In <67563463$34$2753$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> "Snit" wrote:
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> On Dec 8, 2024 at 3:00:27 PM MST, "Rudy Canoza" wrote
> <0Go5P.53042$OuJ1.45433@fx16.iad>:
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>> On 12/8/2024 7:22 AM, bad sector wrote:
>>> On 12/8/24 10:08, John Smyth wrote:
>>>> 'The damage Biden has done'
>>>>
>>>> <https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/3249497/damage-joe-biden-has-done/>
>>>>
>>>> 'THE DAMAGE BIDEN HAS DONE. Joe Biden will be president for the next 47
>>>> days. That’s enough to make anyone nervous. The 82-year-old president
>>>> had to be forced, by his own party, to withdraw from the 2024 race
>>>> because he is no longer mentally and physically up to the job. But, of
>>>> course, he is still in the job. With a world full of dangerous
>>>> conflicts, that Biden is in charge for 47 more days, especially with
>>>> Vice President Kamala Harris in a deep post-defeat funk, is deeply
>>>> worrisome.
>>>>
>>>> The immediate problem will end on Jan. 20, 2025, when Biden leaves
>>>> office. But the United States, and the Democratic Party, will be dealing
>>>> with the damage Biden leaves behind for years. There is a reason voters,
>>>> for 40 years, were never interested in electing the openly ambitious
>>>> Biden president of the U.S. — until the bizarre circumstances of the
>>>> 2020 election. They knew for decades that he would not be a good
>>>> president. And he has proven them right.
>>>>
>>>> Leave the damage Biden has done to the U.S. — the massive migrant
>>>> influx, the decline in the standard of living for millions of people,
>>>> and the chaos abroad — for another day. Right now, a new analysis shows
>>>> the damage Biden has done to his party, and it is immense.
>>>>
>>>> Exit polls show that in the 2024 presidential election, 35% of voters
>>>> identified as Republicans, while 34% identified as independents, and 31%
>>>> identified as Democrats. In addition to a big jump in the number of
>>>> self-identified independents, the news is that in 2024, Democrats
>>>> slipped to third place in party ID.
>>>>
>>>> “For the first time since the Watergate era, independents surpassed one
>>>> of the major political parties to rank second in terms of party
>>>> identification,” writes Republican pollster David Winston, who has just
>>>> finished an in-depth study of the election results. “In this
>>>> presidential election, the percentage of the electorate that
>>>> self-identified as Democrats came in behind independents. … This means
>>>> that, in this election, Democrats are de facto more a third party than a
>>>> dominant party in the electorate.”
>>>>
>>>> Because of the Democrats’ slide, Republicans had a 4-point advantage in
>>>> party ID this year, 35% to 31%. According to Winston, that is the first
>>>> time the GOP has had such an advantage in 10 presidential elections.
>>>> Yes, 10 presidential elections.
>>>>
>>>> The Democrats’ fall between 2020 and 2024 was the party’s worst
>>>> performance in many years. But in terms of party identification,
>>>> Democrats have been in decline since former President Barack Obama was
>>>> first elected. In 2008, Democratic Party ID was 39%, a high that equaled
>>>> the party’s performance in the Bill Clinton years. But in 2012,
>>>> Democratic Party ID ticked down to 38%. Then, in 2016, it slipped to
>>>> 36%. In 2020, it moved up a notch to 37%. And then, in 2024, it plunged
>>>> to 31%. That 6-point drop was bigger even than the Republican Party’s
>>>> decline in the final, disastrous years of the George W. Bush presidency.
>>>>
>>>> “To provide a sense of scale of the size of this shift, a comparison of
>>>> 37% of the 2020 presidential turnout to 31% of the 2024 turnout shows
>>>> there were over 10 million fewer self-identified Democrats voting in
>>>> this last election,” Winston writes. “Independents went the other
>>>> direction, going from 27% in 2020 to 34% in 2024, which resulted in an
>>>> increase in self-identified independents of about 10 million.”
>>>>
>>>> What does it mean? The simplest explanation is that Biden and his fellow
>>>> Democrats made the party so unattractive that millions of
>>>> self-identified Democrats decided to call themselves independents
>>>> instead. That doesn’t mean they won’t call themselves Democrats again in
>>>> the future. But it does suggest that they were deeply unhappy with the
>>>> Democratic Party in 2024. Here is how Winston addresses the issue:
>>>>
>>>> The big question that emerges from this election is what happened to the
>>>> Democratic Party? In the last 10 presidential elections, the Democrats
>>>> made up the largest portion of the electorate in terms of party
>>>> identification (being even at 37% with Republicans for first in 2004).
>>>> In this election, not only was that streak broken, but Democrats fell
>>>> behind independents as well — into third place. The clear question from
>>>> this election is — where did those Democrats go? There are two
>>>> possibilities. First, they just didn’t show up to vote, while
>>>> independent turnout increased significantly. This theory would
>>>> contradict the public survey data done prior to the election that said
>>>> Democrats were very motivated to vote, while independents were not. The
>>>> other is that many Democrats changed their party identification to
>>>> independent. Either way, it shows an electorate that moved away from
>>>> Democrats as a result of Biden policies and voted for change. Democrats
>>>> will need to think through how to bring voters back, which is very
>>>> different than forming the next version of opposition.
>>>>
>>>> We know that when voters become disgusted with one party or the other,
>>>> some of them stop identifying themselves as members of that party. That
>>>> is what happened to Democrats over the four years of Joe Biden’s
>>>> presidency. The burden of Biden’s poor performance was too great for
>>>> Kamala Harris to overcome, especially since she showed no intention to
>>>> move away from Biden’s record or plans to do so. The short version is:
>>>> Joe Biden was a terrible president. His party paid the price. Now,
>>>> they’ll have to come up with a real, not a rhetorical, way to move
>>>> forward'
>>>
>>> Sans-prejudice, why don't you remove comp.os.linux.advocay and
>>> alt.computer.workshop from your crossposted ng's, or am I a harsh judge of
>>> character?
>> The evidence so far says you're an excellent judge of character. "John Smyth,"
>> a
>> pseudonym, is a shitbag, if he's even a real person.
>
> I would not be surprised if it was a Russian bot.

It's just a dwarf Filippino from Sacramento named Jon Ball.

>> I think "he" might be a
>> neo-Nazi posting 'bot.
>
> Yes. Which means Pothead and Carroll likely agree with most of the points
> made.

Biden and his blasian sidekick are the worst two leaders in American history. They should both be hung for treason.

>> He never responds to anyone, and all of his posts go to
>> comp.os.linux.advocacy and alt.computer.workshop (which I have restored to the
>> cross-posts this one time only because I'm afraid that otherwise you won't see
>> the reply). If you ever see what appears to be a reply (subject line starts
>> with
>> "Re:") from "John Smyth," it's a forgery, many of which are from me. Numerous
>> Usenet participants have asked the shitbag "Smyth" to stop posting his Nazi
>> rants to the computer groups, and not only does "he" keep doing it, he doesn't
>> even reply to refuse the request.
>>
>> What I usually do when I want to reply to the post of some shitbag like "Smyth"
>> who includes unrelated newsgroups just to be an annoying shitbag is to insert
>> "Oh.no.this.most.certainly.is.NOT.going.to."

Oh yeah that's going to work, not.