can only lose 2 votes if Dems vote as a unified block.

is "TIGHT" about a razor?

nt

is a word for a mixed metaphor. .malaphor. And a phrase for when people (generally the chattering classes, for the reasons you mentioned) mash things together that really don't go. . .congruent conflation. It should be fun working them into a casual conversation!

That makes two of us!

Thanks for doing the legwork!

I think if you use "razor thin", it might define the literal numerical difference (adjective).

But "razor tight" seems to be an "action phrase" (adverb) applying to both parties moving in tandem ( "horse race" ), where they are almost nose-to-nose, and their 1st place/2nd place positions could shift at any moment.

And, as I pointed out above, I understand "razor-thin".

"dead heat" or "ahead by a nose" but IMHO, it's frivolous arguing over the terms when the point is that we need all of our people there for critical votes with no "late liquid lunches" and whatnot. And it might be hard because there are older and sicker members still there (like my own Congressman Dwight Evans who is still recovering from a stroke, but has been out and about participating in events - I was on one of his telephone townhall calls a couple weeks ago).

everything is. My issue is with that rag, the hill. And, however frivolous, language does shape how we think. Sloppy language influences sloppy thinking which influences sloppy language. . . . a self-reinforcing cycle.

I do wish the rep for my district would not show up, since we currently have lumpy lamborn. Sadly, his replacement is the appropriately named jeff crank, who will be even worse.

so it's not much better.

Sites like this focus mostly on "politics" instead of filling half their webpages with Taylor Swift and "Barbenheimer" or "Glicked" and other "lifestyle" things that one has to weed through to find news items that get buried (intentionally).

quite depressing to see poor grammar, poor spelling, etc., in professional settings. One would expect a certain level of competence in newspapers, magazines, books, etc. Alas, such no longer seems tto be the case.

both of which, at their absolute base, indicate that people either don't actually understand what they are saying (malaphor) or make words up to sound important (congruent conflation, specifically mentioning political talking heads during election season). Fascinating.

every day.

If not for NC gerrymandering, perhaps, Democrats would have a majority.

https://truthout.org/articles/gop-gerrymandering-in-nc-tipped-the-scales-of-congress-outgoing-lawmaker-says/

I'm worried that there is already too much normalizing of a fascist dictatorship.