Re: OT US Politics Again.

On Fri, 16 Aug 2024 15:41:40 -0400, Cryptoengineer
<petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/15/2024 3:39 PM, quadibloc wrote:

Myself, I am not nearly so optimistic.
Kamala Harris is neither white nor male, and that terrifies me, as I
think that a lot of potential
swing voters will simply refuse to consider her on those grounds,
preferring to vote even for Trump
instead.
Yes, she has ignited a great deal of enthusiasm among Democrats, and
higher turnout helps matters
as well. But to elect a President, a party will need to get votes from
at least some rural areas,
the ones more inclined to support Trump. Remember that votes are
filtered through the Electoral
College, so it's not enough to just have a majority of the popular vote
due to a high turnout
in the most populous mainly Democratic states; one has to have a
majority in many states.

>
Quaddie's projecting his own problems with women and brown people onto
undecided Americans.
>
He should remember that we've already elected a black president, and
Hillary failed only because Comey announced re-opening the 'emails'
investigation just 11 days before the election.

Actually, she failed because
-- she had no idea how the Electoral College worked, so she ignored
the "flyover States" (each of which has at least 3 Electoral Votes)
-- when she was out "campaigning", she was mostly schmoozing the local
1%-ers to raise money

Trump won because /someone/ in his campaign (I do not say Trump
himself) knew how the Electoral College worked and Trump loved to talk
to (well, at) voters.

Comey's announcement came while the mail-in ballots were being mailed
in. A lot of votes had already been cast at that point.

Still probably a bad decision, though. But then, so was the private
server itself. When working for the gummint on gummint time one really
should use the gummint server. It might even be harder to hack than a
private server, who can say?
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"