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[-] hark@lemmy.world 43 points 2 days ago

If you want democrats to win, you shouldn't delude yourself with this stupid article that takes the opinion of one undecided voter (asked out of a group of about a dozen people) and pretend this is something that applies to undecided voters at large. This is copium on the level of 2016 and we'd all be better off if we didn't huff this bullshit. We should be taking steps to improve our chances, not gaslighting ourselves.

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm laughing that I submit 2 different focus groups of undecided voters saying the opposite and it's down-voted into oblivion.

But this copium is upvoted...

[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 113 points 3 days ago

At least 2 previously undecided voters now support Biden so I suppose this headline is technically correct, it's just completely meaningless and insignificant statistically.

[-] TheDannysaur@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

This comment says it better than I could. The debate was a disaster for Biden. Which sucks.

[-] Xanis@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

In this thread:

Everyone not on the Right doing what they do best:

Argue incessantly with one another.

And ya'll wonder why the Left struggles so often.

[-] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Not arguing among each other is what helped turn the party of Lincoln to what it is today.

[-] Ibuthyr@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 days ago

This is unfortunately true. We have the same shit in Germany. The Nazis are uniting while the left fight each other because one doesn't support lgbtq+ enough, the other group forgot to gender correctly, other hardliners won't go to pro-democracy protests because CDU voters are amongst them. It's pathetic. We need a strong and united front against the far right. Not this hissy bullshit.

[-] dirthawker0@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That phrase "Don't let perfect get in the way of good" is our stumbling block. We want our candidate to support everything we support and no less. Friggin' Trump is a rapist, a traitor, a racist, etc., but if he says he wants let's say Christianity to be the national religion, the Christians are like "Hey he supports us, we'll vote for him," and completely ignore everything else. Single issue, boom, they're in. The left needs to value unity over their individual issues right now.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

If you want to see a great example of this is in a comment section, watch the comments on Boing Boing for a bit. The site used to be one of the top 100 sites, IIRC, and maybe still is, and the comments used to be rather fun and interesting. In recent years, it's been take over by a very far-left fringe with a very particular interest in just checking off boxes and playing "oppression olympics". It's a textbook case of this. I got on there a few years ago and made a few comments in defense of sanity and unity among the left.

Some of the best posts making great points got taken down in quick order, even though I was entirely civil the entire time. Those arguing against me - if not the mods themselves - were absolutely violating the supposed rules - had theirs all left up, even if it was using things like ad hominem or just using dumb and overused giphy memes as a supposed "response". Even anyone that tried to cut a middle ground between me and this echo chamber had their posts nuked, too.

Anyone on the fence witnessing such a thing is not going to vote for leftists, I can tell you that much. If they don't vote for donnie (or his next version), they'll just sit out on elections.

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[-] rsuri@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

Ok let's see how the polls move. If they move in the right direction, Biden stays on. If they move in the direction everyone knows they'll move in, he steps down. Deal?

[-] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 days ago

If I've learned anything over the years, it is that geriatric power vampires never willingly step down.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago

Considering thw age of both Biden and Trump, either being forced to work four years more should be considered elder abuse.

[-] CluelessLemmyng@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 days ago

You think Trump is going to "work"? He'll just sign whatever paper is in front of him so he can golf and steal more documents to sell.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

I am an optimist after all.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Feinstein enters the chat...

[-] Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

There will be no negotiations. You will accept what the DNC... your betters... puts forward to you. You will bow and kiss the oldest moldiest feet in human existence.

Now stand up and clap. And you will smile. Bigger now... I see you're not smiling big enough after placing your vote. Sorry, it's too late for you... you are now antisemetic and you are 110% responsible for the Republicans installing a authoritarian government.

Don't forget to chant "Joe Biden is the most labor friendly president in history " 20 times every time when you wake up.

[-] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago

I don’t trust Newsweek, you probably shouldn’t either. However, with that being said… if the debate would have gone differently, and let’s just say Joe had a bad sore throat instead of “a cold,” and Joe went up there and said nothing at all, he’d still have my vote in this election. Honestly, I think if Joe would have said nothing, and just let Trump lie, that would have been better than how it went.

