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Originally Posted by Stephen Maturin
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Originally Posted by ChuckF
pea is correct. The polling data is encouraging, but: Trump's failures haven't made the Trumpists less deranged. If anything, their impotence in the face of a virus that terrifies them and cannot be controlled by bluster and masculinity ritual alone makes them even angrier.
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True stuff. After 2016, I will never again be encouraged by polling data. The Trump campaign is all about assuring that the hardcore racist authoritarians - which apparently number about 40-45% of the voting public - turn out on election day.
Biden's support is lukewarm at best (was gonna say a mile wide and a millimeter deep, but it's more like standard-size-Muskin-back-yard-above-ground-pool wide and a millimeter deep). In any event, Ol' Joe will fuck up plenty between now and November, causing some who would have otherwise voted for him to blow off the election.
The remaining margin of victory will come from strategic ratfucking of the opposition vote. Biden can't very well win if his votes don't get counted. And barring that, there are a couple of crazypants horror show scenarios over which I can't stop obsessing. 1
Miss Shelby makes good points about 2016. Clinton was arguably the best qualified candidate ever to seek the office of POTUS. However, the wingnut smear machine had been pissing in the Clinton punchbowl constantly since about 1980. By the time 2016 rolled around, Hillary Clinton was pretty much the only big-name Dem who could generate enough visceral hatred to lose to Donald Fucking Trump. Wasn't going to happen for a variety of reasons, but Biden would have had a very good shot at winning it all had he run as the sitting VP in 2016. It's a different world now.
Anyhoo, here's hoping the young 'un recovers quickly and completely, Shelbz.
1 My "favorite" goes something like this. Biden wins the popular vote and the electoral college, both by fairly close margins. Bill Barr announces that the Justice Department has evidence of massive election interference by China on Biden's behalf and launches an investigation. The investigation being a sham and all, it isn't complete by the time the Electoral College is scheduled to meet. The Administration sends troops to stop electors from meeting in their various states. SCOTUS refuses to get involved. Absent enough electoral votes, the House of Representatives decides who becomes president and vice president. Dems outnumber Republicans overall in the House, but that doesn't matter since each state delegation gets one vote. State delegations with Republican majorities outnumber those with Dem majorities 26-23, so Trump wins. |
Thanks Stephen for your well wishes for my daughter. She was down for the count for about five days, sickest she's ever been she said. But she's 22 and healthy so that helps. What is horribly tragic is at the same time she was sick one of her close friends died under suspicious circumstances. Since she was quarantined she couldn't even be with her friends for support. when it rains it fucking pours