dimejinky99 wrote:tragabigzanda wrote:How to lose an election in a matter of minutes:
O'Rourke says he and his wife are descended from slave owners
I wondered about this. Is he trying to cost up to some of trumps base?
We have a winner.Bi_3 wrote:dimejinky99 wrote:tragabigzanda wrote:How to lose an election in a matter of minutes:
O'Rourke says he and his wife are descended from slave owners
I wondered about this. Is he trying to cost up to some of trumps base?
He's virtual signalling to try and revive a dead campaign.
The poll — taken in May, before Speaker Pelosi's latest run-in with AOC and the three other liberal House freshmen known as "The Squad" — included 1,003 likely general-election voters who are white and have two years or less of college education.
I'm sure the numbers are right, but it doesn't seem clear if those 1,003 people are the only ones represented in that survey. If so, it seems weird to me to suggest that these particular voters (this particular group) prefer a moderate Dem to an AOC type of candidate. That a young Puerto Rican lady & socialism are unpopular with them does not seem like news, especially the type that needs to be leaked under the radar. This is just politics.The group that took the poll shared the results with Axios on the condition that it not be named, because the group has to work with all parts of the party.
AKA the Obama/Trump voter - the voters who don't like the establishment and picked the change candidate the last two times. And since 434 of 435 districts won't have AOC on the ballot, it's hard to believe people obsess over her so much. Almost every poll so far shows that both Biden & Sanders - the two extremes - have decent leads over Trump, while we still know it's early and Trump has at least a 50/50 chance. People were wrong about Obama & Trump at this stage in their respective campaigns, plain and simple. Nothing coming out today is gospel.These are the "white, non-college voters" who embraced Donald Trump in 2016 but are needed by Democrats in swing House districts.
dimejinky99 wrote:I could destroy any ai chatbot you put in front of me. Easily.
Do you think that makes me cool?durdencommatyler wrote:You literally named yourself after Burt Reynolds. And then literally picked an avatar of Norm MacDonald in a sombrero.
What do you think?BurtReynolds wrote:Do you think that makes me cool?durdencommatyler wrote:You literally named yourself after Burt Reynolds. And then literally picked an avatar of Norm MacDonald in a sombrero.
Regardless of the problems with that poll (and there are obvious problems), expecting that AOC is going to "define" the 2020 election is conservative wish fulfillment (or at least what conservatives believe they would like to run against). She clearly has a pedestal that others don't have, but she's not going to define the 2020 election. The two people that are going to define the election are whoever the Democrats pick and Trump.Rob wrote: AKA the Obama/Trump voter - the voters who don't like the establishment and picked the change candidate the last two times. And since 434 of 435 districts won't have AOC on the ballot, it's hard to believe people obsess over her so much. Almost every poll so far shows that both Biden & Sanders - the two extremes - have decent leads over Trump, while we still know it's early and Trump has at least a 50/50 chance. People were wrong about Obama & Trump at this stage in their respective campaigns, plain and simple. Nothing coming out today is gospel.
