2020 U.S. Presidential Election - Took place November 3, 2020. Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden assumed office January 20, 2021.

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3119967d0c said:
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You already voted for Obama in 2008 and 2016 Achmed.
 
xX_rAcE_wAr_420_Xx said:
I'd figure even if that number were thrown out for a lower income than 8 digits, it would be taxed progressively so you don't pay much (or any) up to the 32k, and income after that gets taxed more and more heavily. I'd expect that the user base on such an intellectual site is familiar with how progressive income taxing works, so I won't go into detail. Suffice to say, even if it were true it wouldn't result in the $7.20 figure.
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What can't be said is that multimillionaires are actually great people that make the country work, and the lizard people most Americans villify are not in the top 1%, they're in the top 0.1% or above. So punishing the group that makes up small business owners financially for others' decisions is neither moral nor effective as a policy.

also lmao nigga how is income tax even real like nigga just pay capital gains like nigga invest in stocks
 
NeoGAF Lurker said:
Yep. Forget rigged polling, the true sign that enthusiasm is there can be found in the caucuses and primaries. Remember, people are predicting 40 state blowouts against Blumpf so we should be seeing high levels of energy and enthusiasm in the form of turnouts.

Of course, they’re not anywhere close because enthusiasm is anemic at best. If they can’t shatter records, then they’re going to struggle against an incumbent who got an upswing of recent support thanks to a failed impeachment attempt, just the kind of thing that rallies supporters together.

Democrats are actually drowning at this point. November is a ways away but it’s not that far away.
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If I see Sanders or Bloomberg volunteers passing leaflets during the general in California then I know California might go red.

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This is a very optimistic take but he does tell us why.

 
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The Pink Panther said:
Tramp: FUCKING STADIUMS
Biden: A literal school gymnasium

Riveting.
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A solid chunk of the people there are Press, too, so realistically you'd want to cut about 20% of that crowd out. It's getting harder and harder for Biden to hide how pathetically fake his campaign has been and I am going to laugh my ass off when he drops out because so many idiots in the media hurled all of their chips at a decrepit, Alzheimer-addled horse and tried to call everyone who didn't take him seriously an out-of-touch lunatic because Trump is terrified of Biden.

He was never terrified of Biden because Biden's campaign was never real. That's what makes the Ukraine fiasco such a pile of nonsensical gibberish: Why would Trump need to 'target' someone who can barely fill a broom closet (before he even announced his campaign, no less) and never target anyone else in the running before or since, even when it was obvious that other candidates had a bigger pull than Biden did? Bernie sanders is a significantly more crowd-pulling sort of candidate and Donald Trump is fucking cheering him on for Christ's sake.

Sure, I don't believe for a second that he isn't doing it to stir the pot because he's a dick but that's my point. If Bernie's a bigger 'threat' then why does he get shitposts and why did Biden get this intricately-woven, bullshit conspiracy to try and frame his crack-addicted son that involved destroying official phone records or whatever bullshit they were shrieking about.

It never made any sense. Biden was never a threat, he only booted up his campaign to try and cover his ass.
 
Generational split among SC black voters could hurt Biden
https://apnews.com/16b7f3bef63f4321816649a00668e568 (http://archive.vn/X7B5C)

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — For James Felder, the question of which presidential candidate to support in the South Carolina primary has never been terribly complicated. The 80-year-old civil rights activist has always backed Joe Biden, appreciative of the eight years he spent as the No. 2 to the first black president.

But when Felder opened a recent forum at historically black Benedict College to questions, students in the room weren’t so convinced.

J’Kobe Kelley-Mills, a junior English major, said he was torn between Biden and Bernie Sanders, the progressive Vermont senator who is now the Democratic front-runner after strong performances in the first three primary contests.

“They both have decades of political experience,” Kelley-Mills said of Biden and Sanders, adding that most of his friends were siding with the senator. “They’re going to really know how to communicate with people on the other side of the aisle in the Senate and I think that if we can get them in there, we can finally start to see the government start to move forward.”

Faith Dupree, a senior psychology major and member of Benedict’s NAACP student chapter, said she was backing Sanders, and sophomore Luis Gonzalez said he would likely vote for Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

The dynamic was a reminder that black voters aren’t unanimous in how they’re approaching the rapidly evolving Democratic contest. That’s a challenge for Biden as he seeks a commanding win in South Carolina on Saturday. After disappointing finishes in Iowa and New Hampshire, he can’t afford losing much black support here, which could leave him with a narrow victory or, even worse, in second place.

“We’re not that monolithic group that we used to be,” Felder said. “You’ve got a whole generation and a half, maybe, who don’t know Biden, don’t know what has happened in the past.”

“This generation,” Felder continued, “is more open to others, new faces, as opposed to us who knew what Biden did. We appreciated him as vice president and the fact he served (President Barack) Obama so well, but you’ve got a generation who’s coming along now who says ‘Well, that’s fine, but let me hear over here, too.’”

A national Washington Post-Ipsos poll conducted in January found Sanders with an advantage among black voters under 35, even as Biden had a big lead among black Democratic voters overall. That poll was conducted before any of the primary contests began.

The generational split among African American voters in South Carolina parallels the divide seen among whites and Latinos in early contests, with Sanders polling stronger among younger voters. The challenge for Sanders will be to generate enough turnout among those younger voters, who historically turn out at rates far lower than their elders.

After a second place finish in Nevada, Biden quickly focused his campaign on South Carolina over the weekend. He told parishioners at a black church in North Charleston that the election can “rip out the roots of systemic racism” if voters help him win the Democratic nomination.

But his rivals aren’t ceding the state, sensing Biden’s vulnerabilities. Billionaire Tom Steyer has flooded the airwaves with millions of dollars of television advertising. Warren and Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, will hold events across the state this week. And Sanders plans to hold at least four large rallies, which tend to attract young voters, between Wednesday and Friday.

As they decide how to vote, African Americans aren’t split cleanly along generational lines. For 71-year-old Andrea Loney, the challenge is more about sifting through a large all-white field to find an appealing candidate.

It’s an unusual conundrum for Loney, who, as a longtime African American activist, often works the phone during election years to urge friends to vote and give them advice on whom to support. This year, she said she can only wring her hands.

“And by that, I mean, I am looking at who is the candidate that is most likely to be able to beat Trump,” said Loney, who works as legal counsel for poor people in South Carolina.

Loney joins her family on a group chat to discuss their choices for the Democratic nomination. One of her daughters, Kwamine Gilyard, is backing Warren.

“I am probably the only one who is firmly decided who I’m supporting and made that decision after the first debate,” said Gilyard, 49, who is a school administrator. “I’m the only one who, I think, has not changed that. For me, it’s just that she’s been very consistent in her message, and keeping the focus on Trump as the person we are trying to beat, not each other.”

George Hart, a professor and faculty adviser to Benedict’s student chapter of the NAACP, said the chapter won’t endorse a candidate, but the most important criterion for black voters of all ages is backing a contender who will beat Trump.

“It’s unfortunate that the field is as it is,” he said. “I am for the strongest candidate, and the strongest candidate would be the one who can endure what’s about to come at them.”
 
A Humble Ewok said:
How the fuck did Tom Steyer manage to make it back into the debates?
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This debate is for the South Carolina primary and Steyer polls well there because he has been spending most of his money in the state. He won't win but his strategy was to pull off an upset in SC and spring into contention on Super Tuesday.
 
YooA said:
Biden thinks he's running for senate.
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I'm sure [optimistic] but is there any chance that's part of him telling a story of his experiences as a candidate, as opposed just him literally saying he's running for the senate in 2020?
 
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