2020 General Presidential Election Thread

[Northwestcoug]

All in perfect accordance with the US constitution.

After 2 Republican presidents losing the popular vote and a Republican congress which has acted like it has super majority support, I’m thinking the constitution could use some serious updating. I’m tired of political parties exploiting the weaknesses of the constitution for their benefit. The electoral college was not meant to be used this way to win elections. Biden needs a solid comfortable lead to win the election, and it could still be by the slimmest of EC margins. Someone tell me what a Trump win without a majority of support, the third in 2 decades, would do to the morale of this country. We wouldn’t have a civil war. It would just accelerate the country’s apathetic decline.

[Northwestcoug]

Those products do sound familiar, but don't most of those get produced in the red part of California?

Of course, we will have to defend the eastern border. If MAGA regions aren’t happy with our new country they can make a run for the east.

[Pelado]

Of course, we will have to defend the eastern border. If MAGA regions aren’t happy with our new country they can make a run for the east.

Nevada? Talk about cruel and unusual.

[Jeff Lebowski]

After 2 Republican presidents losing the popular vote and a Republican congress which has acted like it has super majority support, I’m thinking the constitution could use some serious updating. I’m tired of political parties exploiting the weaknesses of the constitution for their benefit. The electoral college was not meant to be used this way to win elections. Biden needs a solid comfortable lead to win the election, and it could still be by the slimmest of EC margins. Someone tell me what a Trump win without a majority of support, the third in 2 decades, would do to the morale of this country. We wouldn’t have a civil war. It would just accelerate the country’s apathetic decline.

What does that have to do with SCOTUS?

[Northwestcoug]

What does that have to do with SCOTUS?

Nothing. Sorry. PAC referred to the EC in a post after you. I was replying to that.

[Pelado]

Nothing. Sorry. PAC referred to the EC in a post after you. I was replying to that.

What does the Executive Committee have to do with it?

[Northwestcoug]

EVERYTHING!!!
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[Uncle Ted]

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LOL... that is funny. However, I am pretty sure that folks didn't vote for Drumpf because they thought he was a good preacher and wanted a theocracy.

[Flystripper]

Haha. Ok. Lots of people voted for Trump thinking he was a good Christian. Those people are dumb, but that is redundant.


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[Uncle Ted]

Haha. Ok. Lots of people voted for Trump thinking he was a good Christian. Those people are dumb, but that is redundant.

Yeah, I think he will secure the Christian vote with this one... no matter how much of the bible his hasn't read.

Trump to nominate Amy Coney Barrett to Supreme Court: sources
The president is expected to make the announcement during a White House event on Saturday

President Trump plans to announce that Amy Coney Barrett will be his nominee to the Supreme Court to fill the seat vacated by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, multiple sources told Fox News on Friday.
[...]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...-court-sources

Everything I have read about her she is a nun. I am betting that the Dems will argue that she is too moral, especially campared to the crowd they like to hang out with. The NYTimes is already on the attack:

In a 2006 speech to Notre Dame graduates, she spoke of the law as a higher calling. “If you can keep in mind that your fundamental purpose in life is not to be a lawyer, but to know, love and serve God, you truly will be a different kind of lawyer,” she said.
[...]
As a law professor, Judge Barrett was a member of Faculty for Life, an anti-abortion group, and wrote skeptically about precedent in Supreme Court rulings, which both sides in the abortion debate took to mean she would be open to revisiting Roe v. Wade.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/25/u...eme-court.html

[Commando]

Your post leads me to think you believe Iowa is a reliably Republican state? I suppose this is true if you go all the way back to Abraham Lincoln. But Iowa has been very much a toss-up in my lifetime. Here is the political party that Iowa voted for for president in each election going back all the way to Honest Abe:

2016 R
2012 D
2008 D
2004 R
2000 D
1996 D
1992 D
1988 D
1984 R
1980 R
1976 R
1972 R
1968 R
1964 D
1960 R
1956 R
1952 R
1948 R
1944 R
1940 R
1936 D
1932 D
1928 R
1924 R
1920 R
1916 R
1912 D
1908 R
1904 R
1900 R
1896 R
1892 R
1888 R
1884 R
1880 R
1876 R
1872 R
1868 R
1864 R

NOTE: Many of the Rs in the 1800s were originally Whigs that became Republicans with the advent of the Republican Party.

If we go all the way back 100 years to include pretty much everyone alive today, Iowa voted Dem in 9 out of the 25 elections.
If we're looking at my lifetime, there have been 12 presidential elections and Iowa has voted democratic in 6 of them. It's as color-shifting a state as you can get in my lifetime.

Heck, Iowa voted for Woodrow Wilson, FDR, and (LOL!) Dukakis. Clinton cleaned up in Iowa. So did Obama. So I conclude that Iowa being tied with a candidate as miserable as Trump, well, it isn't exactly a shocker.

Trump won Iowa by ten (10) points four years ago. :|. I guess I could have cited other states' polls that are more surprising. It bears repeating that TEXAS is now a battleground state.

[Uncle Ted]

Trump won Iowa by ten (10) points four years ago. :|. I guess I could have cited other states' polls that are more surprising. It bears repeating that TEXAS is now a battleground state.

LOL... No it isn't.

[Commando]

LOL... No it isn't.

Aw you're adorable. You are unfamiliar with basic election terminology.


https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/pr...al-polls/texas


https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/texas/

[Non Sequitur]

Aw you're adorable. You are unfamiliar with basic election terminology.


https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/pr...al-polls/texas


https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/texas/

If you don't include videos, you can't possibly expect Ted to follow along.

[Commando]

OMG that whole campaign seems to be circling the drain...

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