No offer from the Times yet...
Reg
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I'll say this, Mick. On your side of the pond they are promoting the end of American democracy but in part, as I understand it, to prepare for the worst. If America falls to Trump and his fascist advisors, it will be a catastrophe that European nations would need to scramble to deal with...and so, predict the worst. This way they are preparing for it.
Trump won the Iowa primary in less than impressive fashion. Two thirds of registered Republican voters did not turn out to vote, and about half of those that did, voted against Trump. He had a bit under 57,000 people vote for him. This shows a couple of things that should be considered. First, it was a very cold night in Iowa, that kept voter turnout down. Sure, his 57,000 fans showed up but we don't know what would have happened had a majority of Republicans turned out to vote. There was either no interest in going out on a cold night, and/or just not much interest in casting a vote for someone like Trump. There is the third item, which is that because they vote via caucus, who you are supporting is public and many Republican voters were afraid to show they did not support Trump.
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'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
Reg
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I'll say this, Mick. On your side of the pond they are promoting the end of American democracy but in part, as I understand it, to prepare for the worst. If America falls to Trump and his fascist advisors, it will be a catastrophe that European nations would need to scramble to deal with...and so, predict the worst. This way they are preparing for it.
Trump won the Iowa primary in less than impressive fashion. Two thirds of registered Republican voters did not turn out to vote, and about half of those that did, voted against Trump. He had a bit under 57,000 people vote for him. This shows a couple of things that should be considered. First, it was a very cold night in Iowa, that kept voter turnout down. Sure, his 57,000 fans showed up but we don't know what would have happened had a majority of Republicans turned out to vote. There was either no interest in going out on a cold night, and/or just not much interest in casting a vote for someone like Trump. There is the third item, which is that because they vote via caucus, who you are supporting is public and many Republican voters were afraid to show they did not support Trump.
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'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
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