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In fairness I think this would have been a great idea back this in 2017, a 'special election' for Clinton, Biden, Sanders, take your pick.
Maybe we should build a fake White House and tell him he won. I don't think he'd notice the difference
He definitely wouldn't notice for a while.... Do you remember how long him or his team went without a press briefing???? Lmao what a bitch
I so hate the fact that I have to worry about any "demand" that this asshole might make or has made. What a fucked up world we live in.
I seem to vaguely recall this b.s. Like if I was just a bit more of an idiot I'd be calling for a special election to install me as president, too. But it's just not my jam.
" "According to Rozen, "In June 2021, Six months into Biden’s term, Trump pressured Mo Brooks to call for a special election to reinstate Trump as president, according to Woodward’s new book."
"Brooks refused, leading to their split," Rozen added on X Sunday."
This shit stain lives his life failing upwards
Almost like success is more to do with being born into wealth than having any sense, morality or any other quality associated with humanity.
Your future is interesting no matter who wins.
From what I've seen of this world, morality and wealth rarely, if ever, go together.
Only losers ask for a rematch
It's hilarious (read: pathetic) that the same people who yelled "Sore Loserman" in 2000 are supporting the cheetoh.
IWANTIWANTIWANTIWANTIWANTIWANTIWA.... ooo...big Mac!
Fucking Woodward. We're going to be getting these tidbits dropped all the way through the election. This guy and his antics to sell books...
Who would have guessed the giant man baby would throw a fit yelling "I WANT A DO-OVER!!"
I can't fucking believe this guy is going to be the president again...
Why would you think he will be?
Watch this week's John Oliver (season 11, episode 26).
Because he Dems get complacent (Hillary 2016), the indies effectively sit it out until their entitlement gets fulfilled, and the magas are pretty much locked in for their orange fuhrer.
It is 8 years later and it still pisses me off with how badly they fucked up by coronating her as the nominee. Literally anyone else...
There's a lot to unpack in there but the following is the most concerning if you consider Kamalas current polling:
Even if the trend shown there was reversed Kamala is so damn close in current polls that any similar inaccuracy has her lose every swing state. I just don't see her winning, but I'm a seriously depressed pessimist so... Here's to hoping I'm wrong.
I just had to make a quick edit to laugh at the url that calls this a "short read" lol
Polling errors are not predictable beforehand. If they were, we wouldn't have polling errors. In 2022 for instance there was polling error in favor of democrats not against (or at least too much emphasis on polls with errors in Republican favor).
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/31/us/politics/polling-election-2022-red-wave.html
We can't know the electorate beforehand, so poll weighting and deciding who is a likely voter is always going to involve some guesswork. So the opposite of what you say is true as well, if there is a small polling error that overstates Trump's support it would have Kamala sweeping every swing state.
But the polls show a close election, all we can do is do our best to do things that help her win. Like voting early to make sure our vote gets in no matter what, encouraging people we know to register and vote, volunteering, canvassing, donating, etc.
Polls are not so much a prediction of the future as they are a snapshot in time and indicative of a candidate's current momentum.
But you're right. It's deeply shocking that this race is even close. If the DNC ever tried to run a candidate as bad as Trump, I'd just stay fucking home or vote 3rd party as a throwaway vote. I hope some Republicans with any shred of dignity or a functioning moral compass do the same on election day. We need real patriots to come together across ideological gaps and reject fascism full stop.
You’d better beIieve that if Republicans were a bastion of sanity and Democrats nominated someone batshit, that I’d vote Republican (or green, idk)
Right, and that's why some of these Republicans coming out for Harris is considered good, but all some of us see is a rightward shift so now they want to stay home.
The non fascist side of Lemmy is so fractured and fickle that you can't talk to the dog owners without upsetting the cat owners, and by talking to either of those, the vegans are pissed.
And I don't know how to even approach fixing it for this election. RCV would help on the future though.
You're getting downvotes because people disagree with you, but you posted a source and you explained yourself in good faith. That gets an upvote, imo.
Kamala has bad history. People may deceive themselves they don't care, but they still do, even those who eat with shit anybody criticizing her, just subconsciously. That subconscious influence on their behavior may affect those undecided around them. Trump is demented, but Kamala having the "lawful-neutral" flavor with some "lawful-evil" undertones makes the difference less notable for Republican voters. Some of the Democrat voters are less likely to go and vote due to having suppressed doubts.
