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As mainline Protestant denominations and Roman Catholicism fail to attract as many would-be priests and ministers, MDivs will decline.

A better question would be "Why is there a priest/minister shortage?" for these denominations, and there are plenty of good answers to that question.

Yup. M.Divs are a requirement for (I think) most mainline denominations and the Catholic Church. It's definitely cheaper to become a pastor for a nondenominational one since there are obviously -- for better or worse -- no requirements. And it's the nondenominational churches which are, of course, "growing" (or declining slower, to be more precise) in influence for American Christianity.

One has to wonder if eventually the mainline churches will discard M.Divs as a requirement, or replace it with a church-administered training program, in the future to make that vocation more attractive to candidates. Same with the Catholic Church, but I'm not as familiar with how strict the RCC is when it comes to degree requirements. But there is already a shortage of priests, at least for most of the West, and I don't see that problem going away soon.

Here is how I describe the ideology of Joe Biden
https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=368572.0

Agree with poster above but this is still clearly and embarrassing oversight. Rural TX counties have a history of these problems particularly in lower profile elections like referendums no one cares about and primaries. In the past decade multiple rural TX counties (including Starr) failed to ever report their results for a few uncompetitive statewide ballot things.

If this happened at the Pres level (I.e. Biden winning Roberts County TX) it would definitely be caught and fixed right away, but in these other elections just not enough folks care and the race isn’t competitive to matter.

With that few votes it's not going to generate much discussion. It's not that it doesn't matter it's just that it is too small for anyone to pay attention to. Things like this are a good argument for county consolidation. Texas is one of many states with far too many counties.

Bush will easily beat Gore

Bush was leading in every poll since 1997. Until the October surprise with the DUI, Bush was on track to win the popular and electoral vote.

Gore rolled a 5. He needed a 6

The 2000 election is another good reminder that it ain’t over until it’s over!

Going about as well as you'd expect so far.

https://twitter.com/MrSantosNY/status/1791572735962775879?t=NzHDwo0-TVIEW8Ay9wYd...

Fuentes is never beating the allegations

https://twitter.com/RPGonX/status/1597445461828259840

You mean to tell me that Trump needs to be targeting the states that were the closest last election? Nonsense.

Well, he can defend the 90% number by claiming that the rest of Haley primary voters were not Republican and even then, the math does not add up.  And frankly in a tight race, even 10% of primary voters is yooge!

I would view that comment more as a signal and as public negotiations with Haley.  He wants to lower her price for coming to him (not sure whether just for endorsement or as a VP).  I doubt that flea market bargaining strategy will work but we shall see.

Oh geez, how many times have we heard this over the last nine years?

“Don’t worry, folks — I know Trump’s statement seems like a complete lie if you just go by the facts, but if you let me dissect it for the next 15 minutes, you’ll see it actually makes a lot of sense and is a brilliant political 3D chess move!”

Not buying it!

Bu bu Trump quoted wrong numbers about a settled primary he won in a landslide. He’s a dumb idiot and mentally unsound.

Unrelatedly it’s totally normal to forget how and in what country your son died, that’s easy to mess up.

I think the important thing that we all need to remember here is that Paul Pelosi isn't a saint guys.

I wonder (seriously) if Rudy may have fled the country.  His life is pretty much in ruins if he stays in the U.S.