The 2020 Presidential Election - Convention & General Election

[FrantzHardySwag]

48 minutes ago, BlitzFirst said:

Not to be a Debbie Downer or anything...but if this is a stutter, I have some ocean front property in Nebraska to sell you.

 

 

Biden sounded great the rest of the speech, but did botch that line. 

 

"Gotta re-up the adderall and seroquel" God Kulinski is an insufferable prick. 

[teachercd]

Well, it is a stutter but it is the pressure and stress that makes it worse.  

 

What he should be doing is embracing it, there are millions of people that have speech issues.  He should open up with a statement about that every single time.

 

Because the alternative is everyone thinking your mind is going.

[BigRedBuster]

1 hour ago, Undone said:

Hey @BigRedBuster - you'll notice that these overt statements have just started coming from Biden in the last few days - not in the last couple of months (generally speaking).

 

His team has realized that it wasn't playing to be tepid.

Oh....

 

 

[Moiraine]

36 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

Oh....

 

 

 

 

On a friend's FB post I saw at least half a dozen people arguing that the kid was acting in self defense.

I'm sick of people bringing guns to this s#!t, shooting people, then claiming this. Maybe you shouldn't be able to wield a gun at unarmed people and be allowed to use that argument.

[Undone]

2 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

Great. Where’s trumps statements?

 

The original thing I quoted was Guy Chamberlain who made this post:

 

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"They're not going to digest a lot of analysis and nuance. They see rioting in the street and decide to rally around law & order.  It's how we got the hugely disliked Richard Nixon and why Trump will likely get reelected."

 

So, let's debate that point.

 

Let's say you took a national poll. The poll asks "Who would be tougher on crime - Biden or Trump?" Who do you think would come out on top? This isn't a trick question - just answer it.

 

*Edited

 

[FrantzHardySwag]

 

[Notre Dame Joe]

8 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

Are you talking about Trump not wanting to count possibly millions of ballots because they are mailed in?  Is that the "cutting off the last portion" you're talking about?

I said the "campaign."  If a candidate goes off the rails you cannot ask for your ballot back.  (yet, they would demand a clawback option if it ever hurt a D).  I got political spam call urging me to "vote early"  next time I'm going to say and often?

 

 

6 hours ago, knapplc said:

 

 

Did Biden denounce the rioters chasing and attacking KR?

[Danny Bateman]

8 minutes ago, Notre Dame Joe said:

I said the "campaign."  If a candidate goes off the rails you cannot ask for your ballot back.  (yet, they would demand a clawback option if it ever hurt a D).  I got political spam call urging me to "vote early"  next time I'm going to say and often?

 

 

 

Did Biden denounce the rioters chasing and attacking KR?

 

What part of "violence is wrong" was hard for you to understand?

[Guy Chamberlin]

5 hours ago, Undone said:

 

The place you start with on this topic though is that both parties have the ability to capitalize on the violence and rioting in the streets. If Democrats don't denounce the rioting and destruction, how does that play for residents of the city whose metro area is being burned?

 

Without bringing all possible nuance into the equation, which rhetoric logically plays better at election time?

 

White fear.

[QMany]

7 hours ago, FrantzHardySwag said:

 

He is batsh*t crazy. It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so sad and scary. 

[commando]

47 minutes ago, QMany said:

He is batsh*t crazy. It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so sad and scary. 

if it was just trump that was bats#!t crazy it would be sad.   but he has hordes of bats#!t crazy followers and that is scary.

[BigRedBuster]

8 hours ago, Undone said:

 

The original thing I quoted was Guy Chamberlain who made this post:

 

 

So, let's debate that point.

 

Let's say you took a national poll. The poll asks "Who would be tougher on crime - Biden or Trump?" Who do you think would come out on top? This isn't a trick question - just answer it.

 

*Edited

 

I believe our cities would ultimately settle down to somewhat normal if Biden wins. 
 

If trump wins, it stays the same or worse. 
 

I believe The majority of people are realizing that. 

[TGHusker]

Interesting spending decisions by both campaigns.

 

https://apnews.com/8738cac48d9b4c3f3b733c7bc0c7ff3b

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President Donald Trump has pulled most of his advertising from TV over the past week, ceding the airwaves to Democratic rival Joe Biden, who is currently outspending him by more than 10-to-1, advertising data shows.

Though Trump has an outsized ability to command national attention, it is unusual for a White House contender to go mostly dark on TV the week after their presidential convention. The election is just over two months away and early voting will begin in September in some states.

The move comes as Trump’s campaign has burned through money almost as fast as it has taken it in. And after Biden drastically narrowed what was once an overwhelming cash advantage enjoyed by the president, campaign officials have acknowledged they were trying to conserve money.

That’s allowed Biden an opportunity to communicate an unfiltered message to voters without competing advertising.

During the month of August, Biden doubled what Trump spent, dropping about $80 million in states that included key battlegrounds such as Wisconsin, Florida, Pennsylvania and Michigan, according to data from the ad tracking firm Kantar/CMAG.

Trump’s limited spending targeted some of those states, but it was also directed to places like Iowa and Montana, which he won handily in 2016. This week he is spending about $1.6 million to Biden’s $18.3 million. Most of Trump’s ads are placed on Fox News Channel and CNN, as well as a smattering that will run in New Mexico and Washington, D.C., the data shows.

Trump spokesman Jason Miller said Monday that the campaign will be going back up on the air this week. Yet data from Kantar/CMAG shows it does not have an increase in advertising booked until Sept. 8.

“We have over $200 million worth of TV ads that are reserved (from) Labor Day until Election Day,” Miller said. “We’re speaking with voters in states as they’re starting to come online.”

 

 

[BigRedBuster]

This would not be a good scenario at all.  Biden must win the popular vote even without the mail in ballots.  

 

If this happens, Trump won't leave office and his followers will do whatever he says to keep him there...including violence.

 

 

[Danny Bateman]

Since it was put out by a Bloomberg group, I'm guessing they put it out now to try to freak Dems out and get them to work harder now. Which itself is not a bad thing.

 

But yeah, the underlying theory is pretty much bunk. Nate Silver thread: