• Rhaedas@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    Polls are polls, but just the fact that there is still any conversation at this point says a lot about the state of the country.

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      9 months ago

      The media is absolutely owned by the wealthy and their sway over the common person is astounding.

      From what I’ve seen (uneducated, informal, observation of recent smaller elections) it seems Republicans are losing ground with their crazy shit from school board seats to municipal/state elections - but this could easily be confirmation bias as I’m not really tracking repuglican scores.

      It seems like regardless of what polls say, general America is fed up with the crazy and partially showing up to vote (or less R participating if they can’t be assed to vote for a D) in less significant elections these days.

      Hopefully it’s a blowout democratic win this year and they can finally close the door on this Christian nationalist, Nazi, Gilead, bullshit across as many levels in for gov’t as possible.

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        9 months ago

        We’ve been engineered to have a short memory and an even shorter attention span. People who would vote for Republicans doubly so. All Republicans have to do is fly silent for a month or two and most transgressions and fouls will be forgiven. Whereas Democrats are still being held responsible for things they didn’t do nearly 10 years ago.

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      9 months ago

      It really needs to be emphasized that polls this far out are basically meaningless. This far out, Romney was significantly outpolling Obama, and that was a blowout.

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        9 months ago

        True, and it’s also important to note that these are all polls of registered voters, not likely voters. This means they are much less reliable.

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      9 months ago

      There was an article a while ago about Biden being up 10 in NY and everyone celebrating…

      You have to go back to 1988 and Walter Mondale to see a Dem win NY by less than 15. Biden won by 23 last time.

      He’s not a good candidate, and if we’re really stuck with him, he needs to pull his head out of his ass.