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Ron Faucheux: JD Vance’s Complicated Path to the Presidency
The Advocate ^ | 8/1 | Ron Faucheux

Posted on 08/01/2025 6:48:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: irishjuggler

“What I don’t get is why he’d be viewed *unfavorably* by alleged independents.”

I believe it’s common knowledge that pollsters generally under-sample GOP voters. Knowing this helps make a little more sense to me.


21 posted on 08/01/2025 7:58:08 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: PghBaldy
George H.W. Bush, ...bec(a)me the first incumbent vice president to be elected president since Martin Van Buren.

Consider this: LBJ, HST, Coolidge, Roosevelt, Arthur, and Johnson were VPs that became president through death, before they had the chance.

22 posted on 08/01/2025 7:59:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
Republicans never seem to care or do a good job at making themselves likeable across vast swaths.

I can't think of one Democrat "likeable across vast swaths."`

Can you?

23 posted on 08/01/2025 8:03:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of racism, anger, hate and violence.)
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To: MayflowerMadam; irishjuggler

That and I believe that most “independents” are really democrats. If you can’t figure it out by now, then you are clueless, hence democrat. But I repeat myself.


24 posted on 08/01/2025 8:13:02 PM PDT by GMThrust
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

Well, we did already have a Witch as first lady in the 90s, so perhaps Hindu won’t be a stretch.

The Dougster, aka Mr Kackala Harris, was Jewish. Obama (”My Muslim faith”) made it through.

Or maybe there’s a difference with those ones... something... maybe.. oh, yeah— “Democrat.”


25 posted on 08/01/2025 8:21:18 PM PDT by Señor Presidente (Tyranny deserves insurrection)
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To: irishjuggler
“Independents, who often determine winners in close elections, are less positive than negative, 28% favorable to 53% unfavorable.” Can someone explain this to me? Of course, *Dems* are going to hate him like they hate any living Republican. But independents? Why the lopsided hate among alleged “independents”? Because other than mere partisanship, I don’t quite get what’s to dislike so much about JDV. He seems like a good guy to me. He’s got a great biography (cf. Hillbilly Elegy), made something out of life after a difficult childhood, served in the Marines, is a family man. Seems to me that to hate him, is to hate what good and decent about America.

The explanation is very simple. The Advocate is a far left progressive newspaper. They are very heavy into LGBT issues.

They lie. But to quote Mark Twain, "liars, damn liars, and statisticians. It is believed this was originally from Benjamin Disraeli.

26 posted on 08/01/2025 8:23:21 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist ,MAGA)
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To: Mark

Elect Vance to the presidency and make former President Trump the new head of D.O.G.E. Works for me.


27 posted on 08/01/2025 10:14:30 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Kamala Harris would have been the next Abraham Lincoln". - Jeff "Dumber" Daniels.)
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To: nickcarraway

JD Vance is owned by Peter Theil and Palantir Technologies.

If you understood Palantir, you would be worried. They are 100X worse than Snowden warned us about.


28 posted on 08/01/2025 10:27:31 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: tired&retired

Is that why he was chosen to be VP?


29 posted on 08/01/2025 10:31:01 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: tired&retired

How did he go from being Hollywood liberal to Silicon Valley?


30 posted on 08/01/2025 10:31:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

What could Trump do for an encore? He could travel to the remaining states needed for a Convention Of States and offer to be the Chairman once it was called. That would put him up there with George Washington who chaired the original Convention.


31 posted on 08/01/2025 10:44:47 PM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: Nateman

Boy do we really need a convention of the states first thing on the agenda TERM LIMITS!!!


32 posted on 08/01/2025 10:56:43 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell )
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Balanced Budget. It only needs 5 more states to happen and once there was a Convention on that everyone would see that the world didn’t end so another call would be much easier.


33 posted on 08/01/2025 11:01:55 PM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: nickcarraway
If JD becomes president he will be the most articulate and eloquent president since Theodore Sorensen.


34 posted on 08/02/2025 12:53:36 AM PDT by nathanbedford (Attack, repeat, attack! - Bull Halsey)
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To: nickcarraway

His prospects began and end with Peter Thiel.


35 posted on 08/02/2025 12:54:36 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: nickcarraway

Billionaire Peter Theil hired JD Vance out of college, then funded his business venture. Then funded his senate run in Ohio.

Finally, Theil met with Trump and asked him to pick JD as his VP.


36 posted on 08/02/2025 1:05:21 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: tired&retired

Elon Musk was replaced by Peter Thiel as CEO of X.com, which was renamed PayPal in June 2001 and went public in 2002.

Musk owned X.com and Thiel owned Confinity. The two merged and became PayPal.

Thiel is German born, Musk is South Africa.

Gawker magazine outed Thiel as being gay. He couldn’t sue for defamation as it was true. So when Gawker published Hulk Hogan’s sex tapes, Thiel funded Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker, winning over $100 million.


37 posted on 08/02/2025 1:18:47 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: nathanbedford

If JD becomes president he will be the most articulate and eloquent president since Theodore Sorensen.

Nathan: That is a GREAT observation. Enjoyed Theodore’s Pulitzer!


38 posted on 08/02/2025 5:02:43 AM PDT by DrHFrog
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To: nopardons

Trump wouldn’t be serving three consecutive terms. He will run if he wants to, and the SC will find a way for him to do it legitimately.


39 posted on 08/02/2025 5:20:58 AM PDT by Kleon
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