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Wait, just yesterday young voters didn’t like Biden? I’m beginning to think that maybe the news is all made up 🤪
Liking Biden and voting for Biden can be two separate things.
This is very true
Still true, no one likes Biden. The alternative just happens to be an evil dictator.
I don't think that is true. It's like saying you don't like a Honda Accord because Ferraris exist. Sure you want everything, but you'll still appreciate the Accord over the Nike Express.
Its the difference of sitting in an ugly car VS sticking an industrial wood chipper up my ass and turning it on. Ill take the ugly car.
Sure. Biden at least does SOME good. He's not a Bernie or the shakeup we wanted. But it's far better than the Cheeto.
Sabata hates ugly cars! How dare you make fun my mom's old Chevy Cavalier!
It's a fallacy of polling. They only had two choices here. The correct interpretation is they prefer him over Trump, but do not like him.
If we had ranked ballot this would be my vote:
I don’t like Biden much either, but a tree stump is just unkind. We needed Bernie Sanders, not another TV celebrity. (I do love me some John though)
Love John, but he won't do it. He's said in multiple interviews that his place is outside the establishment generating the public will to act, which he couldn't do as a politician. I don't blame him. He seems to be more effective at getting change done than most senators or even presidents.
If Biden were to drop out there's a long list of people who really don't have the clout to galvanize a winning coalition on such short notice. The list of people who do and could win is one person long:
Stephen Colbert might be on that list too. And honestly, Harris would probably work for the same reasons as Biden.
Wait.. Tree Stump is running?
I read an article earlier this week that actually explains this. They had a result that young people preferred Trump to Biden -- but when they narrowed in on likely voters, it flipped to Biden. They noted that the individuals who preferred Trump tended to not vote in 2020.
Make of this what you will. I'm not entirely sure myself how to interpret this.
Which is funny, because I read almost the opposite. These people are just making everything up.
Pft of course haha
Polling companies need to figure out a new strategy. Their current methodology isn't working. For a poll to be accurate it needs to be a simple random sample. It's tricky to do, but clearly what we have now is insufficient.
Not made up. Just a large population.
I could write an article about how Biden is really a cat and find people on the street to provide quotes for it.
So you're saying it's not literally made up, but effectively made up?
Unless it’s literary, then it’s both?