• balderdash
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    81 year ago

    I get the sentiment, and I would vote for AOC if I were in New York, but yeah… this election feels like a foregone conclusion.

    Inb4: “A lot can happen in four months, you don’t know for sure.” blah blah blah

    • Queen HawlSera
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      61 year ago

      It was a close race, but I think the assassination attempt sealed it for Trump

      Which is a real problem because his Vice President favorably compared Trump to Hitler and wants to ban porn

      • Schadrach
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        21 year ago

        Which is a real problem because his Vice President favorably compared Trump to Hitler and wants to ban porn

        It wasn’t a favorable comparison. He was a “Never Trumper” until Trump was the obvious nominee this time.

    • @m0darn@lemmy.ca
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      11 year ago

      I don’t live in the USA but people in our media say it too.

      I don’t understand it though: are there people that voted for Biden last time that will now vote for Trump, even though he is now a convicted felon, and tried to steal the election?

      Or is it just that everyone thinks that people won’t come out to vote for Biden?

      Can you help me understand?

      • @zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
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        61 year ago

        Depressed Biden turnout and energized Trump turnout.

        I don’t know why people keep thinking it’s about switching votes. The side that gets their supporters to turn out is the side that wins.

        • @Pandemanium@lemm.ee
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          51 year ago

          And there’s no better way to depress the Dem turnout than to tell everyone we’ve already lost.

          I just want to point out that the polls haven’t changed after this incident. He has not gained more support. We can still do this.

        • @m0darn@lemmy.ca
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          11 year ago

          I get that it’s more about turnout than conversion but are there many Trump supporters that didn’t vote for him last time?

          My impression at the time was that Trump did a very good job of energizing his base and getting the vote out. Are there actually many people that were indifferent/too lazy/too busy in 2020 but now think Trump is a good candidate? Is that fraction of the population actually larger than the fraction of people that now see him as a lethal threat to what’s left of democracy in America?

          Has gerrymandering gotten worse somehow?

      • @UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.ee
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        51 year ago

        First Past The Post voting artificially limits the number of viable political parties to two. This leaves a huge portion of the electorate disenfranchised.

      • It’s a little bit of both. You have your hardcore Republicans and Democrats who will always vote for their party and a lot of independents who who are just barely paying attention and vote for “the one I’d have a beer with”. There’s also the situation in Gaza that has people voting 3rd party to protest Biden’s handling of the situation even though it’ll be much worse with Trump.

        A lot of others can’t be bothered to vote unless it’s someone they’re excited to vote for like we had with Obama.