Never been a single issue voter, but I could be convinced if someone proposes abolishing the supreme court
I cannot fathom thinking Trump was good on policy. An objectively stupid person who had no serious ideas on ideology/policy.
Two former Republicans saying fetterman not a good national candidate but let's put up roy Cooper should tell you a lot
This is a guy who knew so little about the world that he thought the Balkans and the Baltics were the same place. But man those policy chops.
I wasn't referring to his policies specifically, rather I tend to lean Republican on most political views.
I do kind of love this exercise, because we're all picking nits over all these wildly-qualified candidates while the GOP is going to nominate a human twitter feed, win the right three states, and get the presidency.
Fetterman probably going to win a highly nationally representative state in a horrible environment. Very silly to overlook the giant king especially on silly grounds.
I don't really care. Pulling a gun on someone is pretty bad, regardless of the ultimate consequences. Either way, I'm naturally very skeptical of the "outsider" role.
Sure But using the framing of his opponents on the right and ignoring context is an interesting play.
I mean...any middle+ class, white, male that votes against Trump(or any Republican) is technically going against his personal best interest. In an Ayn Rand sense of things. Genuinely, the leading sentiment of every single R voter, be they "conservatives", hard line Rs, or full blown Qs, is "fuck literally everyone but myself".
What’s contextually worse with black voters, firing a black police chief or pulling a gun on a black citizen?
In fairness, you're ignoring a little context, too. The jogger said that Fetterman "lied about everything" in the interaction, but said that it shouldn't disqualify him from the Senate. That was also in a letter from prison, so I don't know how much actual work he's doing on the campaign.
Biden can't get Manchin to play ball? Look, if a guy isn't willing to blackmail someone's family to get shit done, he's not my POTUS.
Incumbents are getting hammered across Europe and Latin America. It’s part of having a democracy. When the economy sucks, or purchasing power of the electorate decreases, those conditions are hung around the neck of the incumbent whether that admin caused them or not.
Before you even get into anything else, why would you want someone over 80 years old to run for president?
Dems refuse to learn the right lesson from fetterman and pritzker which is that america loves big boys and they should run as many enormous candidates as possible.
I'm not arguing in any direction. I'm saying that you, too, are ignoring (or inventing) context about the incident. I don't think it hurts his ability to be elected; I'm still on the devine thread that it's decent evidence that he's probably not a great person.
Dems have one move and it's going more centrist and establishment. It's their only answer to any situation. So whoever gets the nom will be that. It will be an absolute bloodbath. Best case scenario the GOP ruins the country for enough people that we can get some legitimate momentum from the left to take over the party in like a decade. Just gotta hope democracy isn't too far gone by then which feels unlikely
It's probably going to be an electoral college bloodbath regardless of who they run. The GOP candidate will probably still lose the popular vote.
Just the mere fact that he had a shit load of stuff tossed out in court because of how poorly it was constructed should tell you he is not good on policy. Not tossed out on the merits or legality of the policy, but the fact it was written by morons.
Nominating someone with a regional bias his direction plus oversized power among rural whites is a great way to swing that electoral bias back to dems like it was in 12