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      Platform wise some of them are republican as we know them now even if their circles are blue. I think Clinton and Carter are what we’d consider current democrats

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        Carter was pre-Reagan. This was before the neoliberals took over the Democratic Party.

        Clinton mostly accepted Republican framing of the economy, that taxes on the rich need to be low for… Reasons.

        The main argument of the neoliberals is that while conservatives are “right” about a bunch of their policies and shit, they’re just bad at running everything.

        Carter was before that shit. Back when we said that conservative policy was heartless and evil.

        Some in the Democratic Party are coming back to this simple idea.

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        The “Lost popular vote” angle is only going to get worse over time. As the Senate/EC gets more and more comically lopsided in popular representation and climate change eats into the bigger Gulf Coast states, you’re going to see people winning the White House with 10-15M popular vote deficits in the next few decades.

        California alone constitutes more than 12% of the total population but less than 10% of the EC.

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          “Presidential Circles of Suck”

          Presidents that sucked. So how did Carter suck? Losing his second term means he sucks? No.

          So again, how does Carter suck?

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            Is this bait? Like, are you trolling? Because I didn’t make the chart. You clearly understand the chart. You just want to start a fight over the title of the chart? It’s a silly name for a funny chart. Calm down bruv.

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                  3 months ago

                  Are you people actually insane?

                  Please indicate where it explains Carter was a bad president

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                    Chart is labeled. Doesn’t mean anything more than he didn’t get elected twice. Like, Carter is cool. I like Carter. But the chart is labeled brother. The joke being made is that many presidents have had failures, like Carter’s failure to get elected again. Is it really his fault? Not really, but this chart isn’t about Carter. It’s not that deep bruv.

                    Like, your just yelling that Carter didn’t suck where the only qualifying requirement to “suck” is one of the three circles. It’s a joke. A gaff. A goof. Why are you swinging like someone just spit on him and called him Hitler?