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- Shacklermyrye
- Rep: 14
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looks like things are about to get bad for Fernando legally.
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Kudos to the second Republican speaker to do the right thing and compromise. The Dems should have extended the same courtesy to McCarthy but perhaps he’d drawn a harder line in the sand.
Whatever the case, a 336-95 vote in compromise is a welcome thing at the moment.
I’ll have to read the details later.
- Randall Flagg
- Rep: 139
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A year out and all that, but does anyone care to opine on the current American election landscape? Current polling has Trump not only winning the popular vote, but 7/7 of the battleground states. I've been burned by polls the past 2 cycles, so give zero credence to them. But, Biden's numbers keep dropping and I don't know what outrage the left can manufacture that will impact Trump's approval - they've literally thrown anything and everything at him and his numbers continue to climb. The GOP seems committed to standing for total abortion bans despite even red state citizens going to the polls and making abortion a right in their state constitutions, so I don't see how they can win if they keep up this nonsense. 2022 reaffirmed that in case anyone had doubts and 2023 didn't change one iota. The only thing Trump has going for him is he's the exception to the rule in the GOP and has publicly said he's pro-choice, but he'll say whatever so it doesn't mean that much.
I just don't think the media is going to be able to put their thumb on the scale this time to scare people into voting for Biden. It barely worked in 2020 and too many people are aware of what was done to let it influence them in 2024. They sure are trying though, mask mandates are coming back. If the GOP can remind the people the damage that was caused from lockdowns and vaccine mandates and who demonized those against them, especially knowing now they had zero impact on COVID transmission, that may be enough to snap people out of the abortion obsession and remember the laws and edicts that actually impacted them.
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I do care to opine...
First, while the election in November 2024 is the Super Bowl...the regular season starts in January. The first primary is very near.
Polls: In my experience, the polls that most favor the party out of power are the ones conducted at about this time. Approximately one year out, those are the ones that really tell the story of just how much momentum the opposing party really carries. If this is their peak, I'm not impressed.
Let's face it...this is a rematch of two candidates no one really wants. It'll come down to who the undecides (maybe like 100 people at this point) dislike more.
This should be a pretty easy win for the GOP but my god have the fucked themselves in the last 4 years. The economy feels like shit to anyone who isn't influenced by numbers. It's interesting the fed wants to start decreasing interest rates starting in the election year.
But again, this should be an easy win for the GOP. Their one crowning achievement was the governorship in Virginia. They took no lessons from it and apparently just want a rematch likes it's Wrestlemania or something.
If Trump wasn't running, I don't think Biden would be either. It's the last gasp of that generation. I guess we have to pick a side. I will never pick Trump. I would never want anyone that led me into anything to behave like that deplorable troll. Imagine being 80 still talking and behaving in that way.
The dems will start to play offense at just the right time. They'll run the same plays and the GOP will do the same. Obama will live in Georgia suddenly. Trump will pretend like he's been a life long resident of Florida. Biden will be from Pennsylvania again for a minute.
Unless you see Trump as some sort of Eugene Debbs character (I see no parallels) I see the same scenario playing out to almost a T. The only difference is a slight different total in EVs due to the 2020 census that was intentionally fucked with by Republicans.
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As much as I hate to admit it...it does seem like Trump is on a path to win again. I've always hated Trump...I actually think Biden has done an ok job...the thing that will take him down are these stupid social issues.
As a business owner, I can tell you the government is paying businesses to stay open...maybe that's what socialism is? If I were being honest, I'd say the economy isn't good...I do not know how we sustain this and all these other social issues very likely go by the wayside with enough people to vote for the economy over all sorts of other stuff.
