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DFW

(60,882 posts) Fri Aug 30, 2024, 09:26 AM Aug 2024

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This election could be the first time since before the Civil War (!!!)...... [View all]

If Harris is elected, it will be the first time since 1856 that a Democrat has succeeded another Democrat as president in a situation where the sitting president didn't die in office (e.g. FDR/Truman, JFK/LBJ). There should have been two such occasions (2000, 2016), but although Democrats Gore and Clinton got more votes, Republican machinations managed to make sure that their man took office instead.

Electing Harris would be precedent-setting in more ways than one.

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This election could be the first time since before the Civil War (!!!)...... [View all] DFW Aug 2024 OP

It is interesting DeepWinter Aug 2024 #1

For that to happen, the economy would have to continue its general upswing DFW Aug 2024 #4

Fairer tax policy, moves toward universal health displacedvermoter Aug 2024 #13

I been reckoning this in my limited mental capacity GusBob Aug 2024 #2

Your optimism is inspiring - what's likely to happen is MAGA decides they weren't pure enough and double down Probatim Aug 2024 #8

That is why a Kemp or a Haley (or a Haley/Kemp displacedvermoter Aug 2024 #20

If we don't win, our democracy is really over. That isn't an exaggeration. We missed a bullet on January 6th, I don't JohnSJ Aug 2024 #3

And we have to win more than just the election DFW Aug 2024 #6

I made the same comment yesterday - republican legislatures around the country used "widespread voter fraud" Probatim Aug 2024 #9

I am afraid of this happening. But how can we avoid this so close to the election? CTyankee Aug 2024 #23

It sounds like the Harris team has hired many more lawyers for this election than Biden needed to. Probatim Aug 2024 #25

Yes, and I am comforted by our team being so alert and think through ways to deal with them. CTyankee Aug 2024 #28

Yes. JohnSJ Aug 2024 #10

However, in 1856, I would have been a Republican. Trump's... NNadir Aug 2024 #5

Buchanan was certainly no feather in our cap, that's for sure DFW Aug 2024 #7

Well, again, the editorial "our" should not apply to me. Buchanan succeeding Pierce, and actually being (slightly)... NNadir Aug 2024 #30

An inflection point for the Ages. Kid Berwyn Aug 2024 #11

It might be decades before history recognizes the full impact of the Biden presidency DFW Aug 2024 #15

When my mother was doing a thing with Zoomie1986 Aug 2024 #31

will be. barbtries Aug 2024 #12

Not if we win, when we win.... Butterflylady Aug 2024 #14

I am not worried about winning the election DFW Aug 2024 #16

Their MAGA mantra is BattleRow Aug 2024 #17

Only if they have accomplices at the state level. Shame on us if we haven't figured out ways around their evil plots. CTyankee Aug 2024 #29

KnR Hekate Aug 2024 #18

Some claim that voters in general expect to switch the administration after two terms question everything Aug 2024 #19

Coincidentally whopis01 Aug 2024 #21

I wouldn't blame our failure to implement democratic processes on Republicans ColinC Aug 2024 #22

We have to do everything to make sure those idiots don't try something. Initech Aug 2024 #24

The 2000 & 2016 General Elections just remind me that we need to get rid of the electoral college... Omnipresent Aug 2024 #26

I hope we don't have an Electoral College problem this time. zanana1 Aug 2024 #27