Schiff Warned of Wipeout for Democrats if Biden Remains in Raceanticolonialist@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world – 43 points – 2 months agonytimes.comPaywall removed70Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsIn this thread: people who don't know how poorly this went every other time they switched.Correlation isn't causation, the switches happened because they were doing poorlyOne time the switch happened because the popular candidate was assassinated. One time it was partially because of, and partially the cause of the Civil War. (Contest only resolved after Southern delegates walked out) One time it was because neither candidate could get the support of the KKK. No that's not a joke. And another time it was because of the civil rights act. The guy who ended up causing the contest really, really hated it. In every single case, the party that had a contested convention lost the election. Generally by a pretty wide margin. do they know we automatically lose Nevada, Georgia and Wisconsin if we lose Biden/Harris? https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-joe-biden-presidential-race-replacing-biden-georgia-nevada-wisconsin-1919531 I can't fathom the circular firing squad mentality at work here. 22 more...22 more...
In this thread: people who don't know how poorly this went every other time they switched.Correlation isn't causation, the switches happened because they were doing poorlyOne time the switch happened because the popular candidate was assassinated. One time it was partially because of, and partially the cause of the Civil War. (Contest only resolved after Southern delegates walked out) One time it was because neither candidate could get the support of the KKK. No that's not a joke. And another time it was because of the civil rights act. The guy who ended up causing the contest really, really hated it. In every single case, the party that had a contested convention lost the election. Generally by a pretty wide margin. do they know we automatically lose Nevada, Georgia and Wisconsin if we lose Biden/Harris? https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-joe-biden-presidential-race-replacing-biden-georgia-nevada-wisconsin-1919531 I can't fathom the circular firing squad mentality at work here. 22 more...22 more...
Correlation isn't causation, the switches happened because they were doing poorlyOne time the switch happened because the popular candidate was assassinated. One time it was partially because of, and partially the cause of the Civil War. (Contest only resolved after Southern delegates walked out) One time it was because neither candidate could get the support of the KKK. No that's not a joke. And another time it was because of the civil rights act. The guy who ended up causing the contest really, really hated it. In every single case, the party that had a contested convention lost the election. Generally by a pretty wide margin.
One time the switch happened because the popular candidate was assassinated. One time it was partially because of, and partially the cause of the Civil War. (Contest only resolved after Southern delegates walked out) One time it was because neither candidate could get the support of the KKK. No that's not a joke. And another time it was because of the civil rights act. The guy who ended up causing the contest really, really hated it. In every single case, the party that had a contested convention lost the election. Generally by a pretty wide margin.
do they know we automatically lose Nevada, Georgia and Wisconsin if we lose Biden/Harris? https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-joe-biden-presidential-race-replacing-biden-georgia-nevada-wisconsin-1919531 I can't fathom the circular firing squad mentality at work here. 22 more...
In this thread: people who don't know how poorly this went every other time they switched.
Correlation isn't causation, the switches happened because they were doing poorly
One time the switch happened because the popular candidate was assassinated.
One time it was partially because of, and partially the cause of the Civil War. (Contest only resolved after Southern delegates walked out)
One time it was because neither candidate could get the support of the KKK. No that's not a joke.
And another time it was because of the civil rights act. The guy who ended up causing the contest really, really hated it.
In every single case, the party that had a contested convention lost the election. Generally by a pretty wide margin.
do they know we automatically lose Nevada, Georgia and Wisconsin if we lose Biden/Harris?
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-joe-biden-presidential-race-replacing-biden-georgia-nevada-wisconsin-1919531
I can't fathom the circular firing squad mentality at work here.