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Expecting a Biden win so i bought a lot of short term calls in gun stocks and long term shares in Tesla.

If Trump loses, instead of being an actual president and reeling in the crazies, he'll allow his supporters to terrorize as they see fit. Scary times ahead

Sounds like the usual politicking bullshit I've seen on American TV adverts since forever. 

1. Except I do, and that's exactly what I'm counting on. 

2. If the House of Conservatives became the new Kingmaker, you'd see the Midterms getting a new kind of importance and people using those to turn the House bluer. We already know its perfectly reasonable and the state readout doesn't necessarily favor the GOP: the number of Deep Red States isn't significantly larger than that of Blue States and would pretty much be left to Swing States: in other words, the US becomes a Parliamentary Republic by default. Already an improvement. 

3. Wouldn't this boil down to the amount of states held by both of the left-ier (urgh) parties? Why does the division of a party suddenly makes them powerless in states their policies had originally allowed them to hold? The vote would still be binary (between the two best performers, which means at least one party would have to support a candidate not from their party, another improvement). 

4. I'm assuming this happens after Trump, when the GOP will essentially lose virtually any stability left. They will have less reasons to fracture, but the party would be useless.

5. The house could also modify the Contingent Elections' rules. I have no clue why it's so far fetched for Dems to hold more than 25 states... Also, yes... Romney was behind by one state, which is kind of the point. These elections would be way closer, which would lead to GOP enthusiasm... but also, fatigue: they can't count on always having 26 states on their side. One breaking ranks dooms them. That's a lot of risks and not any less shakier than your gerrymandering fueled EC victories. 

Because we're dealing with two parties, which means that population is against them. In a simple majority three way race, they'd actually have an advantage so long as the split vote was center left and not center right. However, the Dems should also favor it because the centrist vote of both parties might coalesce into a party that can outperform the potential Red and Blue parties. 

First past the post favors them now because they are in a system anything else would crush them, but this hold is tenuous since it depends on Texas staying loyally red. Texas won't stay red forever and Florida's GOP is going to end up weaker than right now at some point as the "Castro Myth" dies away. 

You're right about the PP probably becoming party #3. 

That wasn't a fracture: it was a backlash not dissimilar from the Bernie vote breaking ranks with the Democratic Party back in 2016. You need a significant portion of the party's membership (over one third of it) to do the same, making the party's possibilities of victory near impossible without them. Also, acquiescing to their demands would suffice in forcing the Democratic Party into the left, which would eliminate the need for the split and not require the EC to be disbanded. This is the bad ending for the GOP, but the good one for everyone. 

The real intention with all this is essentially forcing a firmly left wing party into a US General Election. Scaring the Democratic Party into compliance with the Socialist wing is the only way to assist the US with it's long term recovery. Centrism is going to keep things the same and sooner or later the structure will ossify (if they haven't already) and collapse. At least Trump's destructive far right approach has the effect of essentially forcing the opposition to rip some of the structures of power apart after realizing Trump can circumvent them through his party, meaning they are a hindrance to them instead of the GOP. 

How does this investment map make any sense? 

I would board my businesses and home up. 

Ok, that's it. I'm blacking out this thread since regardless of the outcome, I will not want to witness the shit flinging that will undoubtedly take place. I will return in around a week or so, when things have settled down. If you want to argue, don't bother. I've made (and rest) my case. Whether you agree it's viable or not is irrelevant since this review only represents my opinion and everyone has their own. 

To each his own, I guess. 

Gun sales were booming during the BLM protests and I see that happening again. 

Biden has a plan to make electric cars charging stations as common as gas stations and Tesla has already had a crazy year so I expect them to thrive even more.

It favors the republicans because they control the small states with very low population, which are severely overweighted in the electoral college because the constitution gives every state 3 votes minimum. A couple of those states bring in 3 electoral votes while having less total population than a big state like California has for just one electoral vote. In fact, if you won those states by just one vote, you could theoretically win the election with only a paltry 24% of the electoral vote.

But the thing is, those states also do have a sizable portion of democrats living in them, and would lose their only big advantage in elections, no matter how many parties are running. So there's no way in hell the Republicans would ever want to change the system, as it would invariably hurt their interests. They are already doing everything they can to suppress votes left and right to be able to compete. Just today for instance, their plead to throw out 127k votes in Texas has been rejected. Because they need to eliminate non-white non-college voters as much as they can to win even with everything stacked in their favor. So don't expect them to ever remove those advantages - they'd just use a third party to ensure victory as @JWeinCom has explained to you if nobody would get 270 votes.

I think they think this is a parliamentary system... It's not, and having three parties doesn't make it so. 

A parliamentary system only works when you need a majority. In a system where you need a plurality, splitting the party in half is literally the worst idea possible, even before considering the logistics of funding twice as many candidates.

CNN Election Coverage starts at 10 PM tonight in Arizona. We’re on Mountain Standard Time now. Daylight Savings was yesterday. So if you’re in California, Oregon, Washington, or any state that’s on Pacific Standard Time, coverage should start at 9 PM.

Polls will be 2016 all over again. Trump will win. Trump has the silent majority vote, and he'll get those key swing states again. America seems lit to live in right now besides their abysmal COVID response lol

That is the single biggest issue in this election for voters and the one where Trump is getting the most flack for, even from members and voters in the Republican party, yet you still think he’ll win?