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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Lambo 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Maintaining focus this election cycle
Date: 06/20/24 12:38 PM
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However, the deep state being 90% democrat and close to 100% in some agencies is not and can not be any sort of problem, because the democrats are just so damn good at setting their politics aside when executing their official duties.


The Federal workforce is more balanced than you think. from 2022

SNIP Federal employees are slightly more likely to vote for Democrats over Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections, according to a new poll, though they disapprove of their top boss—President Biden—by a slim margin.

For their House members, 46% of federal workers are planning to vote for the Democratic nominee and 35% are planning to vote for the Republican, according to the survey from Market Connections, a research arm of GovExec. Independents favored Democrats by a similar margin, but 41% of them are still undecided. Thirteen percent of Republicans are planning to vote for the other party, while just 6% of Democrats will do the same. The margin tightened for Senate races: just 37% of feds are planning to vote for a Democrat in those races, compared to 33% for a Republican. The rest of the respondents were either unsure or did not have a Senate race in their state. SNIP

govexec.com - Poll federal employees slightly prefer democrats upcoming midterms
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