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Kanye West for President?

P.J. Denyer said:
Doubtless thanks to celebrity culture he'll get some votes, but my guess is that most of them will be from people who otherwise wouldn't have voted at all rather than taking votes from Biden. Who knows, maybe even some of Trump's voters will vote for him because they they realise West is doing it to support Trump but misunderstand the plan?
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I'd say 100% of people who would vote for Yeezus would be Trump voters.

I can't see many Democrat-leaning black voters voting for a guy who thinks slavery was a choice.
 
I suspect he will go hard on the attack against Biden and then if Biden hits back the Trump friendly media will try and spin it as Biden being racist.
 
The Atheist said:
I'd say 100% of people who would vote for Yeezus would be Trump voters.

I can't see many Democrat-leaning black voters voting for a guy who thinks slavery was a choice.
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A few votes one way or another can make a difference, as evidenced by MI, PA, WI in 2016.
 
I don’t get why people automatically think Black people will vote for him. Because he’s Black? Because he’s a rapper? Traditionally, Black people vote like anyone else. That is, they vote for people they think can win and will support policies that help them.
When Hilary Clinton ran primary vs Obama, many Black people supported Clinton because they were more confident she’d be an “acceptable “ candidate for general elections. Similar with Biden.
 
Maybe it's like when people say the next president, prime minister etc should be a woman, and all the women in the audience cheer and applaud. It's not that the woman mentioned is competent, actually no particular woman is mentioned at all. So the applause are solely for the fact it should be a woman, any woman it seems.
 
Isn't it accepted that Biden must have a female running mate, regardless of what men are available?
 
gabeygoat said:
I don’t get why people automatically think Black people will vote for him. Because he’s Black? Because he’s a rapper? Traditionally, Black people vote like anyone else. That is, they vote for people they think can win and will support policies that help them.
When Hilary Clinton ran primary vs Obama, many Black people supported Clinton because they were more confident she’d be an “acceptable “ candidate for general elections. Similar with Biden.
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I don't think anyone here really thinks that, I suspect Kanye West is arrogant enough to think that yes Black voters will ignore his track record of supporting Trump, fail to see through this transparent attempt to boost Trump's electoral chances and vote for him.
 
gabeygoat said:
I don’t get why people automatically think Black people will vote for him. Because he’s Black? Because he’s a rapper? Traditionally, Black people vote like anyone else. That is, they vote for people they think can win and will support policies that help them.
When Hilary Clinton ran primary vs Obama, many Black people supported Clinton because they were more confident she’d be an “acceptable “ candidate for general elections. Similar with Biden.
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I don't think that at all. I think that if he wants to, he could play the role of "red herring" for Trump, muddying the presidential race a bit and, though probably a small possibility, possibly pick up a small but significant number of black votes in a swing state and swing it to Trump. Even just a few hundred votes out of several million in a state could make an Electoral College difference.

Again, I think this is really just a silly publicity stunt and will come to nothing.
 
Celebrities are, by definition, better people than us plebs.

If they want to rule us, it is their right by Right of Notoriety.
 
The difficult question presented before voters: Which crazy narcissist to vote for? Trump or West?
 
He's a nut whose wife regularly gets more attention than he does. Kanye wants people talking about him, and that's it.
 
gabeygoat said:
I don’t get why people automatically think Black people will vote for him. Because he’s Black? Because he’s a rapper?
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I think the assumption (right or wrong) is that he has the most fans/most appeal in the young African-American demographic, and as such if he gets ANY votes, it will likely be from fans (which would have a larger percentage of younger black voters than white senior citizens.)
Traditionally, Black people vote like anyone else. That is, they vote for people they think can win and will support policies that help them.
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MOST black people probably vote that way. But there is always a chance that there might be a small percentage of voters who do decide to vote based on name recognition. It won't be the majority, or even a significant part of the minority. But in a tight race, a few hundred votes here or there might make a difference.

Look at it this way... millions of people voted for Trump, despite his lack of policies, simply because they knew him from The Apprentice.
 
shemp said:
It's almost certainly just a publicity stunt. But if he were serious enough to file to get his name on the ballot in any "swing" states, he could possibly draw enough black voters to flip a state, which could affect Biden's chances. But I wouldn't lose sleep over it.
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If Trump's advisers are on the ball then they would help Kayne West get on the ballot papers.

Another triumph for FPTP/WTA.
 
Kanye might triumph in the Stupid demographic, and we all know whom that would hit hardest.

However, no-one in their right mind should vote for him. I'm fairly sure this is something he is doing for Trump, in the hope it might collect more of Biden's votes than Trump's.
 
Segnosaur said:
He is a trump lover.

Maybe his idea is to deliberately help trump win by stealing votes that might otherwise go to biden. I guess the big question is... How much popularity does he have in the African American community these days. Enough to swing the results of a close state?

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Interesting possibility, I had not considered. However, I think that West is not competent enough to come up with that thought.
 
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