2024 Presidential Election | ELECTION DAY 2024

[CFordUNC]

I disagree.

Given how the Constitution apportions Senate and House seats and how the Electoral College is constructed, the GOP has built in advantages - in the US, land matters more than number of citizens in terms of representation AND corporations are people, too.

It takes a Trump for the GOP to lose. Run Lady G, Little Marco, Brian Kemp, the Virginia governor who pretends he isn’t right-wing, etc. and the GOP wins.

I do agree that a principled, conservative GOP is dead. I doubt it has existed in my voting lifetime (1980). Remember, the sainted Ronald Reagan and his campaign back-channeled the Carter Administration to get Iran to release the hostages AFTER the election. Before Reagan was elected and his tax cuts passed, deficits mattered. Then, we have Inran-Contra. Let’s throw in a little Lee Atwater detailing what the Southern Strategy code words meant; he was on his deathbed looking for forgiveness.

The principled, conservative GOP is dead and cold.

The modern MAGA GOP is alive and well and a threat to take and hold the Oval Office, Senate, House, SCOTUS, and many (most) states for a good long while.

Those are all fantastic points, for sure. I do think, though, that MAGA sans Trump is an enormous electoral loser. In fact, MAGA with Trump has been an electoral loser for 8 straight years since they caught lightning in a bottle aided and abetted by poor Democratic turnout in key areas in 2016. I don’t think the MAGA movement can be sustained in earnest without Trump, and I don’t think it can win with Trump. I think that the Republican Party as a whole at the national level is going to experience some really turbulent times as the Glenn Youngkin/Brian Kemp-esque faction of the party fights the JD Vance/Josh Hawley-esque faction of the party. And I don’t think that either can win a national election without the other’s base. Sure, some states like Alabama, Mississippi et al will continue to send the JD Vance types to Congress, and that’s not nothing. But on the whole we are seeing in real time the Democratic Party reaching a place of strength it hasn’t seen in ages while the Republican Party is spiraling into weakness that it hasn’t seen in ages.

 

[EyeballKid]

My daughter is 2. Doubt she’s worried about which politician I vote for. Just like I have no clue who my parents voted for when I was 2. She’s more concerned with watching Paw Patrol.

I’m pretty sure that question was meant to spark some self-reflection—as in, given the fact that you have a daughter, how would you explain to her that you voted several times over for a loathsome asshole who demeans all women at every opportunity, and who directly and indirectly negatively impacts the lives of women via his policy positions.

 

[Zoo_View]

My daughter is 2. Doubt she’s worried about which politician I vote for. Just like I have no clue who my parents voted for when I was 2. She’s more concerned with watching Paw Patrol.

Your parents voted for Reagan, GHW Bush, Jesse Helms, Lauch Faircloth, Jim Martin, and Jim Gardner.

 

[1moretimeagain]

My daughter is 2. Doubt she’s worried about which politician I vote for. Just like I have no clue who my parents voted for when I was 2. She’s more concerned with watching Paw Patrol.

Paw Patrol sounds woke. Be careful, they can be very sly with their indoctrination.

 

[EyeballKid]

Paw Patrol sounds woke. Be careful, they can be very sly with their indoctrination.

Definitely some aberrant behavior there. I bet they’re big in the furry culture.

 

[HeelYeah2012]

Your parents voted for Reagan, GHW Bush, Jesse Helms, Lauch Faircloth, Jim Martin, and Jim Gardner.

Actually my dad didn’t become a Republican until he got into the real world and gained some life experience. He’s mentioned he was more liberal when he was younger - in other words a pretty typical arc of ideology throughout his life. So I know for sure he didn’t vote for Reagan. I think he voted for Clinton the 2nd time but not the 1st time. Not positive.

 

[JCTarheel82]

Paw Patrol sounds woke. Be careful, they can be very sly with their indoctrination.

Good point. I recall an episode where Mayor Goodway (obviously a DEI candidate) defunded Chase and reappropriated the funds to Tracker to help save the rain forests.

