• disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    It’s only close because of our broken electoral process that gives land more influence than citizens. He didn’t even win the popular vote for his first term.

    • tootoughtoremember@lemmy.world
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      19 hours ago

      National polling has Kamala up by +6 at best. Seems like 44%+ of Americans seem comfortable and supportive of Trump. The fact that it’s that close at a national level, with all Haitians eating cats rhetoric, still seems insane to an outsider.

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        18 hours ago

        Hilary was polling at roughly the same numbers as close as two weeks before that election he won back in 2016, if I remember correctly. It was looking like a clean sweep for her, and it was anything but. So don’t get comfortable yet.

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        19 hours ago

        Most polls are performed by calling landlines. The majority of people with landlines are elderly or own businesses.

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        19 hours ago

        It’s not 44 percent of Americans. It’s 44 percent of the people poled. I can guarantee that number is skewed because a ton of left leaning people wouldn’t bother wasting their time not getting paid to answer some pole. I know my friends and I are in that boat.

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          18 hours ago

          Don’t pollsters account for this? There’s a reason why polling still exists and is talked about, the final results do reflect reality to some degree.

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          18 hours ago

          The point is, anything more than negligible is fucking nuts!

          Even if it’s 44% of just idiot luddite conservatives, that’s still 44% of idiot luddite conservatives too many!

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          19 hours ago

          It’s 44% of all those people polled who are registered voters.

          It seems insane to us “insiders” too.