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It’s vitally important that Democrats now ask one question and one question only: Does Biden have the best chance of beating Trump, or is there someone else readily available who has a better chance? (robertreich.substack.com)

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[-] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 months ago

Vote blue no matter who died quickly I guess.

[-] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Those people are still voting blue. The issue is getting everyone else on board. "Vote blue no matter who" can't carry the election entirely on its own and never could. 2020 was won on razor margins.

[-] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 months ago

We need to get rid of the electoral college.

Biden beat Trump by 7 million votes. That it was "razor thin" is because of the electoral college.

Hillary lost to Trump despite winning the popular vote by 3 million because of the electoral college.

Gore lost because of Florida's electoral college (and all the fuckery there) despite winning the popular vote by 0.5million.

[-] crusa187@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 months ago

Small correction: after numerous recounts, it was proven decidedly that Gore had won in FL. However, the corrupt Supreme Court decided that since the media (Fox News) had already called the election for Dubya, that it would pose too much risk to our democratic process to overturn the results to the correct outcome.

This is most amusing given the context of Jan 6 and the corrupt court’s opinions on that matter, but here we are.

[-] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I strongly agree with you but that's not going to change the fact that we still have to contend with the EC this election cycle.

Edit: also gore didn't lose by either metric he just didn't stick it out for the recount

[-] Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

It would be enough to make an amendment so that the shape of electoral districts must be convex. This would make gerrymandering impossible.

[-] IzzyJ@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

How do you actually fit together exclusively convex shapes?

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