• Jumi@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I don’t know what’s more sad, that guy or that half of your country is stupid enough to vote him

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        7 months ago

        It’s more like a third rather than half.

        It’s similar to the percentage of Germans who supported the NAZIs back in the 1930s.

        I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.

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        7 months ago

        He’s polling at about 45%. The third is his base but there are a lot of independents who plan to vote for him, and they’re the ones who decide elections.

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          He’s polling at about 45% (plus or minus about six points), but that 45% only counts the ~66% of people who actually vote. So it’s only 28-33% of the population that actively supports him enough to vote for him.

    • The latter.

      There have always been despicable people like Trump, and I’m certain that, as horrible people go, he’s not even in the top thousand of horrible people alive today.

      It’s far more sad that so many people in the US are willing to overlook his faults; even if you discount his rabid base, it’s especially sad that close to another 20% of Americans who are more or less centrists (for Americans) are willing to overlook the fact that he admits that he’s working toward a dictatorship. This is the most depressing thing, for me.

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        But I read everywhere that it’s close between the two candidates, is that not true?

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            Maybe they wouldn’t vote for a republican or a democrat, in which case it is also in the dems best interest to disenfranchise voters, although that certainly isn’t the conventional wisdom,

            Doesn’t mean it’s not true…

            nor is it the mission of the millions of volunteers who work to sign people up to vote on important issues.

            That’s true, the corruption is mostly at the top.

            Signed, —A person who doesn’t want to vote republican or democrat

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          He was technically less popular at this same point in the 2016 election. He can absolutely still win if things go the same way that 2016 did. Liberals didn’t fucking vote in 2016, (for a variety of reasons), which handed the win to Trump.