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The people who said "why bother voting" just found out the hard way in 2016.

1. This is a referendum on Trump. Biden just has to stay out of the way, and he's doing an excellent job. This is really not about Russia, impeachment, Supreme Court packing, lying, fraud, etc. Joe and Jane Average are looking at what's happened to them over the past eight months (can't find work, can't pay mortgage, can't go out, can't make kids safe at school) and the past four years. The voters are angry and motivated. Trump will still get his 60 million but the people who sat out 2016 aren't this time. Early voting numbers are crazy, which is almost always a sign of change.

2. The Black vote has never been less important. Latinos make up 18 percent of the population compared to 13 percent who list as Black. And poor white trash aren't creating babies quickly enough to replace all the old white people dying off every day. I won't be around, but minorities (particularly Latinx) will hold the majority within 25 years.

3. The rural south will continue to lose influence as the cities grow faster with more diverse populations of younger voters. That's happening already in Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville, Raleigh, Austin, Greenville, Spartanburg and other tech-savvy areas. Rural Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida are barely hanging on to slim GOP advantages. Alabama and Mississippi are the outliers now.

4. The 2022 midterms may be just as ugly for the GOP given that clowns like DeSantis and Kemp (who basically won by vote manipulation), and a ton of Trump buttkissers will be explaining their way out of COVID. Unless there's a Tea Party 2.0 out there, their base is shrinking and will continue to do so.

5. Democrats STILL need to organize and offer qualified candidates at the grassroots levels to make more inroads. Too many Republicans are running unopposed in the south and midwest. Even if they lose, it'll force the GOP to spread campaign money even thinner to protect their dwindling base of support.

 

The importance of editing, part 1 million. Of all the words to drop, “million” is among the more problematic.


ABC's special with Democratic nominee Biden averaged 12.29 viewers over two hours, per Nielsen's fast national ratings (including a half-hour of analysis after the forum). On NBC, Trump's one-hour town hall drew 10.39 million viewers.

 

Eh, just because the U.S. as a whole hates Graham, it doesn't mean it will ultimately matter to his constituents. When is Nancy Pelosi up for reelection? It wouldn't surprise me if her opposing R gets a shit-ton of money, regardless of their chances of winning.

 

Ford’s pratfalls — at least the verbal ones — would be dismissed today.

 

See Gantt, Harvey.
(Slightly) Different state, different era and nowhere near the same total, but there’s a long tradition of Dems smashing $$$ totals and losing to klansmen.

 

You can’t put a price on white supremacy

 

Guess I'm not the only one "animated by violence". LOL

 

Biden has run twice before for President and been gaffe prone. I think the basement campaign COVID forced him to run suits him well. He makes many fewer errors and does not give Trump material. Instead, he can let Trump be Trump.

I wonder if this will affect future campaigning. In 1896 William Jennings Bryant ran one of the first campaigns where he rode around on a train and gave lots of speeches and held lots of rallies. That has continued to the model through the jet age. A better model in the 21st century may be for a candidate to rent a studio somewhere and do remote events rather than constantly being on a plane.

 

Trial? We don't need no stinkin trial! Just send the FATUS storm troopers in for a summary execution

 

Half of that would’ve been helpful in this whole mess from the past eight months.