Doesn't help being a Democrat when Republican supreme court just gave a huge lifeline to online poker. Three Democrats tried to kill it. 2 being Clinton appointees

What is the online poker angle to the sports betting ruling?

A state with sports betting is more than likely to also allow their residents to play online poker as well.

No they didn't but we can't expect you to actually read court opinions.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Look up why the UIGEA passed in the first place.

Ginsburg and Sotomayor voted against, with Breyer supporting them.

Every conservative voted in favor. The GOP is starting to lean libertarian. Liberals becoming the enemies of liberty.

Not the enemies of liberty!

Mualaga is super concerned for dems because they might be losing ALL the low info voters that use poker as their single voting issue and lean dem. Do you think there’s a lot of these people that lean dem and will change their mind to republican candidates because of the SC vote on sports betting?

Ginsburg, Sotomayor and Breyer all concurred with the majority that it was unconstitutional to force states to ban sports betting. Where they dissented was that they held that it was constitutional for state sports betting laws to be illegal federally. In other words, if their opinion had been the majority, the US would have ended up with a situation like with marijuana. Or that's my understanding anyway, IANAL.

Supreme Court justices do not decide cases based on what they think the law ought to be, but on their reading of what it actually says. The idea that justices are like "People should be able to sportsbet imo. LIBERTY! Therefore, I'm not allowing this law" is a small child's idea of how the world works.

This reminds of how 3/4 of a poker table is awful and the other 1/4 wear headphones to drown out the awfulness

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http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-actio...-supreme-court

****ing old white people, man

the bill they struck down passed the Senate 88-5 but yeah tragic death democrats something

Those YouGov results are pretty brutal. The Republicans have successfully moved the overton window to the right. Based on those numbers, the Democrats are likely to move more to the right to accommodate the independent who think they're too liberal.

It's also insane that 38% of Republicans think that the Republican Party isn't conservative enough. Right now they're basically the UKIP of America. If they were any further to the right, they'd be the BNP.

Utah's a lock to pass strict anti-gambling laws. It will also have a thriving black market for gambling.

The numbers are misleading because there are more registered Dems in America than registered Reps (31% vs 24%, at last count, which also found that 46% overall "lean Dem" and 39% "lean GOP"). As a result, the Democrats need to win less independents, so the 38% "Dems too liberal" vs 31% "GOP too conservative" is not a big deal. Self-identified moderates/centrists were more likely to say that the GOP is too conservative than that the Dems are too liberal. I don't see the numbers as a problem.

I also think that "too liberal" is a meaningless question. Do people mean they don't want universal healthcare, or do they mean they don't like Black Lives Matter? Most people don't have a political philosophy and tend to pick and choose their opinions.

Also 47% of conservatives and 49% of Trump voters.

Who's being naive, Kay?

Two novice DSA members beat out two long time PA incumbents notorious for being part of the political machine.

DSA=Democratic Socialists of America

I've been to some meetings where the DSA was there or sponsored. They are pretty tame and basically Bernieish, I think without any of the Bro-ness.

I still don't really know what a bernie bro is.

Bernie Supporter:Bernie Bro :: Vegetarian:Activist Vegetarian

I still don't really know what a bernie bro is.

Basically just Bernie supporters who went really negative on Hillary and apparently called her sexist stuff on twitter or something. Basically just your average online idiot who happened to support Bernie that got blown up by the Clinton campaign looking for sympathy.

In real world usage 'Bernie Bro' is just bull**** used to disparage anyone and anything to the left of centrist democrats. It was never a real thing that needed a label.

Misogynist and from what I've seen from some 2p2 posters some of the Bernie supporters are lefty on economics but sympathetic to all the cultural resentment stuff. I think it's like 90% an online thing as it describes no one I met irl and I met a lot of Bernie supporters, but maybe in another part of the country it's different.