david starling
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This is not factually correct.
It's called the cornoavirus or Covid-19, or variants thereof. Calling it the "China virus" has serious racist implications in the US, as Asian American citizens have been harassed by right-wingers who falsely blame them for causing the pandemic.
https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/202...ed-discrimination-amid-the-covid-19-outbreak/
Donald Trump did not somehow cause the prosperity of 2016-2019, he merely took credit for it. This was a global uptick following the Great Recession of 2008.
Trump's willful ignorance of CV-19 and massive numbers of Americans sickening and even dying had chilling effects on the economy. Trump could have brought the country together to fight the pandemic He did not, and his inattention and even hostility to epidemiology means we're all paying the price.
Trump is not a man of faith. He doesn't go to church. I doubt that he reads the Bible. He doesn't follow the Ten Commandments. Just ask Stormy Daniels, Michael Cohen, Roger Stone, the contractors he stiffed on his construction projects, the students he bilked out of thousands of dollars via his bogus Trump University, &c.
What Trump has done was make pledges to right-wing white Evangelicals to nominate conservative justices (whom he hopes will overturn Roe vs. Wade.)
I agree.
Under the Constitution, states have leeway to run the Electoral College differently. Most have gone for a winner-take-all sweepstakes. Maine and Nebraska follow a system of proportional representation, where the Electors are divided according to the outcome of the popular vote.
I support their systems.
The winner-take-all method of allocating Electoral Votes is OBVIOUSLY NOT the one that "forces candidates to tour all of the nation's...counties...parishes...and cities".
INSTEAD, it makes it so the CANDIDATES CAN IGNORE ENTIRE STATES, knowing in advance which candidate will receive ALL of a State's Electoral votes, whether they campaign there or not.
It's ONLY by tying the PROPORTION OF THE ELECTORAL VOTES that will go to a candidate to the PROPORTION OF THE POPULAR VOTES the candidates receive in each State that will make it worthwhile for the candidates to reach out to the ENTIRE NATION.