fatguyinalittlecoat
Footballguy
Biden has been super busy with all the executive orders and such and such. Anybody already changed their minds?
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Do you regret voting for Biden? (2 Viewers)
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AAABatteries
Footballguy
Biden wasn't my first choice - maybe not even my 4th or 5th but it's refreshing not seeing verbal diarrhea Tweeted on a daily basis and I'm no longer embarrassed by the guy running the country - even if I disagree with him. So I got that going for me.
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Don Quixote
Footballguy
Non, rien de rien
Non, je ne regrette rien
Non, je ne regrette rien
randall146
Footballguy
lol - what prompted this poll?
rockaction
Footballguy
Voted for "I did not vote for but..."
I wish I would have. I voted Jorgensen. Stupid vote, if tactically sound.
I wish I would have. I voted Jorgensen. Stupid vote, if tactically sound.
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fatguyinalittlecoat
Footballguy
@Stealthycat and @NorvilleBarnes have both, within the last few days, suggested that maybe Biden voters were having buyer's remorse. That didn't seem right to me but I figured I should test it out out with real science.
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I assume you mean in the primary, not the general.
I don't remember where I had Biden initially ranked in the primaries. I know I preferred Buttigieg and Klobuchar, but I don't remember who else I had ranked higher. I think I had a bunch of people ranked higher, and probably had Biden outside the top five.
In hindsight, I should have ranked Biden a lot higher. He's what we needed right now. Not only is he very solidly in my retroactive top five, but I might even put him at #1 ahead of Buttigieg just because I think it's important, right now, that we have a President who's been in Washington for multiple decades and has strong connections to long-standing institutions and norms. He remembers what it was like when things weren't so polarized. I think Buttigieg might be a future star, but it's not his time yet. It's Biden's.
AAABatteries
Footballguy
Correct - in the primaries. We'll never know for sure but I do think I was wrong and folks like Tim were right that Biden was maybe the only person who could have defeated Trump. And I'm with you on Biden being what we need now - he's far from perfect but I feel like he's set a good tone of healing and getting back to normal. I'm slightly optimistic once Covid and Trump are mostly behind us and that we can get back to normalcy.
fatguyinalittlecoat
Footballguy
Yeah me too. Although admittedly he looked totally lost in those early debates where there were like 10 candidates all talking over each other.
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
So far, Biden has succeeded admirably in meeting my #1 expectation of not being Donald Trump. He hasn't done anything crazy like nominating AOC for CIA Director or whatever. All good on my end.
The Commish
Footballguy
I can't see how this would apply to any Biden voters other than the "fringe left" but I tend to come from a much more moderate POV than those listed.
Yankee23Fan
Fair Tax!
Thunderlips
Footballguy
Not at all.
cobalt_27
Footballguy
I’m happy—primarily—with who’s he selected for cabinet positions, advisors, and comms team. There’s a clear, obvious restoration to professionalism, transparency I missed dearly. He’s a terrible debater and I think that disproportionally downgraded him in my eyes (and disproportionately elevated Buttigieg) during the primaries. But I’m very glad I came around during the SC primaries because he’s exactly what we’ve needed.
randall146
Footballguy
He may not be in my top 100 people I'd choose as President, but I'm delighted to have voted for him and not at all surprised or upset by anything he's done. Frankly I won't believe anyone voting differently unless they post an explanation. I just can't imagine anyone being surprised by anything he's done.
Van Dyman
Footballguy
In terms of being "tactically sound", I suspect that tactic was statistically equivalent to writing in Jourgensen.
rockaction
Footballguy
Whoops. I think tactically useless is more what I was going for and morally sound was the key. But morally sound, for me, would have probably been to leave the top of the ticket blank. I agree enough with Jorgensen on other issues to vote for her, but her proposals/stance on COVID-19 were/was bonkers.
BladeRunner
Footballguy
Disappointed so far. He called Trump a dictator for all of his EO's and now he's surpassed Trump on the EO front and it's only his 1st two weeks. So if Trump was a dictator, what does that make Biden?
Not happy with Dictators running our country (based on Biden's EO logic). If I could change my vote from Trump to Biden I still wouldn't.
Not happy with Dictators running our country (based on Biden's EO logic). If I could change my vote from Trump to Biden I still wouldn't.
