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[-] ptz@dubvee.org 108 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

A new poll suggests Kamala Harris, if leading the Democratic presidential ticket, could beat Donald Trump in the popular vote.

Emphases mine.

Just a reminder that Hillary won the popular vote by about 2.9 million yet we got Trump anyway because of the electoral college.

I hate that the stakes are so high and we're at the mercy of swing state voters who are still undecided at this point. As for myself, I'll be sticking with the candidate that has already beaten Trump once.

(Laughs nervously)

[-] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

Yeah, it's like... no shit, few of us expect Democrats to lose the popular vote unless our guy does something like bribes a pornstar or commits fraud or something.

[-] Kolrami@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

few of us expect Democrats to lose the popular vote

Anything is possible. Long before the debate, national polling for Biden has been significantly worse than he performed in 2020 and Clinton in 2016.

[-] Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 months ago

I do not believe in 'undecided' voters. I don't think they exist.

So this is not going to be decided by then. This is going to be decided very simply: will enough people in the right states bother to vote?

[-] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

I agree. There are no undecided, only people that don’t answer polls. There isn’t anyone so disconnected from reality that they can’t feel if they like a president or not. Especially since we’ve seen both at work.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 months ago

It's way worse, though. It was an online survey. You know. The kind of survey that a shit ton of people who vote wouldn't have participated in. There's a lot of 70 year olds who vote, are misogynistic, and still lean hard to the right. Those people don't take surveys and polls on the internet.

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