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Interesting info on how big a scum Biden is, and why maybe Trump may win again.
If they don't dump Biden, Trump will ROAST HIS ASS and win. Again.
Are they THAT STUPID to push him forward?
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/marc-thiessen-joe-bidens-electability
I didn't know Joe Biden was SUCH a swamp monster!
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Saturday July 27 2019, @10:40PM (9 children)
If Americans become fed up with Trump, the opposing Democrat can win by default. So this might be the best time ever to get a left-of-center candidate elected.
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(Score: 1) by Arik on Sunday July 28 2019, @09:50AM (8 children)
If you want to win the US Presidential election, in any decade of any century so far, you want to claim the center and paint the opposition as immoderate.
The fact that someone as radically immoderate as Donald Trump is able to keep his approval ratings high is entirely up to how radically immoderate the opposition seems to the general populace, due to the two groups living in separate /umwelten/ so that what seems quite moderate and inoffensive in one world is /literally Hitler/ in the other, and vice versa.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 28 2019, @04:19PM (6 children)
I disagree there. Had the democrats made Sanders, definitely not a centrist, the nominee, he would have won handily against Trump.
If Sanders had only accepted the Green party's nomination for a Sanders / Stein ticket, he could very well have won what I'm estimating would have turned out 30-35% for each candidate.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Sunday July 28 2019, @05:29PM (3 children)
Don't let Bernie fool you, he claims to be a socialist but he's not. He's just an idiot. A nice old idiot that doesn't rub his hands together with glee at the thought of dropping bombs on poor people in other countries.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 28 2019, @06:01PM (1 child)
An idiot? You are entitled to your opinion, but I don't think the people of Vermont would have elected an "idiot" to the senate for 20 years. Sanders successfully fought for my pension, taking time to come and support us when we weren't even his constituents. And I couldn't disrespect his courage in travelling down South to protest for civil rights in the 1960s. He risked his skin for his fellow man.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Sunday July 28 2019, @07:17PM
But what else can you call someone who takes relatively centrist positions then mis-labels them as 'socialist' which stops a lot of those middle of the road voters that he might otherwise reach to immediately stop listening?
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 28 2019, @06:22PM
It is the polls. He and his team knows that after years, and decades, of Republicans and Democratic establishments using the word "socialism" for policies they don't like, people who like some of those policies start responding to the word socialism. This really shouldn't surprise them at all. And, it is literally so bad that their pollsters keep telling them to stop using the word at all, because it increases support for a policy among a growing group of constituents. Not surprising that a social democrat, who gets vilified that way anyway, wants to take the bump in the polls he will get from using the term.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday July 29 2019, @05:10PM (1 child)
You vastly underestimate the average American's revulsion to the word "socialist".
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 30 2019, @02:51AM
A minority, by definition, can not be "average". I guess all that book learnin' was left to those damn city slickers.
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Friday August 02 2019, @07:41PM
42% to you is high? That's been Trump's approval rating pretty consistently throughout 2017-present. No matter what happens, good or bad, his approval rating has stayed pretty consistent.
And the only reason they've stayed that high is that elected R's have no conscience or willingness to call out the slimy shenanigans that have been going on. Spineless scum.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr