Comments by "Xyz Same" (@xyzsame4081) on "President Biden Breaks Major Campaign Promise" video.
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4 states were nailbiters and Biden won them with a total of 124,000 votes. And he needed 2 of the 4. In any combination, but 2. It was even closer: the "best" result among the 4 was in PA with 1.3 % or 81,000 votes more (Jo Jorgenson got the same number of votes in PA as was the lead of Biden over Trump).
BUT: In WI Biden won with only 20,700 votes more (0.63 %),
AZ 10,500
and GA 12,000 more votes.
A few ! thousand voters in those 3 states not turning out - and Trump would be president again. Yes, Biden got 7 million votes more in total (60 % in NY and 65 % in CA help with that) - but Trump would have narrowly pulled off the EC.
It was like in 2016 only then the narrow result ended up favoring Trump. 70,000 in total more votes for Trump in 3 states (PA, WI - and also MI which was not especially close this time) - and Trump needed at least 1 of them. If HRC would have won ALL 3 she would have landed at 273 electors, JUST eeking out a win. But that was completely doable.
No one in their right mind would have betted on AZ and GA as 2020 electoral strategy of Democrats. it was a pleasant surprise to win AZ and GA - but since Florida could not be taken for granted (indeed Biden LOST Florida, like HRC had lost there in 2016) - it was clear that they really had to fight to pull off the RustBelt States.
Well, except for "Trump bad, he must be voted out" the Dems did not motivate the base much. Obama and FDR (and the New Dealers after FDR till 1968) had shown the appeal of economic populism.
But the Biden camp was not that concerned about Trump winning, that was just the narrative for the sheeple.
btw: Obama won Florida and Ohio twice. Trump improved in FL from 1.2 to over 3 % and won Ohio twice and every time with over 8 % margin. Ohio is not even in play, at least not for a TPP friendly neoliberal. They fell for Hope and Change in 2008, and gave Obama another chance in 2012 (he thanked them by supporting and fast tracking TPP) - but that was it.
If Biden had only won PA and Trump pulled off a narrow win in AZ, GA and WI, Biden would have had 269 electors, a nightmare scenario, then the states determine the president. Hello second term Trump.
And in AZ and GA it came down to less than 13,000 voters and in WI to less than 21,000.
Worse: in those states Jorgensen had many more votes than was the margin of Biden.
Double, tripple 5 times more.
Did I mention Biden needed at LEAST 2 out of 4 states where the counting dragged on for days until Biden limped over the finish line ?
I am not even talking about MI and NV with 2.78 and 2.2 % margin. Not splendid but enough that the likely win of Biden manifested earlier on as the mail ballots were counted.
So these states were called earlier because they were not that close.
A 3 - 5 % margin would have been in order for MI, NV - and also PA and WI.
Dems cannot even deliver that in the middle of the pandemic and with 4 years of Trump.
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@labspeciman7402 it depends if Sanders would have invited the defecting "Democrats" to a nice talk in the White House. And strongarming the govenor of Vermont to appoint a cooperative replacement for the longtime progessive Senator. I am sure some hints for favors for Vermont would settle that, or some hints about the good people of Vermont getting angry at their governor. In theory he could have appointed a right winger to fill the Senate slot of Sanders until the next election.
also: Sanders would have run on economic populism so there is a chance more D Congressional and Senate races would have been won.
FDR had "hear to heart" talks. Dems had the House and Senate in 1933, too. FDR had to twist arms - of Democrats.
Sanders would be in the SAME position as Biden, only he would not only pretend to want bills passed, he would really want it. Biden showed some promising signs when Kamala Harris gave interviews to local TV stations in AZ and WV to talk about the relief bill. Senator Manchin was not amused - and that was only a warning shot.
The VP of a Sanders admin to go on TV would be Nina Turner.
Maybe she would go on twitter and drag the pearl clutching, concern-trolling neoliberals like Sinema of AZ.
They wave through the trillion dollar wars, insane increase of insane military spending (gave Trump more ! than he asked for. all hail the "resistance")
The trade deals that cost MILLIONS of jobs.
Relief bill. Now, wait.... if that is for smaller biz, or regular citizens it has to be really complicated, lots of strings attached, petty and it has to take loooooong to get anything passed.
We wouldn't want any 70k family (70k before taxes in 2019 !!) to get anything if they are not destitute. .... That slows down help for all, and one could means test later with progressive taxations and with the income of the pandemic year ? Naw .... That would be just tooooo "generous", can't do that. If that means also bad outcomes for those who are destitute - so be it.
Not like the trillions for big biz, not strings attached, no means testing.
4.5 trillion in QE for the banks under Obama (that was AFTER the bailouts).
1.2 trillion in QE for "the markets" (read: Speculators of wallstreet, and banks that are epxosed in speculation gone wrong) on March 12, 2020. Relief bills were not even discussed then, also not for big biz.
The ATTEMPTED audit of the Pentagon
1.9 trillion relief bill now ... Holy shit, the deficit, the inflation, the wrong incentives, some might (wisely) pay down debt or put it into an emergency account and not even spend it right away, the 70k families that might not have suffered financially in 2020, but would get an extra 2,000 USD. The horrors !
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