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Theresa O'Neil Kessler's avatar

I believe that Biden will win by a million of 10 million votes or more! Providing everybody does what they did for the 2020 election. It's not like Trump is trying to get any more new members to join him....He lost the last time and he'll lose again this time....There are soooo many more people that are fed up with Trump. I personally have republicans on my facebook saying this will be voting for Biden also...So mathmatically if just 1 person does that, its 2 voters that Trump would have to get to tie Biden with losing a vote and the opposite person gaining a vote.......Two predictions: Biden will win by at least 10 million votes, and we will also see our first woman president within Biden's 2nd term. WE CANNOT LOSE OUR DEMOCRACY......Everybody vote blue, or we'll all be following a new "russia" here in the US!!! We cannot become an autocratic country!!!

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david mccrary's avatar

Man I hope you are correct!

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Alec V's avatar

Man, you're crazy if you think this election will draw as many Dems to the polls as 2020. So many people who voted for him previously are disillusioned with politics in general, stuck with two terrible (and the same) choices yet again. Plenty of folks aren't going to do the "better of two evils" thing again. I don't think Trump has lost as many voters as you think he has, and Biden has lot a LOT of voters with his complicity in the genocide of Palestinians. The Democratic party needs to provide a candidate that the people want to vote for if they want to win.

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Mark Carpenter's avatar

Biden is a good man. He's also 81 years old. I would feel a lot better about voting for a candidate whom I weren't afraid might be becoming senile.

Trump is a snake. I'm religious (an Episcopalian) and the word which comes to mind when I think of Trump is "AntiChrist". I put Donald Trump in league with Tiberius, Pontius Pilate (the historical Pilate was vastly worse than his altercation with Jesus suggests), Caligula, Nero, Domitian, Genghis Khan, the Borgia Popes, Torquemada, Pope Leo X, Maximilian Robespierre, King Leopold II (who engineered the mass murder of millions of Africans), Stalin, Hitler and his toadies, Mussolini, Francisco Franco, Antonio Salazar, Philippe Pétain, Vidkun Quisling, Augustín Pinochet, the Ayatollah Khomeini, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-un Idi Amin, Nicolae Ceaușescu, Slobodan Milošević, and Vladimir Putin. Trump is among the worst of the worst.

I also live in a deep red state which is assuredly going to go for Trump.

If we lived in a country where the person with an absolute majority of the votes became the President, I'd vote for Biden. Unfortunately, we live in a country which uses an Electoral College, so we're voting for electors. In most states, whomever wins the elections gets ALL the Electoral votes. My vote is therefore meaningless.

I'll vote for U.S. Senator, U.S. Congress member, state house and state senate representatives and I will vote for the most progressive candidates in each race -- but unless the Democrats can find another candidate, one with some charisma and whose personality isn't as appealing as boiled milk, I won't be voting for President.

"It is better to vote for what you want and not get it, than it is to vote for what you don't want and get it." -- Eugene V. Debs, 1920 U.S. Socialist Party candidate for President

I'm 70. I'm tired of voting for what I don't want and getting it.

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Theresa O'Neil Kessler's avatar

Make sure you watch the election results coming in!

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Samuel Trask's avatar

It’s bizarre how many people on here are angry at David, seemingly unaware of what a “steelman argument” is. Perhaps more commonly known as a Devil’s Advocate (I’m aware that the two terms are not exactly interchangeable).

Looking at both sides is a healthy way to approach this, even if you absolutely despise Trump (as I do).

So before you yell and scream about canceling your membership, get a grip on what David is actually doing here. He’s clearly doing everything he can to help defeat Trump.

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david mccrary's avatar

What does it say about the US if mango don elected?

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Dogmother2's avatar

I think it was Confucius who said “A society gets the kind of ethics it deserves.” I was a freshman in college in the 1970s and that resonated.

But wait a minute, the electoral college makes It possible for the unpopular person to win.

So how critical it is to sway the swing voters.

