He got 2000 “wrong”… Or did he?

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    Since then, his signature legislation has failed to pass as intended, he’s broken a strike, he’s supported a genocide, he’s moved to the right on immigration, and he’s claimed to have defeated Medicare. He’s alienated his base and demonstrated that people who were fretting about his age might have been on to something after all.

    He beat Trump in a nail-biting squeaker of a contest in 2020, and centrists have been pretending he’s invincible ever since.

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        1 year ago

        Oh boohoo, my team didn’t win everything it wanted so I’m going to take my ball and go home.

        Your team didn’t? Did Biden not move far enough to the right for you?

        Still by far the most progressive president in my lifetime.

        I see. He really isn’t far enough to the right for you. Well you should vote for him anyway. No matter who and all that.

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          I’ve never met a single person who thinks any of them could actually get the popular or electoral vote, at this point replacing Biden with another Democrat would be far more likely.

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              About 25 to 50 percent, depending on which Polling Aggregate source you’re using for Biden currently. Which would presumably improve with another candidate.

              25% From the economist

              40% From The Hill

              50% From 538

              Meanwhile, RFK Jr., the highest polling of the third party candidates, has less than 1% chance of winning enough electoral votes.

              However, my original point wasn’t that a Biden replacement would do better than RFK or a third party in the general (though they certainly would), but that if you dislike Biden, him being replaced is more likely than a third party candidate ever winning.