2020 US General Election Thread VII: Summer of Discontent

[Outer Sparta]

>24

>elected to congress

what am I doing with my life

Why not simply become a wealthy real estate investor and run yourself?

Or be born into a wealthy family in the Hamptons and then use your trust funds to fund your campaign.

[Corrian]

I love the argument that McGrath was the best chance to beat McConnell. Legitimately I've seen McGrath despised by centrist, progressive, and Republican voters in general. And you all think she's the best option? People really are out of touch.

[San Lumen]

I love the argument that McGrath was the best chance to beat McConnell. Legitimately I've seen McGrath despised by centrist, progressive, and Republican voters in general. And you all think she's the best option? People really are out of touch.

Booker Is a better candidate in my view. He’s from Louisville and has a record in the state legislature unlike McGrath. He can point to things he’s done

[Cisairse]

I love the argument that McGrath was the best chance to beat McConnell. Legitimately I've seen McGrath despised by centrist, progressive, and Republican voters in general. And you all think she's the best option? People really are out of touch.

Booker Is a better candidate in my view. He’s from Louisville and has a record in the state legislature unlike McGrath. He can point to things he’s done

Not to mention that he polls better in head-to-heads against McConnell.

[San Lumen]

Booker Is a better candidate in my view. He’s from Louisville and has a record in the state legislature unlike McGrath. He can point to things he’s done

Not to mention that he polls better in head-to-heads against McConnell.

He does? I haven’t seen polls for Kentucky lately

[Corrian]

Fox News poll has Biden in the lead in:
FL: Biden 49, Trump 40 (+9)
GA: Biden 47, Trump 45 (+2)
NC: Biden 47, Trump 45 (+2)
TX: Biden 45, Trump 44 (+1)

[Cisairse]

TX: Biden 45, Trump 44 (+1)

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[Valrifell]

TX: Biden 45, Trump 44 (+1)

Yee haw

[Cannot think of a name]

TX: Biden 45, Trump 44 (+1)

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I feel like this has been a pattern over the last few elections where early polls in Texas show a shift but when the rubber hits the road they still go hard for the Republican. I get that they are in fact getting closer and these polls illuminate that shift, I'm over getting excited about a close Texas poll months away from the election (or any poll months away from the election...leading lap 100 of the Indy 500 is great, but lap 200 is the one that matters). When it finally shifts and a Democratic candidate wins a state wide race I'll get excited.

[San Lumen]

Fox News poll has Biden in the lead in:
FL: Biden 49, Trump 40 (+9)
GA: Biden 47, Trump 45 (+2)
NC: Biden 47, Trump 45 (+2)
TX: Biden 45, Trump 44 (+1)

Please let this be so. If he’s leading in Florida by that much though North Carolina will go blue by a much wider margin

[Cisairse]

you hate to see it

[Shrillland]

Not to mention that he polls better in head-to-heads against McConnell.

He does? I haven’t seen polls for Kentucky lately

Well, the most recent Civiqs poll has McConnell leading McGrath 53-33 while he leads Booker 52-38.

[Asle Leopolka]

TX: Biden 45, Trump 44 (+1)

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Still within the MOE, though. Plus, as I've stated multiple times, polls are worthless until after the conventions and first head-to-head debate.

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you hate to see it

Swap Florida and Texas and you'll be closer. We may have liberal strongholds here in Austin, San Antonio, Houston, the Valley, and in parts of Dallas, but the rural turnout still overpowers them.

[Cisairse]

Ok based on recent polling, if the election were held today, this is probably the map:



largest EC victory since '88

largest EC victory for an incumbent party loss since '80

[Repubblica Fascista Sociale Italiana]

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you hate to see it

Nah. If Biden can win Texas, at that point, why would the Republican party still exist?

[Corrian]

Councilman in Scottsdale being scummy about masks

[No State Here]

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you hate to see it

Nah. If Biden can win Texas, at that point, why would the Republican party still exist?

People have been predicting the end of the Republican party since Obama’s initial election. They’re not going to die out, they’ll have to overhaul their strategy in order to keep up with changing demographics. So instead of letting minorities phase them out, they’ll try to appeal to minorities, which they have already done to an extent with Hispanics in the Southwest

[Valrifell]

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Cursed.

[Cisairse]

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you hate to see it

Nah. If Biden can win Texas, at that point, why would the Republican party still exist?

They would exist to lose elections and yell at Joe Biden.

[Cisairse]

Nah. If Biden can win Texas, at that point, why would the Republican party still exist?

People have been predicting the end of the Republican party since Obama’s initial election. They’re not going to die out, they’ll have to overhaul their strategy in order to keep up with changing demographics. So instead of letting minorities phase them out, they’ll try to appeal to minorities, which they have already done to an extent with Hispanics in the Southwest

To be totally fair the GOP did die in 2013.

[Valrifell]

Nah. If Biden can win Texas, at that point, why would the Republican party still exist?

People have been predicting the end of the Republican party since Obama’s initial election. They’re not going to die out, they’ll have to overhaul their strategy in order to keep up with changing demographics. So instead of letting minorities phase them out, they’ll try to appeal to minorities, which they have already done to an extent with Hispanics in the Southwest

That's the problem, having policies at odds with minority communities is so ingrained in the GOP culture that several senior party members have failed to change course. Donald Trump, the most recent standard bearer, is actively encouraging this (or at least the mindset of it) and so it's difficult to imagine them changing in the near future.

It's likely that, within the next twenty-thirty years or so, the GOP will be confronted with an electoral wipeout that will mandate a change or splinter in a failed effort to remain relevant, having a disaster facilitate that change is equivalent to the doomsaying that folks have been having about the GOP, essentially. Either that or the GOP gets so wildly successful with their voter suppression that they manage to become the top dog in a de facto one-party state.

[Repubblica Fascista Sociale Italiana]

Nah. If Biden can win Texas, at that point, why would the Republican party still exist?

People have been predicting the end of the Republican party since Obama’s initial election. They’re not going to die out, they’ll have to overhaul their strategy in order to keep up with changing demographics. So instead of letting minorities phase them out, they’ll try to appeal to minorities, which they have already done to an extent with Hispanics in the Southwest

I never bought into the whole "GOP will die due to changing demographics" thing. The Republicans will try to win those demographics instead, it’s common sense. Why would you continue pursuing a failing policy position when you can pursue a more successful one?

[San Lumen]

Nah. If Biden can win Texas, at that point, why would the Republican party still exist?

People have been predicting the end of the Republican party since Obama’s initial election. They’re not going to die out, they’ll have to overhaul their strategy in order to keep up with changing demographics. So instead of letting minorities phase them out, they’ll try to appeal to minorities, which they have already done to an extent with Hispanics in the Southwest

If Texas went blue it would be the end of the Republican Party. There is zero path to 270 without it

[Asle Leopolka]

[Repubblica Fascista Sociale Italiana]

People have been predicting the end of the Republican party since Obama’s initial election. They’re not going to die out, they’ll have to overhaul their strategy in order to keep up with changing demographics. So instead of letting minorities phase them out, they’ll try to appeal to minorities, which they have already done to an extent with Hispanics in the Southwest

If Texas went blue it would be the end of the Republican Party. There is zero path to 270 without it

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