None of their front runners are strong. Joe Biden will definitely lose, and it's looking like he's their top pick.
I hope people vote with their wallets and move. Ironically, these are the shithole states that survive on federal tax dollars from liberals while trolling about liberal tears.
I agree. If large numbers of people leave these states and stop doing business in them, that might get the point across that these laws are not acceptable. Poor women will be hit the hardest by these laws. Women with money will just leave and get their reproductive care elsewhere. They tried to pass one of these laws here in Florida but it got shot down. It wouldn't surprise me if they try again though.
I just realized it won't be long before it has been a decade since I had not had to write in my candidate for an election. I wrote in Stein in 2012 and was so thoroughly disgusted with 2016 candidates I for the first time abstained from the vote entirely. It's going to be a Gabbard write-in for 2020, which to be honest I'd already decided on quite awhile ago. I'm starting to wonder if I'll ever be able to vote any other way but a write-in at this point.
The timing of the assassination of the ISIS leader is very convenient and seems intended to distract from the impeachment. Maybe the whole thing was fake like the Russians are suggesting.
It's not really opinions and theories I'm looking for. But shouldn't we have concrete proof either way by now? I just don't get it.
It will go to the senate and get rejected. Then Trump will get reeelected in November by a landslide. Democrats are playing checkers. Trump is playing 4D underwater Chess.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3a8z5w/nancy-pelosi-just-made-a-major-impeachment-power-play It will go to Senate when Pelosi is assured of a fair trial and Democrats get whatever it is they want next. This is one of those things where everyone knows what’s going to happen in the end and everyone says they won. Eventually the Ds will stop preaching right? I mean, she couldn’t hold them until after the election could she? When the blue wave washes through the senate and removes the president elected in an electoral landslide but who lost the popular vote 60-40. THAT’S that trigger I want to see in America. It would be the greatest Xmas gift of all.
So you think the republican president will be re-elected... but people won’t vote straight ticket R and somehow their will be a blue wave in the Senate? Lol that would be an amazing outcome to begin with.
With all of those fired up Trump voters at the polls, Democrats are going to lose a lot of other elections as well. Democrats also have a horrendously bad track record for voter turnout.
I already thought he was going to win re-election 2020, but now it's pretty much guaranteed. I have yet to see substantial evidence after years of this witch hunt. It's telling they keep pivoting from making serious charges like bribery then completely dropping them for something else. And this is from the party that nominated Hillary as their presidential candidate, who rigged the primary and had her private server debacle that I can tell you without question from working with communications equipment and encrypted data in the Marine Corps would have landed any of us in Leavenworth, Kansas, for decades for a fraction of what she did. I don't see this working out for Democrats long term.
Democrats don’t even have a viable candidate. Nobody running in the primary stands a chance. The Democrats have been making moronic decisions ever since they decided to run Hillary. They need a come to Jesus moment to rebuild their party. I don’t like Trump. I didn’t vote for Trump. But I will say that he has done a brilliant job of playing them for fools.
There is a universe where this is happening. Historically, Dems have done well in legislative elections. Look also at recent elections where Democrats made a few gains in generally red states. Midterm elections are already thought of as a referendum on the presidency. This election will be no different. So a blue wave is not out of the question given this presidents actions and popularity. We already saw the Democrats retake the house in the last one. You might say the people will punish the D party because the people aren’t tolerant of frivolous impeachments. I say look at the Clinton debacle where he was impeached and the Republicans eventually took the White House senate and house. There was blowback, sure, but Dubya got elected didn’t he? Trump can win the electoral vote without the popular vote. It’s probably the only way he wins anyways. The electoral college is outdated and will favor the minority Conservatives until the world changes. And I’m sure Russia won’t help at all. So there it is. A historically unpopular president who gets elected on a suspect campaign faces a blue senate and house with impeachment papers still in limbo. He gets removed and the world loses its mind again. Trump can lose the presidency, mind you. Nobody thought he was going to win the first one, now he can’t lose the second? I think we underestimate the fickle nature of the center moderate voter. Trump has the economy, yes. But only in the traditional sense. The rich get richer the poor get poorer and everything is ok? Maybe. But I think people might like the idea of taxing the rich for once. Especially if they are poorer. Dems are weak on social issues. Nobody wants mixed bathrooms yet. But they keep pushing. This is the single most hurtful thing the Dems are doing to themselves. Policy issues? Trump had two years of senate and house and got nothing done. No wall. People don’t forget that sort of thing. Read my lips, people don’t forget that sort of thing. Electability? Do you really think trump gained any support over the last election? That anyone who didn’t vote for him is going to jump up and run to the polls to re-elect this president? Possible but not likely. More likely is he already got every bigot the first time around. But that fickle moderate voter who maybe thought “how bad can he be?” got their answer. Two years of total government control and no meaningful policy implementation. Campaigns full of scandal. Presidency full of scandal. Other world leaders openly mocking him. Legal issues all over the place. Corruption, cronyism, and nepotism. Immigration still a black eye for our nation. GOP politicians bending over for him while he insults them and pardons war criminals. The president trolled his way to the White House, took over the GOP, and could be leading them off a cliff. He could lose. His antics while in office sure rile up his base and “trigger the libs” but has it ever helped him gain support among truly bipartisan voters? I don’t think the answer is yes. He will have the largest popular vote deficit of all time. Maybe for all time.
I don’t think Trump will get re-elected. I don’t think the moderates will vote R this time and without them Republicans can’t win. I’m just disputing the possibility that he wins the presidential election but loses the senate. If he wins, the rest of the R’s will ride his coattails to a shutout.
Who would Dems run that has any kind of chance? Biden? Warren? I don't see anyone they have getting people out to the polls in large enough numbers in the right places to win.
Bernie might. But they probably won’t run him. And every single one of them would do better than Hillary did. We will see next year, but I often wonder if it is love for Trump or hatred of Hillary that got him elected? Without buttery males to feed their desires, will they turn out in droves again to re-elect him? Part of me wants him to win. Then I can sit here in my suburban oasis and watch the world burn for another four years. And aside from judicial appointments, he hasn’t really done any permanent damage. Except to the Kurds ‘n stuff. Another part wants him to lose so we can watch him get paraded through courts until he dies. Then his kids. Plus, mizzle wants to see how this “eat the rich” thing plays out. Judicial schadenfreude. The rest has depression.
I think we'll see a lot of tough talk from Iran, a few small scale attacks like what we just saw, and that's probably it. Iran doesn't want to fight a conventional war with us.
Yeah I agree that they don’t want a conventional war with us. Although, I don’t think we will invade either. Never know with Trump. And I just have a feeling that we won’t be able to drive our tanks into the Capitol in a day like we did in Iraq. They just launched missiles on two Iraqi bases, so we all await Trump’s response: I wonder about this though. To his credit, Trump has been pretty consistent. Loves Russia, hates FBI, loves walls, hates Mexicans, loves troops, insults their families, loves twitter, hates the media. But anyways, he seems to at least try to make good on the things he says. But didn’t he also campaign on ending or scaling down our troop commitments in the Middle East? I know he tried to (or did?) in Syria(?), even if it was pretty botched. Sure, he hasn’t invaded or done anything apart from the drone strike itself, but the potential for escalation is definitely there. I know he likes to keep people on their toes and all, just seems risky. I don’t think this is a good move. I don’t think anyone wants more war. We already bungled Iraq. So much so that he is threatening them if they vote to expel our troops, in a democracy we installed no less. So now we aren’t bringing troops home? It’s like he hit the panic button for some reason.