Its Lucy and the football for Charlie Brown, and we never learn.
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A.) this is a joke right? B.) amusing they think there’s gonna be a viable election in 2028
She needs to fuck off. Permanently.
I swear to god if they pull this nonsense again…
To be honest, if there's still an election in 2028 and Kamala Harris is the democrat candidate, I just won't vote anymore. I've voted regularly since I turned 18, but I can't vote Republican in good conscience and Democrats have abandoned the public. I don't even dislike Kamala Harris, she just has no chance of winning and the DNC seems incapable of learning from their mistakes.
Can't wait until she loses again to the same dipshit moron she lost to and we're blamed again for her horrid policy campaign, again.
See you in 2032
Yes, things will change in 2032 for sure. You can take that to the bank, jack.
Are you fucking kidding me.
AOC and Bernie over here amassing entire legions of working class people and they're over here bashing themselves in the nuts. doing a straw poll with corporate doners pretending like it means fucking ANYTHING.
GODAMNIT THESE FUCKING DEMOCRATS ARE FUCKING MORONS.
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we are so fucked.
Jfc. They'll never learn. We really are all doomed.
Just kidding. We were doomed already.
The Democratic Party’s sole strategy looks like maximizing their big donor and independent votes. So they keep moving toward center-right.
- That strategy has failed 2/3 last times so may be try changing it Sherlock.
- The big donors don’t care about anything besides their own personal gain. The only difference is that “Democratic” big donors also pretend they care about the people. May be get on the ground and talk to your constituents instead.
- Even if you get the independent votes, your main base is completely alienated and does not trust you. So all you will get are the independent votes losing you the election.
This Democratic Party is like the monsters in Scooby Doo - the villain wearing the mask of the common person so they can get closer to you before stabbing in the back.
I became an independent in part to get democrats to actually care about me. They don’t give a fuck what I think if I’m a member because they just assume I’m voting for them.
Honestly I don't think she should run in 28. Nothing against Kamala, but we really don't need a moderate centrist insider to bring us back from the damage Trump is doing. The nation would be far better off having a real debate with Pete, Tim, and Alexandria up on stage. Kamala would have too much power over the process, and would use every bit of it. Which of course means that's exactly what's going to happen, probably handing us a narrow loss to fucking Don Jr. or some other moron puppet.
If you don't want a moderate why would you want Pete anywhere near?
I want him on the stage, doesn't mean I want him to win. The main problem with Kamala being up there is that she would own the apparatus, the same way Joe and Hillary did. It's a form of censorship that doesn't help the debate, and leads to bad results. It leads to weighting them based on their influence, rather than ability, policy, and character.
Also it's going to be a cold day in Hell before a woman wins.
Seriously. This is the thing they do not seem to get. Unfortunately our country is sexist and racist. She will never win.
All true. But also, a popular woman could win, like AOC. They just keep putting up establishment stooges, that's a large part of the reason why they don't get elected.
Things the DNC has learned:
Was this a poll of the DNC or registered Democrats? Asking because ad blocker.
The poll seems to cover Democrats and "Democrat-leaning independents," so not the DNC.
Exit: can't find the actual post on Morning Consult yet, but the article features an image where they specify the polled population.
If the DNC is stuck on putting up an “establishment” candidate, why not Schiff? Seems like there’s no way they’re going to back AOC even though I’d guess she would get a lot of energy behind her.
Oh my fuck. God no. Stop. Please stop. What the actual fuck.
Are you fucking kidding me?
People need to upvote this for visibility, not disagreement. Seems like most of us agree, fuck no.
People need to see what BS is coming.
But then again I'm just assuming that's how lemmy works and if we downvote it will get lost.
I'm sure leftists and 3rd party voters will be blamed again when she loses, again.
Why? Jfc just learn for once.
DNC: "No."
We still have three years to go before the next election, assuming one actually happens.
At this stage in the game, the only thing that these types of polls are going to reveal is who has the most name recognition.
In other words, everyone calm down.
Just like the polls that show McDonald's, Taco Bell, or Chic fil a as America's favorite restaurant in X state. It doesn't take too many idiots to outweigh everyone else.
Thank you! Any time this kind of polling shows up on Lemmy, users seem to think this is the Plan of the Democratic Leadership Cabal, rather than an incredibly premature name recognition test.
People want to vote for people they have favorable impressions of who they also think others will vote for. Without other frontrunners, who emerge over time, it's not surprising that polled Democrats would recognize and still support the candidate that 75 million people voted for five months ago.
If you want other candidates (I do), identify them and figure out how to help them build their profile now.
It's crazy how fast incredibly premature polling turns into unstoppable freight train that cannot be interrupted by anything but a certified act of God signed and dated with appropriate postage to oh shit oh God what's happening someone should have planned something.
I'm GLAD the Democrats are Pushing the Woman who LOST against a Billionaire Nazi who Campaigned on RUINING America and American Lives!
She lost to a carnival barker
Goddammitsomuch