Honestly. I don’t give a fuck at this point. Just give me a D who can get to 270. Fuck the republican traitor filth.
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People are begging for that D. Just give them the D!
What's 270?
The number of electoral votes needed to win the presidency
Electoral college minimum majority to win the election.
The only number that matters. Unfortunately, the number of people that want a President doesn't matter in our goofy, slave-era Electoral College.
The number of electoral college votes to win. Each state has a number of votes based on the census population data.
270 is half the EC.
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Is it sad that to be a "good" president, all one has to do is beat trump at the polls (ok the electoral college), and then do nothing else?
A great president would beat trump then roll back the immunity ruling (somehow ;) ) codify roe v Wade, and resign.
Why would they resign and present an undue opportunity for the far right to come to power again?
Would make the vice the president, who then could/would pardon the resignee, making anything the resignee did an official act, and if not then the pardon is the official act.
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What are you on about ?
Why are you dragging the goalposts down the field ?
I kinda wanna see someone paint the White House in tie dye. White is so…. Boring.
Why the fuck would or should anyone who could achieve those things resign?
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Can these fucking articles actually link to the data? I appreciate including the sampling information but right now I really want to see the actual questions being asked because push-polling absolutely has been used by some of the other outlets.
Okay I found the poll and it's fucking awful...
https://apnorc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/July-2024-W1-topline.pdf
For Approve, Disapprove, Undecided, Null they have:
Harris: 30, 49, 20, 1
Newsom: 17, 31, 51, 1
Whitmer: 15, 21, 64, 1
Harris clearly has the best name recognition but 49% disapproval is insanely high. And they didn't include any other potential candidates like AOC, Warren, or Whitehouse.
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A new poll from the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that about 6 in 10 Democrats believe Kamala Harris would do a good job in the top slot. About 2 in 10 Democrats don’t believe she would, and another 2 in 10 say they don’t know enough to say.
The undecided can be convinced during the campaign.
But I doubt I'll start thinking Kamala would be a good president...
I do think that she'll be able to beat Trump in the election at least. Which is better than Joe.
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49% disapproval rating.....ye gods that's high. Pick literally anyone else. Even Biden yeesh
I'd pay big money to see a prosecutor debate a criminal.
I think she'd be shit, but I would still vote for her over Trump if that's literally the only other option, because as bad she may be it'd still be better than Trump.
I am voting party not person this election.
Get the fuck on board. We gonna out party that cult.
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And I would love to watch her smear the crap out of Trump at a debate.
No chance Trump debates again if it’s against Harris. He’s way too scared of a gasp woman making him look bad.
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Based on what I've seen most people could make a good president if they pick good folks to give them advice and don't act like douchebags.
At this point, a sack of potatoes would make a good president.
rolls for deception
I'm at this point, but unironically. Maybe we should reset back to what the president was always meant to be: a figurehead. Take away any unilateral decision making capabilities. They're only really supposed to have the bully pulpit.
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