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applegrove

(118,665 posts)
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 03:24 PM Jul 2020

Why Biden Could Go Big

Why Biden Could Go Big

July 5, 2020 at 1:30 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 321 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/07/05/why-biden-could-go-big/

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Joe Biden “finds himself in landslide territory without having had to do very much to get there… Mr Trump’s flailing has made a Democratic Senate majority possible,” The Economist reports.

“That opens up the chances of a highly productive presidency which once seemed inconceivable. Before COVID-19 and widespread social unrest, Mr Biden’s candidacy was about restoration — the idea that he could return America and the world to the prelapsarian days of 2016. It transpires that he could have the opportunity to do something big instead.”

“To make lasting change through the federal government you need to win the Senate. And that cannot be done with a candidate at the top of the ticket who frightens the voters… Because he comes across as the grandfather he is, he is viewed with suspicion on the left. Yet that is precisely what makes him reassuring … to voters in states like Montana and Georgia where Democrats must win to gain a majority in the Senate. It is Mr Biden’s caution that opens up the possibility of more change than a real radical would.”

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Why Biden Could Go Big (Original Post) applegrove Jul 2020 OP
"prelapsarian"-- great word. Means before the fall of Adam and Eve... TreasonousBastard Jul 2020 #1
Getting a Senate majority would be wonderful! liberalla Jul 2020 #2
An overwhelming Senate majority would be more wonderful. empedocles Jul 2020 #3
It sure would! liberalla Jul 2020 #6
Sssh..... OnDoutside Jul 2020 #4
Above all: Stay focused! old guy Jul 2020 #5

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
1. "prelapsarian"-- great word. Means before the fall of Adam and Eve...
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 03:42 PM
Jul 2020

or any great fall of mankind.

And it sure applies to 2016.

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