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View Poll Results: Biden or Trump?
Biden 49 83.05%
Trump 7 11.86%
Libertarian, Putin, Kim, other, none of the above, Planet X, etc. 3 5.08%
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Old 4th May 2020, 07:15 AM   #1
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Dance around the May poll: Biden or Trump?

Let's do it again this month and see if it changes.
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Biden or Trump what? Which is most fish-like? Biden. Which probably has the smellier farts? Trump.
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Dear Shemp: We really need clarity as to whether you're looking for who we WANT to win or who we think WILL win. Because I want Biden, but think Trump will win. Mostly by cheating, but that's another thread.
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Good luck with that.



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Is this a poll asking who we want to win, or who we think will win?
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Originally Posted by shemp View Post
Let's do it again this month and see if it changes.
Seems so, zero votes for Trump this month .

(Yes, I know, early in the month, sample size, forummers might have died from corona since last time, etc.).
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Absent clarification, I've decided this thread is about who we think will win and why.

Still Biden. The Reade story isn't gaining traction and it's one accusation to 25 against Trump. Trump's approval slipped another point and a third this last week.

Regardless of what he really said, the Clorox meme seems to have caught on. A large portion of the country believes he suggested we all drink bleach. Since the truth is just as stupid, correcting the record won't help him.

April Polling in Florida shows Biden pulling ahead, out of the margin of error. There aren't April polls for Ohio out but Michigan and Pennsylvania show Biden pulling ahead there. There does not appear to be a viable electoral map for Trump.
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Still Biden. The Reade story isn't gaining traction and it's one accusation to 25 against Trump. Trump's approval slipped another point and a third this last week.
Also one of them bragged about assaulting women while the other denies ever doing such a thing.

Even if they were as bad, though, which would take a lot... one is probably decent, with a VP who can step in for him should he succumb to dementia, while the other is a dumpster fire increasingly surrounding himself with only other dumpster fires.
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Originally Posted by Trebuchet View Post
Dear Shemp: We really need clarity as to whether you're looking for who we WANT to win or who we think WILL win. Because I want Biden, but think Trump will win. Mostly by cheating, but that's another thread.
It's who you think will win this poll.
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Originally Posted by Craig4 View Post
Regardless of what he really said, the Clorox meme seems to have caught on. A large portion of the country believes he suggested we all drink bleach.
I still maintain he did. The whole "I wonder if" and "someone should look into that" routine was just him covering his back. If it turned out to be a good idea, he could take full credit. If it turned out to be BS, he could just shrug and say, "hey dude, I wus jus' thinkin' out loud."
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Originally Posted by Trebuchet View Post
Dear Shemp: We really need clarity as to whether you're looking for who we WANT to win or who we think WILL win. Because I want Biden, but think Trump will win. Mostly by cheating, but that's another thread.
Even if he cheats, he needs a viable map and there isn't one right now.
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To answer the question seriously, I think Biden is more likely than Trump to injure his scrotum in a bicycle accident, and Trump is more likely than Biden to eat an owl without realizing it. Neither would look good with pierced nipples, so please don't try.
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Originally Posted by TragicMonkey View Post
To answer the question seriously, I think Biden is more likely than Trump to injure his scrotum in a bicycle accident, and Trump is more likely than Biden to eat an owl without realizing it. Neither would look good with pierced nipples, so please don't try.
Do you really think Trump has ever ridden a bicycle? And if they don't serve it at McDonald's, Trump has never eaten it.
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Originally Posted by TragicMonkey View Post
To answer the question seriously, I think Biden is more likely than Trump to injure his scrotum in a bicycle accident, and Trump is more likely than Biden to eat an owl without realizing it. Neither would look good with pierced nipples, so please don't try.
I think Biden is more likely to tie an onion to his belt.
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Originally Posted by theprestige View Post
I think Biden is more likely to tie an onion to his belt.
And Trump is more likely to engage in a battle of wits with an onion, and lose.
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Originally Posted by Craig4 View Post
Absent clarification, I've decided this thread is about who we think will win and why.
The third option is the clarification. You can vote for some other person or not vote, but one of those two will win. (Technically, it's not impossible for one of them to die or withdraw first, but that's not what the third option here is describing.)
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I voted Biden, simply because that is what I want. Other then that, it is difficult to accept that Trump may serve another term. I don't even like to consider the possibility. But I've been shocked by the odious creature before.
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There does not appear to be a viable electoral map for Trump.
You're assuming there will be an election.
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I still maintain he did. The whole "I wonder if" and "someone should look into that" routine was just him covering his back. If it turned out to be a good idea, he could take full credit. If it turned out to be BS, he could just shrug and say, "hey dude, I wus jus' thinkin' out loud."
That's certainly possible. This one was just so stupid it got away from him.
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You're assuming there will be an election.
Why wouldn't there be? Trump can't stop it. The president plays no role in the holding of elections. There's no wiggle room here. The dates are written into the Constitution.
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And Trump is more likely to engage in a battle of wits with an onion, and lose.
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Originally Posted by shemp View Post
It's who you think will win this poll.
So say that in the OP, dammit! Or give us more options:
I want Trump and he will win.
I want Biden, but Trump will win.
I want Biden and he will win.
I want Trump, but Biden will win.
I want someone else, but Trump will win.
I want someone else, but Biden will win.

