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Sarcasm? or? so hard to tell sometimes. . .
2020 US Election (Part Two)
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Sarcasm? or? so hard to tell sometimes. . .
Zardnaar
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Bernie wasn't good. He was a populist and divisive, not a good combo.
Title of top article on 538 today "Biden Is Polling Better Than Clinton At Her Peak".
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I think it is the other way around.
Donald Trump is divisive for the wrong reasons, rudeness and administrative incompetence.
Bernie Sanders is divisive for the right reasons, urgently needed radical reform.
Zardnaar
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Either one is bad for election/reelection.
A lot of it is basic communication skills. Something polititians not so good at now.
Not convinced by that. Clement Atlee wasn't known for his communication skills but he is generally regarded as the best Labour PM.
Politicians like Blair, Cameron and Johnson devote a lot of attention to trying to be popular and please everyone and end up regarded as shifty and manipulative.
Takh likely was using "right" as in the phrase "My country, right or left".
Revise away. He's probably picking Harris. I think I'd prefer Lance-Bottoms but it looks like its going to be Harris.
I don't know why folks think that's going to be any kind of issue. It's forgiven, forgotten, water-under-the-bridge. The campaign folks are basically hand waving it. The attack was against Biden personally. If he himself is over it how can you (the royal you) claim any righteous indignation about it? You can't. It's a non-issue.
Again, those aren't issues to moderates, which is who Biden is targeting.
They've essentially committed to a black female so Duckworth isn't even in the running. Also, she isn't a "natural-born American" AFAIK, so she is disqualified from being POTUS. So it would be impossible to consider her for VP.
EDIT:I just learned that while her mother is Thai, and she was born in Thailand, her father was US military, so she is in that untested gray-area with respect to her POTUS eligibility.
"Foot in his mouth"... but he still won... so obviously that's a non-issue.
Rice is a much better candidate on paper than Harris if you are going for moderates. However, Rice has very little name recognition, so I think she's out as far as VP goes.
I'd chalk it up to him just not GAF rather than cognitive problems.
That was Mitt Romney's problem as well.
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New York attorney general sues to dissolve NRA
[EDIT] The NRA response: "baseless, premeditated attack"
Premeditated? What law suit is not premeditated? We should be just filing lawsuits on a whim?
New York's attorney general has announced a lawsuit aimed at dissolving the powerful National Rifle Association over alleged financial mismanagement.
Letitia James said the NRA had diverted millions of dollars to leaders including its head Wayne LaPierre for their personal use.
"For these years of misconduct we are seeking an order to dissolve the NRA entirely," she said.
There has been no immediate response from the NRA.
This will help|hurt Trump politically.Letitia James said the NRA had diverted millions of dollars to leaders including its head Wayne LaPierre for their personal use.
"For these years of misconduct we are seeking an order to dissolve the NRA entirely," she said.
There has been no immediate response from the NRA.
[EDIT] The NRA response: "baseless, premeditated attack"
Premeditated? What law suit is not premeditated? We should be just filing lawsuits on a whim?
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My source was before the azios interview, might have something to do with it
I'd say it's more harmful to Harris in the long run. I mean, she can hardly call herself a woman of principle if she is willing to accept a job from a man she believes to be a racist just to advance her own political career. If she accepts being his BP, she is basically declaring that she's willing to compromise her beliefs for political gain/expediency. And that goes against the whole "we are the party of doing what's right" schtick the Democrats have been playing up lately.
Are you joking?
This is Harris.
She has no beliefs or honor.
Still, even with Harris as VP I think Biden can win, due to how ridiculous Trump is.
And win he must.
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Oh he will, if he wins with Harris as VP. She's quite capable of that.
I think saying that Harris believes Biden to be "a racist", at least in the way I think you envision the term, is overstating things a bit.
But even putting that aside...man... I gotta clue you in on something... the bolded is just an everyday reality that's pretty much part and parcel of being black. If black people were overly concerned about accepting jobs from people who harbor racist, and/or racially prejudiced attitudes towards black people, or who had made racially prejudiced statements or actions in the past, we'd nearly all be unemployed. You gotta get along to go along... nobody understands this better than minorities in high places.
FTFY.
The fact that you called it "schtick" means you already know what time it is when it comes to that. I (and others) have commented at length at how the Democrats always shoot themselves in the foot trying to "be the bigger people". So I've no problem with them putting that aside a bit to get Trump out. When your house is on fire you can't worry about cutting holes in the roof or getting water on the antique furniture.
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Okay, but I'm speaking from the perspective of playing dumb and taking everything she says at face value. From that perspective it doesn't look good to publicly decry someone as a racist then turn around and take a job from that guy. The mistake Harris made was in publicly calling him a racist. I mean, you can't really walk something like that back.
And even though everyone knows why she said what she said and why she would accept the VP job, it's still going to be used against her later on when she makes another presidential bid. That's why I said it will hurt her in the long run.
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