Trump will kiss off debate #2, with 70 million viewers, in favour of a rally drawing thousands, because the immediacy of the latter, with its cheering admirers, is what he needs and feeds off. And it keeps him perpetually in the notion that his base is ever enthusiastic.
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2020 Presidential Election
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Trump will kiss off debate #2, with 70 million viewers, in favour of a rally drawing thousands, because the immediacy of the latter, with its cheering admirers, is what he needs and feeds off. And it keeps him perpetually in the notion that his base is ever enthusiastic.
Stacyhs
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I know that's certainly true for me. Ironically, it's also true for most black people in the US.
Gulliver Foyle
Penultimate Amazing
Leading indicator of what. Stock market performance has been totally divorced from economic performance since the 80's.
If the stock market reflected the economy, it'd still be 20-30% underwater from 2008 figures.
angrysoba
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They may not want to prop up President Trump per se but Trump's base is the key to the Presidency (I cannot envisage a Republican being elected in the foreseeable future without it turning out in forces) and to both the Senate and House.
If the GOP doesn't manage to get hundreds of thousands of postal votes, and tens of thousands of votes from minority districts excluded then they can wave goodbye to the Presidency, House and Senate. With the Democrats in charge it's likely that significant changes will be made to protect the right to vote at a federal level so there's a risk that they're saying goodbye to the House and Senate for a while.
They will fight tooth and nail to protect their power and, in state legislatures, stacked courts and SCOTUS they have the tools at their disposal to have a good go at pulling it off.
Well, the worry is that on election night itself, the votes counted by then that didn't include large numbers of Democrat-voting postal ballots, might point to a Trump victory, only for the mail-in votes to gradually turn the tide (IIRC, it took weeks before Clinton's millions of votes in California were voted to give a respectable popular vote as opposed to what looked like a fairly slender margin).
But that said, if the victory is overwhelming (and please America, it really should be) then Trump and his stooges such as McConnell and Graham etc... can whine all they like, but they will be out.
angrysoba
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Those are major constitutional changes that almost certainly couldn't happen because it would require GOP states and Congresspeople to sign off on it.
Yeah, but also unlikely if he wins by a large enough majority as it would require staunch Democrat electors to suddenly decide to vote for Trump, out of the ******* blue!
Andy_Ross
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@FoxNews allows more negative ads on me than practically all of the other networks combined. Not like the old days, but we will win even bigger than 2016. Roger Ailes was the GREATEST!
“I’m running as a proud Democrat, for the Senate”. Sleepy Joe Biden today. It’s only going to get worse. It is not sustainable for our County - China will own us!!!!
Biden losing big in Florida. Only Fake Polls show otherwise! Bad for Healthcare. Thinks he’s running for the Senate. Forgot Mitt Romney’s name, and where he was!
@FoxNews allows more negative ads on me than practically all of the other networks combined. Not like the old days, but we will win even bigger than 2016. Roger Ailes was the GREATEST!
“I’m running as a proud Democrat, for the Senate”. Sleepy Joe Biden today. It’s only going to get worse. It is not sustainable for our County - China will own us!!!!
Biden losing big in Florida. Only Fake Polls show otherwise! Bad for Healthcare. Thinks he’s running for the Senate. Forgot Mitt Romney’s name, and where he was!
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Here's some more hope for Biden - even Trump's hardest-core supporters won't put a cent on him as a bet.
I've been offering 2:1 to a bunch of Republican nutcases and none of them have the balls to back the guy they're pumping as a winner.
The election isn't Biden's to lose, it's a done deal.
I've been offering 2:1 to a bunch of Republican nutcases and none of them have the balls to back the guy they're pumping as a winner.
The election isn't Biden's to lose, it's a done deal.
Stacyhs
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“My father is German. Right? Was German. And born in a very wonderful place in Germany.”
Hmmmmm.....his father was born in the Bronx.
“I hope they now go and take a look at the oranges, the oranges of that investigation, the beginnings of that investigation."
The 'oranges' ?
If anyone needs to be screened for cognitive decline, it's Trump. After all, he's the one who said it was hard to remember five words. "They said nobody gets it in order, it's actually not that easy. But for me, it was easy. And that's not an easy question." Uh huh.
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No need - the reason it didn't work with Harris is two-fold, and widely known. First, most black Americans have slavers among their ancestry. And second, this is a poor argument that shriek "Slavery was a long time ago! GET OVER IT!!!" when black Americans point out current systemic racism.
Glanced at the resulting hashtag - it's pretty much all Dolt 45 fans, IOW white supremacists struggling to convince black people to not vote, but who don't know enough about black Americans to know that we don't care about this.
Distracted1
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You italicized "double digits" to emphasize how ridiculous a system that allows that is, I think, as if a 10 or 15 percent difference with victory going to the recipient of fewer votes is outrageous.
I wonder if you have given thought to just how far out of whack the system actually is.
It seems that under our current system, at its extreme, an outcome as far out of balance as 22% to 78% could allow the "22% getter" to claim victory.
I find that jaw-droppingly ludicrous.
Yes. Although politically unlikely you could win 50% +1 person in each of the following states:
Wyoming, D.C., Vermont, North Dakota, Alaska, South Dakota, Delaware, Rhode Island, Maine, Hawaii, Idaho, Nebraska, West Virginia, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Kansas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Iowa, Connecticut, Oklahoma, Oregon, Kentucky, Louisiana, South Carolina, Alabama, Colorado, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Maryland, Tennessee, Arizona, Indiana, Massachusets, Virginia, and New Jersey.
And, assuming no faithless electors or other shenanigans, win the Presidency on 50.19% of the EC vote... on the back of 21.91% of the United States popular vote.
Stacyhs
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An interesting interview with four women in PA who voted for Trump in 2016 who are voting for Biden now:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/12/politics/women-voters-pennslyvania/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/12/politics/women-voters-pennslyvania/index.html
Venom
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I hope this is bull ****.
Stacyhs
Penultimate Amazing
Biden is up by 7.2 points over Trump in PA according to 538.
SezMe
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Glenn Beck!!?? A has-been trying to get back into the game. I will give you just one guess how many ****s I give for Beck's opinion .... on anything.
SezMe
post-pre-born
To be fair, there are very few undecideds at any political rally. They serve multiple purposes beyond changing voters' minds. They reinforce local campaigns' energy to make calls, canvass neighborhoods, etc. They also generate substantial local news coverage which acts as a multiplier to the actual in-person attendance.
But in Trump's case there is an additional effect. All the goobers refuse to practice good pandemic hygiene with the result that some will get too sick or die to be able to vote, thereby lowering his vote total. GO, DONNIE!
SezMe
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Jesus! Trump is campaigning as if Joe was the incumbent. Well, I suppose if I was Trump, I'd want to campaign against my first term, too.
Dread Pirate Roberts
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It's not that it's Pennsylvania deciding. Their model correlates states, in that if one state goes a certain way, then so do some number of others. In PA's case, that's Michigan and Wisconsin. So, the model is saying, if Pennsylvania went GOP, then so did MI and WI, so Trump wins, and vice-versa. Biden is polling well ahead in all 3 states.
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