44%. That’s the share of voters who said they would back a Democratic candidate in the midterms, according to an Economist/YouGov poll conducted Jan. 9-12, versus 40% who would back the Republican candidate. The poll is in line with other recent surveys on which party is favored in November, with an average of polls by RealClear Polling finding Democrats have a 4.3% advantage over Republicans as of Thursday.
Jesus tapdancing christ. 44% to 40%. Just… wow.
My compete and total lack of faith in the mental competence of the American electorate is certainly coming to a middle.
They are better than the alternative, but folks want them to be perfect when Nazis are running around killing Americans and if they’re not then fuck em.
Want them to stop accepting corporate bribe money and start representing their constituents. Perfect is so far from the ask here. Literally just want them to not be total sacks of shit.
No, I want them to GTFO of the way. If our election system only admits two major parties, then they are complicit by camping out in one of the slots, preventing a political party that’d actually put up a fight from arising. Whatever their alleged motivation, or level of cooperation, it no longer matters at this point; they have been the party in that second slot as U.S. political institutions slid into fascism over the course of decades. The record shows that they’re not going to turn it around should they win back Congress in the mid-terms (if we even have elections). At best, they might stave off full fascism for another few election cycles. That’s the issue we have with Democrats.
Well I want the Dems to literally light themselves on fire for what they did to Gaza, but really “folks” just want Dems to be decent. Like Dems don’t even want to defund ICE, they just want to put down bullshit procedural crap that they’ll face zero consequences
it’s hilarious that in a post about the racist rapist pedophile nazi fascist con man dictator talking about canceling elections, we STILL have people in the thread bitching about DEMS LOL
It’s not funny at all. If the Dems weren’t such obvious controlled opposition, there could be an alternative to fascism. Americans haven’t had a choice for some time now, which is precisely how we got into this mess.
well, in the situation we’ve been in for the last who knows how tf many decades, where it’s “DNC’s pick or nobody” you’d think people would at least wise up and vote against nazi fascism, rather than think they’re actually doing something by sitting out or going 3rd party.
exactly what was accomplished by going with the 100% guaranteed fail route? take a look around-- are you going to tell me a kamala potus (or literally ANYONE else) would have been nearly as bad? how’s that genocide going? i know i didn’t specify the gaza genocide or the usa genocide because i leave it to you to take your pick
Yeah because the Dems didn’t go after the racist rapist pedophile Nazi fascist con man dictator when they had the fucking power to do so 🤦 because they gotta protect the racist rapist pedophile Nazi fascist elites loyal to their faction of capital 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦
It can be enough but only if the sample is representative and I think often these are done by calling people on landline and the people who still have a landline and would be willing to take a survey are a very specific subset of our population so probably that sample is not representative but it’s not due to the sample size.
Jesus tapdancing christ. 44% to 40%. Just… wow.
My compete and total lack of faith in the mental competence of the American electorate is certainly coming to a middle.
I fucking hate it here.
I mean have the Dems just tried being better?
I mean have the Dems just tried
being better?There, fixed.
No actually, they haven’t!
They are better than the alternative, but folks want them to be perfect when Nazis are running around killing Americans and if they’re not then fuck em.
Want them to stop accepting corporate bribe money and start representing their constituents. Perfect is so far from the ask here. Literally just want them to not be total sacks of shit.
No, I want them to GTFO of the way. If our election system only admits two major parties, then they are complicit by camping out in one of the slots, preventing a political party that’d actually put up a fight from arising. Whatever their alleged motivation, or level of cooperation, it no longer matters at this point; they have been the party in that second slot as U.S. political institutions slid into fascism over the course of decades. The record shows that they’re not going to turn it around should they win back Congress in the mid-terms (if we even have elections). At best, they might stave off full fascism for another few election cycles. That’s the issue we have with Democrats.
Well I want the Dems to literally light themselves on fire for what they did to Gaza, but really “folks” just want Dems to be decent. Like Dems don’t even want to defund ICE, they just want to put down bullshit procedural crap that they’ll face zero consequences
it’s hilarious that in a post about the racist rapist pedophile nazi fascist con man dictator talking about canceling elections, we STILL have people in the thread bitching about DEMS LOL
It’s not funny at all. If the Dems weren’t such obvious controlled opposition, there could be an alternative to fascism. Americans haven’t had a choice for some time now, which is precisely how we got into this mess.
well, in the situation we’ve been in for the last who knows how tf many decades, where it’s “DNC’s pick or nobody” you’d think people would at least wise up and vote against nazi fascism, rather than think they’re actually doing something by sitting out or going 3rd party.
exactly what was accomplished by going with the 100% guaranteed fail route? take a look around-- are you going to tell me a kamala potus (or literally ANYONE else) would have been nearly as bad? how’s that genocide going? i know i didn’t specify the gaza genocide or the usa genocide because i leave it to you to take your pick
Yeah because the Dems didn’t go after the racist rapist pedophile Nazi fascist con man dictator when they had the fucking power to do so 🤦 because they gotta protect the racist rapist pedophile Nazi fascist elites loyal to their faction of capital 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦
Are you seriously suggesting dems aren’t better than Hitler 2.0 and his regime? Get real.
Not at all. I’m suggesting that they just be good enough, as opposed to merely being less shit than the GOP.
1,600 people were polled.
https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econTabReport_qsNv5iE.pdf
that’s not enough to represent the country, and who knows what their methods are
It can be enough but only if the sample is representative and I think often these are done by calling people on landline and the people who still have a landline and would be willing to take a survey are a very specific subset of our population so probably that sample is not representative but it’s not due to the sample size.
YouGov has published a page about its polling methodology. Polling groups abandoned the random telephone survey decades ago, at this point.
Cool, in my country they still do that unfortunately.
that sample size is still way too small
But the headline creates clicks and engagement and that’s what matters most.
🤑💰💸💵💶💷
If you mean planet Earth in the 21st century, then I’m right there with you.
It seems like every fucking election is like this…
The “I hate everyone and everything, I’m going to abduct your neighbors, how dare you suggest billionaires get taxed anything at all” party
vs
The “I guess healthcare should probably be affordable and gay people exist and deserve dignity” party
40% and 40%…
The remaining 20% are outside eating rocks or something…
mmmmm. mmmmm. kick in the groin or a handshake. mmmmm. mmmmm. they are just so similar. I think I prefer the one. slightly. so hard to decide.