2020 Election Thread (formerly: 2020 Presidential Candidates Thread) (Part 1)

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Every student should get registered in school to vote at 16 - with class trips to vote - at 16.

Hell - give everyone a day off if they’ve gone to the polls.

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Universities should become a default voting place.

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Yes! A big point made in the Beeb piece you linked is that it can be difficult to figure out just how to vote when you’re in college. Let alone finding time for all that.

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The “18-29” demographic hides some important information: someone in college away from home has structural barriers compared to someone the same age who is settled in one place. It would be interesting if there was a breakdown of this.

Youth voting jumped up to 36% in 2018 then dropped back down to 20% on Super Tuesday. The optimist in me says that the missing 16% doesn’t strongly prefer one Democratic candidate over another, but will show up in November to vote against Trump.

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The optimist in me says that the missing 16% doesn’t strongly prefer one Democratic candidate over another, but will show up in November to vote against Trump.

Especially if it’s Sanders. And likely not, I’d guess, if its Biden. (I think a huge percentage of them do prefer one over the other.)

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This is unambiguously true for those who showed up to vote, and seems to be true for most of the rest based on polling, but for this particular 16% the degree of the preference didn’t seem to be enough to affect their decision.

What this means for November is anybody’s guess, but I think we’ll need some more primaries before either of the candidates left can make any claims about electability or turnout.

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Oh no, it’s the exact opposite: if you’re a student, that must mean you’re going to vote for Democratic candidates, and thus you must be prevented from voting at all costs.

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Given her close friendship with his late son, it was a given she would endorse him (i.e. it is not about politics and more about the relationship IMHO).

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Which is how many voters seem to view their choices.

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Oh how I hope the Dems nominate someone who’s long been fighting for the people, not for the powers that be.

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ahhhg. where was this a week ago?

i feel like there’s a bunch of people finally realizing warren would have made a great president just a little too late…

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It’s not too late. There are still three thousand delegates up for grabs and Liz is on those ballots.

EDIT: OK not three thousand

NOT VOTED YET    2582  64.9% 
Joe Biden         664  16.7%
Bernie Sanders    573  14.4%
Elizabeth Warren   64   1.6%
Mike Bloomberg     61   1.5%
Pete Buttigieg     26   0.7%
Amy Klobuchar       7   0.2%
Tulsi Gabbard       2   0.1%

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/10/799979293/how-many-delegates-do-the-2020-presidential-democratic-candidates-have

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But do enough people know that?

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Incidentally, did you know that Rosa Parks eventually turned into a full-on revolutionary supporter of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers?

But, as with MLK, her legacy has been extensively whitewashed by establishment liberals.

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Unfortunately the minimum voting age is still 18. I was registered to vote at 17, but I don’t know if that’s still a thing anymore.

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Yes. She didn’t sit in the front of the bus because she was tired, or because she was somehow too naive to know what she was doing. She had been an activist for years if not decades before then, and had continued to be an activist afterwards.

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Well if we listen to the media it’s now a two-way race between Ward Cleaver and Joseph Stalin

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