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well, at least RISE is getting some seats... but this is looking like a mess generally.

Where I'm at right now, without jinxing, is that it's more likely than not there will be convictions on at least of the counts. Maybe not 34, but I feel like at least some of them seems likely.

Juries also love nothing more than compromising to have some counts guilty, some not guilty.

I'm sure that if he gets convicted on, let's say four or five, he will spin this as a win because that's just around ten percent. "Even with a totally rigged jury, I won 90% of cases."

sure he'll try to, and i'm sure some of the press will downplay it, but at the end of the day even 1 count will give him the moniker of "Convicted Felon"

Rosen at 48 is eye popping.  She only needs around that to win, lol.

It's wild that she's doing so well while Masto took forever to get even beyond 45. I think a lot of it right now is due to Brown being an unknown, while Laxalt was obv much more known. Masto and Rosen seem on the same level in terms of how well they're known to voters.

Nope.

Wouldn't change a single vote.

Pretty sure it would halt in its tracks any "momentum" with black voters

Have to move quick though - all of 72 hours to get them lined up, along with over 100 others…

Those of us who have followed many General Elections will be aware that controversies about candidates typically come in two distinct waves. The first is about the process itself, and is invariably dominated by news of disputes, deselections and alleged stitch-ups from Labour. The second is about lunatics who have somehow managed to slip through the net: if it ever gets going in a big way (i.e. beyond 'candidate in Hopeless Seat West said X'), then the Conservatives typically dominate this phase.

I'll be voting against this, I think it's very worthwhile to keep things accessible to anyone who doesn't have a phone/want to have their phone with them when going out. Or just if their battery has died or something.

They copied my idea!  I've been doing this to my HOA president's house for years.

But oooooh boy, if there is a tape and it's released, that'll make the Access Hollywood tape look quaint by comparison

It's kind of funny that, to Americans, bragging about molesting women is "quaint" compared to bad words, lmao.

[in the eyes of people who accused Israel of genocide before October 7]

None of this changes the fact that it’s an urban war where Israel is not committing anything recognizable as genocide except in the eyes of people who accused Israel of genocide before October 7 happened and who excuse Hamas’s atrocities as “resistance.”

Bolded (added) is part of why no matter how atrocious and horrendous Israeli's war crimes have been I still can't get on board the "genocide" train. I saw people claiming that Israel was committing genocide on October 10th; these people had nothing to say about the Hamas attack. The "genocide" label has always struck me as a combination of good faith outrage over the brutality of the war and bad faith shock-value agenda-pushing by people who want to delegitimize dissenting opinions.

And on the subject of the "resistance" - I was on a university campus yesterday for a conference and had to walk around a Gaza protest. It wasn't as anti-semitic as I expected (no calls to globalize the Intifada, in English at least) but they did parrot the "resistance under occupation is always justified" line that was featured on flyers plastered around campus, which any discerning person should recognize as apologia for October 7. They also chanted "no peace on stolen land," which seems difficult to reconcile with calls for peace and ceasefire.

I have a colleague, whose family is Arab/Palestinian, who has been calling this apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide for years.

A couple days after the attack, she shared a social media post absolving Hamas of their atrocities because of Israel's prior actions. I lost a lot of respect for her after that.

Many of the same people wailing about Israel's alleged genocide also want everyone to forget about October 7 and began gaslighting everyone the very second Israel began to fight back.

I'm immediately skeptical of the morals and intentions of anyone trying to minimize loss of life in this conflict.