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I Don't Believe This Weekend's Scary Poll Numbers
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I’m seeing a lot of what looks like famous last words in this thread. I just don’t know where you people get this confidence in the American people from.
Same. 2016 and covid were just a little taste of how low we can go. I don't doubt that it can get worse.
And it likely will, as more states ignore popular vote, and force women to either risk their lives, with sweeping bans
This, 100%. Americans were the people dumb enough to elect Trump. They haven't changed that much in 8 years. All bets are off.
People also forget that he barely lost in 2020. Frightening.
He lost pretty convincingly. It was only 3 years ago. You don't remember Biden voters lining up to vote early, during a worldwide pandemic, just to kick Trump while he was down.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election
I was referring to the popular vote, not the sick joke that is the electoral college. He got like 48% of the 170 million-ish votes in 2020.
Why would you care about that? That doesn't decide the election. Anyway, he lost that by 4.5% (7 million votes). Biden's percentage (51.3%) was the highest for a challenger to an incumbent president since 1932. Trump got completely stomped.
The outside world cares, as it tells a lot about the US as a nation. Nearly half of you are batshit insane, at minimum.
I care about who the American people voted for, not an illegitimate EC win. And 7m is nothing out of 170m, he should have lost by 80% but he didn't, hence this country is fucked.
I will never understand the proclivity to just make numbers and shit up when the sum of all human knowledge is at your finger tips.
The numbers are readily available, it's not hard to find.
He lost the popular vote, twice, by millions.
Don't blame all Americans.
Kind of hard for them to be last words when the election is still a year off
This. People seem to think the voting public has a memory. As ever, these early analyses are meaningless.