President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

I’m ok with the Clintonista losing. Sends the message to the rest of the baby boomers in the party leadership that the young ‘uns who sent Biden to WH need to be listened to ASAP or the bloodshed, both political and literal, these next 3 years will be era-defining.

 

yeah, roll the dice and that'll show 'em!

 

I watch Jeopardy, so I saw nothing but political ads for the last month, and for the life of me, I cannot figure out what Terry McAullife's message was. He didn't give me any reason to vote for him (though I did). Youngkin keeping Trump at arm's length this weekend and on Monday was a smart play by his team. Whoever here said the Dems' messaging is fucked is right.

 

@DanielSimpsonDay please drop the Gary Oldman EVERYONE gif here

 

I’m talking 2020 to 2021 turnout, not 2017 to 2021. If the numbers are lower in 2021 from 2020, a good number of the democrats that put us over the top in 2020 stayed home in 2021. More people voted in 2021 than did in 2017, for sure. But if turnout from 2020 was higher than 2021 (I still don’t know if that’s true, i guess we’ll find out), some democrats who put us over the top last year stayed home this time.
If turnout was close to the same, people who just wanted trump out switched over to vote republican this time.
It might be a combination of both - switches, and democrat apathy.
It clearly doesn’t help that Murphy in New Jersey and McAuliff in Virginia weren’t very popular even in their own party.

 

Good on the Virginia (and national really) GOP if they pulled this out with hard boots on the ground.

Not much different than sports ... if you want it go get it. They went and got it.

The Dems tend to become Jim Harbaugh when it matters.

 

Seems like the New Jersey polling was Sara Gideon-style fucked up. Maybe it’s time Democrats worry more about messaging than what some guy with a pocket protector says the numbers are.

 

Why Glenn Youngkin's Virginia victory is bad news for Donald Trump

 

Not so sure about this. Trump had clear majorities in the House and Senate when he was elected, not a tie in the Senate like Biden has, and the factions in the GOP allowed Pelosi and company to thwart most of their initiatives.

Trump got an early tax cut for the wealthy and he was able to stack the Supreme Court (granted, that last one is a biggie). That's the extent of his and the Republican Party's accomplishments from 2017-20.