• ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    True. But they were going to have the same criticism of Biden regardless.

    It’s part of the reason I didn’t even watch. Looking over the polling, the debate didn’t really change anyone’s opinions on anything to any significant degree.

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      6 months ago

      I don’t think it has been long enough to have gathered enough data on that. Just watching it myself I could clearly see a low information voter seeing Trump as a more fit choice as Biden struggled to even form sentences :(

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      6 months ago

      What the polling likely isn’t capturing is how many people will ultimately choose not to vote out of despair, and that was the real threat the whole time.

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        6 months ago

        Oh, definitely. Not just possible, they weren’t even looking for that. They were entirely looking for what the debate did to preferences and opinions directly about the candidates.

        I mostly brought it out as an example of the headline not capturing the whole message of how it impacted voters. Or didn’t impact, rather.