I’ll go first.

I expect this to be the same as 2020, but North Carolina might flip blue.

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    I think Kamala wins. Biden’s walking corpse was a much worse candidate and he won in 2020. There’s no way that Kamala “generic democrat” Harris will do worse than Skibidi Biden. Especially after the abortion ban.

    I think a Kamala presidency will be worse for America and the world because everybody will go back to brunch. If the orange man wins, at least there will be some pushback for the horrible things that America is doing

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    My prediction is at least 2 degrees celsius warming by the end of the century, a thing that whoever wins the US election in 2024 will help accelerate.

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    I’m slightly on the side of Harris winning.

    • I’ll give dems this, they’ve at least begun to develop a sense of party loyalty that the gop has.

    • Tim Walz was admittedly an attempt to appeal to some economic populism. I have no faith they’ll make good on this, but I as per usual hope to be proven wrong.

    • The gamergate sauce is dying to some extent. Gamergaters have been in victory dance mode for 10 years after winning and even among apolitical people I’ve seen them tell these red-baiters to fuck off

    • Hilary Clinton in particular had a LOT of baggage and even in 2016 Trump barely won

    • tons of early voting. Generally dems do better when more people vote

    • I think overturning Roe was the GOP’s equivalent of Obgerfell, the pyrrhic culture war victory that they didn’t want to truly win.

    • Also I’ve noticed a bit of the idea of fully forming a “uniparty”, dems love kowtowing to the gop and if I were a fascist, I’d want my most vocal dissenters to get on my case for not being fascist enough.

    Oh, and a lathe for the road. I can see immediately after a Harris win that dems will smugly tell the left: “see? We don’t need you after all!” even before they go back to brunch.

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    I think Harris has it.

    • The pollsters are over-correcting because their failure in 2016 gave them PTSD
    • The events of the last week before the actual vote are extremely significant - and those include two of Trump’s biggest gaffes this whole cycle
    • Trump has never actually been super popular. Despite her attempts to throw it Harris is still closer to the “generic Democrat” who easily beats him than she is to Hillary
    • The effects of COVID are currently understated by pollsters. That killed way more Rs than it did Ds.
    • The effects of Republicans concentrating into places like Florida and Texas is currently understated by pollsters.

    But then again I’m currently on the worst losing streak of my life counting cards so maybe it’s best to bet against me right now.

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    I am currently thinking it’s going to be a pretty clean Harris win. Ask me again in an hour. I think she’s done everything she can to fuck this up but she still wins due to the very unpopular abortion restrictions and people being tired of Trump as a person.

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    My funniest prediction I’ve had since like 2 years ago was that Trump wins the election, Biden dies like a day later getting Harris sworn in as a lame duck…and then Trump dies 2 weeks before taking office and JD vance becomes president.

    …I feel like we don’t live in that timeline though. As of right now I think Harris just clinches it with the popular vote and the EC…then we spend the next few months litigating it both publicly and in various courts. Would be wild if the supreme court pulled a 2000 thing again…but I feel like that probably won’t happen.

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    I’m trying to think of the most jokerfying thing that could happen in Florida so that the actual results feel better:

    Amendment 4 (abortion amendment) gets a majority vote of like 59% but ultimately doesn’t pass because it needs 60%. Hell, maybe it just barely scraps 60%, and I get to celebrate for exactly one night before fucking Desantis finds a way to invalidate the results the next day.

    Meanwhile amendment 3 (weed amendment) passes with something crazy like 70%+, and white small business tyrants rejoice. (I don’t have a problem with weed, voted yes on it myself, but I would lose my shit if amendment 3 passed without 4.)

    fuckin-deserve ralsei-doobie

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    The real question is: If Trump wins, will libs start caring about the genocide on Nov 5 or will they at least have the self awareness to wait until Jan 21

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    Right up until about a month or two ago, I was very convinced Trump was going to take it, but honestly both sides seem less interested in their own candidate and just voting against the other. There appears to be some big enthusiasm among women in places with abortion bans, so that could turn the tide, but also Harris has pissed off everyone vaguely left and essentially every Muslim.

    I’m gonna call it for Trump, but I’m not confident anymore.

    If Kamala does win, I think any sort of J6 shit is out of the question. The petite bourgeois that participated last time realized (due to all the arrests) its not a good idea to piss off the feds, and the dems will put out a biiiiiig show, complete with tanks on the front lawn of the white house, to show how “ready” they are.

    Whoever wins, there will be minor squabbles about how it was stolen, and then things will move on quickly, aside from conspiracy theorists and resistance reddit libs.

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        Even when there is no prospect whatsoever of their being elected, the workers must put up their own candidates in order to preserve their independence, to count their forces, and to bring before the public their revolutionary attitude and party standpoint.

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        I really don’t get that point - does the American left wing really thing Trump would be a better choice? Do American Muslims think that Trump will support Israel less?

        your problem is that you think people have 2 choices when in really they have 4, vote dem/rep, vote 3rd party or not vote at all. If someone pisses you off they arent owned your vote and honestly you shouldnt vote for them.

        your last 2 points, just shows that people actually have no control over the goverment since its an oligarchic duopoly and not a democracy so why even participate then

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          Choice 1: Harris

          Choice 2: Trump

          Choice 3 / 4: Someone who has no chance to win (new parties have to get more influencal at local levels before having any chance to win) = doesn’t change anything about the result = not voting = only a valid choice if you think Harris and Trump are equally bad

          But yes your democratic system really is flawed. I expect Harris to win the popular vote while Trump wins the electoral college but hope for the best - Trump has proven already that he only cares about money (eg tax cuts for rich people)

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            Trump has proven already that he only cares about money

            Kamala campaign has been all about how she support all donors and PACs how no one will change that, her main strategy is stealing donors from trump by running the most centrist policy ever with only abortion being its only diferent policy, you need to stop sugarcoating Harris just because Trump is bad. and yes both are equally bad or at maximun have a 1% diference

            both are bloodthristy neoliberals who couldnt care less about anyone but themselfs