I guess it depends when the vote is as they will be one vote down tomorrow at the start.
Big RR, it's my understanding that McConnell has been aware of the wedding situation, and if Daines vote proves to be decisive Mitch would either delay the final vote to Sunday or Monday, or simply keep the vote open till Daines was able to show up with to cast his vote. (Either of which he can do as Majority Leader)
this little gang rape fiasco cost you a lot of votes
Actually TEN alleged gang rapes...
I think wes actually has a kernel of a point there...(that blind sow/acorn thing again...)
I believe because of the way they were played up initially by the press and some of the Dems, the Swetnick allegations, which have looked increasingly dodgy the closer they are examined...She's changed her story multiple time and every time she changes it Kavanaugh's role becomes smaller and more vague. Also Avenatti finally supplied four "corroborating witnesses" to NBC news and NBC found that one of them denied having any knowldege at all to back up Swetnick, two never returned calls, and one was dead...
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definitely played an important role in the angering and energizing of GOP voters that we've seen in the polling...
The press took the allegations seriously initially for the same reason I did; because they came from Michael Avenatti, who up till then had a solid track record of delivering on allegations...
But it appears that after he got bitten by the Presidential bug he was so anxious to curry favor with Democratic base voters that after Swetnick came to him these sensational charges he failed to do any due diligence before going public with them...
Apparently neither he nor his staff even bothered to contact the "corroborating witnesses" that Swetnick supplied, or surely they would have caught the fact that one of them was, well, dead...
If this had just been focused on Kavanaugh vs. Ford (or even including the highly credible Ramirez allegations) it would probably not have had the same angering effect . But the highly sensational highly dubious Swetnick allegations really helped to play into and support the (bogus) narrative of a "conspiracy" to "get" Kavanaugh...
The Democrats, (and anyone else opposed to the Kavanaugh nomination and/or who is supportive of the Dems retaking the Senate) have good reason to be
very unhappy with Mr. Avenatti...