US Election thread

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firstly could you tell me what your 2 little dots in your post above mean. Is it code your 2 chums seem to like it. Why would they take it too badly its only an election, you seem to have backed the wrong side in the last three.

Backed the wrong side? It’s real life chief, not a football acca.

Of course it sits right with you, you voted for them and said I “backed the wrong side” - your interesting word choice of ‘wrong’ rather than something like ‘losing’.

Just saying what I see pal.

Not angry at all buddy, just clarifying.

I merely said I wasn’t one 👍🏻

Yet again another thread on the off topic that wouldn't last 5 mins on the main forum...

Time to close the off topic for good imo

Thought I might learn something new about the us general election.

But all it is, is grown men acting like children

I meant the fact that it's gone off the threads topic and there's mancot calling his challenger pal and buddy.

Its absolutely nauseating, but yeah I'll just do what 99% of the forum have done and never click on this sub forum of shite ever again

Crack on lads, keep dragging the forum into the dirt with your moderation free propaganda

Bye Bye UK/US trade deal. Lol Go Joe Biden.

Thing is, Biden for me was the lesser of the two evils. It won’t change the US’ role in worldwide wars, their role in the democratic elections of other, predominantly Latin/South American countries, the role of Big Pharma. It’s more of the same for the real people of the country, just with much less racism and mental deficiency.

Very well put.

It's kind of interesting that, like in the UK, people have the impression that there's a huge north and south divide to how Americans vote. Even a look at the map shows it's more like a coastal/inland divide, but a closer, county-by-county reveals that, like in the UK, its the urban dweller who tends to be left-leaning while the rural ones veer to the right.

Even in Texas, which is probably the first state most Brits think of when they imagine the ultra-conservative Bible Belt, the major cities like Houston and Austin vote Democrat, and pretty convincingly so. The states that are most staunchly Republican are the ones that have miles and miles of nothing and all anyone probably does is go to church, like Wyoming. Meanwhile, Washington DC, which is just a city that is effectively a state of its own, is 92% democratic. It kind of makes it all the more daft that they decide the president in this state-by-state way. We talk of California, New York etc as blue states and Utah, Idaho etc as red, but all this is really a reflection of is how many people live in the cities compared to the outskirts.

The peculiar exception appears to be Alaska, where I think the two big cities Anchorage and Juneau are full of Sarah Palin types, but the remote areas vote Democrat.