• danc4498@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      No, he just made even more headlines. The more headlines he makes, the more votes he gets.

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        2 months ago

        Is that the thinking? Like a child in the back of class, desperate for attention and confused about why other people don’t want to just be obnoxiously loud.

        No, folks don’t see any headline and think “that’s how I will vote.” This is the mental ability of an infant who just got object permanence.

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          2 months ago

          You remember 2016? This is exactly how that year went. All these headlines while Trump’s polling numbers are completely unaffected. It’s 2016 all over again.

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            2 months ago

            Sorry… you think 2016 happened because people heard Trump’s name more than Clinton’s a few days before the election?

            Please do show some evidence to back that up.

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            2 months ago

            As I have said to others, please show evidence that Trump won in 2016 because people heard his name more than Clinton’s a few days before the election.

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              2 months ago

              You just made up a straw man. Did someone say Trump won because of this? All they said was any publicity seems to be good publicity for this shit bag.

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                2 months ago

                I’m not sure what else “the more headlines he gets, the more votes he gets” is supposed to mean other than Trump will win again because of this.

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                  2 months ago

                  That’s concerning. It means you are so biased against the conversation you can’t see a simple difference of opinion as anything but a total counterpoint to your position.

                  More votes. That’s it. Maybe one more, maybe a few thousand. Not winning, not running away with anything. Just a few more votes.

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                    2 months ago

                    Or, you know, I did not know what else that meant.

                    Why do people always think that I’m lying about what I say when I say it?

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          I wish you were right. Unfortunately, there are a bunch of idiot voters out there who just fill in the box next to the name they hear more.

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            2 months ago

            I would like some evidence to support this please. Especially this close to an election.

            I can tell you from personal experience that it sure as fuck didn’t work for Meg Whitman.

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                I could see it working for two candidates people have never heard of. Beyond that, I doubt it.

                To go back to Meg Whitman, she totally inundated California. Every other radio and TV ad was about her. There were posters every place the campaign could think to stick them whether or not it was legal. By election day, everyone was so sick of her that she did not even come close.