If Trump gets elected the ‘bed wetting ‘ will be fully justified. This isn’t a football game.
I'm very well away it's not a game.
the polls, mostly
Depends which polls you look at, but even then - don't be too worried about polls with a margin of error of 3/4+ points and the margin between the candidates is only a point or two. It's just about the sampling. It doesn't matter at all - what matters is getting voters to get out and vote.
Either way, I’m expecting fireworks
I hope you're right.
It's thought that this one of the reasons Musk is throwing his weight behind Trump - Vance is in bed with Peter Thiel and other Silicon Valley technocrats with questionable beliefs
For all the chatter, the Harris campaign has been incredibly positive and focused on doing the work the country needs. President Biden's administration has been historically productive, despite the unproductive congress.
Agreed.
No challenge at all from the interviewer
It really depends on who you're listening to and how much value you put in their thoughts. It's all noise that will be forgotten when the votes are counted, the results are in and president-elect Harris is preparing to take office. The biggest problem with the election is the amount of coverage and the desperate need for all of the "news" outlets to fill time throughout the day. So they put on people who will say something that gets traction, but it's all just noise and irrelevance.I actually didn’t say Trump was gaining momentum.
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My point is, your comment about people on this thread “bed-wetting” says you are playing down the fact this election is on a knife edge. There’s never been an election where candidates are neck and neck in key swing States going into the last fortnight of a campaign.
People who are following this election carefully ie people with far more experience than you or I, and are analysing all polling trends closely are very concerned because they believe Harris has lost her earlier momentum while Trump is gaining again having dropped behind in recent months.
ALL polls coming in now are within the 3% margin of error which means the election is a TOSS UP.
There is no real basis at this point other than hubris to say “he will lose the vote” as you proclaim.
So yes, not “bed wetting” as if we have lost one game of football and imagining therefore we’ll end up at the bottom of the table but people on this thread expressing genuine concern based on the facts as they are, that there is basically a 50% chance Trump could be the next President of the United States.
No, you don’t - see comment below. You are building a Ponzi scheme of falsehoods to produce conspiracy theories.
I’d like to see some voting data on the suggestion that immigrants feel they don’t ‘need’ democratic policies CD or swing significantly to the right:
Pew Research for example has second generation immigrants (ie the fully assimilated offspring of new/first gens) overwhelmingly aligned to democrats
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No - it is not. You are fabricating a solution to a conspiracy theory that the left are engaging in some form of social engineering to bolster electoral support.
The left stops immigrants swinging to the right (if they are indeed doing so in large numbers which is doubtful) by countering the lies promulgated by Trump that the economy and immigration is worse under Biden/Harris than it was or will be under a Trump Presidency.
Yes, the ‘death of democracy’ under Trump is a very real possibility.
An end to identity politics and a greater focus on one nation politics might not be a bad thing if Trump wins - identity politics has been weaponised by the right to be divisive, scapegoating and a justification to cast blame on immigration for all ills in society. Unless there are routes to equitable engagement and representation in political governance, identity politics turns into a tool for discrimination and exclusion. Project 2025’s policy of using the National Guard for mass deportation of immigrants and DACAs is where Trump stands on ‘identity politics’. We can do without that thank you.
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