Politics Turning GA, NC, NV, and/or PA into victory (Biden vs Trump, 2020 election!)

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  1. TorturedBlazerFan

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    By his analogy, when the management / owner of a team is bad. Fans should just continue to pour money, resources, time, in it like nothing is wrong here were good. Cause you know positive reinforcement that their suckiness is ok, will certainly spurn changes amongst the management and owner's actions.
     
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    So you only root for a team if they do good? If the Blazers are playing poorly you bail on them then? You do know what kind of fans they are called don't you?

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    I agree; I should have said wannabe authoritarian.

    It's not insanity to pick the best of your only two options. It is insanity to think that refusing to choose between your only two options is going to somehow be better than either option.

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    They're the 'only' two options because people have been suppressed, and bullied into that thinking. They really aren't the only two options. I admire the parties dedication to beating everyone into submission though, it appears to have worked.
     
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    He could get his lard ass up off the couch and try out for a team.

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    Okay, but what if he doesn't want to be part of either of the only two team choices because they both suck and they scare tactic the public into thinking they are the only choice?

    Okay, they can start their own team. Okay. 500 political par... sorry NFL teams later and......

    Id rather turn my back on the insanity than try to join it.
     
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    That's the point. Moderates just need to move out of the way and let the two gangs beat each other up. Why try out for the two teams that don't actually want you for anything then their own power, they don't want your ideas they just want you to conform to their gang's creed. It's so ironic you came back to the conclusion that really the answer for libertarians and moderates is to just pick one of the rival gangs to play for.
     
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    People have not been suppressed or bullied continuously for 170 years. The US system of government lends itself to a two-party system, even though it doesn't explicitly call for exactly two parties.

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    Everybody knows the two party partisan divorce court is not working for America or it's infrastructure....it's working for greed...the vote is not about that...it's about damage control more than partisan loyalty.a whole lot of republicans are not voting for Trump this time ... you might not like the coach but you might choose one who can build a staff that works well and doesn't lie to the players as much or milk the fans by tanking and blowing up the team and trading the best players whenever they ask a question.........fact is Trump can't lead a democracy. It's not a question anymore....choices...leadership requires the ability to listen and trust in the agencies that keep us from danger....I'm not going to tolerate a pay for play president and that's what Trump is trying to be although he can't pull off the presidential part
     
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    Libertarians can do whatever they want, no one cares.

    Moderates will mostly vote D in this election, because the D candidate is moderate and the R candidate is not; but maybe next time they'll vote R, depending on which way the wind blows.

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    Yeah they have, maybe not 170 years but definitely the last 50 or so and it gets worse all the time. All the shaming / bullying democrats have done to people who didn't vote for Hillary in 2016. The 24 hour news cycle that pushes the two candidates as the only two options. The court's and laws and fund-raising impeding third parties from even really getting started. The rules are all slanted for the republicans and democrats to keep their power. Oh and republicans democrats didn't even want minorities or women to vote for a long time.
     
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    To the extent you can live your life without worrying about what the federal government does, that's a great option.

    I think most conservatives think the federal government has much more influence in their lives than it actually does.

    It doesn't affect my life much at all; but I like politics so I'm engaged anyway.

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    I still think Trump will win, and I'm not cheering for either. I know we could go over all the polls, but their are polls at this point that show just about any numbers you want from different sources. I've seen all over the place. I think Moderates will vote R this round, but who know's we'll see.
     
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    Naw. the whole world sucks so we should just move to another planet. I love millennials and their way of thinking (I have 2 of them). It's all the older generations fault. They'll figure it out when they are the elders. :bgrin:
     
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    Those people deserve it. Trump was a horrible, stupid, foreseeable mistake.

    They are the only two options.

    Politicians tend to reflect the public opinion rather than go against it. It's not just the politicians that were sexist and racist. It was the majority of the citizens too.

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    Are these the secret trump polls he has his own people showing him now so as not to upset him? There are plenty of legit polls and they aren't painting a pretty picture for trump right now,

    https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/
     
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    You know, no matter how many times you repeat a lie, it doesn't make it the truth.
    Yup all those libertarians and green party folks who would've voted for Democrat. It's all their fault that the DNC ran Hillary who was incredibly unpopular anywhere but the coasts.
     
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    There are plenty of legit polls that showed similar results last time too. Lots of other polls you wouldn't consider legit, that got it closer though, that are also pretty close to what they were at last too.
     
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    The polls are actually pretty consistently horrible for Trump, but it is the case that anything could happen in the next 90 days to change people's minds. So yes, we'll see.

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    Trump was pretty unpopular in certain circles too, and yet the number of people who voted libertarian or green or whatever was pretty minuscule. It'll be even smaller this time around. So yeah, there are only two choices, even though there will be more names on the ballot than that.

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