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Nate Silver: Harris is in much better shape than Biden. But she has one big problem. (www.natesilver.net)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Coffee_Addict to c/neoliberal

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The Silver Bulletin presidential election forecast model relaunched today, and there’s some good news for Democrats: Kamala Harris is in a considerably better position than Joe Biden, who had only a 27 percent chance of winning when he exited the race — and that was probably generous given Biden’s increasingly evident inability to run a normal campaign.

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[–] Coffee_Addict 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Oh, I definitely think it outrages people. I still remember hearing the news that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by several million votes and still lost the Electoral College. The Electoral College gave us Donald Trump and all the baggage that came with him. It also gave us George W. Bush. In the 21st century, the United State's worst leaders are a direct result of the Electoral College not aligning with the voice of the people.

The problem is not only that it favors low population states (which is a major problem), but that those low population states are also the states that don’t embrace multiculturalism and polyculturalism; those states it benefits are the ones that prefer monoculturalism, and they are generally very uncomfortable with people who are different from themselves.

Kamala Harris is pretty popular states that are multicultural/polycultural. The only states she’s not popular in are the ones that are monocultural.

My hope is Donald Trump makes a horrible mistake that causes even some of his most loyal supporters to break away from him. However, after eight (nearly nine if count when he announced his candidacy) fucking years of watching this guy rule the Republican party with an iron fist, I’m not confident that’s ever going to happen. It is going to be an uphill fight to make sure he stays out of the White House.