Dennis in MA
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That's not how they won the election. They took hundreds of thousands of ballots and mailed them, or more likely dropped them off.
Imagine if the US dollar was printed on Staples A4 paper, you think you'd have any counterfeiting?
The only way we'll ever have free elections anymore is if they require ID for every ballot. Want to mail it in, scan your ID and match it to the ballot when you drop it off. Anyone who mentions privacy, lol - the government and Facebook know so much more about each of us than who we're voting for.
But the Dems will never support this - why give up their best constituent - the fake ballot?
Oh come on. Now you're being silly. As if that many people use A4 paper in the US.
But I do agree that voter ID is a big key. Something the Dems don't want. I don't really think it's about fraud. I think it's just part of the platform they can't get away from. Like gun control or taxing corporations. Both are doing a disservice to their membership, but the membership is too ignert (before you stop me, so is hte GOP membership. Your average voter is a moron.) to understand the change unless it's by sudden massive disruption or a complete top-to-bottom party change. The former sucks (we're talking major war or something to change it) and the latter is unlikely in a truly fractured DNC.
So despite survey after survey showing that low income voters HAVE AN ID, they keep talking about how this disenfranchises poor voters.
What will happen is we'll get defacto Voter ID via the electronic tracking of voting. Last 2 out of 3 times I voted (2016 early voting and 2020 day-of), you could bypass the entire "what street" bullspit with scanning your drivers lic. I imagine in a few cycles, that'll be 100% the norm nationwide.
Assuming Biden wins?
He will be the weakest Democrat for a generation, with the active non-support of half the population and more than half the Congress, once you add progressives for whom he's not woke enough. He is not a strong leader. He's not a movement, like Trump is or Obama was. Nobody is a Biden fanatic. He'll get nothing done legislatively, is unlikely to get more than 1 SCOTUS appointment, and is (I think) likely to make many foreign-policy fumbles. This will weaken the Democrat brand for 2024.
The concern is Kamala in 2024, but she'd have been a strong candidate then anyway. A VP stint sets her up as an heir apparent; I think he'll decide not to run in '24, and that she'll be The Anointed One. So she'll avoid the close vetting and scrutiny that will expose her weaknesses for the General, while her confrontational attitude will guarantee the "real" ideological progressives won't give her their full support. She'll be The First Woman To Be Vice-President, but a LOT of women (voters as well as her peers) won't like her because they're not her. And she's got well-known baggage.
Smart dummies in the GOP ought to have their Harris opposition research well established, starting now. And it would be wise for the GOP whiz-kids/brain trust to be deciding now which bright, dynamic, capable Republican they can coalesce behind against Harris in '24. We've got time to prepare while Biden is doddering through his term.
I'm not sure if Kamala will do anything in 2024. Sure, she'll try. She's already got executive experience as the AG or whatever in CA. So she doesn't need that. I believe she is VERY unlikeable. Lots of baggage. There's a good chance she gets booted in the primary at that point. Especially if there is a lackluster Biden administration. Hard for Mondale to win after Carter was such a disaster. (Walt was a really nice guy who was the butt of MANY Reagan jokes - and took it in stride. But I digress.)
But this heir apparent thing is a pile of bull butter. Again, why can't we have the BEST candidate, not the "one that deserves it"???? Hillary 2016. Biden 2020. Kamala 2024???? Please.