huh. uncommitteds and swings are starting to pay attention. is it nearly june? oh look, it is. how about that. - ThreadSky

swolecialism.bsky.social • 289 days ago

huh. uncommitteds and swings are starting to pay attention. is it nearly june? oh look, it is. how about that.

"Strategists and pollsters say that, much like McCammon, many uncommitted voters don’t perceive Trump’s language to be jesting or ironic, nor do they view a potential power grab as a joke."

Many uncommitted voters have more sense than Beltway "experts"

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ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social•289 days ago

Was just thinking this morning that so far no doofus like Frank Luntz has run a focus group of under 30 nonwhite first time voters who hate Joe Biden. Seems like the sorta thing he'd go in for if he could.

pfish.zone•274 days ago

bruh

lantro.bsky.social•289 days ago

There’s plenty of time for that nonsense before November.

mr-implausible.bsky.social•289 days ago

this is why I think ultimately Biden will over perform with young people relative to polls. this isn’t 2000 when we didn’t know how bad Bush would be. “both parties are the same” rings very hollow.

sidewalkslam.bsky.social•289 days ago

I feel like the "pay-attention" window is even later this year because people were so burned out from 2020. I do not talk to anyone in my daily life that is even thinking about the election yet (some people I've talked to recently think Haley or Desantis are still in it)

lantro.bsky.social•289 days ago

Adding to this is that it feels like the 2020 election never truly ended.

tomscud.bsky.social•289 days ago

the fact that it’s the same two guys exacerbates this

swolecialism.bsky.social•289 days ago

yeah like nobody is excited about this. frankly it's annoying. but

tomscud.bsky.social•289 days ago

the next five months

anniew.bsky.social•289 days ago

It's what I see, too, they're burnt out regarding politics. One surprised me bcs she (fairly conservative) said she'd have to shut herself in her house and turn off the news if DJT won bcs she just couldn't handle it.

energetic-nova.bsky.social•289 days ago

My mother in law is conservative but a non voter before 2020. She couldn’t stand Trump that much that her first vote for president was for Biden, against Trump. And she will do it again.

tomscud.bsky.social•289 days ago

hey look there’s bobby kennedy’s boy running for president isn’t that great for him

mrbtx.bsky.social•289 days ago

the parting line from a Trump 2016 voter of "I'll vote for Biden even if he's in a coma"

phaseblowly.bsky.social•289 days ago

For the country’s sake, I hope that works in Democrats’ favor since the firehose of piss aimed at the activist left is probably gonna dampen some voter enthusiasm.

edburmila.bsky.social•289 days ago

Mainstream election coverage makes perfect sense once we internalize how much of it is driven by elites whose perceptions of how much Regular Americans love Donald Trump is 7 years out of date at best.

enbuenora.bsky.social•289 days ago

how could reality diverge so greatly from the newsmasters' own appreciation for Trump and especially from that of the rich Republicans they admire and envy, it is unpossible

edburmila.bsky.social•289 days ago

I think the bigger problem is that the journalism is coming from a class of people who insist that they have the finger on the pulse of Real America, but who havent talked to a commoner who wasn’t serving them food or delivering something to their house in 20 years

enbuenora.bsky.social•289 days ago

that's what I'm saying--it doesn't matter what the empirical reality of American opinion is, the opinions which matter are of those conservatives they would rather hear from

eschatonblog.com•289 days ago

for some reason I've long remembered a very early blog post from a young yglesias in which he was mocking the cafe server for incorrectly pronouncing "bruschetta"
narrator: the server was, in fact, pronouncing it correctly

coffeeaddict.bsky.social•289 days ago

He would say it with the soft c

swolecialism.bsky.social•289 days ago

yes

pyrholidon.bsky.social•289 days ago

The problem with becoming a tyrant in your 80s is that the looming specter of death is always getting closer.

swolecialism.bsky.social•289 days ago

the next several months are going to be exhausting but it is also going to be an endless succession of headlines like this. especially if he gets convicted of a bunch of felonies

fjerome.bsky.social•289 days ago

damn i wish he was actually getting tried for the important stuff before the election

joyouspanther.bsky.social•289 days ago

Yeah. But it will be nice for him to lose the election and then run out of his delay tactics on the important stuff afterwards.

benrinehart.bsky.social•289 days ago

If he loses, how many opeds will call for a pardon or dropped charges to allow the nation to “heal”?

joyouspanther.bsky.social•289 days ago

People are calling for that now. Not going to happen.

fjerome.bsky.social•289 days ago

he won't be smart enough to just go away

cyanescens.bsky.social•289 days ago

Even one is more than enough, and I’m sure there’ll be plenty.

Luckily I don’t think there’s any chance of Biden doing so

fjerome.bsky.social•289 days ago

oh i will savor that, but i think it would help make sure he does in fact lose

jcc333.bsky.social•289 days ago

I know it’s the sex one, but also, this one is a campaign finance fraud one? And campaign finance fraud is important in its own right, also core to the whole grifting + coups operation

fjerome.bsky.social•289 days ago

Yeah he should absolutely go down for it. I just rate the others relatively more important.

vituperativeerb.bsky.social•289 days ago

I think cynical perverts (people who use these websites) underrate how bad the reaction among normies is going to be if Trump gets convicted

myleslobdell.bsky.social•289 days ago

Now we'll see how the average American voter takes to the idea of being part of a 'glorious' Fourth Reich.

swolecialism.bsky.social•289 days ago

i have some suspicions!

asherd.xyz•289 days ago

Looking forward to the editorials about how the Dems are alienating the heartland who yearns for lebensraum.

eitjjt.bsky.social•289 days ago

Not sure how you square ’he wants to be president for life’ with ‘uncommitted’

skoryy.bsky.social•289 days ago

When you want Trump to lower interest rates and close the border but the Presidente por Libre stuff is a bridge too far.

mrbtx.bsky.social•289 days ago

lots of folks basically just tune out anything political until around now

swolecialism.bsky.social•289 days ago

honestly june is a little early for these types to start waking up. normally it's august or so.

jmgreene28.bsky.social•289 days ago

August is when the coordinated campaign kicks into gear for this exact reason.

swolecialism.bsky.social•289 days ago

biden and the DNC have so much money that they're running at least a month ahead of schedule just to be able to spend it fast enough, so that's interesting.

jmgreene28.bsky.social•289 days ago

I don't think people understand that one of the reasons why Biden was so successful in 2020 is that he has a lot of experience running and winning national campaigns through a framework of grassroots voter contact and coalition building.

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