InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 8 months agoAs always - democratic pols can't actually fail themselves. They can only be failed by voters.hexbear.netimagemessage-square59fedilinkarrow-up1116arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1114arrow-down1imageAs always - democratic pols can't actually fail themselves. They can only be failed by voters.hexbear.netInevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square59fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareporcupine@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up42·8 months agoit’s wild to me that anyone tries to argue that normal people vote based on how they think a candidate will “appeal to the middle of the country”. have these people ever talked to a human in real life that they weren’t paying?
minus-squareInevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·8 months agoSmall brain: “I’m going to vote for the candidate I like.” Pundits with pundit brain and regular people with pundit brain…
minus-squareanarcho_blinkenist [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·8 months agono the closest they get is reading polling data
it’s wild to me that anyone tries to argue that normal people vote based on how they think a candidate will “appeal to the middle of the country”. have these people ever talked to a human in real life that they weren’t paying?
Small brain: “I’m going to vote for the candidate I like.”
Pundits with pundit brain and regular people with pundit brain…
no the closest they get is reading polling data
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