President Biden’s reelection campaign announced Monday that it will aim to flip Florida, targeting the home of former President Trump.
Campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez said in a memo that investing in Florida is part of the Biden campaign’s pathway to 270 electoral votes. Trump won the Sunshine State in 2020 with more than 51 percent, compared to Biden’s 48 percent.
“Make no mistake: Florida is not an easy state to win, but it is a winnable one for President Biden, especially given Trump’s weak, cash-strapped campaign, and serious vulnerabilities within his coalition,” she said.
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The Biden campaign has also set its sights on flipping North Carolina in November. Trump won North Carolina by a tight margin in 2020, and Biden visited the state as part of his tour of every battleground state last month.
Honestly, maybe this is pure hubris here, but I think Biden is in for a big win in November. They have so much fucking money on hand they can blow it in Florida to troll Trump and Desantis. I think roughly 10-20% of the Republican party is, because of Jan 6, never Trump voters. We see Haley getting about that much support in these late primaries, even after she dropped out. We haven’t had an election with Trump on the ballot since Jan 6 I think this is the sole reason he won’t win. Moderates fucking hate him over Jan 6. So we have completely disengaged moderate conservatives, big donors are walking away because they don’t want to pay Trumps legal bills. State GOPs are bankrupt. And to top it all off, Trump is going to be in court all summer over __________ crimes
Meanwhile Biden has strong issues to campaign on: Abortion and threats to American democracy. We still haven’t managed to hit a recession yet, even tho its been predicted for the last 3 years. Things are improving, albeit slowly. Also what nobody in the mainstream is considering: Polling is completely broken. Pew research did a poll and found that 12% of respondents were capable of operating a Nuclear Sub (the reality is less than 1%). Online polls pay per poll, people are very clearly just answering question as quickly as possible to get the pay outs.
If Democrats try just a little, I think you’re right, and we could be seeing the complete collapse of the Republican party because of it. When special elections are flipping R+15 districts, and the reaction against the Dobbs decision has been so strong and sustained, then there’s a message that will work in every district. Meanwhile, Republican fundraising has already dried up, and what funds they do have are going into Trump’s mounting legal bills. The party has the wind knocked out of it, and if Dems would just fucking try rather than give them a moment to catch their breath, it would be a curbstomp.
But they need to fucking try.
Don’t forget that the republican party has shrunk just in raw numbers. Covid deaths and people switching parties after jan 6 means even if 100% of Republicans voted Trump in 2024 it’d be a smaller number than if 100% of Republicans voted Trump in 2020.
maybe this is pure hubris here, but I think Biden is in for a big win in November
Yes, it IS pure hubris. He won most mutual states by a smaller margin than Hilary and he’s currently behind in at least one of the swing states that cost her the election.
If he doesn’t get his act together and stops turning droves away from voting at all, he’s going to lose.
Just because I know some will trot out this strawman: no, I don’t WANT him to lose. He’s by far the lesser evil and if he loses to the mango Mussolini, there might not be another election.
They have so much fucking money on hand they can blow it in Florida to troll Trump and Desantis. I think roughly 10-20% of the Republican party is,
It already cost Biden over a billion dollars in 2020 to win the electoral by a very small margin…
Pew research did a poll and found that 12% of respondents were capable of operating a Nuclear Sub (the reality is less than 1%)
Weirdly topical, but I’m assuming they meant Naval Nuclear Engineers…
The ASVAB is typical standardized test where the best score is 99%. Weighted for when the test is taken.
So if only 1% could be a nuke, that would be assuming 100% of people take the test and the Navy only takes 99.
Now, I got a 99, and got into the program. But there was people in the high 70s as well. People could retake the test as many times as they want. And there is/was even a supplemental test people could take if their main ASVAB wasn’t quite high enough.
So yeah, 12% of poll responders being able to do the toughest job of a nuclear sub doesn’t sound right…
It’s really much higher than that.
You didn’t click the link did you?
The poll was about who is “licensed” not just “smart enough.”
You didn’t click the link did you?
The on hyperlinked in the previous sentence that just says “polls are broken”?
No, I don’t click on most links that don’t say where they’re going and sounc conspiracial. I’m on a phone and can’t “hover” to see.
I just did tho:
For example, in a February 2022 survey experiment, we asked opt-in respondents if they were licensed to operate a class SSGN (nuclear) submarine. In the opt-in survey, 12% of adults under 30 claimed this qualification, significantly higher than the share among older respondents. In reality, the share of Americans with this type of submarine license rounds to 0%.
So, OP read one thing, and then said another.
But that’s about something factual, not an opinion like “who are you going to vote for”.
And it is specifically about online opt in polls…
Which is probably why OP decided to hide the link. You don’t even need to read the title to realize why it’s not relevant. The link says it plain as day.
But man, I’ve been overestimating people recently.
If you truly don’t understand why “online opt in polls” are the worst kind of polling I can take the time to explain it. But it’s basically like saying trump is selling shitty shoes so you’ve decided to go barefoot the rest of your life.
