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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Because the people who own everything want him to win. It's that simple.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Have you seen some of the wishy-washy mouth breathers in the "undecided" focus groups? I'm embarrassed to admit we're the same species. The Trump cultists might be insane, brain-poisoned, sociopathic, fundamentalist idiots but at least they have the capacity to make a bad decision. The independents can't seem to make any decision. It if they do, it's based on some random nonsense or impulse. I dunno if they've got learning disorders or are just sad windsocks, but the fact that they are the ones who get to decide if America dies next month is terrifying.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

wishy-washy mouth breathers in the “undecided” focus groups

This website is deteriorating into Democrats insulting non-Democrats constantly.

You're party is simply unpopular as it caters to "moderates" and then has to spend an absurd amount of money to convince regular folks that the Democrats are the best those folks are allowed to have. No amount of memes and insults is going to change this simple truth.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

This is a website?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

If you're posting this right now because of recent poll data, It's because Republican companies are creating their own polls just so that they can claim the race is closer than it is.

Of course we don't know who's going to win. The election hasn't happened yet. But any speculation about changes in the last few days should be taken with a grain of salt, because this is a playbook that was trotted out two years ago and it's back again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

I don't really understand it. I guess it's because a close race drives turnout and they think their supporters need more encouragement than ours do?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago

Because one side wants to own the libs and that's all they want to do. While one side is just as bad, they want to own the population to get away with crimes and the other side is never taken seriously as it's full of gas huffing paint-chip addicts.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Most people are poorer today in the day-to-day than they were 4 years ago.

That's why. It's that simple.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That, and they forgot that they were poorer 4 years ago than they were 8 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

American voters do seem to have very short memories.

Even faced with actual data that indicates that the economy has consistently performed better under Democrats over the past 75 years, they still pretend that the party of the oligarchs is somehow going to solve the problems of the working class.

Donald Trump is very open about his own anti-labor policies as an employer, yet the very people who hate being screwed over by their bosses worship him.

I don't understand how anyone can function with this level of cognitive dissonance.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

For the same reason I got temp banned from this community. People only need to be slightly against the circlejerk to be pushed away from a community, and this creates a "well, might as well let everything burn" counter-resentment. I can't vote in the US, but part of that reason is having prioritized society and consequences over ego and money. if I could I would vote against Trump, but it seems you guys are stuck doing it, and you reap what you sow. Stop being surprised pikachu-faced.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

In addition to all the things said elsewhere in this thread, younger demographics are less likely to engage with polling, which is likely effecting the outcome of the polls. The emails/texts/phone calls/etc just get ignored, so that leaves the older generations as the only ones who actually answer.

I know the polls try to take that into account, but it's never going to be possible to do so perfectly.

So tldr: fuck the polls go vote, and make sure your friends/family votes

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Also worth noting that younger people are less likely to vote

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

That is true, however the last few elections have seen strong increases in youth voter turnout. And that makes sense given the now broadened popularity of mail in voting, the climate crisis, etc.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

why is this race so close?

Two words: Electoral College.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

The electoral college takes it from a 45-55 to a 50-50. But what on God's green earth gets him that 45% of the votes?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

People who only loosely follow politics but liked the Obama economy that trump inherited and only watch Fox News. "He can't possibly be worse than a demoncrat, he's the same party as Reagan! It's really sad how the media slanders him"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

some people are misogynistic, others like how much he represents the average American (dancing away the difficult problems).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago (5 children)

If you go by the polls, the two candidates are within margin of error of each other, or very close. We're looking at a possibility that Trump would not only win the EC, but the overall popular vote, as well.

The EC is not the only issue at play. Millions of Americans either like Trump or are willing to handwave his behavior away rather than vote for a Democrat.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 hours ago

Republicans don’t want the country to be educated.

People with college degrees are overwhelmingly voting Harris. Republicans know that if we make the country smarter they’re screwed

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The electoral collage an years of disinformation and latent bigotry plus corporate greed screwing us all over...did I miss anything?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

Cult of personality?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 hours ago

Pretty sure it's the economy. Despite the fact that the US economy has been reasonably well managed, by international standards, people are hurting -- which is the perfect recipe for changing the governing party. Telling people that things aren't as bad as they think they are makes you sound out of touch.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Race is close because the news media has a vested interest in it being close, so they are very selective to not report on anything that could crush trump out of the running. because contention and conflict drives viewership and ratings. So does another Trump presidency, and the media has dropped all pretense on who their preferential candidate is for that reason.

Which is why they spent a month harping on the mass hallucination of Bidens supposed mental incompetence, yet havent done so much as very briskly brush by the same topic on trumps very obvious, very public, very recorded decline. or his increasingly nazi-like rhetoric. or him doing anything that would have anyone else out of the race if it was reported on properly

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Or because most major news outlets are owned by the billionaires that want those sweet sweet trump tax cuts?

Fox News is the preferred station by older republican audiences. They're also the most consistently voting. So all the propaganda they push gets swallowed due to the lack of journalistic integrity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Because "Information Age" misses a prefix, simple as.

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