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      The gambling odds have started to show a significantly better chance for Kamala winning than Biden now, it’s an interesting shift.

      And, those odds aren’t odds that only take affect if she is made the nominee, there’s no prerequisites there, it’s generic odds of just Kamala running and winning the election period.

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      Hey, the nature of probabilities with uncertainty is that they’ll never reach zero, he’ll just have a 0.005% chance of win, which is technically not “no way”. Checkmate bedwetters.

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      Erf, and fivethirtyeight is one of the poll sites that tends to be pretty accurate =/

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        I heard they actually lost their statistician who originally set the whole thing up. I’m expecting a decline in quality. Wikipedia says the original guy, Nate Silver left and created his own website last year. Natesilver.net

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    “But I get overwhelming support. Overwhelming support. I won … I forget how many votes I won in the primary, overwhelming.”

    I mean as only one running in it one would hope so

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    After reading all the comments on here and all of our social media, we don’t need an official poll. Even the staunchest of Democrats are now saying the same thing that many of us have been saying for over 4 years.

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      Unless Obama personally drags him behind the woodshed I don’t see him dropping out. His hubris is too strong, and his identity is too connected to his political career. This was never about the country. It was always exclusively about Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden’s egos.

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        No one - I mean absolutely no one - runs for President without a high level of ego and narcissism. Who the fuck thinks they are best suited to “lead the free world”? No one with an ounce of humility.

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            I like Bernie. And maybe he’s an exception. But the cynic in me doubts he is entirely immune.

            But for sure, good call.

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              I’m sure he is not entirely immune. Nobody is, but I also firmly believe in Bernie’s ability to put the good of others before himself when it truly matters most. I cannot say the same about Trump, Hillary, or Biden.

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              Bernie is still sharp as a tack. Also, we weren’t talking about fitness. We were talking about character and ethics.

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            You are blinded by hero worship if you think his ego wasn’t at play. I like the man, I like his politics, but come on man, get real. He wasn’t falling on a sword, he was running for the highest office in the land with millions of devoted supporters cheering love to him 24/7. No one is immune from the ego boost that provides and it will warp ones perspective no matter who you are.

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        Yeah, I’m so sick and tired of people delicately tiptoeing around these people because “whatabout their LEGACY”. I can assure there are very few Americans that GAF about Biden’s so-called legacy, but we keep having to play this stupid game.

        Again, I’ll be voting for him if he’s in the general. But I want the Democrats to win and I’m not too sure we aren’t royally fucked if it’s him on the ticket.

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    I just did a poll on everyone who watched that press conference and it says, “there’s no way you can win.”

    Ok…who’s next?

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    With every news personality declaring it, regardless, the polls will eventually say that anyway

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        The liberals not the left. The left was warning you about slow walking Biden to the next election since he got elected. The liberals didn’t listen. Now we’re here because it wasn’t convient to listen to the left four years ago.

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        Quit scapegoating and spreading misinformation. “The left” had fuck-all to do with this debacle.

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          The left has been shitting over its best interests this whole election cycle so I guess you could argue they’d already fucked.up as much as they had the power to so are now unable to do anything but petulantly whine

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    It’s too late to swap horses in this race. The time was two years ago, and the best hope now is that the “anyone but Trump” vote prevails.

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      The “anyone but trump vote” is me. All these headlines are noise.

      See yall in November.

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        The Dem candidate isn’t going to add any Trump votes.

        It’s only going to establish how many Dems are enthusiastic enough to get off their butts.

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          And the left understands what a threat the racist rapist with 34 felonies is to democracy. They’ll vote, and when they vote, the right has zero chance.

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      The time was 4 years ago when leftists were calling his mental condition out. It was apparent then, even Obama lightly alluded to it several times.