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What would happen in historic presidential elections if the vote flipped by 1% in each State towards the candidate who lost that state? In 2020 Georgia, Arizona, and Wisconsin had margins of under 1%. Biden would have lost 37 electoral college votes compared to our reality and won 269 electoral college votes, sending the election …
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What would happen if you were to take the states which voted for the winner with under 51% of the vote and flip those states to the loser in all historical Presidential elections since Andrew Jackson? Here’s the answer: In 2020 Joe Biden won 306 electoral college votes. Arizona, Wisconsin, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Michigan …
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The year was 1972, and the Supreme Court decided 7-2 with a bipartisan majority that abortion was legal. Since this point in time, the majority of Americans have continued to support abortion rights up to the present day. when asked whether we are pro-life or pro-choice, Americans are split, but when asked whether people believe …
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So as I was sitting down tonight I was thinking about why I generally support taxing carbon versus spending our way out of climate change, while at the same time I favor financing transit over making it expensive to drive in cities. Now the first argument is fairly easy. Taxes and subsidies are essentially the …
Interesting twitter feed today after I made a little comment correcting a mistake about the historical record, read it here: Medical debt isn't federally owned. If any is, he should cancel it. He only has the authority to cancel federal loans. He won't do shit about health care. Obama lied about a public option when …
The only reason the Taliban isn’t fighting us is because they aren’t organized enough yet. If they start attacking Americans we will kick their asses. Give it 5 years, once they have total domination over Afghanistan, the story will be very different. They give Biden credit that the Taliban kicked our ass and they are …
Rule number one: Don’t trust terrorists. Fact: Pakistan harbored bin Laden and has a history of arming terrorist groups. Fact: Pakistan and India have terrible relations Fact: India has been a target for terrorist attacks before. Fact: Afghanistan is about to become a major training center for terrorists. Fact: there have been many attacks by …
Fuck the New Democrats. Fuck the Republicans. Fuck Jimmy Carter. Reagan was the devil. May both Bushes rot in hell. Obama did a better job than any other president over the last half century, but he still could have done far far more. Trump is a good for nothing bastard, who doesn’t give a fuck …
Quick reference sheet for climate change and solutions Global warming is real. The largest contributor to climate change is carbon dioxide emissions. Carbon dioxide emissions come from a wide variety of sources, primarily from electricity generation, transportation, and agriculture. The ratio of which source is the most important differs by region. The 2 most important …
We are in a really bad situation when it comes to where politics are heading right now. Besides from the COVID recovery, which is currently failing, the current administration has no accomplishments yet beyond the stimulus which passed earlier this year, and no realistic chance of any on the horizon. A week from tomorrow, the …