Current Affairs The 2020 United States Presidential Election

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Sanders performed better - by far - than any other candidate among Hispanic voters. He had build a formidable grassroots organisation, which the Biden team completely ignored. Biden literally had no ground game - and all the Hispanic constituencies that turned out for Sanders en masse swung toward Trump instead. The Biden approach was to absorb all of the negatives of being called a 'socialist' while offering none of its overwhelmingly popular policies.
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Four years on, most of us still do not understand Trump swing voters. We are so preoccupied gawking and sneering at the cult via twitter blue checks that we overlook that most Trump voters don't especially like Trump - they chose him because they are thoroughly disgusted with 'the establishment', and rightly so. The Democrats responded to this, twice, by choosing the most establishment candidate possible, and focusing on their personality at the expense of policy. Sanders would not have made these mistakes. The Democrats have essentially turned out their own core white middle class college-educated supporters to the maximum possible extent, and barely won against a historically unpopular President who has overseen the worst economic and public health crisis in a century. They are only going to hold real power by winning over Republican voters, and they have probably blown their chance at doing so because there is nobody who can replace Sanders coming through the ranks.
Sanders did nothing for the "church ladies" that are so important to the structure of the DNC on an organizational basis, especially throughout the South. They were already nervous about retaining the kind of Black vote they had become accustomed to and dependent upon after 2008 and 2012, and the deed was done quickly.

To reinforce this, note that Bernie (and the rest, but they jumped while Bernie was pushed) was dispatched after the SC primary. We had an inside straight sold to America like it was five aces by the usual suspects, and things will be sorted much as they have been after last fall's election in the UK.

And the beat goes on...
 
Sanders performed better - by far - than any other candidate among Hispanic voters. He had build a formidable grassroots organisation, which the Biden team completely ignored. Biden literally had no ground game - and all the Hispanic constituencies that turned out for Sanders en masse swung toward Trump instead. The Biden approach was to absorb all of the negatives of being called a 'socialist' while offering none of its overwhelmingly popular policies.
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Four years on, most of us still do not understand Trump swing voters. We are so preoccupied gawking and sneering at the cult via twitter blue checks that we overlook that most Trump voters don't especially like Trump - they chose him because they are thoroughly disgusted with 'the establishment', and rightly so. The Democrats responded to this, twice, by choosing the most establishment candidate possible, and focusing on their personality at the expense of policy. Sanders would not have made these mistakes. The Democrats have essentially turned out their own core white middle class college-educated supporters to the maximum possible extent, and barely won against a historically unpopular President who has overseen the worst economic and public health crisis in a century. They are only going to hold real power by winning over Republican voters, and they have probably blown their chance at doing so because there is nobody who can replace Sanders coming through the ranks. The biggest obstacle to a Sanders victory would not have been failure to attract working class Trump voters, but sabotage from the Democratic Party elders and antipathy from the comfortable middle class 'I wish we could go back to ignoring politics/poor white trash deserve it because they're probably racist' brunch crowd that forms its base.
How do you argue with people who want the anti-socialist candidate, yet favor the guy, who quite literally, may actually be a socialist? At least in American terms?

It's stuff like this that does my head in. And you cannot fix this without first fixing the disinformation that's out there, which has spiraled out of control in the age of social media
 
Has anybody heard any time frame for when PA or GA will be releasing more results? CNN is pretty solid with the how many and where, but not so much on the when.
 
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