Pre-match: Can't believe it took this long for this thread, the 2024 Presidential election thread!

That's what I've been telling everyone for decades!

 

As I always say, a pessimist is never disappointed!




For context, my ex-significant other played this song for me the last time I saw him before he died of a brain tumor. Needless to say it was quite fitting. That she was in a Citroen DS, a car I associate with my grandfather who I was named after and who used to drive one when I was in France, just drives the symbolism home for me.

 

Hope equals heartbreak!

Hail Grimes!

 

Because a lot of those non-white see themselves as white, and they don't realize (or are in denial) that the fascists will eventually come for them. I'm speaking here about the Latino voters, who are also much more vulnerable to the fearmongering about communism and also more in line with the GQP views on abortion.

Bear in mind that lot of the Latin American voters are/were affluent in their country of origin and saw how the left took over Venezuela and Nicaragua and are genuinely afraid of that happening in the US, so they're are more prone to believe all the GQP propaganda about Biden, plus they feel that they are accepted by white people as equals.

 

So you can hop into the local S&M club whenever you get the itch?

 

Related, the Arab-Americans in MI are heavily conservative and are being palsy walsy with the GOP. Especially on LGBTQ matters.

Of course, the big names in the MI GOP are already turning against them for something else. Not the first time it's happened, either.

 

This is similar to the tension in some European nations that have cultures that highly value diversity but also have large Muslim immigrant populations who do not share those values.

 

I'd highly suggest reading up on Hamtramck and the tensions between the LGBTQ community there.

 

Relevant, we are still seven months out but still though.

The wind can change many times, and summer is long, but people are starting to pay attention, and you'll find Biden gaining ground. It's slow, not irrevocable, but demonstrable.

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) April 9, 2024

 

Nothing unites disparate groups like hatred of gays!

I think it was the 2017 Gay Games in Tel Aviv that successfully united some Muslim, Jewish and Christian groups there in opposition.

 

No doubt Susan Collins would say: "He'll pivot and become more presidential once elected"

 

sounds like it was intended to help him relate to middle America.

 

A new Quinnipiac poll in North Carolina finds Donald Trump barely leading Joe Biden in the presidential race, 48% to 46%.

When the matchup is expanded to include independent and third party candidates, Trump receives 41%, Biden receives 38%, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. receives 12%, Cornel West receives 3%, and Jill Stein receives 3%.

The consensus interactive electoral map has moved North Carolina to Toss Up.

 

Who in their right mind decided to tie themselves with this clown?

 

The good news is a) at worst this will force Trump to spend time and money on a state he won in 2020 and b) with the GOPs running a nut for governor, there is a path to Biden winning NC and it allows Trump to win Michigan for sure and still lose. NC is bigger than Michigan now.

The bad news is that I’m going to have to suffer.

 

Speaking of Cornel West, I hope Team Biden has plans in place to arrange vote trading if necessary. It’s fine for West to get lots of votes in California, so Cali Dems should trade votes with West fans in swing states.

 

Due to the Gaza war I think Michigan is less certain. That war is a real wild card. Unlikely to matter, but who knows what the next card in the deck is?