• ArcticAmphibian@lemmus.org
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    4 months ago

    I don’t think she has as good a chance as he does. Biden’s policy has always been on the moderate side of the democratic spectrum, whereas Harris’s has trended true-left or even far-left. Biden will pull more moderates and centrists, the key group in this election (MAGA folks are already decided and anyone who’s even vaguely left is too).

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      4 months ago

      The Overton window has shifted so far right that Biden is considered moderate-left and Harris far left.

      In any sensible country Harris’s ideas are center-right at best.

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      4 months ago

      Biden’s policy has always been on the moderate side of the democratic spectrum

      This is the guy who was calling for restricting social welfare programs 25 years ago while wholeheartedly supporting Israeli expansion.

      He has been anything but moderate

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      4 months ago

      Biden will pull more moderates and centrists, the key group in this election

      Says fucking who?

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        4 months ago

        If you listen to the Biden press conferences, it is like listening to a preacher try to gaslight you that an imaginary being will come down out of the sky. It’s like… “Biden has accomplished more than any President in the last 100 years, you know he has, we all know he has. Just as I said, and you’ve all seen for yourself. It’s true and you can’t deny it.”

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        4 months ago

        Says an analysis done by me in 15 minutes on a train ride. I should have looked at polling data - despite Harris being further left, Biden is old as dirt. Apparently in ABC and Pew polls she beats him. Should have researched that one better.

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      4 months ago

      I have yet to meet someone who is analytically deficient enough to think Harris is far left, who’s not also racist enough to think that she’s definitionally far-left due to her skin color.

      Prove me wrong