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Joe Biden beats Donald Trump, officially making Trump a one-term twice impeached, twice popular-vote losing president


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1 minute ago, Massdriver said:

It is. Biden is too old. I'm not talking about his stutter. He's too old, as is Sanders. 

Let me put it like this... Biden is comfort food  for a certain segment of the American population. Not too "urban", not too "shrill", not too... "non traditional" and not a "godless socialist". He's lukewarm porridge which means he's just right :shrug:

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1 minute ago, skillzdadirecta said:

Who the FUCK is Barney Sanders? Maybe HE has a chance at the nomination.

 

I have this thing in my head from 2016 where I didn't know who Bernie Sanders was really, so I started calling him Barney Saunders as a joke.  It has stuck with me and I get a little chuckle every time I think about it. 

 

 

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23 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said:

What I'm saying is that the most disenfranchised voters figured out a way to stand on line for an ungodly amount of time in order to still vote. Once the pre-clearance provision of the voting rights act went away, Republican state legislatures started doing their level best to make it hard as hell for black and brown people to vote and this was very apparent in Texas. Those folks stayed on line for hours in defiance of that shit. The solution is to win elections so you can reverse this shit.


The polling sites were decided by the Republican and Democratic parties in Harris County, and the county clerk who was struggling to get machines to the precincts where there were issues is a Democrat. Those long lines fall at the feet of the county clerk for her poor allocation of machines.

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16 minutes ago, mclumber1 said:

Barney Saunders is carpet bagging the Democratic Party

 

Considering they made sure Democrats didn't run against him when he ran in 2006 for Senate, and leadership endorsed him and Obama campaigned for him, and they've gotten a Democratic caucus voter with him, you may want to rethink this argument.

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Some stuff I'm reading about with Washington's turnout, which is pretty impressive:

 

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And one other stat — Clinton won a little more than 1.7 million total votes in the 2016 general election against Trump in Washington. Yet there might be as many as 2 million Democratic votes in the primary this cycle? That seems remarkable, no matter how fast Washington may be growing!

 

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6 minutes ago, sblfilms said:


The polling sites were decided by the Republican and Democratic parties in Harris County, and the county clerk who was struggling to get machines to the precincts where there were issues is a Democrat. Those long lines fall at the feet of the county clerk for her poor allocation of machines.

 

That's one way to look at it...

 

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Months before, the Democratic and Republican county parties had been unable to agree to hold a joint primary, which would have allowed voters to share machines preloaded with ballots for both parties.

The Harris County Democratic Party had agreed to the setup, but the Harris County GOP refused, citing in part the long lines Republican voters would have to wait through amid increased turnout for the pitched Democratic presidential primary.

“We wanted them to do a joint primary where you would just have one line and voters could use all the machines, but they couldn't agree on that,” said Harris County Clerk Diane Trautman, who was elected to her post in 2018.

Without a resolution, Trautman chose to allocate an equal number of machines for both primaries at each polling site “because we didn’t want to slight anyone,” particularly as Harris moved to countywide voting to free voters from precinct-specific voting. But the move essentially halved the number of voting machines available to Democratic voters on a busy election day. That meant Republican voting quickly wrapped up across the county while Democratic lines made for extra hours of voting at multiple polling places.

In a Wednesday press conference, Paul Simpson, the chair of the Harris County GOP, reiterated that the party was adamantly opposed to joint primaries and sought to preempt any blame for long Democratic lines. To Simpson, Trautman misfired by pursuing a 50/50 split of voting machines across the board instead of using past turnout data to adjust allocations, and he pointed to the party’s recommendation to give Republicans only four machines at Texas Southern University.

 

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Lillie Schechter, the chairwoman of the Harris County Democratic Party, said the excessive wait times Democrats faced Tuesday were part of a broader electoral divide in a county that has turned reliably blue in recent years. That change in power has come with voting initiatives that local Republicans have not warmed up to, including a move to countywide voting that allows voters to cast ballots at any polling place in the county on election day.

To keep countywide voting for the primary election, the political parties needed to agree on the distribution of shared polling places. But the map the GOP pushed for on Super Tuesday established more voting centers in the two county commissioner precincts represented by Republicans, Schechter said. “If you look at the story to say let's blame the county clerk's office, you’re missing the big picture here,” Schechter said.

 

Just another point of view.

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1 minute ago, SFLUFAN said:

You guys are not helping my understanding of the term!

It's typically food that you grew up on that makes you feel better emotionally in times of stress because it takes you back to a simpler more comforting times. Often times its not good for you at ALL but it makes you FEEL better. Different cultures have different definitions of Comfort food.

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Just now, skillzdadirecta said:

It's typically food that you grew up on that makes you feel better emotionally in times of stress because it takes you back to a simpler more comforting times. Often times its not good for you at ALL but it makes you FEEL better. Different cultures have different definitions of Comfort food.

Ahhhh...I see!

 

I can't say that I have ever experienced such a thing as I have a largely indifferent relationship with food.

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Democrats’ path to the White House runs through places like Michigan’s Macomb County, where a Republican mayor has ditched Donald Trump for Joe Biden

 

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His conservative-leaning, working-class suburb is in Macomb County, the epicenter of where blue-collar voters in the industrial Midwest delivered the presidency to Trump in 2016 after twice voting for Barack Obama.

If Democrats are to win the White House in November, political strategists widely agree a big part of the strategy will be reclaiming areas such as Macomb in the crucial swing states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania while holding their ground in Minnesota, another state Trump nearly won four years ago.

 

 

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