[GT] US election - It's 2020, what could possibly go wrong?

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by getbak

Nah, he won't buy it. He'll just license his name to it. He's broke and needs money.

Yeah I was gonna say, with what money? Deutsche Bank and the rest of his creditors are coming for him and his little golf course too.

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by Enoch Root

The amazing thing here is that 4% didn't.

I'm guessing you're not being serious, but I would bet you'd find similar margins among any of the other primary candidates' supporters. Just glad there's no narrative this time about Bernie Bros torpedoing the party.

Hilariously, there is a massive amount of Trumpers who are pissed at Jo Jorgensen voters.

[dino7c]

Covid helped Trump get his base out...he used the lock down as "they took your jerbs" and totally blamed it on Fauchi and the left. "They are gonna lock you down, destroy our economy"



He got millions to the polls in a pandemic.

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by ernie

Democrats need to look at Abrams and Georgia and spend the next two years duplicating those efforts in the cities and suburbs to solidify that base.

The GOP has recognized the suburbs killed them and that is where they will also be putting their efforts.

They need to really invest in their digital game too.

[activeStick]

Originally Posted by Manhattanboy

Where does Kayleigh go from here?

Fox News is my guess!

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by dino7c

Covid helped Trump get his base out...he used the lock down as "they took your jerbs" and totally blamed it on Fauchi and the left. "They are gonna lock you down, destroy our economy"



He got millions to the polls in a pandemic.

Millions to the polls at the cost of a couple hundred thousand lives. Hey, you gotta spend people to get people.

[djsFlames]

Originally Posted by rumy

Oklahoma City is much bigger and it went Trump according to Google/AP.

Even Salt Lake City and every large city in Texas went Biden. Very interesting election!

Salt Lake is like Mormon HQ, and they love Trump. that is surprising.

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by ernie

Democrats need to look at Abrams and Georgia and spend the next two years duplicating those efforts in the cities and suburbs to solidify that base.

The GOP has recognized the suburbs killed them and that is where they will also be putting their efforts.

The Democrats definitely need more people like Abrams to work at the grassroots level. She did a lot of campaigning on her own accord. We can talk about how the Democrats should have spent more campaigning to Latinos, but we have to keep in mind that money spent there would be taken from somewhere else. You have to sacrifice campaign dollars in one area to spend them in another.

The Republicans have been better at that game for a while. They have wealthy people spending their own money campaigning for their party without actually donating directly. Therefore, the Republican party can spend their campaign money in other areas.

Honestly, whether Georgia flips or not, Abrams proved she deserves to be one of the premiere Democrats going forward.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Plett25

I think the answer is covid.

Democrats think it's a big deal, so they drastically reduced their in person electioneering like doorknocking, new voter registrations and rallies.

Republicans think it's a hoax, so they did their regular amount of doorknocking and voter registrations and some, even if reduced amount of rallies.

In 2018, Democrats got out the vote in person and there was a blue wave.

In 2020, Democrats went almost exclusively virtual and the blue wave didn't happen.

Let's see what happens in 2022. I think we'll see Beto and AOC and Obama and Abrams holding high energy rallies and energizing an old fashioned ground game. I think the Democrats retake the Senate in 2022.

Could also be that it is easier to vote in person in rural counties.

[Manhattanboy]

Originally Posted by activeStick

Fox News is my guess!

Ya probably. Vanity Fair has an interesting article about her. She worked as an intern at Fox years ago and wanted to be on TV but they passed at the time. Apparently she loves the spotlight. No surprise there,

[rubecube]

Keep on trolling, Philly!

https://twitter.com/user/status/1324767518322556929

[Manhattanboy]

They should send Gritty in to monitor the count in Philly.

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by djsFlames

Salt Lake is like Mormon HQ, and they love Trump. that is surprising.

While most Mormons I know would fall firmly on the socially conservative end of the scale, I think there is the growing realization that Trump is not a social conservative. He is closer to being a hedonist than a moral conservative.

Mormons also seem to put a lot of weight on social responsibility of community.

Based on those two points, I can see why Biden might appeal to a lot of them given the current alternative.

[Inglewood Jack]

So how quickly can dickheads appointed to important positions like Ajit Pai be turfed?

[octothorp]

I think the question for Abrams is whether it's better for her (and the party) for her to position herself as a political candidate for office, or whether she should be working towards becoming the DNC leader. She's got a solid shot at governor in 2022 if she wants it. But arguably she'd be more useful to Democrats on a national organizational level. She's earned the right to pick which way she wants to go, though. I've heard she has presidential ambitions, and probably the governorship is the better path towards that.

[burn_this_city]

Originally Posted by Inglewood Jack

So how quickly can dickheads appointed to important positions like Ajit Pai be turfed?

Jan 20th

[MarchHare]

Originally Posted by Inglewood Jack

So how quickly can dickheads appointed to important positions like Ajit Pai be turfed?

Inauguration Day (January 20). Trump still maintains all the powers of the presidency until Biden is officially sworn in.

[Inglewood Jack]

Originally Posted by burn_this_city

Jan 20th

I can’t wait that long, there’s just so many of them. Hopefully booting all those incompetent, unethical boobs isn’t one of the activities that can be affected by senate.

[rubecube]

More on the Lincoln Project:

https://www.dailyposter.com/p/how-th...t-set-liberals

A group of longtime Republican operatives depicting themselves as anti-Trump stalwarts convinced liberals to give them more money for ineffective television ads and stunts than was raised by the Democratic Party’s national campaign to win state legislatures.

The result: Donald Trump won more Republican votes than he did in 2016 as Democrats again lost state legislatures in advance of redistricting that could determine control of Congress for the next decade.

Meanwhile, the GOP operatives are reportedly positioned to go from lighting liberals’ money on fire during the 2020 election to now using liberals’ money to launch a media empire that could push a new Biden administration to the right.

The GOP super PAC, called the Lincoln Project, raised at least $67 million this year from liberals who were told by one of the group’s co-founders that it would win over “independent-leaning men, those college-educated Republicans, the suburban Republican women.” The Lincoln Project was co-founded by Steve Schmidt, who was John McCain’s 2008 campaign manager and who has been publicly boasting that he led the campaigns to help George W. Bush install right-wing judges on the Supreme Court.

While the Lincoln Project’s YouTube videos lampooning Trump received millions of views and endless promotion on MSNBC, the ads proved ineffective in the group’s stated goal: As The Daily Poster first reported, Trump actually increased his share of the Republican vote in 2020 as compared to 2016, when the Lincoln Project did not exist.

In all, Trump had support from 91 percent of Republicans and voters who lean Republican, according to a Fox News Voter Analysis that surveyed 109,000 people nationwide just before the election. Although Biden outperformed 2016 nominee Hillary Clinton in suburban areas, Trump won a higher percentage of white women in 2020.

[burn_this_city]

Originally Posted by Inglewood Jack

I can’t wait that long, there’s just so many of them. Hopefully booting all those incompetent, unethical boobs isn’t one of the activities that can be affected by senate.

Firing them isn't, putting your people in has Senate implications.