I thought the argument was made years ago while wheeling Strom Thurmond's 100-year-old corpse on to the Senate floor.
Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but you most certainly can gerrymander a statewide election. The very word was created when there was a redrawing of a Massachusetts state senate election districts back in the 1800s. https://books.google.com/books?id=6o2HAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA73#v=onepage&q&f=false
Gerrymandering occurs when you alter the boundaries of voting districts in order to achieve a certain electoral outcome. The US Senate (as opposed to the Massachusetts State Senate) uses state boundaries as its districts, and state boundaries are fixed.
Is anybody watching the ME right now? Qatar is making moves to pivot toward Russia and Iran. KSA is threatening military action against Qatar. Now there are rumors (just rumors) of Egypt shutting off the Suez canal to Qatari ship traffic as well? Syrian forces attempted to attack US forces on the ground in Syria as well. There is already fighting going on in Iraq, Syria and Yemen; if you add Qatar into the mix it is going to really get crazy.
Yeah, but this is kind of "pick your side already" line-in-the-sand type shit. When Kuwait is trying to broker "peace" you know shit's gone sideways.
I wonder how the discussion went when Trump was in KSA with his advisors there: Advisor: "But Al Udeid is the main CENTCOM operating base in the region and it's on Qatari soil." Trump: "If it's Qatari soil or Saudi soil, do we really care?" Truth is I don't think anyone cares. I have spent time in Qatar and they are low life dirt bags just like the Saudis and Kuwaitis. If any one of them get their comeuppance, I won't shed a single tear.
Has CENTCOM been moved to Al Udeid? When I was in the region ('01-'03, '05, '13-'14) CENTCOM was primarily out of NSA Bahrain.
WaPo posted it on twitter. Unfortunately I'm not a subscriber and reading the link was my freebie. https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...f_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.d1d0c7335c93
A simple protip: for the Washington Post and the New York Times, you can open links in incognito/private mode and read to your heart's content.
Even on my phone? Bc if so yay! I'm curious about the Sessions hearing. I hope I get to hear the public portion.
One thing I've really enjoyed are the increasing number of guests on CNN that are calling them on their (and the MSM in general) reporting... how what is going on now (the Comey testimony, Trump's responses, etc) is a really big deal, but because they've been reporting every little inconsequential thing as a "big deal", it's being lost in the noise.
They are also getting scooped by lesser known independent journalists. I follow a good amount of people on twitter who have been correct for the most part about almost everything that gets released weeks and months later by larger publications and tv channels. For example, that meeting with the Russians at the Mayflower hotel in D.C. was a story I read about in April, I think. And it only got serious exposure last week. I'm not sure of the legal hurdles that the MSM might have compared to an independent journalist though.