2020 US Elections

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Damocles said:
None of this addresses the point. The point is that the US has a political system that has functioned for several hundred years. Some people are saying that they want to protect that system from somebody else who is going to subvert it. Then they say that they want to completely change that system.
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But does it "function"? The Constitution introduced a set of checks and balances that were supposed to ensure no single person or group had unchallenged authority. The Executive kept in check by the Legislature and the Supreme Court as another key check.

Yet what this last 4 years has shown is that this system can be subverted, by a Congress that isn't prepared to stand up to the Executive and a Supreme Court that is happy to act on political lines.

That's dangerous.
 
The Northern Baptist said:
“A key takeaway. Trump polled at least 3 million more votes in 2020 than 2016. His vote share has increased. Time to bury the idea his 2016 victory was a historical accident. A large swathe of the USA has read the fine print & clicked on the terms and conditions of his presidency.”
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His share hasn’t increased at all.
 
The mail vote is corruptible. The democrats control the voting system in thes states were trump is in front. All points to a biden win and contested in the Supreme Court.
 
jerseyblue said:
The US is a constitutional republic, not a pure democracy and there is good reason for that. The electoral college was set up for many reasons, but primarily to keep population centers from having unchecked rule over the rural population. Having seen kings rule from castles the founders were extremely wary of this.
The idea that the electoral college was only created to protect slaveholders is at best shitty propaganda.
Focus on the real problem in this country, a two party system that has completely monopolized governance. Neither party has served the people's interests properly in a long time and both deserve to be challenged in a meaningful way if we expect anything to change here.
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I only read three fifths of this post before realising you know very little about your own country’s history.
 
From the Grauniad....

Democrats: 'Results indicate we are on a clear path to victory this afternoon'​

In a live address Joe Biden campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon has said Joe Biden is on course to become the next president of the US. She said:
We believe we are in a clear path to victory by this afternoon, we expect that the vice president will have leads in states that put him over 270 electoral votes today. The vice president will garner more votes than any presidential candidate in history, and we’re still counting. He has won over 50% of the popular vote. We are on track to win in Michigan by more than Donald Trump did in 2016. To win in Wisconsin by more than Trump did in 2016. To win in Pennsylvania by more than Trump did in 2016. And we flipped one of his states, Arizona.
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By the way the Senate is not dead yet.

Looking at where the votes are outstanding, Ossoff still has a small chance in Georgia and Collins is in no way safe in Maine.
 
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