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DNC Announces Plans to Learn Nothing from This
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I'm kind of amazed that more politicians don't just promise to try to implement all the highest polling ideas. (Spoiler: Most are progressive and socialist policies.) Especially presidential candidates running against potentially catastrophic fascists.
Because they exist to protect their corporate benefactors and popular policies don’t allow for that
And why do they serve them: All points back to the insane amount of money necessary to run a campaign (esp. at higher levels, vs billionaires, etc).
Can you believe the democrats spent this much money and still lost as badly as they did?! It blows the mind!
I'm sure the totals are so absurd that I can't really comprehend the numbers. But Citizens United set the rules of the game. And Democrats don't have that sweet cult advantage.
Embarrassing, but so is Trump and Vance winning so many working class votes, while being extremely wealthy anti-labor anti-union cunts, backed by world's loudest and richest dipshit, which will demand more tax cuts (for them), tariffs and austerity (for us). "But Biden prices went up!" SMFH.
Part of the problem is that polling has been fundamentally flawed for a while now. Polling in 2016, 2020, and 2024 all showed Trump as losing and the polling agencies had to artificially weigh pro Trump supporters higher in the polls because they weren't being adequately represented. It seems that a major portion of the problem is that some number of liberal/socialist poll respondents don't end up actually voting and some number of conservative voters don't end up responding to polls.