Biden Wins!

[Coronita]

[quote=flyer]Voted for the lesser of the two evils, so we’ll see how it goes.

Other than not having to listen to the ramblings of our current president, and a possibly better COVID response, sadly–very few voters lives will change for the better in any meaningful way–especially with a Congress, and a country still so divided. The rich will continue to get richer, the poor will get poorer, and I don’t think that is going to change any time soon.[/quote]
Sometimes in life, people figure out money isn’t the most important thing. Especially for people who really have a lot of it and don’t have insecurity issues about it…A lot of “poorer” people are pretty happy as they don’t have the mentality that money is a yardstick for one’s self worth…

[svelte]

[quote=Coronita]
Sometimes in life, people figure out money isn’t the most important thing. Especially for people who really have a lot of it and don’t have insecurity issues about it…A lot of “poorer” people are pretty happy as they don’t have the mentality that money is a yardstick for one’s self worth…[/quote]

So true Coronita.

I would say that if I were to sum up this election in two words, they would be “Character Matters”.

Credit to Berke Breathed.

https://www.facebook.com/berkeleybreathed/photos/a.114529165244512/3814327575264634/

[spdrun]

I think even if money matters to some people, being alive to spend it and having places to spend it safely ALSO matters.

[svelte]

[quote=spdrun]I think even if money matters to some people, being alive to spend it and having places to spend it safely ALSO matters.[/quote]

True.

Just read this article. I think it is probably pretty accurate:

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/07/this-f-ing-virus-inside-donald-trumps-2020-undoing-434716

Sounds to me like three things led to a Biden victory:
1. COVID (health became a primary issue)
2. Trump’s response to COVID (showed his weak leadership skills)
3. VP Selection (money just poured into the Biden campaign after Harris was selected)

It’s so tough to unseat a sitting president, I doubt Biden would have won if one of those things were missing.

[spdrun]

4. Trump managed to alienate Arizonans (11 votes) due to his mistreatment of McCain and Georgians (16 votes) due to his boycott of Rep. Lewis’s funeral (to be fair, Lewis also boycotted Trump’s inauguration) and comments about Lewis. Biden had some level of birth-state advantage in PA. In Michigan (16 votes), his feeding and defending the nutbags who wanted to kidnap and hang Gov. Whitmer for “treason” likely didn’t help his cause.

Hoist. Petard. He lost 43 votes by hacking off the branch that he was sitting on with a coal-rollin’ chainsaw.

[sdduuuude]

This is just how I like it – party A in the executive, party B in the court, and congress is split.

The gov can get less done this way, and they are best when they do less.

[Coronita]

[quote=sdduuuude]This is just how I like it – party A in the executive, party B in the court, and congress is split.

The gov can get less done this way, and they are best when they do less.[/quote]

yup

If only the same could be said about CA the state.

Trump was successful in turning blue california, even even more blue.

Thanks Trump. 🙁

[spdrun]

A 50/50 Senate is still a possibility … a lot of effort and money will be put into the runoff seats in Georgia, plus the 2022 election will decide another 1/3 of Senate seats. Our government gets a lot done … it’s just best at hurting people via endless wars, bloated military budgets, and mass incarceration. Imagine if that money were redirected to healthcare for all, reasonably priced (offline) college for those who get in, and fixing our disgraceful infrastructure.

[phaster]

wonder what TRUMP is going to tweet on Jan 20, 2021

[flyer]

I agree with all of the positive elements mentioned wrt the president elect, that’s why, as an independent, I voted for him this time.

Of course, money isn’t the most important thing. Never has been to me, and never had to worry about it, just glad we can help family and friends live better lives, but with the constant whining we hear about wealth inequality, it must be important to many voters (Gallup Polls reported 80% of voters are concerned about their finances) so it will be interesting to see if this mega issue can also be solved by the new administration in any measurable way.

[Coronita]

It sounds like it’s important to you to constantly bring up you inherited a lot of money…

[Coronita]

I wonder if Melania voted for him…

[flyer]

My feelings exactly, sdduuuude.

[flyer]

[quote=sdduuuude]This is just how I like it – party A in the executive, party B in the court, and congress is split.

The gov can get less done this way, and they are best when they do less.[/quote]

My feelings exactly.

[utcsox]

[quote=flyer]I agree with all of the positive elements mentioned wrt the president elect, that’s why, as an independent, I voted for him this time.

Of course, money isn’t the most important thing. Never has been to me, and never had to worry about it, just glad we can help family and friends live better lives, but with the constant whining we hear about wealth inequality, it must be important to many voters (Gallup Polls reported 80% of voters are concerned about their finances) so it will be interesting to see if this mega issue can also be solved by the new administration in any measurable way.[/quote]

Except, Gallup Polls reported no such things.

“The 55% who say they are better off today is also similar to the 53% who rate their personal financial situation as either excellent or good, down only slightly from before the pandemic. ”

https://news.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/321992/americans-economic-attitudes-election.aspx

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