 

[Harkthasound]

Yessir. My wife and I have one daughter already plus another on the way.

All the women in my family (except my sister) are Trump voters so you can spare me the “why don’t you love the women in your life” nonsense.

Why don’t the women in your life love themselves?

 

[HeelYeah2012]

Paw Patrol sounds woke. Be careful, they can be very sly with their indoctrination.

Oh yeah? Just to be safe I’ll go pick her up this awesome new book from the local children’s library. Way more appropriate for kids than woke Paw Patrol!

 

[Carolina Fever]

I’m pretty sure that question was meant to spark some self-reflection—as in, given the fact that you have a daughter, how would you explain to her that you voted several times over for a loathsome asshole who demeans all women at every opportunity, and who directly and indirectly negatively impacts the lives of women via his policy positions.

 

[CFordUNC]

 

[Zoo_View]

Actually my dad didn’t become a Republican until he got into the real world and gained some life experience. He’s mentioned he was more liberal when he was younger - in other words a pretty typical arc of ideology throughout his life. So I know for sure he didn’t vote for Reagan. I think he voted for Clinton the 2nd time but not the 1st time. Not positive.

Ah…..the old “he got work experience and became a conservative” myth.

 

[Carolina Fever]

Oh yeah? Just to be safe I’ll go pick her up this awesome new book from the local children’s library. Way more appropriate for kids than woke Paw Patrol!

Yes, this book will certainly ruin a kid's life more than racism, bigotry, and school shootings.

 

[Duke Mu]

Dystopia Don.

 

[hedge]

So much winning. I'm getting tired of all of this winning.

I love your enthusiasm but let's not take a victory lap just yet. The past few weeks have been great but we've still got to get past the finish line...

 

[hedge]

Not to get too far head of ourselves… but just to speculate and play a little game: who will be in Kamala’s Cabinet?

I'd love to see Obama in any cabinet role. He'd be great as Sec. of State or Defense. Or AG. Has a former president ever done such a thing? Is it even possible given the chain of command and the possibility that a former 2 term president could potentially become president again (which is Constitutionally illegal)?

 

[CallMeTyler]

Oh yeah? Just to be safe I’ll go pick her up this awesome new book from the local children’s library. Way more appropriate for kids than woke Paw Patrol!

We always get there in the end. The bigotry will always come out.

 

[thebruinbleedstarheelblue]

My daughter is 2. Doubt she’s worried about which politician I vote for. Just like I have no clue who my parents voted for when I was 2. She’s more concerned with watching Paw Patrol.

She will want control of her body one day. She will read about the vile man that Donald Trump has been to women some day soon…she will know(unless you lie) that her dad supports a rapist who said “grab em by..” and creeping on young pageant girls…assuming we don’t know more about epstein.

She will know that her dad supported that guy for POTUS and I seriously doubt she’ll have the pride that Gus has for his dad.

 

[HeelYeah2012]

She will want control of her body one day. She will read about the vile man that Donald Trump has been to women some day soon…she will know(unless you lie) that her dad supports a rapist who said “grab em by..” and creeping on young pageant girls…assuming we don’t know more about epstein.

She will know that her dad supported that guy for POTUS and I seriously doubt she’ll have the pride that Gus has for his dad.

Ha. Thanks for the advice but rest assured: every ballot I cast, I cast it with my kids’ future in mind and the goal of trying to make our country/state/community as prosperous as possible.

Who is Gus?

 

[DantesHair]

Ha. Thanks for the advice but rest assured: every ballot I cast, I cast it with my kids’ future in mind and the goal of trying to make our country/state/community as prosperous as possible.

Who is Gus?

Translation: “If my daughter gets raped in middle school, I’m one of the ones that will have enough resources to get her to Virginia where she can have an abortion. And it’s only because I voted for Trumps economy that we had enough cash and low gas prices to get her there.”