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Jesus tapdancing christ. 44% to 40%. Just… wow.
My compete and total lack of faith in the mental competence of the American electorate is certainly coming to a middle.
I fucking hate it here.
1,600 people were polled.
https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econTabReport_qsNv5iE.pdf
that’s not enough to represent the country, and who knows what their methods are
It can be enough but only if the sample is representative and I think often these are done by calling people on landline and the people who still have a landline and would be willing to take a survey are a very specific subset of our population so probably that sample is not representative but it’s not due to the sample size.
YouGov has published a page about its polling methodology. Polling groups abandoned the random telephone survey decades ago, at this point.
Cool, in my country they still do that unfortunately.
that sample size is still way too small
But the headline creates clicks and engagement and that's what matters most.
🤑💰💸💵💶💷
It seems like every fucking election is like this...
The "I hate everyone and everything, I'm going to abduct your neighbors, how dare you suggest billionaires get taxed anything at all" party
vs
The "I guess healthcare should probably be affordable and gay people exist and deserve dignity" party
40% and 40%...
The remaining 20% are outside eating rocks or something...
I mean have the Dems just tried being better?
No actually, they haven't!
I mean have the Dems just tried ~~being better~~ ?
There, fixed.
They've tried nothing and they're all out of ideas!
Well I want the Dems to literally light themselves on fire for what they did to Gaza, but really "folks" just want Dems to be decent. Like Dems don't even want to defund ICE, they just want to put down bullshit procedural crap that they'll face zero consequences
No, I want them to GTFO of the way. If our election system only admits two major parties, then they are complicit by camping out in one of the slots, preventing a political party that'd actually put up a fight from arising. Whatever their alleged motivation, or level of cooperation, it no longer matters at this point; they have been the party in that second slot as U.S. political institutions slid into fascism over the course of decades. The record shows that they're not going to turn it around should they win back Congress in the mid-terms (if we even have elections). At best, they might stave off full fascism for another few election cycles. That's the issue we have with Democrats.
Maybe the Republicans can GTFO of the way
That is the ultimate goal, isn't it? The problem here is that the situation isn't so neatly reciprocal. The Republicans offer about ⅓ of the nation exactly what they want, whereas the Democrats offer nobody exactly what they want. The favorability ratings in the polls show that. They only offer, "we're marginally better than fascists," which is good enough for a small lead in polling for the midterm elections, masking how deeply unpopular Republican actions are, and providing a veneer of legitimacy for them in the form of a near-tie.
Are you seriously suggesting dems aren’t better than Hitler 2.0 and his regime? Get real.
Not at all. I'm suggesting that they just be good enough, as opposed to merely being less shit than the GOP.
it's hilarious that in a post about the racist rapist pedophile nazi fascist con man dictator talking about canceling elections, we STILL have people in the thread bitching about DEMS LOL
Yeah because the Dems didn't go after the racist rapist pedophile Nazi fascist con man dictator when they had the fucking power to do so 🤦 because they gotta protect the racist rapist pedophile Nazi fascist elites loyal to their faction of capital 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦
Being better than Republicans?
Better than Republicans is a bar so low it's basically touching the core of the earth. Nah, I mean better than they have been, which is also a subterranean bar.
mmmmm. mmmmm. kick in the groin or a handshake. mmmmm. mmmmm. they are just so similar. I think I prefer the one. slightly. so hard to decide.
Trump is not the hero America needs, but he's the one they deserve.
You are sadly correct