The others are lost.

Rednecks and support muhTroops country.

Anyone who was ever stationed in Europe under the age of 22 knows the whole BWI / Frankfurt journey and knows Cancun Cantina.  Intimately.  

Just sayin'

It is certainly possible for Hispanos/Nuevomexicanos to shift rightward in a manner similar to how Tejanos shifted rightward recently, but this would require Republicans to actually invest significantly in this group (the recent rightward shift among Tejanos was largely in part because Republicans actually invested significantly with that group).

A lot of comments in this thread have been focused on flood/hurricane-prone Florida and wildfire/earthquake-prone California.  I would point out that the article in the OP is talking about insurers pulling out of previously profitable states like Iowa and Wisconsin.

I always feel like the earthquake argument with respect to just California is a misnomer. California gets some tremors here and there, but it gets off pretty well when you look at the larger Ring of Fire. Loma Prieta and Northridge are the major earthquakes of consequence since 1906. I don't know what LA has done, but the Bay Area has taken significant efforts to prepare for the worst. It doesn't have to be horrifically expensive either. Japan is probably the model for the world in terms of earthquake preparedness. All of that doesn't even factor in the fact that the most worrisome areas for a massive earthquake are off the Juan de Fuca Plate and the New Madrid Seismic Zone, well beyond California's borders.

The "Joe Biden is Hamas" lady now blaming us for the dead hostages. We are so hostile that just the other day the House passed a bill making military funding contingent on Israel spending, placing Israel's security above our own, yet still most of Israeli society thinks we're horrible. Why is this? How much more of a sugar daddy must we be before this country is finally thankful?

https://twitter.com/CarolineGlick/status/1791491736121843847?t=PBBUi0pDc0frnP6Et...

How many times are you going to pretend this joke of a failed politician turned pundit is worthy of a diplomatic incident with a nuclear ally?

For those who don't get it, Caroline Glick is a far-right columnist and social media figure, not an Israeli official. This would be like France expelling the US ambassador over Rush Limbaugh insulting them during the Iraq War.

Horus believes all Israelis are ontologically evil, it doesn't really matter to him who they are. If they're from Israel they're taken as representative of of the Israeli hivemind

No, he does not. To even reach that conclusion requires deliberately mischaracterising him.

The "Joe Biden is Hamas" lady now blaming us for the dead hostages. We are so hostile that just the other day the House passed a bill making military funding contingent on Israel spending, placing Israel's security above our own, yet still most of Israeli society thinks we're horrible. Why is this? How much more of a sugar daddy must we be before this country is finally thankful?

https://twitter.com/CarolineGlick/status/1791491736121843847?t=PBBUi0pDc0frnP6Et...

How many times are you going to pretend this joke of a failed politician turned pundit is worthy of a diplomatic incident with a nuclear ally?

For those who don't get it, Caroline Glick is a far-right columnist and social media figure, not an Israeli official. This would be like France expelling the US ambassador over Rush Limbaugh insulting them during the Iraq War.

Horus believes all Israelis are ontologically evil, it doesn't really matter to him who they are. If they're from Israel they're taken as representative of of the Israeli hivemind

I don't know all of the legal issues in this case, but are federal charges possible (presuming none have been brought so far)?

I'm not familer with the case, but if the wiki is correct

Murder
On July 25, 2020, Daniel Perry, a then-30-year old United States Army sergeant, had been working his Uber shift when he encountered a protest against police brutality that was blocking the road. Perry originally stopped and honked his car horn at the protesters, but later ran a red light and drove his car into the crowd.[5] Garrett Foster, a 28-year old United States Air Force veteran who was legally open carrying an AK-47 walked up to Perry in an attempt to tell him to stop driving into the crowd.[6] After he walked up to Perry's vehicle, Perry shot and killed Foster. Perry claimed self-defense and claimed that Foster had pointed his weapon at him, but eyewitnesses contradicted this account.[7][8]

When Perry was interviewed by police about what happened before the shooting and how Foster held his gun, Perry said: "I believe he was going to aim it at me … I didn’t want to give him a chance to aim at me, you know."

he seems pretty funking guilty to me.  Gonna need video of the guy pointing a gun at you if you shoot someone in a crowd full of people sympathetic to the guy you shot and angry with you.

Those darn woke insurance companies /s

Seriously though, as has already been mentioned, insurers have been factoring climate change into their models for at least two decades now. Republicans can stick their fingers in their ears and call it a "hoax" like their orange cult leader does all they want, but the science is irrefutable and money doesn't lie.

Florida has two choices. They can stay on their current path, keep electing Republicans, keep repressing renewable energy and promoting Big Oil and watch their state be half under water by the middle of the century, with stratospheric insurance rates for the houses that remain above sea level. Or they can radically change course and do everything possible to address climate change. When they choose the former (we all know they will), they will not get one red cent from the federal government to fix their s*** hole state.

They will probably go for door number 3:
Provide a junk insurance option that is not sufficiently capitalized. After the first hurricane where that insurance is unable to pay, raise hell about DC doing nothing to help. And throw in gratuitous references to woke DC politicians helping the minority of the day over real Americans.

I think you're probably right that this is what will happen, which actually makes me thankful that the word "bailout" has been so thoroughly weaponized in American politics post-2008. It will be pretty easy for the anti-bailout forces in Congress to paint this as the rest of the country bailing out an irresponsible state that planned all along on having the other 49 states pay it's bills when disaster inevitably struck.