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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Everybody" thinks the UK results mean Trump will win bigly.
Of course "Everybody" is usually wrong.
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"Everybody" thinks the UK results mean Trump will win bigly. (Original Post)
edhopper
Dec 2019
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Polly Hennessey
(6,788 posts)1. Not if Biden is our nominee.
edhopper
(33,483 posts)2. If Biden is our nominee
everybody isn't wrong, or he won't win?
Arazi
(6,829 posts)3. I admit, I'm unnerved but now I'm even more determined to win in 2020
Prove them wrong
jpak
(41,756 posts)4. All Russian bot/trolls agree
Yup
GeorgeGist
(25,311 posts)5. Wait til they see the results of Brexit.
DavidDvorkin
(19,468 posts)6. Not on the DU I read
On that one, which is this one, a lot of people, including me, take the UK results as a warning not to choose a candidate who will be seen as being on the extreme left.
It's a valid fear. Candidates seen as extreme don't do well in normal economic times in the US. See 1964, for example. Either extreme gets rejected by a great majority of the voters.
edhopper
(33,483 posts)7. Trump is an extreme
nationalist. Too little a majority voted against him.
tenderfoot
(8,425 posts)9. Mitt Romney is "extreme left" compared to Trump
any push back to the right will be construed as too extreme... however, there is no limit of how far to the right can go.
JCMach1
(27,553 posts)8. Well, if we nominate someone as horrible a candidate as Corbyn, yeah...
...
edhopper
(33,483 posts)10. I don't think we have such a candidate
among the front runners.