While election almost certain to be decided by swing states, pollsters explain why growth in national polls is meaningful

While election almost certain to be decided by swing states, pollsters explain why growth in national polls is meaningful

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  • JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 months ago

    The electoral college favors Republicans but the narrative that “no one really votes for Republicans” is fucking bullshit

    Yes, they tend to lose the popular vote but even then % wise, it’s way closer than it should be.

    The way you phrase it, makes it seem like they are a fringe group that through cheating manages to win even if they only have half as many votes as the Democrats.

    They are popular even with, or perhaps actually because of, all of the racism, sexism and fascist tendencies. Do not downplay that.

    • nifty@lemmy.world
      11·
      2 months ago

      Last time Republicans won the popular vote was because of 9/11, so 2004, but they always lost otherwise since 1988. The racism and sexism are open wounds from the civil rights movement in the 60s and the women libs movement in the 70s. Most of the red voting states are super low population, so there’s no love for republicans other than their gerrymandering and electoral college fixing.

      I am pretty sure Trump is winning it in 2024 because of the way some of the swing states are removing access to voting. It’s such a fucking fraud

      • JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world
        21·
        2 months ago

        That doesn’t change anything I said. A significant portion of your population votes for them. Almost half of the voting population votes for them. You can’t ignore these facts.

            • nifty@lemmy.world
              11·
              2 months ago

              It’s less about favoring Republicans and more about the fact that the U.S. does not have ranked choice voting, or more than two viable parties, so it becomes an all or nothing team sport