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Last edited by GindyPosts; 08-05-2020 at 11:33 AM.
I had a Jeopardy catagory this week at game night called "Thanks Obama."
Questions were:
This POTUS deported more people than any other president in US history. (Obama)
This President has integrated more national parks into the US than Obama. (Trump)
This POTUS was the first Republican in over 40 years to get less than 60% of the popular vote of the state of Texas. (Trump)
This POTUS has golfed more than Obama, W. Bush, Clinton, and Bush combined. (Trump)
This landmark piece of US human rights legislation has now been around longer than the CSA. (Gay Marriage)
The Trumpers didn't not like these answers.
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From the discussions, it does seem that his short-list evolved. Karen Bass, Val Demings and Susan Rice weren't seen as major contenders in the beginning.
Earlier speculation was about Klobuchar, Whitmer, Harris and Warren.
It could very well still be Harris, but it does seem that people were seriously considered.
It was probably a mistake for Biden to announce his running mate would be a woman, since it does suggest that he limited himself by excluding a majority of Governors, Senators, cabinet officials and prominent members of Congress. If he hadn't made the announcement, he could say that a female running mate held her own against Julian Castro, Cory Booker and Beto O'Rourke.
Rice does have a major advantage in demonstrating leadership during a pandemic with the Ebola crisis.
Stacey Abrams does seem eager to be Biden's running mate, but she has also only served as the leader of the minority party in a state legislature. No one with that background has ever seriously been considered.
The expectation that a running mate excite the base is a messy question. It's probably better to have the top of the ticket do that. Edwards & Palin excited their base, and were both terrible choices.
That's an interesting theory that Harris is essentially chosen, but Biden doesn't see any point to announcing it yet.
It might seem anticlimactic.
We'll probably hear more about what's going on behind the scenes later, but Biden waiting to announce a decision does make sense under other scenarios, like them not having made a decision yet, or waiting to see if there's any dirt on a less-known choice.
Duckworth was fantastic in an episode of the New York Times' The Argument podcast. She was really good at selling the compelling aspects of her background (her status as a war hero, her concerns as a mother trying to help young children through remote learning.)
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In context to this... by "people" you mean "Arizona Republican Primary Voters". And that is not an unfair analysis. These are people that Arpaio's racism appealed to them so much it was worth the price tag of the tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars in lawsuits he cost taxpayers in police brutality by his sheriffs, or deaths that occurred in the prisons he oversaw like modern gulags.
Arpaio laid the groundwork for Trump, truly.
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Is that race still ongoing? Because I hope to God Arpaio doesn't win. Why do people want him to come back to office, considering all the headaches he caused, all the money he wasted, and all the bad press he created for your county? You can be hard on crime and still treat people like human beings, not sideshow acts or farm animals. I know some folks believe all prisoners should be treated as subhuman, and well, that should be a case by case basis, not the general consensus, since most people don't commit crimes like they're supervillains or something; more like they're broke or homeless. And as for his extreme anti-immigrant policy? Well, America used to allow Mexicans access in and out of America, in which they came in, did crappy jobs like migrant farming and day labor, and would leave, but once we tightened the border, they ended up staying, and several American factors meddling in Mexican society have made it so America is more desirable for Mexicans to live here, hence the people seeking asylum, which is something an ignorant sumbitch like Arpaio ignores because he's got shit for brains. At least Milwaukee doesn't have to deal with it's miserable excuse for a DINO in David Clarke anymore, but it's a matter of time before he gets bored and wants to be an asshole again.
Besides, I learned today the man, before he became sheriff, sold rocket ship tickets for something called the "Phoenix E" that, unfortunately, has largely been lost to the mists of time. Despite the man's military history, how on earth did he manage to go from being the guy who sold rocket tours to 24 years as a crooked sheriff?
GOP working for Trump are getting Kanye West's name on ballots in several states. They think Blacks will vote for him instead of Biden.
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Honestly, more whites will vote for Kanye than blacks, which may backfire on Trump. Had this been a decade ago, he would definitely have a following among the African-American community, but right now, given a combination of both mental instability (yet he doesn't believe in therapy) and his idolization of the elite that betrays his infamous "George Bush doesn't care about black people" line after Hurricane Katrina, it certainly may end up resulting in uneducated white people opting to vote for the unstable black music star, either as a memetic joke or because they think he is the best choice.
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As much as I would be happy about Joe Arpaio being booted, it sounds like Jerry Sheridan (the Republican frontrunner) would be more of the same from Joe, since he worked under Joe for many years. So, if elected, Sheridan would merely enforce Arpaio's practices with the benefit of being a few years younger.
According to tweets the NY AG plans to announce something tomorrow. Its already revealed that NY AG is going after Trump's bank records and has gotten them.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/05/polit...ion/index.html
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Just had a thought- I wonder if Trump will use the Corona virus as an excuse not to debate Biden.