I compared individual odds.
About 2.6 million served in Vietnam, so a high casualty rate is a significant percentage.
I have provided factual proof. The shirt matters because every member of the DNC voted for that guy to be a major representative of the party, and there was no public repudiation.
There have been times when prominent members of the Democratic party have lied about their political positions for electoral gain, as when everyone running for the presidential nomination in 2008 was against gay marriage,
at a time when 49 percent of Democrats were in favor of it. Legal immigration is unusual as a policy matter in that the entire party is unwilling to express any opinion on limiting principles. From that, I would draw a negative inference.
As for the Supreme Court seat, voters had the knowledge that a Supreme Court seat was explicitly at stake in the 2016 election. There is a view among political scientists that it swung the election for Trump.
https://www.vox.com/2018/6/29/175110...kennedy-retire
They were able to make the decision on the merits of whether Trump or Hillary Clinton should pick Scalia's replacement.
By eighteen, kids are still making some permanent decisions without parental consent, so it seems like a reasonable cutoff.
I can understand the arguments for some kind of polling tests to determine a higher rate of numeracy and knowledge in the voters, but it's just not worth the downsides.
Polling tests have historically been abused in the past for bigoted means. Giving the government the power to do that again is rife with corruption, since they'll have incentives to go with questions that prime voters in a particular way, or that weed out types of voters.
Is children cutting class really particularly meaningful?
Why couldn't Biden be running because he has wanted to be President for a long time, is well-positioned due to circumstances beyond his control (a flawed Republican dominating the rust belt) and has tremendous experience?
It's a reference to the idea that the guy used a Hispanic-sounding nickname to win elections in the past.