• Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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    7 months ago

    A new poll suggests Kamala Harris, if leading the Democratic presidential ticket, could beat Donald Trump in the popular vote.

    Emphases mine.

    Just a reminder that Hillary won the popular vote by about 2.9 million yet we got Trump anyway because of the electoral college.

    I hate that the stakes are so high, and we’re at the mercy of swing state residents who are still undecided at this point.

    (Laughs nervously)

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      7 months ago

      Biden’s down like 9 points national tho?

      And down in the battlegrounds…

      And solid blue states like his home state Pennsylvania…

      And where he was a senator for 36 years …

      So yeah…

      This doesn’t mean she’s a shoe in. But it’s better than Joe can do

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          7 months ago

          Excuse me for getting excited someone the DNC would actually let run is polling above trump…

          I don’t know if you noticed, but there hasn’t been much to celebrate lately for Dem voters.

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            7 months ago

            I don’t think you’re allowed to badmouth Biden like that 'round these parts

            “You’re either with us or you’re with the terrorists”

            (I’m quoting Bush here for extra comedic/ironic effect)

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      7 months ago

      It’s way worse, though. It was an online survey. You know. The kind of survey that a shit ton of people who vote wouldn’t have participated in. There’s a lot of 70 year olds who vote, are misogynistic, and still lean hard to the right. Those people don’t take surveys and polls on the internet.

    • BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Yeah, it’s like… no shit, few of us expect Democrats to lose the popular vote unless our guy does something like bribes a pornstar or commits fraud or something.

    • Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      I do not believe in ‘undecided’ voters. I don’t think they exist.

      So this is not going to be decided by then. This is going to be decided very simply: will enough people in the right states bother to vote?

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        7 months ago

        I agree. There are no undecided, only people that don’t answer polls. There isn’t anyone so disconnected from reality that they can’t feel if they like a president or not. Especially since we’ve seen both at work.