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Majority of Democrats think Kamala Harris would make a good president, AP-NORC poll shows (apnews.com)

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[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 96 points 4 months ago

Honestly. I don’t give a fuck at this point. Just give me a D who can get to 270. Fuck the republican traitor filth.

[-] pjwestin@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago

People are begging for that D. Just give them the D!

[-] CodingCarpenter@lemm.ee 12 points 4 months ago

What's 270?

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

The only number that matters. Unfortunately, the number of people that want a President doesn't matter in our goofy, slave-era Electoral College.

[-] UnpledgedCatnapTipper 17 points 4 months ago

Electoral college minimum majority to win the election.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

The number of electoral college votes to win. Each state has a number of votes based on the census population data.

270 is half the EC.

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[-] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 39 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Is it sad that to be a "good" president, all one has to do is beat trump at the polls (ok the electoral college), and then do nothing else?

A great president would beat trump then roll back the immunity ruling (somehow ;) ) codify roe v Wade, and resign.

[-] zigmus64@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago

Why would they resign and present an undue opportunity for the far right to come to power again?

[-] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 months ago

Would make the vice the president, who then could/would pardon the resignee, making anything the resignee did an official act, and if not then the pardon is the official act.

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[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

I kinda wanna see someone paint the White House in tie dye. White is so…. Boring.

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

What are you on about ?

Why are you dragging the goalposts down the field ?

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[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 27 points 4 months ago

A new poll from the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that about 6 in 10 Democrats believe Kamala Harris would do a good job in the top slot. About 2 in 10 Democrats don’t believe she would, and another 2 in 10 say they don’t know enough to say.

The undecided can be convinced during the campaign.

But I doubt I'll start thinking Kamala would be a good president...

I do think that she'll be able to beat Trump in the election at least. Which is better than Joe.

[+] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

What has she done to make you feel she is a psychopath?

psychopath

/sī′kə-păth″/

noun

A person who engages repeatedly in criminal and antisocial behavior without remorse or empathy for those victimized.
A person with a personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, cunning, manipulating, glibness, exploiting, heedlessness, arrogance, delusions of grandeur, sexual promiscuity, low self-control, disregard for morality, lack of acceptance of responsibility, callousness, and lack of empathy and remorse. Such an individual may be especially prone to violent and criminal offenses.
A person diagnosed with antisocial or dissocial personality disorder.

[-] TheAlbatross 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I don't know the thoughts of the other user and idk if this makes her a psychopath, but she did oversee an effort to deny prisoners parole just to keep them in California's prisoner firefighter program to combat wildfires.

The program itself is fairly repugnant to begin with, as the prisoners don't really have a choice in the matter, it's tantamount to slavery, and her trying to keep people locked up to bolster it is vile. While California needed more firefighters to combat their wild fire issues, I don't think slavery is the right solution.

Does that make her a psychopath? I'm not sure. Our definition of anti-social behavior is fairly restricted to what is legal and what isn't and what she did was legal. But it damn sure is without empathy or remorse and, in a just world, promoting slavery would be considered antisocial behavior, in my humble opinion.

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[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

Yeah, "not 20 years past retirement age" is a pretty low bar to clear, but at least we did it.

[-] pezhore@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The undecided can be convinced during the campaign.

What campaign? The election is in 3.5 months. Every day that Biden doesn't step down is one less day for Harris to start ramping up her campaign efforts.

Also, please someone do a poll of the undecided who have strong feelings towards...

women
minorities
prosecutors

Although most may fall firmly in the Trump camp, I'm betting there are some undecided who think that women absolutely should not be president.

Not to mention waffling Republicans may be more incentivized to vote if the Democrat isn't an old white dude.

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[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 24 points 4 months ago

Can these fucking articles actually link to the data? I appreciate including the sampling information but right now I really want to see the actual questions being asked because push-polling absolutely has been used by some of the other outlets.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Okay I found the poll and it's fucking awful...

https://apnorc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/July-2024-W1-topline.pdf

For Approve, Disapprove, Undecided, Null they have:

Harris: 30, 49, 20, 1

Newsom: 17, 31, 51, 1

Whitmer: 15, 21, 64, 1

Harris clearly has the best name recognition but 49% disapproval is insanely high. And they didn't include any other potential candidates like AOC, Warren, or Whitehouse.

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[-] blahsay@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago

49% disapproval rating.....ye gods that's high. Pick literally anyone else. Even Biden yeesh

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I am voting party not person this election.

Get the fuck on board. We gonna out party that cult.

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[-] tinfoilhat@lemmy.ml 15 points 4 months ago

I'd pay big money to see a prosecutor debate a criminal.

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 10 points 4 months ago

And I would love to watch her smear the crap out of Trump at a debate.

[-] aseriesoftubes@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

No chance Trump debates again if it’s against Harris. He’s way too scared of a gasp woman making him look bad.

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[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Based on what I've seen most people could make a good president if they pick good folks to give them advice and don't act like douchebags.

[-] anticolonialist@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

She needs to go with Biden

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[-] TacticsConsort@yiffit.net 6 points 4 months ago

Just a UK guy here, but she does seem like a pretty sensible swap. I know there's some controversy around her because of her time in the police system, but I haven't heard anything bad about her at all during her time as VP, she's basically been off the radar (compare that shit to Pence).

A couple good speeches here and there, some reasonable policies to offer people, and Biden's endorsement, and you've got a really solid replacement.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Yeah, it's not like it takes a lot to beat trump

We just keep running terrible candidates against him

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