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Democrats worry their most loyal voters won’t turn out for Biden in 2024
(www.washingtonpost.com)
Should have thought of that at least 2 years ago.
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Incumbents historically win reelection more often than not, and the election hasn't started properly yet.
They didn't turn out in the midterms because Trump wasn't on the ballot.
Give people the option of 4 more years of Biden or going back to Trump, they'll turn out. I'm not concerned about that.
I'm more concerned about congress
It's almost like he made a bunch of promises and then the democrats deliberate self-sabotaged so that they wouldn't have to actually fufil them.
What's that, we can't fix the senate because the parliamentarian said so? I guess the filibuster is insurmountable then. It certainly isn't like we can just ignore or replace said parlimentarian.
What's that, rather than using the clear and unambiguous means of forgiving student debt, we're going to use a method that the Republicans can easily block with a lawsuit that goes to their bought-and-paid-for Supreme Court? Guess you're stuck in debtor's hell forever.
Campaign on worker and union rights but then pass laws to force the railroad workers back to work without striking and without any rights.
Republicans are traitors and Democrats are nigh-on useless, and they wonder why voter turnout looks grim.
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You shouldn’t be allowed to hold office if you’re over 50. Find someone under 50 and people might get excited.
I’m sick and tired of this gerontocracy. It’s always been pasty faced old men running the show. They readily sell out everyone’s futures because they won’t be there to face the consequences.
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Black voters might either abstain or, potentially, be swayed by Republican messaging on certain key issues.
If Republicans magically sweeten up on Tim Scott, that's going to be hella bad. We'll be energy independent as bee's homes melt and with a dude significantly more partial to racists than anyone that's black should be.
I have a suspicion that Tim Scott, if given full up-close magnification as a front runner, would creep people out with his unmarried, maybe-a-virgin, obvious Christian closet-case routine.
Refusing to be who you are, and instead allying yourself with the very people who hate who you really are, is some Stockholm shit by way of South Carolina.
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