(August 18, 2020 at 12:05 pm)onlinebiker Wrote:(August 18, 2020 at 10:57 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Which misses the entire point. They could have gone with a game changer like Sanders and lost the election or with a centre-right candidate like Biden and have a real shot at winning.
The Democratic Party’s goal was never to field the best possible candidate, it was to field a candidate who could beat Trump. Obama’s speech was a near-perfect enunciation of that goal.
Boru
The corner fencepost could beat Trump...
Damned few voted FOR Trump...
They voted AGAINST Hillary....
And don"t blather on how she won the popular vote....
She barely did - and the electoral college said "fuck her".
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It’s unlikely that Sanders could have beaten Trump (not impossible, just not likely), whereas Biden has a very good chance of doing so.
In terms of close presidential elections in the US, Trump/Clinton doesn’t even crack the top five, so ‘barely’ doesn’t seem accurate. Mrs. Clinton had a wider popular vote margin than Kennedy/Nixon, Nixon/Humphrey, Carter/Ford and Bush/Gore. In those terms, winning by more than two percent is pretty substantial.
Boru
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