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The Race For 2024

A better map is this one. This one is 2000. The real reason why the GOP doesn't support ridding the nation of the EC are those very pale states in the west, who EVs are more weighted in their favor than states with actual populations in them.

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Swammerdami said:
TSwizzle said:
What a mess there would have been if senile Brandon had won a second term;
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Not really. Joe Brandon -- if that's what the sophomores insist on naming him -- was a senior citizen, perhaps befuddled from time to time but experienced and who had enough character to turn to trusted intelligent advisors.
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lol, Brandon could barely function.

Swammerdami said:
This Biden-46 Presidency was one of the best in recent memory, despite Red-led attempts to sabotage.
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Oh behave yourself.
 
bilby said:
Swammerdami said:
We've all seen maps in which the U.S. counties are painted red or blue depending on which side got 51% of the vote or more. One researcher chose to use shades of purple for counties which were not lop-sided. He observes that purple counties have become less common. In 2024 some purple counties turned bright red.
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From the article:
Back in 2000, most maps of election results showed states colored either red or blue depending on which side had more votes in that state – Republican George W. Bush or Democrat Al Gore. But that one-or-the-other approach didn’t match up with an election that was so close, it was ultimately decided by 537 votes in Florida.
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But he is mistaken. That one-or-the-other approach shouldn’t match up with an election that was so close. But it does, because that's the daft way US Presidents are chosen.

The 2000 election was ultimately decided by one vote. Florida's. Because American citizens don't elect Presidents; American states do.
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Actually, it was the people that approved the butterfly ballot in Palm Springs. Gore probably shouldn't have been projected the winner in that state immediately, but the exit polling indicated he won... and it was that damn ballot in Palm Beach that might have changed the course of history on this planet.
 
Shadowy Man said:
TSwizzle said:
What a mess there would have been if senile Brandon had won a second term;

A bombshell report details how President Joe Biden's White House hid from the public his rapidly diminishing mental and physical condition for his entire presidency. Biden's team hired a vocal coach, put other officials into roles usually occupied by the president and neglected to share with him negative news stories, according to an explosive report in The Wall Street Journal.
This exposes an extensive and thought-out cover-up that included the administration repeatedly gaslighting those who dared to claim the president was no longer the same man who served as vice president. A person who witnessed what happened with Biden in the last four years told the Journal that a small group of aides stuck close to him at all times and provided intense 'hand holding.'
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Daily Mail

It is frightening that the old duffer remains in office. But I guess when the VP is such a moron you have to stick with senile old Brandon.

Hard to believe people were actually going to vote for Brandon but I guess when the MSM cover up and run interference it would fool some folks.
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Don’t know what the big deal is. No one was hiding Trump’s mental incompetence yet plenty of people voted for him.
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Yup, there was a helluva lot of pandering to his narcissism to get him to work. Reports had to have a lot of pictures instead of the printed word. Whatever the issue, it needed to have Trump's personal involvement for him to have interest in it. Lots of that sort of thing.
 
TSwizzle said:
What a mess there would have been if senile Brandon had won a second term;

A bombshell report details how President Joe Biden's White House hid from the public his rapidly diminishing mental and physical condition for his entire presidency. Biden's team hired a vocal coach, put other officials into roles usually occupied by the president and neglected to share with him negative news stories, according to an explosive report in The Wall Street Journal.
This exposes an extensive and thought-out cover-up that included the administration repeatedly gaslighting those who dared to claim the president was no longer the same man who served as vice president. A person who witnessed what happened with Biden in the last four years told the Journal that a small group of aides stuck close to him at all times and provided intense 'hand holding.'
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Daily Mail

It is frightening that the old duffer remains in office. But I guess when the VP is such a moron you have to stick with senile old Brandon.

Hard to believe people were actually going to vote for Brandon but I guess when the MSM cover up and run interference it would fool some folks.
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I'd like to know what the WSJ report says without being strained through the biased colander that is the Daily Mail.
 
TSwizzle said:
What a mess there would have been if senile Brandon had won a second term;

A bombshell report details how President Joe Biden's White House hid from the public his rapidly diminishing mental and physical condition for his entire presidency. Biden's team hired a vocal coach, put other officials into roles usually occupied by the president and neglected to share with him negative news stories, according to an explosive report in The Wall Street Journal.
This exposes an extensive and thought-out cover-up that included the administration repeatedly gaslighting those who dared to claim the president was no longer the same man who served as vice president. A person who witnessed what happened with Biden in the last four years told the Journal that a small group of aides stuck close to him at all times and provided intense 'hand holding.'
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Daily Mail

It is frightening that the old duffer remains in office. But I guess when the VP is such a moron you have to stick with senile old Brandon.

