The 555th Review

I predict that Joe Biden will win in the 2020 Presidential Election. Based on historic trends, current trends and polls, and my own gut instinct. The only thing I'm unsure about is that Both Maine's and Nebraska's Second District goes to Biden. Even if I got those two wrong, Biden will still win. I personally don't think Iowa, Georgia, Ohio, or Texas will go to Biden/Democratic in this election, so I gave them to Trump. Below is my election prediction map. Click the map to create your own at 270toWin.com You just saw how I think each state will vote, bit what about the margins. Well the following map will show them. Click the map to create your own at 270toWin.com Now because I want to, the next map is the best case senario that would see a Trump victory based on current polls and trends. Click the map to create your own at 270toWin.com The last prediction map I'm going to do is the best case senario that would see a Biden victory based on current polls an

 The United States Supreme Court has become politicized. This is not good, the Founding fathers did not intended for the Court to be political, they wanted the Justices not to influenced by elections and needing to curry favor with politicians to get on the court. But the system they designed has broken down. In 2016, Senate Republicans refused to even consider President Obama's last Supreme Court nominee because the Primary process had already started at that over 6 months out from the election was too close to the election. In 2020, Ruth Bader Ginsberg died about a month out from the election and those same Senate Republicans pushed through Presidents Trump's nominee Amy Coney Barrett. Senate Democrats rightly called out the Senate Republicans hypocrisy. This was clearly a power move by Senate Republicans only because they hold the majority and are aware of the possibility that Trump will not only lose in 2020, but that they may also loose the majority in the Senate. It shoul

 The Last Presidential debate for the 2020 Presidential Election between incumbent President Trump and former Vice President Biden. This debate strikes a very different tone from the first debate. The ability for the microphones to be muted certainly helped. Both candidates took a different strategy during the debate from the previous debate. Trump's strategy seemed to be focused solely attacking Biden on all fronts. Even when ask how he would address the country should he win, he still managed to attack Biden. Biden meanwhile, seem to employ a more flexible strategy. Biden's strategy seemed to be defend as a stalling tactic, but was able to turn the tables and launch a counter attack on Trump about half way through the debate. Biden's strategy seems to be the more sound debating strategy. Not only do people say that a good defense is a good offense, but it is also said that people typically remember the end of a speech/programing the most. Biden's strategy seemed to pl

 

 Here is a 2020 Election meme that I created for a class I am taking on The Presidency. We were given much leeway with the assignment.

 

  In the previous week, the national polls continue to favor Biden, as do many of the state polls, notable in the battleground states.  It is reasonable to say that the polls are expect to narrow by Election Day. However, we have not yet seen any noticeable narrowing nationally. Additionally, if anything Biden is gaining in the polls, which is counter intuitive to how polls behaved in previous elections.  When it come to the debate, it was better than the first debate, if only because the candidates were not in the same room to interrupt each other. While the Biden campaign was willing to hold a virtual town hall debate, the Trump campaign refuse. As such we ended up with two separate town halls. I watched the Biden town hall on ABC in its entirety, while I have only seen clips of the Trump town hall on NBC. Based on online reactions, it seems that Biden's town hall was more informative for voters than Trump's town hall. The Neilson rating also seem to support this, with Biden

 

 I normally don't share other people's content on the blog without commentary, but this is an exception and a good video talking about the current state of the 2020 Presidential Election. The video is by the YouTube channel Let's Talk Elections.  

 

The AP has reported that six men are being charged in Federal Court for attempting to kidnap the Democratic Governor of Michigan Gretchen Whitmer. The AP also reports that those 6 men were in contact with a militia group and had plans to overthrow the Michigan Government. Seven other men were charged of targeting police and the State Capital. Read the article here: https://apnews.com/article/michigan-checks-and-balances-archive-gretchen-whitmer-da09ca66cd8d5f36722021d3593425ff To give you a history lesson, back in 1898 the duly elected government of  Wilmington, North Carolina was overthrown by armed white supremacists. It was a coup d'état. It has called Wilmington insurrection of 1898, Wilmington massacre of 1898, or the Wilmington coup of 1898. It was originally considered a race riot started by African Americans but as new evidence came to light and the fabrications of the usurpers were unraveled, historians began calling it what it was, a white supremacist insurgency and coup.

