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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: MisterFungi   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Priorities
Date: 10/28/24 12:25 PM
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<<I couldn't tell you which of those many things Harris feels particularly animated about getting done. Unlike, say, Obama with health care insurance reform, or Elizabeth Warren with banking/consumer regulation, or Trump with tariffs and protectionism.>>

Al, as a political scientist who has studied and conducted research on voters and elections for more than 50 years, let me simply say that your distinction between issue priorities and issue positions is one that eludes 98.5% of ordinary Americans.

Also, health insurance reform as a priority played at most a cameo role in getting Obama elected in 2008 (party ID, the financial crisis, and racial attitudes were what mattered), and I'm very confident that the vast majority of Trump voters (not to mention Trump himself) are motivated by matters other than tariffs and protectionism as priorities, just as they were in 2016 and 2020.
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