By DU standards, this has been a rather quiet election season...

[kentuck]

I suppose everyone may be saving up for the Hillary/Bernie battle in 2016?

Compared to election seasons of the past, this one has little of the vitriol and anger that we have seen in previous elections.

Why is that? Are people just worn out or given up? Or are they waiting for someone or something?

I'm sure it will return to "normal" in the near future.

[hrmjustin]

1. I am making calls for Domenic Recchia this week.

That is the NY11th Michael Grimm district.

Very close race.

[Paulie]

2. I ate my ham sandwich a long time ago

I'm in IL so straight Dem is easy this year. I moved so don't have to vote for that Lapinski person.

[NYC_SKP]

3. You mean the Warran/Bernie battle in 2016? You want to see more of these Fox News characters?

Please, I cannot bear another season of these former and current Clinton fucktwits:









NOOOOOOOooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!

[Bluenorthwest]

7. When those guys worked for a President Clinton, Elizabeth Warren had just voted for GHW Bush

Because she was a Republican, who had also voted for Ronald Reagan throughout his vicious, ignorant, deadly administration because she liked and profited from his economic policies.
So I agree that talking about the early 90's and late 80's is a wonderful idea when we consider our potential candidates, where they were, what they were standing for. It is very important to look closely at those times.
I sure as fuck did not vote for Reagan nor for Bush. I sure as shit voted for Bill Clinton.

[NYC_SKP]

9. Um, no. You're going to need citations for that claim. Warren is honest, unlike, well....

Here are some cites that your claims re her voting record are unfounded and specious:

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/08/18/warren-career-story/wDdgXG610YvE58RexdiUxO/story.html

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/189657--liberal-favorite-elizabeth-warren-admits-she-was-a-republican

I was an independent. I was with the GOP for a while because I really thought that it was a party that was principled in its conservative approach to economics and to markets. And I feel like the GOP party just left that. They moved to a party that said, “No, it’s not about a level playing field. It’s now about a field that’s gotten tilted.” And they really stood up for the big financial institutions when the big financial institutions are just hammering middle class American families. I just feel like that’s a party that moved way, way away.

Warren’s instincts on the GOP’s sympathy for the big financial institutions proved prescient. Former Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX) spent the 1990s spearheading legislation that made the 2008 financial crisis possible: the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which broke down the firewall between commercial banks and the far riskier investment banks, as well as the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, which deregulated the over-the-counter derivatives that played a key role in the 2008 financial collapse. Both bills passed with majority Republican support, though they were also supported by a good deal of Democrats and the Clinton White House.

“Starting in the 80s, the cops were taken off the beat in financial services,” Warren explained. “These guys [the big financial institutions] were allowed to just paint a bullseye on the backs of american families. They loaded up on risk, the crashed the economy, they got bailed out. And what bothers me now is they still strut around Washington, they block regulations that they don’t want, they roll over agencies whenever they can, and they break the law. And they still don’t end up being held accountable for it and going to jail.”

Warren also dinged the Obama White House, saying, “I make no secret of my differences with the administration in how they’ve treated the large financial institutions.” But she noted the Consumer Financial Protection bureau (CFPB) — which was largely Warren’s brainchild — would not exist without Obama’s support. The agency has already begun cracking down on payday lenders and debt collectors, while cataloging and reporting on mortgage service abuses.

[RKP5637]

4. I get a ballot by mail, vote and return it, straight democratic. The alternatives are

wackos. Relative to other issues, I vote in favor of saving the environment. Relative to pot for medical use, yes. 2016 will be different story, the primaries will be quite ferocious, I expect.

[pscot]

5. Maybe it's the sense of impending doom

that dogs our politics now days. I don't know anyone who believes voting will make things better. The best hope seems to be that things won't get worse, or that at least they'll get worse a little slower.

[House of Roberts]

6. I'm cautiously optimistic

that these midterms won't be as bad as the media wants to make them. Holding the Senate, and gaining a few Dem Governors, and I'll call it a good election. My work is putting us on 12 hour days next week, so I have almost no time to be vocal about the issues lately.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. Vitriol and Loyalty Oath sales have been down this season.

[Skidmore]

10. I've been avoiding DU except to check in

and periodically post an article that catches my interest. Frankly sick of the downright nastiness that has been building and strongly suspect that some of what passes for discussions of international policies are from people who will never qualify to vote in the US anyway. I strongly believe that you are more effective with civility. I see plenty vitriol this election but choose not to engage. Instead, I will vote the way I chose for the candidates available to me on my local and state ballots.

[Gothmog]

11. I have been having fun on Discussionist

There are a number of topics on the election and voting rights going on