The president's ratings for the economy and immigration are at career lows, according to the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll.

There was an article earlier about people smoking crack if they thing Trump is up 10 points.

Well…he’s up 10 points. The Democrats need to do something fairly drastic soon if they want to win 24.

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    You’re getting the 2016 and 2020 primaries confused. The “Shadow App” thing happened in 2016. And it didn’t give Iowa to a “complete nobody,” but to Pete Buttigieg.

    lolwut

    It definitely happened in 2020 - Pete didn’t even run in 2016! And he is a nobody, he was a mayor with no other prior office and he never won another contest.

    Furthermore, you just described strategy, not a “fix.”

    When the entire DNC covertly coordinates together in a strategy to stop a single candidate, it’s a fix. That’s not a strategy that any candidate could ever use, that’s the whole Party working together to stop an outsider.

    That, plus the Shadow App (which definitely happened in 2020 wtf I live in iowa I would know!) were what convinced Bernie supporters to stay home after Super Tuesday.

    And it’s why I’m voting for Cornell West. The Democratic Party is not the path to socialism, we can not ever change it from the inside… I mean the Green Party isn’t a path to socialism either, but at least it pisses off Democrats 😘

    • kescusay@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I’ll take my lumps. I fucked up. Had both primaries open in different tabs, mixed them up, along with a news story about the app (it was developed in 2016, but you are right that it was used in 2020).

      Still, gotta disagree with you on this:

      When the entire DNC covertly coordinates together in a strategy to stop a single candidate, it’s a fix. That’s not a strategy that any candidate could ever use, that’s the whole Party working together to stop an outsider.

      That’s not what happened. A bunch of candidates who had no chance dropped out when they were polling at negligible levels of support. It’s not like they suddenly added huge percentages of support to Biden.

      And it’s why I’m voting for Cornell West. The Democratic Party is not the path to socialism, we can not ever change it from the inside… I mean the Green Party isn’t a path to socialism either, but at least it pisses off Democrats

      Ah. So you’re a Trump supporter. Got it.

      • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        A bunch of candidates who had no chance dropped out when they were polling at negligible levels of support. It’s not like they suddenly added huge percentages of support to Biden.

        Right before Super Tuesday? While Warren stayed in to play center-left spoiler? Naw, there was pressure coming from inside the Party to coalesce around a single candidate to stop the socialist. I can’t speak to the others, but we know that Obama told told Pete to drop out and endorse Biden, and then Pete was rewarded with a post. Pete, who if you recall, “won” the Iowa Shadow App caucus. Sus

        Ah. So you’re a Trump supporter. Got it.

        Eat my ass.

        The Democratic Party made it clear to me that my vote doesn’t matter when they wrecked our caucus. They fucked Iowa Democrats out of having a say in the nomination process, and now they want my vote? Fuck off. I’m a revolutionary communist, it’s been made very clear that I’m not welcome in your party, and I’m not going to play voteball with a team that stabs people like me in the back when we get in the way.

        I don’t even think my vote matters. I literally just want to make Democrats mad. Nyaa nyaa~