Weekend self-volunteering

 

 This weekend I researched on crime detected so far during this very heated US election campaign period. Last week I focused on hacking notices available on the FBI site. Today I came across information published by the New Scientist indicating that a few months ago, private electoral data was stolen and sold in the dark web. Being in the UK does not help me access US information via internet as I am often blocked because of my location. I asked a user on twitter if I could get the name for Biden aggregator to see if his campaign used the same stolen data. I am assuming that most President Trump's campaign groups like Blexit will be using Brexit Q aggregator as it works with centre right voters. However, I am not aware of who and what is attracting and leading undecided voters, traditional Democrat voters and Republicans disenchanted with Trump to sail towards Biden shore ,when his campaign is overwhelmed with scandals and indications that he is not paying attention to crucial details and often forgets to prepare his media interview's answers. The twitter user has not replied yet. Meanwhile, I read Snooks, Graeme. “Will Trump Triumph Again? The 2020 Presidential Election and the Future of America.” IGDS Working Papers # 22 (2020). This is a quick-read paper and very current and "detail incisive" into President Trump's ongoing re-election campaign. I found Greeme Socks's working paper "Will Trump Triumph Again? The 2020 Presidential Election and the Future of America for Canberra Institute of Global Dynamics" elucidative with regards to the weight of Trump's policy in securing victory for this coming election. The author pointed the following aspects of Make America Great Again policy in securing future voter majority: * Industrial revitalisation *Pursuit of American space power dominance by investing in private sector space industry * Trump's diplomatic gains. His economic analysis of Strategic Leadership and strategic frustration by comparing Obama's Presidency with President's Trump's was historical, but yet I found it conveniently anachronist and tendentious towards President Trump. Would have welcomed a more in-depth analysis of the wars waged abroad and the social consequences -scars mainly- in the general voting age population. He predicted Biden's defeat by mainly emphasising his age in a style of " nail in the coffin- end of paper type of comment" which does not really answer the dilemma of many Americans who just want to get away from Trump as a leader figure with several family members around him (who are not particularly popular) and friends being regularly arrested or vocal against his personality and real motivations to lead the country as President of the United States of America. Do I feel that Biden personality and record is that bad that will lead Trump haters to vote for Trump instead? Depends on how well Trump election campaign managers expose Biden's past leadership of his Federal State in juxtaposition to his future leadership performance. Fear mongering just based on the way he dealt with the protests won't do , yet the fact that he met with the family of someone who apparently was unfairly treated by law enforcement agents , is a decisive factor in lending the public trust in Biden as an objective and compassionate leader who can meet the weakest and not always most correct members of society and still offer his close leadership as potential future leader of America. Perhaps the fact that Jacob Blake was on the wrong the whole time not only in the offence previously committed to the police shooting incident but also for refusing to follow authorities' directions and for having a knife in the car - will weight mostly with the majority of the voting population who certainly does not have a criminal record and have access to private property and self-preservation principles shielding them from the future concept of " Anarchist USA " where citizens don't stop when they are told by the police and still aim at reaching for their weapon and evade the police by entering their car as if nothing had occurred. American voter’s self-preservation principles most likely will weigh heavily in the upcoming elections. 

Ariane Brito 07th of September 2020