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Brainstormy

(2,542 posts)
Fri Jul 12, 2024, 03:47 PM Jul 2024

538 has Biden up

NEW:
@FiveThirtyEight
- Presidential Election Forecast (updated July 12)

Chance of winning
🟦 Biden: 51%
🟥 Trump: 49%

Electoral College
🟦 Biden: 271 🏆
🟥 Trump: 267
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Swing States Projected margin

• Michigan - 🔵 Biden +1.8
• Wisconsin - 🔵 Biden +1.1
• Pennsylvania - 🔵 Biden +0.6
• Nevada - 🔴 Trump +1.1
• Arizona - 🔴 Trump +1.7
• Georgia - 🔴 Trump +1.8
• North Carolina - 🔴 Trump +2.4

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538 has Biden up (Original Post) Brainstormy Jul 2024 OP
Can someone explain to me what all the hysteria has been about? madaboutharry Jul 2024 #1
I think so JustAnotherGen Jul 2024 #3
no, he wants the rich Conjuay Jul 2024 #5
Yeah, that too. madaboutharry Jul 2024 #6
I don't believe JustAnotherGen Jul 2024 #2
Wasn't the big schmoe over there just saying rurallib Jul 2024 #4
NE-02 just got a lot more important Bok_Tukalo Jul 2024 #7
Nevada will not swing to Trump. BWdem4life Jul 2024 #8

madaboutharry

(42,033 posts)
1. Can someone explain to me what all the hysteria has been about?
Fri Jul 12, 2024, 03:52 PM
Jul 2024

Is the real reason the fear he will die in office and then VP Harris will become president? Is that what this really is about?

JustAnotherGen

(38,054 posts)
3. I think so
Fri Jul 12, 2024, 03:54 PM
Jul 2024

But we have a lot of Democrats with cultural conditioning we have to contend with.

Conjuay

(3,067 posts)
5. no, he wants the rich
Fri Jul 12, 2024, 03:56 PM
Jul 2024

to pay their fair share and not be welfare recipients.

Crazy idea, right?

Bok_Tukalo

(4,540 posts)
7. NE-02 just got a lot more important
Fri Jul 12, 2024, 04:01 PM
Jul 2024

WI, PA, and MI just puts in it Congress and that’s a Trump wins 26-24.

Although 25-25 is a possibility.

BWdem4life

(3,003 posts)
8. Nevada will not swing to Trump.
Fri Jul 12, 2024, 11:47 PM
Jul 2024

JMO of course, but there's no recent history to suggest it will. GWB carried it by very small margins and it hasn't swung red since - even though tRump was an incumbent in 2020. So, why would anything change this time around?

Also I think PA will not be as close as current polls show. Can't imagine a popular incumbent losing his "home state".

Wisconsin is the big question mark, IMO. That's why the Gross Old Party is holding their convention there. Razor-thin margin in 2020, but the power of incumbency will hopefully hold the line. If not, and GA and AZ swing back, then we lose.

I'm optimistic that won't happen.

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