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Donald Trump is leading Kamala Harris by just one point among men, according to a new poll.

The survey, conducted by Outward Intelligence between August 11 and 15, shows that 46 percent of men back Trump compared to Harris' 45 percent.

Among women, Harris was 13 points ahead, on 53 percent to Trump's 40 percent.

The poll surveyed 1,858 likely voters and had a margin of error of +/- 2.3 percent.

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[-] fubo@lemmy.world 205 points 1 year ago

Real Men™ don't vote for rapists.

[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 187 points 1 year ago

Real Men™ rescue puppies:

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 62 points 1 year ago
[-] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 89 points 1 year ago

I have seen his pictures with Lindsay Graham

[-] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

He'd probably shoot it in a gravel pit or something

[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

He passed on that VP and managed to pick a possibly worse one.

[-] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Nor do they vote for weird people, or people with weird VP picks.

[-] RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works 105 points 1 year ago

I'm so glad I transitioned

[-] Orbituary@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

This comment is fucking epic.

[-] Sneptaur@pawb.social 6 points 1 year ago

Le epic meme fam! Pokémon go to the polls!

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

I hope your father, Rip Torn was also glad.

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 77 points 1 year ago

Among women, Harris had a 21 point lead, with 56 percent to Trump's 35 percent.

Oof

[-] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 11 points 1 year ago

But the survey had a margin of error of 2.3%, so it really could be Harris leading Trump also. The wording of this article title is a helping hand for Trump when he is pouring over his printed out "news" his handlers give him every morning.

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Most importantly, a significant proportion of the American population — well beyond what should ever be considered normal or acceptable — consider a sociopathic, convicted criminal, rapist, probable pedophile, who has never worked an honest day in his life, was born with a silver spoon firmly lodged deep inside his asshole, and very obviously suffers from multiple personality and neurological illnesses; they consider this person a viable candidate, when he should be confined to a padded room.

Now ask yourself this! If the Democrats represent freedom and Trump is the greatest threat America has ever faced (HE IS), why do the Democrats tolerate a turnkey totalitarian surveillance apparatus? Why would you watch the country straddle the precipice of fascism, and let a big brother style, gustapo surveillance apparatus, exist for your successor to just take over and command. Only 0.00000001% of your employees have ever stood against your criminal behavior, and you expect us to believe that these people would defend us from a hostile government or adversary?

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[-] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Something doesn't add up then. Outward Intelligence gave Harris a +4 to +6 in their national poll. If she is losing men by 1 and winning women by 21 it suggests that women are either like 3x less likely to vote, or there is some serious +R herding going on.

[-] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 62 points 1 year ago

It is truly sickening that this is even close.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

My gender needs to step it tf up tbh

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

If you take out the stupid men, his support disappears.

[-] Marthirial@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Correct. Men is quite broad (ha ha). Break it down by education and we have a cleared picture.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I know what you mean, but I didn’t mean education. There are well educated people who support Trump. I meant stupid people. If you take out the stupid people, educated or not, you take out all of Trump’s supporters.

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's not a real thing. That's a label you put on people for your own emotional needs. It is something you are projecting, it doesn't exist in the real world.

Fortunately, education level DOES make a big difference.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Stupid is a real thing, but if you really want to be a jerkface, we can call it cognitive rigidity.

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago

Are you seriously saying that stupid people don't exist in the real world? Because that's how it reads and they definitely exist.

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

did you just "not all men" MAGA

[-] RangerJosie@sffa.community 32 points 1 year ago

Not with real men. Harris is winning with real men.

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

I'm ok with co-signing this particular No True Scotsman fallacy.

[-] xenoclast@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago
[-] aasatru@kbin.earth 27 points 1 year ago

As a complete outsider, being a woman in a country where half the men are Trump supporters sounds fucking terrifying.

It’s also kinda terrifying as a dude, tbh.

Note: That in no way diminishes or detracts from any part of what you said.

[-] aasatru@kbin.earth 12 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I think that's a very valid point that I didn't immediately give enough consideration.

[-] PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

As a man, I'm completely embarrassed by what I see out of his male supporters, and I'm baffled by his female supporters when Trump's own wife and daughter don't want anything to do with him.

[-] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

I can assure you it is fucking terrifying no matter what gender you are.

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 3 points 1 year ago

And it's been worse recently with the popularity of misogynists/bigots like Tate and Rogan.

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[-] randon31415@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

How much were undecided, and how much were Kennedy supporters? You just know all those Kennedy nut jobs will come home to roost in Trump's column when he drops out. So it could be as bad as 55 Trump, 45 Harris - or with the error thrown in - 57 Trump 43 Harris.

[-] razorwiregoatlick@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

What the fuck is wrong with men?

[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

What's wrong? Here's an example from this piece: https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/16/politics/black-trump-store-identity-politics

“Because of what happened in the Garden of Eden, there will never be an elected woman – whether she’s Black or White – that would occupy the White House that God would ever stand behind,” he said.

[-] WHYAREWEALLCAPS@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago

If you look at the all the elections of the last 28 years, men, especially white men, have strongly leaned Republican. If you look at 2020 and 2016 the only racial group that voted overwhelmingly for Trump have been white men. The only time men have not had a >1 point support of the Republican candidate were in 2008 and 1996. In 2008, Obama eked out a 1 point lead over McCain while in 1996 Bill Clinton was in the same spot versus Bob Dole, only one point behind.

[-] Eccitaze@yiffit.net 6 points 1 year ago

Jokes and (valid) worries about how many men are still supporting this dumpster fire aside... A poll like this has got to be setting off the fire alarms at Trump campaign HQ and I am giddy as hell to see it. The last time Democrats came this close to winning the overall male vote was 2008. If this margin holds out we could be looking at an absolute blowout (or at least as close as one gets in today's climate). Shame the Senate map means we won't get a 60-seat Senate, though...

[-] WHYAREWEALLCAPS@fedia.io 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, people are looking at this all wrong. These numbers are incredibly close. Trump about a 5 point lead over Biden in 2020 and 8 against Clinton in 2016. Now he has 1 point versus Harris in 2024? Dude is losing, badly.

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[-] snow_bunny@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Thank goddess for the 19th amendment.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

We really just need that twilight zone box that if you press the button you get 10,000 dollars but it kills the previous person who pressed the button.

[-] Routhinator@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Surveyed < 2000 people and thats supposed to be a good voter sample of what country? Dominica?

They probably went and surveyed the Mar-a-lago neighbourhood.

[-] Yeller_king@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

2000 is really solid to achieve a reasonable margin of error. It's a pretty simple formula taught in any basic stats class.

[-] Routhinator@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

It's also far too small to be a reasonable example of voter opinion in a region as large as the US. If this was quantified with a region that the sample is from if might be better. But minimal sample size for making statements as broad as this just makes the stat garbage and exactly the sort of thing media should leave out of articles due to how biased a sample this small could be.

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Critically, that is assuming that the sampling is perfectly random sample of the thing being measured. Political polls in particular are going to struggle since participation is voluntary, motivations for poll participation differs than the both, different levels of anonymity, etc.

[-] WHYAREWEALLCAPS@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago

This isn't the bad thing it sounds like folks. He led Biden by 5 and Clinton by 8 points in the male vote, on average. Having a lead that could be wiped out by the margin of error is nothing. It shows Harris is an even bigger threat than Biden or Clinton were.

[-] SeattleRain@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

She's going to lose. She's a diet Republican just like Joe.

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