Bill in Portland Maine allows me to mooooch the results of his research. Bill arrayed the following items in his popular Who Won the Week? poll in Friday’s Cheers and Jeers. About 2,600 people voted in that poll, and only 3.14 to 6.28 of them were Russian Butina Vlad bots! Please enjoy Bill’s on-point analysis and wit, vote in his poll, Rec his diaries, get on his bandwagon, send him a donation, and earn his blessing.
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- 2020 presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, for proposing to use the Voting Rights Act as a blueprint to require states known to violate Roe v. Wade to pre-clear their abortion laws with the DOJ
- Dr. Lonnie Bunch, who becomes the first African-American elected to be Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in its 173 year history
- Cleaner energy use across the pond, as Great Britain goes coal-free for 12 consecutive days and counting
- Former South Carolina Democratic Party chairman Jaime Harrison, who announced that he'll have the pleasure of defeating Senator Lindsey Graham next year
- Maine Governor Janet Mills (D), who signed into law a bill outlawing "gay conversion therapy" for minors…the 17th state to do so
- Special counsel Robert Mueller, for his unambiguous message to Congress: Russia cyber-attacked America, Trump obstructed justice, Barr lied, and the impeachment-inquiry ball is in your court
- Transgender rights, as the Supreme Court refuses to hear a challenge to a school district’s gender identity-friendly bathroom policy
- Opponents of capital punishment, as the New Hampshire Senate overrules Gov. Sununu's veto and the state becomes the 21st to abolish the death penalty
- The D.C. statehood movement, as the House Committee on Oversight and Reform schedules its first hearing in decades on making the District our 51st state
- The chocolate scientists at the Barry Callebaut in Switzerland, for creating the first chocolate---“natural, colorful, hedonistic" ruby chocolate---in 80 years
Spoiler Alert … Top Results of Bill’s poll —
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Special counsel Robert Mueller, for his unambiguous message to Congress: Russia cyber-attacked America, Trump obstructed justice, Barr lied, and the impeachment-inquiry ball is in your court — 61%
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2020 presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, for proposing to use the Voting Rights Act as a blueprint to require states known to violate Roe v. Wade to pre-clear their abortion laws with the DOJ — 9%
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Former South Carolina Democratic Party chairman Jaime Harrison, who announced that he'll have the pleasure of defeating Senator Lindsey Graham next year — 7%
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