Really? This is news to me as fairly well everything he stands for is antithetical to what Republicans believe in. You may be right, but I hadn't heard that at all.
Can't argue that one. I'd even suggest that Obama was a dismal failure in many ways . . . but what a contrast to Mr 100% Failure
It hurts to see/listen to him
I'd agree.
He's now wheeling out the battle against big pharma again . . . promising tremendous healthcare etc... everything he promised last time and didn't deliver. The fuckwits who vote for him deserve everything bad that can and should happen to them
Similar to Brexit, the votes that put Trump over the edge were people that didn't normally vote, but somebody came along that represented change. Wasn't it roughly 80,000 votes in the battleground states that gave him the electoral college? Life-long Republicans may not have voted for Bernie, but those voters would have.
Right, i see what you mean.
Personally I'm just a lot more fatalistic -- not sure that's the correct word? -- on it all at this point.
There's a funny vid on the Daily Show narrated by Steve Buschemi that paints Biden as 'the perfectly adequate candidate' for now because for all his faults he's not Trump.
If anyone, Republican or Independent, still can't see how fundamentally unfit for office Trump is then there's no policy shift or non-shift that can help. Fuck 'em.
killing the filibuster is the only way it gets done.
and that would in turn provoke a 1994/2010 republican wave in 2022....so dems will tread lightly.
Some predictions from the beginning.
Many got on the Biden/Harris ticket early ...
Maxed out the # of quotes apparently.
More to follow ...
^ yes. Everything I have seen says trump still has BIG support. Again it looks like this election will be decided by what goes on in a few key states. The electoral college system definately opens the possibility that trump could squeak in again. Unbelievable.
This is correct. The right in America is aging especially the Evangelicals and are not attracting sufficient numbers of young people to replenish the ranks. States like Texas, Florida, Georgia, Arizona etc. that were once solidly red are turning blue at a very rapid pace. The party bosses are well aware that this election is probably the last time that there will be a Republican president for some time. They will have to completely transform as a party to be viable in the future.
So, in 2016
Michigan had its joint lowest turnout since 2004
Wisconsin had its lowest turnout since 2004
Pennsylvania had its second lowest turnout since 2004
I would assert that it was Democrats aggrieved at the treatment of Sanders, plus the Clinton campaign failing to pay attention to those states, that led to a lower Democrat vote, rather than Democrat voters voting for baldy orange cunto.
Added: Say what you like about rednecks, but when it comes to voting they do have a commendable level of turkey-like commitment to voting for thanksgiving.
In those rust belt swing states there was indeed a group of voters that switched from Democrat to Trump.
Disaffected rust belt voters embraced Trump. They had no other hope | Richard C Longworth | Opinion | The Guardian
And of course the low turnout hurt the Democrats it always does.
It was both that caused the loss. As we all remember...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...state-margins/Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania account for 46 electoral votes. If Clinton had won these states, she could have sealed the presidency with 274 total electoral votes. This election was effectively decided by 107,000 people in these three states. Trump won the popular vote there by that combined amount. That amounts to 0.09 percent of all votes cast in this election.
The above really just reinforces what a broken system we have with the electoral college. The fact that 107,000 people in three states decided the direction of a country of 327 million. It is insanity.
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