2020 Presidential Election

[Mader Levap]

Trouble is that close to 50% of the US electorate are willing to believe that it's true - and denying it only makes it worse.

There is no need to believe it. Just say bad things (even if completely nonsensical) and something will stick in vague memory of voter.

 

[Brainster]

Door-to-door campaigning: Trump gal rang my doorbell today. I waved her off because I was busy but I have to point out one thing--this gal was a knockout. Not sure if that is going to sway any votes, but if anybody could get a man to promise to vote for Trump, she was the one.

I can honestly say that I have never had anybody knock on my door for a presidential candidate before. That said, this is a very Republican area, so it could just be a reflection of how desperate the Trump camp is. Or it may reflect how thorough they are. I guess we will see.

 

[Craig4]

Trouble is that close to 50% of the US electorate are willing to believe that it's true - and denying it only makes it worse.

Not in that state. Virginia hasn't been a swing state since 2008.

 

[JoeMorgue]

Not in that state. Virginia hasn't been a swing state since 2008.

Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania weren't swing states since 1988 until they were again.

 

[JoeMorgue]

If we're going by the "Giant Flag" index Trump is literally the only candidate running.

 

[newyorkguy]

Trump Tweets

[Biden will] impose a $4 trillion...dollar tax hike, ban American Energy, confiscate your guns, shutdown the economy, destroy the suburbs, erase your borders, and indoctrinate your children with poisonous anti-American lies.

A four trillion dollar tax hike? Trillion with a 'T?' Biden wants to ban American energy. Confiscate guns. Biden will shutdown the economy. Biden wants to destroy the suburbs. Erase out borders. Biden wants to indoctrinate our kids with anti-American lies.

Holy moly, it sounds like somebody is losing it. They're in meltdown mode. And it's not Joe Biden!

 

[Craig4]

Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania weren't swing states since 1988 until they were again.

But in 2016, we knew that those states would be swing states.

 

[JoeMorgue]

But in 2016, we knew that those states would be swing states.

True.

But to be fair my concerns are less about whether or not Biden will win the election to if it even matters if he does or not.

It feels weird to be worried about how strong your hand is when your opponent has all but declared he's taking the pot anyway.

 

[Venom]

I think Democrats should make it a big public issue for the next month.
It's one of the few tools they've got left.

In these 2016 exit polls, it appears a sizable chunk of Republicans who voted for Trump, probably a lot of them Evangelicals, wanted him to install conservative judges. Overall 21% of respondents said the Supreme Court was the most important reason they voted.

I think Democrats were rather quiet when Senate Republicans refused to vote on Obama's pick. I think they should make a huge scene about it for the next few weeks.

 

[Mumbles]

I didn't even realise Executing Babies After Birth was a campaign platform.

As a quick reminder - it's actually concerning parents being allowed to "pull the plug" on babies that are born with immediately terminal illnesses, so they can actually hold the baby while it's still alive, rather than having to see them rushed off to be isolated to a series of machines and isolated in a completely futile attempt to save their life.

Basically, playing politics *and* being a complete monster, as per usual.

 

[angrysoba]

There has got to be a point at which even his most hard-core followers have to say, "wait, what? That doesn't even make any sense."

(And the "playing for your guns and playing for your values" seems an odd way to put it. "Playing"?)

As a quick reminder - it's actually concerning parents being allowed to "pull the plug" on babies that are born with immediately terminal illnesses, so they can actually hold the baby while it's still alive, rather than having to see them rushed off to be isolated to a series of machines and isolated in a completely futile attempt to save their life.

Basically, playing politics *and* being a complete monster, as per usual.

I think Trump has been listening to Alex Jones. This is something he was babbling on about on Rogan's show....

NSFHC (Not Safe for Human Consumption: Watch at your own risk)

 

[Stacyhs]

I think Trump has been listening to Alex Jones. This is something he was babbling on about on Rogan's show....

NSFHC (Not Safe for Human Consumption: Watch at your own risk)

Anyone who watches Alex Jones is already brain dead.

 

[angrysoba]

Anyone who watches Alex Jones is already brain dead.

Indeed. Now please vote him out of office!

 

[Stacyhs]

Indeed. Now please vote him out of office!

You can't vote someone out of office who wasn't voted into office.

 

[Andy_Ross]

You can't vote someone out of office who wasn't voted into office.

Trump.

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

He joined the administration at the beginning when there was still hope that Trump might grow in office, and he spent a long time trying to keep Trump from taking the U.S. too far off the rails. He quit when he realized he was failing. But Mattis is a picture of integrity. I can't see him marching around Lafayette Square with Trump, or even allowing troops to be deployed that way.

He should have got out and denounced the regime the moment he realised it was hopeless, which, if he's as clever as everybody makes out he is would be a matter of pico-seconds after joining it, not three years.

So either he was really, really stupid or he just didn't care.

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

If Tulsi was running I bet us 'middle' people would be rooting for her.

Yes I'm sure you'd be cheerleading the fascist wing of the Democrat party and paid Putain stooge.

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

Going to work for a despot does not automatically confer upon the employee like mindedness. The motivation could be purely patriotic, a desire to help shape good policy.

Or as was the case for most minions, just simply not caring enough to stand up. We're not talking about some low level floor sweeper or somebody working on the inside to bring down the rotten regime, we're talking about somebody in a position of power with knowledge of exactly what was going on.

Giving Mattis a pass now is equivalent to the Allies giving Rudolf Hess a pass after his flight to Scotland.

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

There has got to be a point at which even his most hard-core followers have to say, "wait, what? That doesn't even make any sense."

(And the "playing for your guns and playing for your values" seems an odd way to put it. "Playing"?)

The anti-abortionistas have gotten so far away from reality now that they're claiming both that zygotes are born babies and that babies are being aborted after they're carried to term and safely delivered.

 

[Safe-Keeper]

I'm not the right person to analyse this, but FiveThirtyEight seems to show Biden's lead increasing. This close to the election, shouldn't the two start to draw closer and closer, not pull apart? Or is it too early for that? Or is it as the fox says, the polls are becoming less reliable?