Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Harris is URM Hillary Clinton, right down to the unflattering pantsuits. She has more passionate "no" votes than lukewarm to cold "yes" votes. Not a great speaker and like HRC grates on the nerves. Unappealing to a national vote.
+1. I think she's fine, but the people who disliked Hillary will double dislike Harris. It's sad.
Anonymous wrote:I’m center left and cannot vote for someone who reminds me of my mother who has dementia. So I will be voting Trump unless Dems offer a viable alternative.
I like GOP’s focus on helping the cities that have been wipes out due to globalization, and focus on family and good values.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The polls were totally wrong in France and the far right did not win. I don’t believe any of these polls.
French person here.
The polls were actually very accurate, but the French have long employed a voting barrier against the extreme-right, in the following way: in the second and final round, if a district race seemed like it could elect a far-right representative, the other parties agreed that the one with the least votes would bow out of the second round so that people could vote for the other party just to prevent the far-right from winning. It's called a triangular election: Say the left has the most votes, the far-right comes a close second, and the center comes third, at the end of the first round. The centrist candidate bows out, leaving the field to his lefty colleague and all the centrist voters vote for the left instead of the far-right. The left wins. If the centrist candidate had maintained his candidacy, it would split the vote, and the far-right could win. Historically, this method of protecting France against far-right encroachment has been called the Republican Front, and it's been used many times in several elections before. The idea is that nothing could be worse than the hateful, racist and neo-Nazi rhetoric of the extreme right, not even the Communists, and it comes from our collective WWII trauma.
The fear for this particular election was that with the ascent of the new, young and photogenic far-right leader, Jordan Bardella, as well as the extreme divisions among the French, this Republican Front would not hold. For the time being, we squeaked by once again... phew!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Biden losing every Battleground state.
VA, NH, NJ are in play as well..
https://www.realclearpolling.com/elections/president/2024/battleground-states
Moderate dems will never move off Biden. They would rather keep the status quo- ie do nothing.
MSN just reported Trump leading in VA by 3. He should be losing there by 10 points, not leading..
John King of CNN is a saying 330 electoral votes for Trump if election was today!!!!
And he knows his numbers.
Anonymous wrote:Doesn't look like Trump has gotten much of a "sympathy bump" at all after getting his ear clipped.
https://www.realclearpolling.com/latest-polls/president/general-election
Now let's give it a few more days to see what happens as a result of getting Vance.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Harris is URM Hillary Clinton, right down to the unflattering pantsuits. She has more passionate "no" votes than lukewarm to cold "yes" votes. Not a great speaker and like HRC grates on the nerves. Unappealing to a national vote.
+1. I think she's fine, but the people who disliked Hillary will double dislike Harris. It's sad.
Anonymous wrote:Harris is URM Hillary Clinton, right down to the unflattering pantsuits. She has more passionate "no" votes than lukewarm to cold "yes" votes. Not a great speaker and like HRC grates on the nerves. Unappealing to a national vote.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Now Adam Schiff is saying Biden should drop out of race.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/17/politics/adam-schiff-joe-biden-congress/index.html
Courageous man. I've admired him ever since he participated in the Jan 6 commission. His is not a swing seat, BTW. He is also close to Pelosi, which tells you what she really thinks.
I hope others follow suit.
Would we then be stuck with Harris? Who would be the new Dem running?? Harris would not improve the poll numbers.
Anonymous wrote:I’m center left and cannot vote for someone who reminds me of my mother who has dementia. So I will be voting Trump unless Dems offer a viable alternative.
I like GOP’s focus on helping the cities that have been wipes out due to globalization, and focus on family and good values.
Anonymous wrote:The polls were totally wrong in France and the far right did not win. I don’t believe any of these polls.