I think Doomers just don't wanna get their hopes up and be let down. Sometimes I'm a doomer, and it's always in a spirit of "I hope I am wrong".
We have all this technology and metrics to gauge enthusiasm, yet the best tool is still a pair of eyeballs.
You could count Grover Cleveland for the more than two times. He ran in 1884 and won. Ran again in 1888 and lost to Benjamin Harrison. Ran again in 1892 and won the first and still only nonconsecutive second term.
There were times when I tuned into a Biden event 15 minutes late and completely missed him speaking.
Conventional wisdom is that you pick a VP whose strengths cover your weaknesses, or who can deliver a state you need. The weaknesses that lost them the primary don't matter as much, since the ticket is riding on the strength of the guy who did win the primary.
Find me such a unicorn.
The Asian kid seems to have more of a sense of humor about himself than the other kids. I noticed when describing what words they would use to describe the presidents, the libtards all used serious terms whether negatively or positively, but the Asian kid was a bit more creative. He used "outgoing" to describe Drumpf and "old" to describe Biden. Within this, you can clearly see that the Asian kid is a more joyful person and that's what I see with a lotta conservatives irl. They seem more mellow and more foolhardy, per se. It's the enthusiasm that does it.
The media wants you to deny the evidence of your eyes and ears, to steal from Orwell.
I can understand not wanting to set expectations too high. I get it.
This. So much this.
Could be a nothingburger, likely is. I'll tune in, but I expect nothing.
Actually I think Trump would've had an easier time if the candidate was Bernie since I think even the DNC would try to sabotage Bernie since Bernie is not someone they would want and it didn't help Bernie is more openly weak than Biden.
Those are some good points. I was thinking that since Bernie Sanders was pretty good at attracting enthusiasm, especially from younger progressives who would be chomping at the bit to vote for Bernie (since elections really are decided on which candidate has the most enthusiasm), it could've made the election closer, but then I think about the moderate Democrats and the independents who would not be too enthused to vote for a far-leftie, so it'd probably cancel out the effect of progressives voting en masse for Bernie and nothing else.
Those two statements are basically contradictory though. The DNC's main problem with Bernie is they thought he would kill them downballot. So why on earth would they exacerbate their losses by sabotaging his campaign in the general?
It's more that if somehow Bernie won with the young progressives that he'd easily lose and the DNC would likely focus down the ballot. Bernie's weakness is not just his cucking but that he has more open and clear medical issues than Biden does as Bernie is more frail physically with how he had to get heart surgery in the middle of his campaign. Bernie also would turn off everyone to the right of him with his close ties to communist governments.
Your wish is Drumpf's command.
*drunkeningly gets up from seat in a means of autistic panic
