Posted on 06/09/2023 5:03:52 PM PDT by jfd1776
The 2024 primary season is well underway. Most of the candidates will have announced by Independence Day; the first debates commence in August, and petition filing for ballot access in the primaries begins mere weeks after that.
We have a recent incumbent president, a recent incumbent vice president, and a plethora of sitting and former politicians, not to mention a couple of unelected businessmen in the Trump model, already lined up to crowd our debate stage.
Every other op-ed will address the qualifications of the candidates, their strategies and styles, their hopeful paths to victory. But one thing that perhaps doesn’t get enough attention is the question of the dealbreaker.
Spend enough time studying politics, and most voters will eventually determine that there are a couple of issues that are absolute musts for any candidate they’ll support. They’d rather skip a race than be forced to vote for a candidate who’s in the right party or measures up otherwise, but who is wrong on their most important issue.
Traditionally, political consultants identify such an audience as the single-issue voters. No matter how good the candidate is otherwise, if he’s “wrong” (whatever the voter defines “wrong” as) on this big issue, he’s going to need a plan to get other voters to make up for the ones he loses on this...
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Lengthy, but great article!
Trump or nothing I ng@
Lengthy, but great article!
Trump or nothing!
Vary good column, especially the section dealing with Mike Pence’s duty to call out the states that submitted electoral votes not in compliance with state law.
By that time, all of the courts, including (IIRC) Scotus, had punted.
Thanks very much, Jacquerie!
I’ve been amazed at how many people on the right have argued with me about that point. I keep rethinking it, trying to figure out if they might be correct.
But the more I think about it, the more sure I am that the only way that section makes sense is if the Framers intended the vice president to be the last wall, the last checkpoint, the last opportunity to protect the country from a coup.
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