This stood out to me:
The poll comes also as Republicans hold a slight partisan edge over Democrats, which shows that 45% of Americans are Republican or lean-Republican, while 42% are Democrat or lean-Democratic, per Gallup.
That’s a change from previous years, including in 2022, when an equal number of Americans said they consider themself a Republican or a Democrat.
Democrats held a partisan edge over Republicans in 2020, 2018 and 2016, per the average of Gallup party affiliation polls from those years.
IIts like watching an alcoholic drink themselves to seath
The USA votes it’s president in with the Electoral College. Every poll talking about “voters … tie … blah …blah …blah” doesn’t mean shit, cause the voters don’t get to pick the president. Their representatives do. And guess what, their representatives don’t have to represent them. They can vote however they want. They can even get elected and then switch parties to the bad guys team. Also, fuck the GOP.
This poll is crap
“In the half century of modern presidential primaries, no candidate who led his or her nearest rival by at least 20 points at this stage has ever lost a party nomination,” NYT’s Nate Cohn writes.
That makes sense, it would probably be part of the reason why DeSantis’s former backers are dropping off. He severely overestimated how much the average Conservative cares about “wokeness,” and it bit him in the ass.
I’ve been feeling like I’ve been living in a different reality for almost a decade at this point. The world just doesn’t make fucking sense at all.
Yup. Before the Trump cult, I never truly understood how Hitler could have come to power. Now I totally get it.
Trump’s followers have stayed loyal to him through every deplorable moment: the pussy grabbing, mocking the disabled, the Muslim ban, kidnapping children at the border, collusion with Russia, extorting Ukraine, hush money to a porn star, stealing from charity, lying about an election, staging an insurrection, stealing classified documents, civil liability for rape … Not to mention lying about covid, and botching the covid response and killing hundreds of thousands who could have lived, all while utterly destroying the economy.
I think it’s pretty unreal that everything that has happened in the wake of the 2020 election and January 6th and Roe and so much more has apparently only cemented people in their partisanship. Absolutely wild.
My theory is that many westerners in our current era have effectively replaced traditional religion with shallow political ideology.
So instead of going to church so they can be surrounded by fellow believers and hear a sermon telling them that their faith is the one true way and that every evil is rightly blamed on the loathsome unbelievers and heretics, they go online so they can be surrounded by fellow believers and hear a sermon telling them that their faith is the one true way and that every evil is rightly blamed on the loathsome unbelievers and heretics.
Seriously.
As a Republican… we don’t like DeSantis because he’s a career politician. Republicans don’t like career politicians.
(Yes, that means we don’t like most republicans in office)
I figured that would take a backseat to your love of attacking civil rights, harming minorities, and installing a Christian nationalist state. Trump did have some wins in that department, but DeSantis would certainly be more affective in that regards.
No problem with a rapist and traitor being charged under the espionage act?
Biden?
Please don’t act like your party or its voters have any logical consistency. We’ve been paying attention.
As a former Republican, I call bullshit. The longest serving members of the Senate are Republicans, and one is your party’s leader in the Senate. You guys love constantly re-electing your fossils just as much as the Dems do.
Just because people are voting for them doesn’t necessarily mean they want them there. It just means they’d rather have a Republican there than a Democrat.
The fossils are winning the primaries too. They don’t get a chance to run against Dems if you choose non-career Republicans over them in the primaries. You generally don’t just like the dems dont.
Give one example of what the Republicans have done that you support
I don’t support many republicans but I like that they don’t let emotion control their decisions
This has to be a joke response, right?
lemmy.world/u/KoofNoof seems like as good as any to block.
