• @cmbabul@lemmy.world
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    97 months ago

    We don’t know it’s certain he can do it again either

    Biden didn’t have a four year presidency filled with deep economic issues for the average person last time, we were also in a plague, and had seen insane political activism all year. Inflation wasn’t on everyone’s mind and there weren’t two serious wars going on that we are funding with him as the CMC. He’s not popular or well liked even by his voters

    Additionally Trump was and had been obviously more looming and visible to the average voter who really doesn’t pay much attention to politics or even the news for that matter. People were animated to get him out. I don’t think it will happen that way this time. Most folks have short memories and vote with their pocket book.

    Again I’ll crawl over glass to for him because there’s only two possibilities and I hope I’m wrong, but it seems like they are playing prevent defense, and prevent defense prevents you from winning. I don’t feel confident in the slightest

    • @doctorcrimson
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      107 months ago

      Let’s all be completely honest, here. Far Left and Right folks are loud af, but the American Population is so Centrist that they made Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden the DNC Presidential candidates to begin with. A whitebread US Moderate old fucker like Joe probably has the highest chances, period.

      • Uranium3006
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        17 months ago

        Primary elections aren’t free and fair. The party leadership picked them

        • @PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee
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          37 months ago

          Picked them by counting the millions more votes they got

          For the millionth time the lefties run into the wall of “wouldn’t have happened if ya fucking turned out!”

        • @doctorcrimson
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          17 months ago

          Even if that’s true, Biden won 51% of the primary popular vote compared to Bernie Sanders’ 26% in the 2020 primaries.

      • @cmbabul@lemmy.world
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        07 months ago

        Centrists are his biggest risk in this election. I run in mostly far left/anarchist circles socially, everyone is begrudgingly voting for Biden again, because fascism. Meanwhile the self professed centrists/moderates in my family, at work, and even online I’ve spoken to or over heard are the ones on the fence about Biden and either want to not vote at all or for a third party. Anecdotal as hell, but i think the centrists are gonna fall for the old “republicans are better for the economy” bullshit

        • @Perfide@reddthat.com
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          17 months ago

          Exactly. Leftist voters will be biting their tongue voting for Biden, but they’ll be voting for him. Centrists will stay home bitching about gas prices being Bidens fault.

        • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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          07 months ago

          All Biden has to do is remind those suburban centrists that the Republicans want to force their daughter/granddaughter to carry their rapist’s baby to term.

        • @assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
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          07 months ago

          I’m not so sure about this. The number one issue in the midterms for voters was the economy, but that didn’t translate into a Republican victory. Democrats actually gained ground in the Senate, and Republicans only took the House by single digits.

          The only conclusion I can draw from this is that voters no longer believe Republicans are better for the economy. If it leads to effectively a tie result, it would seem the myth has been finally dispelled.