# 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:** 75
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2024, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1493 "2024-06-23T13:07:10Z")
Opening field offices is relatively cheap. And it does make sense for Trump to put a couple of “reach” states on the map, just like the Biden campaign has reportedly invested in trying to flip North Carolina. Polling in both states shows a close race. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2024, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1494 "2024-06-23T17:46:27Z")
I’d be putting more Biden offices in Nevada and Florida (why not?), and other slim-victory states as well. ---
**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:** [June 23, 2024, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1495 "2024-06-23T17:56:50Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > I’d be putting more Biden offices in Nevada and Florida (why not?), and other slim-victory states as well . They’ve been working on it: > **[Biden campaign opens Hillsborough office, says it’s serious about Florida](https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2024/04/25/biden-trump-florida-competitive-abortion-kamala-harris-desantis/)** > > But polls show the campaign has work to do. > **[Biden campaign opens new east Las Vegas office](https://thenevadannews.com/2024/04/05/biden-campaign-opens-new-east-las-vegas-office/)** > > Local Democratic leaders, advocates, and volunteers for President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign celebrated the opening of their newest field office in ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2024, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1496 "2024-06-23T18:02:27Z")
Great minds! 😁 ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2024, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1497 "2024-06-23T18:15:39Z")
Nevada’s my pick for the Biden state most likely to flip to Trump this year. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2024, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1498 "2024-06-23T18:25:46Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > She finally blurted out “Biden! That’s the evil! There, I’ve said it!”. At which point she ran away from the interview. But was she struck by a bolt of lightning as she ran away? ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2024, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1499 "2024-06-23T18:38:13Z")
I’m sure Biden would have smitten her with a lightning bolt if he had known of this calumny, but he was probably busy conferring with Satan on more important matters. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2024, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1500 "2024-06-24T00:27:08Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > The interviewer asked the old biddy what she meant by this “evil”, but she demurred, saying “Christians don’t talk about such things”. But the interviewer persisted, saying that he just didn’t understand what she was saying (and neither did I). She finally blurted out “Biden! That’s the evil! There, I’ve said it!”. At which point she ran away from the interview. I’ve encountered this sort of behavior before. And the reason they run away is because on some level they realize they can’t articulate _why_ Biden is evil, _how_ the Democrats are destroying America, or indeed any sort of empirical rationale for the beliefs they’ve been indoctrinated into. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2024, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1501 "2024-06-24T00:33:11Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > And the reason they run away is because on some level they realize they can’t articulate _why_ Biden is evil, Especially after _their_ candidate very publicly violates 9 of the Ten Commandments. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2024, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1502 "2024-06-24T00:36:21Z")
My hypothesis is that if your brain is sufficiently addled by stupidity, the idea of a “reason” or “rationale” for your beliefs can be dismissed as a mere pretension of liberal academics. It’s not necessary. If you “know” in your gut that something must be true, then no further evidence is needed. This is what Stephen Colbert, in his prior persona as a fake Republican, defined as “truthiness”. I wasn’t kidding earlier – “America: a nation completely incapable of governing itself” is very appropriate for a national motto. Unless one prefers something like “A nation of idiots”. It’s also a nation of very bright, generous, and creative people. I guess we’ll find out in November which group dominates. > [@DrDeth](#): > > Especially after _their_ candidate very publicly violates 9 of the Ten Commandments. I wasn’t aware that he’d missed one! 😆 ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2024, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1503 "2024-06-24T00:52:58Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > I wasn’t aware that he’d missed one! Well, “Thou shall not murder”… but wait- 6 people died as a result of the Jan 6 riots, and trump was directly responsible for those! So, you are right and I wuz wrong- a perfect ten out of ten. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2024, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1504 "2024-06-24T01:29:25Z")
Not to mention covid deaths—some were inevitable but some were due to the effects of his ‘leadership’. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2024, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1505 "2024-06-24T02:21:37Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > And the reason they run away is because on some level they realize they can’t articulate _why_ Biden is evil, _how_ the Democrats are destroying America, or indeed any sort of empirical rationale for the beliefs they’ve been indoctrinated into. Oh, they know very well why and how; they just don’t feel comfortable enough yet to say the real reasons out loud on the record. Hint: it involves multiple words referring to groups of people that are usually not used in polite company. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2024, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1506 "2024-06-24T03:28:58Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > Not to mention covid deaths—some were inevitable but some were due to the effects of his ‘leadership’. Experts say anywhere between 1/3 to 2/3rs, so i just say “about half”. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2024, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1507 "2024-06-24T10:08:27Z")
Whose wife did he covet? Or is that a different list, I genuinely don’t recall. And I think he’s kept #5, though from everything I’d heard about Fred Trump he was an asshole who didn’t deserve it. ---
**Author:** ![LoneRhino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lonerhino/32/1311_2.png) [@LoneRhino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LoneRhino)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2024, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1508 "2024-06-24T14:19:07Z")
I’m sure he’s coveted many wives. His daughter, for example, is married. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2024, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1509 "2024-06-24T15:02:13Z")
I’d (thankfully) forgotten that bit. ---
**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:** [June 24, 2024, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1510 "2024-06-24T22:29:38Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > I guess we’ll find out in November which group dominates. Nothing can change the fact that about 40 percent of Americans are idiots. I’m still trying to process this fact, seven and a half years after it was revealed to me. ---
**Author:** ![TeroSunbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terosunbear/32/14748_2.png) [@TeroSunbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeroSunbear)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1511 "2024-06-25T11:02:29Z")
I’ve come to the conclusion that it was Reagan that gave the idiots all that power. Before that they were fine in their own idiot community and were mostly isolated from any diversity. Now even the red states employ “foreigners” for the lowest paying agricultural and food processing jobs. ---
**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:** [June 25, 2024, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384/1512 "2024-06-25T11:29:16Z")
I’d argue that it was natural changes in the makeup of the United States that forced the idiots out of their insular white-breaded world. Reagan may have been president when these changes began to be large enough to be noticed by at least some of them, but he didn’t cause it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384.md?page=74) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/president-joe-biden-and-the-runup-to-the-2024-election/954384.md?page=76)