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Doesn't matter what polls say, doesn't matter what the media says, don't be complacent -- go vote. Go vote. Go vote. Go vote. I can't stress this enough, this kind of bullshit puff piece exists solely to keep people from voting by lulling into a false sense of security.
I don't care if there's a poll that says 100% of the country hates one or the other, GO VOTE. Ignore these bullshit polls, they are completely and utterly worthless.
Not only that, volunteer or donate if you can. Even if you only can spare 5 minutes or $5 a week, organizations like Vote Save America will help you direct your energy or 100% of your donations where they will do the most good.
I might donate if they didn't spam donation pleas at everyone who's donated in the past decade.
Political messages are not subject to the same spam limitations as regular marketing messages. It's "political speech", so for some reason they can shout it at you constantly.
I completely feel your pain.
https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/table-18-states-with-all-mail-elections
If you live in one of these 18 states, don't even bother going anywhere to vote. I get my primary ballot, and my general ballot in the mail just over one month before election day. As long as it has a postmark on or before election day, (don't wait till election day) it is a valid vote.
If you don't live in one of the 18, flood your state legislature with calls, emails, and visits to their office in support of mail in voting measures. This is so much better for everyone.
I don't have to stand in a line, I don't have to remember an exact day. I get the envelope and within a week or two I sit down with the ballot, and the ballot guide, and then start looking for news stories about the candidates that are not from the current campaign year. It helps remind me that, oh yeah, this Democrat decided to embezzle a bunch of money a couple years back, better check the competition out. It normally only takes me a few hours, but I have their vote history, and everything else I need to try to pick someone that isn't gonna screw anyone over.
Mail in voting is the best. I love it so much. It's a crime that not everyone has the option.
1000% this.
You are correct and this is why we never pay attention to polls. I dont even know why this one was posted.
Propaganda
Pokemon go fucking vote.
An ABC News/Ipsos survey of 536 U.S. adults, conducted between March 8-9, found that 29 percent have a favorable view of the former president compared to 59 percent who view him unfavorably.
Sounds great till:
Some 33 percent viewed the incumbent favorably to 54 percent who viewed him unfavorably. In November, a similar poll put his unfavorability rating at 50 percent with his favorability unchanged, while in prior polls the two ratings have modulated around the same numbers.
We're running two incredibly unpopular candidates...
Only 62% of voters approve of either candidate
Our system is broken
Still gonna vote for the one that hasn’t explicitly said they want to be a dictator….
I hope everyone does.
But Bidens favorable numbers are stuck, and unfavourably keeps increasing.
We're going to see a low turnout election. And thats only good for republicans.
The more people vote, the better Dems do. Which is why we shouldn't be running a candidate less than a third of voters approve of.
If we're stuck with Biden, his and his campaign need to at least start portraying him in better light, even if the change isn't real.
If Biden stops funding Israel's genocide, he'd win the election in a blowout, I just can't see him doing it. He'll risk trump winning instead.
So he's got to do a shit ton of little things instead of that one big easy thing.
If Biden stops funding Israel’s genocide, he’d win the election in a blowout,
Echo chamber in action. Democrats are 50/50 on supporting Israel's genocide. Independents favor Israel even more.
I’ve been saying this more and more, but ever since 2016, the system has gone away from “vote for who you support” and more towards “vote against what you don’t support” for the presidential elections. We have somehow managed to have a good chunk of the US view these actually really important political processes as nothing more than blind fanaticism for “their team” - and that goes for both Team D and Team R.
Except one of the teams is seeking to completely destroy democracy, and the other is not.
I don't think there's ever been an US election between people so unpopular.
Calling it now, Trump loses the popular vote but wins the electoral vote. After which we will get opinion pieces on NYT about how this is all for our benefits and getting rid of the electoral college will somehow make things worse
"It's only right and proper that rural voters [1] count more and get to select Presidents and decide majorities in the House and Senate." -thinkpieces in elite "liberal media", probably. [1] - aka, "the heartland", aka "real America".
That's nice. Still vote like your life depends on it, because it probably does.
After all, polls only matter if you actually vote
And a good portion of those 29 percent are deplorables, by the way. Hillary was right.
100% of those people are deplorables
A basket of them, one might say.
An ABC News/Ipsos survey of 536 U.S. adults
Only 536? How is this newsworthy?
That's how random samples work. A small number like that is enough to get a decent estimate of the entire population. Give ar take a percentage point if three. That is, if the sample is actually random. That's actually near impossible to guarantee, as people who pick up their phones (or answer their door, or walk in the street and allow folks to ask them a question, or answer a letter) are different from those who don't.
Still, that's not a great sample for a nationwide poll. Many are closer to 2000 or even 6000.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Donald Trump continues to have a low favorability score among Americans, new polling shows, despite being the likely Republican nominee after winning the lion's share of primaries and seeing off his only remaining rival.
It came after Trump secured all but one of the primaries on Super Tuesday—giving him 1,075 out of 1,215 delegates he needs to become the presumptive Republican nominee—which prompted former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley to drop out of the race to leave him unopposed.
That rating dipped to 25 percent—with 61 percent viewing him unfavorably—at the start of April last year, immediately after he became the first president in U.S. history to be indicted with criminal charges, which he denies, in New York.
The same ABC/Ipsos poll found that President Joe Biden, who is on course to be renominated by the Democratic Party, is also viewed as similarly unpopular, though his unfavorability rating is slightly lower.
But the president has brushed off queries about his physical and mental health, telling a news conference in February that his "memory is fine" and "I know what the hell I'm doing."
Recent polling also shows that nearly half of U.S. adults think Trump, 77, is too old to serve another term, and the former president has also faced questions about his mental agility.
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Next up, poll shows how popular Trump is. 🙄