He appeared as weak, and a bit incoherent up there. He resorted to name calling on multiple occasions.

Trump lied about 90% of the things he said. Trump sounded better, and didn’t really take the cheap shots at Biden that we expected.

There was nothing about that debate that would have swayed “undecided voters” (who’s that by the way) to vote FOR Biden as a result of the debate. The number of lies coming from Trump may have persuaded some people to vote against him however.

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[-] HaleHirsute@infosec.pub 26 points 3 days ago

No one who saw that debate was inspired by Biden, no one. Ok maybe 1 out of 100, maybe. But 99 of them were not. Gaslighting won’t help, the goose is cooked.

[-] EatATaco@lemm.ee 26 points 2 days ago

It's like you didn't even read the article or what they said and are trying to pretend they said something else. Amazing that you would pull the term "gaslighting" out, it's almost as if you know what you are doing.

To reiterate he article, they were turned off by Trump's lies and repeating the same things and avoiding the questions. None says they were inspired by Biden.

[-] hark@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Did you read the article? Here's a quote:

The clip shows a group of about a dozen people and one of them being interviewed by a journalist.

So you think this can be applied broadly to undecided voter sentiment in general?

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[-] Evrala@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

I supported Biden before the debate, I support him now after the debate. But now it's more of a "Ah fuck, look at this mess I'm going to be voting for, ah fuck what the fuck America aaaaaaah." Than it was before.

[-] EatATaco@lemm.ee 14 points 2 days ago

Do you feel like it's a mess now? I'm not voting for Biden because i think he is a good debater, I'm voting for him because hes done a perfectly fine job as president during some tough times. He's smart enough to let the systems that have held together for decades continue to function and to take advice from experts.

Trump wants to dismantle the government and fill it with trump loyalists, which adds even more incentive to make sure Biden wins.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 14 points 2 days ago

Trump's lies were more obvious than normal. So there's that, I guess.

Maybe they just related to someone having trouble keeping up with a yelling idiot liar?

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[-] Thteven@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

I learned absolutely nothing new from the debate. Trump is a habitual liar and Biden is a doddering old man. Out of our two wonderful choices I'll be voting Democrat but I still wouldn't trust either of them to drive a car I'm in let alone run the country.

[-] r0ertel@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

Agreed. How about the other guy? Was anybody inspired by him?

I'm really sad that it's come to this. It's how I feel when my coworkers vote to go out to a sushi restaurant. I don't like fish and I'm allergic to shellfish, so I eat my pile of steamed rice and bite my tongue when they want to split the bill equally.

What was I talking about again?

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[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago

What kind of head in the sand, wishy-washy troglodyte is undecided for this election? We've already had 4 years of each, with 24 hour news coverage for literally everything they do.

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[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 64 points 3 days ago

Samples size of a focus group on Univision...

It did quote a poll that Biden is only up 1% among Latino voters tho

Fucking insane that it's that close. But I guess when Biden literally copies trump illegal border policies, it's hard to get them scared of trump.

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 33 points 3 days ago

tbf, arent those border policies somewhat popular among some latino voters? Im not defending those policies as they dont align with my own views on the topic, but theres plenty of room for people that managed to get through the immigration system legally to look down of people who havent, or for people born in the country to dislike migration even if their ancestors did it, or for people that want to "pull up the ladder behind them" so to speak. Biden couldnt exactly expect Trump's border policies to automatically win him that demographic either way.

[-] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

There’s also the fact that cartels run a lot of border towns. It’s not that border area Latinos are mad at illegal migration so much as they don’t want South Texas to be like Northern Mexico.

Also, it’s a little silly to treat Latinos as a single group. South Florida Cubans are different from everyone, basically. Recent immigrants are different from 2nd or 3rd generation ones. Ted Cruz’s full name is Rafael Edward Cruz and he’s different from people who aren’t bozos.