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Drunken Cowboy
Footballguy
I like Biden a lot more than you. In fact, Ilikehim a lot, but this is pretty much how I feel as well.
BladeRunner
Footballguy
Trump's EO's reversed a lot of Bad Obama EO's. Still, you don't get call someone a dictator for using EO's and then surpass that guy.
Also, there was a plan to combat Covid in place before Biden was elected.
The hyperbole and over-the-top drama you guys engage in makes it difficult to take a lot of posts seriously and makes actual, thoughtful discussion difficult.
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Drunken Cowboy
Footballguy
Everything he has done was openly talked about throughout the campaign. It is hard to imagine how anyone could have buyer's remorse based on any of his actions on office.
Mile High
Footballguy
Yeah well that's the way it goes with EO. Biden is just overturnin a bunch of bad Trump EOs.
Van Dyman
Footballguy
FWIW, limited data is available but there appears to have been a larger than usual numbers of people changing their party affiliations. If any group of voters regret who they voted for in that election, it appears to be Trump voters.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/536113-tens-of-thousands-of-voters-drop-republican-affiliation-after-capitol
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/536113-tens-of-thousands-of-voters-drop-republican-affiliation-after-capitol
Trump was called a dictator for his repeated attempts at circumventing both law and proper protocols, with the use of EOs being just one example. Statements of fact are not hyperbole.
The Commish
Footballguy
That was just to get into the Dem primary so they could vote for the guy that would lose to Trump!!!!!! Wait
The Commish
Footballguy
Who are the people who voted for option 1?? 
Van Dyman
Footballguy
I get the joke, and I like it, but want to clarify I'm referring to post-election data.That was just to get into the Dem primary so they could vote for the guy that would lose to Trump!!!!!! Wait
Rich Conway
Footballguy
People that actually voted for Trump and want to skew the results.Who are the people who voted for option 1??
BladeRunner
Footballguy
Agreed. Saying there was no plan in place is not a statement of fact but, indeed, hyperbole.
Anyways, Biden's been a real disappointment so far.
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The Commish
Footballguy
I read it....still not going to change that narrative. Can't stop it...can only hope to contain it.
Stoneworker
Footballguy
Jury still out. Let's see if Joe can stick to his unity pledge and work out a bi-partisan deal on the stimulus. If not, then odds are we will remain divided for four more years so not such a huge leap forward.
jamny
Footballguy
-jb-
Footballguy
Voted for Biden. Like IK said, he's done a great job at not being Trump, but I'm incredibly frustrated with how he has handled the stimulus package. it's been infuriating watching him and his team negotiate against themselves after swearing up and down that the people would have $2K checks immediately. All of the EO stuff is window dressing for me right now.
eta I voted #4
eta I voted #4
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Bottomfeeder Sports
Footballguy
I voted for Biden and so far am pleasantly surprised. He seems to have learned from Obama's mistakes of 2009 and while he is throwing around his many years of navigating DC he isn't pretending that the "party of no" will ever come around if he just reasons with them. Maybe this "get on board or get run over" attitude only applies to Covid, but that might just be enough.
jamny
Footballguy
No, that wasnt the plan.
I've said that Trump deserves criticism for his handling of covid but so many refuse to give him any credit for getting a vaccine up to 1 million a day within a year of the virus hitting our country.
That requires planning.
Very true, that does require planning, which I highly doubt Trump was heavily involved in. The planning was likely done without his knowledge by people who actually knew what went into the entire process, and implemented the same way.
jamny
Footballguy
Summer Wheat
Footballguy
I voted for Biden and still would. That being said a virus is a virus and can`t be contained. Without a vaccine the results would be pretty much the same. The nursing homes were a disaster and that is on the state level. Cuomo should be impeached if that is possible.
Was he involved in the vaccine trials? Then I’ll give him all the credit in the world, but he absolutely hamstrung every effort we put forth at the beginning of this pandemic all for the sake of the economy, not to mention his mockery of both health safety measures and the people who used them.
What? He literally coined the term warpspeed.
Trumps gone time to let it go, this thread is supposed to be about Biden. lol
thriftyrocker
Footballguy
The Pfizer vaccine was entirely self funded and did not take part in Operation Warp Speed. States are responsible for vaccine distribution. But Trump was a good cheerleader.
