She needs to fuck off. Permanently.
Are you fucking kidding me.
AOC and Bernie over here amassing entire legions of working class people and they’re over here bashing themselves in the nuts. doing a straw poll with corporate doners pretending like it means fucking ANYTHING.
GODAMNIT THESE FUCKING DEMOCRATS ARE FUCKING MORONS.
Perhaps time for a third party…
The problem is that I don’t know how you’d get a third party off the ground. Modern third parties all seem to fall into the trap of going all in on a presidential at the expense of any potential down ballot races.
I think Bernie’s suggestion of progressives running as independent is an interesting angle as it would be focused on down ballot races by its nature, and if you get enough independent progressives, they could coalesce into a new party down the line.
Running Kamala Harris is a good start!
There’s also the blockade that both established parties put up, as they very much enjoy their exclusive duopoly.
We still have three years to go before the next election, assuming one actually happens.
At this stage in the game, the only thing that these types of polls are going to reveal is who has the most name recognition.
In other words, everyone calm down.
Thank you! Any time this kind of polling shows up on Lemmy, users seem to think this is the Plan of the Democratic Leadership Cabal, rather than an incredibly premature name recognition test.
People want to vote for people they have favorable impressions of who they also think others will vote for. Without other frontrunners, who emerge over time, it’s not surprising that polled Democrats would recognize and still support the candidate that 75 million people voted for five months ago.
If you want other candidates (I do), identify them and figure out how to help them build their profile now.
It’s crazy how fast incredibly premature polling turns into unstoppable freight train that cannot be interrupted by anything but a certified act of God signed and dated with appropriate postage to oh shit oh God what’s happening someone should have planned something.
Just like the polls that show McDonald’s, Taco Bell, or Chic fil a as America’s favorite restaurant in X state. It doesn’t take too many idiots to outweigh everyone else.
So, they prove once again that they don’t learn.
Here’s an idea, maybe field a compelling candidate who can beat Trump?
Crazy I know. I just don’t know where it comes from sometimes.
If Trump is allowed to run again so is Obama. Not sure how everyone feels about that.
I’m okay with that.
Are you fucking kidding me?
This is why repubs don’t have to cheat to win. Democrats will it into existence.
Please understand that they still will cheat if they can, because it’s more fun for them that way
I swear to god if they pull this nonsense again…
No they fucking haven’t.
I don’t know who they’re polling to come up with that trash. Dems didn’t turn out for her in 2024 because she had no answers on the economy, and refused to admit Israel was genociding Palestinians, so they sure as shit aren’t going to turn up for her in 2028–if there’s even an election in 2028–when she still won’t have any answers about the economy–which will likely be in full depression territory by then–and all she’ll be able to do with Israel is say, "well, it’s too late, all the Palestinians have been genocided, oh well).
Mind if I ask a question? Did you vote for her?
Yes. I voted for her because there was no other viable option. Claiming that she’s the best choice in primaries, for a 2028 presidential run is absolute nonsense. Running her again would be beyond stupid; it would be like running Clinton (Hilary, not Bill) a second time.
Fuck sake, get someone that’s a charismatic populist running on messages of, “hell yes, we’re going to tax the shit out of billionaires, we’re going to tax them until they’re millionaires”, with expansion of gov’t services and de-privatization as major platform planks. Dems need a Project 2028 that lays all of this shit out on an eyes-only basis so they can get the majority of it through in the first 4 months, too. Not just unwinding the damage that Trump has done to the federal bureaucracy, but EXPANDING it, and hardening it against any future interference from the executive branch.
The pool wasn’t about general election. It’s about primaries. Insane as it is, it’s all about name recognition. People in US will simply vote for the one person they heard about. But it’s still early, other candidates still have time to get their name out there.
Oh my fuck. God no. Stop. Please stop. What the actual fuck.
Democrats love fucking losing.
They’re gonna keep doing wackier shit until it’s clear they’ve been fucking with their supporters the whole time then say “you really thought we were on your side??” then sucker punch an old lady and run over a dog.
This is First Past The Post in action. 2/3 of respondents selected someone other than her, yet she “wins” this poll.
Drop the bottom 1/3rd of the candidates, and revote. Repeat a couple times. This soon after the election, Harris’s support is as high as it’s going to get. Reduce the number of spoilers, and her numbers have nowhere to go but down.
we are so fucked.
People need to upvote this for visibility, not disagreement. Seems like most of us agree, fuck no.
People need to see what BS is coming.
But then again I’m just assuming that’s how lemmy works and if we downvote it will get lost.
You really think there will be elections in 2028…
Yeah, Putin continues to win elections in his country by a landslide. We’ll have those.
