I hope you're being sarcastic. What a completely absurd overly dramatic and innacurate statement. Absolutely silly.
Don't act like you weren't worse when you lost 2020, invented some looney cheating conspiracy, denied the election results, and tried to insurrect the White House!
This election was supposed to be a lock. Trump is A FELON. I went all in with my family's finances betting Harris win AND I LOST IT ALL BECAUSE OF SOME DUMB HICKS IN PENNSYLVANIA. No more college funds. No more rights. We are done and this nation is done.
When Flagpole said it was over, he really meant our democracy and way of life is over.
Trump is NOT a felon. You CAN NOT be a felon without a conviction.
Flagpole - that was a very magnanimous gesture on your part. To be honest I could not watch the election proceedings. I went to sleep early. My wife came in an hour or 2 ago to tell me the news. Would you want Kamala to run again in 2028?
1) I am ALWAYS magnanimous. Don't think that just becasue I was wrong on this that I have changed...well, other than I BELIEVE I am on the path to learning that Americans are dumber than I thought they were.
2) I would not want any Democrat candidate for President who lost to run again, so no.
Calling those who voted for the wining side stupid is not magnanimous. It is arrogant.
1) I am ALWAYS magnanimous. Don't think that just becasue I was wrong on this that I have changed...well, other than I BELIEVE I am on the path to learning that Americans are dumber than I thought they were.
2) I would not want any Democrat candidate for President who lost to run again, so no.
Calling those who voted for the wining side stupid is not magnanimous. It is arrogant.
Flagpole is clearly unhinged, in addition to being an arrogant woke brainwashed liberal. Good to see posters like Flagpole, Juicy and Trollminator put in their place. Taken down along with every other swing state. This election exposed all the lies THEY believed, from 2020 Biden’s 81 million votes, to the sham of believing J6ers were bad people. These guys were suckers, saps, stupid fools.
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I hope you're being sarcastic. What a completely absurd overly dramatic and innacurate statement. Absolutely silly.
Don't act like you weren't worse when you lost 2020, invented some looney cheating conspiracy, denied the election results, and tried to insurrect the White House!
This election was supposed to be a lock. Trump is A FELON. I went all in with my family's finances betting Harris win AND I LOST IT ALL BECAUSE OF SOME DUMB HICKS IN PENNSYLVANIA. No more college funds. No more rights. We are done and this nation is done.
When Flagpole said it was over, he really meant our democracy and way of life is over.
Posting under a different name instead of the usual Flagpole moniker?
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Right now, Trump's base is highly motivated and energized. The Trump campaign's strategy to date has been the traditional campaign strategy that was first perfected by Karl Rove and others. Make sure your base turns out by running hard on wedge issues and then run such an awful and negative campaign that you turn off any swing voters and keep them at home. This is why Trump put Vance on the ticket. Trump's base loves Vance on abortion and immigration.
But the pivot to Harris changes things. Harris has the potential to get an Obama-esque turnout of women and minorities. The k-hive is very real and Harris will get all the #resitance voters p#ssy hat from Trump's first term back to the ballot box in droves, especially in light of Dobbs. That wasn't going to happen with Biden.
Now, the campaign is no longer for the swing voters about who is the least worst candidate. Harris has a chance to win over voters, which Biden did not have. Harris can be really effective like when she did the "that little girl was me" at the 2020 debates (even though it was heavily scripted to the point of having merch ready at the end of the debate). But she can also be very flaky when she doesn't want to answer a question and just vamps with empty politi-speak. She will have to come up with a campaign that actually reaches out to voters with real promises to improve people's material conditions instead of just saying "things are great, I will save you from Trump."
Finally, current events are a big wild card. If inflation surges, if the war in Gaza keeps roiling or some other big event happens, voters will sour on Harris. But if inflation goes in the right direction and the Fed finally lowers interest rate and there is a Gaza cease fire, then Harris will actually have some coat tails. While everyone online is pissed off, the reality is that the average voter is doing ok. People have jobs, pay is good, inflation is significant, but nothing like the 70s. Gaza matters only in Michigan where Muslim voters can swing the election. Harris has planted seeds for a pivot on Gaza to try to get the conflict under control. Jewish voters are feeling uneasy with how Netanyahu has prosecuted the war and want to see the US work with the parties to end fighting.
So, right now, I would say it looks a lot like 2016 with the popular vote going to the Dems but swing states leaning to Trump. Harris can reverse that and possibly come away with a blue wave if she puts forward an agenda that is something voters can sink their teeth into instead of a tax credit for community college that phases out based on income and has a twelve page application process.
A lot of that makes sense. And a lot does depend on Harris' ability to deliver coherent speeches -- people will want to see a huge improvement over Biden's debate performance, and if she can pull off a good performance, she can probably make some huge gains. But Harris is not known for that. She's not very good, as we have seen. She's no Bill Clinton. She's more like Sarah Palin level, unfortunately.
Also, one huge thing you left out is whether Harris can shed her all the Woke/DEI baggage she has. I've posted this before in other threads. Many Democrats -- to their detriment -- are unable to see how flawed and obnoxious (and criminal) that whole hysteria became. There are MANY swing voters who do not want to be called racists regarding everything they do and will vote accordingly. That is how many swing voters perceive Harris, whether Democrats believe it is accurate or not. Keep in mind that Harris loudly and prominently proclaimed she was bailing out criminals who actually burned down a MInneapolis police station and looted and permanently destroyed hundreds of businesses in Minneapolis at the genesis of the BLM riots. It was a horrible political miscalculation by Harris if she was interested in getting votes from the very voters who will decide this election. She and her campaign and her supporters are going to have to avoid racial politics and Woke bullsh!t as much as possible. I think that could be relatively easy to do, but unfortunately many Democrats simply cannot wrap their heads around what I'm even talking about.
I think it was this above that I posted back in July. Woke, DEI, whatever you want to call it -- Harris and the Democratic party are tagged with the nationwide BLM riot/looting spree from summer 2020. That whole idiotic moral hysteria has died down significantly, Harris stayed away from racial nonsense during her campaign, and surprisingly so did Trump for the most part. But way too many swing voters still remember the magnitude of the BLM riots. That would have been my primary reason to vote GOP and I did vote GOP in every race other than presidential. I just couldn't vote for Trump because he's a criminal felon (and a dangerous Russia appeaser). Most swing voters just don't seem to emphasize his criminality as much as I do. Very disappointing. America should not have a criminal leading the country.
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