• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Look at the polling. Biden isn’t winning this election.

    If you really want to stop Trump, you have to start using your brain and realize that by all metrics Biden is losing. This blue no matter who attitude, where its turning a blind eye to the actual campaign failure which is Joe Biden, which is happening in real time, WILL ensure us a Trump presidency.

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      8 months ago

      The only poll that matters is in November. Hillary was a shoo-in in March of 2016. (And in front in March of 2008 IIRC)

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        No, the polling right fucking now matters.

        NO candidate EVER has come back from the deficit showing.

        Do you actually want to stop Trump or not?

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            Obama wasn’t running on a 39% approval rating you dummy.

            https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating/

            Thats what fucking matters. Do you want to fucking beat Trump or not? Whats your priority here? Running Biden or beating Trump? You have to pick one.

            Edit: Oh you want Gallup? We can do Gallup

            https://news.gallup.com/poll/103495/election-summary.aspx

            Clinton at that time had a net favorability 30% higher than JOE FUCKING BIDEN has currently. Obama’s net favorability?

            FUCKING 50% higher than Joe Bidens CURRENT NET FAVORABLY.

            You are INSISTING we crash the fucking car into a brick wall.

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              I see, you’re using “incumbent Presidents approval rating” as “the polls”. For the last few Presidential cycles, incumbents generally win reelection when their approval rating is 40% or higher, and Biden’s is cruising at around 39. But the trend doesn’t get “locked” until the Primaries are over and the conventions start. He is by no means the least popular incumbent, and Biden still has room to improve before the election.

              Despite your assertions to the contrary, I believe Biden and Blinken are both invested in finding a way out of this mess in Gaza. We gave Israel a wide berth right after Oct. 7 , but it’s been months since then and everyone’s patience with Netanyahu is wearing thin. Still, if a ceasefire can be negotiated that will help Biden. That is, if the opposition is about Gaza at all. The opposition in Michigan certainly is. But if Biden can figure out a way out your TikTok feed will find other ways to undermine your support of him.

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                This figure is from polling data I pulled a few hours ago:

                If the election were tomorrow, Biden loses.

                If your primary concern is beating Trump, you need a better candidate than Biden.

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                  8 months ago

                  But it’s not tomorrow, and Hillary has direct knowledge of how much elections can change between March and November.

                  Biden needs to improve, no doubt about it, but the answer is not to pull the eject lever. The only way Biden is leaving this race is in a hearse.

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                    Man you sound fucking desperate. You know we don’t have to have Biden as the nominee right? We can pick some one better.

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          NO candidate EVER has come back from the deficit showing.

          Trump did.

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            Again, what the ACTUAL fuck are you talking about? Trump was NEVER net negative in polling.

            Trumps 2015 polling.

            https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/datablog/2015/dec/09/donald-trump-polls-past-elections-republican-nomination

            and guess what? When Trump slipped in the polling in 2020, he went on to lose the election.

            https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2020/national/

            Trump was polling ~8 points higher than Joe Biden is currently and went on to lose the election. Biden was polling 30 points higher than he is currently and barely squeaked it out.

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                You should post actual polls, not betting odds. I didn’t say he was the favorite, but he sure as shit wasn’t running on a 22 point deficit.

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                  OK. Check out the sea of blue and then explain what the fuck you are on about.

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                    I see a lot of polls calling it for Clinton, but well within the margin of error. Interestingly and perhaps ominously, one of the biggest criticisms of Clintons 2016 run was how she practically ignored Michigan and the rest of the rust belt. She did what everyone is currently doing now and tried to browbeat voters into voting for the Democrat you know, “because its her turn”.

                    I’m grabbing the data for this set as well and will post a figure. I’d like to see it aligned to days out from the election to the current polling.

                    The polling separation between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, right now, is not even close to the margin of error. Trumps going up in the polls. Biden is going down. I’ll see if I can align the two based on days out from the election.

                    Here is Hillary versus Trump, 2016 data:

                    Here is the 2024 (current polling) on top of the 2016 polling. I aligned them to days till the election. Important to keep in mind here that Trump was in a 10+ way race at the current time in polling in 2016. It was not clear what-so-ever that he would be the nominee. Biden and Trump (currently) should probably both be considered to be the de-facto nominees.

                    If Clinton was polling in the 30’s as the de-facto nominee, what do you think her chance of winning in 2016 would have been?

                    This figure says it all. Insisting that we support Biden without question is handing Trump the election.

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      I heard the same rhetoric in 2020 and 2022… Besides, the campaign season hasn’t even started and Biden is out-raising Trump already.

      Since you raised attitude, the problem with your attitude is that you’ve got no alternative substantive solution. You can throw peanuts from the peanut gallery all you want, but until you offer up a better solution that is consistent with reality, then people will not take you seriously. Sorry, there is no magical Obama waiting to save us. Joe Biden is what we’ve got, and at least he’s got incumbent advantage.