It infuriates me that such a small and non-representative group can decide the future for our entire country When the majority of us do not agree with the maggots

So maybe we Will be getting what we deserve. I mean, why didn’t Democrats change this whole thing after the bush steal?

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Buck Wylde's avatar

14% of the electorate picks the candidates. The electoral college places the office of the presidency in the hands of a couple of hundred thousand voters in swing states. Gerrymandering means incumbents don’t have to address the needs of their constituents. 61% of the American public read and comprehend at the level of a ten year old child, and nearly a third of Americans can’t even be bothered to vote. Russia, China, and Iran have well funded disinformation campaigns targeted at American politics, and even they want to see Trump re elected because his incompetence and corruption will cause chaos in the country. The whole political system needs a serious revamp, and prosecuting white collar corruption has to be a priority, along with dark money and outside influence removed from our self governance. Cynicism becomes a self fulfilling prophesy if enough people engage with it.

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karin magid's avatar

I have been paying $6 a month for almost a year so it is insulting and inefficient of you

To have reminders to up grade especially

As i have written to you before about this

And did not cancel because i like david and his views

Hoever if you do not answer this epistle i will

Cancel

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Lonnie E's avatar

I like Simon Rosenberg's sports metaphor for the 2024 election.

It's the first quarter and we are tied. The Democratic team is favored to win and that means we have to do the work to go on to win the game. If every Democrat sits on their hands during the game from fear and worry due to russia-gop propaganda, we lose the game. If every Democrat takes every action they can do, we win the game. Go Team!!

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Mary Jo Wilkins's avatar

Thanks David, I needed some positive news today 🩵

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Doris DeGenova's avatar

After years of subscribing, I just unsub'd and changed my credit card number, removing myself as a follower. The utter lies and nonsense posted here are what has ruined any political discussion in the US. It started with Q and Donald Trump. Prior to April of 2019 - there were zero negative stories about Joe Biden. April of 2019 was Trump's call to Zelinsky. It started that summer.

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Timothy Taylor's avatar

Biden's fanatical and criminal support of child porn and child sex trafficking should be fatal for him. Trump is ignoring the issue but if he ever speaks up, Biden is toast. My children were trafficked to a child porn site under Biden's watch and disappeared. See petition for details. Biden has weaponized the DOJ in support of child porn as the FBI won't take a complaint. See petition for details. True Petition Bring my Sons Home 2

https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/true-petition-bring-my-sons-home-2

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Doris DeGenova's avatar

Huh? You make a statement - yet you don't post your source material? I am surprised that David Pakman has allowed such dangerous lies! As I type, there are thousands of FBI and local law enforcers investigating, indicting and arresting those who are child abusers. Sources? Read local newspapers and watch local news stations. If you believe your post - why are you still here in America? If it were me, I would leave, pronto! This is why we know you are a liar.

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Bert Dandy's avatar

You have avoided entirely which may, due to Biden's horrible handling so far, be the deciding factor in the election. The Border. As long as the DNC allows the right to spout about "illegal" migrants, aliens, criminals, etc. Trump speaks as though the number of asylum seekers can be controlled. They could be possibly, if America was to withdraw from the United Nations. Trumps attempt to turn away seekers was met with court refusal, as will Biden's current mini-effort.

This will be the BALLOT ISSUE and the Democrats and Biden had better get off their asses right now and take control of the narrative. You say it is close but I feel you are way off. I am deeply afraid that, as things go now, their will be more MAGAs actually voting than ever, most ordinary Republicans will reluctantly vote and many Democrats will just give up and stay home. A landslide is looming and a swift kick is not only recommended but mandatory

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Andrew K.'s avatar

“Mandatory?” If Trump wins, we will have an authoritarian, right wing autocracy for hundreds of years until the dissolution of the country altogether. It’s over. There is no domestic leftist military to fight back and take over.

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Kathleen Twardowski's avatar

You're like the rest of the pundits. So disappointing. Still going with the horse race for clicks. Shame on you and FU. We are fighting for democracy you slimy pos.

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Greg McKay's avatar

Wow.

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