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argonautweakend posted...

It depends on many things, but nobody has been able to explain to me how a guy who barely won the first time around, who now has way more people that hate him now than on election day, is somehow going to win. He won by the skin of his teeth and lost the PV by around 3 million. Are the midwest farmers being crushed right now going to vote for him? They may, I don't know, but that is one group at a bare minimum pissed off at trump, who liked him before.

Actually, if you paid attention to what was unfolding, it wasn't a surprise that Trump won. The surprise was how much people were in denial over it. On the democrat side alone how the DNC treated Bernie and Hilarity's failure to campaign in certain places, not to mention things like the 'bag of deplorables' comment, really solidified her defeat. She was coasting on Obama's success and relying on being the 'right' candidate to effectively vault herself into office while ignoring the people who actually voted. California skews things immensely due to it's massive grip on the media, heavy left tilt, and high population in places like LA making the democrats seem far stronger than they actually are.

For this election the economy has gotten much healthier and, while Trump hasn't delivered on all his promises, he's made some major steps. Things like reworking the trade deals and the trade war with China will come massively into his favor especially in regards to the votes of the middle class while other things such as the DNC's inability to field a strong candidate, terrible treatment of Gabbard and Yang, and that impeachment, even if it works, is going to also going to utterly tank Biden's chances (especially since he's their frontrunner) is going to leave the DNC in such a weak position they're basically going to have to try to win by default. They've simply made a ton of gaffs such as promising free healthcare to illegal immigrants when not even american citizens have such things and stunts like Beto's campaigning in Mexico simply don't reflect well on the party as a whole (even if he's no longer in the running).

Basically, if the DNC wants to win, it needs to ditch Biden and possibly Bernie as well, field a candidate who can avoid seeming like they're a puppet, stupid, or caring only for far-left policies, shake off a lot of the corruption plaguing the party, and get its message focused on helping to improve America instead of screaming about things like how we're all going to die due to Climate Change and whatnot. Unfortunately I don't see that happening so I'm predicting a Trump win simply because the DNC can't get it's act together.

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