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Trump wins presidency for second time

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Post by bantunes »

lancebeet wrote: post #47

It's interesting how bad the democrats seem to be at the game of winning elections. They continuously seem to pick bad candidates and poor strategies resulting in them losing the election when they seem to have had the general conditions for winning. This time, the elephant in the room is of course the late ousting of Joe Biden, but there were similar issues that (in hindsight at least) were obvious in the Clinton 20…

The Dems exist to give you an illusion of choice. This has gone down exactly as planned, or why do you think rich donors play both sides? Do you really think the Dems are this naive and keep messing up without it being on purpose?

The opinion makers know if it wasn't this close there'd be visible backlash.

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Post by anshumankmr »

wyattblue wrote: post #34

Reasons I think why Trump won: - Biden's Inflation - Fortunate timing - Donald Trump is not too too old - Israel/Gaza split Democratic Base - Harris underestimated the podcasting world

Trump also campaigned as firmly against progressive causes.

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Post by lgvln »

pavlov wrote: post #231

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 thou…

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Post by casenmgreen »

There's a story Winston Churchill tells of, of an old man who lived a long life on his death bed surrounded by his family, where one of his grand-children asks him for the dying man's advice about life.

The man thinks for a moment and then says : "I've seen a lot of trouble in my life, most of which never happened".

We can all now think of a million ways in which Trump will be a disaster.

I predict that bad as he will be, most of what we now worry about will not happen.

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Post by matsemann »

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…

Do you see the irony of complaining about them not "understanding your views" while you generalize a huge swath of young women? And why the hold-up on them being women at all?
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