538: What Is Kirsten Gillibrand Up To?

[jg10003]

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-is-kirsten-gillibrand-up-to/

At her essence, Gillibrand would seem to be not an ideologue, but an operator. In order to win she has evolved her positions....She used to have an “A” grade from the NRA, when she represented a conservative upstate district in the House, and she was against protections for sanctuary cities....Progressive members of New York’s congressional delegation were so incensed by her appointment, they threatened to run against her.

In 2017, things are different. Gillibrand supports a path to citizenship, and has called Trump’s border wall a “hurtful, terrible policy that will never work.” In 2016, she wept in an interview while discussing her former stance on guns....In the House, where she served from 2007 to 2009, she was among the least liberal members of the Democratic caucus, ranking 209th out of 241. But in the Senate, she has skewed left. In the last Congress, she was the seventh most liberal member of the 46-person Democratic caucus.

[CentralMass]

1. Next candidate please.

[Pachamama]

2. Next.....

Whatever she is up to, I don't care and she lost me when she went against Al Franken the way she did...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Trampling the reputations of her competitors?

[msongs]

4. maybe she's what used to be known as a moderate republican nt

[Skittles]

5. I no longer give a shit

[lunamagica]

6. Good thing she will never be thbe Democratic nominee

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[Kittycow]

7. I doubt forgive and forget is in her future with Dem voters,

if she goes for a 2020 White House bid. Her rush to judgment shows me that she doesn't have the temperament to do the job. She's disloyal as well but maybe she was trying to be a badass. Too bad she shived her own party, as well as one of the few fighters we had for us.

[monmouth4]

8. Never was nor will be on my radar..n/t

[Hassin Bin Sober]

9. Must be the seat.

[Ligyron]

10. Gillibrand has risen to the level her own incompetence and hubris will allow.

She'll never win a Pres Primary after what she did to Franken. Yet we still need her D vote. For now.

[Drahthaardogs]

11. Hmm,

That's all I got to say about that.