• Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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    4 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 voters who are still undecided at this point. As for myself, I’ll be sticking with the candidate that has already beaten Trump once.

    (Laughs nervously)

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      4 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.

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      4 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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        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.

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      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.

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      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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          4 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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            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)