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On Fri, 16 Aug 2024 15:41:40 -0400, Cryptoengineer
<petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 8/15/2024 3:39 PM, quadibloc wrote:
>> Myself, I am not nearly so optimistic.
>> Kamala Harris is neither white nor male, and that terrifies me, as I
>> think that a lot of potential
>> swing voters will simply refuse to consider her on those grounds,
>> preferring to vote even for Trump
>> instead.
>> Yes, she has ignited a great deal of enthusiasm among Democrats, and
>> higher turnout helps matters
>> as well. But to elect a President, a party will need to get votes from
>> at least some rural areas,
>> the ones more inclined to support Trump. Remember that votes are
>> filtered through the Electoral
>> College, so it's not enough to just have a majority of the popular =
vote
>> due to a high turnout
>> in the most populous mainly Democratic states; one has to have a
>> majority in many states.
>
>Quaddie's projecting his own problems with women and brown people onto
>undecided Americans.
>
>He should remember that we've already elected a black president, and
>Hillary failed only because Comey announced re-opening the 'emails'
>investigation just 11 days before the election.

Actually, she failed because
-- she had no idea how the Electoral College worked, so she ignored
the "flyover States" (each of which has at least 3 Electoral Votes)
-- when she was out "campaigning", she was mostly schmoozing the local
1%-ers to raise money

Trump won because /someone/ in his campaign (I do not say Trump
himself) knew how the Electoral College worked and Trump loved to talk
to (well, at) voters.

Comey's announcement came while the mail-in ballots were being mailed
in. A lot of votes had already been cast at that point.

Still probably a bad decision, though. But then, so was the private
server itself. When working for the gummint on gummint time one really
should use the gummint server. It might even be harder to hack than a
private server, who can say?
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"