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Originally Posted by nfotiu
If you are using Virginia as an example. Yesterday's turnout doubled 2016, and they went 53-23 for Biden over Bernie. That seems pretty solid evidence that at least that state in your example will turn out in full force for Biden, and might not for Sanders.
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Yes, that is probably correct.
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Originally Posted by nfotiu
Is trying and not accomplishing anything worth something? I struggle to see why.
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Sure it is.
To believe otherwise is to essentially give up on the entire idea of progress, because not every attempt will succeed. And if not every attempt will succeed, then your query would suggest that one should not even try at all.
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Originally Posted by Azure
You literally have the strongest economy the world has ever seen, and then you have a Presidential candidate who runs around telling everyone the whole country is screwed.
Massive disconnect and detachment from reality. There is a lot that needs to be fixed, but lets not kid ourselves. Many Americans are doing very well.
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Well, hold on a second.
Many Americans
might be doing very well, but they are also massively in debt, tethered to an employer they would prefer not to be and doing a job they'd rather not be doing in order to have health insurance, and seeing continual cost increases for higher education.
Take away one's employment and just how great are many Americans really doing?
I'd wager that they might be okay for a month or two, but not for much longer than that, given that, for example, their health insurance would disappear (and, if they made upper-middle-class wages, would likely have earned too much during the year to avail themselves of ACA subsidies to get affordable health insurance for the remainder of the year).
Furthermore, many Americans are not among the "investor class," and so a great stock market doesn't directly benefit them, at least not to a degree that can be immediately appreciated by most.
No, I don't really think that many Americans are doing very well. I think that they are drowning in debt, running on a consumerist treadmill, and that they think that they are just barely keeping up (but in reality are actually falling continually behind due to wage stagnation and ever-higher health insurance costs being passed on by their employer). Take away their job---whether due to outsourcing or a sudden economic downturn---and the whole "I'm doing fine" façade will quickly fall away and the truth will be revealed.