Oregon partisan rancor spills over into Idaho effort to absorb rural neighbors

Posted by mooreds on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @11:50PM
from the cnn.com dept.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/15/politics/oregon-secession-idaho-partisan-divides/index.html

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Re:Oregon partisan rancor spills over into Idaho effort to a... by yieldcrv on Thursday March 16, 2023 @01:39AM (#35178525)

I’m glad to know about that

Any thoughts on Congress’ appetite for approving such changes? It would just be a simple law, and a 60 vote threshold in the Senate. No supermajority necessary.

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Re:Oregon partisan rancor spills over into Idaho effort to a... by csb6 on Thursday March 16, 2023 @02:11AM (#35178734)

I see no reason why Senate Democrats would vote for this. It would be giving more electoral votes to a red state and taking them away from a blue state, as well as setting precedent for red-leaning parts of other blue states to do the same.

60 votes is a lot in a split Senate.

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Re:Oregon partisan rancor spills over into Idaho effort to a... by euroderf on Thursday March 16, 2023 @05:24AM (#35179810)

Take this to its logical extreme, and you have Mad Max writ large: fortresses filled with sensible people (and desirable resources), fighting off the yahoos driving hacked-up hot rods and choppers.

Now to work on the sequels...

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Re:Oregon partisan rancor spills over into Idaho effort to a... by aegis4244 on Thursday March 16, 2023 @07:49AM (#35180736)

Yes yes yes....but. Which side is the sensible people with resources and which side is crazy yahoo's?

I would like to subscribe to your news letter !

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