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Those who *still* won't vote for Biden are making 'Farquaad's Sacrifice' (Original Post) friendly_iconoclast Apr 2020 OP
Plenty of trumpers will still vote for him . Why not focus on GOTV now for Biden instead of who lunasun Apr 2020 #1
Lot of entitled Bernie Bros won't dustyscamp Apr 2020 #2
Look at all the trump voters who vote against their interest . Time to GOTV and work for Biden lunasun Apr 2020 #5
Also, McCain was no Trump dansolo Apr 2020 #8
fug 'em.....They were never going to vote Democratic. Sogo Apr 2020 #3
Trump has one opponent now. Joe Biden (D). Progressive Jones Apr 2020 #4
Trump has one opponent. Biden has several. DFW Apr 2020 #7
there are a handful of people that won't be persuaded stopdiggin Apr 2020 #6

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
1. Plenty of trumpers will still vote for him . Why not focus on GOTV now for Biden instead of who
Mon Apr 13, 2020, 11:55 PM
Apr 2020

doesn’t want to vote for him ? It’s very hard to try to convince another person to vote for someone they do not choose on their own imo

dustyscamp

(2,224 posts)
2. Lot of entitled Bernie Bros won't
Tue Apr 14, 2020, 12:03 AM
Apr 2020

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I don't understand why they don't understand that Trump will make life worse for everyone if he is allowed to stay in office.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
5. Look at all the trump voters who vote against their interest . Time to GOTV and work for Biden
Tue Apr 14, 2020, 12:51 AM
Apr 2020

instead of continuing to focus on people who have already said no thanks
I do hope an effort is made by all Dems to elect him instead of spending time making a list of who to blame if he doesn’t win.
More Clinton Pumas (party unity my ass)in 08 did not vote for Obama after the primary than did Sanders Bernie or bust voters who sat out in 16.
But why don’t people care? Because Obama continued to GOTV and attract new voters ,indies and even some repugs to create a large turnout without the pumas
in fact I never heard any Obama supporters keep looking back on those puma holdouts after he won the primary .
Expand the base with new voters not keep focusing on ones who have rejected Biden or support trump . I think it was a mistake in 16 and will be in 20 to keep spotlights on that group . Clinton still last year asserting they were powerful enough to make her lose
It actually puts them in the center instead of attracting new voters and making sure people return in Nov who came out in primaries for Biden

dansolo

(5,376 posts)
8. Also, McCain was no Trump
Tue Apr 14, 2020, 06:58 AM
Apr 2020

People keep harping back on the PUMAs voting for McCain over Obama, but There are two significant differences. First, McCain wasn't an existential threat to this country like Trump is. And these people refusing to back Biden are supposedly claiming to be progressive, which makes helping Trump get re-elected even more offensive, since he represents everything that progressives oppose, to themost extreme degree.

Sogo

(4,986 posts)
3. fug 'em.....They were never going to vote Democratic.
Tue Apr 14, 2020, 12:05 AM
Apr 2020

They're either Russian or GOP plants (which now is a redundancy).....

Progressive Jones

(6,011 posts)
4. Trump has one opponent now. Joe Biden (D).
Tue Apr 14, 2020, 12:22 AM
Apr 2020

That's who we vote for. Joe Biden (D). Unless you want Trump. Then, your'e an asshole.

DFW

(54,403 posts)
7. Trump has one opponent. Biden has several.
Tue Apr 14, 2020, 03:52 AM
Apr 2020

Trump's only opponent is Joe Biden. Biden has not only Trump as an opponent, but also those people who stand to gain (or think they do) either financially, or geopolitically (or both).

That's why our task is far more difficult.

When I was in college, there were some pretty stupid smart people there. I looked through that screen shot to see if my school was represented on there. Sure enough, and with one of the nastier posts.

Agreed about the asshole.

stopdiggin

(11,316 posts)
6. there are a handful of people that won't be persuaded
Tue Apr 14, 2020, 03:42 AM
Apr 2020

Deal with it. Get over it. Expend your energy where it counts.
Pounding away at the (really very tiny) minority of recalcitrants is just a diversion and an annoyance.

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