Hard to believe people were actually going to vote for Brandon but I guess when the MSM cover up and run interference it would fool some folks.
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The Daily Fail isn't a credible source.

Besides, it's clear that The Felon is mentally out of it. We are jumping from the frying pan to the fire.
 
I read an article this morning about why so many, shall we say, poorly educated poor people, voted for Trump. I have lots of articles left to share from WaPo, so anyone can read the entire article in the link, if they are interested. I found it so depressing that the idiot could so easily manipulate people into thinking he cared about them.

https://wapo.st/4grQrVy
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NEW CASTLE, Pennsylvania — Lori Mosura goes to the grocery store on a bicycle because she can’t afford to fix her Ford F-150 truck.
The single mother and her 17-year-old son live in an apartment that is so small she sleeps in the dining room. They receive $1,200 each month in food stamps and Social Security benefits but still come up short. Mosura said she often finds herself deciding between buying milk or toilet paper.
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“He is more attuned to the needs of everyone instead of just the rich,” Mosura, 55, said on a recent afternoon. “I think he knows it’s the poor people that got him elected, so I think Trump is going to do more to help us.”
Trump carried the Pennsylvania city of New Castle by about 400 votes, becoming the first Republican presidential candidate to win here in nearly 70 years. More than 1 in 4 residents live in poverty, and the median income in this former steel and railroad hub ranks as one of the lowest in Pennsylvania.
New Castle’s poorest residents weren’t alone in putting their faith in Trump. Network exit polls suggest he erased the advantage Democrats had with low-income voters across the country.
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Now, low-income Americans who voted for Trump say they are counting on him to keep their benefits intact even while his Cabinet picks and Republican lawmakers call on him to reduce federal spending.
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy — whom Trump has chosen to lead a new nongovernmental advisory panel, the “Department of Government Efficiency” — have said they want to trim $2 trillion from the government’s annual budget, a cut that some experts say could be accomplished only by slashing entitlement programs. Trump’s pick for White House budget director was a key architect of Project 2025, a plan drawn up by conservatives to guide his second term that calls for steep cuts to programs such as food stamps. And GOP leaders in Congress and Trump advisers are considering significant changes to Medicaid, food stamps and other federal aid.
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I'm afraid these folks may be very disappointed if Trump gets his way. To anyone who knows his history, it's so obvious that he doesn't care about poor people. He only cares about himself and he loves to surround himself with billionaires.
 
I've got to share another article. This one is about how so many Latinos voted for Trump, largely due to prosperity gospel. WTF is wrong with these people?

https://wapo.st/4iPq5hU

Sitting in high-end silver chairs, the young men talked about the businesses they had built, or would build. That would be more possible, they hoped, with the return of Trump, someone to whom they could relate — a businessman who has made mistakes, they said, but still keeps striving.

“Kamala said, 'Trump is for the rich, I fight for the poor.’ But I don’t want to be low-class — I hope that’s not a bad way to say it. But I don’t want to be there,” said Christian Pion, 31, referring to Vice President Kamala Harris. He became a U.S. citizen last year, a decade after coming to the United States from the Dominican Republic, and cast his first presidential ballot for Trump. “God doesn’t want you to be poor.”
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The mix of hope, drive for success and belief in a God who rewards faith, sometimes with financial accomplishments, has become dominant across the United States and Latin America, experts on Latino religion say. The belief system is sometimes called “seed faith,” “health and wealth gospel,” or “prosperity gospel.”
In the past half-century, driven by larger-than-life pastors, it has overtaken other more traditional theologies centered on God’s priority being poor and disenfranchised people, some experts said. This belief system, they said, helps explain what exit polls showed was a significant shift among Latino Christian voters to Trump, who they see as an uber-successful, strong and God-focused striver.
“If you take Trump and all his characteristics, it’s almost exactly as any prosperity gospel preacher,” said Tony Tian-Ren Lin, an Asian-Latino pastor in New York who wrote a book on Latino Americans and the prosperity gospel. “The big personality, talking a big game, saying things like ‘no one can do it’ but him … If for years you’ve been listening to someone like that, you’re not surprised when a political leader says those things.”
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I guess these voters never bothered to read about all of Trump's failed businesses or the part of their holy book that talks about it being harder for a rich man to enter heaven than it is for a camel to enter the eye of needle. Prosperity gospel really took in a lot of suckers.
 
southernhybrid said:
I'm afraid these folks may be very disappointed if Trump gets his way. To anyone who knows his history, it's so obvious that he doesn't care about poor people. He only cares about himself and he loves to surround himself with billionaires.
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And now there is infighting in the Republican party because they can't agree on exactly how to be evil.
 
