Edit: good to see I woke the shills

  • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    He is polling above Biden in every single national poll somehow. Unless something drastic happens in the next 365, Trump will be the 47th POTUS. Americans have a really short memory.

    • TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id
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      1 year ago

      Polls a year out from the election. They have zero predictive value with regard to the ultimate outcome. Any pollster will tell you this. In fact, they have been telling us precisely this, but maybe not all of us are paying attention.

      These results are still deeply disturbing.

    • OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Guess if Dems didn’t want that they’d give another candidate a genuine shot, but ol’ Genocide Joe needs his legacy. This’ll be it.

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        1 year ago

        Incumbents historically have a huge advantage, any new candidate would get absolutely swept by Trump. Most Americans are embarrassingly out of touch with politics

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        1 year ago

        Unfortunately, the time for a better candidate was last election cycle. Incumbency advantage is too critical to give up.

        That being said, voting harder won’t ever move America to the left, that has to be done at the grassroots level.

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          Incumbency advantage is too critical to give up.

          At this point, what advantage? He’s been polling worse than Trump. He’s more of an anchor than an engine now.

          That being said, voting harder won’t ever move America to the left, that has to be done at the grassroots level.

          With Dems there’s always an excuse to do nothing and hope really hard for vague change later.

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            1 year ago

            Incumbency advantage persists. Swapping to a new candidate would likely be worse, even if the candidate is better, purely based on electoralism.

            Yes, the dems do nothing. This is better than Republicans, who do a lot of bad shit. Voting dem won’t fix issues, it will just prevent many more from cropping up. What fixes issues is grassroots praxis.

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              Incumbency advantage persists. Swapping to a new candidate would likely be worse, even if the candidate is better, purely based on electoralism.

              I’m sure many people will be comforted by that when he loses.

              Yes, the dems do nothing. This is better than Republicans, who do a lot of bad shit.

              Read up on the Ratchet Effect.

              What fixes issues is grassroots praxis.

              I too, like vague undefined concepts that obfuscate real potential solutions.

    • pingveno@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      It’s nuts how short people’s memory is. It was just a few years ago that yahoos were invading our nation’s Capitol and Trump was orchestrating a coup. Now Republicans are trying to convince everyone that wasn’t really a coup, and have you considered BLM and scary trans people? Meanwhile the Trump camp has their 900 page plan to efficiently make the federal government into a right wing arm of the Republican Party.

    • Zyrt@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      This is not true. Boomer landline polls also had va going red and look how that worked out.