• rbesfe@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Any other candidate just wouldn’t have the name recognition. Millions of Americans just vote for the incumbent regardless of who it is

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      5 months ago

      If Biden gets out of the way (of his own accord or not) and somebody else becomes the nominee, they will have name recognition immediately. I promise you.

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        5 months ago

        They really won’t. I think as someone on Lemmy you’re probably overestimating how much the average person pays attention to politics

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          That is how public perception works. Anyone who became the Democratic nominee between now and the election would instantly be famous. Their name would become a household name within a week. There’s no real way to prove this, but it just seems silly to think otherwise.

          Most Americans do watch the news. The link below is a statistic just about cable news. If you included digital news, the numbers would be even higher. Here’s my source 👈😎 But as you can see 72% of Americans watch cable news.

          I hope that helps ☺️

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            Right, anyone who thinks their name and the attention wouldn’t go viral overnight is clueless. It will go something like this:

            BREAKING NEWS: Joe Biden to RESIGN FROM THE PRESIDENCY; ENDORSES GRETECHEN WHITMER

            For 5 weeks:

            MEDIA: omfg omfg omfg omfg

            SOCIAL MEDIA: omfg omfg omfg omfg

            MILLIONS GOOGLE:: “Who is Gretchen Whitmer!?”

            OBAMA, BIDEN, DNC rally behind Whitmer

            WHITMER’S POLLING & NAME-RECOGNITION: Skyrockets

            At convention:

            MEDIA: Omfg omfg omfg

            GRASSROOTS: ENERGIZED.

            Swing-voters: Happy to vote for someone young and a fresh face because we’re America and we like new less boring shit.

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          5 months ago

          I hope you find a way to be happy one day stranger. It’s got to be miserable being that angry all the time. 🫂 I don’t think you find the release you need being rude to strangers online but where ever it actually is I hope you find it.☺️

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      3 months ago

      Hey now that we have the benefit of hindsight I just wanted to show you how wrong you were and how confident you can be that youre right when you’re so so wrong please be a little more open-minded going forward and listen to people😏

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      5 months ago

      Is this the new liberal bible prayer each night? Keep telling yourself god is real and he loves you Biden will win because he’s a “good” choice for the idiots who don’t know better?