butlers 261 #4261 Posted July 6, 2020 Exploiting racial tension was a Republican Party Policy. Voter suppression is party policy which massively effects non white communities..all parties should make conscious efforts to make voting easy ,it's anti democratic not too. Trump has revoked the voting rights protections in the southern states and you end up with the situation where there was 1 in person voting station for near 100,000 population Hardly anyone is signed on to BLM as a party but most people are signed on for "black lives matter" Trump is a racial arsonist, pandering to peoples worse instincts, he was birther -in- chief again how about an apology for that, Obama lived under the highest number of death threats than any President. You think race was a non issue in that? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
butlers 261 #4262 Posted July 6, 2020 Today's Democrats are yesterday's Reaganites . To believe otherwise us a big misreading of reality. The Republicans have match so far to the Right they are over the hill and far away. All the polling shows the Dems will take the Presidency in a landslide and take the Senate too. It's noticable how many Republican s are now signed on for Biden Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
butlers 261 #4263 Posted July 6, 2020 So after a long campaign the Washington Redskins are considering changing thier name, Cleveland Indians too. Of course stable genius is tweeting about it as he's no higher priorities. I wonder if that's a bit hypocritical as when Obama was in office with no once in hundred year pandemic raging ,this is what he was tweeting President should not be telling the Washington Redskins to change their name-our country has far bigger problems! FOCUS on them,not nonsense 2:09 PM · Oct 8, 2013 14.1K Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
catmiss 12 #4264 Posted July 8, 2020 (edited) surely the reality tv Kardashians in the Whitehouse is something not even the Americans could vote for Edited July 8, 2020 by catmiss No changes Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Halibut 12 #4265 Posted July 8, 2020 6 hours ago, catmiss said: surely the reality tv Kardashians in the Whitehouse is something not even the Americans could vote for They voted for Trump. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
L00b 441 #4266 Posted July 8, 2020 (edited) 3 hours ago, Halibut said: They voted for Trump. In the same way the British voted for Johnson : within a very flawed and imbalanced voting system beset by vote suppression issues. Lest people forget, Clinton got more votes than Trump. So get ready for Biden getting more votes than Trump, but still not get in. Edited July 8, 2020 by L00b Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
tinfoilhat 11 #4267 Posted July 8, 2020 Just now, L00b said: In the same way the British voted for Johnson : within a very flawed and imbalanced voting system beset by vote suppression issues. Lest people forget, Clinton got more votes than Trump. So get ready for Biden getting more votes than Trump, but still not getting in. I've said from the get go. That view has wobbled a bit over his handling of covid and BLM but his core support I don't think has wavered one bit. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Magilla 510 #4268 Posted July 8, 2020 6 hours ago, tinfoilhat said: I've said from the get go. That view has wobbled a bit over his handling of covid and BLM but his core support I don't think has wavered one bit. Perhaps, though I'm not so sure. Regardless... his core support isn't enough to win on it's own. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
butlers 261 #4269 Posted July 8, 2020 (edited) There's a Ohio ( Republican) Senate guy railing againgst Government Tyranny about mask wearing. A real scientist debunks his masks denying you oxygen nonsense YouTube too original down but "Nino Vitali busted " in its search engine should fine it Edited July 8, 2020 by butlers Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
butlers 261 #4270 Posted July 8, 2020 So Trump on Monday in an interview So, we’ve done a good job. I think we are going to be in two, three, four weeks, by the time we next speak, I think we’re going to be in very good shape. Today 60,000 new cases. Over 3 million cases in total 28 successive days of record high totals Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
XXTickerXX 10 #4271 Posted July 8, 2020 12 hours ago, L00b said: In the same way the British voted for Johnson : within a very flawed and imbalanced voting system beset by vote suppression issues. Lest people forget, Clinton got more votes than Trump. So get ready for Biden getting more votes than Trump, but still not get in. I'll educate you. The electoral college is there to give all the smaller states a voice. if it was not in place then a 319 square mile area of New York with a high population density could decide the vote of over 3 million square miles of country. There are 3,141 counties in the United States, and Donald Trump won the overwhelming majority(2,626 for Trump to 487 for Clinton). There are 62 counties in New York State. Trump won in 45 counties. Clinton won only 17 counties. Clinton won the popular vote by approx. 1.5 million votes in New York City's five counties (Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Richmond and Queens). Clinton received well over 2 million more votes than Trump as Clinton won four of these counties and Trump only won, Richmond. These five counties alone more than accounted for Clinton winning the popular vote of the entire country. These five New York counties comprise 319 square miles. The United States is comprised of 3,797,000 square miles. If a popular vote decided the election a president would never have to visit a smaller state ever again. They would only ever campaign in densely populated areas because smaller states would be irrelevant. The most populated states are California at 40 million, Texas at 29 million, Florida at 21 million and New York at 20 million. The next five states have 10 million to 13 million. The other 41 states have less than 7 million each, down to Wyoming with 600,000 voters. 9 states would determine the president every single time. That is exactly what the founders did not want even when there were 14 states. The grey areas on the map below would be irrelevant. Only the highest populated states would matter for any campaigning, and that's why the electoral college exists. The US has never been a direct democracy, it is a representative democracy. It would be similar in the UK if London just had all the voting power for the rest of the country. No other city comes close to having the voting power of London in the UK. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Longcol 602 #4272 Posted July 8, 2020 2 minutes ago, XXTickerXX said: I'll educate you. The electoral college is there to give all the smaller states a voice. if it was not in place then a 319 square mile area of New York with a high population density could decide the vote of over 3 million square miles of country. There are 3,141 counties in the United States, and Donald Trump won the overwhelming majority(2,626 for Trump to 487 for Clinton). There are 62 counties in New York State. Trump won in 45 counties. Clinton won only 17 counties. Clinton won the popular vote by approx. 1.5 million votes in New York City's five counties (Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Richmond and Queens). Clinton received well over 2 million more votes than Trump as Clinton won four of these counties and Trump only won, Richmond. These five counties alone more than accounted for Clinton winning the popular vote of the entire country. These five New York counties comprise 319 square miles. The United States is comprised of 3,797,000 square miles. If a popular vote decided the election a president would never have to visit a smaller state ever again. They would only ever campaign in densely populated areas because smaller states would be irrelevant. The most populated states are California at 40 million, Texas at 29 million, Florida at 21 million and New York at 20 million. The next five states have 10 million to 13 million. The other 41 states have less than 7 million each, down to Wyoming with 600,000 voters. 9 states would determine the president every single time. That is exactly what the founders did not want even when there were 14 states. The grey areas on the map below would be irrelevant. Only the highest populated states would matter for any campaigning, and that's why the electoral college exists. The US has never been a direct democracy, it is a representative democracy. It would be similar in the UK if London just had all the voting power for the rest of the country. No other city comes close to having the voting power of London in the UK. And some of us thought that democracy was approximately that every vote should carry equal weight. You appear to be saying that a handful of folk in a rural area should count the same as thousands in a city. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...