I do, and I think this is something we're just going to fundamentally disagree on. I don't consider third-party votes to be a valid option for anyone legitimately concerned with a potential Trump presidency. If everyone who 3rd-party protest-voted against Hillary Clinton just...voted for Clinton, Trump might have been dead in the water eight years ago.
what you consider just expressing displeasure against the *blank*, is to me harmful rhetoric that some more neutral onlookers will be tempted to follow.
Over the past few years I've just grown very tired with the way that the left handles optics and rhetoric as a whole. It feels like watching them constantly shoot themselves in the foot.
Oh shit, he's running it back!That's my district!
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/07/politics/george-santos-running-again/index.html
My amateur understanding is that the 6 years part is at least founded in truth? It's something like: if you enter the U.S. and claim that you're seeking asylum in the U.S., because staying in your home country would be dangerous for you, then by law the U.S. must give you a hearing in court to formally adjudicate your claim. And those courts have an enormous backlog.This is correct. It's also why we need to change the law that doesn't allow people waiting for their court date to work in the US.
I have the luxury of living in a deep blue state, so I get the benefit of protest voting to my heart's content.
I want them to wonder why, for even a split second, why they didn't get more votes. And maybe realize they are winning mostly off the back of "not-trump" and not "we agree with you."
If I lived in a swing state though I would begrudgingly vote Biden because he isn't a literal ghoul.
Or is it that you think the Dems are too moderate and centrist, and they need to start pushing further left to help people instead of corporations?
this one
I fear a world where people think US dems are currently too far left when in any other country they would be the far right.
I want them to wonder why, for even a split second, why they didn't get more votes. And maybe realize they are winning mostly off the back of "not-trump" and not "we agree with you."
You're never going to get a serious presidential candidate who doesn't have a track record (on the left anyway...)A non-celebrity, even a rich one, could never pull off what 2016 Trump did regardless of party. I would not fully discount the possibility of a celebrity Democrat presidential nominee.
one of the furthest right major parties in a democracy.Depending on how the next election goes, we might have to revise that last word!
More than 6 in 10 Americans who watched President Joe Bidens State of the Union address had a positive reaction to the speech, according to a CNN Poll conducted by SSRS, with a smaller 35% reacting very positively.
That pattern of widespread but tempered positivity mirrors the reception for Bidens speeches in previous years. Last year, 72% of viewers reacted positively, with 34% saying their reaction was very positive the lowest very positive number in CNNs polling dating back to 1998. In 2022, 71% had a positive reaction, with 41% saying their reaction was very positive.
As in the past two years, Democratic speech watchers reactions to Biden were almost universally positive, with about two-thirds of independents who tuned in offering a positive reaction. Roughly three-quarters of Republicans who watched this years address offered a negative review, up from about 6 in 10 for Bidens past two State of the Union addresses.
Americans who watched on Thursday said, 62% to 38%, that the policies Biden proposed will move the US in the right direction, rather than the wrong direction. In a survey conducted before the speech, just 45% of those same people said Bidens policies would move the US in the right direction.
Following the speech, 31% of those who watched said they have a lot of confidence in Bidens ability to carry out his duties as president, 28% that they have some confidence, and 41% that they have no real confidence. Thats a slight uptick from a survey conducted in the days before the speech, when 25% of those same people expressed a lot of confidence in his ability, 27% some confidence, and 48% none at all.
Much of Bidens improvement on this score came among political independents who watched the speech. Before the speech, 51% of independents expressed at least some confidence in Bidens ability to carry out his duties, and that rose to 68% among the same group of independents after the speech. Perceptions of Bidens ability to carry out the duties of the presidency did not change significantly among either Democrats or Republicans who tuned in.
Roughly half of speech watchers, 53%, also said that the level of US support Biden proposes offering to Israel is about right, with 28% saying hes proposing too much support, and 20% not enough. And a similar 49% of those who tuned in said Bidens proposed levels of US aid for Ukraine are about right, with 34% saying Bidens proposed level of Ukraine aid is too much, and 16% that its not enough.
A 42% plurality of speech watchers younger than 45 said that Bidens proposals offer too much support to Israel, an opinion shared by just 22% of viewers age 45 and older. Theres a more modest age divide on Bidens proposed level of aid to Ukraine.
Much of Bidens improvement on this score came among political independents who watched the speech. Before the speech, 51% of independents expressed at least some confidence in Bidens ability to carry out his duties, and that rose to 68% among the same group of independents after the speech.Republicans are mostly lost but if this helps kill the "biden is senile" bullshit among everyone else that'd be great. Encouraging that it seems to have made a healthy impact on independents.
Older voters fucking love Israel I guess.
Ten years ago I'd say that at least depends on what constitutes a major party in countries not tied down to a 2 party system.
Now Rs chased away all their own more (relatively) moderate politicians. But also those parties in other countries have gained more ground. So, whatever
Edit: This is in regards to Rs being the most conservative major party. Typed slow I guess
I'd say the average voter's knowledge of the Israel-Palestine conflict is this:I would add that there's been a ton of propaganda over the past 20 years (and probably earlier but I wasn't politically conscious then) about how the Israel-Palestine conflict is just soooo complicated don't even try to understand it it's impossible for you to understand.
-Israel was attacked on October 7th by a Hamas Terrorist attack
-Israel and the US are allies
And, that's it.
I'd say the average voter's knowledge of the Israel-Palestine conflict is this:This is too deep.
-Israel was attacked on October 7th by a Hamas Terrorist attack
-Israel and the US are allies
And, that's it.
It happened during the George W Bush administration
I also see, and I worry I am jinxing it by pointing this out, but Bidens polling average has improved by 3% in the last month, bringing him about level with Trump. Still a long way to go but so far it seems that the wait for the campaign rhetoric has been borne out.People like the idea of voting for Trump until they're forced to treat him as Trump and not a nebulous Generic Republican.