• ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Yeah. A man who is hated by both parties outside of WV thinks he can win the presidency? As an independent?!

      Manchin, you are no Teddy Roosevelt.

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        10 months ago

        He would be more likely to upend trump. Maybe Manchin will finally officially switch parties.

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        From whom Manchin will win votes is actually pretty interesting. In a race where most voters seem to vote against one person, instead of for, a third candidate could get a chance … if said candidate wasn’t the most universally unliked person on the hill next to Rafael Cruz.

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      10 months ago

      Haven’t read the article, but Manchin is running as a third party candidate? So now the choice is between two traitorous old geezers and a blander than mayo, even older, geezer?

      Did you really spend all your “we can do it” energy on Obama? Can’t you come up with a viable candidate with DOB in the latter half of the 20th century?

      Manchin is pretty much hated everywhere, but Biden isn’t exactly well liked either… Then again there’s a large part of the GOP base that loathes Trump. So for everyone but the MAGAts it’s a matter of whom you hate the least. WTF America?