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According to a poll conducted by two academic authors and published by The Washington Post, 52 percent of Republicans said they would back a postponement of the next election if Trump called for it.
If Trump and congressional Republicans proposed postponing the election to ensure only eligible citizens could vote, support from Republicans rises to 56 percent.
Pollsters found 47 percent of Republicans think Trump won the popular vote.
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Half of Republicans Would Back Postponing 2020 Election If Trump Proposed It
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by aristarchus on Friday August 11 2017, @06:49AM (8 children)
Frojack, you have lost your edge! Your entire gravitas was injecting just enough uncertainty to pull of the doubt in the mind of the reasonable! But here, you have gone beyond the pale. "Four more years" was a cry of Republicans, after the Alzheimer President had served his second term. Suddenly, the Republicans regretted having introduced term limits when it looked like Franklin Delano Roosevelt was going to be president for life (as he was, and his VP was elected after him).
So term limits are the only way Republicans can get into office, along with gerrymandering and minority voter suppression, and thus the idea that maybe we should suspend elections so the Republican can stay in office, since there will be no way that any Republican could ever hold that office after Trump, just as none could ever after "Silent Cal". Come on, frojack, just admit that it is over. If we are not "mini-nuked" by North Korea, there will not be a republican president for the next four decades, at least.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Friday August 11 2017, @07:56AM (2 children)
Prisoners dilemma? ;)
(Score: 5, Insightful) by aristarchus on Friday August 11 2017, @09:21AM (1 child)
Not even close. Prisoner's dilemma presupposes rational actors, if rather ignorant ones. No, what we have here is Republicans cutting of their nose to spite their face, or if allegory is too difficult for you (you do, as many conservatives are, seem to be a literal minded person), electing Trump even though they know he is not one of them and will bring fire and furry to the Republican party for generations. Especially the furry, grabbing them by the furry parts, if you know what I mean. My Gawd, the man is a perv.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Friday August 11 2017, @02:29PM
Speaking of rational actors, raise your hands if you didn't see it coming for Trump and Kim Dong to be having a Nuclear "tiny hands" measuring contest.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Friday August 11 2017, @01:51PM (4 children)
That's what they said after Bush/Cheney, such a disaster they were. They said the same thing about Congress in the same context, after Obama won and the Democrats seized control of both houses. The Republican Party was in full meltdown then, and as a progressive I was overjoyed we had both elected the country's first black president and had taken all the reins of power back so we could undo the damage done by the Republicans.
It turned out the Democrats were the same party as the Republicans after all, just a wing with a different marketing scheme, and that they absolutely shared the same goals: impoverishment of the American citizenry while stealing everything that isn't nailed down and most of what is nailed down.
Now, here we are, with another Republican president. It will keep happening like that in a gyre of doom unless and until Americans get up off the couch, hop in their pickups, and converge on Washington, DC to do some redecorating.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Friday August 11 2017, @05:41PM (3 children)
If they're the same party why is Trump so busy "repealing" stuff?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @06:15PM (1 child)
They're different on numerous issues such as the environment (they're willing to take baby steps in the right direction while Republicans actively go in the wrong direction), the LGBT community, net neutrality, health care (willing to adopt old Republican proposals when they have a super majority), and so on. So they are different parties, but the Democratic party is, at this time, still evil.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday August 12 2017, @11:04AM
You yourself said it, "old Republican proposals" on healthcare. They somehow still failed to enforce net neutrality. LGBT community? I don't have anything against LGBT whatsoever and have no problem at all with them having the same rights as everyone else, but it is an extremely marginal issue about a very small fraction of the population. It's extremely important to members of the LGBT segment of the population, but of no consequence to anyone else. That's harsh, but it's true. It's only used as a wedge issue to try and prove that their policy outcomes are different from each other when they aren't. Except that stopped working because people largely stopped giving a shit about hating LGBT people because they have become too painfully aware that the system is totally broken for everyone. That's why they started in on all the trans- nonsense, because of course you gotta up the ante in the controversy porn.
Please stop playing into the gyre of doom. If you allow the lizard people to direct your energy into hating your fellow countrymen with stupid empty labels like "Republican" or "Democrat" when you have infinitely more in common with any of them than with any of the lizard people, then you will have none left to deal with the lizard people who are the cause of all our woe.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday August 12 2017, @10:55AM
What are they repealing? Seems to me they have successfully avoided repealing. Funny, that.
Washington DC delenda est.