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    United States 2024: United States Senate Dicussion Thread

    A friend told me how he would deal with this if he was Biden: He would offer Sinema an ambassadorship so that she would not run in 2024 splitting the vote. First, he jokingly said he would offer her the ambassadorship to Antarctica. Then, he told me that seriously, probably the ambassadorship to...
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    United States 2024: United States Senate Dicussion Thread

    One thing that helped Mary Peltola in this special election was the Native American vote. Alaska is weird because the rural areas are usually more Democratic than the urban areas because they are heavily Native American. The late Representative Don Young was known for having unusually high...
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    United States 2024: United States Senate Dicussion Thread

    That's the way things work in the United States. Political parties in the United States don't work the way they do in Europe. Even in states with closed primaries, a Democrat can just register as a Republican and vote in the Republican primaries. This is the result of Smith v. Allwright, a 1944...
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    United States 2024: United States Senate Dicussion Thread

    When did McConnell say that? Anyways, if he said that, he is either deluded or, more likely IMO, lying. It's not impossible for Mehmet Oz to win but it is unlikely.
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    United States 2024: United States Senate Dicussion Thread

    I don't see how the Republicans would win New Hampshire. Their candidate is the obscure Don Bolduc. In Arizona, Blake Masters is a bad candidate so I don't see them winning it either. Also note Mehmet Oz is likely to lose in Pennsylvania because of how bad of a candidate he is.
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    United States 2024: United States Senate Dicussion Thread

    It depends. If Nick Begich III is the only Republican candidate in November, I think he would defeat Peltola.
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