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It’s a significant reversal from recent history: President Joe Biden is struggling with young voters but performing better than most Democrats with older ones.

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[-] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago

It’s a failure of the news and social media. If they read about the massive green initiatives, increased corporate and wealth taxes, ending food supply chain greedflation, advancing equity and racial justice, student loan reimbursement, and housing affordability, they may feel differently.

Instead, they think Trump will “shake up the system.” All he did with his last term was roll back safety and environmental regulations on business, and implement a tax break that expired after four years for the low and middle class but remains intact for the wealthy today.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Just because people don't support Biden doesn't mean they're voting for Trump. This is a false dichotomy.

[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, that’s the nature of US elections. Maybe one day it’ll change, but for now these are the only votes that will carry through the Electoral College.

FWIW I’d love to see us remove the Electoral College, abolish Gerrymandering, and implement ranked-choice voting to introduce more parties to the table.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

All you Blue MAGA folks pretend like their aren't any candidates with basic human decency running for president. Guess what? I have my choice of three candidates who have at least a bare minimum of human decency. And you have three candidates who support genocide. You make your choice; I'll make mine.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

What?

Are you talking about the primaries? I'm like 99.9999% sure they all dropped out. You're stuck with Trump and we're stuck with Biden.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I’m not suggesting you make a different choice than the two. I’m stating that it will not affect US elections in their current structure. You do you.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Scribbling over that section of the ballot is also a distinct choice you have. That would affect the outcome just as much as voting third party.

"Blue MAGA." It's wild how far-right actors have the self-awareness to write "Blueanon" or "Blue MAGA." Cool to see their strategies are working and the term is getting picked up with other groups.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

that’s the nature of US elections

then they arent really democratic are they

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, there are only TWO choices in the 2024 election - you are either voting for democracy or dictatorship - period

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

When is the democracy supposed to start?

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Only one of two people is going to win. It’s about as true of a dichotomy as you can get in politics. Your other option is to throw away your vote, which is the same as not voting.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

There are at least six people running. Three are running on the genocide platform, three are running on the human decency platform. It's about as true of a dichotomy as you can get in politics.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Two of those people have a chance at winning. Four of those people have a chance at splitting the vote enough that the other of the two wins.

I don’t like that that’s how our system is. It’s fucked. But that is how our system is.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

He's like a dude playing the lotto. "Well either I win or I don't, that's two possible outcomes... 50/50 chance."

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[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Teenagers aren’t well known for having landline phones and/or answering calls from unknown numbers.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Even if this were an accurate take on how modern polls were conducted, teenagers not responding to the pollster doesn't equate to fewer teenagers being willing to vote for Biden. You have to have actual responses to determine that.

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[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

When you do something right, it makes headlines for an hour. When something bad happens, the "liberal" news spends months talking about the Biden administration is failing while somehow never talking about the root cause.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

To be fair, the problem currently is a terrorist attack has been responded to with genocide and that's still ongoing.

That shouldn't be out of the news cycle, or even the top story spot.

Anything to pressure the president to actually take action to hault a genocide is worth doing. The threat he might lose an election due to low turn out is real. He can change that before November but the longer he fails to take action, the fewer voters will be willing to look past his delay and inaction.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I agree in theory. But here's the problem. We need to pressure the public first. Otherwise it's a lose-lose for Biden. We need the public to demand it like they demanded Ukraine support. Not just from the activists and progressives, but from the centrists and low-information voters. If you don't do that, then his best bet is to keep supporting Israel like it's a surrogate country.

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Television station creates panic, suggest you keep watching TV to stay on top of it.

Tune in at 11 for more

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

It seems the billions the billionaire foundation networks have spent to shift the country right and create a network of friendly legislatures to obstruct any progressive policy has paid off. Please read the book “Dark Money” by Jane Mayer to understand how truly deep this well coordinated problem goes.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

It passes the smell test. Maybe the Democrats should consider taking positions that represent the people.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Are they closer than the positions the GOP offers?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Democrat: old genocidal ghoul

Republican: old genocidal ghoul

Nah, not really

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Headline law say no

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Maybe stop helping slaughter Palestinians, then you wouldn't have this problem.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

FALSE EQUIVALENCY!!! Joe Biden's genocide is a much more humane, you could even say, gentler, genocide than what Trump would do. Trump would be super obnoxious and mean about it. Biden makes it super clear he regrets having to do the genociding. He's even building a little island to deliver coffins by sea for the babies who are starving to death while hundreds of food trucks line up at the border!

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I feel like polls are on the level of rolling a d20 at this point.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I would guess actual polling error or “polling error” based on the fact that campaigning really hasn’t started in earnest. (Biden is still hiring senior staff in Pennsylvania and Trump hasn’t even opened an office there yet.) We should probably expect polling to be all over the place before late September or so, especially with cross-tabs and the tiny sample sizes. Barely anyone is spending the money for high quality polls yet (except maybe the campaigns but they don’t release those).

It’s obvious that there’s real anger about the Gaza war crimes and inflation (which no president controls but people think they do). But a lot of young people are genuinely undecided. If it’s your first or second presidential election, you inevitably make your mind up later than if you already have a party.

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