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I'm not convinced they really think that. The fact that that approach has essentially always "failed" for decades is just too plain to see, and they are, after all, paid by the same people who pay the Republicans. The same donors aren't donating to get two opposite sets of things done, so that means one party is paid to win and the other is paid to "lose".
But, to the extent that it can be believed that they really are that unbelievably gullible & blind, it probably dates back to Carter's loss in 1980 and the fact that Bill Clinton was the next Democrat to win after that. Bill is now famous for governing relatively conservatively, going out of his way to snub lefties and either making concessions to the right or just simply going along with or adopting righty ideas like "welfare reform". He even popularized names for this approach, "triangulation" and "third way", while teaching other Democrats that it was the key to his success. So it's apparently easy to ascribe that same tone from his governance to the campaign that won him the job as if they surely must be the same, whereas his actual campaign slogans & speeches, the entirety of what people knew about him when they decided to vote for him, sounded like Bernie (with a different accent). And then that dissonance set them up for another round of the same dissonance when Obama followed exactly the same pattern: run sounding like Bernie & win, govern conservatively, be remembered for the latter while the former is denied/forgotten.
And then their approach finally got one single "success" when the Republicans handed them a rabid orange baboon for an opponent and a virus appeared which couldn't be seen coming & can't be expected to help again, which combined to be just barely enough for Captain Electable to scrape by with a margin of less than a third of a thousandth of the total vote, which was then touted as proof that he really was Captain Electable.
As for the fact that their approach lost every other Presidential election along with well over a thousand other Federal & state seats throughout the country in the same era: Those don't count because, especially in Hillary's case, there's no end to the excusery they can come up with for those, just like astrology fans with astrology and "medium" fans with mediums and Christians with prayer and so on.
Not that he'd ever consider doing that, but, even if he were to, I think it's probably too late to trick anybody with that kind of pretense now.
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Steve Forbes has a video out in which he says Bide will withdraw and be replaced, but he doesn't really say why he will do that; he just says why he thinks he should and speculates about about what would happen next.
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With Trump up nationally 50-49 but Biden up in swing states 50-49 as of a few days ago, we could have a Republican win the national vote and a Democrat win the election because of the Electoral College. At least then some more red states would probably join the Compact!
Well thats a stretch. I agree that by today's standards he might be somewhat progressive on some fronts, but even though I actually voted for Ross as a third party candidate (since I am a long time Independent who despises the 2 party system) all I remember of his campaign these days is the classic "who am I? Why am I here?" joke of his running mate.
