General Election 2020

Discussion in 'Politics' started by exGOPer, Mar 22, 2020.

  1. userque

    userque

    It's a toss up right now. Slight advantage going to the not-stupid.
     
    #401     Oct 26, 2020
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  2. Nine_Ender

    Nine_Ender

    He also said growing GDP well over 5% a year would be easy.
     
    #402     Oct 26, 2020
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  3. userque

    userque

    We're going to run out of time doing it this way :) Here we go:

    Here's where we stood as of June 1, 2020:
    President Trump made 19,127 false or misleading claims in 1,226 days
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...e-19127-false-or-misleading-claims-1226-days/

    Here's an actual list of all his pathological bullshit:
    I'll just post a link to the page, and a very long image to just the first page:
    https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/list/?speaker=donald-trump&ruling=false
     
    #403     Oct 26, 2020
  4. fan27

    fan27

    Ahh yes. If only Kerry had beaten Bush. No mortgage defaults, no Great Recession. Would have been rainbows and unicorns.
     
    #404     Oct 26, 2020
  5. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Four in ten supporters of Biden, Trump would not accept election defeat
    https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election-poll-idUSKBN27A0F0

    More than four in ten supporters of both President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, said they would not accept the result of the November election if their preferred candidate loses, Reuters/Ipsos poll found.

    The survey, conducted from Oct. 13-20, shows 43% of Biden supporters would not accept a Trump victory, while 41% of Americans who want to re-elect Trump would not accept a win by Biden.

    Smaller portions would take action to make their displeasure known: 22% of Biden supporters and 16% of Trump supporters said they would engage in street protests or even violence if their preferred candidate loses.

    U.S. election officials are dealing with a series of challenges this year that have raised concerns about the public’s confidence in the result.

    Top national security officials warned last week that Russia and Iran have been hacking into U.S. voting systems and looking for ways to undermine the election.

    Trump also has repeatedly questioned the integrity of U.S. elections, arguing that the process is “rigged” against him and repeatedly asserting without evidence that the surge in mail-in voting this year will increase the likelihood of voter fraud. He has refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if the vote count indicates he has lost.

    Donald Green, a political scientist at Columbia University, said the poll results ease his concerns about post-election violence. But he warned that if the election is close, or one candidate can make a credible accusation of voter fraud, it could spark wider discontent and protests than the poll suggests.

    “This is why many people who oppose Trump are holding their breath and hoping for a lopsided outcome that is not up for grabs,” Green said.

    The latest Reuters/Ipsos poll shows Biden leads Trump by 8 percentage points nationally: 51% of likely voters say they are backing the Democratic challenger while 43% are voting for the president.

    Biden also is ahead in Wisconsin and Michigan, but the race appears to be much closer in other battleground states including Pennsylvania, Florida, Arizona and North Carolina.

    The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted online, in English, throughout the United States. It gathered responses from 2,649 American adults, including 1,039 who said they had voted for Trump or were planning to vote for him, and 1,153 who said they were similarly backing Biden.

    The poll has a credibility interval, a measure of precision, of 4 percentage points.
     
    #405     Oct 26, 2020
  6. exGOPer

    exGOPer

    #406     Oct 26, 2020
  7. exGOPer

    exGOPer

    Mark McKinnon: “In many ways 2020 is haunted by 2016. So in an effort to tune into a clear, crisp radio signal through all the white noise, I interviewed the ultimate expert: Dave Wasserman. He’s one of the very few political seers who predicted—in mid-September of 2016, no less—that Trump might very well lose the popular vote and yet win the electoral college.”

    “Wasserman covers congressional races for the nonpartisan and widely respected Cook Political Report. He has a microscopic understanding of what is happening around the country politically…”

    “After talking with him I came away with the sense that Trump is not just toast, but burnt toast. To use a poker metaphor: In the last election, Trump won by pulling an inside straight to win. This time he’ll need nothing short of a royal flush—by pulling an ace from his sleeve. “
     
    #407     Oct 26, 2020
  8. exGOPer

    exGOPer

    #408     Oct 26, 2020
  9. WeToddDid2

    WeToddDid2

    Fake news! That is Russian disinformation.
     
    #409     Oct 26, 2020
  10. exGOPer

    exGOPer

    I am glad you are acknowledging that Trump speaks for the Russians.
     
    #410     Oct 26, 2020