2022 Election Results Thread

[samhain]

(11-10-2022, 06:18 PM)Nately120 Wrote: Obama and Biden?  Have you ever watched Fox News?  There are outlets out there to lambast those guys, as there should be.

As for Dukakis, well...yeah who knows how fair that was.  The democrats clearly needed to revamp the party after Carter/Mondale/Dukakis and they did so ehh...it was all a big ol' 11th hour move overshadowed by Willie Horton.



Reasonable republicans will admit Trump has been losing every time since 2016 and consider DeSantis the path to victory.  They'll have to be the ones attempting to convince Trump supporters that Trump did not win two landslide elections in a row, and that Trump's huge rallies that he has aren't a guarantee that he's going to win easily in 2024.

Basically, liberals are stepping aside and allowing reasonable republicans to take their turn banging their head against the wall that is MAGA logic.

Will the GOP move on?  Maybe...I'm just saying any other time a political party has had to move on from a losing candidate there weren't a bunch of people with signs and flags and hats and t shirts saying that candidate was going to run in the next election.  They've got a lot of deprogramming to do in the next 2 years.  Go back to Dukakis...imagine if he lost in 1988 and instead of moving on to Clinton and revamping the party democrats insisted he won and immediately printed up DUKAKIS 1992 YOU KNOW HE WON signs.



I will say if Trump is legit finished now these flags and signs and attire will be as amusingly depressing as all those Cincinnati Bengals 2021 Super Bowl Champions shirts that were printed and then shipped off to the 3rd world. 

It seems unthinkable considering he's basically the devil to the left, but I don't put any level of vindictive behavior past Trump.  I could actually see him being complimentary to Biden and directly sabotaging the GOP if they remove him.  His actual personal politics are pretty non-existent.  I think he'd do damn near anything to hurt a figure or party that jilted him.  I don't mean support, more like passive comparisons in favor of the president to belittle DeSantis and the party.  

If he wanted to be a real dick, he could do exponentially more damage than Perot did to the party in the Clinton/Bush race.  An independent Trump running out of spite would all but ensure a loss for Ron D.  Is it likely?  No.  Would it be the most shocking thing?  Not to me.