Democratic Rep. Madeleine Dean is from the critical swing state of Pennsylvania. She hit the campaign trail with President Biden over the weekend and as other House Democrats are asking him to drop out of the race. Rep. Dean joined Geoff Bennett to discuss her support.
The biden administration has been the best single term of my liftetime. I still suspect all this is more coming from republicans than anything else. Still its the very fact democrats are vulnerable to this type of disruption that is the reason I vote for them over republicans. Its ugly but its more honest.
If you ignore all the BS marketing, it really is amazing how much Biden has done in his first term, even more than Obama.
I wonder if Biden would have even won in the first place if Covid wasn’t a thing right at the peak of election. Ignoring factors like that isn’t going to help with your election projections. He beat him last time when a disease was everyones biggest concern. That’s not the climate right now.
Speaking of which, why isn’t the Biden campaign beating the drum on how badly Trump bungled COVID
My guess is covid fatigue. Even people who aren’t anti mask or anti jab would rather move past covid than continue thinking about it unless it’s becoming highly active in their local area. Idk if its the right call but that seems like the logical reason to me.
Another thing worth mentioning is that many states were operating under special emergency rules for absentee and early voting in 2020, whereas not all of them will be doing that now. Statistically I tend to think this hurts Biden this time around (2020 early voting broke significantly towards Biden in most areas) but it is difficult to project how much of a factor that will be.
Anyone living in a swing state just needs to go and vote for Biden. I know a lot of people don’t want to, and, believe me, I get it, but you gotta just do it. It’s like a chore you need to do that you really don’t want to do, that you resent having to do, even, but that nonetheless has to be done. Just do it then take a nice, long hot shower after.
That being said, holy shit something has to be done. Clearly, just focusing on the presidential election every four years ain’t gonna cut it. We have got to get more involved in the political process. We have got to vote in every local, state, and congressional election. We have to encourage better people to run for office. We have to do something. I don’t know exactly what needs to be done to improve our democracy, but we gotta figure it out. We can’t have another election cycle like the last several.
Indeed, folks need to get involved at the local level and primaries.
For those that complain about the first past the post voting, Alaska managed to pass ranked choice voting:
https://apnews.com/article/alaska-ranked-choice-voting-5ae6c163af2f8a70a8f90928267c4086
If you hate FPTP and the choices it gives you, don’t just sit out the election, that’s an inherent vote for the person you like the least. You can try to back a similar ranked choice measure in your state:
And pretty soon he’s going to be known as the “Guy who lost to Trump.” His legacy will be up there with Neville Chamberlain.
He beat Trump
Yeah, in 2020, riding the “Anyone but Trump” wave. Woulda got smoked in 2016.
