Im shocked its not lower.
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LOL got me
Never listen to a centrist again when they tell you "how things have to be" to win an election.
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0% of Democrats happy with state of the US right now
MAGA: That's how we know we're doing the right thing!
While 76 percent of Republicans say they are satisfied with the direction of the country
What the absolute fuck?? These fucking people would be happy with the direction of north Korea. Decades of relentless propaganda have really done a number on these people and destroyed their critical thinking
65% of Republican voters are ages 50 and over, these people don't really care about anything except their retirement accounts. So long as Republicans can keep the stock market growing they don't give a shit.
When they are unseated in the midterms, we should deport them to pyongyang
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How do those protest votes feel now, assholes?
(to those voters, obvs)
I'm glad I voted for Harris and I'm not complicit in shipping someone's family member to a concentration camp or helping a pedophile get elected.
Some would argue this as a bad move, but considering Gaza will be a parking lot by December anyway, congrats, benchwarmers. You played yourselves.
I'm with you. We can't know if she would have taken a different stance on this, but at least we wouldn't have a mugshot hanging from buildings in the capital where martial law has been instituted.
Currently democrats are having a registration crisis while Republicans are having a boom, so pretty good?
Like you'd think those numbers would be opposite, maybe they are a continued indictment of the DNC democratic party that continues to ignore any candidate who has organic support like Mamdami.
I dropped Dem for DSA in 2016.
I think voting for a D in the general is generally a good harm reduction strategy. That said, I'm a big fan of the Working Families Party, tho they aren't active where I'm at. They seem to be "more practical" at gaining political power, while still fairly well-aligned with the DSA about how it should be used.
I, too, started looking for something "left" of the DNC in 2016; I was a fan of Bernie [and other progressives].
I was just listening to an explanation of this effectively fake bit of information this morning. Basically, at least in MA and other states like it, both dems and republicans saw a drop in registration because registrations work differently now. Where registrations are automatic, they don't default to a party affiliation and you have to actively select such, which most people aren't going to do. As a result, an absolutely enormous proportion of registrations are now unaffiliated and BOTH parties are more or less taking a hit--however, because Dems get more registrations historically anyway and many of those are now no longer going in to register just party affiliation, they seem disproportionately hit. End of the day, not much is really changing that we can understand from the voting registrations, but we'll see what happens in the midterms.
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Given that democrats are going along with fascism and throwing progressives under the bus after the primary, vindicating.
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you'd have to be braindead to be happy with the state of the US right now.
Unfortunately a lot of Americans are.
Gallup's polling found Republicans were essentially just as dissatisfied with the direction of the country in July last year as Democrats are today. However, the partisan gap at the time was 35 points because only 36 percent of Democrats were satisfied with the country's direction at the time.
ouch
So they are going to change their electoral tactics, right?
Right????
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Yet they keep supporting Republicans at ever corner, at every step. If. A Republican drops something, a Democrat will go "ohh, let me get that for you"
What the fuck has been going on with the US for like the past 6 decades or so?
Good! As a Democratic Strategist I can USE this Information to CONVINCE the DNC to go even FURTHER Right to Court the Republicans who ARE Happy with the US! That's the ONLY way we can WIN again!
i can see why
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