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Trump Suggests U.S. ‘Shouldn’t Even Have’ November Midterms (www.forbes.com)

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 39 points 2 months ago (5 children)

44%. That’s the share of voters who said they would back a Democratic candidate in the midterms, according to an Economist/YouGov poll conducted Jan. 9-12, versus 40% who would back the Republican candidate. The poll is in line with other recent surveys on which party is favored in November, with an average of polls by RealClear Polling finding Democrats have a 4.3% advantage over Republicans as of Thursday.

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.

[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

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

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...

[–] ozymandias@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Peehole@piefed.social 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

YouGov has published a page about its polling methodology. Polling groups abandoned the random telephone survey decades ago, at this point.

[–] Peehole@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago

Cool, in my country they still do that unfortunately.

[–] ozymandias@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

that sample size is still way too small

[–] FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But the headline creates clicks and engagement and that's what matters most.

[–] ozymandias@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

🤑💰💸💵💶💷

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I mean have the Dems just tried being better?

[–] jodanlime@midwest.social 19 points 2 months ago

No actually, they haven't!

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean have the Dems just tried ~~being better~~ ?

There, fixed.

[–] Mossheart@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

They've tried nothing and they're all out of ideas!

[+] the_q@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

folks want them to be perfect

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

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe the Republicans can GTFO of the way

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Are you seriously suggesting dems aren’t better than Hitler 2.0 and his regime? Get real.

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 months ago

Not at all. I'm suggesting that they just be good enough, as opposed to merely being less shit than the GOP.

[–] U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 months ago

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 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Being better than Republicans?

[–] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] radiofreebc@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Trump is not the hero America needs, but he's the one they deserve.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

You are sadly correct

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Even the mere suggestion should be impeachable.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Abso fuckin lutely

[–] InevitableWaffles@midwest.social 8 points 2 months ago

Oh, look. The thing we've been bellowing since before he got elected is happening.... Again. I'd trade being right for once for the less shitty timeline. Please?

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Democrats don't have until elections to manifest a palpable resistance.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Dementia addled old man rants about canceling the election from his memory care facility. See that’s how easy that is? In other news South Korea put execution on the table for their Trump.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago

He’s got a point. They could just keep running the rigged system for decades and no-one would question it - this would force the issue.

[–] m3t00@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago

revoke the right to life

[–] radiofreebc@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

The US won't have them. 2024 were the last elections the US will see for a while.