Red County PA populations by and large do not have passports. Some only travel 200 miles afield their whole lives. So I don't see this as progress, I see it as self-serving that needs not to be misinterpreted.

The Amish and others? They vote, don't they? How many of them have a passport or state ID/Driver's license?

Just in that state alone there are many who would be put at a disadvantage with the requirements in the Bill.

I have all my papers but it wasn't cheap and took time. Getting a passport takes a couple months, usually, so it's really a poll tax.

End up living their entire lives within 50 miles from where they were born.

I have lived with 55 miles of where I was born, and 20 miles from where I grew up my entire life.
But, I've worked in 41 countries outside the US, have visited 49 of the 50 states, and when I retired my frequent flyer miles on my primary airline slightly exceeded 2.5 million miles.
Changing locations has nothing to do with whether someone lived a fully parochial existence.

I would find that, well, incredulous

What a joke! He's a joke!

Chump cannot be in charge of any elections. Every state (and county) manages its own elections and that's how it has always worked. There is no need to change the system. Even Fetterman gets it!

This SAVE Act - and it will never be enacted - would be a disaster.

round and round.

... and also from Pennsylvania Democrats who are getting damn angry!

I'll believe him when the vote is completed.

... and despite his gimmick of dressing like a slow-witted teenager, I was a vocal supporter of his. Please note the past tense.

There's really very little to parse regarding the SAVE Act. Republicans know they can't win free and fair elections because voters who pay attention to the FACTS utterly reject their diseased and divisive policies. They wipe their asses with the Constitution, and dismiss that line in the Preamble, "promote the general Welfare", because the only welfare they're concerned with is their own, and that of their lords and masters, the billionaires. They don't give a nanoparticle of a shit about their constituents, or the nation as a whole, they are obsessed with, and determined to wield, total dominion over the lives of others, more commonly referred to as POWER.

It happened immediately after the Nov. '22 election. Then he went into depression and a downward spiral, with his inability to process normal speech etc. He sometimes needs to read subtitles whenever he's in a meeting because he has trouble with processing language. It's not a mental deficiency, it's a problem with connecting and communicating thoughts.

Well OK we're all sympathetic, but we also need him to be our Senator. We need him to stand up to Chump and vote the way he told us he would whenever he was elected in 2022.

Chump has been taking advantage of Fetterman and possibly even blackmailing him. The best thing that could happen is that John Fetterman should resign this year and allow Shapiro to appoint a replacement. Then we would elect a new Senator in 2028.

Even if he doesn't resign, Fetterman won't get re-elected, that's a given. Sad but true.

It took a long time before people learned how damaging it was.

My guess is those closest to him on his team really believed he would continue to recover to end up where he had been. It can happen and the degree of recovery takes a lot of time to know.

Early voting had already happened. People voting election day voted without knowing how bad the stroke was. I sympathize with his team at that point. As it was not clear how full his recovery would be, it would have felt like betraying him when he was down to suggest that he stand down at that point and there probably was little chance he would have done so.

Also his health problems began long before the 2022 primary. He had already collapsed while he was presiding over the state senate as well as losing 150 lbs. in 2018. He wasn't truthful about his health conditions even before that time.

But it's paywalled, so you may not want to bother.

Sorry, I posted this at 6 a.m. before my first cup of coffee.

Fetterman will probably not run in 2028. If he does, Fetterman will be primaried

CNN's Harry Enten zeroed in on a Democratic senator who will "no doubt" face a primary challenge, and history suggests he will likely lose.

— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-03-20T18:00:13Z

He has no hope of getting re-elected in Pennsylvania. I know I'm supposed to support Democrats as a DU member, but Fetterman is hopeless. I voted for him in 2022 and donated to his campaign. When he ran as former Gov. Tom Wolf's Lt. Governor in 2018, I voted for them (and him.)

But Fetterman lost me in the last 14 months, as soon as he put on the presidential kneepads and kissed Chump's butt. It's too much for any of us in Pennsylvania.

The best possible thing is for him to resign this year. If not he definitely should resign next year. Gov. Shapiro would appoint his replacement and the new Senator would still have time to put together a campaign for 2028.

DU can alert me for this post and I don't care. Pennsylvania Repukes don't want Fetterman and we Democrats are totally disgusted with him. He has earned it.

I don’t know if ‘cave’ is the right word but he’ll end up voting with the Republicans. It’s not really a cave if he was a DINO all along.

As Stephanie Miller quotes frequently: "Even a broken clock is right twice a day." Fetterman needs to vote with the party that elected him, at least one more time to even catch up to that.