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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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or arrested for one.
-- "Ratsy" Tourbillon
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @01:42PM (6 children)
In my timeline, President Clinton suspended the 2020 elections after the riots in 2018 and 2019. She was still executive commander in February 2025 when the existing attempt at a global human civilization decided to promptly destroy itself.
The elections being suspended was one detail that I was honestly not sure would happen on this alternate approach to that Stein's gate. However, it looks like things are playing out as though there is some eerie correspondence between timelines that might otherwise appear very different yet are certain to meet the same major catastrophe.
History does not care whether it was President Trump or President Clinton who suspended the 2020 elections after the riots. History does not care whether it was President Trump or President Clinton who ordered the CDC to activate the FEMA concentration camps, ostensibly in response to the epidemic. History also does not care whether it was Clinton or Trump who used the FEMA camps more for political prisoners than in any kind of attempt to quarantine of the epidemic. Some historians do, but I do not think they have comprehended Dr. Stein's theory, so they focus too much on which personalities it happened to be on this date or that date.
UNLESS
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @02:44PM (5 children)
There are two kinds of Trump voters/fans:
Billionaires, and idiots.
Trump voters, just check your bank balance to determine which category you fall into.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday August 11 2017, @03:11PM (4 children)
If you genuinely believe that, plan on losing the next election as well.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @03:37PM (2 children)
Not GP, but for what it's worth, the Democrats do seem to be on a path to lose the next election. I hoped that losing to a candidate like trump would be a wake up call that many Americans are deeply unhappy with the status quo. But judging from the choices that the party leaders have made since the election, they seem to be sticking pretty hard to the status quo. I wouldn't be surprised by another uncharismatic, pro-wealthy, candidate for the next election. Plutocracy über alles!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 11 2017, @05:02PM
I changed sides from D to R just to keep Cliton out.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday August 11 2017, @05:03PM
Precisely. The Democrats have been Republicans-lite since Clinton, (mis)guided by some unholy misbegotten idea of false compromise. We have not had an ally of the people in office since before Reagan, and we have had nothing but enemies of the people, especially poor ones, in office since Clinton's second term. The one-two punch of NAFTA and so-called "welfare reform" threw the lower quintile of the US under the bus for good.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 12 2017, @12:28AM
There, FTFY. Can we haz next election neow?