It doesn't matter that "people against the establishment" is not the main theme of this election. It's still an unresolved question. That it's suppressed just shows the degree of media independence from political corporations (it not existing, that is). Trump is not "people" in this, but he manages to appear neutral between "people" and "the establishment", while Kamala doesn't, and her attempts are worse than lack thereof.
"We are going to throw you some bones and punish some corpos" is not a satisfactory position.
The cost of Trump winning for this world is too much, so I really hope he doesn't. But were that not so, one could say that worse is better, Trump winning would mean a political crisis and some reforms in the political system as its consequence, when they clean up the rubble.
Much appreciated!
I'm just a joe schmoe factory worker stressed out about it and trying to make sense of it all. I'm more than happy to have someone who understands it all better than this dumb factory schmuck tell me why I'm reading it wrong lol
That, or it’s tankies upset that you’re not pushing Stein as a spoiler candidate
Here's how Jeb can still win
There are a lot of reasons to think that it might go the other way this year. In 2016, we had a combination of overconfidence, lack of real enthusiasm, and a general sense of not giving a shit that allowed democrats, who outnumbered Trump supporters, to throw the election. In 2020, polling was completely fucked up by Covid. Democrats had higher margins in pre-election polling but less on Election Day mostly due to the fact that democrats were more cautious about the pandemic, and those who forgot to sign up for mail in voting decided to stay home for safety, and the on the ground get out the vote measures didn’t happen at all on the blue side. This year neither are true, and we saw in polls in 2022 underestimate democrats. Pollsters may have overcorrected for the quiet Trump voters while not accounting for the turnout caused by the scrapping of roe. If you want an example of over correction to account for republicans in polls, look at the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial election. I feel like polls are underestimating democrats this time around.
Don't be depressed. You're reading a statistical analysis of something that was already totally unreliable to begin with. The researchers could have conducted a better poll, that would fix the weak points that they perceive to exist in existing data, but they didn't. So now we have even more assumptions stacked on top of other assumptions, and it's really hard to think there's any kind of reliability to that data.
What a fat fucking dotard.
I am really hoping the Orange Turd does not get the chance again. But never underestimate the stupidity of my fellow Americans.
And a corrupt system.
Republicans have not won the popular vote in a very long time
Yeah, but the Dems assume they have it in the bag because they have the popular vote, and sit it out, or don't take the time to understand how the electoral college works.
It'd be kind of sad to see how delusional he is if I didn't know he's a gigantic asshole
Please stop linking Bob-waits-for-an-election-to-publish-fucking-Woodward related shit. Too little too late for it.
I'm glad this asshole didn't have a book deal for Watergate or we'd have found out about that during the election cycle after Nixon cheated.
Fuck you, Bob.
Please stop linking Bob-waits-for-an-election-to-publish-fucking-Woodward related shit. Too little too late for it.
To be fair, it's not just Woodward. There are plenty of Trump's former employees, associates, and friends who coincidentally only had bad things to say about Trump when they had a book that they had to promote. We possibly could have saved years of misery and maybe even succesfully removed Trump from office if even a few of these people had (a) spoken up sooner, and (b) didn't have a financial stake in what they're saying. One of the reasons that these revelations have had little to no real impact (or in some cases, actually boosted Trump's popularity) is because people believe that they're simply making the stories up to promote their book And given that 95% of these revelations come out right around the time someone has a new book to promote, I can't blame them.
Don't just blame Woodward. Blame all of them.
If anything, with Trump, it's better closer to the election. It doesn't give people time to get comfortable with it and wash it away in their brains, and their campaign can only embarrass themselves by trying to yell "fake news" when the proof gets revealed like the COVID tests for Putin shit.
You know who needs to be compelled to fucking release the tapes? The guy who has the audio and video of Trump ranting on his stupid show and throwing around every kind of racial epithet he can muster. That fucker needs to post that stuff NOW.
Edit: had to find a more recent update on it, and this is all I could find: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/05/donald-trump-apprentice-n-word-tape-how-to-find.html