How the hell hard is that?
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Dear Shemp: We really need clarity as to whether you're looking for who we WANT to win or who we think WILL win. Because I want Biden, but think Trump will win. Mostly by cheating, but that's another thread.
Even if he cheats, he needs a viable map and there isn't one right now.
But the point of cheating is to win states that you weren't supposed to. It means the 'electoral map' doesn't apply any more.
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It's who you think will win this poll.
That would be me.
Yay me!!!
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Originally Posted by Trebuchet View Post
So say that in the OP, dammit! Or give us more options:
I want Trump and he will win.
I want Biden, but Trump will win.
I want Biden and he will win.
I want Trump, but Biden will win.
I want someone else, but Trump will win.
I want someone else, but Biden will win.

How the hell hard is that?
Well, ...

You know those Stooges.

When any of them get an idea of any sort, it is usually followed-up by an eye poke, face slap, nose tweek, floor roll, pie in the face, or something else that is quite silly.
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But the point of cheating is to win states that you weren't supposed to. It means the 'electoral map' doesn't apply any more.
It has to. There's no wiggle room on this one. To be elected Trump needs 270 electoral votes. He can cheat around the margins but that is what is required in the Constitution.
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It has to. There's no wiggle room on this one. To be elected Trump needs 270 electoral votes. He can cheat around the margins but that is what is required in the Constitution.
Massive disenfranchisement of likely D voters.
Voter intimidation by armed thugs.
Multiple lawsuits both before and after the election.
Blatant bias by Trump appointed judges.
Etc, etc, etc.
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Originally Posted by Trebuchet View Post
Massive disenfranchisement of likely D voters.
Voter intimidation by armed thugs.
Multiple lawsuits both before and after the election.
Blatant bias by Trump appointed judges.
Etc, etc, etc.
The armed thugs didn't materialize last time so I don't think they will again. The polling data is from likely voters who have already voted so disenfranchisement has already not worked on them. Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan all have Democrat governors so disenfranchisement is only likely to be an issue in Ohio and Florida. That won't matter because those three states take Biden to 278.

What will lawsuits do? No court, not even SCOTUS can award electoral points. Even in Florida in 2000 the SCOTUS only ordered to stop the recount and go with the state certified results. Even this court has stepped in the check Trump in the past. I'm not too worried about it overturning the constitutionally directed electoral process.
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The armed thugs didn't materialize last time so I don't think they will again. The polling data is from likely voters who have already voted so disenfranchisement has already not worked on them. Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan all have Democrat governors so disenfranchisement is only likely to be an issue in Ohio and Florida. That won't matter because those three states take Biden to 278.

