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[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 44 points 3 days ago

Interesting that the strawpolls at the meetings hours one way while the phone survey goes another. Seems like there's a correlation between how active the members are and their likelihood to vote Republican

[-] GaveUp@hexbear.net 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Maybe I'm too woke but I'm pretty sure it's because Harris is black, Indian, and a women that the results flipped so hard

Union members aren't all far left on average or anything. Cops have and support their unions

Joining a union directly and clearly improves their own situation. Can the said be said for having a black, indian women be president for the white and/or male union members?

Are you confident there is a complete insignificant number of teamster members that have no racial biases at all? And that they all believe women as just as capable leaders?

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago

I'm not saying that being an active union member makes you totally leftist, but it's clear from these polls that the mood of the halls is different from the mood of the general membership in some measurable way.

Like where I'm at, the Teamsters and IBEW share their halls with DSA, PSL, and SRA. The average member of those unions is pretty centrist, but the leadership and active membership is very leftist.

[-] GaveUp@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago

These polls don't say anything about the mood because the candidates to vote for are different

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

That's fair, I was just ignoring the candidates and instead looking at it as Red/Blue/Neutral thinking the method of the poll was getting a different subset of the membership and not thinking that the actual candidates were effecting anything.

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