• OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    According to the polls, both Biden and Trump will inevitably be nominated but neither Biden nor Trump can win.

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    9 months ago

    It’s weird that a criminal dictator in the making like donnie can have any support at all, but that’s the sad state of humanity, I guess.

      • stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        Stop that

        These followers are systematically bred through the system of the US to do and think these things.

        And that’s not to say we can’t educate and flip the tide. NO MOAR NEGATOR, ONLY POSI VIBES 😤😤

        Defeated feelings are how you lose

        • TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works
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          Dehumanizing is a slippery slope. Don’t let yourself fall down that rabbit hole.

          At the end of the day, they’re still people. They may make dumbshit decisions and choices, but they’re human beings none the less

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            9 months ago

            Absolutely true. But also, as soon as we believe “no true human could do something like this” we’re opening ourselves up to being blindsided by another human doing that.

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    9 months ago

    The poll surveyed 1,000 registered voters between Sept. 19-20, and had the margin of error varied across questions, reported as 3 percentage points. Numbers have been rounded.

    Who were these registered voters? What was the demographics breakdown? How were they contacted? What was the methodology? Were the questions loaded?

    Of course, the press never asks any of this.

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      9 months ago

      That’s a great point. I’d also like to throw in the question “what kind of person stops to answer these polls?”. I don’t feel like younger folks are going to be quite as keen. Politics as an identity tends to be an older generational thing.

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        9 months ago

        I’m not even young. I’m 46. I’m not going to waste my time with a poll. I have shit to do.

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        9 months ago

        This is the biggest issues I have with pills right now. The younger demos don’t answer phones, so the responses are going to be skewed, and I can’t imagine there are many places that can reasonably do in person polling with any kind of reasonable mixes of demos.

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      9 months ago

      Of course, the press never asks any of this.

      The horse race reporters might not, but pollsters do. They worry about this sort of thing a lot, and try to correct for it, when possible.

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      There’s a link below to the poll questions, but it doesn’t say how the people were contacted. Given the answers about if they are voting for a Republican or Democrat and more worried about Biden’s mental health over Trump’s, I’m pretty sure these were phone calls, which of course, aren’t accurate of the whole populace. It’s all bullshit if you rely only on who picks up the phone.

    • stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Woah woah woah

      So 2000 peoples consensus doesn’t make up the whole of the US?

      You mean to tell me that republicans refuse to fix the southern educational system so it’s easier for them to push bullshit math and stats to their unknowing followers??

      Whaaaaat? The electoral system is the only way republicans ever fucking win presidential elections???

      WHAAAAAAT

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      Are you trying to tell me that numbers are not, in fact, God? Are you trying to suggest that I shouldn’t trust that big number better than small number?

      How will I ever navigate the real world?

  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org
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    9 months ago

    I was traveling through central and eastern Washington State yesterday and I discovered a few new roadside Trump support banners up. At a restaurant in Ellensburg I saw two guys wearing Trump hats. These were a new style, not the famous one. Why do the farming communities still see Trump as a good leader? Mind boggling. The rural Washington voter is constantly voting against their own best interests and I don’t mind asking them why but it never fails to come down to some bullshit right wing propaganda that is easy to point out but because I don’t believe the propaganda, and question them about it, I become part of the problem. And discussing it usually just leads to them digging their heels in deeper.

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      You’ll never, ever, change the pov of a cultist if you reveal yourself as an outsider. You have to play the angle of being one of them or being undecided. It helps if you’re genuine about it and make yourself open to their ideas.

      That being said, some people are illogical and can only be convinced out of a cult by using the same faulty logic that’d got them in. E.g: “Trump is deep state controlled opposition’s but he doesn’t know.”.

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        I don’t think I probably need to say this but, be careful about opening yourself to cult logic if you’re not steady in your own beliefs.

        This is how you flip fence dwellers into cult followers js.

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    9 months ago

    If America had a collective functioning brain, he would be at 100% and NASA would have researched how to launch him into the sun.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    9 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Former President Trump’s unfavorability among registered voters has topped 55 percent, according to a new poll.

    A NewsNation/Decision Desk HQ poll found roughly 44 percent had a “very unfavorable” view of Trump, the highest such rating across the other seven GOP contenders tested.

    Trump’s numbers come as he faces a myriad of legal battles, including multiple criminal indictments, while he campaigns to return for another four years in the White House.

    Citing his significant lead in polling, he skipped the first GOP presidential debate and plans to do so for the second debate on Wednesday night, as his fellow 2024 Republican contenders gather in Simi Valley, Calif.

    Hutchinson didn’t make the cut for the party’s second debate stage in California.

    The poll surveyed 1,000 registered voters between Sept. 19-20, and had the margin of error varied across questions, reported as 3 percentage points.


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