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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSeeing the polling Steve Kornacki just presented on MSNBC...
Has confirmed my opinion that the American people are idiots.
74% of people concerned about Biden's age and fitness and 47% are concerned about Trump's age and fitness.
Tied at 46% - 46%
Give me a fucking break!
Joe Cool
(1,093 posts)...that the media isn't incessantly drilling into people's heads that Trump is both old and fat. He's in way worse shape than Biden.
What sane person would actually believe Trump is 6'3" and 215 lbs.?
spooky3
(38,634 posts)Acceptable to criticize a candidates age, despite his achievements, but it is not acceptable to point out the risks of obesity at Trumps age?
Charging Triceratops
(441 posts)They got nothin'. They're desperate to paint the bulbous orange traitor as some defiant rebel to keep their faux horserace scam going.
Dan
(5,179 posts)I will turn the channel when he is being shown.
Goddessartist
(2,176 posts)pwb
(12,669 posts)Obviously another fake election horse race. No, Wealth owned media, Democrats will win big in 2024 all across the country. IMO.
Recycle_Guru
(2,973 posts)and then see why certain things happen the way tjey do in this country and around the world.
Normal people stop when they get to a comfortable living. People lusting for more power, wealth and control are mot satisfied with millions..no, they want hundreds of millions, billions. To get and keep that wealth they will stack the deck against regular people and harm others rather than truly work for the good of society.
LiberalFighter
(53,544 posts)drray23
(8,759 posts)that's what the magats are doing and some of it sticks.
Until we stop treating it like a normal campaign and start hitting hard it will be like that.
President Biden campaign surrogates need to be flooding the talk shows, take every opportunity to be in front of microphones, hit back hard.
All we see are Trump , Mtg, Gaetz, McCarthy antics. Acting like the reasonable people in the room and dismissing them is not working.
The so-call going high when they go low no longer works.
For example, recently Trump was saying Miley should be executed, why don't we have a hard push back instead of not responding to because it's so out there?
Happy Hoosier
(9,535 posts)I'm thinking Biden wins nationally by 5+%
JohnSJ
(98,883 posts)like Harris.
What else would one expect?
How many people answer calls from numbers they dont recognize with all the spam going on? I suspect it would be mostly an older demographic that answer those calls.
How many progressives would answer they are particularly favorable toward but would vote for him against trump in a general election? I suspect most would vote for Biden in that category.
While most conservatives will say they approve of trump and will vote for him.
The fact that this is a national poll does not accurately reflect how a president is elected.
How many red states, blue states, purple states were polled?
How many women, young people, old people, etc. were polled?
What were those polled views on abortion, the environment, civil rights, crime, etc.
Would they vote for someone who tried to overthrow the government?
That this poll reflects a tie, demonstrates just how screwed up the Washington Post/ABC poll which showed trump ahead by 10 points was.
Pay attention to state polls, not national polls. That is how presidents are elected
A NH poll a couple of days ago reflected Biden ahead by 10 points.
Funny that there was not much fanfare about that poll, The bogus WP/ABC poll got more attention then that one.
PCIntern
(28,369 posts)Of course, I am concerned about his age, but that doesnt translate into me not voting for the best candidate, or in this case, one who is not facing 91 felony charges.
I am concerned about a lot of things, including my own age and health, but Im not preoccupied by it to the exclusion of living my life.
The question should be: given that the two nominees are Biden and (Motherfucker), would the age of either be a primary, singular factor in your decision between the two?
Of course
there are a thousand reasons for not asking that question in that manner. None good
jcgoldie
(12,046 posts)The polling reflects that Trump's issues do not align with common stereotypes of aging despite the fact that he spouts nonsense 95% of the time.
vapor2
(4,509 posts)especially Kornacki's version
comradebillyboy
(10,955 posts)blather. He will play up any close poll no matter how unreliable it might be.
Tree Lady
(13,282 posts)a bike or even walking. Even when he was young!
Talitha
(7,988 posts)I'm going to be 71 soon and have NEVER been polled. Ever.