That's the one. It was weirdly cynical, the voters had really short memories so you could crash the economy pretty hard in the first couple of years and you'd still get reelected as long as you could… (View Post)

We had a computer game on the BBC Model B when I was a kid where you had to run the economy and try to get reelected by setting various tax and benefit levels and public spending and stuff. One of th… (View Post)

Where's the value though, the market is showing a 50/50 race not an unstoppable Harris momentum race. (View Post)

This is the racist trope I hear the most in Japan. Normal, friendly, otherwise well-balanced people think the Vietnamese are coming for my goats. (View Post)

I think this was a somewhat bigger deal because Hillary Clinton was very well-known at that point, whereas there seem to be quite a few undecided voters who don't feel like they know much about Kamal… (View Post)