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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Even if the ads don't flip Texas for the electoral college seats, if Biden still wins the electoral college and the ads have an effect on the down-ballot races, that could be mighty helpful for the Democrat's agenda.
Don't know the status of any down-ballot races and how likely that is, though, not paying much attention to Texas politics.
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Oh, he does that on purpose, actually. The strategy is to be so much in debt that he can deduct it from his taxes, so he doesn't have to pay any. Hence the 175 dollar tax bills.
It's really weird to realize that being in massive debt isn't incompetence, it's actually the whole point.
Edited by Redmess on Oct 6th 2020 at 7:56:22 PM
Hope shines brightest in the darkest timesTexas is looking very impressive for Biden, win or lose he’s expected to do well there, Hillary did surprisingly well there, the state is pretty urban and has a diverse population, so the more Republicans shift their focus towards rural-whites the more in-play Texas becomes.
538 currently give Biden better odds of winning Texas than they do Trump if winning Pennsylvania.
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He can believe what he likes, the polls have it very close, Biden is probably benefiting from Kasich’s endorsement there.
Edited by Silasw on Oct 6th 2020 at 6:01:29 PM
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranTrump’s campaign isn’t doing great for money, between the grift from staff and them occasionally buying ads in DC to improve his mood.
Throw in Bloomberg seeing to be on a quest to see if it’s possible to buy redemption for stop-and-frisk, and the recent Dem fundraising and Biden has a ton of money.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranYes, but those cities are where everyone lives.
Kentucky has two medium sized cities and they're both solidly blue, counting for 90% of the Democrats in the state.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Oct 6th 2020 at 11:12:47 AM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Changing the topic a bit, how the whole thing about Trump having coronavirus could really affect the Russians, especially Putin? Since, if something happens to Trump, even if Pence replace him, I doubt he could win anyway and in the case Biden wins, the consequences for both Putin and Russia would be likely very dire, since it's very likely Biden and the U.S. government would try to find some way to remove him from power, or at least trying to neutralize him the best they can.
The US is not going to remove Putin from power, there are a variety of actions Biden could take against Putin as a way to push back after Trump, but a direct attempt to remove him from power is far beyond even the harshest realistic ideas.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranThere is no way they're suddenly to talk about removing Putin from if Biden wins,that absurd,what they will do is hammer them sanctions as before (hopefully anyway)
The only time you'd hear them talk about removing Putin from power is if he declared war on the United States suddenly
have a listen and have a link to my discord server

Trump was already the lowest winning Republican to win Texas in a while back in 2016 at a R+9%. Aggregate polls for the state have the 2020 race in the margin of error for polls.
Internal polls are likely so bad that the state governor did blatant voter suppression by ordering every county to only have one absentee ballot collection location.
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."