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Historic NY

(37,449 posts)
Thu Feb 20, 2020, 06:27 PM Feb 2020

What Voters Don't Want In a President

What Voters Don’t Want In a President

The most unpopular qualities for a presidential candidate from the new NBC/WSJ poll:

Socialist: 67%
Heart attack in the past year: 57%
Older than 75 years old: 53%
Self-funder: 41%
Under 40 years old: 40%
Gay or lesbian: 27%
Woman: 14%

[link:https://politicalwire.com/2020/02/19/what-voters-dont-want-in-a-president/|]

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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What Voters Don't Want In a President (Original Post) Historic NY Feb 2020 OP
Hillary is 72! Historic NY Feb 2020 #1
She's almost none of those things, must be why she's president now. k2qb3 Feb 2020 #3
touch NT. tiredtoo Feb 2020 #5
Voter suppression of Dems in three swing states where she lost by a sliver of a percent ehrnst Feb 2020 #13
I guess this is sort of a good new / bad news sort of thing lapfog_1 Feb 2020 #2
That works for me! NurseJackie Feb 2020 #4
I don't find them to be "desirable" hangaleft Feb 2020 #10
Okay. NurseJackie Feb 2020 #11
Vote Blue no matter who. tiredtoo Feb 2020 #6
If Trump announced he was socialist tomorrow Moderateguy Feb 2020 #7
Thats who he wants to run against... Historic NY Feb 2020 #8
Thanks for posting this Gothmog Feb 2020 #9
is thats the same poll counting Feb 2020 #12
 

k2qb3

(374 posts)
3. She's almost none of those things, must be why she's president now.
Thu Feb 20, 2020, 06:34 PM
Feb 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

ehrnst

(32,640 posts)
13. Voter suppression of Dems in three swing states where she lost by a sliver of a percent
Fri Feb 21, 2020, 12:49 PM
Feb 2020

misogyny on the left and right
25 years of false smears by the GOP eagerly slurped up by the far left
the FBI director trying to tank her days before the election
Russia...

All that and she still got more votes than any candidate not named Obama.

That's pretty badass, even if she did faint once.

Now... imagine if she had a heart attack, a run-in with a shower door and an active basal carcinoma tumor during the campaign...



If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

lapfog_1

(29,199 posts)
2. I guess this is sort of a good new / bad news sort of thing
Thu Feb 20, 2020, 06:33 PM
Feb 2020

only 14% are definately mysoginistic assholes.

as opposed to the 27% homophobic assholes.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)
4. That works for me!
Thu Feb 20, 2020, 06:40 PM
Feb 2020
Socialist: 67%
Heart attack in the past year: 57%
Older than 75 years old: 53%
Self-funder: 41%
Under 40 years old: 40%
Gay or lesbian: 27%
Woman: 14%


The other things I'm perfectly fine with... and in fact I actually find those things to be desirable.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

hangaleft

(649 posts)
10. I don't find them to be "desirable"
Fri Feb 21, 2020, 09:35 AM
Feb 2020

I find them to be irrelevant.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Undecided
 

tiredtoo

(2,949 posts)
6. Vote Blue no matter who.
Thu Feb 20, 2020, 06:44 PM
Feb 2020

Don't let polls make your decision.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Undecided
 

Moderateguy

(945 posts)
7. If Trump announced he was socialist tomorrow
Thu Feb 20, 2020, 06:46 PM
Feb 2020

I’m sure 40% percent of people would applaud him for it. Meaningless garbage

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Historic NY

(37,449 posts)
8. Thats who he wants to run against...
Thu Feb 20, 2020, 09:09 PM
Feb 2020

if you are going out defending being a socialist, you will lose plain and simple. Your entire time will be fending off attacks. Older people equate socialism with Anarchism and Communism, its subsets. Some remember a time when bombings, attacks and unrest were happening in the last century. The words used was socialist and anarchist in the press. This isn't FDR running that knew what it was is about pretending.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Gothmog

(145,176 posts)
9. Thanks for posting this
Fri Feb 21, 2020, 09:32 AM
Feb 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

counting

(69 posts)
12. is thats the same poll
Fri Feb 21, 2020, 09:47 AM
Feb 2020

that has sanders leading biden by 12% nationwide?

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
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