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I'll take down dat coal powered MG, I tel u Hwat
It’s called a full stop lad. Feel free to use them.
Current Affairs The 2020 United States Presidential Election
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It’s called a full stop lad. Feel free to use them.
He still has a good shout to take GA and PA, due to the urban areas (heavily blue areas) still having relatively low reporting numbers.
Plug your phone in mate.
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Just like labour voters voting for Corbyn
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Thought Biden was going to win easily. Lol at the early preditions
.....ffs, please Arizona.
I think Trump will win Pennsylvania and Michigan. Wisconsin and Georgia are close but looks like he's edging it.
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Thanks for your concern. I just did.
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I'll take down dat coal powered MG, I tel u Hwat
What I’ve been saying all along. But of course shot down left right and centre in current affairs.
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Yup, just like he did in 2016.
^ The point is not whether this is true, but whether they can claim this more plausibly than the other side.
Virtually nobody around here will be aware of this, but American conservatism has become considerably more heterodox on economic policy, and, emboldened by what has happened tonight, this trend will only continue, no matter who ends up winning.
When the Republicans finally clue in and run on European-style populism, linking economic security for ordinary people with patriotism and freedom and xenophobia (where they are all far, far more credible than the Democrats), and all the Democrats can manage is some sanctimonious scolding corporate mascot like Kamala Harris who can't even bear pretending to believe her own words as she's saying them, the obliteration will be almost total.
That graph that keeps doing the rounds on here showing all the corporate media aligned neatly, left to right, on a coherent spectrum, has probably caused more harm than just about anything this cycle. The biggest misunderstanding in American politics is not between left and right, but between people like this thread's usual suspects who obsess over politics on an hour basis, and normal people who glance at the headlines, catch snippets on the news, overhear things from co-workers, and start to tune in a few weeks before the election.
The former also believes that voter political preferences, as in media, are likewise aligned on a neat, orderly spectrum. When they see 'the right' moving in what they regard as an extreme direction in culture, they assume that logic mathematically dictates that ordinary people also want 'moderation' on fiscal policy and veer to the 'centre' (which in economic terms means to the extreme), getting thoroughly rinsed by the grifters who Republican voters couldn't wait to be rid of along the way.
In truth, Americans' political views are all over the place. But they have been suffering badly at the hands of both parties (as the story on foreclosures that @verrauxi posted demonstrates), and will vote for anyone who promises to restore their sense of security and dignity, by repeating a simple, coherent economic message over and over again.
They want someone non-threatening who will tell them: "I believe that anyone who works forty hours a week should be able to afford a car, a house, a family and a vacation, and I don't care whether you care about NFL footballers kneeling and the colour of Starbucks coffee cups or not - I am going to fight for you to have this again, against the banks, the corporate media, the political class and anyone else who stands in your way because it is your right to enjoy these freedoms as an American".
Obviously, the entire point of American politics is to prevent any of this from ever actually happening, but we are closer than many of you probably realise to the Republicans being able to lie about this more plausibly than the Democrats.
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Counties around Atlanta are going to decide it!
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Wait... are you saying that corporate media and Silicon Valley are biased in favour of Donald Trump?
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