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While election almost certain to be decided by swing states, pollsters explain why growth in national polls is meaningful


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[-] paf0@lemmy.world 117 points 1 year ago

It only matters in the swing states. The ones where they're trying to purge the voter registrations, sometimes successfully. The system is broken.

[-] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago

The Republican campaign strategy: “cheat to win, win to cheat.”

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Down ballot matters everywhere.

[-] paf0@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Only if people are allowed to vote when they show up

[-] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

It still matters... that's the problem.

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[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago
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[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 115 points 1 year ago

Vote anyway. Be part of a sweep.

[-] Moah 56 points 1 year ago

Vote for every office, not just the president

[-] DokPsy@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

In TX, Theodore "I left my dog snowflake at home while the state was freezing and without power for a family trip to Cancun then blamed my wife and children for the trip" Cruz is currently up for defeat.

He only just barely won against Beto O'rourke last time. Colin Allred is closing in and needs all the help he can get.

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

I would love nothing more than to see that snake pick his bags and fuck the fuck off.

[-] KinglyWeevil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

I mean, personally, I'd rather he get hit by a bus but survive the initial hit, and then dragged for a ways before dying. But I also really dislike him.

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[-] essell@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

I think she'll be busy enough with one job

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago

Make it Trump's most embarrassing loss to date!

[-] Wiz@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

Followed by a jail sentence!

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

A sweep will also make it harder for the inevitable attempt of republicans to invalidate the election.

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

end this silver spoon narcissist retiree's bullshit. Please vote

[-] Draegur@lemm.ee 81 points 1 year ago

For fucks sake this should not be tight or close. It should be a gods damned CURB STOMP that destroys the Republican party for the rest of history DAMMIT.

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Ozzy Osbourne would be a safer choice than this guy

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[-] lemmylommy@lemmy.world 74 points 1 year ago

Don’t trust polls. Vote.

[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago

Doesn't matter. Go vote. Complacency gave the orange toddler his first term. Just sayin.

[-] Phegan@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

We need to win by a lot more than razor thin margins, republicans are going to try and steal this one.

[-] vividspecter@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

And you want to win by a huge margin so they can actually implement good policies, and not have to barter with Republicans and the likes of Manchin.

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[-] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

Don't fucking listen to the polls. GO VOTE!

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 year ago
[-] luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 year ago
[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Shutup and vote.

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

Yesterday, I saw a few of donnie's loyalists standing out on a corner at a place with steady traffic, trying to get cars and pedestrians to honk/give them a thumb's up. In the hot sun. No idea if they were paid or not. They were way up in years and probably could be doing almost anything else but that. But these people love dimbulb donnie, no matter how much of a disaster he'll be. The worse off it is for the country, they'll cheer it on, as long as they believe donnie is going to hurt the right people.

Just made me look forward to filling out my ballot all the more. But definitely, everyone: go vote. Don't believe the polls.

[-] OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago
[-] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As a non-american this scares me.

What the fuck does Trump have to offer to the average citizen? He is basing his campaign on

  • tax cuts for the extra rich
  • iMmIgRaNtS (who Harris wants to stop anyways)
  • licking the ass of Putin and Nethanyau
[-] OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

As an American, this scares me.

I try to share this site when national pole articles come out, because these are the only numbers that matter in our election. It doesn't matter how blue California is if they rat-fuck the elections in the swing states.

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

Trumps pov is easy to understand, and so he’s easy to buy. You only need to stroke Trumps ego and speak his language and he’s on your side. That’s why Republican politicians think they can control him, except he’s too neurotic and unstable, likely because of narcissism made worse by dementia.

No one really votes for Republicans, that’s why they have to gerrymander and keep the electoral college alive. There’s like maybe 35%-37% of the American pop. which really supports their pov. The swing states are only ever an issue because of voter disenfranchisement, not because people actually swing. Very few people actually swing vote.

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

AND HERE THEY COME INTO THE BACK CORNER IT'S TRUMP IN THE LEAD WITH HARRIS SURGING UP THE INSIDE!!

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is that like rubber bands, it's the same amount only stretched? Like we changed the scales on the graph to make it look bigger.
Is it really normal to write like that headline in English? Because to me it sounds stupid.
Seems increases would be the "normal" word to use.

[-] MagicShel@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Stretching a lead is a sports term. Most commonly in racing. Sports metaphors are common in politics.

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

Semantics but I mean it does actually indicate more people polling for her instead of Turnip so it's not stretching in that sense.

I think they use that word because in American politics things are so polarized that it really feels like any gain really does seem like stretching the tiny group of people that can be won over like a rubber band.

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