Current Events > You can make an argument that elections are, in a way, rigged in this country

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hockeybabe89 posted...

Literally no one you've spoken to on this website has said Biden is perfect. The majority of Biden voters here are literally reluctant.

Moreso voting against the rapist who continues to paraphrase Hitler, and voting against project 2025 which doesn't necessarily need Trump.

The only meaningful way to do that is voting for Biden. 3rd party or abstaining at minimum means that the above isn't a deal breaker for you.

You can make an argument for anything. In fact, this topic is the poster child for the notion that you can make an argument for anything, with all the derogatory connotation it implies.

TC:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/c66997b2.jpg

One can argue they are rigged both in America and Canada. I've said it before, the major issue I see as an outsider to America is that only 2 parties are promoted in America. Even though you have other candidates running, once you get within a couple months of the actual election, you cease to hear from them, or at least you don't hear much from them. So you could have a really great candidate with amazing ideas, but ad time will beat them every time.

Then you look at the flip flop system that is abundantly clear. One term it will be democrats and piss off half the country, so a republican gets voted in, and then it flips and a democrat gets voted in. Not always after a single term, but it happens enough times that it becomes a thing.

Up here in Canada.... well I've mentioned it before, our entire electoral system is a joke. We don't vote in a Prime Minister, we vote in elected officials for our region, and the majority gets their leader elected Prime Minister. To put it in American terms, If you can't stand Trump, but his elected official actually helped you, while Bidens elected official actively went against you, your hands are tied and your kind of forced to vote for Trumps official. I wish the two elections were handled separately.

Cemith posted...

Fwiw, TC. I believe you're a doctor. But, I don't actually think that makes you smart. In fact, I can say confidently that you're not, given that you voted Trump in 2016 as a "fun experiment".

You're not worth taking seriously.

I mean, Ben Carson is a doctor too and he's REALLY fucking dumb.

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Mayor Pete had been doing laps on Biden until South Carolina and I think Klobuchar had been doing better too. Bernie was doing better than Biden up to that point as well. Now Klobuchar I could get, since shed only been doing a little better. Pete Buttigieg had been consistently doing well, so his immediate drop-off was odd.
Im not saying it was conspiracy against Bernie, but I think the peers did want Biden and waited for the moment he could be pushed ahead because he probably would have the least general resistance from voters given his former role as vp.

MangaBroski posted...

Pete Buttigieg had been consistently doing well, so his immediate drop-off was odd.

He had been doing relatively well. He never actually rivaled Biden or Sanders.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-buttigieg-dropped-out/

*looks at topic title*

Trump lost in 2020, TC. Get over it.

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This 100% killed Pete. He actually had quite a few presidential checkboxes. Maybe he didn't have the biggest administrative roles but as transport secretary he now fills it.

Unfortunately finishing with....1%? I think it was? Of black vote makes him unelectable.

Kind of sad considering he's essentially a younger biden ideologically.

NightingaleMD posted...

This source says 69% of democrats DON'T want biden to run again.

No it doesn't. It literally doesn't. I hope someone has pointed this out already, but it literally says 61% want him to run again.

He wasn't even on the ballot in New Hampshire, and he won a write-in campaign handily. He got 64% of the vote without even being on the ballot.

Dancedreamer posted...

No it doesn't. It literally doesn't. I hope someone has pointed this out already, but it literally says 61% want him to run again.

He wasn't even on the ballot in New Hampshire, and he won a write-in campaign handily. He got 64% of the vote without even being on the ballot.

Oh sorry. Anyway that was old data, here's newer data with higher numbers. Thank you for correction. This says 73% of dems say he's too old to run. See if there are any incongruities here I suppose.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/poll-americans-on-biden-age/story?id=107126589

And this poll says almost half of voters think Biden will be replaced as the nominee:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/02/16/biden-trump-ballot-replaced-nominee/72626852007/

Voters are full of shit according to this poll because that ship sailed.