Quote (Thor123422 @ Jul 24 2020 01:52pm)
Something HUGE has to happen between now and November for Trump to even be in the running.
Currently Biden is winning in every single swing state even if you double the "secret vote" from 2016.
There's really no avenue Trump has to winning that is in his control at this point. He could be a media darling for the next few months and it wouldn't do much to sway people.
The hilarious thing is that Democrats are now
favored to take the Senate. If you had told me that in February I would have laughed in your face.
Quote (Thor123422 @ Jul 24 2020 01:53pm)
Obama will probably be a top 25% president indefinitely, and will almost certainly be a top 50% president indefinitely.
At this point, I'm having a hard time seeing how Trump makes it out of the bottom 25%.
Trump is already more corrupt than the Harding and Nixon administrations. It's unlikely that he'll be worse than folks like Pierce and Buchanan though. Bottom 25% is pretty much guaranteed.
I find it difficult to rate modern presidents because we're still seeing the ramifications of their actions. For example, Clinton was rated a "fine president" but looking back, we see some pretty serious mistakes. He was obviously a good statesman and politician, but he made some pretty awful decisions. Obama was a political novice for over half of his first term. I think it would have been better if he lost in 2008 to Hillary so that he could learn the ropes.
This post was edited by thundercock on Jul 24 2020 02:57pm