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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Biden apparently can't fire Trump's USPS appointment, as he serves the Postal Service Board of Governors, who are all Trump appointees: https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/status/1325930627967950849
Biden can, however, appoint more people to that board (as there are multiple vacancies) and turn things in his favor. The one catch? The Senate has to approve his picks.
Regarding the ballot confidence thing, the real question is: how many of those Republicans who have no confidence in a fair election process are now taking note of the Republicans congratulating Biden? Seems to me that the Republican party is now going to be treading on some very thin ice in the future, something that could come into play in 2022.
Edited by TotemicHero on Nov 9th 2020 at 8:06:28 AM
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)
Buchanan is close, but Trump is definitely in the bottom 5.
Layoffs have began in the Trump campaign: https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-campaign-staff-234417901.html
Edited by CookingCat on Nov 9th 2020 at 5:23:23 AM
x2 If Republican States starts seceding, yes. Otherwise, he was a terrible President but not the worst. The worst President from a Political Standpoint would be James Buchanan, and the worst President from a Moral Standpoint would be Andrew Jackson.
Edited by DingoWalley1 on Nov 9th 2020 at 8:22:49 AM
You know how Barr was eerily quiet this whole time? Well, he's up to his usual evil. Barr authorizes Justice to probe any 'substantial allegations' of voter fraud
In regards to the youth vote, my family lives in a pretty conservative area (though we aren't ourselves), and while I'll admit it's rather hard to imagine so many of the people I went to high school with growing up to become Trump supporters...considering our demographics, I think I'd be kidding myself if I tried arguing that they mostly went for Biden.
I'd be interested in knowing who among them voted for Trump, mind you. Maybe I'm wrong and our district might turn purple eventually...but that would probably take years and years, definitely not in the near future.
Edited by KarkatTheDalek on Nov 9th 2020 at 8:29:26 AM
Oh God! Natural light!I think Reagan handled the AIDs pandemic just as well as Trump did COVID. As in, maliciously incompetent.
Edited by RAlexa21th on Nov 9th 2020 at 5:31:22 AM
Continue writing our story of peace.Ok, Buchanan might be worse in that regard. And Reagan. How he’s so popular will elude me and my parents.
Funny, we had a conversation about favorite and least favorite presidents in my Young Democrats club. One of the international students (who was observing both this club the campus YAF group) admitted that he thought JFK was worse than any other president because of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Edited by SatoshiBakura on Nov 9th 2020 at 8:32:07 AM
The few rankings of Presidents by historians that include Trump all have him faring poorly, but also came out back in 2018/2019 before COVID was a thing.
There's a Siena poll that breaks down the presidential rankings by various components. The one component that Trump scored well on was luck. Again, this was before 2020, when his luck obviously changed.
I think Trump is the only President who is actively at war with democracy itself.
Continue writing our story of peace.

It's hard to get a full picture without a breakdown of the youth electorate by race, especially as I checked the original study
and it's data for about 13 states for which they had the numbers to work with (i.e. it's incomplete). But IIRC, pre-election studies put Biden's support among 18-29 voters in the low 60s, which does seem to match the current numbers pretty well.
I don't know that you can say youth voters are more conservative than previously thought? What's your baseline?
Morning Consult Poll: Trust in fair elections plummeting among Republican voters.
Prior to the election, 68 percent of GOP voters said they had at least some trust in the U.S. election system. Post-election, that dropped to 34 percent.
Edited by nova92 on Nov 9th 2020 at 4:41:16 AM