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That's true and some of them are publically speaking out and asking other Republicans to not vote for Trump. They see that the GOP has been taken over and can't even identify with this Republican party.f that were the case, there wouldn't be so much infighting in the GOP between state level and federal level. (Guys like Mike Dewine, Bill Weld, Charlie Baker, and Larry Hogan represent the mindsets of a substantial number of people who identify as republicans)
Over a million Americans have applied for unemployment benefits for the last 20 weeks!A bit of an exaggeration there -
Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates declined in July for adult men (9.4 percent), adult women (10.5 percent), teenagers (19.3 percent), Whites (9.2 percent), Asians (12.0 percent), and Hispanics (12.9 percent). The jobless rate for Blacks (14.6 percent) showed little change over the month. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)
The number of unemployed persons who were on temporary layoff decreased by 1.3 million in July to 9.2 million, about half its April level. In July, the number of permanent job losers and the number of unemployed reentrants to the labor force were virtually unchanged over the month, at 2.9 million and 2.4 million, respectively. (Reentrants are persons who previously worked but were not in the labor force prior to beginning their job search.) (See table A-11.)
Not anywhere near your assumption.
Obama, the worst economic recovery in history, yes I am certain everyone would welcome that again.Funny how Biden's to blame for all the thing that happened under Obama's administration. If he's elected, all of those things will return. Except the good stuff. Like 70 months of sustained economic growth. Nope. In that case, he'll do the exact opposite.
Not very convincing to most voters, if the polling is even remotely accurate. In fact, based on the polling a return to Obama (or any candidate who can speak in complete sentences) is welcomed, not feared.
Obama is a person, not an economic recovery.Obama, the worst economic recovery in history
Funny thing about percentages, if you have a dollar today and get another dollar tomorrow that is a 100% increase and if you get another dollar the next day that is only a 50% increase and if you are still growing at a dollar a day the percentage will continue to decline. numbers are so much fun. Obama Recovery Is Worst In Post WWII History | Investor's Business DailyObama is a person, not an economic recovery.
Anyway, facts don't seem to be on the side of your empty assertion here - Trump’s Economic Growth Is Slower Than Obama’s Last 3 Years
I'm not sure how an article from 2012 addresses an article that compares Trump's first three years to Obama's last three (aka 2014-2016).Funny thing about percentages, if you have a dollar today and get another dollar tomorrow that is a 100% increase and if you get another dollar the next day that is only a 50% increase and if you are still growing at a dollar a day the percentage will continue to decline. numbers are so much fun. Obama Recovery Is Worst In Post WWII History | Investor's Business Daily
Funny thing about percentages, if you have a dollar today and get another dollar tomorrow that is a 100% increase and if you get another dollar the next day that is only a 50% increase and if you are still growing at a dollar a day the percentage will continue to decline.
If I had to resort to dredging up an 8 year old opinion piece to try and rationalize my beliefs about a guy who's been out of office for nearly 4 years, I'd reconsider the reason I believed the thing in the first place.Obama Recovery Is Worst In Post WWII History | Investor's Business Daily
Joe Biden would be center right or moderate right in most European countries. American right wing conservatives really have no concept of what the political spectrum really is and where they fall on it. Hint: EVERYTHING looks like "radical left" when you're a just shy of fascism.Considering we are now hearing about “Joe Biden’s ‘radical left’ agenda”, which is ludicrous on its face, the middle has moved, hard right.
Joe Biden is nowhere near the “radical left”.
At best, he’s center-left.
Joe Biden would be center right or moderate right in most European countries. American right wing conservatives really have no concept of what the political spectrum really is and where they fall on it. Hint: EVERYTHING looks like "radical left" when you're a just shy of fascism.
Jobs 'created' or jobs that were temporarily shut down because of covid?1,000,000 people filed for unemployment during the same time 1,800,000 jobs were created.
That is why the unemployment rate went DOWN
That's hyperbole (I hope)...
The right has been moving left at a steady pace since the 1990's, it's just that the left has been moving left faster.
So the inverse of you're statement would also have to be true. Everything looks like "radical right" to people who are on the far-left.
Have you ever been to Europe?
Do you know what their politics are?
Do you have any idea of what they think of trump and his politics?
Do you have any studies backing this up? I grew up in a conservative town in the eighties and the current party is further right then I remember them being.
Have you ever been to Europe? Do you know what their politics are? Do you have any idea of what they think of trump and his politics?
Sure, I posted them in an earlier post in this thread.
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You're more likely to find a republican that's in favor of gay marriage and pot legalization in 2020, than you would be to find a democrat who was in favor of those things in 1995.
Republican support of government-run healthcare has increased by 50% in the last 5-10 years, and republicans are moving toward a more pro-choice position as age demographics change.
What metrics are you using for "left" and "right"?
Apart from the issues I mentioned above, that leaves immigration (which, as I already touched on, many progressive Euro nations actually have stricter requirements than we do), gun laws, and free education...as far as major "hot button" issues are concerned. (and even on the gun control issue, republican support for things like universal background checks has gone from 25% to 36% between 2013 and now)
Are those the only 3 issues that determine "left vs. right"?
With regards to social issues, republicans (in terms of their voter base) have moved a lot in the last 25 years. Perhaps this "no matter how much you move, it's never enough" mentality coming from the far left is what drove so many of them into the welcoming arms of the likes of Trump.
If you think about it, I can see why many would have that sort of backlash reaction. If you have a republican who's reformed their positions on gay marriage, abortion, and healthcare, only to still be equated to Richard Spencer because they happen to still hold a more conservative position on taxation, aren't willing to move quite as far left on guns as the far left would like them to move, and aren't quite ready to move left on certain new issues like Trans issues and a variety of "microaggressions" (even though the democrats weren't ready to move left on those things 10 years ago), you can see why some would "spite vote" in that sort of way.
The right has compromised/conceded more of their positions over the past 10-15 years than the left has, in the name of compromise, and all its gotten them is a bunch of 22 year old college kids accusing them of being fascists and left-leaning media outlets implying that "if you don't vote democrat, you must hate the LGBT community, minorities, and poor people"
The reason for those accusations is that, even though the average Republican voter is more favorably inclined to "liberal" social issues, Republican leadership is not. If you personally support LGBT rights but vote for politicians that enact policies designed to oppress the LGBT community because of their positions on taxes and the 2nd Amendment, that sends a message to the members of the LGBT community that they - actual human beings - are less important to you than money and guns. From there, it's reasonable to conclude that maybe you do hate the LGBT community - even if you actually don't.The right has compromised/conceded more of their positions over the past 10-15 years than the left has, in the name of compromise, and all its gotten them is a bunch of 22 year old college kids accusing them of being fascists and left-leaning media outlets implying that "if you don't vote democrat, you must hate the LGBT community, minorities, and poor people"
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