Highlights: Joe Biden and top aides have discussed the likelihood that Benjamin Netanyahu’s political days are numbered — and the president has conveyed that sentiment to the Israeli prime minister in a recent conversation.
Biden has gone so far as to suggest to Netanyahu that he should think about lessons he would share with his eventual successor, the two administration officials added.
Unfortunately no it won’t. Republicans are even worse about Israel than Democrats are, so unless someone who opposes Israel and can somehow gain mainstream support enters the race, Biden’s probably gonna win.
Why do people act like voter turnout isn’t ever an issue leading up to an election?
A third of our country usually don’t vote. It’s been less than a decade since trump managed to win because Clinton depressed turnout… For lots of Americans, casting a ballot can take hours after a full day of work. Potential positive rewards is always more effective than potential punishments, that’s just human psychology.
And I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but someone doesn’t need to win the popular vote to be president. A couple states decided by less than 100,000 votes can swing for any number of reasons that dont exist in a vacuum. It doesn’t need to be a single one issue. A bunch that have small effects is just as effective as a single large one.
Like, man, that shit just happened. We all just lived through that.
To further this point, there are 200,000 registered Muslim voters in Michigan. 16 electoral votes that Biden barely clinched with around 155,000 votes.
With the recent (last ten years) political silliness, I’ve started to schedule election day(s) off each year.
But I want to talk about something you may not know, or didn’t mention, that makes your point even more important. In some places, the polling place/election booths are literally in the lobby of an old folks home.
What this means, is while you and I and all the working people in this country have to schedule time off, and work around their jobs to vote, Ethel, who can barely walk, doesn’t remember her kid’s names, and thinks Gerald Ford is the current president gets to just drive her Rascal down to the lobby to vote. And it’s easy to sway the people in the retirement home with conservative talking points.
Fracturing your coalition (even if you are only cleaving off a few percent) in a political environment as tight as we have, is really problematic.
Many Muslim Americans have more interests in common with Republicans than Democrats - except for identity. Identity is only one component of a person’s decision of how to vote.
Biden is endangering far more than he seems to appreciate.
That you say “probably gonna win.” is a risk I’m loathe to take.
Yeah makes sense. Also I guess I didn’t consider the voter turnout part. Yeah he, and America, might be fucked.
That aside, I’d say a Muslim that actually looks at policy would consider republicans to be like a lot worse than democrats, but that puts too much trust in the average voter.