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Alarm Bells Are Ringing At DNC

Altfish

Altfish

Veteran Member
Subduction Zone

Subduction Zone

Veteran Member
Altfish said:
The USA is in a worse place than the UK.
We have a crook, liar, incompetent as PM but we have an opposition leader who is deemed to be 'boring' so is not looking well in the polls.

USA is even worse though.
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I am not so sure about that. We got rid of our crook, liar, and incompetent President (though he could conceivably return) and our rather "boring" contestant against him won.

Though we could be in some rougher times ahead. You guys should be happy, you are already at the bottom and things can only look up politically. We just crawled out of the swamp, but we might drag ourselves back in.
 
Subduction Zone

Subduction Zone

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Orbit said:
What role did TX GOP gerrymandering and voter suppression play in this? Somehow I think it's not Texans calling for more GOP.
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I could be mistaken but I doubt if gerrymandering played a role. In gerrymandering one tries to get as many of one's opponents into a district as possible. "Safe" districts for the opposition are made even safer. Though at first guaranteeing a seat to the opposition may appear to be counterproductive it is not. By concentrating as many opposition voters in several safe districts one lowers the number of opponents in the neighboring districts making it more likely for a victory. In a state that is 40% Republican and 60% Democrat if the Republicans control districting they can make their wins more likely and perhaps even send more Republicans to the House than Democrats.
 
Altfish

Altfish

Veteran Member
Subduction Zone said:
I am not so sure about that. We got rid of our crook, liar, and incompetent President (though he could conceivably return) and our rather "boring" contestant against him won.

Though we could be in some rougher times ahead. You guys should be happy, you are already at the bottom and things can only look up politically. We just crawled out of the swamp, but we might drag ourselves back in.
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The Tories have got over 2-years left. We could have left the ECHR, be deporting more people, protests banned and Russian money being accepted again by then.
 
Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Subduction Zone said:
I am not so sure about that. We got rid of our crook, liar, and incompetent President (though he could conceivably return) and our rather "boring" contestant against him won.

Though we could be in some rougher times ahead. You guys should be happy, you are already at the bottom and things can only look up politically. We just crawled out of the swamp, but we might drag ourselves back in.
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At least in England it was agreed Bojo violated covid restrictions and his vote of no confidence seemed to lack the controversy behind it that Trump's impeachments did. They just told him shame on you and punished him probably the most British way possible by making him keep at it. But things can always get worse.
In America, on the other hand, things are getting so bad that even contraception is likely to come under attack and possibly banned and Texas issued a broad deputization to all Americans to sue anyone even remotely involved in an abortion in Texas, including rideshare drivers. People are gunned down daily, but Republicans are wanting more guns and insisting transgender people are a major issue and concern facing America. It's not the shrinking middle class or severe wealth inequality destroying America, it's because we're not as Christian as we once were. Environmental dangers and international security concerns due to being dependent on oil are downplayed and ridiculed, and instead a major threat to them are their so-called "entitlement programs," some of which is not at all an entitlement but earned and paid into (like retirement). Education is a problem, but them problem is because we don't just teach the "three Rs." Massive incarceration over petty and victimless crimes isn't the problem, it's being too nice with inmates and letting them have too much as it is. The problem isn't that we are heavily divided, it's that there is a side not bowing to Republicans, and that other side is basically just as bad when it comes to bowing to money.
 
esmith

esmith

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Orbit said:
What role did TX GOP gerrymandering and voter suppression play in this? Somehow I think it's not Texans calling for more GOP.
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Guess you didn't read the article: Quote from the artice
The special election was unique in that it was held under the previous lines of the 34th District, which President Joe Biden won by only 4 percentage points. But redistricting made the district more friendly to Democrats in November, when the Democratic nominee is U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-McAllen.

On Tuesday night, Flores most notably carried Cameron County, the most populous county in the district and a longtime Democratic stronghold along the Mexican border. She defeated Sanchez there by about a percentage point after Biden carried the county by 13 points in 2020.
 
Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Audie said:
Like trump said. ,"If we lose. they cheated"
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It is a fair question in American politics as redistricting has been used to gain unfair advantages in elections basically throughout the entirely of America's sovereign history. It's even where the term "Gerrymandering" comes from, with the first appearance of the term coming in 1812. We don't so much do voter fraud here, we have politicians who do the cheating by drawing borders, and they are drawn during census years (every 10 years) so it was recently done.
 
Suave

Suave

Simulated character
Saint Frankenstein said:
It's going to be a red tidal wave in November! :D
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I fear so too! I am also worried Biden will not be able to run for a second term, However, I do expect the inflation rate to drop below five precent by 2024, this economic improvement should then hopefully switch voter sentiment in favor of Democrats.
 
Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Suave said:
I fear so too! I am also worried Biden will not be able to run for a second term, However, I do expect the inflation rate to drop below five precent by 2024, this economic improvement should then hopefully switch voter sentiment in favor of Democrats.
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Dems need to get rid of him. The absolutely only thing he had going for him is he isn't Trump and he isn't constantly reminding us of his pathetic insecurities and endless need for attention. He was a very terrible choice to run then, he's a garbage choice in a couple years. He needs primaried out if Dems want the White House going into 2025. There is no way around that because it will send disenfranchising ripples throughout moderate and undecided voters.
 
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