I have a FB friend who lives on Long Island and whose husband is a lunatic MAGA sort still obsessively posting about Hillary Clinton at least 3-4 times a month (in addition to other insane ramblings). She has always been pretty apolitical, didn't vote in the last two elections and basically doesn't have any real interest in it, nice, thoughtful person, religious but not over the top, etc. Well in the last 4 years she has become Trumpified before my eyes. She is currently demanding a whole new election (yes, for all 50 states) where people can only vote IN PERSON in ONE DAY and that recount will govern who will be president. She's also said she'll be unfriending people who disagree and instead are supporting leftist tyranny. So I expect to be given the boot shortly, but it's just really scary to see how a once normal functioning member of society who built her life around her kids, gardening and interior design, who never forgot anyone's birthday, who was overly generous with everyone's kids to a fault and who had a diverse group of friends (many of whom are black women who are being purged from her FB for speaking out) has gone completely apeshit.
This one is for Dave (sorry, Headache):
Assuming this lead holds, I've got to hand it Womanfish, who was right from the beginning about Biden being well-suited to taking down Trump. I was as skeptical as anyone about that, but here we are.
I say the longer it takes the better. The faster the tabulating of ballots is done, the more opportunity for mistakes to occur. Real or completely fabricated.
What the majority of Trump voters are thinking right now. All these states are cheating because, I went to a rally and lots of other people were there, and i never personally got called by a pollster, even though if I did I wouldn't have talked to them. So it's all a fraud by the deep state and media.
it's also a damn shame that it seems like women who are overqualified are still unable to take the lead.
Warren deserves a prestigious position in the cabinet. I hope she gets it, though I guess there is always the matter of the Senate balance.
I am also thrilled to give credit where it's due.
I'm not sure that any of the other D candidates could have pulled it off. Obviously we can never know and it's also a damn shame that it seems like women who are overqualified are still unable to take the lead. But at the end of the day, you have to take the win, and the whole world desperately needs this despot to fuck off to wherever he is going, as soon as possible.
This is silly. It bothers me that people are immediately crediting a white old man for retaking WI. And GA. And MI. And PA. AZ? Sure. The rest? Black people unanimously stood up to Donald Trump. Any candidate would have gotten the same luxury - it’s time we start actually paying attention. Joe Biden is not our hero. They are.
They absolutely are. And I wasn't giving credit to Joe Biden, but to womanfish.
I've said clearly here it's the people of colour and women in the suburbs who delivered the victory.
However, it's fairly clear that the socialist/communist/leftist/marxist attacks continue to work among certain segments of the population. And so long as that holds, it remains the case that Joe Biden, among the many candidates, was the only one who could pull it together enough to drag the EC across the line.
If we can't get rid of the EC, which, let's face it, we're not... I would really like more states to look at the model used by Maine and Nebraska.I may have written this earlier, but as the popular vote goes, this was t all that close, and will be even less close once they finish counting CA and NY.
This is a center/center-left population where the electoral system favors land over people, making the Senate and the Electoral College skew everything to the right of where the population as a whole is.
It doesn’t matter if you win DC by 93%. Or Sunnyside, Queens by 98%. Or Santa Monica. You have to win places like NC and GA and AZ. It sucks and the EC should go, but that’s simply the task at hand. I voted for Warren, and I think she would have been crushed.
So let’s enjoy this. And then figure out how to change our electoral process to prevent permanent minoritarian rule.
If we can't get rid of the EC, which, let's face it, we're not... I would really like more states to look at the model used by Maine and Nebraska.
It seems like a logical loophole around the bigger problem.
I disagree though. Biden isn’t showing anywhere on the map that he won a state by virtue of not being this “socialist” that he’s being accused of.
Reds showed up for Trump in GA like mad. In Florida he built a brand new source of votes that made the state not-competitive. Ohio was not competitive. This was a referendum on Trump from people within cities, and black people showed up. You could’ve had Vermin Supreme or Kanye West be the candidate, the results would’ve been the same. GA is in fact a testament to that. 29% of white people voted for democrats. You’ve got to figure that *it can’t get much worse* as in republican turnout “against socialism” or “in favor of trump” set records
MI, PA, WI.
If you didn't have those states, nobody would care about the GA result.
You seem to be ignoring the fact that Biden outperformed Hillary with white men, while Trump performed better than in 2016 with virtually every minority group. I love Elizabeth Warren, but I don't see her having raised the % of white male voters in those three states.