# President Joe Biden and the runup to the 2024 election **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 15, 2021, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384 "2021-11-15T14:54:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 58
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2024, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1152 "2024-03-22T22:02:54Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > “Every Sperm is scared” Some diaphragms are terrifying. 😜 ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2024, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1153 "2024-03-23T16:33:37Z")
Ugh that foreheady thing in the background in your preview. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2024, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1154 "2024-03-25T17:50:41Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > They only offered me Democrat or Republican. > I’m a Libertarian! > Apparently we have no say who our candidate will be. Sure you do. Become a delegate to the Libertarian National Convention being held in DC May 24-26. Be aware though, apparently the anarcho-capitalist (Republican-lite) branch\* of the party has pretty well seized the reins from the anarcho-socialist (anarchist-lite) branch. > **[Libertarian Party presidential nomination, 2024](https://ballotpedia.org/Libertarian_Party_presidential_nomination,_2024)** > > Ballotpedia: The Encyclopedia of American Politics \* > The Mises Caucus has shifted the Libertarian Party further toward the right ever since their party’s national convention in May 2022.[[9]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mises_Caucus#cite_note-:13-9) As of 2022, the Mises Caucus is the largest caucus of the Libertarian Party, and controls all leadership positions on the [Libertarian National Committee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_National_Committee) as well as 37 [state affiliates](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_state_parties_of_the_Libertarian_Party_(United_States)). [Cite.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mises_Caucus) ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2024, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1155 "2024-03-25T21:27:58Z")
Dark Brandon strikes! [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GJidmZ1XMAAQyJI?format=jpg&name=900x900) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GJidmZ1XMAAQyJI?format=jpg&name=900x900) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2024, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1156 "2024-03-25T22:41:39Z")
Sure be nice to have posts that aren’t just links to Xitter. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2024, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1157 "2024-03-25T23:58:35Z")
Alright, I’ll save you a click; [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GJidmZ1XMAAQyJI?format=jpg&name=900x900) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GJidmZ1XMAAQyJI?format=jpg&name=900x900) [![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GJjL2VOXMAAiFF9?format=jpg&name=large) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GJjL2VOXMAAiFF9?format=jpg&name=large) ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1158 "2024-03-26T00:11:18Z")
I like how the third sentence in Trump War Room’s TwiX has absolutely no connection to the second. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1159 "2024-03-26T00:13:52Z")
Baseless, dumb, non sequitur insults are par for the MAGA course. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1160 "2024-03-26T00:53:46Z")
What’s the CCP? Is it meant to mean CCCP/USSR? ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1161 "2024-03-26T01:03:02Z")
The Community College of Philadelphia of course. Or _Chyna_, hard to be sure. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1162 "2024-03-26T01:12:56Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > **What’s the CCP?** Is it meant to mean CCCP/USSR? CCP = Chinese Communist Party I sympathize – not-yet-household acronyms trip me up all the time. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1163 "2024-03-26T01:36:28Z")
Now I’m getting flashbacks to Robin Williams’ “Death of a Sperm” ballet. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1164 "2024-03-26T02:19:30Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Alright, I’ll save you a click; Those are two empty boxes that are apparently links to Xitter. Xitter is utterly blocked for me. And should be for everyone. There is no content posted there I have ever or will ever see. It’s certainly not your personal job to make up for my anti-Xitter idiosyncrasies. My point is that probably 2/3rds of your posts to political or Musk-related threads are reposts of Xitter content with negligible explanation or comment by you. I like you as a poster, I think you have a lot to say, and I’d like to hear / see it. But you probably are unaware that there’s a bunch of audience besides just me that is not seeing any of your posts. You’re _not_ on my Discourse ignore list. But the consequence of what you do post (Xitter cites with nearly no comment) is that most of your cites and hence most of your content is lost. Many other posters do this too; you’re not alone. But you’re especially prolific here, which is good, but also pretty content-free besides the cites. Which, very much IMO, is bad. For me. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1165 "2024-03-26T02:24:32Z")
I’m not sure I know a way of sharing what the candidates or other people of note are doing on Twitter without linking to it, and if I just retyped it in my own words without a link then I’d have people asking for a cite. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1166 "2024-03-26T02:27:05Z")
Moderating: > [@LSLGuy](#): > > Those are two empty boxes that are apparently links to Xitter. Xitter is utterly blocked for me. And should be for everyone. There is no content posted there I have ever or will ever see. Let’s not hijack this thread with this line of discussion. It’s fine if you want to have the discussion. Just not in this thread. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1167 "2024-03-26T02:28:29Z")
I had a reply / semi-apology partly prepared for @Smapti when the modnote appeared just above. In light of that I’ve said all I intend to. Thank you all. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1168 "2024-03-26T20:36:04Z")
As others have pointed out, one difference between this election and previous ones is that both candidates are perfectly well known. There is no “Take the person you know over the risk you don’t know” aspect. There is no “experienced incumbent running against inexperienced challenger” dynamic like you see in most reelection campaigns. Both candidates are incumbents, in a sense. Everyone knows perfectly well what they stand for. That really reduces any element of swing voting or undecided voters. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1169 "2024-03-27T17:47:56Z")
All hands on deck, indeed: [https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/27/politics/barack-obama-joe-biden-bill-clinton-donald-trump/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/27/politics/barack-obama-joe-biden-bill-clinton-donald-trump/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1170 "2024-03-28T09:48:59Z")
No Jimmy Carter at those events? That lazy bum? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2024, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1171 "2024-03-28T19:44:13Z")
Kinda doubt he’s up to it these days, poor guy. But a tidy sum raised so far: [Biden's fundraiser with Obama and Clinton nets a record high $25 million, his campaign says](https://www.aol.com/news/3-presidents-many-stars-1-040325591.html) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384.md?page=57) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384.md?page=59)