In 1992, the really successful billionaire entrepreneur, #Ross Perot, founder of #EDS, competed for the US presidency. He only received 18.9 % of the vote.
From this, we could learn that a billionaire with no political track record would never win the presidency. Except that, we all know, in 2016 this is what happend.
I can agree with most of what HCR says. In fact, her short analysis of this term's SCOTUS decisions pretty much coincides with TheEconomist's from yesterday. 1) However, I dare say that even though I love to look at history a lot (LOL,), people from the stockmarket in particular know that the past is a poor truthsayer for the future. Following her argument that LBJ's replacement lost in 1968, I..
"...concern is mounting that more people are running in the election just to gain fame" "Some candidates...have been criticized for making a mockery of the electoral process by posting sexually explicit posters" https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240629/p2g/00m/0na/020000c #Tokyo#governor#elections 🔸Was surprised Mum thought Koike's opponent Renhō belonged to the Japan Communist Party, but seems many like Mum, who saw WW2 firsthand and are not enamoured with LDP antics, are wary of the JCP, China, and Russia.
"Shelby Busch — chair of #Arizona ’s delegation to the #Republican convention — was in court trying to learn the identities of local #elections workers. Under oath, she said she was unaware of any #threats that had been made against the people who helped run the last presidential #election...
If you’re a politician serious about stopping AIPAC’s foreign influence over #US#elections and you’re beaten in the Dem primary by an #AIPAC tool, then maybe you should run against him in the general election as an independent. Otherwise you’re not that serious about it. #Democrats#VoteBlue#uspolitics#uspol#politics
Brown University professor Claire Wardle said the #Internet Observatory had created innovative methodology & trained the next generation of #disinformation experts. “Closing down a lab like this would always be a huge loss, but doing so now, during a year of #global#elections, makes absolutely no sense … We need universities to use their resources & standing in the community to stand up to criticism & headlines,” said Wardle, who led #research at anti- #misinformation nonprofit First Draft.
In a joint stmnt, Stamos & DiResta said their work involved much more than #elections, & that they had been unfairly maligned. “The politically motivated attacks against our #research on elections & #vaccines have no merit, & the attempts by #partisan#House cmte chairs to suppress #FirstAmendment protected research are a quintessential example of the #WeaponizationOfGovernment.”
“Nevertheless, the results attest to the consolidation of the far right and its presence in virtually all EU member states – there are no fewer than 50 parties in Europe. To date, only Ireland and Malta remain untouched by the phenomenon.”
'Georgia Is Our Laboratory': Inside Trump's Plan to Rig 2024
Team #Trump sees #Georgia as 'a road map' for putting Trump's heads-I-win-tails-you-lose philosophy of #elections into practice
The Peach State is unique—it's the sole battleground state in which the #Republican Party has total #control over the levers of #power: a trifecta in state #House, #Senate, & governorship