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Trump wins presidency for second time

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Re: Trump wins presidency for second time

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Post by pavlov »

There’s lots of blame and anger directed at Democrats, but ultimately it’s the Republicans who picked Trump.

They could have won against the unpopular Biden/Harris with practically any other candidate. Nikki Haley polled well against all possible Democrats.

The party was already done with Trump in February 2021, but then they explicitly decided that they prefer one more try with an old man who doesn’t spare much thought to actual policies but does brag about sexual assault, tried to orchestrate a coup last time he lost an election, etc. etc.

It’s not inflation or Biden’s unpopularity or some other external factor. Lots of Americans really want what Trump is selling.

Re: Trump wins presidency for second time

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Post by YetAnotherNick »

akmarinov wrote: post #204

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Is there any reason or source to anything you said, or just saying because you hate him. Specially regarding the last one, he clearly mentioned that he is against that.

I am as much against Trump as the next guy, but let's don't degrade HN conversations to this level.

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Post by Aeolun »

It’s absolutely insane to me that someone that literally incited their followers to storm the capitol, has been charged with so many counts of fuck knows what, and has (somehow) survived multiple assassination attempts can come back to win the presidency.

It’s just a “only in the US” kind of thing.

Re: Trump wins presidency for second time

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Post by raldi »

DiscourseFan wrote: post #147

There might be a cultural issue here for the Dems. Many of the canvassers I met who were not retirees tended to be young women, often college-aged or a bit older, very liberal and very much benefitting directly from the economic status quo. To them, voting for anyone besides Harris was just completely insensible and they did not even bother to try and understand the views of anyone they spoke with (from what I could…

It’s a waste of time for canvassers to try to change anyone’s position; people’s political positions come from their lived experiences.

Canvassing is all about ensuring that the people who already agree with your position know how to express that on the ballot, and do.

Re: Trump wins presidency for second time

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Post by refurb »

the5avage wrote: post #96

Is there some analysis why the polls didn't correctly predict the result? A failure in representative polls like this should be avoided with statistical methods.

They weren't that far off. Most were hovering around a tie with a margin of error of +/- 2-3%.

Trump won many of those states by 2-3%.

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