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Is This Why Biden Failed?

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Posted By: Hazymac, 2/15/2025 8:55:48 AM

Nate Silver has been a thorn in the side of both Republicans and Democrats. The former didn’t appreciate his liberal bias, while the latter was incensed that his projections were mostly bearish on Democratic chances of victory in 2024. What united both sides was Silver’s lengthy and, at times, elliptical language when describing why he came to his decisions, especially when it showed Trump was going to lose the popular vote but clinch the Electoral College. Many saw this as a cop-out. With the 2024 election over, Silver listed a few reasons why Joe Biden lost, most of which you already know. Yes, he sprinkled in his leftish commentary,

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Reply 1 - Posted by: franq 2/15/2025 9:07:37 AM (No. 1896796)
Biden was such a bad candidate that his own party kicked him to the curb. The replacement was an airheaded woman of color. People rejected it, thank God.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: NorthernDog 2/15/2025 9:10:52 AM (No. 1896797)
In the end COVID was not a major reason Biden failed catastrophically. The article leaves out the stench of corruption hovering over the whole Biden Klan.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: bpl40 2/15/2025 9:47:17 AM (No. 1896824)
Biden had an odor that said “loser” around him. Not only could he never shake it but he gave it to Kamala who no great shakes to begin with. Americans don’t like that.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Northcross 2/15/2025 9:49:29 AM (No. 1896827)
Failed? The man was the greatest ever at using his office to enrich himself and his extended family.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: NYBruin 2/15/2025 9:54:57 AM (No. 1896833)
#4 - Obama outdid him by several million!
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Reply 6 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 2/15/2025 10:02:10 AM (No. 1896838)
Silver is largely correct on why Biden failed. The Democrats used COVID against Trump but in the end, it negatively impacted two administrations. Serves the Democrats right for politicizing the pandemic. There were two other factors that impacted Biden. One was the 'Who's in charge?' factor. It was so obviously not Biden. The other factor was Trump himself. He morphed into a juggernaut and totally ran over Biden.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Bur Oak 2/15/2025 10:18:50 AM (No. 1896843)
One needs to define failure in the context. Biden/Obama most assuredly did not fail if the goal was to make a bunch of money, keep his family out of jail, and for Obama to have a third term.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: rytwng 2/15/2025 10:24:35 AM (No. 1896845)
He's been a failure and loser all his life.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: franco 2/15/2025 10:43:35 AM (No. 1896852)
When Silver first started his "service" during Obama's first run, I looked over his methodology, using my own background in applied probability and statistics as a guide. At the time, his "method" consisted of surveying a universe of his poliitical-interested buddies on their thoughts. Obviously, this is bound to have a left-ward bias, as anyone with a basic understanding of Venn diagrams (even Kamala Harris would get it) would guess that Silver's sample space would hardly reflect the entire space of American voters. So what happened? Well, in 2008 it so happened that the country was in line with Silver and his buddies -- and shazaam! Obama won in a landslide. 2012 was murkier, but Silver got lucky. In 2016 Silver and his buddies were out of step with the electorate, and he was wrong. 2020 was rigged, so Silver gets zero credit whether he was right or not -- and by then, I'd stopped bothering with his views. I'm not even sure he predicted that PDJT would win the popular vote in 2024 (as he did on Election Day -- that California reduced his win to under a 50% plurality a month later with ballot harvesting doesn't count) even if he did think that PDJT would win the Electoral College. Plus I doubt Silver predicted Trump would run the table on the swing states. My advice to Silver is to find another line of work.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Flyball Dogs 2/15/2025 11:33:39 AM (No. 1896876)
“ While he doesn’t say it explicitly, the list of critiques here points to an utterly failed presidency marred by incompetence, stupidity, and an engrossing arrogance.” As other posters have noted, The Biden Crime Family intere$t$ MUST be considered in the analysis of his failed presidency. Policy deci$ions, based on graft and greed, are no way to run the country, I suppose there will be little debate that he will go down as the worst President (certainly the stupidest). But what cannot be debated is his venality and total corruption of his family and the office. He is, from here after, dead to me.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Ida Lou Pino 2/15/2025 12:25:01 PM (No. 1896920)
Why did Despicable Joe fail? Just look at the two incompetent morons standing behind him in the photo. That visual is about all you need to know.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: jeffkinnh 2/15/2025 12:37:46 PM (No. 1896922)
"Incompetence, stupidity, and arrogance" but this describes Biden's entire life. Yet, he found a comfortable home in the dem party. The party put him up for President knowing full well what he was. He filled his administration with people as bad as he is or worse. And all the dems and media supported them, unconditionally, and into absurdity. They spit on this country by pretending all was well. They lied, then lied some more. The stench from everything they did was horrendous but they told us they only smelled the roses. That continue to claim they were right, even as more and more people openly mock them. They are without scruples and lack any kind of conscience. They are despicable. THAT IS WHY THEY LOST!
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