B-Man Posted April 2 Share Posted April 2 Who Will Vote for a Walking Corpse? STEPHEN GREEN Social media was briefly abuzz last month about Presidentish Joe Biden's boat-anchor shoes, the ones meant to help keep him from falling. But the shoes aren't what really weigh him down — it's voter expectations that he won't survive a second term. https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2024/04/01/who-will-vote-for-a-walking-corpse-n4927812 . 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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B-Man Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 No Labels won’t run a third-party campaign after trying to recruit a centrist presidential candidate Associated Press News, by Steve Peoples & Jonathan J. Cooper The No Labels group said Thursday it will not field a presidential candidate in November after strategists for the bipartisan organization failed to attract a high-profile centrist willing to seize on the widespread dissatisfaction with President Joe Biden and Donald Trump. “No Labels has always said we would only offer our ballot line to a ticket if we could identify candidates with a credible path to winning the White House,” Nancy Jacobson, the group’s CEO, said in a statement sent out to allies. “No such candidates emerged, so the responsible course of action is for us to stand down.” https://apnews.com/article/no-labels-2024-third-party-biden-trump-c7477857e1dd05535326b8850f4500a1 . 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 Democrats should be jittery about Pennsylvania voter registration trends BySalena Zito HOOVERSVILLE, Pennsylvania — If you are a longtime resident of Pennsylvania, it still is a bit of a jolt to the senses to drive through what was once coal country and see an oversized, cheery, red billboard sitting along U.S. 30 reading “VOTE REPUBLICAN.” However, it is a reminder of how much the people who live in these old industrial and coal-rich counties have shed the local Democratic politics of their upbringing. Voter registration numbers, as we shall see, show as much. Important to note: These voters have not changed personally, but their parties have done so. Democrats have abandoned their working-class voters for college-educated elites who rarely call the middle of somewhere home. Officials in both parties in Washington — whether they are lawmakers on Capitol Hill or strategists working for one of the alphabet soup campaign arms of the House, Senate, or state legislatures, or a staffer for any of them — often struggle with how to appeal to these citizens. Democrats did appeal to them well for so long … until they didn’t. It was an erosion that wasn’t all that easily detected because what didn’t move in a significant way was the voter registration numbers. Part of why voters who left the Democratic Party did not change their voter registration had to do with local elections and the state’s closed primary system. Because Republicans had been in the wilderness for so long in local mayoral and county row office races — Democrats had held control of these seats since the rise of the New Deal Democrat coalition — people held on to their Democrat registration because most races were decided in primaries because only Democrats ran. And then something changed, or actually a couple of things changed. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2954573/democrats-should-be-jittery-about-pennsylvania-voter-registration-trends/ . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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The Frankish Reich Posted April 5 Author Share Posted April 5 1 hour ago, B-Man said: Democrats should be jittery about Pennsylvania voter registration trends BySalena Zito HOOVERSVILLE, Pennsylvania — If you are a longtime resident of Pennsylvania, it still is a bit of a jolt to the senses to drive through what was once coal country and see an oversized, cheery, red billboard sitting along U.S. 30 reading “VOTE REPUBLICAN.” However, it is a reminder of how much the people who live in these old industrial and coal-rich counties have shed the local Democratic politics of their upbringing. Voter registration numbers, as we shall see, show as much. Important to note: These voters have not changed personally, but their parties have done so. Democrats have abandoned their working-class voters for college-educated elites who rarely call the middle of somewhere home. Officials in both parties in Washington — whether they are lawmakers on Capitol Hill or strategists working for one of the alphabet soup campaign arms of the House, Senate, or state legislatures, or a staffer for any of them — often struggle with how to appeal to these citizens. Democrats did appeal to them well for so long … until they didn’t. It was an erosion that wasn’t all that easily detected because what didn’t move in a significant way was the voter registration numbers. Part of why voters who left the Democratic Party did not change their voter registration had to do with local elections and the state’s closed primary system. Because Republicans had been in the wilderness for so long in local mayoral and county row office races — Democrats had held control of these seats since the rise of the New Deal Democrat coalition — people held on to their Democrat registration because most races were decided in primaries because only Democrats ran. And then something changed, or actually a couple of things changed. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2954573/democrats-should-be-jittery-about-pennsylvania-voter-registration-trends/ . The hard facts: this is a part of the country - the Pennsyltucky region - that time and economic change has left behind. Coal fields exist within Somerset County. The coal is entirely bituminous, and much of it has been mined or is being mined by Strip mining. Most of the coal is within the Main Bituminous Field, which stretched north and west to adjacent counties and southward into Maryland and West Virginia. The rest is within the Georges Creek Field.[15] There are many abandoned mines in the county, and acid mine drainage is an environmental problem in many areas. Fishless streams exist as a result of the discharge from the abandoned mines. These include parts of the Casselman River, Shade Creek, Stonycreek River, and Quemahoning Creek, as well as many of their tributaries. The bituminous coal there is largely played out or is no longer in demand in the modern economy. It is not coming back, not even if the anti-coal/pro-renewable focus of the government changes. One party seems to be offering false hope, whereas the other is the realist. This, by the way, is the exact opposite of where the parties stood in the age of Reagan. Reagan's economist and Republican think tanks saw what was coming and they wanted to issue a kind of "relocation payments" to these communities - an incentive to move to where the jobs are now being created. That should have happened, but politicians (Dems back then) didn't want to lose their base of voters. So back then the Dems pretended that these communities could come back strong. It was a political lie. Now the tables are turned and the new (Trump) Republicans sells them the same lie. Of course their political allegiances have changed because the party willing to pander to them has changed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Callahan Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 5 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said: The hard facts: this is a part of the country - the Pennsyltucky region - that time and economic change has left behind. Coal fields exist within Somerset County. The coal is entirely bituminous, and much of it has been mined or is being mined by Strip mining. Most of the coal is within the Main Bituminous Field, which stretched north and west to adjacent counties and southward into Maryland and West Virginia. The rest is within the Georges Creek Field.[15] There are many abandoned mines in the county, and acid mine drainage is an environmental problem in many areas. Fishless streams exist as a result of the discharge from the abandoned mines. These include parts of the Casselman River, Shade Creek, Stonycreek River, and Quemahoning Creek, as well as many of their tributaries. The bituminous coal there is largely played out or is no longer in demand in the modern economy. It is not coming back, not even if the anti-coal/pro-renewable focus of the government changes. One party seems to be offering false hope, whereas the other is the realist. This, by the way, is the exact opposite of where the parties stood in the age of Reagan. Reagan's economist and Republican think tanks saw what was coming and they wanted to issue a kind of "relocation payments" to these communities - an incentive to move to where the jobs are now being created. That should have happened, but politicians (Dems back then) didn't want to lose their base of voters. So back then the Dems pretended that these communities could come back strong. It was a political lie. Now the tables are turned and the new (Trump) Republicans sells them the same lie. Of course their political allegiances have changed because the party willing to pander to them has changed. Pennsylvania is the nation's second-largest natural gas producer after Texas, with natural gas output in the state totaling 7.5 trillion cubic feet in 2022. Most of our energy comes from Natural gas and is rising. Electricity in the U.S. - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) All of Sumerset county falls in the Marcellus Shale field. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Frankish Reich Posted April 5 Author Share Posted April 5 On 4/1/2024 at 8:47 PM, B-Man said: Who Will Vote for a Walking Corpse? STEPHEN GREEN Social media was briefly abuzz last month about Presidentish Joe Biden's boat-anchor shoes, the ones meant to help keep him from falling. But the shoes aren't what really weigh him down — it's voter expectations that he won't survive a second term. https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2024/04/01/who-will-vote-for-a-walking-corpse-n4927812 . Short answer: 81 million Americans. Which is about 7 million more than will vote for a golf-cart riding fully embalmed in orange corpse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Callahan Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 15 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said: Short answer: 81 million Americans. Which is about 7 million more than will vote for a golf-cart riding fully embalmed in orange corpse. you think 81 million again, when people feeling the Biden agenda? that's going to take one heck of a mail in/ballot harvesting machine to get that done this time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Frankish Reich Posted April 5 Author Share Posted April 5 4 minutes ago, Tommy Callahan said: that's going to take one heck of a mail in/ballot harvesting machine to get that done this time I'm working on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Callahan Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 (edited) 1 minute ago, The Frankish Reich said: I'm working on it. You might want to brush up on your basic math skills first. Edited April 5 by Tommy Callahan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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B-Man Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 From Politico: WELL, BIDEN’S REALLY OLD. YOUNG PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING. OLDER PEOPLE ARE MOSTLY DOING OKAY ECONOMICALLY. SO IS IT REALLY A MYSTERY IF THIS IS HAPPENING? The polls are suggesting a huge shift in the electorate. Are they right? “Polls show former President Donald Trump is ascendant with the youngest bloc of the electorate, even leading President Joe Biden in some surveys, as less-engaged young voters spurn Biden. Meanwhile, Biden is stronger with seniors than he was four years ago, even as his personal image is significantly diminished since he was elected last time.” https://news.yahoo.com/age-inversion-rocking-2024-election-110000502.html? . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SCBills Posted April 9 Share Posted April 9 (edited) We could’ve had a proper country Will forever be frustrated that DeSantis couldn’t get his Florida message out due to the presence of Trump. All he does is common sense stuff that benefits his citizens, with a conservative lean on social issues where the majority of Americans agree with him which allows him grace on an issue like the heartbeat ban with his citizens .. while also being one of the strongest environmentalist politicians on either side of the aisle. Edited April 9 by SCBills 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 Makes good sense. Trump Wants More Debates, but Perhaps Not for the Reason You’re Thinking MATT MARGOLIS The Trump campaign is pressing for additional 2024 presidential debates, saying they should happen "much earlier" than the initial timetable proposed by the Commission on Presidential Debates. Fox News Digital obtained an exclusive letter that reveals that Trump's co-campaign managers, Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita, addressed the Commission on Presidential Debates co-chairs, Frank Fahrenkopf Jr. and Antonia Hernandez, on Thursday. "While the Commission on Presidential Debates has already announced three presidential debates and a vice-presidential debate to occur later this year, we are in favor of these debates beginning much earlier," they explained. It stands to reason that the Trump campaign sees Biden as a frail old man with diminished cognitive health, and that's why he wants more debates much earlier. But the reason they are calling for a change in the debate schedule is actually objectively practical. "Specific to the Commission's proposed 2024 calendar, it simply comes too late," they wrote. "By the date of the first proposed debate, September 16, 2024, over 1 million Americans will have likely voted. By the date of the second proposed debate, October 1, 2024, the number of Americans who will have likely cast a ballot will be over 3 million, an increase of 225%." They estimate that by the third proposed debate on October 9, barely a month before the election, "approximately 8.7 million Americans will have already voted." https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/04/11/trump-wants-more-debates-but-perhaps-not-for-the-reason-youre-thinking-n4928095 Of course, I think that the chances that Biden's handlers allow him to debate is zero. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 Trump is toast. Not only is Biden doing a good job, but Trump is hemorrhaging support because he is nuts, a traitor and has no principles aside from supporting his personal interests Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregg Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 56 minutes ago, Tiberius said: Trump is toast. Not only is Biden doing a good job, but Trump is hemorrhaging support because he is nuts, a traitor and has no principles aside from supporting his personal interests If you mean by destroying America, then he is doing a great job. Worst President ever. AINEC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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