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[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 21 points 3 days ago

when Biden literally copies trump illegal border policies

There are three big problems with immigration at the present moment:

  1. There's a huge backlog of asylum / deportation cases which means people stay in custody in racist and oppressive overcrowded prisons
  2. We're rate limiting the people coming into the country (see point #1), which means a lot of asylum seekers who are trying to do it legally wind up waiting for months (maybe years now, IDK) on the other side of the Mexican border, basically just living in a big, dangerous, squalid, crime-ridden open-air field with no facilities for life, and no job, no medical care for anyone no matter how young or old, it's fuckin dangerous
  3. The whole agency in charge of the thing is racist and oppressive

Biden is unable fix the third without an act of God (or, without firing the whole system and then finding 40,000+ people who want to be immigration police who are not racist, so basically an act of God).

Biden is unable to fix the first two problems also, although they do have legislative solutions, because the Republicans block anything he does, even when he tried promising to do some cruel or racist things as a compromise in order to get them to also agree to some badly needed things (mostly, increasing ICE funding so they can at least house the people they have in better conditions, and increasing the number of judges to process cases so people don't wait for a year before their case is heard).

And, any time he tries to do anything about it, e.g. reducing the rate of people allowed to come across the border or increasing funding for ICE, everyone on the left as far as I can tell thinks he's just being cruel on purpose for no reason and gets really mad at him.

So my questions are:

  1. What illegal border policies do you think Biden is copying?
  2. What specific thing do you think he should do, instead of trying to increase the number of judges and the funding for ICE, and compromising with the Republicans to try to get it done when they block him on it?
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[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago

Polls are all trash, but this focus group we believe.

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[-] corroded@lemmy.world 43 points 3 days ago

I don't consider myself a Republican or a Democrat, although unless things change drastically in American politics, I can't see myself ever voting Republican by the time I'm dead and gone. With that said, I mentioned to someone yesterday that if I didn't have the experience of living through Trump's time in office, this debate would make me seriously consider voting for him.

I really don't believe that this debate is going to sway many undecided voters toward Biden. If you compare their performance at face value, Trump was unusually well-spoken, and Biden seemed like he belonged in a nursing home. Half of what Trump said was complete bullshit, but how many undecided voters are actually reading articles that show how full of it he really is?

What you have is a person who stated lies as fact and did a decent job of being convincing and a person who was generally truthful but seemed like he "wasn't all there." Undecided voters who "don't follow politics" are going to see this and say "You know, I think I understand why people support Trump." That's a very scary prospect.

I don't dislike Biden, but my personal opinion is that the best thing he could do for the country is step aside and let a different Democrat take the nomination. Geriatrics like Trump and Biden need to retire, do whatever they feel like in their golden years, and let someone else take the reins. A competent politician in his 50s or 60s would absolutely destroy Trump, and that's exactly what we need right now.

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[-] cyd@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago

Oh good, I guess Biden has absolutely nothing to worry about then...

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago

Democrats will continue to act like he's gonna coast into office by virtue of not being Trump. They will continue to ignore all warnings from their left. And they will blame the left when he loses. It's the 2016 playbook all over again.

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[-] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago

Undecided Latino voters specifically according to the article. I don't think that should be too surprising based on the lies Trump was spewing about illegal immigration.

[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's so stupid that there are "undecided" latino voters at this point. As if it wasn't enough to know that Trump was a liar when he mentioned that Mexican immigrants were criminals and rapists back then?

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

This is literally a new article about an X post where they're interviewing some Latinos.. Objectively, the cope is insane. Joe is fucked

[-] EurekaStockade@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

Yeah this is reporting on the feedback from a focus group of like 20 people conducted by some Latino TV station... Not sure how representative that is of the wider electorate...

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

https://www.axios.com/2024/06/28/joe-biden-replace-us-elections-2024

All undecided voters in a U.S. swing states focus group hosted by pollster Frank Luntz said President Biden should be replaced as the Democratic nominee after watching his first presidential debate against former President Trump.

Newsweek is tabloid-adjacent.

Biden is underperforming his 2020 run by pretty much every metric. It's time to try something different while we still have time.

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