2020 Presidential Election: let the jockeying commence

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  1. horninchicago

    horninchicago 10,000+ Posts

  2. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Here is Kevin McCullough's current electoral map
    He started putting these together back around 2006 and has not missed a presidential cycle yet (including 2016)
    He says that other than "media polls" he sees nothing pointing to a Biden win

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  3. horninchicago

    horninchicago 10,000+ Posts

    There is my loony *** state of residence in blue. I hate this place.
     
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  4. Monahorns

    Monahorns 10,000+ Posts

    The Obama administration started the war against Syria and supported the war on Yemen. Both are still going on. He didn't reduce any of the pre-existing wars either.

    He was wishy washy with the red line statement in Syria. His rhetoric was weak and had an appearance of being peaceful. However, his actions increased the war machine in many areas. He started all the drone strike stuff that kills civilians. Trump is way more peaceful than Obama was or Biden would be. That is a good thing.
     
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  5. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Here is Kevin McCullough in a recent article

    "It’s still the economy, stupid.

    As insulting as it sounds it’s still the bottom line. People vote their pocket book. Voters know this instinctively. Biden has nothing to show for 47 years in DC. The president built the fastest growing economy the world had ever seen. In the past four months he’s produced the fastest job growth in history at just shy of 12 million jobs created, with more than half of those lost only months before due to the virus and ensuing lockdowns. It was precisely the tax reform and deregulation of businesses that allowed the rebound to occur so quickly. And just imagine how much more the recovery would be underway if governors and mayors who are keeping their cities and states locked down for political reasons would allow them to actually open up.

    Oh the pundits, Never Trumpers, and Democrats will explain away Biden’s every foible. When he says the voters “don’t deserve to know” his view on a 150-year precedent breaking idea of randomly packing the Supreme Court, they will give him a pass. When the Biden-Harris bus rolls in and six people sit in a gym in big circles drawn on the floor, the media will ignore the contrast of 40,000 supporters on a rainy tarmac in Minnesota.

    But this election won’t be decided by the pundits, Never Trumpers, and swamp monsters.

    The American people are the only poll that matters.

    On November 3rd, President Trump won’t just win, he will break records, shift turn out patterns, and crush his way to the biggest re-election victory since Ronald Reagan."
    Signs That Trump Isn’t Going to Win on Nov. 3
     
  6. mchammer

    mchammer 10,000+ Posts

    2006?
     
  7. horninchicago

    horninchicago 10,000+ Posts

    Come on, man, you know, the thing, man.
     
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  8. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    That is when he began putting political maps together
     
  9. mchammer

    mchammer 10,000+ Posts

    For what? The senate?
     
  10. Horn6721

    Horn6721 10,000+ Posts

    NJ
    If you care to answer, are you voting for Biden?
     
  11. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    It doesnt say. But even if he didnt start until 2007, it's sort of beside the point. But I get it, this is HF so tangents rule


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    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

     
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  14. Horn2RunAgain

    Horn2RunAgain 2,500+ Posts

    How many times can I click WINNER on this? Max me out
     
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  15. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    “56% of Americans said that they are better off today than they were 4 years ago under the Obama-Biden administration. Why should they vote for you?”

    Biden: “Well if they think that, they probably shouldn’t”

     
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  16. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    this made me think of you
     
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  17. WillUSAF

    WillUSAF 500+ Posts

    Great article!!!

    This is soooo true:
    Even people holding their noses and voting for Trump because they like what he’s done ‘on paper’ express disgust and exhaustion with his constant drama, bullying, hypocrisy, blatant lying, cozying up to QAnon and ***-kissing of dictators. They describe him as a ‘bad and selfish person’ or ‘the biggest piece of **** ever’.
     
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  18. Clean

    Clean 5,000+ Posts

    Didn't the majority of Illinois counties vote Red in 2016? Problem is they can't overcome the vote from Chi-Town.
     
  19. horninchicago

    horninchicago 10,000+ Posts

    Yep.
     
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    WillUSAF 500+ Posts

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  21. nashhorn

    nashhorn 5,000+ Posts

    I liked where it said Fauci was “the most popular face” in the virus fight. Cute. Wonder what it would say if he came out as a a Trump supporter. Can you imagine the backpedaling? That would be funny.
     
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  22. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Halloween warning

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  23. theiioftx

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    :popcorn:
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  24. mchammer

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  25. Duck Dodgers

    Duck Dodgers 1,000+ Posts

    Or they could do it the old fashioned way - win Senate races, then the Presidency, then nominate who they want when a Supreme Court seat becomes open. It's an idea so crazy it might work!

    Instead they first filibustered Gorsuch, losing the ability to do that in the future (such as say, right now when they really need it?).

    Then the ridiculous Kavanaugh hearings, where they trotted out an old lady to claim, in a city she can't remember, in a year she can't recall, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, she got felt up by Kavanaugh and then told no one for the next 35 years. An accusation so stupid and obviously made up that even flakes like Flake didn't fall for it, and voted to confirm him.

    The foolishness of it all contributed greatly to the loss of 4 sitting Democrat senators, and thus the Republicans actually gained seats in an off year election, a rare feat for a sitting president.

    Now the Dems are just stuck, stewing maddeningly, beyond words, as Ginsberg is set to be replaced by Barret, and there's nothing they can do about it. Except their usual trick to try to change the game.

    Note that Congressional Gerrymandering went from "hilarious partisan hi-jinks" to "mortal threat to the Republic", at exactly the same time they lost control (via being voted out) of various state legislatures, and so no longer could tip the scales in their own favor.

    Court packing is the same idea. Can't win at the ballot box when it counts, so try to change the rules in their favor later.
     
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  26. HornHuskerDad

    HornHuskerDad 5,000+ Posts

    And also because some of us have read the Democratic Party platform and cannot stand the blatant endorsement of the socialist policies that Biden and Harris are running on as Democrats.
     
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  27. horninchicago

    horninchicago 10,000+ Posts

    And if Trump is a racist bully, he sure helps black people while being bullied into multiple investigations and an impeachment. Yeah, such a hypocrite bully.
     
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  28. Horn2RunAgain

    Horn2RunAgain 2,500+ Posts

    Judging by the (sizable) crowd in line at the flower mound rec center for early voting , I'd say trump is kicking some serious *** here right now
     
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  29. mchammer

    mchammer 10,000+ Posts

    Trump just needs to keep it close till Election Day. On Election Day, voters are 60% GOP.
     
  30. Horn6721

    Horn6721 10,000+ Posts

    mc
    real legal voters are GOP
    We know the dems will cheat
     

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