• justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io
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      5 hours ago

      The big factor is that he is a blue dog democrat.

      The entire reason Obama selected him as VP was an olive branch to the corporate sellout branch of the Democratic Party who were worried that he was “too progressive”.

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      I would have been just fine with the Democrats running him, TBH. If something were to happen to him, there is a line of succession and he’s not surrounded by total buffoons and Nazis, unlike Donvict.

      • TheFogan@programming.dev
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        Well yes most anyone here knows he’s 1/100th as bad as trump. and honestly in practice as president, I have to say he may actually be the best president in my lifetime. Doesn’t change the fact that his age was a huge problem in his campaigning. and put simply the democratic party’s obvious coverup of his age, that all fell appart on debate day did a pretty awful weakening to the image of the democratic party, which I would say, contributed to a good portion of swayable voters staying home or voting for trump.