Posted on 11/07/2024 1:13:06 PM PST by Az Joe
2nd thought, How about we meet halfway and call it a mud slide. With Vanilla ice cream.
Technically you’re right. Emotionally though, for our side and theirs, it was a GIANT shakeup of the political universe and doesn’t really matter what you call it. Loosely speaking “landslide” works well enough even if it might not be listed as such in history books.
I’ll go further and say that compared to actual electoral landslides, such as Reagan trouncing Mondale, the result Tuesday will prove far more consequential. Not so much for what Republican’s gain, but what we (the country, the world) would have lost if the result had gone the other way.
Very much agree.
A ‘vanity’ of ‘vanity’ and an imagination of a vanity...
Yeah, I hit all of those Powerball numbers for an obscene nine-digit payout, but damn, the TAXES!
Dammit, I saw this after I made my post.
Great minds and all.
I got a great deal on this 3,218 sq. ft. house, but look at what I have to keep clean! 😫
GFY!!! We won.
I do and I want it to bring them no hope or joy.
Grow up
Huh?
sanity
could be
agreed
Your maturity is slipping
Maturity, look into it
I’m not saying you are dumb, but your analysis certainly is.
In our current political environment, Tuesday is as landslide as it gets.
I'd appreciate if, in your vanity thread, that you do more than bark out three- and four-word responses that are lacking in substance.
I'll start off: I think I can agree that this was not a "landslide", not as it has been classically defined in our history.
"Landslide" is a geophysical term. To stay within geophysical terms, was this a "landslide"? No. But it most certainly was an "earthquake".
Seriously consider Humbugs' and ansel12s' responses to you. They are accurate.
We bested or matched nearly every pre-election poll. We brought millions of Blacks and Latinos over to our side. We stopped a great deal of cheating, in real time. This was, indeed, an "earthquake". I think you can agree with that.
I'll defend Az Joe here for a second. He's technically right. This was not a landslide.
It was, however, an earthquake. See my post above.
You are missing OP’s point. Harris generated over 220 EVs just by default due to (D). A slight shift could of led to 270+. This does not bode well for future elections.
Trump is not fixing squat, he may get some things rolling but the fundemental problems the US has now will take a generation or two to manage/solve. Those default (D) EVs every Pres election due to the gibsmethats army needs to be reduced in some manner. Dems are retooling and going to purge the “crazies”. They are going pure Blue Dog/centrist mode and try to pick off fence sitters next time around.
Trump is not fixing squat
Well, not if our side has an attitude like THAT.
We will have the Senate, the House, and the Presidency for the next two years at a minimum. We should get busy. I wrote out a checklist of goals I feel are important. View them here.
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