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I know it won't happen, but it'd be wild if the Republican party looked at Biden, said, "we could win this if we didn't field trump" and nominated someone else as their candidate; while the Democrats said, "people aren't going to vote for trump, but they may not vote for Biden either, which could cost us the election" and fielded someone other than Biden. The result being that neither Biden nor Trump end up on the ballot.
Again, it's highly unlikely to occur (though we are living in "Strange Times"), and we're almost guaranteed to see Biden vs Trump, but it'd be interesting to see how that'd shake things up.
the primaries are over, that would've happened last year if it were to happen
Yeah, but, and I may be mistaken, but primaries are up to the parties. That means they don't have to adhere to the primary outcomes or even hold primaries to begin with. Biden could get 100% of the primary vote, but if they think he's going to lose to trump, then they could still swap him out with someone else.
in many states it's illegal for a party to violate or inappropriately change their own primary rules (e.g. they must follow strict procedures and can be accountable if they don't follow them), which, is usually a good thing right?
Yeah. Although in this case it might be better if they could.
There's gotta be loopholes lol it's fuckin American politics, there's always a fuckin loophole and it's usually gaping.
There were polls done at some point, "generic" Democrat wins by 13 points against Trump and "generic" Republican wins by 11 points against Biden.
December 2015 polls had Bernie as the only candidate winning against Trump. But hey, the neolib establishment knows best!
Generic candidates always win. They have no flaws. No hang ups. No annoying habits. No awkward gafs. No history, no voting records. You can't even call him generic candidates. Because who people are voting for in that poll are more accurately they're idealized candidate. And by that I mean each individual person's idealized candidate. So of course they always win. When they put a name down the numbers change.
Or the two senile old men could die.
Naturally I'm sure.
I mean you keep saying the guns are to prevent you from being in a situation where your government isn't representative of what the people want.
But they're old. Right?
When they first had the nominations more or less locked in I posited to my partner that being as confrontational as they both are they really might give each other heart attacks on the debate stage by getting into a fight
Who said anything about guns? Lol
Not you. Plural you. Wait, I speak a little American. Y'all.
The correct usage in this case would be all y'all.
Kinda wish America wasn't a scary surveillance state but yes, a candidate(s) could theoretically die before then.
It'd be wild if people voted against genocide. But alas, that too won't happen.