2024 Presidential Platforms, Policies & Personalities

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the-pi-guy said:

Renamed said:

There is validity for this thread.  The US Politics thread is more focused on day to day happenings, news, outside opinions and events (keep it going, it's a a damn good daily read).  The 2024 US Presidential thread is more random, quick bits, less focus.  This thread is more directly about policy.  It's more detail oriented and will lend to lengthy posts that would get lost, or go unread, in the other election thread.  

Is this thread more about policy? 

I think it's a common problem with political threads that they jump around. You start off with talking about Kamala's economic policies, and you move on to how Bush's economic policies were bad, and then Reagan's, and then you start talking about other issues with Reagan, and now you're 10 pages past talking about Kamala's economic policies. 

I don't think the Attempted Assassination on Trump thread has talked about anything with regards to the Attempted Assassination in like 15 pages; aside from a few random posts probably.  

It's kind of hard to keep conversation open enough to talk about related issues, but closed enough to stay on topic. 

Exactly, there is just too much overlap between “2024 presidential election” & “2024 presidential platforms, policies, personalities”. They will inevitably just morph into discussing the same things and it just fragments the politics discussion as some people will be here and some will be in the other thread.

As a declining forum that already struggles with activity, having a smaller number of active threads is probably better than having a high number of barely active threads.