# Thump will be re-elected in 2020. Count on it.

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [November 7, 2018, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thump-will-be-re-elected-in-2020-count-on-it/824141 "2018-11-07T16:52:43Z")\
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**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:** [November 14, 2018, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thump-will-be-re-elected-in-2020-count-on-it/824141/121 "2018-11-14T00:11:17Z")

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It all depends on whom the Dems nominate. Against any pretty good Dem, all things being equal, Trump will probably lose. Against a stoopid, weak or politically-wounded Dem, he just might win.

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**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:** [November 14, 2018, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thump-will-be-re-elected-in-2020-count-on-it/824141/122 "2018-11-14T00:46:20Z")

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> [@Procrustus](#):
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> Do you have any evidence to support this? Many millions of Americans were influenced by a far bigger asshole in 2016.
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> By the way, use of the term “lame stream media” is a not so subtle code phrase for “ignore what I say,” but feel free to keep doing it.

Right. **Doorhinge** is wrong about this, and throws in his usual “lame stream media” as a clue to his wrongness. Also, since the original expression is “mainstream”, that should be written as “lamestream”, so his attempt at parody is wrong, too.

> [@doorhinge](#):
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> Yes, there were many people who could not stand seeing Hillary in the Whitehouse. But she’ll have another chance in 2020. She couldn’t lose three times in a row.

“Whitehouse” is only correct when it references someone’s surname, such as Sheldon Whitehouse, the Democratic senator from Rhode Island. The place where the president of the US lives and works is the White House. Also, almost no one shares your view that Hillary will run in 2020.

> [@Kimstu](#):
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> _Contra dico:_ Trump is an asshole, and there are millions of Americans who vote based on what the asshole Trump says. See also: Rush Limbaugh.
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> Irrespective of whether your characterization of Moore is accurate, I think your assumption that assholishness implies lack of influence on public opinion is not borne out by the evidence.

I think **doorhinge** was trying out here for the Trifecta of Wrongness, and succeeded.

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**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thump-will-be-re-elected-in-2020-count-on-it/824141/123 "2018-11-14T01:12:09Z")

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> [@wolfpup](#):
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> I think **doorhinge** was trying out here for the Trifecta of Wrongness, and succeeded.

Not fair. He always wins.

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