For any Christian reading my Blog and are torn on who to vote for, I have a suggestion. As I Christian myself, I read the Bible and attempt to live according to Christian moral and values. Those morals and values are not reflective in the Trump-Pence ticket. Trump I don't think knows anything about Christianity and Pence only cares about the Law and punishing those who disobey. He ignores the Gospel, he ignores Forgiveness, he ignores the Forgiveness of Sins, he ignores Salvation, he ignores all aspect of Christianity that do not give himself and fellow Republicans power. There is Biblical and non-Biblical (Roman sources, archeology, etc.) that show some of the earliest socialist and communist communities where Christian Communities. As a Christian I can only support politicians who not only live according to Christian values and morals, but also treat others according to those values. What good is it living your own life as a Christian, focused solely on your salvation

 The Vice Presidential Debate has ended and it was a debate. While Trump and Biden both would give an F for their performances, Pence and Harris pass. Since I brought up grading them, I give Harris an 8.5/10, a solid B and I give Pence a 7/10. a C-.  (I'm using a 10 point scale, but on the other grading scale it would be a D). Pence's biggest issue during the debate was his willingness to lie for Trump and if it was not for him lying and presenting falsehoods, then he would get at least an 8/10. BUT his constant lies and false equivalencies, worsened his performance. Harris's biggest issue would be nothing, as I think she had a good performance and relied on truth and facts. There were moments where I noticed that Harris deflected, but that is somewhat to be expected with any politician. Pence attempted to drawn a comparison between Covid-19 and swine flue, but guess what there is a vaccine for swine flue, also known as H1N1 Influenza. The same flu that struck in 1918, but

 

 Trump is so desperate to win the election he is attempting to bribe voters by saying if he wins reelection, then he will pass a COVID relief bill. This is the definition of a Quid Pro Quo, this for that. I would even go as for to say that Trump should be impeached because of this. As bribery is one of the enumerated reasons for impeaching a President.  If you care about the integrity of the election and of politics, Do NOT vote for Trump. Vote for Biden or anyone else, just do not vote for Trump. It however is sad to say that if you live in a battleground state, that voting for Biden is your best choice because of our system which encourages strategic voting. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-kills-stimulus-talks-tweets-no-deal-until-after-i-n1242312?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

 

This past week was an interesting one for the Presidential Election. We had what many are considering the worst Presidential Debate ever. The general consensus online seems to be that Biden narrowly won the debate and that Trump lost the debate. But as a part of that, most say that Biden had more to loose than Trump and he did not loose and that Trump was his own enemy coming off too aggressive. Biden seemed to be better prepared for Trump, than Trump was for Biden. Additionally, most people agree that the debate was difficult to watch and a mess.  But that is not all that came out last week. The October Surprise came out as soon as the month started with two days after the debates, President Trump, along with his wife, tested positive for COVID-19 and he was latter flown to Walter Reed Medical Center for observation and as a precautionary measure. While I and many others do not wish for harm to come to Trump, it does seem a bit of karma after his blundering of the response to the pan

The United states Presidential Election is a little over a month out, or is it. The first Tuesday after the first Monday in November is the day of the popular for President is cast, but the winner of the popular vote does not become President. As happened in 2016 and 2000 the winner of the Electoral Collage did not win the popular vote. This should not be the case, the President should be the winner of the popular vote. The is an interstate compact/agreement once this group of states has 270 electoral votes under their control, they would pledge their electoral votes to whoever won the national popular vote their than their state popular vote. However, some would prefer if the Constitution were to be amended to abolish the electoral college and have the President solely chosen by the popular vote. I however doubt enough Congressional support and state support will be achieved to reach the required super-majorities. But if an amendment could be agreed upon,  I see some possibilities. On

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