Loren Pechtel said:
southernhybrid said:
I'm afraid these folks may be very disappointed if Trump gets his way. To anyone who knows his history, it's so obvious that he doesn't care about poor people. He only cares about himself and he loves to surround himself with billionaires.
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And now there is infighting in the Republican party because they can't agree on exactly how to be evil.
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Trump just commanded them to keep little Mikey as speaker. Will they obey the command of their orange Jesus or will some of them realize they are supposed to be an independent body with equal power? I think I know the answer, but I'll wait and see if a few of them grow a pair.
 
southernhybrid said:
Loren Pechtel said:
southernhybrid said:
I'm afraid these folks may be very disappointed if Trump gets his way. To anyone who knows his history, it's so obvious that he doesn't care about poor people. He only cares about himself and he loves to surround himself with billionaires.
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And now there is infighting in the Republican party because they can't agree on exactly how to be evil.
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Trump just commanded them to keep little Mikey as speaker. Will they obey the command of their orange Jesus or will some of them realize they are supposed to be an independent body with equal power? I think I know the answer, but I'll wait and see if a few of them grow a pair.
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Trump must realize that very little will get through Congress without Democratic support, and little Mikey has a track record of being able to work deals with Democrats. The problem is that he needs the MAGA nutcases in the House to help drive those deals. The more MAGA the House speaker is, the less likely are Democrats to cut deals to get legislation passed. And those deals only worked because Biden was President, not Trump. Trump should have titled his book "The Fart of the Deal". He is incapable of making things work except by bullying and intimidation.
 
southernhybrid said:
Loren Pechtel said:
southernhybrid said:
I'm afraid these folks may be very disappointed if Trump gets his way. To anyone who knows his history, it's so obvious that he doesn't care about poor people. He only cares about himself and he loves to surround himself with billionaires.
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And now there is infighting in the Republican party because they can't agree on exactly how to be evil.
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Trump just commanded them to keep little Mikey as speaker. Will they obey the command of their orange Jesus or will some of them realize they are supposed to be an independent body with equal power? I think I know the answer, but I'll wait and see if a few of them grow a pair.
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I see a problem; they need to grow a pair of legs to go along with their newly grown balls, so they have a way to get around after they’re thrown off the Trump Train.
 
Enemies of America's democracies subverted the 2024 election, as is their wont. Did their efforts swing the election? I dunno but it should be viewed as a serious problem either way. Certainly when the effects of ALL cheating and lies by the QOPAnon-Trump-Putin axis are totaled, the election WAS swung from Harris to the treasonous felons.

I excerpt only briefly. Google for a fuller report.

David Badash said:
Citing "deepfakes" and "targeted disinformation campaigns," the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced on Tuesday sanctions against affiliates of Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) and Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), alleging they "aimed to stoke socio-political tensions and influence the U.S. electorate during the 2024 U.S. election."
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"At the direction of, and with financial support from, the GRU, CGE and its personnel used generative AI tools to quickly create disinformation that would be distributed across a massive network of websites designed to imitate legitimate news outlets to create false corroboration between the stories, as well as to obfuscate their Russian origin," the Treasury Dept. said. "In addition to using generative AI to construct and disseminate disinformation targeting the U.S. electorate in the lead up to the U.S. 2024 general election, CGE also manipulated a video it used to produce baseless accusations concerning [Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Tim Walz] in an effort to sow discord amongst the U.S. electorate."
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Other headlines today include
* Trump Medicare pick Dr. Oz says uninsured 'don’t have right to health' in resurfaced clip.
* Fox News host rages at 'mean jerk' Biden for 'shameful' Carter-Trump analogy.
* Texas gov. gives Jimmy Carter’s wife his 'deepest condolences' — but she died over a year ago.
* 'It is tremendous': Kremlin insiders explain how Trump is already helping advance Putin’s goals.
 
Swammerdami said:
Enemies of America's democracies subverted the 2024 election, as is their wont. Did their efforts swing the election? I dunno but it should be viewed as a serious problem either way. Certainly when the effects of ALL cheating and lies by the QOPAnon-Trump-Putin axis are totaled, the election WAS swung from Harris to the treasonous felons.
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lol, conspiracy theory claptrap.

Anyway, caught a few minutes of Brandon’s farewell speech :ROFLMAO: Good lord, did anyone really believe this guy was going to be president for another term? :ROFLMAO: Who did the Brandon camp think they were fooling?
 
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