Apologies, my multiquoting skills are crap!
on your first point, thanks!
You're right, there are plenty of perspectives.
I disagree on how to approach the midterms. I think going hard after Trump and his complicit crowd is the best way to win over disgruntled independents. Time to take a knife to a knife fight. On Obama, he didn't have to do much to beat McCain. Republicans had the country on it's knees. He also wasn't running against Bush.
The likes of Schumer and Pelossi (sp?) are both in danger of losing their power because of their softly softly appease the money people approach. Running on centerist politics will win nothing.
On the Russia point. I think you're making very light of their transgressions. The leaks of DNC emails combined with social media priming were a huge factor in determining the mood of the country. Yes, there was the leaking of tapes on Trump but that was legal. There's a big difference between legally influencing an election and illegally.
Most here know the POTUS has a lot of power. Trumps bowing to Putin just shows us how fragile our defence of that power is. How unsecure our democracy is, and to your last point, how Russian interference in our elections is not to be taken lightly.
Good points again, Ruairi. I still maintain my position, especially that centrism is the way forward.
We'll agree to disagree, mate!
@dholliday Jesus, just looking at that polling site you linked. Look at GWBs popularity post 9/11. That fills me with dread for what might happen. The sooner this idiot is out of office the better.
Yeah, that 9/11 spike is bonkers. But it was a bonkers time. We were all for the Americans, globally. All went to hell once the bombs started raining down on Afghan.
What a shame. We were on our way to a nice world back then.
You may try and swing statistics any way you like but there is no getting around the fact that what I said was completely accurate and more germane in comparison (Romney v Trump). Per Gallup, the average approval rating for a POTUS in the 6th quarter of his presidency is 57% (since Eisenhauer). The current POTUS is at 43% (nearly his high-water mark) with some of the highest negative ratings among the opposition party and Independents ever seen by Gallup.
haha lol
caught you playing stats redhanded, lad
Trump has done absolutely nothing to win fence-sitters over since he took office.
Domestically jobs seem to be doing alright, no? That's quite a big deal.
Offset by traditional blue collar dem voters continuing to support Trump
Jobs...blue collar...makes sense.
Trump's hard core base, however, voted for Trump for cultural/social reasons.
Disagree. According to the article I linked earlier studies have shown only about one-fifth of Trump voters did so for cultural/social reasons.
