It was designed to balance the needs of a bunch of oligarchical states so they could act as a cohesive unit. They are the bourgeoisie version of the HRE or Greek City states. Instead of the nobility, it was white, wealthy, landowners.
Seriously we could have saved a year of time and a couple billion dollars by making the election a two week event and literally nobodies mind would have been changed.
A girlboss is pre-selected by the party apparatus to be the first woman president, she picks a straight-laced dad and blue-leaning state governor named Tim as veep to run against Trump who's running with a very socially backwards Midwesterner...
Say what you want about democratic centeralism but votes should have like 90% approval. I never really thought about it but there should bea threshold way above 50%. if 1in 2 people are unhappy with a vote it doesn't really represent the will of the people even though it is technically democracy
It's crazy to me that the margins are still so thin right now. Six states have a less than 2% difference between the candidates, any random event could swing the election right now. Trump is lucky Puerto Ricans can't vote lol
Based on this map he only needs to win Pennsylvania or Michigan or Wisconsin, all of which are effectively tied. Lots of pathways to win. Kamala's got to win all three, or lose Pennsylvania and pick up like North Carolina.
lady liberty's diet is so devoid of fiber and nutrients that she has a pennsylvania lodged in her colon. will she please stop this carnivore diet bullshit?
this is going to be so fucking funny, except for the risk of violence
do we think the libs will Rise Up if the tiebreaker goes to Trump, or will the MIC prevent his winning a tiebreak, or will they just work with him again because he was tolerable before, or what
I used to be very confident in this too, but every now and then, I look at /r/Ohio, and there have been a few threads of libs saying they've gotten guns and been training with them since Jan 6 because they're worried about "what the trumpers will do when he loses again"
and probably most of them are full of shit, but idk how confident I am that all of them are
Lol no definitely not. Despite all the fear mongering by the fascists in the republican media sphere, the democrats are not leftists, they love the system as much as the republicans do (who also claim to hate the system).
Unfortunately not, because that one district in Nebraska would have to go red for that to work and it's been moving into solid blue territory for a while. Harris might win by exactly one electoral vote though, which would be less funny "ha ha" and more "acceleration into the cool zone"
Four years before a presidential election, each state gets to make its case to be "The One!"
Its kind of like America's Got Talent or one of those shows where people sing at a panel of celebrities.
After 4 years of making their individual cases, slowly having the number of competitors winnowed down by viewer votes, the final state gets to be "The One!". The only state that matters during the presidential election. Think about it? All the wasted resources trying to campaign in states where a candidate KNOWS they aren't going to win, knows that the Electoral College invalidates the votes FOR all of the candidates that didn't get the majority. All the plane trips, all the Secret Service and local cops having to fuck up traffic in every city or town during a political event, all the campaign ads spread out inefficiently across the entire 50 states and US territories, all the handwringing about voting for the lesser of two monstrous evils... can just be focused at the state that gets to be "The One!" this year.
tell me more, I'm not caught up on this Texas rally. wait, a Texas rally? Kamala went to TEXAS in the last week of the campaign? [rolls eyes] only makes sense as theater and it's not even believable enough to make the Trump campaign flinch
Current odds I've seen is that Pa is 'the state' that decides the election about 1/3 of the time, with the other 6 'battleground' state making up most of the rest of the 2/3s
From what I can tell, yeah. At least according to the lanyard-dorks at 538: the blue genociders need to win every single swing state, but the red genociders just need to win PA. That's assuming the red genociders win Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina.
The only poll that matters is election day of course, but it seems IMO more likely for the wet boy to take it.
No, Kamala needs to win PA, along with WI and MI, or she loses (unless there's some weird polling error in Georgia and Arizona where those states are actually more favorable to her). Trump only has to win PA or WI or MI and he probably wins. She has to get lucky three times, he only has to get lucky once.
BUT if there is a polling error of some kind, it's widely systemic and national. So there's a chance of a Trump sweep and a chance of a Harris sweep where everything from MI to AZ on this list goes to one candidate or the other. So don't worry about the polls, just get out there and VOTE for Claudia de la Cruz