• Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    The fact that the conventional wisdom portrays Kennedy as a bigger threat to Biden than to Trump is nearly as insane as Kennedy himself. Literally the only thing about him that appeals to Democrats is his last name, whereas on virtually all policy issues he’s aligned with the loony fringe right.

    (Mind you, I ultimately think he’s going to be largely irrelevant to both sides - I think the conventional wisdom also wants to make him a big deal period because the media’s obsessed with having third-party candidates matter.)

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      7 months ago

      Yeah they keep saying on the news that the Kennedy name has a large pull with young democratic voters and that it just flat out wrong lol. None of the young voters were even alive when the good Kennedy was president and they were too young or still not born when the others were in office so idk where they got that shit from. Just older people in charge of writing the news I guess.