Hello Oli,

 LL>> US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is clearly delusional.
 LL>> This is what the poor guy said today, concerning the election -

 LL>> "If Republicans don't challenge and changethe US election
 LL>> system, there wil never be another Republican president
 LL>> elected again. President Trump should not concede. We're
 LL>> down to less -- 10,000 votes in Georgia. He's going to win
 LL>> North Carolina. We have gone from 93,000 votes to less than
 LL>> 20,000 votes in Arizona, where more -- more votes to be
 LL>> counted."
 LL>> ~ Lindsey Graham, 11/8/2020

 O> Maybe he is just a realist. The election system is already rigged to
produce
 O> better outcomes for the Republicans and the incumbent president is still
 O> losing. They rarely win the popular vote and the senate does not represent
 O> the majority (of voters).

That did not stop FDR (and his party) from winning the White House
(and both houses of Congress) from winning for two decades. Biden won
by a margin even greater than FDR in his first term, so it looks like
happy days are here again. At least for another twenty years or so.

 O> Too bad that sane Republican candidates don't win elections anymore, only
 O> the polarizing extremists which are just incompetent politicians.

There are several sane and competent Republicans around. But they
have been scared to death by Trump's scorched earth politics. If a
Republican does not do as Trump says, Trump primaries him. Kind of
like kneecapping - an old Sicilian tradition.

The other problem Republicans have is there are not enough blacks
and other minorities in their party to keep them competitive. As a
result, the Democrats will continue to control the House, and also
continue to gain seats in the Senate. And with a black woman as
vice president, the Democrats will likely remain control of the White
House for a very long time.

 O> In 4 years a candidate that still is a climate change denier will have a
 O> very slim chance to get elected. It's catch-22.

Doesn't matter. The current president is so in debt that the only
way he can make money is to run for president once he leaves office.
In other words, ask for donations the minute he walks out of the
door.

 O> If the candidate is a right-wing populist, swing voters vote for the
 O> democrat.

George Wallace was a right-wing populist. And also a democrat.
He got elected to four terms as governor of Alabama. And also came
close to winning the presidency. The guy was Nixon's worst nightmare.
Would probably have won had he not been gunned down by a would-be
assassin.

 O> If s/he is sane and moderate, it's not polarizing enough that enough of the
 O> crazy people cast their vote.

George Wallace only lost one contest in his entire life. He ran
for district attorney in a local race, as a moderate democrat.

After that race, he hired a speechwriter who was a klansman. That
won him race after race after race ...

 O> But maybe the voters will change the party over the years by not electing
 O> the annoying and intimidating white men anymore who run the GOP nowadays.
 O> Only time will tell.

After about 2030 or so the white people in the USA will be a
minority and nobody will care about what few Republicans remain ...

--Lee

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They say `Yes, Trump'! / We say `No, Trump!'

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