A new poll shows President Joe Biden leading Trump 44% to 37%, with Kennedy notching 16%.
Released by Marist in partnership with NPR and PBS Newshour on Tuesday, the poll shows a five-point drop among Democrats for Biden with Kennedy in the race. Meanwhile, the survey indicates a 10-point drop among Republicans for Trump with RFK Jr. on the ticket.
Yeah no shit the party of anti-vaxxers and lying about history is more susceptible to grifters.
Funny, I’ve been told by right-wing commenters that RFK Jr is “Democrats’ kryptonite”. Are you saying they have no idea what they’re talking about, and their model of the inner workings of anyone to the left of Mitch McConnell is faulty?
My 64 year old father who doesn’t really pay attention to politics brought up RFK Jr as trouble for Biden. He seemed disappointed when I said the vaccine conspiracy and not supporting Ukraine would sink him.
It’s weird to hear him bring up Kennedy Jr out of the blue like that. He’s been drowning himself in crypto currency stuff these last few years, so it’s not a good sign that he’s started talking about the WEF and shit like that.
Might be good to have some politics chats, in particular about propaganda and right wing indoctrination via crypto, YouTube and right wing media. He’s obviously getting some kind of influence and there are too many stories about parents being lost to hatred and fear, despite being perfectly normal in the years prior.
“I refuse to believe this poll because PBS and NPR are secretly controlled by the Tri-lateral commission, the Pro Bowlers Tour and Baskin-Robbins. Do your own research!”
- RFK “I am not a crackpot!” Jr.
Also, dippin’ dots is NOT the ice cream of the future! (This needs to come back, it was wonderful)
One thing that’s been nice on Lemmy so far is we can actually discuss polls without all the top level posts being something along the lines of “Don’t listen to polls, VOTE!”… as if anyone who subs to the politics section of a social media site doesn’t know voting is important.
I agree, but I still think you might be surprised how many actually don’t sometimes or always in practice. I would assume it’s less than the average person, but it’s not zero.
as a foreign national I can’t vote, only listen to polls so…
Me too. I’ll never visit America even, just caught up in the drama.
Our political system might be fucked up, but at least it does produce a lot of drama. You’re welcome world (or we’re sorry if it caused you harm).
I’m actually curious how accurate/meaningful this poll is, and whether we found expect to see this continue over the year.
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I don’t even consider him getting convicted honestly. I’m actually questioning whether it’s a conspiracy and/or just inevitably, too distract and get guard down for Dems, and he just throws support behind trump at 11th hour
If he pulls enough from Biden to cause the contingent election scenario (in which case, the incoming congress decides the winner not by voting seats, but with each state delegation able to cast 1 vote) it might not matter to the GOP if RFK pulls more from Trump than from Biden.
If you game out the probabilities- It’s very unlikely that Trump beats Biden It’s also unlikely that RFK gets enough votes to deny Biden an outright win, but is it less so? It’s very likely that the GOP will control more state delegations than the Democrats will, by virtue of their state-level gerrymanders.
The contingent election moonshot might be the GOP’s best shot at winning control of the White House in 2024
It does matter if it causes some states to flip to Biden instead of trump and give their college votes to Biden instead of trump.
Thank fuck.
Well duh, he’s a Qanon freak
Makes sense because only non-starters would vote for a highball douchebag Kennedy like little Robbie.
Nobody wants your brand Rob. Rich, drunk, drug user, crazy, dumb fuck.
Nobody wants that.
Cheryl Hines is probably wishing she could get together with Larry David IRL these days
She’s the biggest surprise here. I can’t believe she married this doofus. Not that I know anything about her beyond curb. But I would have hoped she wasn’t on the antivax conspiracy train and it unfortunately appears that she is.
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The yoga antivax crowd is a pretty confusing one. They’re as anti science as Trump, but consider themselves to belong on the political left. So it’s not as obvious as one might immediately think.
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I tend to agree, but then again I would have said the same thing about the Tea Party some years ago. And in presidential elections it could very much be decided on the margins, which is why people are concerned. At Jr. events there tend to be a solid number of people who consider themselves Obama era democrats.
Poor people who have barely learned to read, let alone critically, are great stooges. And Obama was economically right.
I think there’s also a great element of mental illness involved. RFK Jr. was neither illiterate or stupid, he just went over the edge at some point. I suspect the same is true for many of his (potential) voters.
Right. Complex trauma is evident, in politicians and their voters. Fwiw, I was referencing the voters. Most politicians had a decent education.
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I think you might need to breathe with your stomach.
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Bernie was actually trying to win though. RFK is just trying to be a spoiler.
Pretty amazing how the voting pools are putting him at 16 % already. He could finnaly reform the two party system.
