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It's over folks! Libs are winning Florida and Texas while they're at it.

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[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 60 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’ll give liberals this: They’re confident.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 48 points 2 months ago (1 children)

eternal sunshine of the spotless November 7, 2016

[–] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 25 points 2 months ago
[–] Guamer@hexbear.net 46 points 2 months ago

It's one thing to think Kamala will win

It's another to think she'll succeed where even 08' Obama failed

[–] booty@hexbear.net 36 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Yeah ok fuck it whatever you're right, Kamala is going to win all 50 states so hard that they make a 51st state called Harrison which she also wins, good job libs

I've been saying since right after Trump's assassination attempt that I don't think he's got the juice anymore and Kamala's basically unable to lose but these people genuinely make me hope just a little bit that I'm wrong

[–] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 37 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I just hope they both lose.

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago

Here's how nobody can still win

[–] GlueBear@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago

Blue Texas !

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Harrison getting electoral college votes before Puerto Rico would be pretty unsurprising but it would still be so silly

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

I can already hear reddit.

Look, Harrison is kinda weird. It's roughly the size of Liechtenstein so it's really tiny and it's today old. But it was a historical region that happened to be divided. It spanned most of two counties one of which happened to be in Vermont and the other in New Hampshire. They speak English there and to be blunt - they're mostly white. So Biden made it a state with the extraordinary official act powers given to the Office of the Presidency by the Supreme Court

Aaron Sorkin's Harrison is going to be a 12 part HBO Max miniseries. There's more. It's a natural that an unincorporated community in new state gets to vote first. I'm all in favor of Harrison's Whitey's Knob being the first place in the nation to vote in 2026 because it was placed officially in the ET+1 time zone. This will help the dems not only in that year but in 2028 which is - duh, the most important election of our lifetime. The Hollywood buzz is that musical Whitey's Knob by Lin-Manuel Miranda is indeed going forward. All of this stuff shows the power of American democracy.

But ya gotta cool your jets on your wish list. Biden can't just do anything he wants via his official acts power. The situation in Puerto Rico is complicated and nuanced. They got a different culture there and they speak Spanish. It's been a country/state territory thing for a very long time so it's unrealistic for Biden to...

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 32 points 2 months ago

Must be nice living in a constant fantasy.

[–] Sulvor@hexbear.net 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Still writing in Claudia in Kansas smuglord

[–] hungrybread@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hell yeah comrade, same here

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 31 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Kinda want Kamala to win just because it will be interesting to study the liberal brain under the first incontroveribly fascist Democrat administration.

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Uhuhuh, UHUHUHUH, you think KAMALA'S a fascist? Uhuhuhuh, sure tankie"

There you go, that's liberals for the next four years.

[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Or: "Trump would be a worse Fascist!"

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Or "she is so responsible, making the hard adult decisions needed to keep America safe"

[–] SadArtemis@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

This is it, we've been living it for the past 4 years already and in other countries like the frozen burger hellhole where I live this is exactly what we get.

[–] REgon@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That was the Biden admin, and what they did was just Stancilism (look at this graph, it says things are great therefore things are great. Pay no attention to the deportations or the murders)

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

Stancilism

Look, I've used a graph so I've already won this argument - leftie. But reply back if you want and dig your own grave deeper and deeper because I have ~10 more graphs on this topic.

[–] regul@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago

They're going to lose so nobly, though.

[–] shreddingitlater@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago

Solidified copium put into a pipe and smoked. There's no world where he loses Texas and Florida.

[–] ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago

is this theory for liberals?

[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago

Let them cope let-them-fight

[–] an_engel_on_earth@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago

Yeah this is absolute copium. Back in 2020 there was a poll that had Trump up by 4 points, he ended up winning by 15.

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

The pertinent bit from the actual poll:

When asked about their preferences regarding the upcoming presidential election, 46.3% of respondents would vote for Donald Trump, and 36.5% would vote for Kamala Harris. Another 6.8% chose neither candidate, 7.3% did not plan to vote or cannot vote, and 3.1% did not know (Figure 11). After excluding those who do not plan on voting or cannot vote, 49.9% of respondents would vote for Donald Trump, and 39.4% would vote for Kamala Harris. Among registered voters after excluding those who do not plan on voting or cannot vote, the support for Donald Trump was slightly lower, with 48.2% of respondents supporting him and 43.2% supporting Kamala Harris (Figure 12).

So the five percent margin assumes none of the “don’t plan to vote” respondents vote anyway, that none of the “not registered” registered after getting polled, that the undecideds don’t break for Trump, or that any of the “can’t vote” respondents actually can. This also wasn’t a traditional presidential poll but rather a general statewide opinion poll done by a university so make of that what you will.

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

I remember this shit with Florida... Yeah no...

[–] D61@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

A win is a win. 5 points or 45 points, it doesn't matter.