What will lawsuits do? No court, not even SCOTUS can award electoral points. Even in Florida in 2000 the SCOTUS only ordered to stop the recount and go with the state certified results. Even this court has stepped in the check Trump in the past. I'm not too worried about it overturning the constitutionally directed electoral process.
Coronavirus is disproportionately affecting minorities, who tend to vote Democrat. To protect minorities, I can see the GOP-run electoral authorities in red states which might flip blue, closing polling stations in minority districts (to prevent the spread of Coronavirus) and instead insist that people in those districts vote by postal ballot.

It's already been established* that postal ballots are subject to voter fraud and so in order to ensure that the election is fair and free from fraud, there will be extensive and thorough checks on those people in those districts to allow them a postal vote.

The upshot of this will be that only a tiny fraction of those eligible to vote in those districts get their postal votes in time and, as a result, President Trump and the GOP Senate candidate manage to edge a tight result.


* - by President Trump stating that it is so and his cronies agreeing with him


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And when it is pointed out that the effect was to deprive minorities of their vote, the GOP will act surprised and say that all they were doing was trying to protect black lives and that no party and no President has ever done more for minorities.

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Coronavirus is disproportionately affecting minorities, who tend to vote Democrat. To protect minorities, I can see the GOP-run electoral authorities in red states which might flip blue, closing polling stations in minority districts (to prevent the spread of Coronavirus) and instead insist that people in those districts vote by postal ballot.

It's already been established* that postal ballots are subject to voter fraud and so in order to ensure that the election is fair and free from fraud, there will be extensive and thorough checks on those people in those districts to allow them a postal vote.

The upshot of this will be that only a tiny fraction of those eligible to vote in those districts get their postal votes in time and, as a result, President Trump and the GOP Senate candidate manage to edge a tight result.


* - by President Trump stating that it is so and his cronies agreeing with him


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And when it is pointed out that the effect was to deprive minorities of their vote, the GOP will act surprised and say that all they were doing was trying to protect black lives and that no party and no President has ever done more for minorities.
All true. That will likely happen in Georgia and Florida. Still doesn't matter. Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin have all essentially already flipped blue. You have to be in power to pull those kinds of stunts. If those three states go blue nothing that happens in Florida or Georgia will matter.
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Well you have to admit, such a thing would be a typical Stooge type of response.
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All true. That will likely happen in Georgia and Florida. Still doesn't matter. Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin have all essentially already flipped blue. You have to be in power to pull those kinds of stunts. If those three states go blue nothing that happens in Florida or Georgia will matter.
All three state legislatures are majority Republican so AIUI they could do what I outlined, close polling stations in minority districts and instead get people in those areas to vote via (almost impossible to get in the time allowed) postal vote.

Pennsylvania:
Senate: Republican (27) Independent (1) Democratic (21) Vacant (1)
House: Republican (109) Democratic (92) Vacant (2)

Michigan:
Senate: Republican (22) Democratic (16)
House: Republican (58) Democratic (52)

Wisconsin:
Republican (63) Democratic (36)


What's to stop them ?

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Originally Posted by The Don View Post
All three state legislatures are majority Republican so AIUI they could do what I outlined, close polling stations in minority districts and instead get people in those areas to vote via (almost impossible to get in the time allowed) postal vote.

Pennsylvania:
Senate: Republican (27) Independent (1) Democratic (21) Vacant (1)
House: Republican (109) Democratic (92) Vacant (2)

Michigan:
Senate: Republican (22) Democratic (16)
House: Republican (58) Democratic (52)

Wisconsin:
Republican (63) Democratic (36)


What's to stop them ?
The Secretaries of State are responsible for running the elections. All three are Democrats. Also, those aren't veto proof majorities.
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