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Didier Yvon Paul Fayolle Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 25 January 2005 Location: Hong Kong Posts: 5248
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Posted: 26 November 2020 at 10:31pm | IP Logged | 1
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Kevin got the perfect answer.
As a French, I find the US voting system quite strange. For us in France, when we cast our vote, it's for one kind of purpose. If it is a Presidential election, well just the Presidential candidates to choose from; if it is a deputy or senatorial election, it is a separate election. And each vote counts for its own chosen candidate. We don't have electoral super delegates voting afterwards, maybe against our will because it is a take it all scenario.
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John Wickett Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 27 November 2020 at 2:06pm | IP Logged | 2
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(Content removed - John W, as I said previously, you can't post lies here. You are cutting and pasting false data. Please provide links to your sources. -- Tim)
Edited by Tim O Neill on 27 November 2020 at 2:59pm
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Peter Martin Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 17 March 2008 Location: Canada Posts: 15728
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Posted: 27 November 2020 at 3:47pm | IP Logged | 3
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I just hope Biden can win over a chunk of the American people who didn't vote for him. It seems a mammoth task.
I have no doubt that the election was fair and that he won by millions of votes, but unfortunately there are some worrying polls floating around suggesting a large % of Republicans believe Trump's lies that it was a fraudulent victory. And that is a very worrying state of affairs.
I wish Biden nothing but the best of luck.
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John Wickett Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 27 November 2020 at 6:33pm | IP Logged | 4
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"I just hope Biden can win over a chunk of the American people who didn't vote for him. It seems a mammoth task."
I hope so too. If people give him a chance I think he'll be okay. I think the biggest challenge he will have to overcome is hyper-partisanship on both sides.
If progressives and the far right are allowed to dominate the political narratives, people will continue to hate all things right, or all things left, Biden will be lumped in with "the left," and will never be embraced by Republicans.
There are genuine and deep differences of opinion on what policies are in the best interests of the country moving forward. However, there are some areas where there is common ground and great opportunities to compromise, ie the next COVID relief bill.
Biden would be wise to start with some of those compromise areas. Show that he is still the guy who is willing to reach across party lines. That might go a long way towards de-toxifying all of the rhetoric that is pitting us against each other.
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Peter Martin Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 27 November 2020 at 8:30pm | IP Logged | 5
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I think compromise will be key as well, John. It works both ways, of course and that is part of the problem with this hyper-partisanship, as you call it. Both sides are wary of getting hoodwinked by the other. And ridiculously, you end up with what is basically enmity rather than progress.
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Kevin Brown Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 30 November 2020 at 2:36pm | IP Logged | 6
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51 more days... Fingers crossed they fly by without incident.
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Michael Roberts Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 30 November 2020 at 6:21pm | IP Logged | 7
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Biden would be wise to start with some of those compromise areas. Show that he is still the guy who is willing to reach across party lines. That might go a long way towards de-toxifying all of the rhetoric that is pitting us against each other. |
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It's amazing how effective the Republican Party was at gaslighting the whole country into thinking that Obama, a centrist technocrat who first gained national attention with his speech about "purple states" and made significant attempts at bipartisanship in his first term, was a leftist socialist devil.
You know what would go a long way to getting rid of partisanship? Getting rid of that asshole Mitch McConnell. Until then, fuck reaching across the aisle. Biden will just get screwed over like Obama did.
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David Miller Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 30 November 2020 at 7:51pm | IP Logged | 8
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Gaslighting is right. If you listen to Republicans, Obama's administration was eight long years of gangster rap and anti-White demagoguery.
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Joe Zhang Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 30 November 2020 at 11:06pm | IP Logged | 9
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I wouldn't be surprised if the Republicans seize control of the electoral college and re-elect Trump. Not because I want it to happen (I don't). It's because the legal challenges are in Republican states. And nothing this crazy has been done before at this scale. And if Trump is good at anything, its bending a system until it breaks in his favor (like he did with all the bankers who lost billions to him, or how he took over the Republican party.)
Edited by Joe Zhang on 30 November 2020 at 11:08pm
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Matt Hawes Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 30 November 2020 at 11:40pm | IP Logged | 10
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With most of the swing States certifying the votes, and the judgements from the courts in the past few weeks, it seems unlikely Trump and his cronies can affect the Electoral College at this point. His last, desperate gasp is trying to get the Supreme Court to hear his case, and then banking on his "investments" in that court paying off.
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Shawn Kane Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 01 December 2020 at 5:19am | IP Logged | 11
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Michael, As a registered Republican, I'd totally be willing to dump Mitch McConnell (in a heartbeat!) if Nancy Pelosi would get out. Pick another Republican lawmaker and dump Schumer. Keep going until we get leaders of both parties to start working together.
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Eric Ladd Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 01 December 2020 at 5:42am | IP Logged | 12
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I understand the idea of ridding both parties of bad politicians one for one, but there doesn’t seem to be any politician in the last 10 years except Trump that is on par with McConnell’s detrimental activity. Many politicians get vilified by their opponents, but the list of factual offences brought by McConnell opponents dwarfs any other politician’s detractors. A key distinction is factual offences. That alone makes the one for one exercise futile.
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