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    US Election - Pre and Postmortem...

    Why did such an unlikable Republican President pick up so many votes?


    It's the economy, stupid

    https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/live-experi...37cd44c23c.png

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    Without COVID, Trump would have won in a landslide.

    Think about that for a moment.

    America is truly a country of cruelty and hate.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Cheeky Kiwi:
    Without COVID, Trump would have won in a landslide.

    Think about that for a moment.

    America is truly a country of cruelty and hate.
    Trump might still try the Grover Cleveland gambit in a few years time, especially if Harris takes over and upsets people

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cheeky Kiwi:
    Without COVID, Trump would have won in a landslide.

    Think about that for a moment.

    America is truly a country of cruelty and hate.
    without the Falkland war Maggie would never have been re-elected

    and your point is ?

    or actually another way of putting it could have been - if Trump had handled Covid better he would have won’t by a landslide

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    My point is England is fucked. Bye bye England.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Cheeky Kiwi:
    My point is England is fucked. Bye bye England.
    that’s partly why I’m in HK

    And your point is?

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    Quote Originally Posted by East_coast:
    Why did such an unlikable Republican President pick up so many votes?


    It's the economy, stupid

    https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/live-experi...37cd44c23c.png
    What am I missing here, isnt covid and the economy strongly interlinked(i.e. without ppl dying and being afraid to go ppl the economy would be better, and thus the sooner the pandemic is under control the sooner economy will improve)

    What am I missing here?
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    Quote Originally Posted by henkka:
    What am I missing here?
    You got the 'it's the economy', you missed the 'stupid'

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    Can't help thinking of that man who put £5 million on Trump. Must have been a tough rollercoaster few hours


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    Quote Originally Posted by East_coast:
    Why did such an unlikable Republican President pick up so many votes?
    It's the economy, stupid
    Yeah, right. Like the Proud Boys are going to comment "He was the only one supporting white supremacy". Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer.

    Like it or not, haves are generally not too keen to share their livelihood with the have nots. And if you live in a very wealthy country - and the US, for all its dysfunctionality (what's the proper noun here?), is an incredibly wealthy country - the you're a 'have', and immigrants are have nots. Lots of Latinos (and American-born Asians) aren't wild about large scale immigration because that's competition for them too. Trump stopped the Latino bashing this time round, look what happened.

    Florida passed Amendment 2 with over 60% support. From a traditional republican's perspective, that's the devil incarnate. Yet, Trump won the state. It's not the economy, it's "my piece of the pie"
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