Maryland Republican Fighting Uphill Battle Pitches Voters on Splitting Their Tickets.

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A spot for former Gov. Larry Hogan aims to give Democrats permission to back him over Angela Alsobrooks and still vote for Kamala Harris — or against Donald J. Trump.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/01/us/politics/larry-hogan-trump-harris.html

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1. Permission.....???

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2. The Takeaway

*This is a classic permission structure ad: It allows voters who want to vote for Kamala Harris — or against Donald J. Trump — to feel good about voting for a Republican running for Senate. To that end, it presents Mr. Hogan as favoring abortion rights and with a record of bipartisanship, while suggesting that Alsobrooks would not govern in the same spirit. It also reminds Maryland voters that Mr. Hogan effectively put money in their pockets by lowering taxes and tolls.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/01/us/politics/larry-hogan-trump-harris.html

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3. It sounds pretty patronizing coming in the lede

from the Times.

Hogan's ad asks people to forget that he was certainly not pro choice when he was governor, and also asks that they take his assurances that he won't side with the far right once he gets elected, voting for further cuts to reproductive rights and against any Harris cabinet or court nominations.

And he is suggesting in this historic election it is ok to vote for one black woman for President, while also voting for a white man over another black woman, based on tolls? Hard to believe significant numbers of women, and particularly women of color, will buy this. But the Times finds it reasonable, I guess, so there is that.

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4. Permission? Fucking permission?

That's right up there with acknowledging that women might possibly vote for someone other than who their husband says they should.

Let's have a constitutional amendment that takes the vote away from men for a couple of hundred years to make up for the century or more that women couldn't vote here.