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For 78-year-old Biden not being Trump is no longer enough – politicalbetting.com
For 78-year-old Biden not being Trump is no longer enough – politicalbetting.com
The RCP chart shows the trend in Biden’s average approval ratings which in the past few days have slumped into negative territory for the first time.
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Still infinitely better than Trump. But the Democrats need to think hard on the primaries for 2024 or the GOP really will have an easy ride then (so long as they don't choose Trump again).
Given that it wasn’t a total walkover, that was probably the right choice.
Like the Tories who put a clown in Downing Street solely to beat Corbyn and see Brexit done, there’s a price for having such narrow horizons.
That was his one last job.
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She said: I have built Unite through the organising department, at the workplace, across industries, fighting bad bosses."
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Of course, that was always going to be a bit of a problem when he had to deal with the very large problems Trump had left behind. And the fact he is not dealing with them very well - to put it mildly - suggests he isn’t really what was needed. Equally, of course, what was needed - somebody truly brilliant, charismatic, imaginative, energetic and decisive - wasn’t available. Buttigieg might have been closest to it, but given his youth and inexperience he wasn’t close.
I still think he will only serve one term. The key therefore is to make sure both parties move on from their current awful selection of leaders next time.
The only other candidate who came close imho was Buttigieg. He's very impressive. But would he have beaten Trump?
Somewhere, a younger candidate in their fifties should have been brought forward, perhaps by Biden or Kerry resigning and being replaced by somebody younger, somebody being groomed for the succession. Bad oversight by Obama that he didn’t do it.
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It sounds rather like a bit of a shake down.
"A-level result parties fuel 'astonishing' Covid surge in historic market town in Leicester, health chiefs warn"
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I really don’t know whether the US clings onto some excessive respect for those with decades of experience, or whether the $-driven nature of US politics makes it difficult to get to the top of the greasy pole without decades of greasing the right palms and dispensing the right pork.
Just 0.98% of participants in an ONS study have been reinfected with Covid
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9925255/Just-1-Covid-survivors-Britain-reinfected-half-likely-symptoms.html
Ouch - a joke that hits a nerve
So clearly it wasn't always so.
Gladstone 84
Palmerston 80
Churchill 80
Disraeli 75
Lord John Russell 73
Lord Salisbury 72
Campbell Bannerman 71
Neville Chamberlain 71
The Duke of Portland 71
Lord Aberdeen 71
Earl Grey 70
It is to my mind rather striking that only one of those was elected via a general election in the age of universal suffrage.
Equally, of course, Palmerston probably would have won elections under any franchise even in his seventies.
(And to be controversial, Chamberlain would easily have won an election in October 1938, although fortunately he had more sense than to call one.)
It's far from impossible that he runs again.
However, that was only on full services. When I was travelling from Barmouth, they were active. When I was on a near-empty train north of Harlech, they weren’t bothered.
Strange, when you consider in a pressurised environment with recirculating air distance would make no actual difference.
As much as many seem to like Buttigieg including myself there is the elephant in the room . Would the USA vote in a gay President . I can’t see it myself.
As his presidency ended in a civil war it perhaps isn’t exactly a happy precedent either.
Just.
Yet to talk to him, he is just as sharp as he ever was.
The Democrats, for a while at least, did not. But I think that is beginning to change. Buttigieg was the star of the Democratic Primary season, but Jon Ossoff looks equally impressive.
Then again, I'm not an American voter.
It's devastating, but somehow I shall survive.
You must have imagined it...
He is about 8 percentage points more popular than Trump was at this point of his presidency. In fact he is still more popular than Trump was at any point - but we need to bear in mind the Republicans get a big bias from the electoral system.
29% for the next Democrat nomination looks value to me, but I am hopeless at reading American politics.
Sure, things could potentially go from bad to worse in Afghanistan but the whole Afghan thing could just as easily drift off the American political radar quite quickly.
If the US get all or virtually American citizens and a good proportion of their Afghan aides out by 31 August and exit as per Biden's plan, and if the Taliban avoid committing any major atrocities, a lot of this could be very old news by the end of the year and a non-issue by 2024. Indeed, it's still possible that BIden could come out of this looking quite strong by September.
None of the above is certain but equally I think it more likely than not - which makes Biden a 60% chance of getting the nomination and >40% chance of winning imo.
(None of which is to diminish the awfulness of the way this Afghan exit has been managed.)
Len taught me that the connection between the Labour Party and Union Barons is an unhealthy one. If and when Labour return to power, perhaps after Johnson retires aged 100, in Government they should push for publicly funded political parties.
The Labour Party can't be trusted either to behave with money from McCluskey or Ecclestone, and let's face it where do we start with Conservative Party financial patronage/ rabid corruption?
But, let's be optimistic. Suppose Biden's plan is to do the things that need doing but can't do because they're thinking about reelection. Or their Veep is. What else should be in the bucket list?
You'd be better off with Bovril.
(Though the availability of tights is subject to American Airmen, which may be a problem right now.)
I hope that you..
So far I've encountered a minor poultry shortage, and my favourite brand of cereal snack bar-type things for work is apparently out of stock until an estimated delivery date of September 1st. Slightly irritating, but it's not exactly a return to the dark days of the March 2020 panic buying phenomenon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2WlAHojl90
I didn’t get on it myself, sadly
You were either loyal to her or you were cast into the outer darkness
It means there are relatively few presidential-grade democrats in their 50s and 60s
That’s the reason they were all behind Remain - they want to pay Eastern Europeans minimum wage to do hard graft/unsociable jobs! Stuart Rose let it slip didn’t he? Wages will go up if we leave.
They’ve been basically arbing the European and UK Labour markets for 15 years and are upset it’s all over. Who wouldn’t be?!
Time to pay up, big business leaders - use the money you’ve saved since 2004
Maybe the Stones song of the today is ‘You can’t Always Get What You Want’!
And you know what? That burger tasted wonderful. I know it's cr@p food, and home-made burgers are healthier and tastier, but absence makes the heart grow fonder. I loved it. But if I were to have another one tomorrow, I wouldn't feel the same way about it.
There's been a lot of that during Covid: we ought not to forget in a hurry when people were persecuted for taking a walk whilst daring to sip a cup of coffee, or for sitting on a park bench.
Yesterday, Matt Chorley said shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy had never mentioned Afghanistan in the House of Commons until last week.
He now admits he got it wrong... it's actually a lot worse than that.
@MattChorley
https://twitter.com/TimesRadio/status/1430473447210115076?s=20