US Politics 3

Moggy wrote:1980 Reagan: 43m
1984 Reagan: 54m
1988 Bush: 48m
1992 Bush: 39m
1996 Dole: 39m
2000 Bush: 50m
2004 Bush: 62m
2008 McCain: 60m
2012 Romney: 60m
2016 Trump: 62m
2020 Trump: 74m

Republicans love voting for banana splits, but it looks like Trump attracted lots of other banana splits.

Drumstick wrote:

Moggy wrote:1980 Reagan: 43m
1984 Reagan: 54m
1988 Bush: 48m
1992 Bush: 39m
1996 Dole: 39m
2000 Bush: 50m
2004 Bush: 62m
2008 McCain: 60m
2012 Romney: 60m
2016 Trump: 62m
2020 Trump: 74m

Republicans love voting for banana splits, but it looks like Trump attracted lots of other banana splits.

Expressing those as a percentage of a) total USA population, and b) total election votes, would provide greater relevance

Edit: Nice one Rex.

Drumstick wrote:

Moggy wrote:1980 Reagan: 43m 226.5 mil 19%
1984 Reagan: 54m 235.8 mil 23%
1988 Bush: 48m 244.5 mil 20%
1992 Bush: 39m 256.9 mil 15%
1996 Dole: 39m 269.7 mil 14%
2000 Bush: 50m 282.2 mil 18%
2004 Bush: 62m 292.8 mil 21%
2008 McCain: 60m 304.1 mil 20%
2012 Romney: 60m 313.9 19%
2016 Trump: 62m 323.1 19%
2020 Trump: 74m 328.2 23%

Republicans love voting for banana splits, but it looks like Trump attracted lots of other banana splits.

Expressing those as a percentage of a) total USA population, and b) total election votes, would provide greater relevance

Edit: Nice one Rex.

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Tomous wrote:

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Drumstick wrote:

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:Is it conceivable in any way that the end of Trump could splinter the Republican party? Could they see the rise of a UKIP/Brexit Party equivalent as we did over here or is the two party state too ingrained in their politics?

In terms of the GOP, some (most?) appear to have effectively disowned the Trumpster.

Now, whether Teflon Don's base will see this as a betrayal of their Supreme Leader, and no longer vote for the Republicans, that is up in the air. Like Moggy I think it's probably hopeful at best, but time will ultimately tell.

I'd like Trump to run as an Independent in 2024 because it would effectively hand the election to the Democrats, but more importantly, it could be the wedge that absolutely splinters the Rs and that would be a glorious, glorious thing.

That said, I'm torn because of my desire to see Annoying Orange indicted and incarcerated, so I guess I'll take what I can get.

Maybe the Dumpster can rot in prison while one of his scumbag sons goes for it instead, enabling the glorious splintering we so desire?

They'll hopefully be in jail too.

I'll happily accept one of them remaining free if it results in an ultimately ineffective third party that reduces support for the Republicans.

We should get Jenuall to run a script to estimate the numbers, then get Tomous to audit them and provide sign off.

This new party would simultaneously hold the record for both the lowest and highest support in history!

If it's anything like a forum game, Jenuall would be assassinated before Inauguration Day.

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Tafdolphin wrote:

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Tafdolphin wrote:Reports now that all the panic buttons were removed from one Dem senator's office, and that Republicans were seen giving in-depth tours of the Capitol the day before.

It sounds like conspiracy nonsense. But it's only nonsense if there's no conspiracy and there's a build up of evidence that...there was?

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Victor Mildew wrote:All I see is a Lincoln bust. What am I supposed to be looking at?

Tafdolphin wrote:Reports now that all the panic buttons were removed from one Dem senator's office, and that Republicans were seen giving in-depth tours of the Capitol the day before.

It sounds like conspiracy nonsense. But it's only nonsense if there's no conspiracy and there's a build up of evidence that...there was?

Alvin Flummux wrote:They could at least give those soldiers cots to rest on.

Tafdolphin wrote:Reports now that all the panic buttons were removed from one Dem senator's office, and that Republicans were seen giving in-depth tours of the Capitol the day before.

It sounds like conspiracy nonsense. But it's only nonsense if there's no conspiracy and there's a build up of evidence that...there was?

It's becoming clear that it wasn't just incendiary speechmaking, social media posting, terrorist cops and a Trump sycophant of a Defense Secretary that allowed the attempted coup to happen the way it did.

The Republicans giving those tours knew full well that their tours would make it far, far easier for their Democratic colleagues to be murdered. There should be a full FBI investigation and many, many expulsions from Congress.

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Skarjo wrote:I know this is bad time for a bad take but AOC has a cracking rack.

She’s a fabulous politician and she makes excellent points but dayum.