• @disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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    441 day 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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      1 day ago

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

      Edit: Updated to appease those saying 44%+ of those polled who say they support Trump is not an accurate reflection of Americans at-large. For reference, Trump won 46.1% of the popular vote in 2016 and 46.8% of the popular vote in 2020.

      • @Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        41 day 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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          41 day ago

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

          It seems insane to us “insiders” too.

        • @TheTetrapod@lemmy.world
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          21 day 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.

        • @grue@lemmy.world
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          21 day 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!

          • @michaelmrose@lemmy.world
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            18 hours ago

            Wait until you find out that 30-40% of Americans believe god magicked the universe into being as is less than 10k years ago and fossils are from noahs flood in which he saved 2 of every animal in a boat the size of texas.

      • @GrindingGears@lemmy.ca
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        31 day 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.

        • @KenLin
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          There is no way the pollsters don’t know this and account for it