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		<title>By: ChrisWeigant.com &#187; Earthquake Duration Matters</title>
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		<title>By: dsws</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Trump did benefit from two opponents who didn&#039;t campaign effectively, but it&#039;s not as though he&#039;s the only authoritarian extremist to win.  Both chambers of Congress, a majority of governorships, a majority of state legislatures, and enough recent presidential administrations to give them a supermajority on the Court -- something the authoritarian radicals have been doing has been working, very broadly.  Either the electorate is farther right than H****r, or running extremist candidates is good for GOTV.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Trump did benefit from two opponents who didn't campaign effectively, but it's not as though he's the only authoritarian extremist to win.  Both chambers of Congress, a majority of governorships, a majority of state legislatures, and enough recent presidential administrations to give them a supermajority on the Court -- something the authoritarian radicals have been doing has been working, very broadly.  Either the electorate is farther right than H****r, or running extremist candidates is good for GOTV.</p>
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		<title>By: Kick</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 08:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>nypoet22
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&lt;i&gt;as much as we&#039;d like to think that a policy platform is something that will excite voters, the individual candidate and their personal charisma are usually much more important.&lt;/i&gt;

Yes, sir. Case in point: They referred to a presidential candidate as a communist, a Muslim, and a Commie Muslim for nigh on a decade and to this day still haven&#039;t stopped playing the race card, and were it not for presidential term limits, Barack Hussein Obama could wipe the floor with every single one of them.

It&#039;s the rizz.</description>
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<p><i>as much as we'd like to think that a policy platform is something that will excite voters, the individual candidate and their personal charisma are usually much more important.</i></p>
<p>Yes, sir. Case in point: They referred to a presidential candidate as a communist, a Muslim, and a Commie Muslim for nigh on a decade and to this day still haven't stopped playing the race card, and were it not for presidential term limits, Barack Hussein Obama could wipe the floor with every single one of them.</p>
<p>It's the rizz.</p>
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		<title>By: Kick</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 08:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt; The progressives will counter that argument with a very simple one of their own: &quot;How&#039;s that been working out for you?&quot; They will point to the presidential elections in 2016 and 2024, where the supposed most-electable candidate did indeed get the Democratic nomination, only to go on to lose the general election to Donald Trump. &lt;/i&gt;

That would seriously be a ridiculous argument, would it not? You&#039;d have a better argument that in a country well-known for gender bias and double standards, Trump has defeated the only two women ever nominated as presidential candidates by any major Party in the country&#039;s entire history. I&#039;m not saying it&#039;s a good argument; I&#039;m saying it&#039;s a better argument than either of them being the &quot;most-electable candidate.&quot; Which progressive candidate would be daft enough to suggest that Harris was nominated in 2024 because she was the &quot;most-electable candidate&quot;?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i> The progressives will counter that argument with a very simple one of their own: "How's that been working out for you?" They will point to the presidential elections in 2016 and 2024, where the supposed most-electable candidate did indeed get the Democratic nomination, only to go on to lose the general election to Donald Trump. </i></p>
<p>That would seriously be a ridiculous argument, would it not? You'd have a better argument that in a country well-known for gender bias and double standards, Trump has defeated the only two women ever nominated as presidential candidates by any major Party in the country's entire history. I'm not saying it's a good argument; I'm saying it's a better argument than either of them being the "most-electable candidate." Which progressive candidate would be daft enough to suggest that Harris was nominated in 2024 because she was the "most-electable candidate"?</p>
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		<title>By: nypoet22</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>as much as we&#039;d like to think that a policy platform is something that will excite voters, the individual candidate and their personal charisma are usually much more important.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>as much as we'd like to think that a policy platform is something that will excite voters, the individual candidate and their personal charisma are usually much more important.</p>
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