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US Election 2020 - Predictions
Sep 23rd 2020, 4:42 pm
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US Election 2020 - Predictions
Time to offer predictions on what will happen in USA!USA!USA! in November...
Sep 23rd 2020, 4:56 pm
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Sep 23rd 2020, 5:08 pm
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Re: US Election 2020 - Predictions
History may be our best guide. In 2000 George W Bush was elected in a contentious election that ended up hinging on the hanging chad fiasco in Florida. In 2004 he was running for reelection, and was portrayed by the media as an inept idiot who had been a terrible president, having led American into expensive and divisive wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and yet the result was a clear win for him at the polls despite the media preference for John Kerry.
Sep 23rd 2020, 6:01 pm
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Re: US Election 2020 - Predictions
It's likely to be a mess.
I don't vote in a swing state, so my vote really doesn't matter in the big picture.
I don't vote in a swing state, so my vote really doesn't matter in the big picture.
Sep 23rd 2020, 7:04 pm
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Re: US Election 2020 - Predictions
Trump is doing very well considering he hasnt delivered on many of his electoral promises, added to that 200k pandemic deaths and a fragile economy at the end of his first term. With a bit of last minute extra help from somewhere he might well win.
Sep 23rd 2020, 7:10 pm
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Too many in the US will strictly only vote party line. To republicans any democract is evil and vice versa. Add to that only a handful of states really matter in the election, it will boil down to a few swing states.
Sep 23rd 2020, 11:00 pm
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Re: US Election 2020 - Predictions
Trump doesn't need to win. He just needs a cloudy enough situation on the night to allow him to foment chaos and then to go to the SCOTUS.
Sep 23rd 2020, 11:01 pm
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Re: US Election 2020 - Predictions
I think that it won't be nearly as exciting as it is being set up to be. I think that Biden will win comfortably on the night by enough of the popular and electoral college vote that Dumbald Chump has to just shut up and walk away.
My predictions for the surprises of the night are that the Democratic party wins all 3. House, Senate and President. Texas goes blue.
My predictions for the surprises of the night are that the Democratic party wins all 3. House, Senate and President. Texas goes blue.
Sep 23rd 2020, 11:38 pm
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Re: US Election 2020 - Predictions
I think that it won't be nearly as exciting as it is being set up to be. I think that Biden will win comfortably on the night by enough of the popular and electoral college vote that Dumbald Chump has to just shut up and walk away.
My predictions for the surprises of the night are that the Democratic party wins all 3. House, Senate and President. Texas goes blue.
My predictions for the surprises of the night are that the Democratic party wins all 3. House, Senate and President. Texas goes blue.
Sep 24th 2020, 12:34 pm
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Re: US Election 2020 - Predictions
My confidence in enough Americans to have a social conscience, even if many of they're politicians do not, erodes on an almost daily basis. They will get the President they deserve and I fear it will be Trump.
Sep 24th 2020, 12:53 pm
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Re: US Election 2020 - Predictions
Shit Show springs to mind.
Sep 24th 2020, 1:06 pm
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Re: US Election 2020 - Predictions
Biden wins... Biden dies 5 minutes after inauguration... Welcome President Camilla Kamala.
What could go wrong?
What could go wrong?
Sep 24th 2020, 1:26 pm
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Sep 24th 2020, 5:11 pm
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Re: US Election 2020 - Predictions
Well, one could argue that President Kamala (the misspelling of the name seems to be an effort to make some sort of point, but one that is lost on me) would be infinitely preferable to President Pence, but I don't get the Trumpist obsession with Biden's age. He's 3 year older than Trump isn't he and a damn sight fitter. So it's rather a specious argument isn't it?
Sep 24th 2020, 5:17 pm
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Well, one could argue that President Kamala (the misspelling of the name seems to be an effort to make some sort of point, but one that is lost on me) would be infinitely preferable to President Pence, but I don't get the Trumpist obsession with Biden's age. He's 3 year older than Trump isn't he and a damn sight fitter. So it's rather a specious argument isn't it?
Trump- June 14, 1946
Biden- November 20, 1942