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I am just keen to see if Trump is being underpolled.

In 2020 trump and repubs underpolled. Biden was leading by 7 to 8% but nothing of that materialised.

In 2022 republican vote was overpolled (though they managed to take the house).

I see the Trump side and betting markets are more confident on a win.

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I feel the best outcome for India is if presidency senate and house are controlled by different parties.

For eg even if kamala wins i hope repubs control senate and house.

Vice versa if Trump wins hope dems win house and senate.

Absolute wins not good for India. Either party


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Just now, G_B_ said:

I feel the best outcome for India is if presidency senate and house are controlled by different parties.

For eg even if kamala wins i hope repubs control senate and house.

Vice versa if Trump wins hope dems win house and senate.

Absolute wins not good for India. Either party


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No way we can give dems house n senate…they will eff the country up. Basically trump as president will be limited to executive order cuz nothing will pass house and senate :phehe:

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6 hours ago, G_B_ said:

I am just keen to see if Trump is being underpolled.

In 2020 trump and repubs underpolled. Biden was leading by 7 to 8% but nothing of that materialised.

In 2022 republican vote was overpolled (though they managed to take the house).

I see the Trump side and betting markets are more confident on a win.

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Almost correct. The best case for India for last 30 years straight, has been a Republican president + Democrat Senate. 
Very few people know what the american system is, especially the americans. They make POTUS seem like an elected king for 4 years, but in reality, the POTUS has less power than PM of Canada/India/UK has in terms of INTERNAL LEGISLATION. ie, murrican president has far less power to affect murrican people themselves directly, than PM of India or Canada or UK or Oz or Japan etc. have for their people. This is because the POTUS is not part of the legislative like a PM is ( a PM is member of parliament. A potus is not member of senate or House of reps), is not often party leader ( PM is almost always, barring  few special scenarios like post Rajiv Gandhi India, in most nations, including UK,Canada, Oz,Japan, etc PM is often the leader of the party) and does not have ability to threaten to kick out party member for not following policy vote or be able to HIMSELF present his bill to the voting assembly.


However, the POTUS has far stronger power to affect phoren stuff than the PM can. See how many Potuses have done **** like 'its not war, its special military action' type of BS because they KNEW senate wont declare war and US constitution makes it mandatory for senate to declare war for USA to be officially at war. 

In the abovementioned countries, the same thing that makes PM powerful for internal stuf, is the same thing that makes him far LESS powerful to go deal with xyz nation - he STILL has to pass bills in the parliament to go do any special action or boots on the ground or trade deal stuff. 

 

This means, for us, we want a POTUS who is less likely to mess with India's internal dynamics + help India's enemies but be hamstrung by a hostile Senate, so they cannot do anything too drastic either way- which suits us just fine. 

This, for the last 30+ years is the combo of a Republican potus + democrat senate with thin majority and that is pretty correlational to the US policy shifts towards  India,China,Pakistan & Russia with the various combos we can have every 2 years ( since Senate is staggered, every 2 years the combo of rep/dem prez + rep/dem senate is subject to potential change). 

 

 

Why are republican presidents more preferrable than democrat presidents ? simply because republican presidents have been much harsher towards Pakistan than democrat ones, one of our arch-nemesis and less  Russia-focussed than democrat ones. Democrat party has a more obvious 'India = Pakistan, equal equal' foreign policy, which distinctly is less preferrable to us. this is the tried and tested post cold war pattern, which has a 30+ year dataset for us now to evaluate, making it a fairly robust trend (if there is one, which as we see, there is). 

 

Whith arrival of trump, this has hit the sweet spot, because Trump has a crush on Putin,making him Russia-friendly, which is an improvement from 'less focussed on Russia' and he is the *MOST* anti-China Potus since Raegan, which is soney-pe-suhaaga. 

 

These are objective facts of basic foreign policy, easily verifiable by anyone with access to the internet or a library and these conclusions are obvious. If there is a so-called think tank that cannot explain this angle to their advantage and STILL push the narrative that a democrat prez is better for india than a republican one, they are flat out lying to you and peddling propaganda. Its just that simple. 

 

 

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