A tipping-point state is defined as the state with the closest vote margin that gives the presidential election winner their 270th electoral vote. In other words, the states with closer voting margins than the tipping point become unnecessary in determining the winner of the presidential election. The lower the ranking in vote margin for the tipping-point state, the better the winner of the election did. By this measure, in recent elections, Obama did the best in 2008, but the other elections were significantly closer.
In 2000, it was Florida, which had the closest margin of any state that year.
In 2004, it was Ohio, which had the 5th closest margin of all states.
In 2008 and 2012, it was Colorado both times, but in 2008, it was 12th closest, and in 2012, it was 5th closest.
And in 2016, it was either Pennsylvania or Wisconsin, which were the 3rd and 4th closest respectively.
What's your prediction for 2020?
Mine is Wisconsin. I believe it will either be the closest or 2nd closest, if Arizona actually has the chance to flip. If not, then I'm saying the race will come right down to the wire in Wisconsin. Biden takes all the Clinton states and wins Pennsylvania and Michigan, Trump gets all the other states he won before, but Wisconsin decides, all by itself, who the winner will be.
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... keep reading on reddit ➡Following general polling trends (see my other posts), it seems that the democrats have a clear path to 50 seats:
Arizona, Colorado, North Carolina, Maine
The leaves one seat as the tipping point state for senate control between:
Iowa, Montana, Georgia, South Carolina, Alaska (edited in)
We obviously keep doing what we are doing in Arizona, Colorado, North Carolina, and Maine. With the tipping point states, should we focus our efforts on all four or predominately on one? With the final months now, it could be good to have an organized gameplan
Just to begin, this is something I have been thinking about recently, it's not a documented conspiracy or anything. But here goes:
I was reading some post the other day that mentioned the fact that WWII was the last war that the United States appeared as a "good guy" and that every other war after that was done out of personal interest / imperialism. It got me wondering what would change so much to start dominance wars around the world? Sure politics change all the time, but around the end of WWII and the creation of the first nuclear bomb, the first waves of UFO sightings began in the States. So much so that Project "Sign" was created in 1947/48, followed by Project Grudge and Project Blue Book to locate these UFOs.
I'm not self-proclaimed history buff but the Cold War was largely a technological / arms race, along with a race to reach outer space by the countries involved. Around the start of this you have reports of government coverups for UFO crashes and sightings.
If the United States had really uncovered some sort of extraterrestrial artifacts from these events, is it possible that the Imperialistic nature of the US after these events is a result of this knowledge? There have been countless reports of reverse-engineering and experiments going on at places like S-4 and Area 51 (1955), all of which happened after the wave of sightings in in 1947. I think it's possible that this race for technological power and dominance began when the United States came across technology that was worth dominating for, if only to keep others from getting it.
I mainly think the timeline is the most suspicious thing about it:
1945 - Development of the first nuclear bomb (which a lot of theorists say that sparked extraterrestrial interest in the Earth)
1947 - at least three major UFO sightings/crashes happen in the States, along with supposed coverups (Kenneth Arnold, Vernon Baird, Roswell)
also in 1947 - Project Sign is created to investigate UFO sightings / alleged crashes
- Truman Doctrine signed / start of the Cold War
extra stuff:
1949 - NATO is formed as an alliance and defense agreement to project against attacks from "external parties"
1955 - area 51 is created
Following the cold war, every war involving the Unites States had some form of ulterior Imperialistic motive, shrouded behind "keeping 'Merica Safe"
Obviously this is just a working theory, but I wanted to hear what you all have to say/add about this.
TLDR: the US started being the world'
... keep reading on reddit ➡
New York state has 20 million people, is the home of Wall Street, and Trump himself. In a word, influential.
New York will also soon find itself surrounded with legal recreational cannabis:
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[Massachusetts] (https://kushtourism.com/massachusetts-marijuana-information/)
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[Vermont] (https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/vermont-legalizes-recreational-pot-w515713)
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New Jersey is pushing ahead rapidly with a rec. legalization program, with a bill passed as early as June 30
Here is a map of the area.
New Jersey is significant in that it connects to New York City seamlessly via 6 bridges and tunnels. Once NJ is legal, New York City will, within hours, be full of de facto "legal in NJ" weed, and enforcement efforts will be completely futile. Even the staunchiest of Reefer-Mad prohibitionist politicians and police chiefs will see the writing on the wall.
The only problem is, that NY will be full of legal weed bought out of state. Meaning Millions of potential tax revenue flowing out of state. The only effects of prohibition will be a tight budget and wasting police resources on unwinnable drug policy. So, NY will likely swiftly legalize recreational. This will probably influence opinions at the federal level.
In the meantime, I imagine the legal retailers poised to take advantage of the New Jersey market opening up will see sales far beyond what their state population would imply.
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> The number of countries colored white on the World Press Freedom Map has decreased by 40 percent in five years.
> The rise of authoritarian strongmen, from Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines to Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil to Donald Trump in the United States; the debasement of debate; and the normalization of hostile speech against media institutions have fostered a climate of fear and nurtured violent actions against journalists, even in places where press freedom has historically been strong.
> Trump's America and Bolsanaro's Brazil are now officially classified as "Problematic" on the World Press Freedom Index, with their leaders making frequent verbal attacks on journalists and adding to a climate of fear.
> The ongoing wars in Syria and Yemen, plus outbreaks of conflict in countries across the globe, meant that 2018 was one of the deadliest years on record for reporters, with 80 journalists killed worldwide.
> As a result of this and other encouraging moves, the country is no longer classified as "Bad" on the World Press Freedom Index.
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So living here in the UK, the government have a permanent 1980's Reagan era mindset about weed. The Alcohol and Tobacco industries are inter-twined with government ministers who keep the status quo for obvious reasons. I've seen many questions asked over many years in government from the odd brave soul and it always goes nowhere. I cannot help but think that this country will never ever legalise. I remember it was like that in the US until recently. Can anyone pin down when that mindset change happened in the US. Was it something specific that brought that about? We need to approach legalisation from a new direction here because it ain't working.
Thanks.
