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Post by michaelhardner on Jun 8, 2020 10:49:57 GMT
Of course EVERYBODY should know that I hate Trump, politically I mean. I even have TDS... But one thing that his administration has taught me is that Canadians know a lot less about the US than they think they do, ie. me. So I am trying to quiet down my observations of that particular country. And I have to admit that I need to get perspective of Americans more. So Avs can you explain THIS please ? www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-trump-tied-up-texas
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Post by avs on Jun 8, 2020 19:33:37 GMT
Well, you have to understand that the big metropolitan areas of Texas; Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin, El Paso, and the Rio Grande Valley (McAllen, Harlingen, Brownsville) which has a larger population than Austin, tend to go blue. Obama carried all of these areas in both elections I believe. The Red areas are Ft. Worth, Lubbock, Amarillo, Midland/Odessa, Abilene and a few other small cities, and the rural areas, which in Texas comprises a lot of people since there is no public land to speak of in Texas and there are a lot of small ranches and farms. Bear in mind though, that a good 70% if not more, of the population of Texas lies in an area about the size of Virgina, that is the triangle running from I-35 from DFW metro area, down to San Antonio, east to Houston, and up I-45 back up to DFW. The larger cities in Texas have had a population boom the last decade and they tend to be younger, more liberal, the older rural people are dying off so it's simply demographics to a large degree and take into account that Trump was elected in Texas for the same reasons he was elected most everywhere else. He wasn't Hillary Clinton who just wasn't a likeable candidate.
Prior to the virus, and the Minnesota incident...Trump was bulletproof. Most people I know.... and again, I didn't vote for either Trump or Clinton, swear on my sons life, and this is just my opinion and others as well...that people don't vote FOR a candidate...they are mostly all despicable people, they vote against someone.... don't 'like him' but will not vote for Biden. Politicians are like policemen in a lot of ways. The very people that WANT to be that, are the very people YOU don't want to be that. Taking that into account, and the election is a ways off...let us remind ourselves that Trump is running against a lifelong politician that most believe has the onset of dementia and is 78 years old and would enter office at 79. The oldest President to ever do so, behind...Trump, who was 70. If he's re-elected he will surpass Reagan as the oldest President when he finishes his second term. Biden would surpass that milestone immediately upon taking the oath of office. We haven't had a Presidential campaign YET. Further, the entire 'Russian Collusion' thing has backfired and it's looking like the Obama Administration election meddling...has some legs. Further, it doesn't look like we're going to have a campaign or even an election, in the 'traditional' sense and the bad part of this is going to be no matter who gets elected, neither side is going to accept it, as they didn't the first one, and it's just going to be a cluster fuck.
But if the American people, on both sides...that is mainly the 'media' might want to learn is not to call EVERY person elected either a communist, or HITLER and demonize the other in a knee jerk reaction or one day we WILL end up with that Stalin or Hitler. The problem with Trump was, he wasn't a politican..and it is a skill...an art if you will. The problem with Biden is that's all he's ever done. Which is the problem with a lot of them. But to me, what we learned is, career politicians bad, no political experience at all, so far as we've seen...also bad. Trump I get why people despise him. He's a blowhard and a narcissistic. Certainly not the first politician to be that, or President. His problem is he's completely tone deaf while Biden and many of them are doing nothing but 'virtue signaling' as they call it, and that gets old as well.
Ah well, after China and India sling a few nukes at each other perspective will return very quickly I suspect, and we'll all know the true fear our parents and grandparents faced back in the day. True, genuine...fear.
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