US Election 2020

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https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/28/politics ... index.html

Health care and bankruptcy

Sanders said, "And unbelievably, when you want to talk about the cruelty of the system, some 500,000 people go bankrupt every single year because of medically related debt."
Facts First: Nobody knows the true number of bankruptcies caused by medical debt. Sanders' figure is based on a study whose findings were published in the American Journal of Public Health; the "500,000" figure is an extrapolation from a survey to which 910 people who filed for bankruptcy between 2013 and 2016 responded. (About two-thirds of those respondents said they somewhat agreed or very much agreed that medical expenses or medical-related work loss contribute to their bankruptcy.)
Others have taken issue with the study's findings, saying the true number is likely far lower. But there is no single widely accepted figure.

Deaths related to inadequate health insurance

Sanders said: "In America, at least -- and I think this is a conservative number -- at least 30,000 Americans die each year because they don't go to a doctor on time because they're uninsured or they've got a high deductible."
Facts First: It's possible this 30,000 figure is correct or conservative, some studies suggest; the Sanders campaign pointed to a new study in The Lancet medical journal that found "ensuring health-care access for all Americans would save more than 68,000 lives...every year compared with the status quo." But other experts have expressed skepticism about such findings, and the true number is not known.

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Sanders only Dem beating Trump in Wis
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/wisconsin/

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Won't it bother people when the nomination is given to someone else?

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Klobuchar is out. When Warren drops out we will discover the truth: only Hillary had the balls to stand up to her own party and to a republican man. She was ruined by Trump. Nothing unusual, as he ruined himself as well.

But yet: we don't have a woman with the funding and recognition to run. Pelosi could, but in 4 years it is too late for her too.

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'Dark Horse' time. Hillary AND Michelle.

Of course, I still think Sanders/Bloomberg could beat several flavours of fuck out of Trump, but that would be even less likely.

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Democracy?

How a data-backed Christian nationalist machine helped Trump to power

With help from a vast evangelical network and data on almost the entire US voting population, the Christian right may have found the boost it needed

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More 'democracy':

Texas closes hundreds of polling sites, making it harder for minorities to vote

Guardian analysis finds that places where black and Latino population is growing by the largest numbers experienced the majority of closures and could benefit Republicans

Last year, Texas led the US south in an unenviable statistic: closing down the most polling stations, making it more difficult for people to vote and arguably benefiting Republicans.

A report by civil rights group The Leadership Conference Education Fund found that 750 polls had been closed statewide since 2012.

Long considered a Republican bastion, changing racial demographics in the state have caused leading Democrats to recast Texas as a potential swing state. Texas Democratic party official Manny Garcia has called it “the biggest battleground state in the country”.

The closures could exacerbate Texas’s already chronically low voter turnout rates, to the advantage of incumbent Republicans. Ongoing research by University of Houston political scientists Jeronimo Cortina and Brandon Rottinghaus indicates that people are less likely to vote if they have to travel farther to do so, and the effect is disproportionately greater for some groups of voters, such as Latinxs.

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Democracy in the USA has become a joke...

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Voters change mind at last minute against commie Sanders AND Bloomberg.

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Same trend

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Bernie will have it stolen from him again.

Or, it will go to someone else legitimately, and his base will react as if he had it stolen again.

Even if he gets the nomination, his base may react as if he had it stolen from him again...

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Pennsylvania is winnable
https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy ... -wisconsin

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It seems the voters want Sanders.

The DNC wants Biden.

Wonder which one of them will be chosen to be Hillary's running mate...

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